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William Winde and interior design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Geoffrey Beard
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Extract

First, a paragraph of bibliographical reminiscence which explains the choice of my subject for this Festschrift. In the late 1940s I found some eighty letters written in the period 1685-1700 by the soldier-architect, Captain William Winde (?—1722). They were addressed to his cousin, Lady Mary Bridgeman, and concerned the remodelling of Castle Bromwich Hall, Warwickshire, in which she and her husband, Sir John Bridgeman, lived. I published brief extracts from some of the letters in an account of Castle Bromwich Hail, and supplied details of mentions of other houses by Winde for incorporation in the first edition (1954) of Howard Colvin’s Dictionary.

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Section 3: The Stuart and Georgian Country House
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Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 150 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984

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Notes

1 Archives of the Earl of Bradford, Weston Hall, Staffordshire. I am indebted to the 7th Earl of Bradford for his permission to quote from the letters, now deposited at the Staffordshire County Records Office, (Di287, 18/4/1, followed by date).

2 Country Life, 9 May 1952.

3 For a forthcoming volume of the Walpole Society.

4 Library, Bodleian, Oxford, Ms Gough drawings, a.2, reproduced Geoffrey Beard, Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain (1975), pi. 38.Google Scholar

5 Ray, John dedicated his Historia Plantarum (1686) to Hatton, Charles (1635-c. 1705), and Evelyn, john thought him ‘honourable and learned’.Google Scholar

6 Winde suggested that if dimensions were supplied he would advise on the correct way of putting up the hangings.

7 Goudge did however give Lady Bridgeman cause to complain in that he tried to charge 9d. a yard for whitening some of the Castle Bromwich ceilings. This was a job normally done by apprentices at 6 d. a yard. For Goudge’s activities see Beard, Plasterwork, and his ‘The Beste Master in England’, National Trust Studies, 1979.

8 House, Drury was a London possession of the Earl of Craven, demolished in 1809.Google Scholar

9 Lord Craven had been building at Hampstead Marshall, Combe Abbey, Ashdown House and (n. 8 above) Drury House. The collapse of buildings at Hampton Court and Kensington Palace in 1689 is referred to in Wren Society, vii, 135. William Talman used the opportunity to try to belittle Wren’s abilities.

10 Swallowfield House, Berkshire, was remodelled for the 2nd Earl of Clarendon, 1689-91 by William Talman.

11 This extract allows attribution of the plasterwork at Belton House, Lincolnshire, to Goudge, and strengthens Winde’s involvement in the design of the house. Belton closely resembles Combe Abbey.

12 Burghley House, Northamptonshire. See Croft-Murray, Edward, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837, 1 (1962), 251.Google Scholar

13 Petworth, Sussex, Chapel ceiling and Hall of State.

14 Nost’s, John van monument to Wyndham, Sir Hugh (d. 1683) is at Silton, Dorset.Google Scholar

15 Drayton, Northamptonshire, and Powis Castle, the Welsh border castle.

16 The two statues for the ‘frontispce’ at Castle Bromwich Hall were provided by Wilson, Sir William. Country Life, 18 March 1954, p. 780 illus.Google Scholar

17 Nottingham, Wollaton House, see Croft-Murray, op. cit., 1, p. 254.Google Scholar

18 Eastwell Park, Kent. Winde’s house was rebuilt by Bonomi, Joseph in 1793-1800 (Colvin, BDA, p. 125).Google Scholar

19 The cabinet work was done by the Dutch furniture-maker resident in England Gerrit Jensen.

20 Laguerre’s work still survives at Castle Bromwich Hall, Country Life, 9 May 1952.

21 The watches were provided by Thomas Tompion. Winde’s references to Tompion were printed by Symonds, R. W., Thomas Tompion (1953).Google Scholar

22 Hatton’s letter survives, but not that of George London. The reference to ‘Prince Rupert’s chayre’ is presumably to a sedan or carrying chair.

23 Winde advised Lady Bridgeman to plant Juniper, Bay, Laurel, and Holly trees.

24 I have not been able to identify Sir John Baber’s house.

25 Winde visited John van Nost, William Larson, Richard Osgood and Cibber, C. G.. ‘Varique’ has not been identified.Google Scholar