Person    | Male  Born 1817  Died 1886

George Vulliamy

Categories: Architecture

George Vulliamy

Architect and civil engineer. George John Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy and nephew to the architect Lewis Vulliamy. Designed the charming and inventive ironwork along the embankment: the dolphin (more correctly, sturgeon) lamp posts; the camel or sphinx or swan benches.

He also designed Southwark Park, opened in 1869.

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George Vulliamy

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Cleopatra's needle

Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, th...

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Queen's Gate WW1 memorial

Queen's Gate WW1 memorial

SW7, Queen's Gate, St Augustine’s Church

Designed by William Butterfield in 1865, this church is considered one of his best works.

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