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 57^ COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE. (1683), Morden College, Blackheath, Marlborough House, Pall Mall (1709), and the Banqueting Hall (Orangery) in Kensington Palace Gardens, are a few examples which show the large number of different classes of buildings upon which he was engaged, and their suitability to the several purposes for which they were designed. The Temple, London (i 674-1 684) with its plain brickwork fa9ades and interesting wooden doorways, is an example of his simpler style to which character is given, as in the principal entrance gateway to Fleet Street. Temple Bar, London (1670), removed to Theobald's Park, Herts, is a pleasing example of a smaller type of monumental work. 4. COMPARATIVE (see page 585). 5. REFERENCE BOOKS (see page 588). THE "QUEEN ANNE," «' GEORGIAN," "PEDIMENT AND PORTICO," OR EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STYLE, Comprises the reigns of Anne (1702-14), George I. (1714-27) George II. (1727-60), George III. (1760-1820). I. INFLUENCES (see page 545). 2. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER. In the latter part of the seventeenth, and during the eighteenth century, the plan of the smaller type of house was usually a square, as at the King's (Queen's) House, Greenwich (No. 238 a), or an oblong, as at Chevening (No. 131 h, j), both already mentioned (page 569). In the square type the centre was frec^uently occupied by the top-lip saloon, two stories in height, as at Greenwich. In the oblong type, the house was usually roughly divided into three, the centre third being occupied by the hall, saloon and staircases. The basement in both types contained the kitchen, storerooms and cellars. In the larger type of house, the ground floor was frequently treated as a basement, the first floor being the principal one, reached by an external flight of steps as at Rainham in Norfolk, Castle Howard (No. 25S a, h, c), and Kendlestone (No. 258 d, E, f), and this led to the internal staircase being reduced in importance. The hall, saloon, and reception-rooms, to which everything was sacrificed, were placed in a central block, either square or oblong on plan (No. 258 c, f) superseding the E and H-shaped Jacobean plans. On either side symmetrical detached wings were added, as at Holkham Hall (No. 131 k, or connecting