Name William Winde | Role Architect | |
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Similar People John Nash, Edward Blore, Aston Webb, John Sheffield - 1st Duke, Thomas Cubitt | ||
Captain William Winde (c.1645–1722) was an English gentleman architect, whose Royalist military career, resulting in fortifications and topographical surveys but lack of preferment, and his later career, following the Glorious Revolution, as designer or simply "conductor" of the works of country houses, has been epitomised by Howard Colvin, who said that "Winde ranks with Hooke, May, Pratt and Talman as one of the principal English country house architects of the late seventeenth century" (Colvin 1995, p 1066).
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Winde was born in Holland to English parents.
Works
Time has not been kind to Winde's productions. His work included:
Capt. Winde also gave designs for parterre gardens
Family
Winde married Magdalene, daughter of Sir James Bridgeman. His correspondence with his cousin Lady Mary Bridgeman of Castle Bromwich Hall, is at the Staffordshire Record Office.