Lewis Vulliamy
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Lewis Vulliamy was an English architect belonging to the Vulliamy family
of clockmakers.
. He was born in Pall Mall
, London on 15 March 1791, and articled to Sir Robert Smirke
. He was admitted to the schools of the Royal Academy in 1809, where he won the silver medal the year after for an architectural drawing, and the gold medal in 1813. He was elected Royal Academy travelling student in 1818, after which he studied abroad for four years, mostly in Italy, but also visiting Greece and Asia Minor.
Vulliamy died at Clapham Common, on 4 Jan. 1871.
He drew the plans, elevations, and sections of the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, published in Vetusta Monumenta
, 1835 (vol. v. plates x–xviii).
Vulliamy family
The Vulliamy family was a family of clockmakers, Swiss in origin, active in 18th and 19th century Britain.* Justin Vulliamy , born in Switzerland, moved to London to study in the 1730s, ended up settling there, setting up a business in partnership with Benjamin Gray , who was in 1742 Gray appointed...
of clockmakers.
Life
Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin VulliamyBenjamin Vulliamy
Benjamin Vulliamy , was a clockmaker responsible for building the Regulator Clock, which, between 1780 and 1884, was the official regulator of time in London.- Biography :...
. He was born in Pall Mall
Pall Mall, London
Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London, and parallel to The Mall, from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square. The street is a major thoroughfare in the St James's area of London, and a section of the...
, London on 15 March 1791, and articled to Sir Robert Smirke
Robert Smirke
Robert Smirke may refer to:* Robert Smirke , 18th/19th century English painter* Robert Smirke , son of the painter, 19th century English architect...
. He was admitted to the schools of the Royal Academy in 1809, where he won the silver medal the year after for an architectural drawing, and the gold medal in 1813. He was elected Royal Academy travelling student in 1818, after which he studied abroad for four years, mostly in Italy, but also visiting Greece and Asia Minor.
Vulliamy died at Clapham Common, on 4 Jan. 1871.
Works
- speculative housing in Tavistock Square and Gordon (later Endsleigh) Place in Bloomsbury (1827)
- Neo-Gothic churches
- St Bartholomew's, Sydenham (1826–31)
- St Barnabas's, Addison Road, Kensington (1828–9)
- St Michael's, Highgate (1830–32)
- Christ Church, Woburn Square (1831–3, now demolished)
- Other churches:
- Wardle
- WorsthorneWorsthorneWorsthorne is a rural village on the eastern outskirts of Burnley in Lancashire, England. The parish of Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood has a population of 2,986. The village was known as Worthesthorn in 1202, which means thorn tree of a man named 'Weorth'....
- Burnley (Holy Trinity, Accrington Lane)
- Habergam Eaves
- St Paul's, Burslem
- Christ Church, Cobridge, in Staffordshire
- Christ Church, Todmorden, Yorkshire
- Glasbury church in Brecknockshire (1836–7)
- the Italianate All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, Westminster (1848–9)
- St Peter's, Bethnal GreenBethnal GreenBethnal Green is a district of the East End of London, England and part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, with the far northern parts falling within the London Borough of Hackney. Located northeast of Charing Cross, it was historically an agrarian hamlet in the ancient parish of Stepney,...
- works at Rochester CathedralRochester CathedralRochester Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Norman church in Rochester, Kent. The bishopric is second oldest in England after Canterbury...
(mid-1840s) - a grandstand at Wolverhampton racecourse (1828)
- Epping union workhouse (1837)
- the Lock Hospital, Paddington (1842–9)
- the Law SocietyLaw societyA Law Society in current and former Commonwealth jurisdictions was historically an association of solicitors with a regulatory role that included the right to supervise the training, qualifications and conduct of lawyers/solicitors...
's premises in Chancery Lane (1828–32) - the re-fronting of the Royal InstitutionRoyal InstitutionThe Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organization devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.-Overview:...
in Albemarle Street (1838), adding a giant Corinthian half-column screen - Syston Park
- Friday Hill HouseFriday Hill, ChingfordFriday Hill is a housing estate in Chingford , named after the hill of the same name, lying north of Chingford Hatch....
- Boothby Pagnell Hall (1825)
- Westonbirt HouseWestonbirt HouseWestonbirt House is a country house in Gloucestershire, England. It belonged to the Holford family from 1665 until 1926. The first house on the site was an Elizabethan manor house...
- Dorchester House, on Park Lane
- Various structures in Staunton Country ParkStaunton Country ParkStaunton Country Park is a listed Regency landscaped parkland and forest encompassing approximately in Hampshire, England.An ornamental farm, ornamental lake, follies, maze, walled garden and glasshouses can be found within it...
- The monument to Lord Edward Somerset at Hawkesbury Upton in 1843
- Alderley HouseAlderley HouseThe present day Alderley House is a mid-19th century Grade II listed country house designed by Lewis Vulliamy and built for Robert Blagden Hale in the small Cotswold village of Alderley, near Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire...
, a neo-Elizabethan manor house next to the church of St Kenelm in Alderley, GloucestershireAlderley, GloucestershireAlderley is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England, about fourteen miles southwest of Stroud and two miles south of Wotton-under-Edge. It lies underneath Winner Hill, between two brooks, the Ozleworth and Kilcott...
(formerly Rose Hill SchoolRose Hill School (Alderley)Rose Hill School, Alderley was a co-educational, boarding and day, Pre-preparatory and Preparatory School for children aged 2-14 years old. It was situated in Cotswold countryside in the village of Alderley, near to Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, England. Its motto, 'conando floreamus',...
until July 2009)
He drew the plans, elevations, and sections of the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, published in Vetusta Monumenta
Vetusta Monumenta
Vetusta Monumenta is the title of a published series of illustrated antiquarian papers on ancient buildings, sites, and artefacts, mostly those of Britain, published at irregular intervals between 1718 and 1906 by the Society of Antiquaries of London...
, 1835 (vol. v. plates x–xviii).