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Charles Robert Cockerell

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charles Robert Cockerell , 1788-1863, English architect, archaeologist, and writer. While excavating at Bassae, Aegina, and other sites in Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, he studied the remains of ancient architecture and designed restorations for the temple of Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily. In 1819 he was appointed surveyor of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and in 1833 he became chief architect of the Bank of England, designing the buildings at Bristol, Liverpool, and Manchester and making alterations in the London branch. His works include the Taylor buildings, Oxford; Hanover Chapel, London; and... Read more
Cockerell, Charles Robert
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Cockerell, Charles Robert (1788–1863). One of...he was the son of S. P. Cockerell , with whom he trained before moving to Robert Smirke 's office in 1809...Phigaleian marbles. With Haller, Cockerell observed the entasis on Greek...robust cornice . In 1833 Cockerell ... Read more
Richardson, Sir Albert Edward
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...had established his own practice with Charles Lovett Gill (1880–1960) ), the...in which the influence of both C. R. Cockerell and Hittorff may be detected), and the...foster an appreciation of the work of Cockerell, Soane , and others, and a return to...Southill , A Regency House (1951), ... Read more

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