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The house was designed by Christopher Wren. Its name derives from Nottingham House , the former residence of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham : in 1689, the second Earl sold the property to William III and Mary II , who developed the estate as Kensington House , later Kensington Palace.
Sir Christopher Wren was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. [1] He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.
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.
Wren house may refer to a wren house, see nest box; Wren House at Kensington Palace; See also. Wren Building, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States;
Winslow Hall is a country house, now in the centre of the small town of Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England.Built in 1700, it was sited in the centre of the town, with a public front facing the highway and a garden front that still commanded 22 acres (89,000 m 2) in 2007, due to William Lowndes' gradual purchase of a block of adjacent houses and gardens from 1693 onwards.
Joel Chandler Harris House, also known as The Wren's Nest or Snap Bean Farm, is a Queen Anne style house at 1050 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd. (formerly Gordon Street.), SW. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] in Atlanta, Georgia .
In April 1567 the original house caught fire and burnt down. A replacement house was effectively completed by 1580. Adrian Gaunt, Alan Maynard, Robert Smythson, the Earl of Hertford and Humpfrey Lovell all contributed to the new building but most of the design was Sir John's work. He was the first of the Thynne 'dynasty' that have held unbroken ...
Ivy Cottage is a house in the grounds of Kensington Palace in London, England. It is a grace-and-favour property, originally housing servants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Princess Eugenie , and her husband, Jack Brooksbank , resided in the cottage from April 2018 to November 2020.