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JOHN THORPE [or TnoRP] (/l. 1570-1618)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:THORPE [or TnoRP] (/l. 1570-1618)  , See also:English architect . Little is known of his See also:life, and his See also:work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a See also:folio of drawings in the See also:Soane Museum, to which See also:Horace See also:Walpole called See also:attention, in 1780, in his Anecdotes of See also:Painting; but how far these were his own is uncertain . He was engaged on a number of important English houses of his See also:time, and several, such as Longleat, have been attributed to him on grounds which cannot be sustained . He was probably the designer of See also:Kirby See also:Hall, See also:Northamptonshire; the See also:original See also:Longford See also:Castle, See also:Wiltshire; and the original See also:Holland See also:House, See also:Kensington; and be is said to have been engaged on Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, and See also:Audley End, See also:Essex (with See also:Bernard See also:Janssens) . See J . A . Gotch, See also:Architecture of the See also:Renaissance in See also:England (1891-1894) .

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