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

CR Cockerell, Architect : Architecture Information

19th Century British Architect



Key Projects

Featured Buildings

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

Ashmolean Museum & Taylorian Institute, Oxford, England
1839-42
Ashmolean Museum Oxford
image from the 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





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.

CR Cockerell, Architect
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.

St George's Hall Liverpool
photo © adrian welch
CR Cockerell : St George's Hall Liverpool

Scottish Architects

Scottish Architecture: best scottish buildings of the last three decades

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

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