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VISUALISING HUGH MAY’S ELTHAM LODGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2020

Paul Drury
Affiliation:
Drury McPherson Partnership, 23 Spencer Road, Twickenham TW2 5TZ, UK. Email: pdrury@dmpartnership.com
Sally Jeffery
Affiliation:
67 Devonshire Road, Chiswick, London W4 2HU, UK. Email: sally.jeffery2@gmail.com
Pete Smith
Affiliation:
17 Villa Road, Nottingham NG3 4GG, UK. Email: pete21smith@gmx.com
David Wrightson
Affiliation:
22 Esmond Gardens, South Parade, Chiswick, London W4 1JT, UK. Email: davidwrightson@btinternet.com

Abstract

Following publication in The Antiquaries Journal volume 96 (2016) of ‘Moor Park in the Seventeenth Century’, by Drury, Jeffery and Wrightson, this article presents the results of research by the present four authors on another house by Hugh May – Eltham Lodge, Kent – which survives rather better. Its exterior is often referred to as being relatively unaltered, but analysis of the surviving fabric and much new documentary evidence have nevertheless revealed many interventions, both inside and out, permitting a clearer understanding of the original appearance, layout and setting of this important Restoration house.

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Copyright
© The Society of Antiquaries of London, 2018 

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