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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2016
When Inigo Jones succeeded Simon Basil as Surveyor of the King's Works in 1615, one of his first tasks was to enlarge the King's House, or Court House, at Newmarket by the addition of a Prince's Lodging, a Long Gallery and various other office buildings for Charles, Prince of Wales. It was never a major royal palace and has attracted little attention from architectural historians. Some of the designs made by Jones and studies by John Webb (who became Jones' pupil in 1628) can, however, be identified among surviving drawings. The object of this paper is to present the documented and inscribed drawings at Worcester College and to link them up with a group of attributed drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects; and further to suggest a connection with the building of Raynham Hall, Norfolk.
1 Worcester College. Series 1/58H, 58K recto and verso, 62, 73 verso.
2 RIBA Burl-Dev Drawer 2/11-5.
3 Walpole Society, Vol. XVIII. Vertue Notebooks, 1, p. 49.Google Scholar
4 Vertue op. cit.
5 Letters RIBA.
6 Vertue, op. cit. p. 69.Google Scholar
7 Vertue, op. cit. p. 94.Google Scholar
8 Published 1727 Designs of Inigo Jones and William Kent. Vertue, op. cit. p. 149.Google Scholar
9 P.R.O. Parliamentary Survey 3 Cambridgeshire. ‘New Markett Court House’.
10 P.R.O. Declared Accounts. 2 series. Audit Office (A.O.I.). Pipe Office (E.351).
11 A.O.I. 2421/45.
12 E.351/3251.
13 E.351/ 3252.
14 Worcester College l/73verso
15 Worcester College, 1/58H.
16 L'ldea Dell Architettura, Part 1, Book II, p. 138.Google Scholar Published in 1615 and probably read by Jones as soon as it was available from Italy. It is unlikely, as has been interpreted from his notes in Palladio, that he possessed this book at the end of his Italian tour.
17 The building history of this house need elucidation. It is strange that office wings and colonnades should have been begun before the main pile.
18 Worcester College, 1/54, 54A, 65.
19 Worcester College. 1/58K reclo and verso.
20 E.351/3251.
21 E.351/3253 and E.351/3254.
22 Part 1, Book III, p. 281.
23 RIBA Drawer 2/20A-C.
24 For Raynham cf. Connoisseur Year Book 1955. Norfolk and Norwich Arch. Soe. XXIII.
25 RIBA GI/I.
26 Worcester College 1/62.
27 I am grateful to Sir John Summerson and Mr. Howard Colvin for their useful comments and amendments.