ARCHITECTURAL 
HISTORY 
Journal of the Society 

of Architectural Historians 

of Great Britain 

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The Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion is presented annually to authors of outstanding 
contributions to the literature of architectural history. Recipients of the award have been: 

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H. M. & J O A N TAYLOR 

NIKOLAUS PEVSNER 

MARK GIROUARD 

CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY 

PETER COLLINS 

A. H. GOMME & 

D. M . WALKER 

J O H N HARRIS 

HERMIONE HOBHOUSE 

MARK GIROUARD 

J. MORDAUNT CROOK & 

M. H. PORT 

D A V I D W A T K I N 

ANTHONY BLUNT 

ANDREW SAINT 

PETER SMITH 

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ALLAN BRAHAM 

H O W A R D COLVIN 

PETER THORNTON 

MAURICE CRAIG 

WILLIAM CURTIS 

JILL LEVER 

DAVID BROWNLEE 

J O H N HARVEY 

ROGER STALLEY 

ANDREW SAINT 

CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH 

CHRISTOPHER W I L S O N 

EILEEN HARRIS & NICHOLAS SAVAGE 

J O H N ALLAN 

COLIN CUNNINGHAM & 

PRUDENCE WATERHOUSE 

MILES GLENDINNING & 

STEFAN MUTHESIUS 

ROBERT HILLENBRAND 

R O B I N EVANS 

IAN BRISTOW 

DEREK LINSTRUM 

LINDA FAIRBAIRN 

The Society's Essay Medal is presented annually to the winner of the Society's essay medal 
competition. Tlie regulations are available from the Honorary Secretary. Recipients of the 
medal have been: 

1982: 

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GORDON HIGGOTT 

N E I L JACKSON 

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ARCHITECTURAL 

HISTORY 
Essays in architectural history 
presented to John Neumian 

Volume 44:2001 

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The Society exists to encourage an interest in the history of architecture, to provide opportunities for 
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C O N T E N T S 

