From Anatpro: English architect mostly associated with philanthropic schemes, including the Gothic Columbia Market (1866) and the Gothic working-class housing-scheme at Columbia Square (1857–60), both in Bethnal Green, London, financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts ... but both demolished. For the same client he designed the Picturesque Gothic Holly Village, Highgate, London (1865), a group of modest houses round a green, influenced no doubt by Nash's Blaise Hamlet, Som. Darbishire produced a standard design for five-storey apartment-blocks (the planning of which was derived from Henry Roberts's pioneering schemes of the 1850s) for the Peabody Trust (set up in 1862 to ameliorate the condition of the London poor). Many of these Italianate blocks survive in London.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Henry Astley Darbishire
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Burdett-Coutts - Victoria Park - fountain
This extravaganza in Victorian gothic with Moorish touches was designed by Da...
Frances Whiting memorial fountain
This figure represents the woman of Samaria (a Samaritan) at the well, from S...
Other Subjects
William Flockhart
Architect. Born in Kilmarnock. He specialised in designing country houses, including Pasturewood in Surrey, Parkwood in Berkshire and Chelwood Vachery in Sussex.
T. B. Whinney
Architect based in London who became the chief architect of the Midland Bank. Full name Thomas Bostock Whinney. Other work in London includes the Midland Bank in Golders Green Road.
Sir John Soane, R.A. F.R.S.
Architect and collector. Born in Goring-on-Thames, son of a bricklayer. Architect of the Bank of England, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, St. John’s, Bethnal Green and his own tomb. He also rebuilt mu...
Samuel William Iron
Architect active in 1877. We can find no information about him, which is unusual for architects.
Grapes Tavern
First mentioned in 1842. It occupies the site of the former Christopher Inn. On its northern side it still retains the red brick fronts of several 18th century houses. It has since returned to its ...