Robert Lugar (1773 – 23 June 1855), was a British
architect
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and engineer in the
Industrial Revolution
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.
Although born in
Colchester
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Colchester occupies the ...
,
England
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, Lugar carried out much of his most important work in
Scotland
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and
Wales
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, where he was employed by several leading industrialists to design grand houses such as
Balloch Castle (1808),
Cyfarthfa Castle
Cyfarthfa Castle (; ) is a castellated mansion that was the home of the Crawshay family, ironmasters of Cyfarthfa Ironworks in Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The house commanded a view of the valley and the works, which ‘at night, offer a tru ...
(1824). The Ryes, formerly known as Rye Lodge, in
Little Henny is a Grade II Georgian House designed by Lugar, whose engraving of the house and its plans were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1809. The house was recognised by
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (195 ...
during his survey of Essex. The Rectory in
Yaxham, Norfolk, which is now known as Yaxham House, was designed for Rev John Johnson (1817), with its mirror image later used for Ffrwdgrech House in
Brecon
Brecon (; ; ), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town in Powys, mid Wales. In 1841, it had a population of 5,701. The population in 2001 was 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census. Historically it was the county town of Breck ...
(1828). He designed Denham Mount in south Buckinghamshire for Nathaniel Snell, a London merchant and partner in George Baillie and Company and
Wyelands in Monmouthshire, Wales, now owned by Sanjeev Gupta. Lugar also designed
Bardon Hall (1837) in
Leicestershire
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.
Lugar published a pattern book in 1815 of cottages, rural dwellings and villas.
Archibald Simpson worked for Lugar in his Holburn office from 1810. He died aged 82 at his London home in
Kensington
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The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...
on 23 June 1855.
['Births, Marriages, and Deaths', '' The Examiner'', 30 June 1855, p. 413.]
References
External links
Robert Lugar on Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyRobert Lugar on Parks and Gardens UKRobert Lugar on The DiCamillo Companion
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19th-century Scottish architects
People from Colchester
1773 births
1855 deaths
Architects from Essex