80-478: Royal Victoria Park may refer to the following parks in England: Royal Victoria Park, Bath , Somerset Royal Victoria Park, Bristol, see Brentry Hospital Royal Victoria Country Park near Southampton, Hampshire [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
160-1105: A 13th-century English Vulgate Bible; a 15th-century Flemish copy of Josephus 's works; four books of hours , two Flemish of the 15th century and early 16th century, Dutch of the late 15th century and French 15th century; a French missal dated 1482; Le Livre des Cordonniers de Caen , French 15th century; and Marino Grimani 's commentary of the Epistle of St Paul to the Romans, the work of Giulio Clovio . Other manuscripts include: Francesco di Giorgio 's mid-16th century Treatise of Architecture ; Nicholas Stone 's two account books covering 1631–42, and his son's (also Nicholas Stone) 1648 sketch book (France and Italy) and Henry Stone's 1638 sketch book; Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 's The Second Epistle; James Gibbs 's A few short cursory remarks on buildings in Rome ; Joshua Reynolds 's two sketch books from Rome; and Torquato Tasso 's early manuscript of Gerusalemme Liberata . Incunabula in
240-412: A council chamber, and smaller room next to it and a staircase leading to a kitchen and scullery in the basement. The building was demolished to make way for the current building. In October 1791 Soane was appointed Clerk of Works with responsibility for St James's Palace , Whitehall and The Palace of Westminster . Between 1795 and 1799 Soane was Deputy Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods and Forest, on
320-584: A family by the name of Stuart he had met in Rome, he prepared plans for a new mansion for the family, but again the commission came to nothing. In early December 1780 Soane took lodgings at 10 Cavendish Street, London. To pay his way his friends from the Grand Tour, Thomas Pitt and Philip Yorke, gave him commissions for repairs and minor alterations. Anna, Lady Miller , considered building a temple in her garden at Batheaston to Soane's design and he hoped he might receive work from her circle of friends. But again this
400-521: A former carriage gateway constructed in 1830. Originally called Spry's Gate, it became Victoria Gate on the raising of the obelisk. When the structure was designated as Grade II* listed in 1972 it was stated that the cast iron gates had been removed in World War II, but gates with gilded decoration have since been reinstated. In the centre is a wrought iron column carrying a lantern, and on each side are pedestrian entrances in limestone ashlar. These each have
480-478: A full Royal Academician , his diploma work being a drawing of his design for a new House of Lords. There were only ever a maximum of forty Royal Academicians at any one time. Under the rules of the Academy Soane automatically became for one year a member of the council of the academy, this consisted of the president and eight other academicians. After Thomas Sandby died in 1798, George Dance, Soane's old teacher
560-570: A house at 12 Lincoln's Inn Fields , London. Later purchasing 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, he used the house as his home and library, but also entertained potential clients in the drawing room. The houses along with 14 Lincoln's Inn Fields, is now Sir John Soane's Museum and is open to the public for free. Between 1794 and 1824 Soane remodelled and extended the house into two neighbouring properties – partly to experiment with architectural ideas, and partly to house his growing collection of antiquities and architectural salvage. As his practice prospered, Soane
640-631: A museum, of 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields. The library covers a wide range of subjects: Greek and Roman classics, poetry, painting, sculpture, history, music, drama, philosophy, grammars, topographical works, encyclopaedias, runs of journals and contemporary novels. Naturally architectural books account for a large part of the library, and were very important when he came to write his lectures for the Royal Academy. The main architectural books include: several editions of Vitruvius 's De architectura , including Latin, English, French and Italian editions, including
720-411: A new bakehouse in 1815; a new gardener's house 1816, a new guard-house and Secretary's Office with space for fifty staff 1818; a Smoking Room in 1829 and finally a garden shelter in 1834. Soane, who was a UGLE Freemason , was employed to extend Freemasons' Hall, London in 1821 by building a new gallery; later in 1826 he prepared various plans for a new hall, but it was only built in 1828–31, including
