The English Home from Charles I. to George IV. / Its Architecture, Decoration and Garden Design

by J. Alfred Gotch

Let us hope these precautions were adequate, and that it was not necessary to lay out another £5 on a dinner to placate Sir George and his lady, and to drown the memory of reproaches urged with cousinly freedom.

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS AND TEXT

Note.—The ordinary figures denote references to pages of text; the illustrations, which are referred to by their figure numbers, are denoted by the heavier type.

• Acton, iron gate at, [269]
• Adam, the brothers, [19], [21], [280], [381], [387]
• Adam, Robert, [280–85], [387–389]
• „design for chimney-piece, [305]
• „illustrations of his work, [193], [194], [195], [196], [197], [198], [315], [316], [317], [318], [319]
• Addison, [3]
• Adelphi, The, [285]
• “Advice to Servants,” by Dean Swift, [115]
• Age of Romance, [23]
• Albemarle, Duke of, [180]
• „House, [180], [118]
• Allen, Ralph, [263–66]
• All Souls, Oxford, [143], [154], [176]
• „drawings by Wren at, [99], [100], [101], [102], [103]
• Amelia, Princess, [231]
• Anne, Queen, [2]
• „the mansion of her time, [5]
• “Arching galleries”, [171]
• Architect; the term seldom occurs prior to the seventeenth century, [25]
• Architectural design, change in, [25]
• Artari, [255]
• “Art of Dialling”, [319]
• Art, utilitarian, [391]
• Artificiality in architecture, [3]
• Arundel, Earl of, [2], [42], [52]
• „House, [21]
• Ashburnham House, Westminster, the staircase, [118], [73], [74]
• Ashburnham, William, [118]
• Ashdown House, Berkshire, [97], [55]
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, staircase, [351], [277]
• Aske’s Hospital, Hoxton, [180]
• Aston Hall, Warwickshire, [7], [8], [42], [2]
• Astwell, Northamptonshire, gateway, [102], [59]
• Aubrey, John, [63], [64], [65]
• Austen, Jane, [311]
• Avenues at Boughton, [200]

• Banqueting House, Whitehall, [6], [42], [43], [50], [52], [63], [64], [66], [67], [68], [73], [99], [162], [22]
• „   „Inigo Jones’s drawings for, [66], [36], [37]
• „   „Smithson’s drawing, [66], [38]
• „   „Doorway, drawing by Jones, [86]
• „   „Window, drawing by Jones, [88]
• Bakewell, Robert (smith), [342]
• Barrow Gurney, Somerset, gateway, [329], [249]
• Barry, Charles, [172]
• Basil, Simon, [46]
• Bath, Somerset, Milsom Street, [303], [211]
• „Pulteney Bridge, [267], [184]
• „Queen’s Square, Panels in house, [363], [289]
• „Ralph Allen’s house, [302], [214]
• „Royal Crescent, [268], [185]
• Battle Abbey, Sussex, jamb of fireplace, [298]
• Beaufort House, Chelsea, [324]
• Beckford, Alderman, [14]
• „the younger, [17]
• Beckley, Sussex, Church House, [292], [202]
• Bedford Square, London—
• houses in, [307], [221]
• chimney-piece, [318]
• Belcombe, chimney-piece, [317]
• Belton House, near Grantham, [157–160]
• „plan, [105]
• „chapel, 96
• „house, [104]
• „iron screen, [106]
• „carving, [107]
• Bethlem Hospital, London, [180], [116]
• Bignor, Sussex, chimney, [229]
• Birmingham, lead rain-water head, [272]
• Bishopsgate Street Without, London, ceiling, [386], [307]
• Blaythwayt, William, [203]
• Blenheim Palace, [5], [152], [223], [224], [227], [155]
• Blomfield, R., [216 (footnote)]
• Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, [32], [33], [13], [16]
• Bond, Sir Thomas, [180]
• Books on Architecture, [2], [25–28], [212], [372]
• „German, Dutch, and French, [28]
• Botolph Lane, London, house in, [185], [119], [120]
• Boughton House, Northamptonshire, [178], [196–203]
• „plan, [132]
• „house, [133], [134]
• „state room, [135]
• „bird’s-eye view, [136]
• „staircase, [352], [276]
• „panelling, [363], [286]
• „fireplace, [369], [294]
• „painted ceilings, [385], [310], [311]
• Bourdon House, London, doorway, [357], [284]
• Bramham Park, Yorkshire, gardens, [232–236], [162], [163]
• Brasenose College, Oxford, [106], [63], [64]
• „doorway, [127], [84]
• Brettingham, Matthew, [276–278]
• Brewers’ Hall, London, [190], [125], [126]
• Bridge at Prior Park, [154]
• „at Bath, [184]
• Bridport, Viscount, [387]
• Bristol, houses at, [307], [220]
• British Museum, drawings at, [64], [19]
• Broadfield Hall, Hertfordshire, [9], [3]
• Brownlow, Sir John, [157]
• Buckingham (Villiers), Duke of, [60], [161]
• „(Sheffield), Duke of, [168]
• „House, London, [168], [171], [172], [113], [113A]
• „    „staircase and ceiling, [308]
• „Street, Strand, doorway, [258]
• Bulwick, Northamptonshire, date-stone, [235]
• Burford, [43]
• „Priory, [106], [62]
• Burghley House, [385]
• „Lord, [1], [212]
• Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, [176], [329], [245]
• Burlington-Devonshire, drawings, [52], [64], [65 (footnote)], [83 (footnote)], [42], [43], [44], [45], [76], [77], [86–88], [91], [92], [93], [94], [240], [241]
• Burlington House, [216]
• „Lord, [2], [63], [64], [214–216], [271]
• Burney, Frances, [3]
• Butleigh, Somerset, [84], [142]
• Byron, Lord, [21], [32]

• Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepysian Library, [100], [56]
• „St John’s College, gate-piers, [325], [243]
• „Trinity Hall, cupola, [318], [233]
• Campbell, Colin, [31], [64], [65], [66], [67], [69], [79], [80], [168], [171], [172], [176], [207], [240], [251–255]
• Campion, Thomas, [78]
• Can Court, Wiltshire, staircase, [122], [78]
• Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire—
• Gate-piers, [322], [238]
• Gates, [239]
• Ceiling, [312]
• Canterbury, streets, [296]
• “Capability” Brown, [236]
• Carey Street, London, chimney-piece, [303]
• Cariat (Coryat), Thomas, [44]
• Carlisle, Earl of, [216]
• Carr, of York, [271]
• Caryatides, [73]
• Castle Combe, Wiltshire, doorway, [333], [252]
• Castle Howard, Yorkshire, [216–223], [149], [150], [151], [152]
• „Mausoleum, [220], [153]
• Castor, Northamptonshire, gate-piers, [329], [247]
• Catherine Court, Tower Hill, London, [117]
• Ceilings—
• Seventeenth-century, [122], [31], [34], [54], [74–77], [112], [120]
• Eighteenth-century, [381], [144], [174], [180], [283], [288], [306], [307], [312–314]
• Painted, [384], [293], [308–311]
• Chambers, Sir William, [274]
• Changes in house design, [99], [115], [117]
• Chapman, George, [78]
• Charles I., [7], [41], [66], [70], [87], [163]
• „his influence on architecture, [41]
• Charles II., [10], [84], [141]
• „his idea of rebuilding Whitehall Palace, [70]
• „his interest in building, [142]
• Charleton, Dr., [50 (footnote)], [52]
• Chatham, Lord, [231]
• Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, [204], [217], [140]
• „    „drawings at, [64], [66], [36], [37], [40], [41]
• Chelmsford, street, [296], [210]
• Cheltenham, shop at, [304], [217]
• Cheron, [198], [384]
• Chesterfield, Lord, [214]
• Chimneys, [314], [229], [230]
• Chimney-pieces—
• Seventeenth-century, [138]
• By Inigo Jones, [138], [91], [92]
• By John Webb, [93], [94]
• In the Jerusalem Chamber, [90]
• At Forde Abbey, [95]
• Eighteenth-century, [377], [170], [292], [294], [301], [302], [303], [304], [305]
• Chinese wall-papers, [364], [290]
• Chipping Campden, The Martins, [339], [261]
• Chirurgeons’ Theatre, London, [50], [52]
• Chiswick, Lord Burlington’s Villa, [214], [148]
• “Chorea Gigantum”, [50 (footnote)]
• Christ Church, Oxford, [45]
• „Tom Tower, [145]
• Christian IV. of Denmark, [45]
• Church Langton, Leicestershire, rectory, [294], [207]
• Cirencester, shop at, [304], [216]
• City churches, [13]
• Civil War, The, [2], [10]
• Clarendon, Earl of, [180]
• Clarke, Dr., of All Souls, Oxford, [63], [64]
• Cliefden House, Buckinghamshire, [168], [172], [114]
• Coke, Rev. D’Ewes, [32]
• Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, [274]
• Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, killed in a duel, [276]
• Coleshill, Berkshire, [54–58], [88]
• „plan, [28]
• „elevation, [29]
• „staircase, [30]
• „ceiling, [31]
• „gate-piers, [324], [242]
• College Hill, London, house in, [185], [121]
• Combe Abbey, [171]
• Comfort in houses, [5]
• Coniers, Sir John, [227]
• Cooke, “My ladye Cooke’s House”, [36], [18]
• Coryat, Thomas, [44]
• Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire, [178]
• „ceiling, [386], [313]
• “Counsel and Advice to all Builders,” by Gerbier, [161]
• Covent Garden Piazza, [50], [24]
• „St Paul’s Church, [48], [52], [23]
• Cowper, [3]
• Craftsmen, English, are skilful, [389]
• Crane, Sir Francis, [176], [367]
• Craven, William Lord, [164]
• Croom’s Hill, Greenwich, garden house, [236], [161]
• Cunningham, Peter, his “Life of Inigo Jones”, [45 (footnote)], [50 (footnote)], [60 (footnote)]
• Cupolas, [316], [5], [29], [51], [55], [104], [106], [118], [231–234]

