Main entry:

Thurley, Simon, 1962-

Title & Author:

Hampton Court : a social and architectural history / Simon Thurley.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 450 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm

Series:

Paul Mellon Centre for studies in British art

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. A house of the knights hospitallers -- 2. Thomas Wolsey's Hampton Court -- 3. Henry VIII and the completion of the Tudor Palace -- 4. The later Tudors and the Palace of Pleasure -- 5. The Tudor Pleasure Grounds and the locality -- 6. Hampton Court and the invention of a Tudor style -- 7. The Stuart Ancestral Seat 1603-1640 -- 8. The Lord Protector's country house 1640-1660 -- 9. The restoration: Hampton Court on the sidelines 1660-1688 -- 10. Hampton Court transformed: the reign of William and Mary -- 11. Queen Anne and the decline of the court -- 12. The glory of Hampton Court: the gardens 1603-1714 -- 13. Royal rivalry: the Hampton Court of George I -- 14. Apogee: George II -- 15. Antiquarians and architecture: the palace buildings 1760-1914 -- 16. Lodging the court 1700-1737 and Grace and Favour 1760-1914 -- 17. The parks and gardens 1714-1914 -- 18. The twentieth century.

Summary:

"The book takes as its starting point the argument that the only way to understand fully a building such as Hampton Court is to set it in the political and social context of its time and to explore the lives and motivations of its builders. The picture that emerges is on the one hand intensely personal - one of architects and builders fulfilling the whims of kings and princes. On the other hand, it is bureaucratic: Hampton Court is revealed first as the royal household, then as a palace claimed by grace-and-favour residents and finally, by visitors and tourists as their own." "The history of the building is taken right up to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The twentieth-century story of Hampton Court is one of conservation and of changing attitudes towards opening up the complex to the public - it covers everything from the agonising discussions as to whether to build public lavatories to an account of the private enterprise that caused an octogenarian to make a personal fortune out of opening the maze to the public. It includes also the story of the terrible fire of 1986 and its aftermath." "Social history and architectural history sit side by side in this intriguing account. New and important attributions are made to the architects Hugh May, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Talman, Colen Campbell and Edward Blore amongst others. Moreover, the palace and its setting are placed in their European context and their long-term architectural significance is gauged." "The book is lavishly illustrated with original paintings, prints and drawings, while a specially commissioned suite of plans and reconstructions reveals the evolving form of the buildings."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300102232 (cl ; alk. paper)
9780300102239 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England) History.
Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, Londres, Angleterre) Histoire.
Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Architecture England London.
Palaces England London.
Architecture Angleterre Londres.
Palais Angleterre Londres.
Architecture.
Manners and customs.
Palaces.
Hampton Court.
Kastelen.
Richmond upon Thames (London, England) Social life and customs.
Hampton (Middlesex)
Middlesex Hampton.
Richmond upon Thames (Londres, Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes.
England London.
England Richmond upon Thames.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Paul Mellon Centre for studies in British art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230536
Call No.: NA44.W945.25 H3 2003
Status: Available