Editing William Kent (section)

==Architectural works==
Kent started practising as an architect relatively late in life, in the 1730s.<ref>Curl, J.S. (Ed.), ''Oxford Dictionary of Architecture'', Oxford University Press (1999), {{ISBN|0-19-280017-5}}.</ref> He is remembered as an architect of the revived [[Palladian]] style in England.<ref>[[The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc.]], [http://palladiancenter.org/timeline-Palladianism.html Palladio and British-American Palladianism]</ref> Burlington gave him the task of editing ''The Designs of [[Inigo Jones]]...'' with some additional designs in the Palladian/Jonesian taste by Burlington and Kent, which appeared in 1727. As he rose through the royal architectural establishment, the Board of Works, Kent applied this style to several public buildings in London, for which Burlington's patronage secured him the commissions: the [[Royal Mews]] at [[Charing Cross]] (1731–33, demolished in 1830), the Treasury buildings in [[Whitehall]] (1733–37), and the [[Horse Guards (building)|Horse Guards building]] in Whitehall (designed shortly before his death and built 1750–1759). These neo-antique buildings were inspired as much by the architecture of [[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]] and [[Giulio Romano (painter)|Giulio Romano]] as by Palladio.<ref>Sicca, Cinzia Maria, (1986) "On William Kent's Roman sources", ''Architectural History'', vol. 29, 1986, pp.&nbsp;134–147.</ref>
[[File:Holkham_Hall_South.jpg|thumb|[[Holkham Hall]], in Norfolk, England]]
In country house building, major commissions for Kent were designing the interiors of [[Houghton Hall]], Norfolk (c.1725–35), recently built by [[Colen Campbell]] for Sir [[Robert Walpole]], but at [[Holkham Hall]] (also in Norfolk) the most complete embodiment of Palladian ideals is still to be found; there Kent collaborated with [[Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation)|Thomas Coke]], the other "architect earl", and had for an assistant [[Matthew Brettingham]], whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next generation. Walpole's son [[Horace Walpole|Horace]] described Kent as below mediocrity as a painter, a restorer of science as an architect and the father of modern gardening and inventor of an art.<ref>{{cite book|title=Houghton Revisited|page=36|chapter=Houghton Revisited: An Introduction|publisher=Royal Academy of Arts|year=2013|first=Thierry|last=Morel}}</ref>

A theatrically Baroque staircase and parade rooms in London, at 44 [[Berkeley Square]], are also notable. Kent's domed pavilions were erected at [[Badminton House]] (Gloucestershire) and at [[Euston Hall]] (Suffolk).

Kent could provide sympathetic [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] designs, free of serious antiquarian tendencies, when the context called; he worked on the Gothic screens in [[Westminster Hall]] and [[Gloucester Cathedral]].

He worked on the house at [[Wimbourne House|22 Arlington Street]] in [[St. James's]], a district of the [[City of Westminster]] in central London from 1743, when it was commissioned by the newly elevated Prime Minister, [[Henry Pelham]]. After Kent's death, the work was completed by his assistant Stephen Wright.<ref name="Finishing architect">{{NHLE|desc=Location Wimbourne House, 22, Arlington Street SW1|num=1066498|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>