800-541: A new entrance gate and lodges, followed by a new dairy and alterations to the house, and in London alterations and redecoration of 63 New Cavendish Street. Increasingly desperate for work Soane entered a competition in March 1782 to design a prison, but failed to win. Soane continued to get other minor design work in 1782. From the mid-1780s on Soane would receive a steady stream of commissions until his semi-retirement in 1832. It
880-560: A performance at Teatro di San Carlo and climbed Mount Vesuvius . Visiting Paestum , Soane was deeply impressed by the Greek temples. Next he visited the Certosa di Padula , then went on to Eboli and Salerno and its cathedral. Later they visited Benevento and Herculaneum . The Earl and Soane left for Rome on 12 March 1779, travelling via Capua, Gaeta , the Pontine Marshes , Velletri ,
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#1732858907789960-429: A platform roof on twelve plain square columns, and above is a feature with a semicircular arch under a plain pediment. The designer, Edward Davis, had been a pupil of John Soane in the 1920s, and the listing description notes similarity to the style of St John's Church, Bethnal Green , London, where Davis had assisted Soane. The Botanical Gardens were formed in the north-west area of the park in 1887 and contain one of
1040-612: A salary of £200 per annum. James Wyatt 's death in 1813 led to Soane together with John Nash and Robert Smirke , being appointed official architect to the Office of Works in 1813, the appointment ended in 1832, at a salary of £500 per annum. As part of this position he was invited to advise the Parliamentary Commissioners on the building of new churches from 1818 onward. He was required to produce designs for churches to seat 2000 people for £12,000 or less though Soane thought
1120-751: A series of measured drawings and ground plans of Roman buildings together. During the summer they visited Hadrian's Villa and the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli , whilst back in Rome they investigated the Colosseum . In August Soane was working on a design for a British Senate House to be submitted for the 1779 Royal Academy summer exhibition . In the autumn he met the Bishop of Derry , Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol , who had built several grand properties for himself. The Earl presented copies of I quattro libri dell'architettura and De architectura to Soane. In December
1200-465: A sign of his growing confidence. A party, including Thomas Bowdler , Rowland Burdon , John Patteson, John Stuart and Henry Grewold Lewis, decided to visit Sicily and paid for Soane to accompany them as a draughtsman. The party headed for Naples on 11 April, where on 21 April they caught a Swedish ship to Palermo . Soane visited the Villa Palagonia , which made a deep impact on him. Influenced by
1280-467: A skateboard ramp, tennis, bowling and putting greens and 12 and 18 hole golf course, a large children's play area and a botanical garden covering 9 acres (3.6 ha). Seasonal attractions include carnival fairs , open-air concerts and hosted events. It has received a Green Flag award (the national standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales) and is Grade I registered by Historic England on
1360-584: A surveyor who worked with George Dance the Younger . Soane began his training as an architect age 15 under George Dance the Younger and joining the architect at his home and office in the City of London at the corner of Moorfields and Chiswell Street. Dance was a founding member of the Royal Academy and doubtless encouraged Soane to join the schools there on 25 October 1771 as they were free. There he would have attended
1440-785: A travelling scholarship in December 1777 and exhibited at the Royal Academy a design for a Mausoleum for his friend and fellow student James King, who had drowned in 1776 on a boating trip to Greenwich . Soane, a non-swimmer, was going to be with the party but decided to stay home and work on his design for a Triumphal Bridge . By 1777, Soane was living in his own accommodation in Hamilton Street. In 1778 he published his first book Designs in Architecture . He sought advice from Sir William Chambers on what to study: "Always see with your own eyes ... [you] must discover their true beauties, and
1520-633: A white marble bust of Soane. Soane acquired Sir Richard Westmacott 's plaster model for Nymph unclasping her Zone and the plaster model of John Flaxman's memorial sculpture of William Pitt the Younger. Of the ancient sculptures, a miniature copy of the famous sculpture of Diana of Ephesus is one of the most important in the collection. After the death of his teacher Henry Holland, Soane bought part of his collection of ancient marble fragments of architectural decoration. He also acquired Plastercasts of famous antique sculptures. Soane's paintings include four works by Canaletto and paintings by Hogarth :
