The Gentle Author who in August 2009 pledged to write more than 10,000 stories about Spitalfields at the rate of one a day has generously given over his column today to Vanbrugh Castle, a building which I have found odder and odder the more I have pondered the time it was built and the fact that William Stukeley drew it shortly after it was finished as if it was an ancient monument.

Was it a joke ?

Or a snub to the neo-Palladians ?

If only he had written more about it himself.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/14/john-vanbrugh-in-greenwich/