11 Facts About Regency architecture

Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and to earlier and later buildings following the same style.

Regency architecture style is applied to interior design and decorative arts of the period, typified by elegant furniture and vertically striped wallpaper, and to styles of clothing; for men, as typified by the dandy Beau Brummell and for women the Empire silhouette.

Style is strictly the late phase of Georgian Regency architecture, and follows closely on from the neo-classical style of the preceding years, which continued to be produced throughout the period.

The British Regency strictly lasted only from 1811 to 1820, but the term is applied to architecture more widely, both before 1811 and after 1820; the next reign, of William IV from 1830 to 1837, has not been given its own stylistic descriptor.

Regency architecture is especially distinctive in its houses, and marked by an increase in the use of a range of eclectic Revival styles, from Gothic through Greek to Indian, as alternatives to the main neoclassical stream.

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Many buildings of the Regency architecture style have a white painted stucco facade and an entryway to the main front door which is framed by two columns.

Whereas most earlier Georgian housing for the middle classes had little ornament, the Regency architecture period brought modest architectural pretensions to a much wider range of buildings, in a relaxed and confident application of the classical tradition as filtered through Palladianism.

The early churches, falling into the Regency architecture period, show a high proportion of Gothic Revival buildings, along with the classically inspired.

Regency architecture had many pupils who disseminated his style, or in the case of Pugin rebelled against it.

Regency architecture was a prolific designer, mostly for country houses, new-built or refurbished, able to work in a variety of styles.

Regency architecture's uncle James Wyatt was a leading architect of the previous generation, and James' sons Benjamin Dean Wyatt and Philip Wyatt were successful architects in the period.