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Roubiliac as an Architect? The bill for the Warkt
monuments *
THE discovery of the bill for the monuments (Fig.59 & 60) to Duke's death in 1709, is still to be seen today.
the second Duke and Duchess of Montagu in Warkton It would appear that Duke John's original plan
Church, Northamptonshire (Fig.61), has revealed the commission from his friend the antiquary, '
unexpected fact that Roubiliac was responsible for Stukeley, a mausoleum in the Gothic style, compl
creating the setting for the monuments which have long fan vaulting, in the form of an additional chapel
been recognised as being amongst his greatest works.' south-east angle of the nearby church at Week]
The document was found in a scrapbook containing was to include a monument to the Duke in the foi
mostly genealogical material, which according to a con- plain inscribed marble slab in the centre of the fib
temporary, was one of John, Duke of Montagu's main in- was intended to make provision for, 'a young m
terests. 2 The bill is undated, but is in the form of a legal woman to be marryed over his grave on may day
document, and so is probably a contemporary copy. It ing, with £100 portion'. However, this, like St
bears the watermark, 'PRO PATRIA', which is in design for a Gothic bridge in the park at Bo
evidence on other legal documents of the period. 3 The House, was never executed. Instead, the projc
account has been amended under the supervision of transferred to Warkton church, possibly because
Countess of Cardigan, the daughter of the second Duke existing family vault, and the decision was ta
and Duchess of Montagu, who, after their death, lived rebuild the chancel there for the purposes
locally at Deene Park. It is inscribed on the verso in a mausoleum (See Fig.A).
different hand from that of the account itself, The current Guide to St Edmund's, Warkton,
'Roubillac's Bill for Monuments'. that the chancel was rebuilt in 1748. There is as
Apartirom the direcevidenceof xbiliacsacting as idethat Roubili -working en-this-eomi
an architect, the account throws new light on his method in that year, but it is possible that the initial des
of procedure, and the extent to which he was involved the new chancel was executed by Duke John himse
with construction on site. 2nd Duke was an amateur architect of some disti:
By rebuilding the chancel as a family mausoleum, and his surviving designs include a plan and elevat
Duke John was continuing a tradition initiated by his building barracks at Woolwich and a scher
father, Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu. At the latter's in- castellated farm buildings on his Northampt
structions 'a place of sepulture' was constructed on the estate.6 However, it is more likely that the new c
north side of the old chancel at Warkton,'for himself and was not completed until after the Duke's death
his family'. 4 This vault, only completed after the 1st 1749. It was then that 'the whole care of a monurr
the Duke was entrusted to Martin Folkes, 7 Presid
the Royal Society from 1741, and from 1749 Presi
the Society of Antiquaries. 1 Martin Folkes ac
'This article was written in connection with research into Huguenot artists and patron on behalf of the widowed Duchess of Monte
craftsmen, 1680 1760, for the degree of PhD.. at Westfield College. University Folkes had himself sat to Roubiliac in 1749 (the I
of London, under the supervision of Dr Bindinan.
I would like to thank I-us Grace the Duke of Buccleuch for kind permission
to publish this document and also Mr P. I. King of the Northamptonshire
County Record Office where it is deposited. for bringing it to my attention. I
would also like to thank my supervisor Dr Bindman. Dr Avery of the Victoria
and Albert Museum, and John Newman of the Courtauld Institute for discuss
ing the document with me.
2 The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley M.D. and the Anti
quarian and other Correspondence of Willaim Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale
etc.. I, The Surtees Society, Vol LXXIII l882],pp.1l4 15.
E HEAW000: Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries', Hilversum
Paper Publications Society. Collection of Works and Documents illustrating
the History of Paper 1 1950 p 146. p 493 nos 3706 3707. E Heawood cites
similiar marks on English legal documents dated 1750 and 1766.
The Rev. PETER wHALLEY: The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire
compiled from the manuscript collectionj of the late learned antiquary John
Bridges, E.sq [1791], Vol II pp 263 64
40
STUART PIGGOT William Stukeley An Eighteenth Century Antiqua
p 151.
P R 0 W 0 55 2281 The drawings for castellated building
Boughton House (HOWARD coLviN Dictionary of British Architeci
p 555. under Montagu,John 2nd Duke of).
British Museum, Add. Ms.35397; Letter of 8th September 1750
Thomas Birch to Lord Hardwicke
Dictionary of National Biography, 1889 edition, under Folkes, Marl
The bust is inscribed, 'M. Folkes. ARM
REGAL LOND PRAESES MDCCXLIX and signed. 'L. F
sculpit ad vivuni 1749'; MARGARET WHiNNEY: Sculpture in Britain,
1964 . p 112. pl.87B, M I WEBB. 'Roubiliac Busts at Wilton', Cou
Vol 119 ii [1956] p.804 Webb quotes the relevant entry in the Hous
counts. November l6th,1749 To Mr Roubiliac for one Marble He
Folkes in full of all demands £35 00 00.' The plaster cast of this bus
British Museum. It was presented with fifteen other busts by Roubili