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Abingdon Lock

Beyond the island the river is flanked by Nuneham Park, belonging to Nuneham House with the Jacobean Carfax Water Tower on a hill in the grounds ahead of the Palladian house itself.

Alessandro Galilei

Galilei designed the façade of the main block of Castletown, the grandest Palladian house in Ireland, but returned to Italy in 1719 and was not associated with the actual construction of the house, which was begun in 1722 and carried through by the young Anglo-Irish architect Edward Lovett Pearce, who met Galilei in Florence while he was making drawings of Palladio's villa on his tour of Italy.

Architecture of Italy

In the same period, in Veneto there was a rapprochement with the Palladian themes, evident in Villa Pisani at Stra (1721) and San Simeone Piccolo church in Venice (completed in 1738).

Charles Jennens

After his father's death in 1747, Jennens had Gopsall Hall completely rebuilt in the Palladian style, including within the estate an Ionic temple built in memory of his friend, the poet and classical scholar, Edward Holdsworth.

City of London Club

Its Italian Palladian-style building was designed by English architect Philip Hardwick.

City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto

City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto is a World Heritage Site in Italy, which protects buildings by the architect Andrea Palladio.

Ferne House

In 2001 the third and present Ferne House (known as Ferne Park) was built to the design of the architect Quinlan Terry, in Palladian style and at a reported cost of £40m.

Flitcroft

Henry Flitcroft (1697–1769), English architect in the Palladian style

Forcett Hall

After a fire in 1726 it was substantially redesigned in 1740 in the Palladian style by architect Daniel Garrett.

Frampton-on-Severn

Much of the village forms part of the Frampton Court Estate, owned by the Clifford family, which is centred on the two principal houses set either side of the Green: Frampton Court, a Palladian house of the early 1730s often attributed to the Bristol architect, John Strahan, and Manor Farmhouse, of the mid-15th century with a contemporary barn.

Isaac Meason House

It is one of only 2 Palladian plan "true cut" stone mansions in the U.S. the other being "Mount Airy" in Warsaw, Virginia.

James Prinsep

Prinsep Ghat, a Palladian porch on the bank of the Hooghly River designed by W. Fitzgerald in 1843, was erected in his memory by the citizens of Calcutta.

Koti Residency

The design is a palladian villa which is the same design followed by the builders of the United States White House when rebuilding it after being destroyed by the British in 1812.

Langley Hall

Langley Hall is a red-brick building in the Palladian style, located in Loddon, Norfolk, England.

Listed buildings in Great Budworth

This was designed by James Gibbs in about 1750, and incorporates Palladian features, although the design was altered during the construction of the house, probably by the executant architect.

Manor of Berry Pomeroy

The Palladian mansion Castle Hill, Filleigh was long the seat of the Earls Fortescue and is still owned by descendants of that family.

Neoclassical architecture

In 1734 William Kent and Lord Burlington designed one of England's finest examples of Palladian architecture with Holkham Hall in Norfolk.

New Shute House

New Shute House is a late Palladian country house built between 1785 and 1789 by Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799) and is situated within the grounds of Old Shute House, in the parish of Shute, near Axminster, East Devon.

Parque Prado

Established in 1930, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum is situated in the Palladian villa, a National Historic Landmark since 1975 and includes a Japanese garden.

Piranesi Vase

He was a wealthy West Indies proprietor and director of the British East India Company, and displayed it in the landscaped grounds of his neo-Palladian mansion Danson House at Bexley, where the dining room's wallpaintings took up the vase's Bacchic themes.

Prior Park Landscape Garden

A picture of the Palladian bridge located in the Prior Park Landscape Garden is used as the cover art for the progressive death metal band Opeth's second album Morningrise.

Provost's House, Trinity College, Dublin

It has a Palladian design with a central Venetian window and doric pilasters and is similar to that built by Lord Burlington for General Wade (now demolished) in London in the 1830s, who in turn copied a drawing by Andrea Palladio.

Pushkin House

In 1927 Pushkin House moved from the crammed rooms in the Academy of Sciences building to the magnificent neo-Palladian Customs House, built after Giovanni Francesco Lucchini's designs in 1829-32 and situated just around the Strelka.

Sicilian Baroque

Marvuglia, recognising the new fashion for all things British, developed the style he had first cautiously used at Palazzo Riso-Belmonte in 1784, combining some of the plainer, more solid elements of Baroque with Palladian motifs rather than Palladian designs.

William Jennens

Robert Jennens purchased Acton Place from the Daniels recusant Catholic family in 1708 and continuously remodelled it in the Palladian style until his death in 1725.

Xara

Since 1984, the company has been headquartered in Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, an 18th-century Palladian style villa, designed by the celebrated architect James Wyatt, built in 1768 and reputed to be his first building in the UK.

Zbarazh

The new Zbarazh Castle was designed for Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki in a post-Palladian Italian idiom similar to Scamozzi's by the Dutch architect van Peyen in 1626–31.


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