Cannons (house)
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Cannons was a stately home in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, England. It was built by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, between 1713 and 1724 at a cost of £200,000, replacing an earlier house on the si
James Gibb's design for the South Front (from Vitruvius Britannicus)
The grand staircase of Cannons, seen here after its removal to Chesterfield House, London in 1747, itself demolished in 1937
James Brydges (later 1st Duke of Chandos) and his family, 1713. Artist, Godfrey Kneller.
The Basin, Canons Park Estate, today. When the Duke of Chandos developed the estate in the early part of the 18th century, this ornamental pond was constructed along the approach drive from the south-east so that visitors caught their first sight of the Canons Park mansion once they had negotiated it.
Chesterfield House was a grand London townhouse built between 1747 and 1752 by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, statesman and man of letters. The exterior was in the Palladian style, the int
Cannons (house)
…Golden Square. The portico, railings and marble staircase with bronze balustrade were bought by the 4th Earl of Chesterfield for his new London home, Chesterfield House, South Audley Street, which was built in 1749 but like Cannons is no longer standing having been demolished in 1937. Another statue modelled by C…
Chesterfield House, November 1917
Chesterfield House in 1760, published in Walford's Old & New London (1878)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, who built Chesterfield House