1600-649: Is a public park in Bath , England. It was opened in 1830 by the 11-year-old Princess Victoria , seven years before her ascension to the throne, and was the first park to carry her name. It was privately run as part of the Victorian public park movement until 1921, when it was taken over by the Bath Corporation . The park is overlooked by the Royal Crescent and consists of 57 acres (23 ha) with attractions that include
1680-621: The Alban Hills and Lake Albano , and Castel Gandolfo . Back in Rome they visited the Palazzo Barberini and witnessed the celebrations of Holy Week . Shortly after, the Earl and his family departed for home, followed a few weeks later by Thomas Hardwick. It was then that Soane met Maria Hadfield (they became lifelong friends) and Thomas Banks . Soane was now fairly fluent in the Italian language,
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#17328589077891760-664: The City of London , of the twentieth century". A growing sign of Soane's success was an invitation to become a member of the Architects' Club that was formed on 20 October 1791. Practically all the leading practitioners in London were members, and it combined a meeting to discuss professional matters, at 5:00 pm on the first Thursday of every month with a dinner. The four founders were Soane's former teachers George Dance and Henry Holland with James Wyatt and Samuel Pepys Cockerell . Other original members included: Sir William Chambers, Thomas Sandby, Robert Adam , Matthew Brettingham
1840-519: The Heritage Lottery Fund . This included the renovation of two Medici lion statues on plinths each side of the Queen's Gate entrance to the park, replacing the original iron armatures inside the limbs, returning them to their bronze colour, and giving each a gilt ball under its front paw. Further work will add two 8 feet (2.4 m) cast iron replicas of the original lanterns and the replacement of
1920-573: The Lepari Islands . They were back in Naples by 2 July where Soane purchased books and prints, visiting Sorrento before returning to Rome. Shortly after, John Patterson returned to England via Vienna, from where he sent Soane the first six volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , delivered by Antonio Salieri . In Rome Soane's circle now included Henry Tresham , Thomas Jones and Nathaniel Marchant . Soane continued to study
2000-564: The National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens . Inside the east entrance to the park on Marlborough Lane is the Grade II* listed Victoria Column, erected in 1837 to mark the coming-of-age (at age 18) of Princess Victoria. G. P. Manners , the Bath city architect, designed a tapering triangular stone obelisk , about 33 feet (10 m) tall. The triangular plinth has a low-profile relief of
2080-607: The Palace of Versailles on 29 March. They finally reached Rome on 2 May 1778. Soane wrote home, "my attention is entirely taken up in the seeing and examining the numerous and inestimable remains of Antiquity ...". His first dated drawing is 21 May of the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura (Saint Agnes Outside the Walls). His former classmate, the architect Thomas Hardwick , returned to Rome in June from Naples . Hardwick and Soane would produce
2160-499: The Speaker of the House of Commons house, and new library, committee rooms, clerks' rooms and stores, all would be destroyed in the fire of 1834. One of Soane's largest designs was for a new Royal Palace in London, a series of designs were produced c. 1820–30. The design was unusual in that the building was triangular, there were grand porticoes at each corner and in the middle of each side of
2240-630: The Villa Albani . That autumn he met Henry Bankes , Soane prepared plans for the Banke's house Kingston Lacy , but these came to nothing. Early in 1780 Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol wrote to Soane offering him various architectural commissions, Soane decided to return to England and began to organise his return journey. He left Rome on 19 April 1780, travelling with the Reverend George Holgate and his pupil Michael Pepper. They visited
2320-591: The Villa Farnese , then on to Siena . Then Florence where they visited the Palazzo Pitti , Uffizi , Santo Spirito , Giotto's Campanile and other sites. Performing at the Teatro della Pergola was Nancy Storace with whom Soane formed a lifelong friendship. Their journey continued on via Bologna, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Mantua where he sketched Palazzo del Te , Parma, Piacenza . Milan where he attended La Scala ,