Section 1: Personalia 

J O H N N E W M A N : AN A P P R E C I A T I O N 

by Gordon Higgott i 

J O H N N E W M A N AT T H E C O U R T A U L D 

by Michael Kauffmann 5 

J O H N A R T H U R N E W M A N : A B I B L I O G R A P H Y OF B O O K S , PAPERS, SELECTED R E V I E W S A N D 

MISCELLANEA 

compiled by Frank Salmon 7 

Section 2: Terminology 

T E C H N I C A L TERMS A N D T H E U N D E R S T A N D I N G OF ENGLISH M E D I E V A L A R C H I T E C T U R E 

by E. C. Fernie 13 

Section 3: Drawings and Designs 

A D R A W I N G BY ' R O B E R T U S P Y T E ' FOR H E N R Y VIII 

by Maurice Howard 22 

I N I G O J O N E S , J O H N W E B B A N D T E M P L E BAR 

by John Peacock and Christy Anderson 29 

A N E W L Y - D I S C O V E R E D D R A W I N G BY J A M E S S T U A R T 

by Kerry Bristol 39 

A RECENTLY D I S C O V E R E D G A N D Y S K E T C H B O O K 

by Ian Goodall and Margaret Richardson 45 

EXTRA I L L U S T R A T I O N S OF P U G I N B U I L D I N G S I N T . H . K I N G ' S LES VRAIS PRINCIPES 

by Roderick O'Donnell 57 

A CASE OF C U L T U R A L S C H I Z O P H R E N I A : R U L I N G TASTES A N D A R C H I T E C T U R A L T R A I N I N G 

I N T H E E D W A R D I A N P E R I O D 

by Colin Cunningham 64 

Section 4: Growth & Change in London 

T H E I M P A C T OF I N I G O J O N E S O N L O N D O N D E C O R A T I V E P L A S T E R W O R K 

by Claire Gapper 82 

I N I G O J O N E S A N D T H E O R I G I N S OF T H E L O N D O N M E W S 

by Giles Worsley 88 

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vi CONTENTS 

E D W A R D H A T T O N ' S NEW VIEW OF LONDON 

by Bridget Cherry 96 

J O H N W H I T E S E N I O R A N D J A M E S W Y A T T : A N EARLY S C H E M E FOR M A R Y L E B O N E PARK 

A N D T H E N E W STREET T O C A R L T O N H O U S E 

by James Anderson 106 

RIVER V I E W S : T R A N S F O R M A T I O N S O N T H E T H A M E S 

by Roger Woodley 115 

Section 5: Britain and the Continent 

REFLEXIONS OF V E N I C E I N S C O T T I S H A R C H I T E C T U R E 

by Deborah Howard 123 

C O M P A R A B L E I N S T I T U T I O N S : T H E ROYAL H O S P I T A L FOR SEAMEN A N D T H E H O T E L DES 

I N V A L I D E S 

by John Bold 136 

T H E T R A D I T I O N OF T H E SOFFITTO VENEZIANO IN LORD B U R L I N G T O N ' S S U B U R B A N VILLA 

A T C H I S W I C K 

by Pamela D. Kingsbury 145 

CARSTEN ANKER D I N E S W I T H T H E Y O U N G E R GEORGE D A N C E , A N D VISITS ST LUKE'S 

H O S P I T A L FOR T H E I N S A N E 

by Christine Stevenson 153 

Section 6: Cathedrals, Abbeys, Churches and Chapels 

I N H O C S I G N O : T H E W E S T F R O N T OF L I N C O L N C A T H E D R A L 

by Anthony Quiney 162 

C A N T E R B U R Y C A T H E D R A L : CLASSICAL C O L U M N S IN T H E T R I N I T Y CHAPEL? 

by Peter Draper 172 

T H E B U I L D I N G S OF W E S T M A L L I N G ABBEY 

by Tim Tatton-Brown 179 

T H E NAVE OF S T O N E C H U R C H I N K E N T 

by Paul Crossley 195 

' T H E R E P O S I T O R Y OF O U R ENGLISH K I N G S ' : T H E H E N R Y VII C H A P E L AS ROYAL 

M A U S O L E U M 

by Thomas Cocke 212 

A C A T H O L I C S C U L P T U R E I N E L I Z A B E T H A N E N G L A N D : SIR T H O M A S T R E S H A M ' S REREDOS 

AT R U S H T O N HALL 

by Richard Williams 221 

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CONTENTS vu 

J O H N C O L T A N D T H E C H A R T E R H O U S E C H A P E L 

by Stephen Porter and Adam White 228 

THE S E T T I N G - O U T OF ST P A U L ' S C A T H E D R A L 

by Rob e rt C rayfo rd 237 

J O H N J A M E S AT C H A L F O N T ST PETER 

by Sally Jeffery 249 

ST C H A D ' S C H U R C H , S T A F F O R D : A Y O U N G A N D B E A U T I F U L V I R G I N A N D HER D E C A Y E D 

A N D D O T I N G H U S B A N D 

by Terry Friedman 258 

'A R O O M NEARLY S E M I C I R C U L A R ' : ASPECTS OF T H E T H E A T R E A N D T H E C H U R C H F R O M 

H A R R I S O N T O P U G I N 

by Christopher Wakeling 265 

T H E T O L P U D D L E M A R T Y R S ' C H A P E L 

by David M. Robinson 275 

' T H E D I S A S T R O U S D E F O R M A T I O N OF B U T T E R F I E L D ' : BALLIOL COLLEGE C H A P E L I N T H E 

T W E N T I E T H C E N T U R Y 

by Peter Howell 283 

T H E Q U E E N ' S C H A P E L I N T H E T W E N T I E T H C E N T U R Y 

by Simon Bradley 293 

Section 7: Country Houses 

T H E C O T T O N S AT W H I T T I N G T O N C O U R T 

by Elizabeth Williamson and John Juf ica 303 

R E - D A T I N G W E S T W O O D 

by Andor Gomme 310 

S U D B U R Y HALL C R E W E H A L L : A CLOSE C O N N E X I O N 

by Cherry Ann Knott 322 

LORD S T A W E L L ' S GREAT H O U S E IN SOMERSET 

by Howard Colvin 332 

RADLEY HALL T H E R E D I S C O V E R Y OF A C O U N T R Y H O U S E 

by Alison Maguire 341 

AN I N T R I G U I N G P A T R O N A G E ? 

