Name John Thorpe | Role Architect | |
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Died 1655, London, United Kingdom Structures Aston Hall, Charlton House People also search for Thomas Holte, Inigo Jones, Sir Adam Newton, 1st Baronet | ||
The Leeds Renaissance, theory and practice. From Millennium Square to the city region.
John Thorpe or Thorp (c.1565–1655?; fl.1570–1618) was an English architect.
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- The Leeds Renaissance theory and practice From Millennium Square to the city region
- John thorpe x joe garner stay
- Life
- Architectural works
- References
John thorpe x joe garner stay
Life
Little is known of his life, and his work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a folio of drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum, to which Horace Walpole called attention, in 1780, in his Anecdotes of Painting; but how far these were his own is uncertain.
He was engaged on a number of important English houses of his time, and several, such as Longleat, have been attributed to him on grounds which cannot be sustained, because they were built before he was born. In 1570 when he was five years old, he laid the foundation stone of Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire his father being the Master mason of the project. He was probably the designer of Charlton House, in Charlton, London; the original Longford Castle, Wiltshire; Condover Hall and the original Holland House, Kensington; and he is said to have been engaged on Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, and Audley End, Essex (with Bernard Janssens).
Thorpe joined the Office of Works as a clerk, then practised independently as a land surveyor. From 1611 he was assistant to Robert Tresswell, Surveyor-General of Woods South of the Trent. He retired in the 1630s but seems to have lived to an advanced age, dying around 1655.