Person    | Male  Born 3/8/1803  Died 8/6/1865

Sir Joseph Paxton

Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. The Crystal Palace Company gave him, free of rent, Rockhills, a Regency house to the north of the Crystal Palace. He lived at Rockhills from 1853 until his death there.

IanVisits has a fascinating post about a scheme proposed by Paxton: the Great Victorian Way — a railway that would have run for 10 miles around central London.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Joseph Paxton

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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert

Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...

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Great Exhibition - Hyde Park - entrance

Building designed by: Joseph Paxton First large scale prefabricated glass and...

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Paxton’s house ‘Rockhills'

On this site stood Rockhills, the home of Sir Joseph Paxton MP, 1852 - 1865, ...

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Sir Joseph Paxton - giant bust

The Carrera marble bust is 8ft high.

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Manuel Nunes Castello

Manuel Nunes Castello

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Person, Architecture

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Kennington Palace

Kennington Palace

Royal Palace. Records of the time indicate that Edward the Black Prince was building at Kennington from the early 1340s until about 1350. Between 1353 and 1363 further work took place and some of t...

Building, Architecture

1 memorial
Studio Weave

Studio Weave

A London-based idiosyncratic architecture practice.  The picture we have used is from their page about the Aldgate project.

Group, Architecture, Art

1 memorial
Essex Street, House & grounds

Essex Street, House & grounds

The site now covered by Essex Street and Devereux Court was once Essex House and grounds, named after Robert, Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth's favourite, who also led a rebellion against her which ...

Place, Architecture, Property

1 memorial