2400-459: The landed gentry included: new rooms and remodelling of Wimpole Hall and garden buildings, (1790–94) for his friend Philip Yorke whom he met on his Grand Tour; remodelling of Baronscourt , County Tyrone, Ireland (1791); Tyringham Hall (1792–1820); and the remodelling of Aynhoe Park (1798). In 1804, he remodelled Ramsey Abbey (none of his work there now survives); the remodelling of the south front of Port Eliot and new interiors (1804–06);
2480-689: The Dark Mini Golf, Bath Thai Festival, Bath Easter Funfair, Pub in the Park and Bath Race for Life. To the north of the Botanical Gardens is the Great Dell, a sunken wooded area alongside Weston Road. It is a former stone quarry planted out in the 1840s with a collection of unusual trees, including some large North American conifers . In 2007 a programme of reconstruction and restoration was undertaken by Bath and North East Somerset Council and supported by
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2560-587: The Earl introduced Soane to Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford , an acquaintance which would lead eventually to architectural commissions. The Earl persuaded Soane to accompany him to Naples, setting off from Rome on 22 December 1778. On the way they visited Capua and the Palace of Caserta , arriving in Naples on 29 December. It was there that Soane met two future clients, John Patteson and Richard Bosanquet. From Naples Soane made several excursions including to Pozzuoli , Cumae and Pompeii , where he met yet another future client, Philip Yorke . Soane also attended
2640-534: The Earl was planning to build a new house. But immediately the Earl changed his mind and dispatched Soane to Downhill House , in County Londonderry , Ireland, where Soane arrived on 27 July 1780. The Earl had grandiose plans to rebuild the house, but Soane and the Earl disagreed over the design and parted company, Soane receiving only £30 for his efforts. He left via Belfast sailing to Glasgow . From Glasgow he travelled to Allanbank, Scottish Borders , home of
2720-579: The Gothic Library at Stowe House (1805–06); Moggerhanger House (1791–1809); for Marden Hill , Hertfordshire, Soane designed a new porch and entrance hall (1818); the remodelling of Wotton House after damage by fire (1820); a terrace of six houses above shops in Regent Street London (1820–21), demolished; and Pell Wall Hall (1822). Among Soane's most notable works are the dining rooms of both Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street (1824–26) for
2800-526: The Office of Works, Soane was asked to make alteration to the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster. He added a curving gothic arcade with an entrance leading to a courtyard, a new Royal Gallery, main staircase and Ante-Room, all the interiors were in a grand neo-classical style, completed by January 1824. Later four new committee rooms, a new library for the House of Lords and for the House of Commons alterations to
2880-692: The Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer respectively of Great Britain. In 1811, Soane was appointed as architect for Dulwich Picture Gallery, the first purpose-built public art gallery in Britain, to house the Dulwich collection, which had been held by art dealers Sir Francis Bourgeois and his partner Noel Desenfans. Bourgeois's will stipulated that the Gallery should be designed by his friend John Soane to house
2960-552: The Princess, and contemporary and later inscriptions on its other faces; radiating from it are three plinths bearing lions couchant . The whole is surrounded by a low balustraded wall. The unveiling of the monument took place on Victoria's coronation day , 28 June 1838. At one time, guns captured in the Crimean War were placed nearby but they were later removed. The obelisk is approached from Royal Avenue and Marlborough Lane through
3040-452: The Royal Academy (none of which was recovered). He continued his journey on to Freiburg im Breisgau , Cologne , Liège , Leuven and Brussels before embarking for England. He reached England in June 1780; thanks to his Grand Tour he was £120 in debt. After a brief stop in London, Soane headed for Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol's estate at Ickworth House in Suffolk, where
3120-663: The Westin Hotel. However, when the Irish Parliament was abolished in 1800, the Bank abandoned the project and instead bought the former Parliament Buildings. In 1808 he started work on the design of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution , for which he refused to charge. Building work began on 3 July 1810 and was completed in 1814. The remodelling of the interior has left little of Soane's work. Country homes for
