List of works by John Vanbrugh

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John Vanbrugh created many disparate works, and this is a list of many of the notable ones.

  1. Castle Howard, c. 1699 [1] (west wing designed by Sir Thomas Robinson only completed in early 19th century).
  2. The architect's own house in Whitehall, 1700–1701, known as "Goose-Pie House", demolished 1898. [2]
  3. The Orangery, Kensington Palace, 1704: probably a modification by Vanbrugh to a design by Hawksmoor. [3]
  4. Haymarket Theatre, 1704–05, [4] has been completely rebuilt since and is now known as His Majesty's. [5]
  5. Blenheim Palace, 1705–1722, [6] stable court never completed.
  6. Grand Bridge, Blenheim, 1708–1722. [7]
  7. Kimbolton Castle, 1708–1719, [8] remodelled the building.
  8. Demolished part of Audley End and designed new Grand Staircase, 1708. [9]
  9. Claremont House, 1708, [10] then known as Chargate (rebuilt to the designs of Henry Holland in the 18th century).
  10. Kings Weston House, 1710–1714. [11]
  11. Grimsthorpe Castle, 1715–1730, only the north side of the courtyard was rebuilt. [12]
  12. Eastbury Park, 1713–1738, completed by Roger Morris who amended Vanbrugh's design (demolished except for Kitchen Wing). [13]
  13. Cholmondeley Castle 1713 Vanbrugh prepared a design to rebuild the house, but it is believed not to have been executed [14]
  14. Great Obelisk, Castle Howard 1714 [15]
  15. Morpeth Town Hall, 1714. (Front renewed and back replaced in 1869–70.) [16]
  16. The Belvedere, Claremont Landscape Garden, 1715. [17]
  17. Vanbrugh Castle, 1718–19, the architect's own house in Greenwich. [18] Additionally, houses for other members of Vanbrugh's family (none of which survived beyond 1910). [19]
  18. Stowe, Buckinghamshire, c.1719, added north portico, also several temples and follies in the gardens (the surviving follies are: the Wolfe Obelisk (c.1720), relocated 1759; the Rotunda (1720–21) dome altered; the Lake Pavilions (c.1719) altered [20] ) up until his death. [21]
  19. The Temple, [22] Eastbury Park (early 1720s) demolished
  20. Robin Hood's Well, [23] Yorkshire C.1720
  21. Seaton Delaval Hall, 1720–1728. [24]
  22. Lumley Castle, 1722, remodelling work. [25]
  23. Pyramid Gate, Castle Howard 1723 [26]
  24. Walled Kitchen Garden, [27] Claremont (c.1723)
  25. Newcastle Pew, St George's Church, Esher, 1724. [28]
  26. The Bagnio (water pavilion), [29] Eastbury Park (1725) demolished
  27. Temple of the Four Winds, Castle Howard, 1725–1728. [30]

Attributed works include:

  1. Completion of State rooms, Hampton Court Palace, 1716–1718. [31]
  2. Ordnance Board Building, Woolwich, 1716–1720. [32]
  3. Chatham Dockyard Great Store House 1717, now demolished, Vanburgh or Hawksmoor were possibly involved in the design [33]
  4. Berwick Barracks, 1717–1721. [note 1]
  5. The Brewhouse, [34] Kings Weston House (c.1718)
  6. Chatham Dockyard Main gate 1720, is possibly by Vanburgh or Hawksmoor [33]
  7. Loggia, Kings Weston House (c.1722) [35]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "The Castle Howard Story: The Building of Castle Howard". Castle Howard. Archived from the original on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  2. ↑ Beard, p. 70.
  3. ↑ The London Encyclopaedia, ed. Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, rev. ed. (London: Macmillan London, 1993; ISBN   0-333-57688-8), pp. 311, 438.
  4. ↑ Beard, p. 71
  5. ↑ "Her Majesty's (London)". Theatre's Trust . Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  6. ↑ "Blenheim Palace". World Heritage Sites . UNESCO . Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  7. ↑ Sherwood and Pevsner, p. 473.
  8. ↑ Saumarez Smith, The Building of Castle Howard, p.96.
  9. ↑ John Julius Norwich, The Architecture of Southern England (London: Macmillan London, 1985; ISBN   0-333-22037-4), p. 208.
  10. ↑ Geoffrey Tyack and Steven Brindle, Blue Guide Country Houses of England (London: Black, 1994; ISBN   0-393-31057-4), p.468.
  11. ↑ Norwich, The Architecture of Southern England, p. 27.
  12. ↑ Tyack and Brindle, Blue Guide Country Houses of England, pp. 315–16.
  13. ↑ Norwich, The Architecture of Southern England, p. 182.
  14. ↑ page 141, The Work of Sir John Vanbrugh, Geoffrey Beard, 1986, Batsford Books, ISBN   0-7134-4679-X
  15. ↑ page 132, The Building of Castle Howard, Charles Saumarez Smith, 1990, Faber and Faber, ISBN   0-571-14238-9
  16. ↑ John Grundy et al., Northumberland (London: Penguin, 1992; ISBN   0-14-071059-0), pp. 73, 397.
  17. ↑ Tyack and Brindle, Blue Guide Country Houses of England, pp. 468–69.
  18. ↑ Beard, p. 56.
  19. ↑ Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, London 2 South (London: Penguin, 1983; ISBN   0-14-071047-7), p. 273.
  20. ↑ pages 13, 24 & , Stowe Landscape Gardens, 1997, Jonathan Marsden et al, National Trust 1997
  21. ↑ Norwich, The Architecture of Southern England, p. 69.
  22. ↑ page 117, Vanburgh, Kerry Downes, 1977 A. Zwemmer Ltd, ISBN   0-302-02769-6
  23. ↑ page 46 ,Sir John Vanbrugh Storyteller in Stone, Vaughan Hart, 2008, Yale University Press
  24. ↑ Grundy et al., Northumberland, pp. 73, 561–63.
  25. ↑ Beard p. 66
  26. ↑ page 134, The Building of Castle Howard, Charles Saumarez Smith, 1990, Faber and Faber, ISBN   0-571-14238-9
  27. ↑ page 235 ,Sir John Vanbrugh Storyteller in Stone, Vaughan Hart, 2008, Yale University Press
  28. ↑ Norwich, The Architecture of Southern England, p. 618.
  29. ↑ page 27, The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh: From the Archives of Country Life, Jeremy Musson, 2008, Aurum
  30. ↑ Saumarez Smith, The Building of Castle Howard, pp. 144–46.
  31. ↑ Cherry and Pevsner, London 2 South, p. 494.
  32. ↑ The attribution is described as plausible in Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, London 2 South, p. 287.
  33. 1 2 page 164, The Work of Sir John Vanbrugh, Geoffrey Beard, 1986, Batsford Books, ISBN   0-7134-4679-X
  34. ↑ pages 153-154, English Homes, Period IV - vol.II, The work of Sir John Vanbrugh and his School 1699-1736, H. Avery Tipping and Christopher Hussey, 1928, Country Life
  35. ↑ page 177,Sir John Vanbrugh Storyteller in Stone, Vaughan Hart, 2008, Yale University Press
  1. ↑ Described as a misattribution in Grundy et al., Northumberland, pp. 74, 178–79. Grundy et al. attribute the design to Hawksmoor, saying that this was probably modified in execution by Andrews Jelfe.

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