English: Queen Anne

Part of speech

Proper noun

Definition

Queen Anne's reign (1702-14) saw the development of the earlier forms and styles of building from the times of Charles II and William and Mary ('late Stuart'). The term was adopted (not entirely accurately) by the exponents of the 'Queen Anne Revival', to describe a combination of asymmetry, informal planning, and detailing taken from English and Flemish domestic buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries (known at the time as 'Free Classicism').

Context

Ffynhonnell: Taflen wybodaeth gyhoeddus Cyngor Gwynedd.