3200-457: The Younger , Thomas Hardwick and Robert Mylne . Members who later joined included Sir Robert Smirke and Sir Jeffrey Wyattville . On 20 January 1807 Soane was made clerk of works of Royal Hospital Chelsea. He held the post until his death thirty years later; it paid a salary of £200 per annum. His designs were: built 1810 a new infirmary (destroyed in 1941 during The Blitz ), a new stable block and extended his own official residence in 1814;
3280-569: The account of the Villa in his copy of Patrick Brydone 's Tour through Sicily and Malta , Soane savoured the "Prince of Palagonia's Monsters ... nothing more than the most extravagant caricatures in stone", but more significantly seems to have been inspired by the Hall of Mirrors to introduce similar effects when he came to design the interiors of his own house in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Leaving Palermo from where
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3360-518: The architect and his friend Joseph Farington led a campaign against Soane, as a consequence the Royal Academy introduced a rule forbidding criticism of a living British artist in any lectures delivered there. Soane attempted to resist what he saw as interference and it was only under threat of dismissal that he finally amended his lecture and recommenced on 12 February 1813 the delivery of the first six lectures. The rift that all this caused between Soane and George Dance would only be healed in 1815 after
3440-406: The architecture lectures delivered by Thomas Sandby and the lectures on perspective delivered by Samuel Wale . Dance's growing family was probably the reason that in 1772 Soane continued his education by joining the household and office of Henry Holland . He recalled later that he was 'placed in the office of an eminent builder in extensive practice where I had every opportunity of surveying
3520-411: The bookcases in the library, Greek and Roman busts, heads from statues and fragments of sculpture and architectural decoration, examples of Roman glass . Medieval objects include: architectural fragments, tiles and stained glass . Soane acquired 18th century Chinese ceramics as well as Peruvian pottery . Soane also purchased four Indian ivory chairs and a table. Francis Leggatt Chantrey carved
3600-591: The building lines back several feet and redesign the building in a gothic style instead of the original classical design, Soane rarely designed gothic buildings. The building opened on 21 January 1825, and remained in use until the Royal Courts of Justice opened in 1882, after this the building was demolished in 1883 and the site left as lawn. All the court rooms displayed Soane's typically complex lighting arrangements, being top lit by roof lanterns often concealed from direct view. In 1822 as an official architect of
3680-670: The building now houses the Cabinet Office ; in a new departure for Soane he used the Italianate style for The New State Paper Office, (1829–30) demolished 1868 to make way for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office building. His commissions in Ireland included: Dublin , Soane was commissioned by the Bank of Ireland to design a new headquarters for the triangular site on Westmoreland Street now occupied by
3760-438: The building, the centre of the building consisted of a low dome, with ranges of rooms leading to the entrances in each side of the building, creating three internal courtyards. As far as is known it is not related to an official commission and was merely a design exercise by Soane, indeed the various drawings he produced date over several years, he first produced a design for a Royal Palace while in Rome in 1779. The Royal Academy
3840-566: The buildings of Rome, including the Basilica of St. John Lateran . Soane and Rowland Burdon set out in August for Lombardy . Their journey included visits to Ancona , Rimini , Bologna , Parma and its Accademia, Milan , Verona , Vicenza and its buildings by Andrea Palladio , Padua , the Brenta (river) with its villas by Palladio, Venice . Then back to Bologna where Soane copied designs for completing
3920-467: The collection are by Christopher Wren , there are 8,856 drawings by Robert Adam and James Adam , John Thorpes book of architecture, George Dance the Elder 's 293 and George Dance the younger's 1,303, housed in a specially designed cabinet, Sir William Chambers, James Playfair , Matthew Brettingham , Thomas Sandby, etc. There are a large number of Italian drawings. Of the 252 architectural models in
