Robert Stickells
{{Short description|English architect and clerk of works}}
Robert Stickells or Stickles (died 1620) was an English architect and clerk of works.Howard Colvin, History of the King's Works, 3:1 (London: HMSO, 1975), pp. 134–135.
Career
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Stickells was first recorded working to clear obstacles from the harbour at Dover. In 1591 he supervised the panelling of Grocer's Hall in London.John Summerson, 'Three Elizabethan Architects', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 40 (1957), 216. He became clerk of works at Richmond Palace.Howard Colvin, History of the King's Works, 3 (London: HMSO, 1963), 413. In 1597 Stickells made some memoranda and sketches referring to the contrast between ideas of Vitruvius and Gothic architecture, antique and the modern.John Orrell, The Quest for Shakespeare's Globe (Cambridge, 1983), 112, 117, 139. He is thought to have been involved in the construction of Lyveden New Bield from 1604, and made a drawing for the lantern roof.Mark Girouard, Robert Smythson (Yale, 1983), 10.
James VI and I began building a new Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace in 1607, probably designed by Robert Stickells.Simon Thurley, Palaces of the Revolution, Life, Death & Art at the Stuart Court (William Collins, 2021), pp. 91-3.Simon Thurley, Whitehall Palace: An Architectural History (London: HRP, 1999), 79–80. A model for the roof was made by a Scottish designer, James Acheson.Frederick Devon, Issues of the Exchequer (London, 1836), p. 302. William Portington was the carpenter, and Peter Street made a special augur to hollow out the columns.John Orrell, 'Architecture of the Fortune Playhouse', Shakespeare Survey, 47 (Cambridge, 1992), 17. King James visited the construction site in September 1607 and, according to John Chamberlain, was displeased with the placing of pillars which obscured the windows. The building was used for court masques but burnt down in 1619.Maurice Lee, Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain, 1603-1624 (Rutgers UP, 1972), p. 99. Chamberlain's letter ambiguously refers to a "Lord Architect", and architectural historians conclude that Stickells or another draughtsman George Weale were responsible for the design.Howard Colvin, The History of the King's Works, 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 324.
Stickells supervised masons working for Anna of Denmark at Oatlands Palace in 1617, interpreting the designs of Inigo Jones for walls and an external gate by "setting out the works for masons".Howard Colvin, History of the King's Works, 4 (London: HMSO, 1982), 214: Herbert Horne, "Life of Inigo Jones, II", Hobby Horse, 7:2 (1893), 73.
Stickells made a will before his death in 1620, as a mason resident in Southwark St Olave.John Summerson, 'Three Elizabethan Architects', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 40 (1957), 202–28.
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