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Burton's works are [[Hyde Park, London]] (including the gate or screen of [[Hyde Park Corner]], the [[Wellington Arch]], and the Gates); [[Green Park]] and [[St James's Park]]; [[Regent's Park]] (including [[Cornwall Terrace]], [[York Terrace]], [[Clarence Terrace]], [[Chester Terrace]], and the villas of the Inner Circle which include his own mansion, [[The Holme]], and the original [[Winfield House]]); the enclosure of the forecourt of [[Buckingham Palace]] from which he had Nash's [[Marble Arch]] moved; the clubhouse of the [[Athenaeum Club, London]]; [[Carlton House Terrace]]; [[Spring Gardens]] in [[St. James's]]; and the [[Palm House, Kew Gardens|Palm House]] and the [[Temperate House, Kew Gardens|Temperate House]] at [[Kew Gardens]]. Burton designed the seaside towns of [[St Leonards-on-Sea]], [[Fleetwood]], and [[Folkestone]], and also [[Royal Tunbridge Wells]]. His Calverley Estate (of which only a small proportion survives) was highly commended.
Burton was a member of [[High society (social class)|London high society]] during the [[Georgian era]] and during the [[Regency|Regency era]]. He had close friendships with Princess [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]] (the future Queen Victoria); the [[Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld|Duchess of Kent]]; [[William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire]], [[John Wilson Croker]], and Sir [[Humphry Davy]]. The Burtons' London mansion, The Holme of Regent's Park, which was built by James's company to a design by his son Decimus Burton, was described by 20th century architectural critic [[Ian Nairn]] as 'a definition of Western civilization in a single view'. Burton also contributed to the design of their [[Tonbridge]], [[Kent]] mansion, Mabledon.
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