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100 1 _aClapham, Alfred William, Sir,
_d1883-1950
245 1 0 _aSome famous buildings and their story
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-06
505 0 _aThe royal palace of Nonsuch, Surrey -- The Fortune Theatre, London (1600) -- The Tower of London and its development -- The royal palace of Eltham -- The origin of the domestic hall -- St Thomas More's house at Chelsea -- Cockersand Abbey and its chapter house -- The rebuilding of Crosby Hall at Chelsea -- The palaces of Hertford and Havering -- The new exchange in the Strand -- St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell -- Northumberland House, Strand -- The Abbey of Barking, Essex -- Abbot's Hospital, Guildford, and its predecessors -- The friars as builders: Blackfriars and Whitefriars, London -- Queenborough Castle and its builder, William of Wykeham.
508 _adeaurider, A Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Some famous buildings and their story" by Clapham and Godfrey is a collection of architectural-historical studies written in the early 20th century. It presents carefully researched case studies—richly illustrated with plans and photographs—on notable English buildings, especially in and around London, blending architectural analysis, documentary evidence, and topographical insight to make specialist findings accessible to general readers. The opening of the volume sets out its purpose: to offer short, accurate studies derived from recent research and earlier articles, with Clapham covering royal palaces, monastic houses, and halls, and Godfrey focusing on London buildings and reconstructive analyses. It first examines Nonsuch Palace—its Tudor–Renaissance hybrid design, probable Italian influence (Toto and perhaps John of Padua), two-court plan with twin gatehouses, famed pargetted reliefs, banqueting house, scant survivals, and sources like the 1650 Parliamentary Survey and early views. It then reconstructs the Fortune Theatre from the 1599–1600 contract, correlating dimensions (80 ft square outside; 55 ft inside; three-tier galleries; 43 ft stage) with the Swan drawing and stage directions to argue for a roofed stage, upper and inner stages, and distinct “gentlemen’s” and “twopenny” rooms. Next comes a development history of the Tower of London, proposing that Norman works incorporated Roman walls and bastions, tracing successive enlargements to a concentric fortress, detailing key towers and gates, the White Tower’s Chapel of St. John, later Tudor bastions, Wren’s horse-armoury, and the mixed legacy of modern restorations. The study of Eltham Palace uses Hatfield and Thorpe plans to map the moated complex, identify Bek’s fortifications, the bridge, Edward IV’s great hall and its roof, Henry VIII’s rebuilt chapel and lodgings, and surviving outer-court houses, while warning about plan inaccuracies and urging on-site verification. It concludes this opening section by beginning a broader essay on the origin of the domestic hall, contrasting monastic and secular models and distinguishing the rectangular stone frater from the aisled, barn-derived type, with examples such as Oakham, Winchester, Bishop Auckland, and York Guildhall. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Technical Journals Ltd, 1913
653 _aArchitecture -- England
700 1 _aGodfrey, Walter H.,
_d1881-1961
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/somefamousbuildi00clapuoft
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77412
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