The Bastards' House - East Street - Blandford Forum, Dorset - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

John Bastard and William Bastard blue plaque in Blandford Forum. They built this house, opposite SS Peter & Paul's church, after the great fire of 1731.

The Plaque reads:
The Bastards' House
Rebuilt by John
and William Bastard
in 1732 for their
occupation

"John (ca 1688–1770) and William Bastard (ca 1689–1766) were British surveyor-architects, and civic dignitaries of the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset. John and William generally worked together and are known as the "Bastard brothers". They were builders, furniture makers, ecclesiastical carvers and experts at plasterwork, but are most notable for their rebuilding work at Blandford Forum following a large fire of 1731, and for work in the neighbourhood that Colvin describes as "mostly designed in a vernacular baroque style of considerable merit though of no great sophistication.". Their work was chiefly inspired by the buildings of Wren, Archer and Gibbs. Thus the Bastards' architecture was retrospective and did not follow the ideals of the more austere Palladianism which by the 1730s was highly popular in England. The brothers, the sons of Thomas Bastard (died 1720), a joiner and architect, the founder of a family firm of provincial architects in the area. However little remains today of the works of the brothers' ancestors, chiefly as the result of the 1731 fire and a previous fire in the town in 1713."

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Blue Plaque managing agency: Blandford Civic Society Individual Recognized: Bastards House Web Address: [Web Link] Physical Address: Not listed

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