Guillery, P;
(2015)
Cavendish Square and Spencer House: Neo-classicism, opportunity and nostalgia.
The Georgian Group Journal
, 23
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Abstract
The Society of Dilettanti planned a temple-fronted academy of arts on the north side of Cavendish Square in the early 1750s. It can now be shown that stone bought and cut for this building was used in the Green Park elevation of Spencer House (1756–9), shedding new light on design there. The Cavendish Square site stayed empty until speculative pairs of houses were built in 1768–70. Their temple-fronted stone façades, hitherto explained as incorporating stone from the 1750s, must now be understood not as the result of salvage, but as a conscious echo of the abandoned academy project.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Cavendish Square and Spencer House: Neo-classicism, opportunity and nostalgia |
| Location: | UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://georgiangroup.org.uk |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1470607 |
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