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The Tower House

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The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home. [1]

122 relations: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Arcade (architecture), Art colony, Art Fund, Art Nouveau, Ashmolean Museum, Astrological sign, Augustus Pugin, Bath stone, Bayswater, BBC, BBC News Online, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Bridget Cherry, British Museum, Capital (architecture), Cardiff Castle, Casket with Scenes of Romances (Walters 71264), Castell Coch, Charles Handley-Read, Chills, Constellation, Corbel, Cork (city), Country Life (magazine), Covent Garden, Cumbria, Cupid, Danny La Rue, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Bowie, Earl of Ilchester, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Evelyn Waugh, Fleur-de-lis, Francis Bedford (photographer), Frederic Leighton, Frederick Weekes, French Gothic architecture, Frieze, Garret, Gavin Stamp, Geoffrey Chaucer, Golden Bed, Gothic Revival architecture, Great Bookcase, Greater London Council, Ground rent, Henry Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester, Henry Stacy Marks, ..., Hermann Muthesius, Historic buildings council, Holland Park, Holland Park Circle, Horatio Walter Lonsdale, In situ, Institute of Historical Research, J. Mordaunt Crook, Jack and the Beanstalk, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jimmy Page, John Betjeman, Juno (mythology), Kensington High Street, Labyrinth, Led Zeppelin, Leighton House Museum, Liberace, Little Holland House, Little Red Riding Hood, London Evening Standard, Lotherton Hall, Luke Fildes, Madonna (art), Manchester Art Gallery, Mercury (mythology), Merlin Minshall, Minerva, Mosaic, Narcissus washstand, Nikolaus Pevsner, Opium, Oscar Wilde, Overdoor, Park House, Cardiff, Pompei, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Queen Anne style architecture, Regent Street, Reynard, Richard Harris, Richard Norman Shaw, Richard Popplewell Pullan, Robbie Williams, Roman de la Rose, Roundel, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Sir John Soane's Museum, Sleeping Beauty, Southampton Row, Strand, London, The English House, The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum, The House of Fame, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The Red Bed, Thomas Nicholls (sculptor), Tower of Babel, Townhouse, Venus (mythology), Victoria and Albert Museum, West Norwood Cemetery, William Burges, William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford, William Gualbert Saunders, William Lethaby, William Morris Gallery, Woodland House, Zodiac settle, 1862 International Exhibition. Expand index (72 more) »

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.

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Arcade (architecture)

An arcade is a succession of arches, each counter-thrusting the next, supported by columns, piers, or a covered walkway enclosed by a line of such arches on one or both sides.

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Art colony

Artist houses in Montsalvat near Melbourne, Australia. An art colony or artists' colony is a place where creative practitioners live and interact with one another.

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Art Fund

Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation.

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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, that was most popular between 1890 and 1910.

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Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum (in full the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum.

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Astrological sign

In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30° sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox (one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator), also known as the First Point of Aries.

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Augustus Pugin

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist, and critic who is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture.

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Bath stone

Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate.

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Bayswater

Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England.

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Bridget Cherry

Bridget Cherry OBE, FSA, Hon.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Capital (architecture)

In architecture the capital (from the Latin caput, or "head") or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster).

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Cardiff Castle

Cardiff Castle (Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales.

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Casket with Scenes of Romances (Walters 71264)

The object called by the museum Casket with Scenes of Romances (catalogued as Walters 71264) is a French Gothic ivory casket made in Paris between 1330 and 1350, and now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Castell Coch

Castell Coch is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in South Wales.

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Charles Handley-Read

Charles Handley-Read (1916 – 15 October 1971) was an architectural writer and collector and the first serious 20th century student of the work of William Burges, "a pioneer in Burges studies who was the first to assess the historical brilliance of Burges as gesamtkunstwerk architect and designer." Handley-Read was born in 1916 to a father who was a magazine illustrator and military artist and a mother who, beside being one of the first qualified female doctors and dentists, was a militant suffragette.

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Chills

Chills is a feeling of coldness occurring during a high fever, but sometimes is also a common symptom which occurs alone in specific people.

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Constellation

A constellation is a group of stars that are considered to form imaginary outlines or meaningful patterns on the celestial sphere, typically representing animals, mythological people or gods, mythological creatures, or manufactured devices.

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Corbel

In architecture a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket.

