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- ↑ John Cornforth, 'Forde Abbey, Dorset, III', Country Life, 133 (1963).
- ↑ Tim Mowl & Brian Earnshaw, Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism Under Cromwell (Manchester, 2015), pp. 111-6.
- Colvin, Howard. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. Yale University Press, 3rd edition, 1995.
