168 "CAPTAIN WYNNE" 



would be no room for Gerbier in its design, for he is said to 

 have died in 1662 when he was at least seventy years old, and 

 there is no trace of senility in the Bodleian drawings. They 

 are vigorous in design as well as drawing ; the gate piers 

 (Fig. in) are still in existence, some scattered, as it were, 

 in a field, others still leading into a walled garden. It is only 

 when the imagination restores the walls that once connected 

 them that an idea is formed of the size of the original enclosures 

 to which those piers were the noble entrances. The ceiling 

 (Fig. 112), dated 1686 on the drawing, is of the type prevalent 

 throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, and 

 usually employed by Jones, Webb, and Wren. 



As Wynne " the learned and ingenious Captain Wynne " 

 Campbell calls him l is the only other person whose name is 

 connected with the designing of Hamstead Marshall, the credit 

 may fairly be placed to his account. The character of the 

 new work, as shown by Kip, accords with the treatment usually 

 adopted by Webb ; that is to say, the walls are fairly plain, 

 there is a wide cornice at the eaves. The height of the roof is 

 proportioned to the walls (not merely determined by the span of 

 the building), it is crowned by cupolas and broken by dormers, 

 and the chimneys are short and solid perhaps, in this case, in 

 consequence of the teaching of Gerbier, Wynne's master. 



It is evident that the restoration of Charles II. gave a great 

 impetus to building. Charles himself revived the project for 

 a new palace at Whitehall ; he built a large wing of another 

 at Greenwich ; Lord Craven was among those who endeavoured 

 to redeem the time ; and Gerbier thought the occasion opportune 

 to publish his " Counsel " to those who were contemplating 

 new houses. 



Too little is known of this learned and ingenious Captain 

 Wynne. Campbell credits him with old Buckingham House 

 in St James's Park, for the Duke of Buckingham, in 1705. This 

 duke must not be confused with either of the Villiers, Dukes of 

 Buckingham. He was the first duke of a new creation, his 

 family name being Sheffield. He was, in fact, the grandson of 

 that " my lord Sheffield " whose house has already been illustrated 

 in Chapter II. as one of the designs of John Smithson. To 

 Wynne is also assigned Cliefden House for the same nobleman, 

 and Newcastle House in Lincoln's Inn Fields, as well as certain 



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