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Abstract
Recent investigation of a 16th-century plan in the archive at Longleat has revealed it to show anambitious proposal for a lodging range across the entrance to the inner court of Kenilworth Castle. The plan makes a considerable addition to the very small number of English architectural drawings of that early date. This article identifies its function and its architectural character – that of the contemporary French court. It dates it from patronal circumstances to about 1566 to 1568, and attributes it by stylistic and graphic analysis to the Office-of-Works architect Henry Hawthorne, architect of the great house at Theobalds for Elizabeth I's chief minister, William Cecil, Lord Burghley.