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The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, City of London: looking towards the Four Per Cent (later Old Dividend) Office from the entrance lobby
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NOTES: The Bank interiors were restored by Donald Insall Associates.
Ffynone, Dyfed, Pembrokeshire: view of the reconstruction
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NOTES: This hous was built in 1792-98 to designs by John Nash. Its perfect symmetry was altered with additions to the north front in 1828, and to the south front in 1904 by the garden designer Inigo Thomas.
Ffynone, Dyfed, Pembrokeshire: view of the reconstruction
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NOTES: This house was built in 1792-98 to designs by John Nash. Its perfect symmetry was altered with additions to the north front in 1828, and to the south front in 1904 by the garden designer Inigo Thomas.
Ffynone, Dyfed, Pembrokeshire: view of the reconstruction
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NOTES: This house was built in 1792-98 to designs by John Nash. Its perfect symmetry was altered with additions to the north front in 1828, and to the south front in 1904 by the garden designer Inigo Thomas.
Bath Abbey (or the Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul), Bath: the restored nave looking towards the east window
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NOTES: This Benedictine abbey church was founded in 1499 and ruined in 1539 during the Dissolution. Restoration of the church to serve as the grand parish church of Bath was promoted by Elizabeth I in 1574 and a new nave timber roof of lath construction had been completed by 1608-1616. Major restoration work was carried out notably to the nave roof by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. This was based upon the original vault designed by William and Robert Vertue.
St Peter, Little Barrington: the south porch
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NOTES: This Norman doorway arch was completely dismantled, cleaned, and reassembled in 1865.
Somerset House, Strand, London: the courtyard repaved with granite setts and the installation of fifty-five dancing fountains lit by fibre-optics
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NOTES: The Strand block of Somerset House was designed by Sir William Chambers and built in 1776-1796. Donald Insall Associates oversaw its restoration in 1999-2001.
St Vedast alias Foster, Cheapside, City of London
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NOTES: Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, this church was gutted by firebombs during the London Blitz of 1940 and 1941. It was restored by Stephen Dykes Bower between 1953 and 1964.
St Michael and All Angels, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire: the nave looking towards the chancel
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NOTES: This church, built in 1150-1180, is one of the finest Norman churches in England, having undergone little alteration since its construction. It was restored by George Edmund Street in 1862.
St Peter, Little Barrington, Gloucestershire: detail of the Early English dog-tooth stonework of the south porch
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NOTES: This Norman doorway arch was completely dismantled, cleaned, and reassembled in 1865.
St Helen, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
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NOTES: Originally a Norman cruciform church, the plan of the present church was completed by the end of the 14th century. The central tower dates from around 1290 while the leaden brooch spire is a reconstruction of a Medieval version added during the restoration work of 1865-1866 carried out by Edward Browning.