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Alfred Waterhouse RA PPRIBA (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well.
Jul 19, 1998 · Alfred Waterhouse (born July 19, 1830, Liverpool, Eng.—died Sept. 22, 1905, Yattendon, Berkshire) was an English architect who worked in the style of High Victorian medieval eclecticism. He is remembered principally for his elaborately planned complexes of educational and civic buildings.
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This is a list of the more notable civic and public buildings designed by Waterhouse, and includes such structures as town halls, clock towers, hospitals, a prison, hotels, a market hall, a museum, and a library.
NameLocationPhotographDateAssize Courts1859–65Won in a competition, this was ...Darlington, County Durham 54°31′29″N ...1863A two-storey five bay building with a ...Darlington, County Durham 54°31′28″N ...1863–64A two-storey building in brick with a ...Darlington, County Durham 54°31′30″N ...1864A seven-stage tower in brick with stone ...Find out about Alfred Waterhouse and how he came to design the Natural History Museum building in London. See a selection of his extraordinary terracotta designs. From imposing gargoyles to delicate interior detail, every element of his design pays homage to the natural world.
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Alfred Waterhouse was born in Aigburth, Liverpool, the eldest of the large family of a cotton broker and his wife, both Quakers. A northerner by birth, he was to have his first big success in the north, with his 1859 design for the Manchester Assize Courts, and to design his "High Victorian secular masterpiece" there nearly ten years later â Manc...
The young architect had only been in practice four years before winning the competition for the Manchester courts, but the 1912 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography finds here, already, his "ability to see almost intuitively yet accurately the inherent possibilities of a site, and the proper disposition of the building to be placed on it...
Ruskin, of whom Waterhouse had been an early admirer (Cunningham and Waterhouse 189), had good things to say about the Manchester Assize Courts. Indeed, Kenneth Clark believed that this was the only Gothic Revival building Ruskin praised after 1860, when he called it "much beyond anything yet done in England on my principles" (qtd. in Clark 193). B...
Clark, Kenneth. The Gothic Revival. 1928. London: Penguin (Pelican), 1964. Print. Cunningham, Colin. "Waterhouse, Alfred (1830-1905)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Web. 3 March 2012. Cunningham, Colin, and Prudence Waterhouse. Alfred Waterhouse, 1830-1905: Biography of a Practice. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Print. Curl, James S...
Alfred Waterhouse was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1861 and was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (PRIBA) from 1888 to 1891. In 1878 he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
Alfred Waterhouse RA PPRIBA (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well.
