Architect and stage designer. Born near Smithfield. Never married. He studied architecture in Italy and brought the new Palladian designs to Britain. Became Surveyor of the King's Works, the king's architect. Designed the first planned square (Covent Garden) in London and introduced the terraced house.
He collaborated with Ben Jonson to produce a number of masques for the court of King Charles I, for which they received equal payments. This came to an end when they fell out over their competing claims to the invention of the masques. Died at Somerset House.
Do try and see some of his writing - his spelling is delightfully impulsive and bizarre.
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Inigo Jones
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Carpenters' Hall - Inigo Jones
This memorial used to be in Puzzle Corner until walking guide Ian Swankie poi...
The Queen's Chapel
The Queen's Chapel, St. James's Palace Designed by Inigo Jones, the búilding ...
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A. E. Darby
Bethnal Green Borough Engineer/Architect in 1922, 1926, 1937.
3 memorials
W. Gilbee Scott
William Gilbee Scott had a practice at 25, Bedford Row. The only building, apart from the How Gateway, we can find by him is the Salvation Army Citadel in Sheffield. 2016: via Facebook Neil Jacks...
1 memorial
1 memorial
William Edward Trent
Architect. Articled to Henry Poston. Later he specialised in cinema design.
1 memorial
Harold Ainsworth Peto
Born in Suffolk, son of Sir Samuel.
1 memorial
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