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Norman Foster's 'Gherkin' (2004) rises above the sixteenth century St Andrew Undershaft in the City of London. The architecture of England is the architecture of the historic Kingdom of England up to 1707, and of England since then, but is deemed to include buildings created under English influence or by English architects in other parts of the world, particularly in the English overseas ...
The earliest are Neolithic buildings and these are followed by those of ancient, medieval and modern times, all exemplifying the architecture of the United Kingdom. Below is a list of important buildings and structures from the beginning until Georgian times (18th and early 19th centuries).
English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque art were abandoned in favour of the more chaste, rule-based Neo-classical forms espoused by the proponents of Palladianism.
English Gothic architecture, which flourished between 1180 until around 1520, was initially imported from France, but quickly developed its own unique qualities. [ 1 ] Throughout the United Kingdom, secular medieval architecture has left a legacy of large stone castles , with a concentration being found lining both sides of the Anglo-Scottish ...
C. Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England; Church architecture in England; Civic Trust (England) Civic Voice; CLASP (British Rail) Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Images of England was a stand-alone project funded jointly by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund.The aim of the project was to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images available online to create, what was at the time, one of the largest free-to-view picture libraries of buildings in the world.
English Baroque architecture — an English Baroque architectural style that developed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Subcategories. This category has the ...
It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, and registered battlefields. It is maintained by Historic England , a government body, and brings together these different designations as a single resource even though they vary in the type of legal protection ...
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