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 © 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

Key Buildings
Key Cockerell building: National Monument Edinburgh with architect Playfair - atop Calton Hill

Ashmolean Museum & Taylorian Institute (1839-42), Oxford.
Office for the Sun Life Assurance in Threadneedle Street, London (1840's, demolished 1970).

Cockerell was Architect to the Bank of England from 1833: Bank buildings designed include:-
Courtney Street, Plymouth (1835)
Broad Street, Bristol (1844-7)
King Street, Manchester (1845)
Castle Street, Liverpool (1851-4).
Assize Courts & St George's Hall, Liverpool (completed after death of Elmes).

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CR Cockerell Building in England:
Squire Law Library
Former Cambridge University Library, 1837-42 - Cambridge Architecture



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