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Book Synopsis Wren’s Burford Masons by : Melody Mobus
Download or read book Wren’s Burford Masons written by Melody Mobus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Burford Masons were involved in the construction of such outstanding buildings as St Paul's Cathedral, City churches, and Blenheim Palace, among many others. Whilst credit for many of these buildings generally rests with named architects, Sir Christopher Wren in particular, this book shows how reliant these designers were on their master craftsmen, sometimes involving them in the design process as their ideas evolved. The book further shows how the Burford Masons responded to the challenge of late payments, often of many years, becoming financiers in the process. It reveals how, as risk-taking businessmen, they effectively underpinned both public and private development financially, and how extraordinary success transformed their lives. The reader will learn about the vital part played in the early modern period by master craftsmen of the calibre of the Burford Masons, despite the emergence of the architect as lead designer, whose fame has hitherto overshadowed them. As a result, this book will be a compelling read for anyone interested in architectural, construction or social history.
Book Synopsis Wren's Burford Masons by : Melody Mobus
Download or read book Wren's Burford Masons written by Melody Mobus and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Burford Masons were involved in the construction of such outstanding buildings as St Paul's Cathedral, City churches, and Blenheim Palace, among many others. Whilst credit for many of these buildings generally rests with named architects, Sir Christopher Wren in particular, this book shows how reliant these designers were on their master craftsmen, sometimes involving them in the design process as their ideas evolved. The book further shows how the Burford Masons responded to the challenge of late payments, often of many years, becoming financiers in the process. It reveals how, as risk-taking businessmen, they effectively underpinned both public and private development financially, and how extraordinary success transformed their lives. The reader will learn about the vital part played in the early modern period by master craftsmen of the calibre of the Burford Masons, despite the emergence of the architect as lead designer, whose fame has hitherto overshadowed them. As a result, this book will be a compelling read for anyone interested in architectural, construction or social history"--
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the First Conference of the Construction History Society by : James Campbell
Download or read book Proceedings of the First Conference of the Construction History Society written by James Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the first conference of the Construction History Society, which took place on 11 and 12 April 2014 at Queens' College, Cambridge, featuring 48 peer-reviewed papers covering a wide variety of subjects on the theme of construction history.
Book Synopsis Christopher Wren's Cotswold Masons by : Janet Jarvis
Download or read book Christopher Wren's Cotswold Masons written by Janet Jarvis and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Burford Masons and the Changing World of Building Practice in England, 1630-1730 by : Melody Ann Clara Mobus
Download or read book The Burford Masons and the Changing World of Building Practice in England, 1630-1730 written by Melody Ann Clara Mobus and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural history has traditionally focused on the named architect and the completed building. Investigation of the master craftsmen who realised the emerging architect's ideas while continuing to build to their own design has only recently been embarked upon. This thesis sets out to address this imbalance by scrutinising a group of master masons closely connected with Wren for over five decades. This thesis, for the first time, explores the Burford Masons, three dynasties comprising the Strongs, the Kempsters, and Ephraim Beauchamp, who rose to join the elite of mason-contractors in the rebuilding of London. Examining their experience over the period 1630-1730, it aims to shed light on building practices undergoing transition to modem methods. The research is largely based on primary sources, some hitherto untapped, which has produced a wealth of new evidence. The Burford Masons' careers are set out in Chapter Two, a Catalogue Raisonne giving the first comprehensive account of their works. The remaining chapters are thematic, Chapter Three investigating their experience after the Great Fire, a catalyst for changing building practices and their careers. Chapters Four and Five study the Burford Masons' evolving contractual arrangements, and their strategies to withstand the endemic problem of dilatory payments. Chapter Six scrutinises changes in London Masons' Company and the Burford Masons' involvement with it. Chapter Seven explores their role in design, both in conjunction with the architect and as mason-architects in their own right. It identifies them as a school of masons emerging from quarries. The research deepens knowledge of the evolution of the contracting system in both London and the provinces. It shows the Burford Masons also in the process of change, becoming interdisciplinary master-builders, entrepreneurs, and financiers.
Book Synopsis Treasures of Britain by : John Julius Norwich
Download or read book Treasures of Britain written by John Julius Norwich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers alphabetical listings of more than two thousand locations, including gardens, historic houses, museums, and natural sites.
Book Synopsis Studies in Construction History: the proceedings of the Second Construction History Society Conference by : James Campbell
Download or read book Studies in Construction History: the proceedings of the Second Construction History Society Conference written by James Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of second conference of the Construction History Society, which took place on 20 and 21 March 2015 at Queens' College, Cambridge, featuring 28 peer-reviewed papers covering a wide variety of subjects on the theme of construction history.
Book Synopsis Perspectives in English Urban History by : Alan M. Everitt
Download or read book Perspectives in English Urban History written by Alan M. Everitt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1973-06-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Oxford written by Geoffrey Tyack and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. This copiously illustrated, chronological guide emphasizes what actually can be seen. Author Geoffrey Tyack suggests a number of walks around Oxford and its immediate environs, providing an ideal companion for the city's visitors and an excellent reference book for architectural enthusiasts. 8 color and 230 bandw plates. 18 plans and maps.
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Download or read book Stuart England written by Blair Worden and published by Oxford : Phaidon. This book was released on 1986 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No king of England had had a more secure or more enviable inheritance than that to which James VI of Scotland succeeded as James I of England on the death of his distant cousin the childless Queen Elizabeth on 24 March 1603. Over the previous century the Tudors had overcome fundamental opposition to their rule and built a durable system of government. The great barionial families which had fought the Wars of the Roses in the later fifteenth century had been tamed or extinguished, and their military followings abolished. By the end of the sixteenth century a high proporation of noble families owed their eminence not to independent bases of power in the regions where their estates lay, but to the favour of the cron, whose policies they implermented in the localities and at whose court they competed for further rewards. In areas where previously the king's writ had at times seemed scarcely to run, especially Wales and the north of England, the royal machinery of justice had first rivalled and then superseded the power of local magnates as a focus of loyalty. By the time of James I's accession the regional rebellions of 1536-69 belonged to the past. -- Introduction.
Book Synopsis Sir Christopher Wren by : Bryan D. G. Little
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren written by Bryan D. G. Little and published by London : Hale. This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Was Sir Christopher Wren a Mason? ... Reprinted from Vol. II. of the Transactions of the Authors' Lodge by : Francis de Paula CASTELLS
Download or read book Was Sir Christopher Wren a Mason? ... Reprinted from Vol. II. of the Transactions of the Authors' Lodge written by Francis de Paula CASTELLS and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