• Dacres, Lord, [216]
• Dance, George, [307]
• Daniell, Samuel, [78]
• Date-stones, [318], [235], [236]
• D’Avenant, [87]
• Davies, Robert (smith), [345 (footnote)]
• Dawtrey Mansion, Petworth, Sussex, staircase, [124], [79]
• Deanery at Wells, panelling, [193], [128]
• „   „chimney-piece, [379], [302]
• Dean Street, Soho, London, house in, [251], [171]
• Decline of fancy in design, [313]
• Deene, Northamptonshire, the “Seahorse”, [291], [205]
• De L’Orme, [28], [73]
• Denham Place, Buckinghamshire, staircase, [355], [280]
• „panelling, [359], [287]
• Denham, Sir John, [69], [70], [84], [87], [141], [144], [212]
• Denmark House, chapel at, [50]
• Design follows two paths, [99], [391]
• Designs of Inigo Jones. See under [Jones, Inigo].
• Devonshire, Dukes of, [64], [204]
• Doorways, seventeenth-century, [126]
• „exterior, [13], [21], [35], [58], [59], [84]
• „interior, [48], [83], [85], [86], [87], [89], [124], [126], [129], [130]
• „eighteenth-century—exterior, [333–339], [196], [197], [252–259]
• „interior, [282–285]
• Dorking, shop at, [305], [219]
• Double cube rooms, [58]
• Drayton, Leicestershire, date-stone, [235]
• Drayton House, Northamptonshire, chimney-piece, [97], [138], [94]
• „gardens, [236], [159], [160]
• Dryden, [60]
• Du Cerceau, [28]
• Dunkirk House, [180]
• Dunstable, street, [296]
• Durham House, [97], [115]
• Dyrham, Gloucestershire, [203], [204], [373]
• „plan, [138]
• „house, [137]
• „dining-room, [139]

• Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, [178], [207–210]
• „plan, 142
• „house, [141]
• „interiors, [143], [144]
• Edney, William (smith), [342]
• Elizabethan houses, [1], [5], [56]
• „    „still habitable, [3]
• Ely, Cambridgeshire, house at, [294], [206]
• Emmett, William, of Bromley, [64], [65], [66]
• Entrances to houses, [319]
• Erectheus, Temple of, [311]
• Evelyn, John, [2], [70], [142], [180]
• „quoted, [27], [167 (footnote)]
• Extinguishers near doors, [333]

• Ferguson, [274]
• Fielding’s “Tom Jones”, [266]
• Finsbury Circus, London, house in, [311], [225]
• Finsbury Square, London, houses in, [307], [222]
• Fire-backs, [370], [296]
• „basket, [370], [297]
• „dogs, [370], [295], [296]
• „grates, [299], [300]
• „places, [369], [375]
• „jamb of, [298]
• Fitzwilliam, Earl of, [258], [260]
• Flaxman, design for a chimney-piece, [304]
• Flitcroft, Henry, [258–260]
• “Florimene,” a pastoral, [87]
• Fonthill Abbey, sale at, [17]
• „House, Wiltshire, [14], [17], [9]
• Ford Abbey, Dorset, chimney-piece, [138], [95]
• Fournier Street, London, doorways, [257]
• Frogley, R. (carpenter), [145]
• Furniture of houses in 1720, [375]

• Gables, [99]
• Gammon, Richard, [60]
• Ganymede, [19]
• Gardens, [229–236], [108], [136], [156–162]
• „at Boughton, [200]
• Garrick, [3]
• Gates and gateways, [322–331], [21], [35], [46], [50], [59], [110], [111], [238], [239], [241–251]
• Georgian Houses, [237]
• „accommodation in the smaller, [287]
• Gerbier, Sir Balthazar, [60], [161–163], [168]
• Gibbs, James, [31], [178], [243–251]
• „drawings by, [164–170]
• Girdlers’ Hall, London, [191], [127]
• Gloucester, house in Eastgate, [307]
• „    „Southgate, [109], [65]
• Godmersham Park, Kent, doorway, [356], [282]
• Goodridge, H. E., of Bath, [265]
• Gothic revival, [20], [23]
• Grainger, of Newcastle, [282]
• Grecian temples in English gardens, [311]
• Greek influence, [21]
• Greenwich Hospital (formerly Palace), [150], [98]
• Greenwich Palace—
• King Charles’s Block, [52], [64], [65], [83], [168], [45]
• Ceiling, [77]
• Door, [87]
• Queen’s house at Greenwich, [43], [50], [52]
• Plan, [25]
• View, [26]
• Elevation, [27]
• Chimney-pieces by Inigo Jones, [91], [92]
• Greenwich Old Palace, staircase, [126], [82], [83]
• Gresham College, London, [143]
• Grinling Gibbons, [160], [189], [207], [357], [381]
• Gwydyr House, Whitehall, [20], [11]