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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Frederick Catherwood
Artist, architect and explorer.  Born at 21 Charles Square.  Topographical artist.  He visited many Mediterranean countries drawing their monuments and ruins.  In 1839-40 Catherwood and John Lloyd ...
1 memorial
James Burton
Architect and property developer. The most successful property developer of Regency and Georgian London. He built over 3,000 properties, and his buildings covered over 250 acres of central London. ...
1 memorial
Beresford Pite
Architect. Â Born, Arthur Beresford Pite, 9 South Terrace, Grosvenor Park, Walworth. London buildings: 30 Euston Square the original building with the Melton Street frontage - HQ of an assurance co...
1 memorial
Richard Norman Shaw
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Pioneer of Old English and Queen Anne styles. His London works include: 1-2 St James Street, Grim's Dyke, the Royal Geographic Society, 17 Chelsea Embankment, Bedford Par...
5 memorials
George Edmund Street
Born in Woodford, Essex His chief work was the Royal Courts of Justice (1868-81) in the Strand.
1 memorial
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