Neoclassical Style Guide: Use of the Orders

NOTES: Originally built in 1655, Witley Court was remodelled by John Nash in c. 1806. It was remodelled again in Italianate style in 1854-1860 for the first Earl of Dudley by Samuel Daukes. The terraces and the gardens were laid out by William Andrew Nesfield at the same time. The house was devastated by fire in 1937 after which it was stripped and abandoned until taken into the care of English Heritage in 1984.

NOTES: Edinburgh Town Council invited Robert Adam to design Charlotte Square in 1791. Only the north side of the Square was finished before his death in 1792.

NOTES: The old Parliament Building was designed by Pearce and built in 1729-1739. The east and west porticos were added by Gandon in 1785-1797 and the south curving screen walls by Johnston in 1803 when the building was converted into a bank.

SOURCE: Robert Mitchell. Plans, and views in perspective, with descriptions, of buildings erected in England and Scotland (London, 1801), pl. 3

SOURCE: Robert Mitchell. Plans, and views in perspective, with descriptions, of buildings erected in England and Scotland (London, 1801), pl. 4

NOTES: Originally built by Karl von Fischer in 1811-1815, the theatre burnt down in 1823 and was rebuilt in its original form by Leo von Klenze, reopening in 1825.

NOTES: Dodington Park was begun in 1796 but not completed until after the architect's death.

NOTES: Edinburgh Town Council invited Robert Adam to design Charlotte Square in 1791.Only the north side of the Square was finished before his death in 1792.

NOTES: The General Post Office was remodelled in 1905-1915 by Pentland and rebuilt 1924-1929, after the 1916 Easter Rising by the Office of Public Building and Works.

NOTES: The church was built 1832-1839, although the portico was not added until 1861 by Deane and Woodward. They omitted the flanking towers and dome over the crossing that was originally intended. Kearns Deane was the brother of Thomas Deane of Deane & Woodward.

NOTES: Bonomi's designs are for a series of three rooms (drawing room, book room and saloon) disposed along the south front of the house, to the east of the dining room of circa 1770.

NOTES: Known colloquially as The Gherkin.

NOTES: The chapel was located in the northern wing of the now demolished Palais des Tuileries and was constructed as part of the remodelling by Percier and Fontaine of the Louvre in 1806-1811 for Napoleon I. It was destroyed during the Paris Commune uprising 1871.

NOTES: The Tuscan style columns on the portico are made from cast iron, each column cast in two sections over 17 ft (5.2 metres) high, with the architrave a single casting. The Dock Traffic Office was designed by Philip Hardwick in 1848. Another storey (just seen) was added in 1849 by Hartley.

NOTES: Former hunting lodge enlarged to private house. Built circa 1550 for Sir Nicholas Poyntz of Iron Acton, reputedly with stone from the destroyed Kingswood Abbey. It was enlarged in the early 17th-century into an H-plan. Formed into a square and remodelled by James Wyatt in Gothick style probably in 1790s for the Reverend Lewis Clutterbuck, a service wing was added in 1897. The house was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1949 and restored from 1970-1984.