4000-484: The collection. Uniquely the building also incorporates a mausoleum containing the bodies of Francis Bourgeois, and Mr and Mrs Desenfans. The Dulwich Picture Gallery was completed in 1817. The five main galleries are lit by elongated roof lanterns . As an official architect of the Office of Works Soane was asked to design the New Law Courts at Westminster Hall , he began surveying the building on 12 July 1820. Soane
4080-614: The commentary on the work by Daniele Barbaro . Julien-David Le Roy 's Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce , Johann Joachim Winckelmann 's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums , in its French translation bought in 1806 just before Soane was appointed to the professorship. Also Marc-Antoine Laugier 's Essai sur l'Architecture , and Jacques-François Blondel 's nine volumes of Cours d'architecture ou traité de la décoration, distribution et constructions des bâtiments contenant les leçons données en 1750, et les années suivantes . Soane also acquired several illuminated manuscripts :
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#17328589077894160-613: The cost too low, of the three churches he designed for the Commission all were classical in style. The three churches were: St Peter's Church, Walworth (1823–24), for £18,348; Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone (1826–27), for £24,708; St John on Bethnal Green (1826–28), for £15,999. Soane designed several public buildings in London, including: National Debt Redemption Office (1817) demolished 1900; Insolvent Debtors Court (1823) demolished 1861; Privy Council and Board of Trade Offices, Whitehall (1823–24), remodelled by Sir Charles Barry ,
4240-430: The death of Mrs Soane. The twelve lectures, they were treated as two separate courses of six lectures, were all extensively illustrated with over one thousand drawings and building plans, most of which were prepared by his pupils as part of their lessons. The lectures were: Soane over the course of his career built up an extensive library of 7,783 volumes, this is still housed in the library he designed in his home, now
4320-467: The decorative iron gates to the three main entrances to the park. The original gates were removed, along with all the railings around the park, as part of a Second World War national scrap metal campaign. Further works involved the reinstatement of over a mile of perimeter railings, the restoration of the bandstand, the reforming of three sets of park gates, work to the Royal Crescent Ha-ha, and
4400-525: The eight canvases of the A Rake's Progress and the four canvases of the Humours of an Election . Soane acquired three works by his friend J. M. W. Turner . Thomas Lawrence painted a three quarter length portrait of Soane that hangs over the Dining Room fireplace. Soane acquired 15 drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi . A sketch of Soane's wife by Soane's friend John Flaxman is framed and displayed in
4480-511: The extension of the Temple of Minerva to form a small interpretation centre. These works coincided with significant works to the planting throughout the park. John Soane Sir John Soane RA FSA FRS ( / s oʊ n / ; né Soan ; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to
4560-634: The finest collections of plants on limestone in the West Country . The replica of a Roman Temple in the gardens was used at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. Royal Victoria Park is known for hosting events, such as Vintage FunFair, a carnival with hot-air balloons and rides. Popular annual festivals include The Bank Festival and The Children's Festival for May Bank holiday weekend. Other events include an ice-skating rink in winter, as well as Movie by Moonlight, Glow in
4640-562: The guests were the Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool , and his wife; Robert Peel , Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , J. M. W. Turner , Sir Thomas Lawrence , Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough , Benjamin Haydon as well as many foreign dignitaries. He also bought Greek and Roman bronzes, cinerary urns , fragments of Roman mosaics , Greek vases many displayed above
4720-414: The influence of William Pitt, who was then the Prime Minister and his friend from the Grand Tour, Richard Bosanquet whose brother was Samuel Bosanquet , Director and later Governor of the Bank of England. His salary was set at 5% of the cost of any building works at the Bank, paid every six months. Soane would virtually rebuild the entire bank, and vastly extend it. The five main banking halls were based on
