James Burrough (architect)

Sir James Burrough (1 September 1691 – 7 August 1764) was an English academic, antiquary, and amateur architect.Educated at the grammar school at Bury for eight years, he entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1708.[2] Burrough had a considerable reputation as an architect at the university, where he used his influence to introduce the Classical style which had then become fashionable.The following year he submitted a "Plan of the Intended Publick Buildings", which, as the minute-book of the syndic's records, the architect James Gibbs, who had been consulted, was requested to "take with him to London, and make what improvements he shall think necessary upon it".Gibbs was undoubtedly the architect of the existing building, the design being engraved in his published work, and Burrough's share in it was probably confined to general suggestions of style and arrangement.
Sir James Burrough by John Theodore Heins
The Front Court at Trinity Hall, Cambridge , refaced by Burrough in 1742–5. Photographed c. 1870.
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