Table of Contents:
  • Loss and foundations: Camden's Britannia and the histories of English architecture
  • Aristocrats and architects: Henry Wotton and the country house poem
  • Strange anthologies: the alchemist in the London of John Stow
  • Restoring "the church-porch": George Herbert's architectural history
  • Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries
  • Recollections: John Evelyn and the histories of restoration architecture
  • Coda. St. Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.