4800-400: The interior of Fonthill Splendens (later replaced by Fonthill Abbey ) for Thomas Beckford, adding a picture gallery lit by two domes and other work. On 16 October 1788 he succeeded Sir Robert Taylor as architect and surveyor to the Bank of England. He would work at the bank for the next 45 years, resigning in 1833. Given Soane's youth and relative inexperience, his appointment was down to
4880-493: The library include: Cristoforo Landino 's Commentario sopra la Comedia di Dante , 1481; S. Brant Stultifera Navis , 1488; and Boethius 's De Philosophico Consolatu , 1501. Other early printed books include: J.W. von Cube, Ortus Saniatis , 1517, and Portiforium seu Breviarum ad Sarisbursis ecclesiae usum , 1555; and William Shakespeare 's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies of 1623, the First Folio . In 1792, Soane bought
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#17328589077894960-495: The museum. There are over 30,000 architectural drawings in the collection. Of Soane's drawings of his own designs (many are by his assistants and pupils, most notably Joseph Gandy ), there are 601 covering the Bank of England, 6,266 of his other works and 1,080 prepared for the Royal Academy lectures. There are an additional 423 Soane drawings in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum . Other architects with drawings in
5040-400: The party split, Stuart and Bowdler going off together. The rest headed for Segesta , Trapani , Selinunte and Agrigento , exposing Soane to Ancient Greek architecture . From Agrigento the party headed for Licata , where they sailed for Malta and Valletta returning on 2 June, to Syracuse, Sicily . Moving on to Catania and Palazzo Biscari then Mount Etna , Taormina , Messina and
5120-419: The progress of building in all its different varieties, and of attaining the knowledge of measuring and valuing artificers' work'. During his studies at the Royal Academy, he was awarded the academy's silver medal on 10 December 1772 for a measured drawing of the façade of the Banqueting House, Whitehall , which was followed by the gold medal on 10 December 1776 for his design of a Triumphal Bridge . He received
5200-461: The rooms are as fire proof as possible. His work at the bank was: In 1807 Soane designed New Bank Buildings on Princes Street for the Bank, consisting of a terrace of five mercantile residences, which were then leased to prominent city firms. The Bank being Soane's most famous work, Sir Herbert Baker 's rebuilding of the Bank, demolishing most of Soane's earlier building was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest architectural crime, in
5280-420: The same basic layout, starting with the Bank Stock Office of 1791–96, consists of a rectangular room, the centre with a large lantern light supported by piers and pendentives , then the four corners of the rectangle have low vaulted spaces, and in the centre of each side compartments rising to the height of the arches supporting the central lantern, the room is vaulted in brick and windows are iron framed to ensure
5360-495: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Victoria_Park&oldid=895068948 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Royal Victoria Park, Bath Royal Victoria Park
5440-439: The secrets by which they are produced." Using his travelling scholarship of £60 per annum for three years, plus an additional £30 travelling expenses for each leg of the journey, Soane set sail on his Grand Tour , his ultimate destination being Rome, at 5:00 am, 18 March 1778. His travelling companion was Robert Furze Brettingham ; they travelled via Paris, where they visited Jean-Rodolphe Perronet , and then went on to
5520-421: The theatre was a growing interest, Lake Como from where they began their crossing of the Alps via the Splügen Pass . They then passed on to Zürich , Reichenau , Wettingen , Schaffhausen , Basel on the way to which the bottom of Soane's trunk came loose on the coach and spilled the contents behind it, he thus lost many of his books, drawings, drawing instruments, clothes and his gold and silver medals from
5600-411: The top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the Royal Academy and an official architect to the Office of Works . He received a knighthood in 1831. Soane's best-known work was the Bank of England (his work there is largely destroyed), a building which had a widespread effect on commercial architecture. He also designed Dulwich Picture Gallery , which, with its top-lit galleries,
