Easton Neston house
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Easton Neston is a large grade I listed country house in the parish of Easton Neston near Towcester in Northamptonshire, England. It was built by William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, in the Baroque s
Easton Neston House in 1987
Easton Neston undergoing building work in 2007
A proposal for Easton Neston published in Vitruvius Britannicus in 1715; the central block was built in accordance with the proposal except that the cupola was not added to the roof and the flanking wings, gateway, and forecourt walls shown were ultimately not built.[citation needed]
The south entrance lodges to Easton Neston on the Old Towcester Road, with the estate and the tree-lined River Tove visible in the background
Nicholas Hawksmoor
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Nicholas Hawksmoor was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the
Easton Neston house
…in Northamptonshire, England. It was built by William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster (1648–1711), in the Baroque style to the design of the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Easton Neston is thought to be the only mansion which was solely the work of Hawksmoor. From about 1700, after the completion of Easton Neston, Hawksmoor…
Nicholas Hawksmoor
King William Block (1699–1702), Greenwich Hospital, west facade.
Clarendon Building (1712–13), Oxford, south front.