Preface ; I The Portico ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Definitions ; 3 Summary and Note on Portico Types ; II From Frontispiece to Portico in Great Britain ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Frontispieces ; 3 Porches and Loggia Porticoes ; 4 Summary ; III Inigo Jones and the Palladian Portico ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Temple and Church ; 3 Summary ; IV The Baroque Portico ; 1 Jones, Webb, and the Baroque ; 2 Webb, Wren and the Baroque Church ; 3 Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh and Archer ; 4 Fifty New Churches ; 5 Temple Front and Portico in the English Baroque ; 6 Summary ; V The Portico in English Neo-Palladianism ; 1 Introduction ; 2 The Reinstatement of Inigo Jones and Palladio ; 3 Palladio and Porticoes ; 4 The English Country House and its Functions ; 5 The Disadvantages of Porticoes ; 6 Summary ; VI Neo-Classicism and the Greek Revival Portico ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Neo-Classicism: Imitation and Originality ; 3 Visual Effect: The Rule and the Eye ; 4 Architectural Association ; 5 The Associations of Grecian and Greek Architecture ; 6 The Greek Revival: A Tentative Beginning ; 7 The Greek and Roman Debate ; 8 Greece Revived ; VII The Decline of the Portico ; VIII Conclusion ; Appendix: Summary and Chronologies of the First Introductions and Principal Uses of the Architectural Orders in the Entrance-Porticoes of Great Britain, 1630-1850 ; Bibliography ; Plates ; Index.