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Cork (city)

Cork (from corcach, meaning "marsh") is a city in south-west Ireland, in the province of Munster, which had a population of 125,622 in 2016.

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Country Life (magazine)

Country Life is a British weekly perfect-bound, glossy magazine, based in London at 110 Southwark Street (until March 2016 when it became based in Farnborough, Hampshire), and owned by Time Inc UK.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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Cupid

In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupīdō, meaning "desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection.

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Danny La Rue

Danny La Rue, (born Daniel Patrick Carroll, 26 July 1927 – 31 May 2009) was an Irish-born English singer and entertainer, particularly in stage theatre known for his singing and cross-dressing performances.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Earl of Ilchester

Earl of Ilchester is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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Fleur-de-lis

The fleur-de-lis/fleur-de-lys (plural: fleurs-de-lis/fleurs-de-lys) or flower-de-luce is a stylized lily (in French, fleur means "flower", and lis means "lily") that is used as a decorative design or motif, and many of the Catholic saints of France, particularly St. Joseph, are depicted with a lily.

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Francis Bedford (photographer)

Francis Bedford (1815 in London – 15 May 1894) was an English photographer.

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Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor.

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Frederick Weekes

Frederick Weekes (1833-1920) was an English painter and designer.

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French Gothic architecture

French Gothic architecture is a style of architecture prevalent in France from 1140 until about 1500.

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Frieze

In architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.

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Garret

A garret is a habitable attic or small and often dismal or cramped living space at the top of a house or larger residential building.

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Gavin Stamp

Gavin Mark Stamp (15 March 1948 – 30 December 2017) was a British writer and architectural historian.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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Golden Bed

The Golden Bed is a bed designed by the English architect and designer William Burges in 1879 for the guest bedroom of the home that he designed for himself in Holland Park, The Tower House.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Great Bookcase

The Great Bookcase is a large piece of painted furniture designed by the English architect and designer William Burges.

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Greater London Council

The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.

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Ground rent

As a legal term, ground rent specifically refers to regular payments made by a holder of a leasehold property to the freeholder or a superior leaseholder, as required under a lease.

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Henry Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester

Henry Edward Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester PC (13 February 1847 – 6 December 1905), known as Henry Fox-Strangways until 1865, was a British peer and Liberal politician.

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Henry Stacy Marks

Henry Stacy Marks (13 September 1829 – 9 January 1898) was an English artist who took a particular interest in Shakespearean and medieval themes in his early career and later in decorative art depicting birds and ornithologists as well as landscapes.

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Hermann Muthesius

Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (20 April 1861 – 29 October 1927), known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural modernism such as the Bauhaus.

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Historic buildings council

Three separate historic buildings councils were created by the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953, one for each of England, Scotland and Wales.

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Holland Park

Holland Park is a district, the name of a street that unusually has three limbs and a public park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west London.

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Holland Park Circle

The Holland Park Circle was an informal group of 19th-century artists based in the Holland Park district of West London.

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Horatio Walter Lonsdale

Horatio Walter Lonsdale (1846-1919) was an English painter and designer.

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In situ

In situ (often not italicized in English) is a Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site" or "in position".

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Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is a British educational organisation providing resources and training for historical researchers.

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J. Mordaunt Crook

Joseph Mordaunt Crook (born 27 February 1937), generally known as J. Mordaunt Crook, is an English architectural historian and specialist on the Georgian and Victorian periods.

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Jack and the Beanstalk

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale.

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

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Juno (mythology)

Juno (Latin: IVNO, Iūnō) is an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counselor of the state.

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Kensington High Street

Kensington High Street is the main shopping street in Kensington, London.

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Labyrinth

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek: Λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Leighton House Museum

The Leighton House Museum is in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea in London.

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Liberace

Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), known mononymously as Liberace, was an American pianist, singer, and actor.

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Little Holland House

Little Holland House was the dower house of Holland House in Kensington, England.

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Little Red Riding Hood

"Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf.

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London Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard (or simply Evening Standard) is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London.

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Lotherton Hall

Lotherton Hall is a country house near Aberford, West Yorkshire, England.

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Luke Fildes

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (3 October 1843 – 28 February 1927) was an English painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools.

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Madonna (art)

A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus.

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Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre.

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Mercury (mythology)

Mercury (Latin: Mercurius) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon.

