Charles Robert Cockerell, Edinburgh, Building, Photos, England, Scotland

CR Cockerell, Architect : Architecture Information

19th Century British Architect

C R Cockerell - Key Projects Featured Buildings Key Cockerell building: National Monument Edinburgh with architect Playfair - atop Calton Hill photo © Steven Powell Ashmolean Museum & Taylorian Institute, Oxford, England 1839-42 image from architect Ashmolean Museum Office for the Sun Life Assurance, Threadneedle Street, London, England 1840's, demolished 1970 Cockerell was Architect to the Bank of England from 1833 Bank buildings designed include:- Courtney Street, Plymouth, England 1835 Broad Street, Bristol, England 1844-47 King Street, Manchester, England 1845 Castle Street, Liverpool, England 1851-54 Assize Courts & St George's Hall, Liverpool - completed after death of Elmes

Charles Cockerell - Practice Information

Former English architect

Charles Robert Cockerell RA PRIBA
(1788-1863)

born in London; ARA in 1829, RA in 1836, President of the RIBA in 1860.

Natonal Monument Edinburgh:

picture © Adrian Welch

C. R. Cockerell trained in the London architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Later he worked on the rebuilding of Covent Garden Theatre as assistant to Robert Smirke, followed by an architectural tour of Europe (he discovered reliefs from the Temple of Phigalia, on show in the British Museum).

Charles Cockerell set up his own practice on his return to London in 1817.


photo © Adrian Welch
CR Cockerell : St George's Hall Liverpool



Scottish Architects

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Edinburgh

CR Cockerell Building in England

Squire Law Library
Former Cambridge University Library, 1837-42 - Cambridge Architecture

Charles Robert Cockerell - Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 1848

Architecture Studios

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