by Rosalys Coope 351 

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viii C O N T E N T S 

Section 8: Gardens and Parks 

MAPS OF C R A N B O R N E M A N O R I N T H E S E V E N T E E N T H C E N T U R Y 

by Paula Henderson 358 

G A R D E N D E S I G N I N T H E M I D - S E V E N T E E N T H C E N T U R Y 

by David Jacques 365 

F R A N C O I S - J O S E P H BELANGER'S B A T H - H O U S E AT T H E H O T E L D E B R A N C A S 

by Rachel Perry 3 77 

Section g: Towns and Villages 

B O U G H T O N M O N C H E L S E A : T H E P A T T E R N OF B U I L D I N G I N A CENTRAL K E N T PARISH 

by Sarah Pearson 386 

' G O O D & N O T E X P E N S I V E . . . ' : L O R D H A R C O U R T ' s N U N E H A M C O U R T E N A Y 

by Malcolm Airs 394 

SURVIVAL OF T H E SMALLEST: T H E SEVENOAKS T E N A N T S ' ESTATE 

b y A i l e e n R e i d 401 

M O N M O U T H A N D T H E F L O O D S 

by Keith Kissack 411 

The Society acknowledges with gratitude a grant towards the cost of publishing this 
volume from a private charitable trust, whose trustees wish to remain anonymous. The 
Editor likewise gratefully acknowledges the extensive help in preparing the volume which 
he has received from Claire Gapper, Gordon Higgott, Maurice Howard and Margaret 
Newman. 

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N O T E S O N C O N T R I B U T O R S 

MALCOLM AIRS is Read er in Conservation and the Historic Environment at the 
University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College. H e is Chairman of the Institute 
of Historic Building Conservation, author of The Tudor and Jacobean Country House 
and editor of the continuing series of volumes on the English Great House. 

CHRISTY ANDERSON, w h o has been a research fellow of Worcester College, Oxford and 
lecturer at the O p e n University, n o w teaches architectural history at Yale. Her study 
Inigo Jones: Books and Buildings in the English Renaissance is to be published later this 
year. 

*JAMES ANDERSON, former Honorary Treasurer of the Society, is a practising 
architectural historian with a particular interest in the development of London in the 
early nineteenth century. 

J O H N BOLD has written books o n W i l t o n House and the architecture of J o h n W e b b . 
His book on Greenwich, prepared with colleagues from the former R C H M , was 
published at the end of last year. H e is a consultant to the Council of Europe on the 
cultural heritage and teaches at the University of Westminster and at N e w York 
University in London. 

* SIMON BRADLEY is Deputy Editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides (Penguin 
Books). His essay, ' T h e Roots of Ecclesiology', was published in A Church as it Should 
Be, edited by J o h n Elliott and Christopher Webster, in 2000. 

*KERRY BRISTOL is a Lecturer in Architecture and Decorative Arts at the University of 
Leeds, the author of several forthcoming articles and a monograph on Athenian Stuart. 
Her special interests include the Grand Tour, European neo-classical architecture and 
Irish architecture 1660-1820. 

BRIDGET CHERRY, n o w chief editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, became 
Pevsner's research assistant in 1968. She revised Surrey, Wiltshire and Northants, largely 
rewrote Devon in 1989 and has since masterminded the comprehensive series, n o w 
nearly complete, on London. She has been a commissioner for both English Heritage 
and the R C H M E . 

