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Description: | This view comes from [Thomas Warton]. 1773. The History and Antiquities of Winchester, volume 1, opposite p. 86. The medieval palace of Wolvesey, built by Henry de Blois, was stripped to provide materials for the new Wolvesey Palace by George Morley, Bishop of Winchester 1662-84. His designer was Sir Thomas Fitch (1637-88), a leading master bricklayer and a prominent figure in the building world of seventeenth-century London. The south front (shown here) was completed before Morley's death in October 1684 and the west wing was finished shortly afterwards, at a total cost of £2200. It was built in the Baroque style. Morley left £500 in his will to finish the house, but it was not taken up until 1707-15 when Sir Jonathan Trelawney (bishop 1707-12) built the east wing. Trelawney's successors made little use of Wolvesey as a residence, and by 1773 the house was badly neglected. Brownlow North (bishop 1781-1820) demolished all but the west wing in 1786. This is now the bishop's residence.
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Biddle, Martin. 1986. Wolvesey: the Old Bishop's Palace, Winchester, p. 22-27. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Thomas Fitch Jonathan Trelawney Bishop's Palace George Morley Winchester House Baroque Palace Bishop of Winchester Winchester Palace Brownlow North | Temporal: | start=1773-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | W Cave; James Taylor | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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