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CHARLES ROBERT COCKERELL (1788-1863)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 625 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:ROBERT See also:COCKERELL (1788-1863)  , See also:British architect, was See also:born in See also:London on the 28th of See also:April '788 . After a preliminary training in his profession, he went abroad in '8'o and studied the See also:great architectural remains of See also:Greece, See also:Italy and See also:Asia See also:Minor . At See also:Aegina, See also:Phigalia and other places of See also:interest, he conducted excavations on a large See also:scale, enriching the British Museum with many See also:fine fragments, and adding several valuable monographs to the literature of See also:archaeology . Elected in 1829 an See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy, he became a full member in 1836, and in 1839 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:architecture . On See also:Sir See also:John See also:Scene's See also:death in 1837 See also:Cockerell was appointed architect of the See also:Bank of See also:England, and carried out the alterations that were judged to be necessary in that See also:building . In addition to See also:branch See also:banks at See also:Liverpool and See also:Manchester he erected in 184o the new library at See also:Cambridge, and in 1845 the university galleries at See also:Oxford, as well as the See also:Sun and the See also:Westminster See also:Fire Offices in See also:Bartholomew See also:Lane and in the Strand; and he was See also:joint architect of the London & Westminster Bank, Lothbury, with Sir W . See also:Tite . On the death of See also:Henry See also:Lonsdale See also:Elmes in 1847, Cockerell was selected to finish the St See also:George's See also:Hall, Liverpool . Cockerell's best conceptions were those inspired by classic See also:models; his essays in the See also:Gothic—the See also:college at See also:Lampeter, for instance, and the See also:chapel at See also:Harrow—are by no means so successful . His thorough knowledge of Gothic See also:art, however, can be seen from his writings, On the Iconography of See also:Wells See also:Cathedral, and On the Sculptures of See also:Lincoln and See also:Exeter Cathedrals . In his See also:Tribute to the Memory of Sir See also:Christopher See also:Wren (1838) he published an interesting collection of the whole of Wren's See also:works See also:drawn to one scale .

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