Captain William Winde (c. 1645-1722) was an English gentleman architect, whose Royalist military career, resulting in fortifications and topographical surveys, and his later career, as designer or simply "conductor" of the works of country houses, has been epitomised by Howard Colvin, who said that "Winde ranks with Hooke, May, Pratt and Talman as one of the principal English country-house architects of the late seventeenth century" (Colvin 1995,...
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Captain William Winde (c. 1645-1722) was an English gentleman architect, whose Royalist military career, resulting in fortifications and topographical surveys, and his later career, as designer or simply "conductor" of the works of country houses, has been epitomised by Howard Colvin, who said that "Winde ranks with Hooke, May, Pratt and Talman as one of the principal English country-house architects of the late seventeenth century" (Colvin 1995, p 1066).
Winde was born in Holland to English parents.
Time has not been kind to his productions. His work included:
Capt. Winde also gave designs for parterre gardens
He married Magdalene, daughter of Sir James Bridgemen. His correspondence with his cousin Lady Mary Bridgemen of Castle Bromwich Hall, at the Staffordshire Record POffice, .
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