*THOMAS COCKE wrote a Courtauld thesis on the attitudes taken to medieval buildings 
and their care after the Middle Ages and particularly in the seventeenth and eighteenth 
centuries; this has remained the focus of his research ever since. Most of his working 
life has been spent as an investigator with the former R C H M E and now as Secretary 
of the Council for the Care of Churches. 

HOWARD COLVIN F.B.A., Emeritus Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, world-
renowned for the Biographical Dictionary of British Architects and The History of the King's 
Works, is also author of, inter alia, Architecture and the After-Life and (most recently) 
Essays in English Architectural History. 

ROSALYS COOPE'S monograph on Salomon de Brosse and her catalogue of the R I B A 
drawings of Jacques Gentilhatre both appeared in 1972, since w h e n her special interest 

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X NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 

in the architecture of the French Renaissance has been confirmed by regular 
appearance at the colloques at the University of Tours. She is the author of two seminal 
articles on the long gallery in Architectural History and has done much research on 
Newstead Abbey, published in several articles in the Transactions of the Thornton Society 
of Nottinghamshire. 

ROBERT CRAYFORD, Architectural Archivist at St Paul's, recently published a reconstruc-
tion (from the building accounts) of Inigo Jones's portico, and collaborated with 
Hentie Louw on a Constructional History of the Sash W i n d o w c.i 670-1725 
(Architectural History, 42 & 43). 

PAUL CROSSLEY is a Senior Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, the author of The 
Architecture ofKasimir the Great (1985). R e c e n t publications include (as author-editor) 
the new edition of Paul Frankl's Gothic Architecture and (as co-editor) Architecture: 
Constructing Identity in European Architecture (both 2000). H e has a specialist interest in 
the medieval architecture of Germany and eastern Europe and is writing a history of 
German late Gothic. 

COLIN CUNNINGHAM, former Chairman of the Society, has recently retired from a 
Readership in Architectural History at the O p e n University. His study of Alfred 
Waterhouse, written jointly with Prudence Waterhouse, w o n the Alice Davis 
Hitchcock award in 1994. Stones of Witness appeared in 1999, a contribution to The 
Albert Memorial in 2000, and The Terracotta Designs of Alfred Waterhouse is due this year. 

PETER DRAPER, the Society's current President, is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art 
at Birkbeck College, University of London. H e has published extensively on English 
medieval architecture, focusing on the cultural interpretation of major churches and 
the interrelationship between architecture and liturgy. 

ERIC FERNIE is Director of the Courtauld Institute and a student of medieval 
architecture. His most recent book, published this year, is The Architecture of Norman 
England. 

TERRY FRIEDMAN, formerly Principal Keeper of the Henry Moore Centre for the Study 
of Sculpture in Leeds, and author oijames Gibbs (1984), is currently at work on a broad 
study of eighteenth-century English church architecture. 

*CLAIRE CAPPER took her M.A. at the Courtauld and followed it with a P h . D . on 
English plasterwork of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, on which she has 
written and lectured. She is co-author, with J o h n N e w m a n and Annabel Ricketts, of 
'Hatfield, a house for a Lord Treasurer' in Pauline Croft (ed.), Culture and Power: the 
early Cecils, due for publication later this year. 

ANDOR GOMME used to teach English Literature and Architectural History at Keele 
University. H e is a former Chairman of the Society and currently Honorary Editor of 
Architectural History. His book on Smith of Warwick was published earlier this year. 

IAN GOODALL works in the Architectural Investigation section of English Heritage in 
York. H e has contributed to a number of publications, including Furness Iron, English 
Hospitals 1600—1948 and Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770—1930. 

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS XI 

*PAULA HENDERSON has a P h . D . in architectural history from the Courtauld Institute. 
She specialized in the architecture of the setting of the English house in the T u d o r and 
early Stuart periods, and her book on the subject will shortly be published. 

