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Jun 21, 2024 · William Burges was one of the most imaginative designers of the nineteenth century. Regarded by many as an eccentric, Burges had a passion for Gothic art-architecture. This guide looks at Burges’ early commissions and his work at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Yorkshire, Cardiff Castle, Castell Coch, Knightshayes and Tower House, London.
Jun 26, 2024 · This house, numbered 9 until 1967, was designed by the architect William Burges for his own occupation. Burges began to make drawings for the house in July 1875, but his initial designs differed in some ways from those executed.
Jun 26, 2024 · The south transept, described by William Burges in 1869 as 'one of the most perfect and curious specimens of the architecture of the middle of the 14th century', is of six narrow bays, marked externally by tall windows separated by buttresses. Inside the pitched roof of stone slabs is supported on open stone trusses and the south wall has a ...
3 days ago · It was in this wrecked and overgrown state in 1871, that John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, ordered the site to be cleared of vegetation and debris and his architect, William Burges drew up plans for a full reconstruction.
Jun 26, 2024 · It was redecorated in 1855–9 by William Burges. The frieze, which circles the interior above the stalls, depicts scenes and stories from the books of Genesis and Exodus, including Adam and Eve, Noah, the Tower of Babel, and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
4 days ago · By the 1770s, thoroughly neoclassical architects such as Robert Adam and James Wyatt were prepared to provide Gothic details in drawing-rooms, libraries and chapels and, for William Beckford at Fonthill in Wiltshire, a complete romantic vision of a Gothic abbey.
6 days ago · Gothic Revival - Chimney-piece in the Chaucer Room of the Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, the UK, by William Burges, c.1877-1890
