English Baroque Architecture

English Baroque is the English national variant of Baroque architecture, paralleling continental Baroque between the Great Fire of London in 1666 and roughly 1720, when its flamboyant and dramatic qualities were abandoned in favour of the more restrained, rule-based Neo-classical forms of Palladianism. It is primarily embodied in the works of Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, John Vanbrugh and James Gibbs, with lesser architects such as Thomas Archer also producing buildings of significance; Baroque qualities also appear in the late Restoration style, William and Mary style, Queen Anne style and early Georgian architecture.