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.
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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...
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William Ramsay
Royal mason. In 1332 designed the Chapter House and Cloister at St Paul's.
Sir John Vanbrugh
Playwright and architect. Born in the parish of St Nicholas Acons, London, of Flemish descent. Worked in the English Baroque style, sometimes with Hawksmoor, on Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace. L...
Leverton arch
Designed in 1800 by Leverton, one of the churchwardens at the time. Originally at the northern entrance on St Giles High Street. Moved in 1865 to its present location on Flitcroft Street.
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George Barret Jr
Water colour painter. Born Orchard Street, in December 1767, the third son of George Barret (1732-1784) and Frances Barret née Percy, about four years after his father's arrival from Dublin. Two b...
J. M. Barrie - W2
W2, Bayswater Road, 100, Leinster Corner
Barrie and his wife Mary Ansell lived at Gloucester Road, 1895 - 1904, when they moved here, where they stayed until their divorce in 190...
William Kent
Painter, architect, and designer of gardens and interior furnishings. Baptised in Yorkshire, on 1 January 1686. Began as a sign and coach painter. While on the Grand Tour he met his chief patron an...
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