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Merlin Minshall

Merlin Theodore Minshall (21 December 1906 – 3 September 1987) was a British naval officer and adventurer.

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Minerva

Minerva (Etruscan: Menrva) was the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, although it is noted that the Romans did not stress her relation to battle and warfare as the Greeks would come to, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.

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Mosaic

A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

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Narcissus washstand

The Narcissus washstand is a piece of painted furniture made by the Victorian architect and designer William Burges in 1867.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, and especially that of architecture.

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Opium

Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Overdoor

An "overdoor" (or "supraporte" as in German, or "sopraporte" as in Italian) is a painting, bas-relief or decorative panel, generally in a horizontal format, that is set, typically within ornamental mouldings, over a door, or was originally intended for this purpose.

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Park House, Cardiff

Park House (Tŷ Parc), (formerly McConnochie House), 20 Park Place, Cardiff, Wales, is a nineteenth century town house.

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Pompei

Pompei is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, home of the ancient Roman ruins part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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Queen Anne style architecture

The Queen Anne style in Britain refers to either the English Baroque architectural style approximately of the reign of Queen Anne (reigned 1702–1714), or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century (when it is also known as Queen Anne revival).

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Regent Street

Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London.

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Reynard

Reynard (Reinaert; Renard; Reineke or Reinicke; Renartus) is the main character in a literary cycle of allegorical Dutch, English, French and German fables.

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Richard Harris

Richard St.

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Richard Norman Shaw

Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), sometimes known as Norman Shaw, was a Scottish architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings.

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Richard Popplewell Pullan

Richard Popplewell Pullan was an architect and brother-in-law of William Burges.

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Robbie Williams

Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.

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Roman de la Rose

Le Roman de la Rose (English: The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval French poem styled as an allegorical dream vision.

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Roundel

A roundel is a circular disc used as a symbol.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) is an inner London borough of royal status.

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Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral

Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral (Ardeaglais Naomh Fionnbarra) is a Gothic revival three spire cathedral in the city of Cork, Ireland.

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Sir John Soane's Museum

Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum that was formerly the home of the neo-classical architect John Soane.

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Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (La Belle au bois dormant), or Little Briar Rose (Dornröschen), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince.

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Southampton Row

Southampton Row is a major thoroughfare running northwest-southeast in Bloomsbury, Camden, central London, England.

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Strand, London

Strand (or the Strand) is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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The English House

The English House is a book of design and architectural history written by German architect Hermann Muthesius and published in 1904.

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The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum

The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum, Bedford is the principal art gallery and museum in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, run by Bedford Borough Council and the Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Collection.

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The House of Fame

The House of Fame (Hous of Fame in the original spelling) is a Middle English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1379 and 1380, making it one of his earlier works.

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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in July 1957.

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The Red Bed

The Red Bed is a piece of painted furniture designed by the English architect and designer William Burges made between 1865 and 1867.

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Thomas Nicholls (sculptor)

Thomas Nicholls (– 24 March 1896) was an English sculptor.

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Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel (מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל, Migdal Bāḇēl) as told in Genesis 11:1-9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.

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Townhouse

A townhouse, or town house as used in North America, Asia, Australia, South Africa and parts of Europe, is a type of terraced housing.

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Venus (mythology)

Venus (Classical Latin) is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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West Norwood Cemetery

West Norwood Cemetery is a cemetery in West Norwood in London, England.

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William Burges

William Burges (2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer.

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William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford

William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (18 April 1850 – 24 May 1910) was an English peer.

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William Gualbert Saunders

William Gualbert Saunders, known as W Gualbert Saunders, was an English designer of stained glass and founder of the stained glass manufacturers Saunders & Co.

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William Lethaby

William Richard Lethaby (18 January 1857 – 17 July 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of conservation and art education.

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William Morris Gallery

The William Morris Gallery, opened by Prime Minister Clement Attlee in 1950, is the only public museum devoted to English Arts and Crafts designer and early socialist William Morris.

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Woodland House

Woodland House is a large detached house at 31 Melbury Road (originally 11 Melbury Road), in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, W14.

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Zodiac settle

The Zodiac settle is a piece of painted furniture designed by the English architect and designer William Burges and made between 1869 and 1871.

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1862 International Exhibition

The International of 1862, or Great London Exposition, was a world's fair.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_House

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