Tag: 18th Century
39. The John Soane Museum
Sir John Soane, most famous for building the Bank of England and Dulwich Picture Gallery and this, his own remarkable home in Lincoln's Inn Fields, originally designed to house his collectables.
33. Strawberry Hill House
The SaLADS took a trip to Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham.
18. Royal Greenwich Observatory
Built-in 1676, the Royal Observatory was an ode to architecture and astronomy. King Charles II commissioned the neo-classical design as a first purpose-built scientific research facility in Britain.
6. Denis Sever’s House
Dennis Severs' House in Folgate Street, London is a "still-life drama" created by Dennis Severs, who owned and lived in it until his death, as a "historical imagination" of what life would have been like inside for a family of Huguenot silk weavers. It is a Grade II listed Georgian terraced house in Spitalfields in the East End of London.
3. St Martin’s in the Field
An original medieval church stood in a large grassy area, but today the current 1720s James Gibbs design sits on the edge of the iconic Trafalgar Square where tourists loiter and take photographs, whatever the season.