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- Captain William Winde (c. 1645-1722) was an English gentleman architect, whose Royalist military career, resulting in fortifications and topographical surveys but lack of preferment, and his later career, following the Glorious Revolution, as designer or simply "conductor" of the works of country houses, has been epitomised by Howard Colvin, who said that "Winde ranks with Hooke, May, Pratt and Talman as one of the principal English country-house architects of the late seventeenth century" (Colvin 1995, p 1066). Winde was born in Holland to English parents. Time has not been kind to his productions. His work included: Hampstead Marshall,, where he completed a house begun by Sir Balthazar Gerbier, c. 1662-1688, from the dates on many surviving drawings. Thomas Strong, mason; Edward Pierce, carpenter; Edward Goudge, plasterer. Destroyed by fire 1718. Gate piers remain. possibly Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire c.1676-8. Destroyed by fire 1795 and rebuilt. Coombe Abbey, near Coventry (for the Earl of Craven). Rebuilt centre block and north wing, c. 1682-88. North wing demolished. Buckingham House, 1702-05. Completely embodied in Buckingham Palace. Powis House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (for First Marquess of Powis) 1682-89.. Belton House near Grantham, Lincolnshire, is attributed to him. Castle Bromwich Hall, 1686-1703. Capt. Winde also gave designs for parterre gardens He married Magdalene, daughter of Sir James Bridgemen. His correspondence with his cousin Lady Mary Bridgemen of Castle Bromwich Hall, at the Staffordshire Record POffice, .
- El capitán William Winde fue un caballero inglés, arquitecto y militar británico. Durante su carrera militar se dedicó al estudio topográfico y de las fortificaciones, para posteriormente ocuparse del diseño o la simple dirección de la construcción de casas de campo. Se ha dicho de él que, junto con Hooke, May, Pratt y Talman, es uno de los principales arquitectos ingleses de finales del siglo XVII en la arquitectura de las casas de campo. De sus trabajos destacan, todos en el Reino Unido: Abadía de Coombe, cerca de Coventry. Buckingham House, Londres. Powis House en Lincoln's Inn Fields, Londres.
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- El capitán William Winde fue un caballero inglés, arquitecto y militar británico. Durante su carrera militar se dedicó al estudio topográfico y de las fortificaciones, para posteriormente ocuparse del diseño o la simple dirección de la construcción de casas de campo. Se ha dicho de él que, junto con Hooke, May, Pratt y Talman, es uno de los principales arquitectos ingleses de finales del siglo XVII en la arquitectura de las casas de campo.
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