Editing Renaissance architecture (section)

===England===
[[File:Hardwick Hall 3 (7027835143).jpg|thumb|Elizabethan [[prodigy house]], [[Hardwick Hall]] (1590–1597).]]
{{main|Elizabethan architecture|Prodigy house}}
After some first efforts by kings and courtiers, most now vanished, like Henry VII's [[Richmond Palace]] ({{Circa|1501}}), Henry VIII's [[Nonsuch Palace]], and the first [[Somerset House]] in London, a local style of Renaissance architecture emerged in England during the reign of [[Elizabeth I]], much influenced by the [[Low countries]] where among other features it acquired versions of the [[Crow-stepped gable|Dutch gable]], and [[Flemish people|Flemish]] [[strapwork]] in geometric designs adorning the walls. The new style tended to manifest itself in large square tall [[prodigy house]]s such as [[Longleat House]].

The first great exponent of classicizing Italian Renaissance architecture in England was [[Inigo Jones]] (1573–1652), who had studied architecture in Italy where the influence of Palladio was very strong. Jones returned to England full of enthusiasm for the new movement and immediately began to design such buildings as the [[Queen's House]] at [[Greenwich]] in 1616 and the [[Banqueting House, Whitehall]] three years later. These works, with their clean lines, and symmetry were revolutionary in a country still enamoured with mullion windows, crenellations and turrets.<ref name=BF /><ref>John Summerson, ''Architecture in Britain 1530–1830'', 1977 ed., Pelican, {{ISBN|0-14-056003-3}}</ref>