Roger Pratt (architect)

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Ryston Hall, the country house of Roger Pratt

Sir Roger Pratt (* 1620 ; † February 20, 1684 ) was an English architect of Palladianism .

Pratt came from the Norfolk gentry . On extensive travels and during a stay in Rome, he got to know the European architecture of the time and worked as a gentleman architect after the restoration . He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Palladianism in England, even if only a few buildings are known of him that have not been preserved or have only been greatly modified.

In 1666 he was appointed by Charles II as one of the three royal commissioners who were to draw up regulations for the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire . In 1668 he was the first English architect to be raised to the nobility as a Knight Bachelor and retired to his family home in Ryston Hall .

Works

Clarendon House , circa 1680, engraving by William Skillman after a painting by Johannes Spilberg
  • Clarendon House ( Piccadilly , London), built in 1664 for the Earl of Clarendon , already demolished around 1680
  • Coleshill House , built from 1650 to 1652, destroyed by fire and demolished in 1952
  • Kingston Hall , Dorset, built 1663 to 1665, remodeled in the 19th century
  • Horseheath Hall , Cambridgeshire, 1663-1665, demolished in 1792
  • Ryston Hall , Norfolk, 1669-1672, 1786-1788 by John Soane rebuilt

literature

  • The Architecture of Sir Roger Pratt . Charles II's Commissioner for the Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire: Now Printed for the First Time from His Note-books. Arno Press, New York 1972 (reprint of the 1924 edition), ISBN 0-405-08862-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ picture index of art and architecture: Roger Pratt. Retrieved January 24, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Pratt, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1620
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1684
Place of death Ryston, Norfolk