William Chambers (architect)

Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils. To which is annexed, a Description of their Temples, Houses, Gardens, &c. (London) 1757

Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, et ustenciles des Chinois ; Auxquels est ajoutée une descr. de leurs temples, de leurs maisons, de leurs jardins, etc. (London) 1757

A treatise on civil architecture in which the principles of that art are laid down and illustrated by a great number of plates accurately designed and elegantly engraved by the best hands (London) 1759

Plans, Elevations, Sections and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew in Surrey (London) 1763

A dissertation on oriental gardening. (London) 1772

(largely extant including interior ceilings), now called Parkstead House, for William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough. Also designed two garden temples (one to be re-erected by 2008), similar to those at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.^[16]

Roehampton Villa

Within , some of his buildings are lost, those remaining being the ten-storey Great Pagoda, the Orangery, the Ruined Arch, the Temple of Bellona and the Temple of Aeolus.^[17] The Temple of the Sun survived until 1916, when it was destroyed in a storm.

Kew Gardens

The Pagoda, in Pagoda Gardens, , is attributed to Chambers. A three-storey house built as a pavilion (c. 1775) for the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, it features a gabled Chinese-style roof with dramatic upturned corners. Caroline of Brunswick lived here after her separation from her husband, the Prince Regent, in 1799.

Blackheath, London

in London, his most famous building, which absorbed most of his energies over a period of two decades (1776–1796)

Somerset House

The that is still used at coronations.

gilded state coach

Buckinghamshire, the seat of Lord Boston, equerry to George III.^[18]

Hedsor House

For , he designed Charlemont House and the Casino at Marino, as well as the chapel and public theatre in Trinity College, Dublin.

James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont

He is also associated with additions to Milton Abbey in Dorset and the planning of the nearby rural village of Milton Abbas, sometimes considered the first planned settlement in England. This work was carried out in collaboration with landscape gardener Capability Brown in 1780 for Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester, who wanted to relocate the existing village further away from his home at the Abbey.

Gothic

commissioned in 1771 by painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Wick House, Richmond Hill

remodelling work in the 1760s.^[19]

Osterley Park

Kew, Surrey, various structures: House of Confucius (1749) demolished; Frederick, Prince of Wales, Mausoleum (unexecuted); Gallery of Antiquities (1757) demolished; Orangery (1757–61); Temple of Pan (1758) demolished; Temple of Arethusa (1758) demolished; Alhambra (1758) demolished; Garden Seat (1758) demolished; Porter's Lodge (1758) demolished; Stables (1758) demolished; Temple of Victory (1759) demolished; Ruined Arch (1759); Theatre of Augusta (1760) demolished; Temple of Bellona (1760); Menagerie (1760) demolished; Exotic Garden (1760) demolished; Mosque (1761) demolished; Temple of the Sun (1761) demolished 1916 after damage in a storm; Great Pagoda (1761–62); Temple of Peace (1763) demolished; Temple of Aeolus (1763); Temple of Solitude (1763) demolished; Palladian Bridge (1763) demolished; Dairy (1773) demolished; and alterations to Kew Palace – demolished

Kew Gardens

Leicester House, , alterations (1757) – demolished

Leicester Square

alterations, (1757–61), new porters lodge and remodelled entrance passage (c. 1761), later virtually rebuilt (1783–6) by Henry Holland – demolished

Carlton House

Richmond House, Whitehall, gallery, greenhouse, gate to (1759–60) – demolished

Privy Garden

(formerly Manresa House and Bessborough House), Roehampton (1760)

Parkstead House

47 , Sir Joshua Reynolds's house, new painting room and gallery (c. 1760-2) – demolished

Leicester Square

Whitehall, internal decoration (1760) riding house (1773) – demolished

Pembroke House

(then Queen's House), addition of north & south wings, west and east libraries, the Octagon Library, interior decorations and riding house (1762–68) – none of this work survives

Buckingham Palace

Grantham House, Whitehall, alterations (1760s) – demolished

25 , internal alterations (1762) – demolished

Grosvenor Square

Richmond, various designs (1762, 1764, 1769, 1775) – none executed

Richmond Palace

45 , internal decoration (1763–7)

Berkeley Square

13–22, 44–58 (1764–70)

Berners Street

Gower House, , Chamber's largest town house (1765–74) – demolished

Whitehall

German Lutheran Chapel, , (1766) – demolished

Savoy Palace

20 Grosvenor Square, internal alterations (1767) – demolished

Old Deer Park, for George III (1768)

Kew Observatory

6 , Chelsea (c. 1768)

Cheyne Walk

internal decorations (late 1760s)

St James's Palace

21 Arlington Street, (1769)

Westminster

Milton House, , entrance gate and screen (1769–71) – demolished

Park Lane

Bedford House, , London, alterations and internal decorations (c. 1769 – c. 1772) – demolished

Bloomsbury

79 , alterations including addition of attic storey (1770–71) – demolished

Piccadilly

Errington House (later Warwick House), Cleveland Row (1770–71) – demolished

House (1770–72) – demolished

Knightsbridge

(1771–72)

Wick House, Richmond Hill

3 , internal alterations (1771) – demolished

St. James's Square

St John's Chapel, Westminster Abbey (1771)

The Earl and Countess of Mountrath's tomb

Piccadilly, (1771–76) converted to the Albany by Henry Holland (1803–4)

Melbourne House

addition of attic and internal alterations including new chimney-piece in the state drawing room (1771–74)

Marlborough House

14 Cecil Street, interior work (c. 1772)

62 (1773)

Curzon Street

15 George Street, internal alterations and Doric porch (1774)

51 Grosvenor Street, alterations (1774–5)

Chambers' magnum opus (1776–96), the building was unfinished at Chambers' death and continued in (1829–31) under Robert Smirke who added the east wing

Somerset House

Richmond Palace, not executed

The Orangery, Kew Gardens

The Ruined Arch, Kew Gardens

The Pagoda, Kew Gardens

Peper Harrow House, Surrey

Wood Stock Town Hall

Former Dundas House, Edinburgh

Casino at Marino, Dublin

Casino at Marino, Dublin

Dunmore Pineapple, Falkirk, Scotland

The State Coach, Royal Mews, London

Strand front, Somerset House, London

Strand block from courtyard, Somerset House, London

Courtyard, Somerset House, London

Thames front, Somerset House, London

Centre of Thames front, Somerset House, London

Staircase in Strand Block, Somerset House, London

Room in Strand Block, Somerset House, London

The Exhibition Room, former Royal Academy, Somerset House, London

Former Exhibition Room (Now part of Courtauld Galleries), Somerset House, London

West front, Osterley House, rest of building by Robert Adam

Milton Abbey, Dorset, Chamber's house to left of church

Melbourne House (Later Albany), London

the Chapel, Trinity College, Dublin

Summerson, John (1970). Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830. Pelican History of Art. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Michael Snodin (Ed.), Sir William Chambers, V&A Publishing  1851771824

ISBN

His predecessors ended up in a small town called Hartsville Tennessee with the youngest blood son to be born in the line to have William as their middle name.(written by Jon William Chambers son of James William Allen Chambers, grandson of Fred William Chambers)

at Project Gutenberg

Works by William Chambers

at Internet Archive

Works by or about William Chambers

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by William Chambers

(London, 1772)

A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening

. Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Sir William Chambers architectural drawings, circa 1769–1796