The Palladian Palace at Apethorpe

The seventh earl of Westmorland commissioned an ambitious proposal for rebuilding his family seat, Apethorpe Hall, of which only a small part was realized in about 1742. The full proposal is known from copies of the architect's drawings, which have been tentatively attributed to Roger Morris. This article describes the proposal drawings and the realized buildings, and, by detailed comparison with Morris's known work, shows that the attribution need not be tentative. Two of the realized buildings, now attributed to Morris for the first time, are the estate dovecote and Woodnewton Manor House, an eye-catcher in a nearby village, which had previously been attributed to an earlier generation of architects.