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Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect descended from the Vulliamy family of clockmakers.
*speculative housing in Tavistock Square and Gordon (later Endsleigh) Place in Bloomsbury (1827)
*Neo-Gothic churches in the London area
**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, demolished)
** St John the Divine, Richmond (1836)
** St James' Church, Norlands (1844–45)
upright=1, Church of St James Norlands
*Other churches:
** St John the Baptist's Church, Smallbridge in Wardle, Greater Manchester
** St John the Evangelist's Church, Worsthorne
** 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), now the Russian Orthodox Patriarchial Church of The Assumption of All Saints
** St Peter's, Bethnal Green
** St James the Less, Bethnal Green
**St Thomas, Bethnal Green (damaged during WWII and demolished)
**(Former) All Saints Church, Kensington (with Charles Harrison Townsend) restoration and additions (1887-1897) Now, Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints.
*works at Rochester Cathedral (mid-1840s)
*a grandstand at Wolverhampton racecourse (1828)
*Epping union workhouse (1837)
*the Lock Hospital, Paddington (1842–9)
*the Law Society's premises in Chancery Lane (1828–32)
*the re-fronting of the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street (1838), adding a giant Corinthian half-column screen
*Syston Park
* Friday Hill House, Friday Hill, London
*Boothby Pagnell Hall (1825)
* Dingestow Court, Dingestow,
(Digitised version, Unibibliothek Heidelberg)
Includes fine engravings of architectural details from: The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, Athens, Ornamental termination of the marble tiles at each corner of the Parthenon, capital from ruins of Temple of Apollo Didymeus, part of the soffit of Temple of Jupiter, part of frieze of Temple of the sun from the Gardens of the Colonna Palace in the Quirinal Hill at Rome and others.
Vulliamy on the RA site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vulliamy 1791 births 1871 deaths 19th-century English architects British people of Swiss descent Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools Architects from London Artists from the City of Westminster Lewis
Life
Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 1791, and articled to Sir Robert Smirke. He was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools 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. He was a great-uncle of the art potter Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy. Vulliamy died at Clapham Common, on 4 January 1871.Works
*speculative housing in Tavistock Square and Gordon (later Endsleigh) Place in Bloomsbury (1827)
*Neo-Gothic churches in the London area
**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, demolished)
** St John the Divine, Richmond (1836)
** St James' Church, Norlands (1844–45)
upright=1, Church of St James Norlands
*Other churches:
** St John the Baptist's Church, Smallbridge in Wardle, Greater Manchester
** St John the Evangelist's Church, Worsthorne
** 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), now the Russian Orthodox Patriarchial Church of The Assumption of All Saints
** St Peter's, Bethnal Green
** St James the Less, Bethnal Green
**St Thomas, Bethnal Green (damaged during WWII and demolished)
**(Former) All Saints Church, Kensington (with Charles Harrison Townsend) restoration and additions (1887-1897) Now, Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints.
*works at Rochester Cathedral (mid-1840s)
*a grandstand at Wolverhampton racecourse (1828)
*Epping union workhouse (1837)
*the Lock Hospital, Paddington (1842–9)
*the Law Society's premises in Chancery Lane (1828–32)
*the re-fronting of the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street (1838), adding a giant Corinthian half-column screen
*Syston Park
* Friday Hill House, Friday Hill, London
*Boothby Pagnell Hall (1825)
* Dingestow Court, Dingestow, Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire ( ; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South East Wales, south east of Wales. It borders Powys to the north; the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the north and east; the Severn Estuary to the s ...
(1845-6), addition of an Elizabethan style south front
* Westonbirt House
* Dorchester House, on Park Lane, London (demolished)
*Various structures in Staunton Country Park
Staunton Country Park is a listed Regency era, Regency landscaped parkland and forest encompassing approximately in Hampshire, England.
An ornamental farm, ornamental lake, Folly, follies, maze, walled garden and greenhouse, glasshouses can be ...
* Dinder House Outer wings to this classic Regency House in Somerset.
*The monument to Lord Edward Somerset at Hawkesbury Upton in 1843The Country Houses of Gloucestershire (Volume III), p.57, by Nicholas Kingsley
* Alderley House, a neo-Elizabethan manor house next to the church of St Kenelm in Alderley, Gloucestershire (formerly Rose Hill School until July 2009)
He drew the plans, elevations, and sections of the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle ( , Received Pronunciation, RP: ), is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is England's northernmost metropolitan borough, located o ...
, published in '' Vetusta Monumenta, 1835 (vol. v. plates x–xviii).
Published the book "Examples of Ornamental Sculpture in Architecture Drawn from the originals of Bronze, Marble, and Terra Cotta, In Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy - in the years 1818,1819, 1820 and part of 1821.- By Lewis Vulliamy Architect and engraved by Henry Moses." Size 470 x 330mm. 40 n0 folios(Digitised version, Unibibliothek Heidelberg)
Includes fine engravings of architectural details from: The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, Athens, Ornamental termination of the marble tiles at each corner of the Parthenon, capital from ruins of Temple of Apollo Didymeus, part of the soffit of Temple of Jupiter, part of frieze of Temple of the sun from the Gardens of the Colonna Palace in the Quirinal Hill at Rome and others.
See also
* List of ecclesiastical works by Lewis Vulliamy * List of works by Lewis Vulliamy on large houses * List of miscellaneous works by Lewis VulliamyReferences
Published by Lewis Vulliamy. 132, Regent Street; Henry Moses, 1 Portland Place, Wandsworth Road; Septimus Proett, 23 Old Bond Street; Robert Jennings, 2 Poultry; J.Taylor, Architectural Library, 59, Holborn and Priestley & Weale, 5 High Street, Bloomsbury.External links
*.Vulliamy on the RA site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vulliamy 1791 births 1871 deaths 19th-century English architects British people of Swiss descent Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools Architects from London Artists from the City of Westminster Lewis