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| 1514 |
| | Thomas Wolsey begins to build himself a palace at Hampton Court, but will later consider it politic to give it to Henry VIII | |
| | Hampton Court west front, chromolithograph Richmond Local Studies
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| 1599 |
| | The Globe, where many of Shakespeare's plays are first performed, is built on Bankside in London | |
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| 1710 |
| | Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London | |
| | St.Paul's Cathedral Fotofile CG
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| 1715 |
| | Colen Campbell creates interest in the Palladian style in Britain with the publication of his Vitruvius Britannicus | |
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| 1717 |
| | The earl of Burlington employs Colen Campbell to remodel his Piccadilly house in the Palladian style | |
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| 1750 |
| | Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London | |
| | Strawberry Hill admission ticket Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Collection
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| 1757 |
| | Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism | |
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| 1767 |
| | Work begins on Edinburgh's New Town, to the design of the 23-year-old architect James Craig | |
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| 1792 |
| | Charlotte Square in Edinburgh begins to be built to the design of Robert Adam | |
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| 1805 |
| | With advice from Thomas Daniell, Samuel Pepys Cockerell builds himself a house, Sezincote, with a roof line of fanciful Indian domes | |
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