Editing Inigo Jones (section)

==Later life==
[[File:Inigo Jones by Sir Anthony Van Dyck.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Inigo Jones, by [[Anthony van Dyck]]]]

Jones's full-time career effectively ended with the outbreak of the [[English Civil War]] in 1642 and the seizure of the King's houses in 1643. Jones was captured at the third siege of [[Basing House]] in October 1645.<ref name="Blomfield2017">{{cite book |last1=Blomfield |first1=Reginald |title=A short History of Renaissance Architecture in England 1500–1800 |date=2017 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=9789925066025 |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dkqxDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 |access-date=17 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Unfortunately, as one of the last great strongholds to the Cavaliers, the great mansion inside was destroyed by Cromwell's army and even the walls were broken into many pieces.<ref>{{citation |last=Rakoczy|first=Lila|title=Archaeology of destruction: a reinterpretation of castle slightings in the English Civil War|publisher=University of York (PhD thesis)|year=2007|url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11092/|page=121|type=phd}} {{open access}}</ref> His property was later returned to him (c. 1646) but Jones ended his days, unmarried, living in [[Somerset House]]. He was, however, closely involved in the design of [[Coleshill House]], in Berkshire, for the Pratt family, which he visited with the young apprentice architect [[Roger Pratt (architect)|Roger Pratt]], to fix a new site for the proposed mansion. He died on 21 June 1652 and was buried with his parents at [[St Benet's, Paul's Wharf]], the [[Welsh language|Welsh]] church of the [[City of London]]. [[John Denham (poet)|John Denham]] and then [[Christopher Wren]] followed him as King's Surveyor of Works. A monument dedicated to him in the church, portraying St Paul's Cathedral and other buildings, was destroyed in the [[Great Fire of London|Great Fire]] in 1666.