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William de Ramsey

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and was charged with supervising building at Stephen's Chapel the same year. The chapter house at St Paul's and St Stephen's in Westminster are known from existing fragments and contemporary illustrations to have been in Perpendicular style, the first buildings to have been built this way.
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This article is about the 14th century master-mason. For the 13th century monastic writer also called William de Ramsey, see
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William de Ramsey was a scion of the de Ramsey family of master masons whose work, according to
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at Norwich and probably on the chapel above the St Ethelbert's Gate to the
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In 1335 he was one of four commissioners responsible for a report on the
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who worked on and likely designed the two earliest buildings of the
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This article about an English architect or firm of architects is a
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William Ramsey (architect)

Norfolk

Norwich
William of Ramsey
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English Gothic
master mason
architect
Perpendicular
Gothic architecture
John de Ramsey
Norwich Cathedral
Ely Cathedral
cloisters
cathedral close
St Stephen's Chapel
Palace of Westminster
chapter house
Old St Paul's Cathedral
London
presbytery
Lichfield Cathedral
Tower of London
Chief Surveyor of the King's Works
River Trent
great hall
Penshurst Place

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