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PHOTO WESLEYAN CHAPEL BURFORD A HAPPILY FLORID EXAMPLE OF PROVINCIAL BAROQUE. THE WHOLE FACADE IS RUSTICATED APART FROM THE GIANT CORINTHIAN PILASTERS AND PROMINENT KEYSTONES SLOT INTO WINDOW APRONS ABOVE. IT WAS BUILT AS A PRIVATE HOUSE FOR JOHN JORDAN C1725 BEFORE BEING CONVERTED TO A CHAPEL IN 1849 (WHEN THE URNS ON THE PARAPET WERE MOVED TO CORNBURY PARK AS INCONSISTENT WITH THE SACRED CHARACTER OF THE BUILDING). THE ORIGINAL ARCHITECT MAY HAVE BEEN FRANCIS SMITH OF WARWICK. GRADE II* LISTED.IN FRONT ARE FINE EARLY C18TH WROUGHT IRON GATES AND RAILINGS. GRADE II* LISTED.IT IS NOW A METHODIST CHURCH.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------IN THE C18TH ARCHITECTURAL HIERARCHY SMITH (1672-1738) LAY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE LONDON ELITE AND THE BREED OF SKILLED PROVINCIAL BUILDER-ARCHITECTS WHO CREATED SUBSTANTIAL PARTS OF THE BUILT FABRIC OF THE COUNTRY THAT WE SEE TODAY. IT'S LIKELY THAT BRICK DUST RAN IN HIS VEINS - HIS FATHER ALSO FRANCIS AND HIS BROTHER WILLIAM WERE BRICKLAYERS HIS ELDER BROTHER RICHARD WAS ALSO IN THE TRADE AND FRANCIS'S SON WILLIAM INHERITED HIS PRACTICE. CENTRED AROUND WARWICK FRANCIS BUILT UP A SUBSTANTIAL PRACTICE DESIGNING NUMEROUS COUNTRY HOUSES FOR THE MIDLANDS GENTRY COVERING EVERY COUNTY IN THE REGION EXCEPT NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AS WELL AS CHURCHES AND THE ODD PUBLIC BUILDING. AFTER THE CATASTROPHIC FIRE OF 1694 IN WARWICK HE AND WILLIAM WERE CONTRACTED TO SUPERVISE REBUILDING AND REBUILT PARTS OF THE TOWN THEMSELVES. FRANCIS ASSEMBLED A SMALL BAND OF TALENTED CRAFTSMEN TO WHOM HE RETURNED TIME AND TIME AGAIN. WHILST NOT PARTICULARLY INNOVATIVE HIS COMMISSIONS WERE SECURED ON THE BACK OF BUILDING ATTRACTIVE HOUSES TO HIGH STANDARDS OF CRAFTSMANSHIP HIS TRUSTWORTHINESS AND RELIABILITY. TWO MEMBERS OF THE LONDON ELITE JAMES GIBBS AND THOMAS ARCHER ENTRUSTED FRANCIS TO EXECUTE SEVERAL OF THEIR DESIGNS AND IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT IN AT LEAST ONE OF THESE CASES HE MODIFIED THE BUILDING TO HIS OWN DESIGNS. 2002 COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) STEPHEN RICHARDSPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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