Editing Architecture of England (section)

===Georgian architecture===
{{Main|Georgian architecture}}
[[Image:the.circus.bath.arp.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Circus (Bath)]]]]
The 18th century saw a turn away from Baroque elaboration and a reversion to a more austere approach to Classicism. This shift initially brought a return to the Italian Palladianism that had characterised the earliest manifestations of Classical architecture in England. Later [[Neoclassical architecture]] increasingly idealised ancient Greek forms, which were viewed as representing Classicism in its original "purity", as against Roman forms. Country houses representing this style include [[Woburn Abbey]] and [[Kedleston Hall]]. This period also saw the emergence of an increasingly planned approach to urban expansion, and the systematic, simultaneous construction of whole streets or squares, or even of entire districts, gave rise to new forms of domestic construction, the [[terrace (architecture)|terrace]] and the [[crescent (architecture)|crescent]], as exemplified in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] and in [[Bloomsbury]] and [[Mayfair]] in [[London]].  Among the notable architects practising in this era were [[Robert Adam]], Sir [[William Chambers (architect)|William Chambers]], [[John Wood, the Younger|John Wood]] and [[James Wyatt]].