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    Sydney Smirke RA FGS FSA (20 December 1797 – 8 December 1877) was a British architect. Smirke who was born in London, England as the fifth son of painter...
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    Sir Robert Smirke RA (1 October 1780 – 18 April 1867) was an English architect, one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture, though he also used other...
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  • and antiquary Robert Smirke (painter) Robert Smirke (architect), son of Robert Smirke the painter Sydney Smirke, son of Robert Smirke the painter This page...
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    Room remains in its original form at the British Museum. Designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857, the Reading Room was in continual use until its...
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  • aviator Sydney Skaife (1889–1976), South African entomologist Sydney Smirke (1798–1877), English architect Sydney Smith (1771–1845), English writer Sydney Tafler...
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    British Museum (category Robert Smirke (architect) buildings)
    request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke. Until the mid-19th century, the museum's collections were...
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    II listed building built in 1766, altered and refronted in 1833 by Sydney Smirke. The Malmaison Hotel, a Grade II listed building built in 1900 as a...
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    was the fashion of the time. Later additions to the house built by Sydney Smirke in 1862–65, including the great hall, were largely demolished in 1932...
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    buildings, which were immediately replaced with a design by Robert Smirke, with Sydney Smirke later adding two more buildings. A famous resident of (at the...
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    included Carlo Marochetti, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Tite, Sydney Smirke, James Pennethorne, Matthew Digby Wyatt, Philip C. Hardwick, William...
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    admissions and overcrowding, new buildings, designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, were added from the 1830s. The wing for criminal lunatics was increased...
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    which otherwise will disappear". The "distinguishing dome" was added by Sydney Smirke in 1846 and housed the hospital's chapel. The museum was reopened by...
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  • Irish Sea. The buildings of the mine complex were designed by architect Sydney Smirke to resemble a castle. Little now remains beyond the 'candlestick chimney'...
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    instigation of Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. It was designed by Sydney Smirke, an architect best known today for his work on the circular reading...
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  • 2 Apr 1796 – 8 Jun 1820 Robert Smirke 8 Jun 1820 – 18 Jul 1850 Philip Hardwick 18 Jul 1850 – 25 Mar 1861 Sydney Smirke 25 Mar 1861 – 26 Feb 1874 Edward...
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    Schools, in 1817. His contemporaries at the Royal Academy included Sydney Smirke, with whom he would restore Temple Church, London between 1841 and 1843...
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    Kendall, John Norton, Joseph Paxton, James Pennethorne, Anthony Salvin, Sydney Smirke, Lewis Vulliamy, Matthew Digby Wyatt and Thomas Henry Wyatt. Various...
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    buildings, which were immediately replaced with a design by Robert Smirke, with Sydney Smirke later adding two more buildings. A famous resident of (at the...
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    disguised as a gothic folly. An orangery was built in 1836 to a design by Sydney Smirke. In 1925, following the death of Nathan's grandson Leopold de Rothschild...
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    temporary exhibition space for artworks. Map of public art in Mayfair Sydney Smirke's remodelling of Burlington House for the Royal Academy of Arts in 1872–1873...
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    Albert, Prince Consort, designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke and located south of Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. Originally...
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  • illustrator Robert Smirke and his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1825. Their other children included the architects Sir Robert Smirke and Sydney Smirke, the draughtsman...
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    Powys, Wales. The present church was built in 1845 to a design by Sydney Smirke, as a replacement for a previous church which was built in 1627. It...
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    Henry Abraham, but the chapels were designed by his successor, Sydney Smirke. Smirke, working in collaboration with William Broderick Thomas, was responsible...
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    In 1833–34, the Pantheon was rebuilt as a bazaar by the architect Sydney Smirke. The whole of the roof and part of the walls of the old building were...
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    artist and he spent an unhappy year in the office of the architect Sydney Smirke, who was a family friend. The artist W. P. Frith spoke to Ward's father...
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    More images West Sussex 1830 Grade II listed (1027866). Architect: Sydney Smirke. Shrewsbury Old Guildhall, Shrewsbury More images Shropshire 1696 Grade...
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  • Edward Smirke (1795 – 4 March 1875) was an English lawyer and antiquary. The third son of Robert Smirke, and brother of Sir Robert Smirke, and of Sydney Smirke...
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    his work on Vitruvius; then in around 1839 in London under Sir Sydney Smirke. When Smirke undertook repairs to the fire-damaged York Minster in the early...
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    of architecture in the Royal Academy. In 1874, on the resignation of Sydney Smirke, he was appointed treasurer of the academy. Among his most significant...
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