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Shaping Britain ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

Where England’s landscapes point to the interaction between man and nature, its architecture reflects developments in form and function. Often highlighted as the first architect of note in the early modern period, Inigo Jones produced designs that drew on classical notions taken from his early seventeenth-century Grand Tour of Europe. His work – including the seminal Queen’s House in London’s Greenwich, the Banqueting House in Whitehall, and the layout for Covent

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