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unusual facts about Sir John Soane



Burnham Market

Burnham Westgate Hall is a Grade II* listed Georgian country house, built 1783-1785 by Sir John Soane, for Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford.

Condover Hall

The most compelling evidence can be found in drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum that seems to prove that the Hall was designed by the influential Elizabethan architect John Thorpe in the early 1590s.

Hyde Abbey School

In 1795, Sir John Soane constructed a dedicated schoolroom for the school – his only building in Winchester.

John Thorpe

Little is known of his life, and his work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a folio of drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum, to which Horace Walpole called attention, in 1780, in his Anecdotes of Painting; but how far these were his own is uncertain.

Shotesham

The country house and estate of Shotesham Park, designed by Sir John Soane is the seat of the Fellowes family.

Tor di Nona

There are many perhaps unexecuted drawings for it by Carlo Fontana, bound in an album which passed into the hands of Scottish architect Robert Adam, now at Sir John Soane's Museum, London (Concise Catalogue).


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