* G O R D O N HIGGOTT is a Historic Buildings Inspector at English Heritage. H e took his 
M.A. and P h . D . at the Courtauld under Peter Kidson and J o h n N e w m a n . H e is co-
author (with J o h n Harris) of Inigo Jones: Complete Architectural Drawings (1989) and has 
published on Jones's early continental travels and architectural theory. H e is n o w 
researching the W r e n office designs for H a m p t o n C o u r t Palace and St Paul's Cathedral 

DEBORAH HOWARD, immediate past-Chairman of the Society, is Reader in Architec-
tural History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St J o h n ' s College. H e r 
latest book is Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 
1100-1500 (2000). 

*MAURICE HOWARD'S books include The Early Tudor Country House (1987) and The 
Tudor Image (1995). Forthcoming is The Vyne: The Archaeology of a great Tudor House, 
with Edward Wilson. H e is R e a d e r in Art History at the University of Sussex, a 
former Chairman of the Society and Senior Specialist Advisor to the V&A for the 
British Galleries Project, 2001. 

PETER HOWELL has recently retired from teaching Latin at Royal Holloway College. 
His recent publications include chapters on Architecture 1800—1914' in vol. vii of The 
History of the University of Oxford and on Francis Skidmore in The Albert Memorial. H e 
is currently working on a book on the triumphal arch from R o m a n times to the 
present. 

*DAVID JACQUES is the author of Georgian Gardens: The Reign of Nature (1983) and The 
Gardens of William and Mary (1988), and was First Inspector of Historic Parks and 
Gardens at English Heritage from 1988 to 1993. H e is currently Director of the 
Conservation (Landscapes & Gardens) course at the Architectural Association. 

SALLY JEFFERY, a former Honorary Secretary of the Society, works as an architectural 
and garden historian with the Corporation of London and also teaches garden history 
at Birkbeck College. She is the author of the definitive architectural study of the 
London Mansion House. 

J O H N JURICA is Assistant Editor of the Victoria History of Gloucestershire. 

c. M. KAUFFMAN was formerly Keeper of Prints & Drawings and Paintings at the 
Victoria and Albert M u s e u m (1975-85) and subsequently Professor of the History of 
Art and Director of the Courtauld Institute, University of London (1985-95). 

*PAMELA D . KINGSBURY holds a P h . D . in Art History from the University of Chicago. 
She is an independent scholar, writing on English eighteenth-century architecture and 
that of Frank Lloyd Wright, and she serves as architectural historian for the State of 
Kansas preservation board. H e r book on Lord Burlington's Town Architecture was 
published in 1995. 

KEITH KISSACK, a former member of M o n m o u t h Borough Council and Director of 
M o n m o u t h and Castle Museums, is the author of several books on the history and 

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Xll NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 

architecture of the town, and jointly of the Blue Guide to the churches of 
Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire. 

*CHERRY ANN KNOTT was Curator of Sudbury Hall for five years until 1983. 
Subsequently, as a post-graduate student at the Courtauld Institute, she did research 
on Sudbury in the Vernon family archives. 

*ALISON MAGUIRE wrote her Courtauld P h . D . thesis on Country-House Planning in 
England, 1660—1700. She n o w works as an independent Consultant Architectural 
Historian and is also engaged (in collaboration with Andor Gomme) in researching 
and writing a book on the compact house plan. 

RODERICK O'DONNELL is an expert on the Pugins and the R o m a n Catholic revival in 
these islands. H e was research assistant in Dublin for the Buildings of Ireland 1975—78 
and frequently contributes to the revised Buildings of. . . volumes, but found his house 
damned with faint praise in the revised Norfolk as 'suburban Arts & Crafts'. H e has 
been an inspector with English Heritage and its predecessor bodies since 1982. 

J O H N PEACOCK teaches English at Southampton University. His book on The Stage 
Designs of Inigo Jones came out in 1995. H e has n o w turned to the study of Van Dyck, 
for which he has recently received a Leverhulme research fellowship. 

SARAH PEARSON formerly worked for the R C H M E and for them wrote The Medieval 
Houses of Kent: an Historical Analysis (1994). She is the immediate Part-President of the 
Vernacular Architecture Group. Her extended introduction to the Kent Hearth Tax 
Assessment: Lady Day 1664 is to be published by the British R e c o r d Society this year. 

