William Winde
Captain William Winde was an English gentleman architect, whose Royalist military career, resulting in fortifications and topographical surveys but lack of preferment, and his later career, following the Glorious Revolution, as designer or simply "conductor" of the works of country houses, has been epitomised by Howard Colvin, who said that "Winde ranks with Hooke, May, Pratt and Talman as one of the principal English country house architects of the late seventeenth century".
Winde was born in Holland to English parents.Works
His work included:
, Lincolnshire
- Hampstead Marshall,, where he completed a house begun by Sir Balthazar Gerbier, c. 1662–1688, from the dates on many surviving drawings. Thomas Strong, mason; Edward Pierce, carpenter; Edward Goudge, plasterer. Destroyed by fire 1718. Gate piers remain.
- Caversham Park,, rebuilding the Elizabethan manor house after 1660. The estate was sold in 1697.
- Coombe Abbey, near Coventry. Rebuilt centre block and north wing, c. 1682–88. North wing demolished.
- Buckingham House, 1702–05. Completely embodied in Buckingham Palace.
- Powis House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London 1682–89..
- Castle Bromwich Hall 1686–1703; the gardens here have been restored according to Winde's plans.
Possible attributions include:
- Belton House near Grantham, Lincolnshire
- Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire c.1676-8. Destroyed by fire 1795 and rebuilt.
- Wotton House, Buckinghamshire
Capt. Winde also gave designs for parterre gardensFamily
Winde married Magdalene, daughter of Sir James Bridgeman. His correspondence with his cousin Lady Mary Bridgeman of Castle Bromwich Hall, is at the Staffordshire Record Office.
