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Cumberland Terrace, London, John Nash The original Piccadilly entrance to the Burlington Arcade, 1819 John Nash's All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style.
The Regency era of British history is commonly understood as the years between c. 1795 and 1837, although the official regency for which it is named only spanned the years 1811 to 1820. King George III first suffered debilitating illness in the late 1780s, and relapsed into his final mental illness in 1810.
The Regency period featured an explosion of the usage of cast iron in England, and its usage in Australia in the 1830s was a forerunner to the Victorian Filigree style. A pair of townhouses (c. 1834-42) designed by John Verge display unroofed, cantilevered balconies projecting out from their street-facing facades. [23]
I don't know about you, Pandas, but I love period dramas. They're like a window into the past: we can see how people looked and lived a hundred or even more years ago. ... 30 Color Photos ...
Carlton House, sometimes Carlton Palace, was a mansion in Westminster, best known as the town residence of King George IV, particularly during the regency era and his time as prince regent. It faced the south side of Pall Mall , and its gardens abutted St James's Park [ a ] in the St James's district of London.
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According to PBS, women of the Regency era were able to stand their own ground by turning down invitations to dance, declining proposals, and refusing to accept correspondence from a man they ...
From 1803 to 1807, East Cliff Lodge was the headquarters of Admiral Keith, commanding the North Sea and Channel Fleets. And during the same period, Jane Austen’s brother, Francis, organised a corps of “Sea Fencibles” (a sort of naval militia/Dad's Army) from the town to protect the South Coast of Britain from invasion. Between 1804 and ...