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'Easton Neston' is a country house near Towcester (pronounced "Toaster") in Northamptonshire, England. It was designed in the classical style by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Easton Neston is thought to be the only mansion which was solely the work of Hawksmoor. From circa 1700 Hawksmoor was to work on many buildings, including Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, with Sir John Vanbrugh, often providing the technical knowledge to the less qualified Vanbrugh. Hawksmoor's work, even after their many collaborations, was always more classically severe than Vanbrugh's. However, Easton Neston predates this partnership by some six years.
Hawksmoor was commissioned to build Easton Neston by Sir William Fermor, later created Lord Leominster (pronounced "Lemster");[1] Hawksmoor had been recommended to Fermor by his cousin Sir Christopher Wren, who had advised on the building of a new mansion on the site circa 1680. However, no details of quite what Wren envisaged survive, and work seems to have ceased following completion of the two service blocks, of which only one survives. Following Fermor's marriage to an heiress, Catherine Poulett, in 1692, he decided to resurrect the idea of a new mansion, and subsequently Wren's pupil Hawksmoor received the commission circa 1694.
The statues (originally part of the Arundel Collection of marbles) were removed and sold in the distress sale of the 3rd Earl of Pomfret, at which they were bought by his mother and donated to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
The house Hawksmoor built at Easton Neston can be best described as a miniature palace that owes something to Michelangelo's palazzi on the Campidoglio at Rome and may have influenced Gabriel's design of the Petit Trianon at Versailles, which was not to be built for another 50 years. The rectangular house is on three principal floors. The first is a rusticated basement, with the two floors above appearing to have equal value—9 bays divided by
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Architect
Hawksmoor was commissioned to build Easton Neston by Sir William Fermor, later created Lord Leominster (pronounced "Lemster");[1] Hawksmoor had been recommended to Fermor by his cousin Sir Christopher Wren, who had advised on the building of a new mansion on the site circa 1680. However, no details of quite what Wren envisaged survive, and work seems to have ceased following completion of the two service blocks, of which only one survives. Following Fermor's marriage to an heiress, Catherine Poulett, in 1692, he decided to resurrect the idea of a new mansion, and subsequently Wren's pupil Hawksmoor received the commission circa 1694.
Exterior
A proposal for Easton Neston published in ''Vitruvius Britannicus''. The central block was built in accordance with the proposal, except that the cupola were not added to the roof. The flanking wings, the gateway and the walls shown here were not built.
The house Hawksmoor built at Easton Neston can be best described as a miniature palace that owes something to Michelangelo's palazzi on the Campidoglio at Rome and may have influenced Gabriel's design of the Petit Trianon at Versailles, which was not to be built for another 50 years. The rectangular house is on three principal floors. The first is a rusticated basement, with the two floors above appearing to have equal value—9 bays divided by
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