5680-414: The west front of San Petronio Basilica including ones by Palladio, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and Baldassare Peruzzi . Then to Florence and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of which he was later, in January 1780 elected a member; then returned to Rome. Soane continued his study of buildings, including Villa Lante , Palazzo Farnese , Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne , the Capitoline Museums and
5760-553: Was a major influence on the planning of subsequent art galleries and museums. His main legacy is the eponymous museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields in his former home and office, designed to display the art works and architectural artefacts that he collected during his lifetime. The museum is described in the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture as "one of the most complex, intricate, and ingenious series of interiors ever conceived". Soane
5840-572: Was able to collect objects worthy of the British Museum , including the Sarcophagus of Seti I in 1824. After the Seti sarcophagus arrived at his house in March 1825, Soane held a three-day party, to which 890 people were invited, the basement where the sarcophagus was housed was lit by over one hundred lamps and candelabra, refreshments were laid on and the exterior of the house was hung with lamps. Among
5920-762: Was appointed professor of architecture at the academy, but during his tenure of the post failed to deliver a single lecture. Naturally this caused dissatisfaction, and Soane began to manoeuver to obtain the post for himself. Eventual Soane succeeded in ousting Dance and became professor on 28 March 1806. Soane did not deliver his first lecture until 27 March 1809 and did not begin to deliver the full series of twelve lectures until January 1810. All went well until he reached his fourth lecture on 29 January 1810, in it he criticised several recent buildings in London, including George Dance's Royal College of Surgeons of England and his former pupil Robert Smirke's Covent Garden Theatre . Royal Academicians Robert Smirke (painter) father of
6000-407: Was at the very centre of Soane's architectural career, in the sixty four years from 1772 to 1836 there were only five years, 1778 and 1788–91, in which he did not exhibit any designs there. Soane had received part of his architectural education at the academy and it had paid for his Grand Tour. On 2 November 1795 Soane was elected an Associate Royal Academician and on 10 February 1802 Soane was elected
6080-646: Was born in Goring-on-Thames on 10 September 1753. He was the second surviving son of John Soan and his wife Martha. The 'e' was added to the surname by the architect in 1784 on his marriage. His father was a builder or bricklayer, and died when Soane was fourteen in April 1768. He was educated in nearby Reading in a private school run by William Baker. After his father's death Soane's family moved to nearby Chertsey to live with Soane's brother William, 12 years his elder. William Soan introduced his brother to James Peacock,
6160-527: Was dependent on domestic work, including: Piercefield House (1784), now a ruin; the remodelling of Chillington Hall (1785); The Manor, Cricket St Thomas (1786); Bentley Priory (1788); the extension of the Roman Catholic Chapel at New Wardour Castle (1788). An important commission was alterations to William Pitt the Younger 's Holwood House in 1786, Soane had befriended William Pitt's uncle Thomas on his grand tour. In 1787 Soane remodelled
6240-614: Was not to be. To help him out, George Dance gave Soane a few measuring jobs, including one in May 1781 on his repairs to Newgate Prison of damage caused by the Gordon Riots . To give Soane some respite, Thomas Pitt invited him to stay in 1781 at his Thamesside villa of Petersham Lodge , which Soane was commissioned to redecorate and repair. Also in 1781 Philip Yorke gave Soane commissions: at his home, Hamels Park in Hertfordshire , he designed
6320-522: Was not until 1783 that Soane received his first commission for a new country house, Letton Hall in Norfolk. The house was a fairly modest villa but it was a sign that at last Soane's career was taking off and led to other work in East Anglia : Saxlingham Rectory in 1784, Shotesham Hall in 1785, Tendring Hall in 1784–86, and the remodelling of Ryston Hall in 1787. At this early stage in his career Soane
6400-461: Was to extend the law courts along the west front of Westminster Hall providing accommodation for five courts: The Court of Exchequer, Chancery, Equity, King's Bench and Common Pleas. The foundations were laid in October 1822 and the shell of the building completed by February 1824. Then Henry Bankes launched an attack on the design of the building, as a consequence Soane had to demolish the facade and set
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