English Baroque

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English Baroque is a 17th- and early 18th-century architectural style in England, exemplified by Christopher Wren’s grand, dramatic church and civic designs that blend classical forms with ornate, dynamic detailing.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque architecture
architectural style
architecturalElement broken pediments
domes
elaborate staircases
giant orders
projecting porticos
rusticated bases
sculptural decoration
towers
country England
culturalContext late Stuart period in England
post-Great Fire of London reconstruction
endTime early 18th century
followedBy Georgian architecture
Palladian architecture in Britain
follows Elizabethan architecture
English Renaissance architecture
Jacobean architecture
hasCharacteristic complex rooflines and domes
dramatic massing
dynamic silhouettes
emphasis on grandeur
monumental scale in civic and religious buildings
ornate detailing
strong contrasts of light and shadow
use of classical orders
influencedBy French Baroque
linked to: French Baroque art

Italian Baroque
classical architecture
notableArchitect Christopher Wren
John Vanbrugh
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Thomas Archer
notableWork Blenheim Palace
Castle Howard
Greenwich Hospital (Old Royal Naval College)
St Alfege Church, Greenwich
linked to: St Alfege Church

St Anne’s Limehouse
linked to: St Anne, Limehouse

St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street
St George-in-the-East
St James’s, Piccadilly
St Mary-le-Bow, London
St Paul’s Cathedral, London
linked to: St Paul's Cathedral
partOf Baroque architecture in Britain
startTime late 17th century
usedFor cathedral architecture
church architecture
civic buildings
country houses
palaces

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Christopher Wren style English Baroque
Clare College, Cambridge architecturalStyle English Baroque (Old Court)
linked to: English Baroque
Kimbolton Castle (alterations) hasStyle English Baroque
Marlborough House architecturalStyle English Baroque
John Vanbrugh movement English Baroque
subject linked to: John
St Anne, Limehouse architecturalStyle English Baroque
Sheldonian Theatre architecturalStyle English Baroque
subject linked to: The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Buckingham House architecturalStyle English Baroque
Georgian architecture follows English Baroque architecture
subject linked to: Georgian
linked to: English Baroque
John James movement English Baroque
Thomas Archer movement English Baroque
Pelham Humfrey movement English Baroque
St Clement Eastcheap style English Baroque
subject linked to: St Clement Eastcheap church
William Talman architecturalStyle English Baroque