* RACHEL PERRY specializes in French architecture and is currently working on a book 
on Francois-Joseph Belanger, the subject of her Courtauld P h . D . 

STEPHEN PORTER is Assistant Editor with the Survey of London section of English 
Heritage, working on a study of the London Charterhouse for a forthcoming volume 
in the series. H e is author of Exploring Urban History (1990), Destruction in the English 
Civil Wars (1994), The Great Fire of London (1996) and The Great Plague (1999), and 
editor of London and the Civil War (1996). 

ANTHONY QUINEY, Professor of Architectural History at the University of Greenwich, 
prolific author and a former Chairman of the Society and President of the Royal 
Archaeological Institute, is currently completing a book on the medieval urban houses 
ofBritain. 

*AILEEN REID was educated at Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute, 
where she wrote a doctoral dissertation on the architectural career of E. W . Godwin 
(1833-86). She was joint editor with Robert Mainura of Edward Alleyn: Elizabethan 
Actor, Jacobean Gentleman (1994). H e r latest book is Brentham: a History of the Pioneer 
Garden Suburb igoi-2001 (2000); she currently works as assistant literary editor of The 
Sunday Telegraph. 

MARGARET RICHARDSON has worked at Sir J o h n Soane's Museum since 1985 and been 
its curator since 1995. She co-edited the exhibition John Soane: Master of Space and 
Light at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1999. 

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DAVID ROBINSON is an architectural historian with the Historical Analysis and Research 
Team at English Heritage. Essentially a medievalist, he was previously academic editor 
of the Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments guidebook series. 

*FRANK SALMON has been lecturing in art history at the University of Manchester since 
1989. His book Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture was 
published late last year. 

*CHRISTINE STEVENSON is a lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Reading. 
She has published articles on Hogarth and on eighteenth-century institutional 
architecture in England, Scotland and Denmark, and in 2000 the book Medicine and 
Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture 1660—1800. 

TIM TATTON-BROWN was Director of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust from 1975 
to 1985 and is n o w a freelance archaeologist and architectural historian. H e helped 
with the third edition of The Buildings of England: North-east and East Kent and has 
recently published Lambeth Palace, a history .of the Archbishops of Canterbury and their 
houses (2000). 

CHRISTOPHER WAKELING, the Society's current Chairman, teaches architectural and art 
history at Keele University. H e has a special interest in the architecture of n o n -
conformism, and is the author of the section on Post-Renaissance architecture in the 
centenary edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's History of Architecture. 

*ADAM WHITE studied English Renaissance sculpture under J o h n N e w m a n at the 
Courtauld in the 1970s and has remained a devotee of the subject ever since. His 
Biographical Dictionary of London Tomb Sculptors c. 1560— c. 1660 was published by the 
Walpole Society in 1999. For the past six years he has worked as Curator of Lotherton 
Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries. 

*RICHARD WILLIAMS, w h o has been a part-time tutor at Birkbeck College, is currently 
completing a doctoral thesis at the Courtauld Institute on the impact of the 
Reformation o n visual culture in Elizabethan England. His chapter on 'Libels and 
Payntinges: Elizabethan Catholics and the International Campaign of Visual Propa-
ganda' is due to be published shortly in fohn Foxe and his World. 

ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON, joint author of the revised Pevsner Guides on Buckinghamshire, 
Leicestershire and Rutland, and Nottinghamshire, is n o w Architectural Editor of The 
Victoria History of the Counties of England. 

*ROGER WOODLEY wrote his doctoral thesis on the professional development of Robert 
Mylne. H e teaches architectural history at University College, London and is preparing 
the next edition of the London Blue Guide. 

*GILES WORSLEY, architectural correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, is the author of 
Classical Architecture in Britain (1995) and editor of The Life and Works of John Can, by 
Brian Wragg (2000). 

* Former students of J o h n N e w m a n at the Courtauld Institute. 

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