Robert Vertue

Robert Vertue

Infobox Architect


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name = Robert Vertue
nationality = British
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death_date = 1506
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significant_buildings= Bath Abbey, Tower of London, Greenwich Palace
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Robert Vertue (d. 1506) was a British 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.htm |title=A Building of Vertue |accessdate=2008-01-12 |format= |work=Bath Past ] the Tower of London (1501-1502) and possibly Henry VII's chapel at Westminster. [cite journal |last=Leedy |first=Walter C. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1975 |month= |title=The Design of the Vaulting of Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster: A Reappraisal |journal=Architectural History |volume=18 |issue= |pages=5–11+89–96 |doi=10.2307/1568378 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0066-622X(1975)18%3C5%3ATDOTVO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2 |accessdate= 2008-01-12 |quote= ]

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