List Of Works By John Vanbrugh

John Vanbrugh created many disparate works, and this is a list of many of the notable ones.

# Castle Howard, c. 1699 (west wing designed by Sir Thomas Robinson only completed in early 19th century).
# The architect's own house in Whitehall, 1700–1701, known as " Goose-Pie House", demolished 1898.Beard, p. 70.
# The Orangery, Kensington Palace, 1704: probably a modification by Vanbrugh to a design by Hawksmoor.
# Haymarket Theatre, 1704–05, has been completely rebuilt since and is now known as Her Majesty's.
# Blenheim Palace, 1705–1722, stable court never completed.
# Grand Bridge, Blenheim, 1708–1722.
# Kimbolton Castle, 1708–1719, remodelled the building.
# Demolished part of Audley End and designed new Grand Staircase, 1708.
# Claremont House, 1708, then known as Chargate (rebuilt to the designs of Henry Holland in the 18th century).
# Kings Weston House, 1710–1714.
# Grimsthorpe Castle, 1715–1730, only the north side of the courtyard was rebuilt.
# Eastbury Park, 1713–1738, completed by Roger Morris who amended Vanbrugh's design (demolished except for Kitchen Wing).
#Cholmondeley Castle 1713 Vanbrugh prepared a design to rebuild the house, but it is believed not to have been executed
#Great Obelisk, Castle Howard 1714
# Morpeth Town Hall, 1714. (Front renewed and back replaced in 1869–70.)
# The Belvedere, Claremont Landscape Garden, 1715.
# Vanbrugh Castle, 1718–19, the architect's own house in Greenwich. Additionally, houses for other members of Vanbrugh's family (none of which survived beyond 1910).
# Stowe, Buckinghamshire, c.1719, added north portico, also several temples and follies in the gardens (the surviving follies are: the Wolfe Obelisk (c.1720), relocated 1759; the Rotunda (1720–21) dome altered; the Lake Pavilions (c.1719) altered) up until his death.
#The Temple, Eastbury Park (early 1720s) demolished
#Robin Hood's Well, Yorkshire C.1720
# Seaton Delaval Hall, 1720–1728.
# Lumley Castle, 1722, remodelling work.
#Pyramid Gate, Castle Howard 1723
#Walled Kitchen Garden, Claremont (c.1723)
# Newcastle Pew, St George's Church, Esher, 1724.
#The Bagnio (water pavilion), Eastbury Park (1725) demolished
# Temple of the Four Winds, Castle Howard, 1725–1728.

Attributed works include:

# Completion of State rooms, Hampton Court Palace, 1716–1718.
# Ordnance Board Building, Woolwich, 1716–1720.
#Chatham Dockyard Great Store House 1717, now demolished, Vanburgh or Hawksmoor were possibly involved in the designpage 164, The Work of Sir John Vanbrugh, Geoffrey Beard, 1986, Batsford Books,
# Berwick Barracks, 1717–1721.Described as a misattribution in Grundy et al., ''Northumberland,'' pp. 74, 178–79. Grundy ''et al''. attribute the design to Hawksmoor, saying that this was probably modified in execution by Andrews Jelfe.
#The Brewhouse, Kings Weston House (c.1718)
#Chatham Dockyard Main gate 1720, is possibly by Vanburgh or Hawksmoor
#Loggia, Kings Weston House (c.1722)page 177,Sir John Vanbrugh Storyteller in Stone, Vaughan Hart, 2008, Yale University Press

Gallery of architectural work

Notes and references

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