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词条 Thomas Allom
释义

  1. Architect

  2. Topographical illustrator

  3. Final works

  4. Notable buildings

  5. Gallery

  6. References

  7. Further reading

  8. External links

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Thomas Allom (13 March 1804 – 21 October 1872) was an English architect, artist, and topographical illustrator. He was a founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).[1] He designed many buildings in London, including the Church of St Peter's and parts of the elegant Ladbroke Estate in Notting Hill. He also worked with Sir Charles Barry on numerous projects, most notably the Houses of Parliament, and is also known for his numerous topographical works, such as Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, published in 1838, and China Illustrated, published in 1845.

Architect

He was born in Lambeth, south London, the son of a coachman from Suffolk. In 1819, he was apprenticed to architect Francis Goodwin for whom he worked until 1826. He then studied at the Royal Academy School. His designs for churches shown at exhibitions in 1824 and 1827 aroused considerable interest.

From 1834 to 1843, he worked in partnership with Henry Francis Lockwood in Hull, where they designed a number of Neo-classical buildings, such as Hull Trinity House (1839), extensions to Hull Royal Infirmary (1840) and Great Thornton Street Church (1843); the pair also designed the expansion of the Brownlow Hill workhouse in Liverpool (1842-1843).[3]

Allom later designed many buildings in London, including a workhouse in Marloes Road, Kensington (1847), the Church of Christ in Highbury in 1850, the Church of St Peter's in Notting Hill in 1856, and parts of the Ladbroke Estate in west London. Further afield his works included workhouses at Calne, Wiltshire (1847) and in Liverpool, design of the William Brown Library also in Liverpool, (1857–1860), and the tower of St. Leodegarius Church, Basford near Nottingham (1860). He also worked with Sir Charles Barry on numerous projects, including the Houses of Parliament and the remodelling of Highclere Castle.

Topographical illustrator

However, Allom is chiefly known for his numerous topographical works, which were used to illustrate books on travel. From the 1820s onwards, he travelled extensively through the UK and mainland Europe. In 1834 he arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, and produced hundreds of drawings during journeys through Anatolia, Syria and Palestine. The results of this expedition were published in 1838 in Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor published in two volumes with text by Robert Walsh. Emily Reeve's Character and Costume in Turkey and Italy, published in London in 1840, was also illustrated with engravings by Allom. He is also remembered for numerous illustrations of China, published in China Illustrated in 1845. He also provided illustrations for "Family Secrets" by Mrs Ellis (1841) and E W Brayley's "A topographical history of Surrey" (1850).

Final works

Allom, who lived at 1 Barnes Villas (now 80 Lonsdale Road), Barnes,[4] suffered from a heart condition in his later years, and although he only retired in 1870, his artistic and architectural output slowed during the 1860s. In 1868 he designed Holy Trinity Barnes (in south west London), his local church to which he contributed £50 towards the cost of its construction. In 1865 was commissioned to design a mausoleum for former MP George Dodd in West Norwood Cemetery (George Dodd, who died on 15 December 1864, was one of the Gentlemen of Her Majesty's privy chamber from 1844, and MP for Maidstone from 29 June 1841 to May 1853[5]).

Allom died aged 68 in Barnes, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.[6]

Notable buildings

  • St Peter's Notting Hill[7]
  • St. Leodegarius Church, Basford

Gallery

References

1. ^Biography (Sphinx Fine Art).
2. ^ 
3. ^{{cite web|title=Liverpool, Lancashire|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Liverpool/|website=The Workhouse: the story of an institution|accessdate=21 March 2017}}
4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.barnes-history.org.uk/architects.pdf | title=Local architects | publisher=Barnes and Mortlake History Society | accessdate=30 March 2013}}
5. ^Friends of West Norwood Cemetery {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225102/http://www.fownc.org/newsletters/no49.shtml |date=27 September 2007 }}
6. ^Friends of Kensal Green cemetery Retrieved 20 July 2018
7. ^Barbara Denny, Notting Hill and Holland Park Past, Historical Publications, 1993. {{ISBN|0-948667-18-4}}
Attribution
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Further reading

  • Brooks, Diana. Thomas Allom (British Architectural Library, 1998).

External links

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  • Thoms Allom online (ArtCyclopedia), Retrieved 11 July 2010
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100616124548/http://www.atamanhotel.com/thomas-allom.html Thomas Allom's Istanbul], Retrieved 11 July 2010
  • The entrance of the Golden Horn (watercolour – Christie's), Retrieved 11 July 2010
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