cairness house造句

• He also built a magnificent mansion which was modeled on Cairness House although smaller.
• However, the gates and lodges were not built until 100 years later to celebrate the centenary of Cairness House.
• Constructed in finely detailed granite ashlar, Cairness House consists of a main block, flanked by two raised  bookend wings.
• He was born at Cairness House to Charles Gordon of Buthlaw and Cairness in Lonmay, Aberdeenshire and his wife Christian, n閑 Forbes of Ballogie.
• It is a calendar house, and its ground plan shows an adjoining " C " and " H ", variously standing for Cairness House and Charles Gordon.
• His most famous building is Cairness House ( 1791 1797 ), in Aberdeenshire, which used revolutionary forms of Neoclassicism and is unique in British architecture of the period.
• Cairness House shows the influence of the French architects 蓆ienne-Louis Boull閑 and Claude Nicholas Ledoux, and is also notable for having the earliest complete Egyptian room in Britain.
• Early in 1814, he returned to his seat of Cairness House until 1815 when he went abroad again to Constantinople, where he married Barbara Kana ( afterwards Baroness de Sedaiges ).
• Considered one of the finest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Britain, Cairness House shows the influence of the French architects 蓆ienne-Louis Boull閑 and Claude Nicholas Ledoux and has many parallels with the works of Sir John Soane.
• Thomas Gordon s historical library and manuscripts were sold in March 1850, and his antiquities in the following June, although some items remained at Cairness House until 1938, after the last of the Gordons sold the estate.
• The Pevsner Architectural Guide for Aberdeenshire North and Moray states that " Cairness House, by James Playfair 1791-97, is of international importance as the only house in Britain the design and construction of which reflected and evolved with the rapid advances in French Neoclassicism towards the end of the C18 " and that " its survival is the more precious as so many of Playfair's other designs were either not built or have been lost or altered ".