Syon House

…to redesign the interior of Syon House. Adam produced an important plan that proposed filling an old centre court with a vast, domed, pantheon-like hall; it was not executed, however. The entrance hall of Syon, based on a basilica—a rectangular building divided into three areas by two rows of columns—with…

Chiswick House (1729), Syon House (1547–52), Boston Manor House (1623), and Osterley Park House (16th century) are all set in pleasant landscaped parkland. The present Chiswick House was built in Palladian style by Richard Boyle, 3rd earl of Burlington. Syon House was the home of the dukes of…

The order’s celebrated Syon Abbey at Isleworth, Middlesex, was founded in 1415. Attached to each house was a monastery for monks who lived under the same rule and under the government of the abbess. At the time of the Protestant Reformation, the order was nearly destroyed when its…