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MEDIEVALISM GEORGIAN MEDIEVALISM G T E GOTHIC he Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of O Britain’s greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened R approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Medievalist Architecture, G Georgian Gothic as an homogenous and immature precursor to ‘high’ Victorian Gothic, and centred their discussion around I Furniture and Interiors Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. This book, conversely, reveals how the A style was imaginatively and repeatedly revised and incorporated 1730--1840 into prevailing eighteenth-century fashions: Palladianism, N Rococo, Neoclassicism, and antiquarianism. It shows how under the control of architects, from Wren to Pugin, Walpole G and Cottingham, and furniture designs, especially those of Chippendale, and Ince and Mayhew, a shared language of Gothic O motifs was applied to British architecture, furniture and interiors. Georgian Britain was awash with Gothic forms, even if the T arbiters of taste criticised it vehemently. Throughout, the volume reframes the Gothic Revival’s expression by connecting it with H Georgian understandings of the medieval past, and consequently revises our interpretation of one of the most influential, yet I lampooned, forms of material culture at the time. C PETER N. LINDFIELD is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. Cover image: Jean-Henri Müntz, , P View of Strawberry Hill, from the South, with Twickenham Beyond c.1755–59, 62.25 x 74.95 cm. LWL Ptg. 139. Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, e Yale University. t e COVER DESIGN: SIMON LOXLEY r N . L i n d fi e l d An imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge IP12 3DF (GB) and Peter N. Lindfield 668 Mt Hope Ave, Rochester NY 14620–2731 (US) Volume VIII Georgian Gothic 000 Lind Book B.indb 1 25/07/2016 13:53 ISSN 2043–8230 Series Editors Karl Fugelso Chris Jones Medievalism aims to provide a forum for monographs and collections devoted to the burgeoning and highly dynamic multi-disciplinary field of medievalism studies: that is, work investigating the influence and appearance of ‘the medieval’ in the society and culture of later ages. Titles within the series will investigate the post-medieval construction and manifesta- tions of the Middle Ages – attitudes towards, and uses and meanings of, ‘the medieval’ – in all fields of culture, from politics and international relations, literature, history, architecture, and ceremonial ritual to film and the visual arts. It welcomes a wide range of topics, from histo- riographical subjects to revivalism, with the emphasis always firmly on what the idea of ‘the medieval’ has variously meant and continues to mean; it is founded on the belief that scholars interested in the Middle Ages can and should communicate their research both beyond and within the academic community of medievalists, and on the continuing relevance and pres- ence of ‘the medieval’ in the contemporary world. New proposals are welcomed. They may be sent directly to the editors or the publishers at the addresses given below. Professor Karl Fugelso Dr Chris Jones Boydell & Brewer Ltd Art Department School of English PO Box 9 Towson University University of St Andrews Woodbridge 3103 Center for the Arts St Andrews Suffolk IP12 3DF 8000 York Road Fife KY16 9AL UK Towson, MD 21252–0001 UK USA Previous volumes in this series are printed at the back of this book 000 Lind Book B.indb 2 25/07/2016 13:53 Georgian Gothic Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730–1840 Peter N. Lindfield THE BOYDELL PRESS 000 Lind Book B.indb 3 25/07/2016 13:53 © Peter N. Lindfield 2016 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be Photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner The right of Peter N. Lindfield to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published 2016 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge ISBN 978 1 78327 127 6 The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620-2731, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate This publication is printed on acid-free paper 000 Lind Book B.indb 4 25/07/2016 13:53 For Joanna, Neil and Fiona 000 Lind Book B.indb 5 25/07/2016 13:53 The publishers acknowledge the generous financial support of the Marc Fitch Fund in the production of this volume. 000 Lind Book B.indb 6 25/07/2016 13:53 Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xv Introduction: the Gothic Aesthetic in Britain and British Furniture, 1730–1840 1 1 Understanding Gothic Architecture in Georgian Britain 7 The unknown: initial steps in the understanding of Gothic architecture 9 Subsequent steps in the understanding of Gothic architecture 23 Professionalised topography: the examination of medieval architecture 31 A transformation in the interpretation of Gothic architecture: later theorists 36 2 Creation of Classical Gothic Architecture, Furniture and Interiors 42 Classical Gothic’s antecedents: Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir John Vanbrugh 44 Reconfiguration of medieval architecture: William Kent and Batty Langley 54 The influence of Kent and Langley: early Georgian Gothic architecture, interiors and furniture 66 3 High Fashion and Fragments of the Past: the Omnipresence of Rococo Gothic 81 Rococo Gothic: in name only 82 Counter-curves, asymmetry and Rococo Gothic 91 Categories of Rococo-Gothic furniture 102 Rococo Gothic beyond the page: 1746–65 111 A style of the Union: Rococo-Gothic furniture north of the border 124 4 Fluctuating Tastes: Gothic in Later Eighteenth-century Britain 131 The Gothic paradox in Neoclassical Britain: 1764–1800 132 Maturing Gothic and its continuity: 1760–1800 145 ‘Neoclassical Gothic’: a third type of Georgian Gothic 171 000 Lind Book B.indb 7 25/07/2016 13:53 viii Contents 5 The ‘Chaos of Modern Gothic Excrescences’: Regency to Revolution 180 The Wyatt dynasty: creating Gothic palaces 182 Eaton Hall: ‘distinguished’ architecture and interiors 194 George IV’s apartments: the breeding ground for a new type of Gothic? 204 L.N. Cottingham: student of medieval architecture, designer of Gothic furniture and curator of antiquities, 1830–47 213 Conclusion 222 Appendix 228 Bibliography 234 Glossary 254 Index 257 000 Lind Book B.indb 8 25/07/2016 13:53 Illustrations Figures Fig. 1.1 Samuel and Nathanial Buck, The south east view of Clunokvaur Abby, in the County of Caernarvon, 1742. Folio B D 3. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. 10 Fig. 1.2 The Elevation of Montague House to the Court in Great Russell Street London, Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, I (1715). L 10.5. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. 12 Fig. 1.3 The First Gothic Order, Batty and Thomas Langley, Ancient Architecture: Restored and Improved (1741–42), plate 1. 49 630. Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. 16 Fig. 1.4 Four Examples of Arcades for Piazza’s, Batty and Thomas Langley, Ancient Architecture: Restored and Improved (1741–42), plate 29. 49 630. Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. 17 Fig. 1.5 A Lodge or House of Retirement, 70 feet front, William Halfpenny, Rural Architecture in the Gothick Taste (1752), plate 12. NA8450 H17 1752. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. 20 Fig. 1.6 House with Offices 256 feet in front, William Halfpenny, Chinese and Gothic Architecture Properly Ornamented (1752), plate 10. NA966 H35 1752+ Oversize. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. 21 Fig. 1.7 William Hallett Sr (attributed), The Pomfret Cabinet, c.1752–53. Image courtesy of Lucy Wood. 33 Fig. 2.1 Sir Christopher Wren, Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford, 1681–82. Author’s photograph. 47 Fig. 2.2 Nicholas Hawksmoor, Design for the North Quadrangle of All Souls College, c.1717–18. YD4, fol. 11. Courtesy of the Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford. 51 Fig. 2.3 Batty Langley (attributed), Designs for the elevation and the ground floor of Moody Hall, c.1745–55. B1975.2.118–19. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. 56 000 Lind Book B.indb 9 25/07/2016 13:53

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