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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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James Gibbs
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(1682–1754) Scottish architect who studied in Rome before starting a practice in London in 1709. His experience of Roman *baroque and his admiration for the work of Wren prevented his adopting the new *Palladian orthodoxy as fully as his younger contemporaries, and he remained an extremely individual architect. His best-known buildings are *St Martin-in-the-Fields in London; the Radcliffe Camera in *Oxford; and, in *Cambridge, the Senate House and the Fellows' Building in King's College (known locally as the Gibbs Building). He published in 1728 A Book of Architecture, through which his designs, and in particular that of St Martin-in-the-Fields, had a wide influence.
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