Sydney Smirke
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Sydney Smirke Template:Post-nominals (20 December 1797 – 8 December 1877) was a British architect.
Smirke who was born in London, England as the fifth son of painter Robert Smirke and his wife, Elizabeth Russell.<ref name="ODNB">Template:Cite ODNB</ref> He was the younger brother of Sir Robert Smirke and Sir Edward Smirke, who was also an architect. Their sister Mary Smirke was a noted painter and translator.<ref name="ODNB"/>
He received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1860. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1847 and was elected a full Academician in 1859. He served as RA Treasurer from 1861 to 1874, and was professor of Architecture from 1860 to 1865.
Personal life
He married Isabella Dobson, daughter of Newcastle upon Tyne architect John Dobson on 8 December 1840 at Newcastle upon Tyne.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Among Smirke's numerous apprentices was the successful York architect George Fowler Jones.
Smirke's works
Sydney Smirke's works include:
- Customs House, High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea (1830)<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- Customs House (refronting), Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, (1833)<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- The Custom House, Queen Square, Bristol (1835–57)<ref>Template:Cite web </ref>
- Wellington Pit Surface Buildings (Whitehaven) (1840)
- The nave roof of York Minster (1840–44)<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- Holy Trinity Church, Bickerstaffe, Lancashire (1843)
- The Carlton Club in Pall Mall, London (1845)<ref name="visitcumbria.com">Template:Cite web</ref>
- The Custom House, Commercial Road, Gloucester (1845)
- The dome chapel of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, St George's Fields, Southwark (now housing the Imperial War Museum) (1846)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- The Frewen Mausoleum at St Mary's Church, Northiam, East Sussex (1846)
- St. James' Church, Westhead, Lancashire (1850)
- St Mary the Virgin Church, Theydon Bois (1850)<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
- The Derby Hall, Derby Hotel and Athenaeum in Bury (1849–52; the latter two now demolished)
- The circular reading room at the British Museum (1857)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- King Edward's School, Witley, Surrey (1865)
- Exhibition galleries at Burlington House, home of the Royal Academy (1868)<ref name="visitcumbria.com"/>
- Hall of Inner Temple (1870)
- St John the Baptist Church, Loughton
- Landscaping of Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking, Surrey (with William Tite)
- Toll House, Lower Sandgate Road, Folkestone<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Barkham Street, Wainfleet All Saints
References
Further reading
- Fawcett, Jane (Editor), Seven Victorian Architects, Thames and Hudson, 1976. Template:ISBN
- Gentleman's Magazine, 1841, Part 1, p91
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography