The architect James Gibbs was a transitional figure, his earlier buildings are Baroque, reflecting the time he spent in Rome in the early 18th century, but he adjusted his style after 1720.
Greek Revival architecture was added to the repertory, beginning around 1750, but increasing in popularity after 1800.
Raked roofs were mostly covered in earthenware tiles until Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn led the development of the slate industry in Wales from the 1760s, which by the end of the century had become the usual material. ==Types of buildings== ===Houses=== Versions of revived Palladian architecture dominated English country house architecture.
Somerset House in London, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1776 for government offices, was as magnificent as any country house, though never quite finished, as funds ran out.
A plan for this exists dated 1794, where "the whole development consists of pairs of semi-detached houses, So far as I know, this is the first recorded scheme of the kind".
Greek Revival architecture was added to the repertory, beginning around 1750, but increasing in popularity after 1800.
This contrasted with well-off continental dwellings, which had already begun to be formed of wide apartments occupying only one or two floors of a building; such arrangements were only typical in England when housing groups of batchelors, as in Oxbridge colleges, the lawyers in the Inns of Court or The Albany after it was converted in 1802.
The Grange, for example, a manor built in Toronto, was built in 1817.
In fact the French Wars put an end to this scheme, but when the development was finally built it retained the semi-detached form, "a revolution of striking significance and far-reaching effect". ===Churches=== Until the Church Building Act 1818, the period saw relatively few churches built in Britain, which was already well-supplied, although in the later years of the period the demand for Non-conformist and Roman Catholic places of worship greatly increased.
George's Church, Dublin. The 1818 Act allocated some public money for new churches required to reflect changes in population, and a commission to allocate it.
Building of Commissioners' churches gathered pace in the 1820s, and continued until the 1850s.
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.
It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, George III, and George IV—who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.
Building of Commissioners' churches gathered pace in the 1820s, and continued until the 1850s.
The British town of Welwyn Garden City, established in the 1920s, is an example of pastiche or Neo-Georgian development of the early 20th century in Britain.
Versions of the Neo-Georgian style were commonly used in Britain for certain types of urban architecture until the late 1950s, Bradshaw Gass & Hope's Police Headquarters in Salford of 1958 being a good example.
Versions of the Neo-Georgian style were commonly used in Britain for certain types of urban architecture until the late 1950s, Bradshaw Gass & Hope's Police Headquarters in Salford of 1958 being a good example.
Architects such as Raymond Erith, and Donald McMorran were among the few architects who continued the neo-Georgian style into the 1960s.
Reissued in paperback, Antique Collectors Club, 1986. Frank Jenkins, Architect and Patron, 1961. Barrington Kaye, The Development of the Architectural Profession in Britain, 1960. McAlester, Virginia & Lee, A Field Guide to American Houses, 1996.
Reissued in paperback, Antique Collectors Club, 1986. Frank Jenkins, Architect and Patron, 1961. Barrington Kaye, The Development of the Architectural Profession in Britain, 1960. McAlester, Virginia & Lee, A Field Guide to American Houses, 1996.
The Englishness of English Art, Penguin, 1964 edn. Sir John Summerson, Georgian London (1945), 1988 revised edition, Barrie & Jenkins, .
Reissued in paperback 1970. Richard Sammons, The Anatomy of the Georgian Room.
Reissued in paperback, Antique Collectors Club, 1986. Frank Jenkins, Architect and Patron, 1961. Barrington Kaye, The Development of the Architectural Profession in Britain, 1960. McAlester, Virginia & Lee, A Field Guide to American Houses, 1996.
The Englishness of English Art, Penguin, 1964 edn. Sir John Summerson, Georgian London (1945), 1988 revised edition, Barrie & Jenkins, .
(Also see revised edition, edited by Howard Colvin, 2003) ==Further reading== Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 3rd ed., 1995. John Cornforth, Early Georgian Interiors (Paul Mellon Centre), 2005. James Stevens Curl, Georgian Architecture. Christopher Hussey, Early Georgian Houses, Mid-Georgian Houses, Late Georgian Houses.
Reissued in paperback, Antique Collectors Club, 1986. Frank Jenkins, Architect and Patron, 1961. Barrington Kaye, The Development of the Architectural Profession in Britain, 1960. McAlester, Virginia & Lee, A Field Guide to American Houses, 1996.
(Also see revised edition, edited by Howard Colvin, 2003) ==Further reading== Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 3rd ed., 1995. John Cornforth, Early Georgian Interiors (Paul Mellon Centre), 2005. James Stevens Curl, Georgian Architecture. Christopher Hussey, Early Georgian Houses, Mid-Georgian Houses, Late Georgian Houses.
(Also see revised edition, edited by Howard Colvin, 2003) ==Further reading== Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 3rd ed., 1995. John Cornforth, Early Georgian Interiors (Paul Mellon Centre), 2005. James Stevens Curl, Georgian Architecture. Christopher Hussey, Early Georgian Houses, Mid-Georgian Houses, Late Georgian Houses.
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