Robert Vertue
{{Short description|English architect}}
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Robert Vertue (died in 1506) was an English architect and master mason.
He worked as a mason on the nave of Westminster Abbey between 1475 and 1490, and then as the master mason for Henry VII's riverside north range of Greenwich Palace, built in 1500–04 and a work at the Tower of London.
Along with his brother William, he was involved in the construction of Bath Abbey,{{cite web |url=http://www.buildinghistory.org/bath/abbey/vertue.shtml |title=A Building of Vertue |access-date=2008-01-12 |work=Bath Past }} the Tower of London (1501–1502) and possibly Henry VII's chapel at Westminster.{{cite journal |last=Leedy |first=Walter C. |year=1975 |title=The Design of the Vaulting of Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster: A Reappraisal |journal=Architectural History |volume=18 |pages=5–11+89–96 |doi=10.2307/1568378 |jstor=1568378|s2cid=193984804 }}
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Category:15th-century English architects
Category:16th-century English architects
Category:Architects from London
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