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‘THE INGENIOUS MR FLITCROFT’
HENRY FLITCROFT 1697-1769
MASONRY TRIUMPHANTBY WILLIAM SMITH
1735
‘the ingenious Mr. Flitcroft who
conducted the Building of the new
Church at St. Giles's in the Fields (an
elegant Structure)’
THE DUELLIST BY CHARLES
CHURCHILL1763
‘BUILDERS,WHO HAD
THE PILE SURVEY’D
AND WERE NOT
FLITCROFTS IN THEIR
TRADE…’
ATTRIBUTED TO BARTHOLOMEW
DANDRIDGE ; c1735
COURTESY, R IBA
‘ BURL INGTON HARRY ’ and o ther ep i t he t s…
Polish and sophistication
Dyed in the wool neo-Palladian
PedestrianRight hand man of
dilettantiMajor English
architect
Follower and assistant to Burlington
Leading designer of his day
Architect of some renown
An important 18th century Palladian
architect Famous architect Rather dull...
...more interesting than I had thought.
Single-handedly reinvented the
Palladian church for Georgian times
A Kent associate
Lord Burlington’s protegé and architectural draughtsman
Obstinate perverseness
Arch-Palladian ideologue
Builder DesignerPupil of the
celebrated Kent
Painstaking journeyman (rather) than ...a clever artist
MONTAGU HOUSE ,
BLOOMSBURY, 1725 ,
T R U S T E E S O F T H E B R I T I S H M U S E U M
AFTER INIGO JONES, WHITEHALL PALACETHE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
DESIGN FOR STOURHEAD, 1752WWW. D R AWI N G M ATT E R . O RG
‘ A H UM B L E M E M O R I A L ’ P R E S E N T E D TO T H E D E A N OF S T. PAU L’ S (T H OU G H
N OT A S I L LU S T R AT E D )
‘ W E O N LY S TA RT C O UN T I N G O UR S E LV E S F RO M F L I T C RO F T ’
C OAT OF A R M S1 7 4 9
S HOW I N G A LE W I S S ON , A S S OC I AT E D W I T H
F L I T C ROF T ’ S G OOD F R I E N D S T U KE LE Y
HENRY FL ITCROFT JUNIOR’S
BOOKPLATE
TOWN HOUSES
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S HOUSE, CRAVEN STREET
PUSHKIN HOUSE, BLOOMSBURY WAY
CHATHAM HOUSE, ST JAMES’S SQUARE
ANNABEL’S CLUB, BERKELEY SQUARE
CANELETTO: MONTAGU HOUSE, PRIVY GARDEN, WHITEHALL, BUILT 1730 -8
T H E B U C C L E U C H L I V I N G H E R I TAG E T RU S T
FL ITCROFT ’ S OWN HOUSE AND L IME TREES ,
FROGNAL GROVE , HAMPSTEAD
FROGNAL GROVE, GARDEN FRONT, SHOWING HAMPSTEAD PARISH CHURCH
FROGNALGROVE
IN 1954,C O U R T E S Y , R I B A
SARAH FLITCROFTnée MINNS, c irca 1735
C O U RT E S Y, R I B A
DANIE L LYSO NSD RAW ING OF
FL IT C RO FTME MO RIAL IN
T E D D INGTO N C HU RC H , c i r c a 1800
I M A G E C R E D I T : Y A L E C E N T E R F O R B R I T I S H A R T
HENRY FLITCROFT, JR
1742-1826
1742 born Hampstead
1759 Corpus Christi College Cambridge
1766 Inner Temple
1768 publishes a pro-theatre pamphlet
1769 father dies
1771 marries Jane Fletcher; adopts her two young siblings
1770s Chief Examiner, Court of Rolls
1779 wife dies
1780 publishes catalogue of his 880+ books (now on line, Getty)
1782 mother has him committed
1810 legislation passed to remove him from his government post
1826 dies in Stamford; most of library bequeathed to CCCC
FOX TA B LE , S TO URHEA D
HOOBER STAND (98 FT 1748) AND KING ALFRED’S TOWER
(160 FT 1769)
• vv
280 × 640
REDLYNCH GATEWAY, 1755;STOURHEAD CLOCK GATEHOUSE?
SHRUB HILL LODGE, WINDSOR1750-5
WIMPOLE, DESIGN FOR EYECATCHER , c1749
QUERIES INCLUDE:
STOURHEAD GATEHOUSE
SAVANNAH CHURCH
MEREWORTH
STOWE
FURNITURE
THE GOTHICK
F INDING THE L INK BETWEEN
FL ITCROFTAND G.E .
STREET WHO ‘ INHERITED’
FROGNALGROVE
THE INGENIOUS
MR.FLITCROFT
THE LIFE AND WORKS
OF HENRY FLITCROFT
PUBLISHED BY…?
