Architecture & Antiquities

38x25 cm

Plan & Elevation of a Bridge at Tho.s Brand's Esq.r of the Hoo in Hertfordshire.
Plan & Elevation d'une Pont de Tho.s Brand Ecuyer.
W.Chambers Arch. | J. Gandon delin. | M Darly sculp.
Copper engraving published in Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect...by Colen Campbell. London 1731.

Bridge at Kimpton Hoo St Pauls Walden. The house was demolished in 1958 but the Bridge of Portland Stone designed for Thomas Brand by Sir William Chambers c.1764 to span the end of an ornamental lake in the grounds designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown was restored in 2004 and still stands.