Editing William Chambers (architect) (section)

==Main works==
[[File:Doorhandlevanda.jpg|thumb|Door handle from Somerset House, about 1785, designed by Sir William Chambers V&A Museum no. 4013-1855]]
* [[Parkstead House|Roehampton Villa]] (largely extant including interior ceilings), now called Parkstead House, for [[William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough]]. Also designed two garden temples (one to be re-erected by 2008), similar to those at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.<ref>[http://www.parksteadhouse.co.uk/history.htm Parkstead House<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505071715/http://www.parksteadhouse.co.uk/history.htm |date=5 May 2009 }}</ref>
* Within [[Kew Gardens]], some of his buildings are lost, those remaining being the ten-storey [[Great Pagoda, Kew Gardens|Great Pagoda]], the Orangery, the Ruined Arch, the Temple of Bellona and the Temple of Aeolus.<ref>[http://www.kew.org/heritage/people/chambers.html Kew Gardens web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708081845/http://www.kew.org/heritage/people/chambers.html |date=8 July 2009 }}</ref> The Temple of the Sun survived until 1916, when it was destroyed in a storm.
*The Pagoda, in Pagoda Gardens, [[Blackheath, London]], is attributed to Chambers. A three-storey house built as a pavilion (c.&nbsp;1775) for the [[Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch|Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch]], it features a gabled Chinese-style roof with dramatic upturned corners. [[Caroline of Brunswick]] lived here after her separation from her husband, the [[George IV|Prince Regent]], in 1799.
*[[Somerset House]] in London, his most famous building, which absorbed most of his energies over a period of two decades (1776–1796)
*The [[Gold State Coach|gilded state coach]] that is still used at [[Coronation of the British monarch|coronation]]s.
*[[Hedsor House]], Buckinghamshire, the seat of Lord Boston, equerry to George III.<ref>[http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/index2.php?option=com_parksandgardens&task=site&id=1680&preview=1&Itemid= Historic Register of Parks and Gardens] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226091255/http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/index2.php?option=com_parksandgardens&task=site&id=1680&preview=1&Itemid= |date=26 February 2012 }}</ref>
*For [[James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont]], he designed [[Charlemont House]] and the [[Casino at Marino]], as well as the chapel and public theatre in [[Trinity College, Dublin]].
*He is also associated with [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] additions to [[Milton Abbey]] in [[Dorset]] and the planning of the nearby rural village of [[Milton Abbas]], sometimes considered the first planned settlement in England. This work was carried out in collaboration with [[landscape gardener]] [[Capability Brown]] in 1780 for [[Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester]], who wanted to relocate the existing village further away from his home at the Abbey.
*[[Wick House, Richmond Hill]], commissioned in 1771 by painter [[Sir Joshua Reynolds]].
*[[Osterley Park]], remodelling work in the 1760s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Weinreb |first=Ben |url=http://archive.org/details/londonencycloped00ias |title=The London encyclopedia |publisher=Adler & Adler |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-917561-07-8 |location=Bethesda, MD |pages=568 |language=en}}</ref>