Joseph Gwilt
Joseph Gwilt (11 January 1784 – 14 September 1863) was an English architect and writer.
He was the son of
He was educated at
After a visit to Italy in 1816, he published in 1818 Notitia architectonica italiana, or Concise Notices of the Buildings and Architects of Italy. In 1825 he published an edition of Sir William Chambers's Treatise on Civil Architecture; and among his other principal contributions to the literature of his profession are a translation of the Architecture of Vitruvius (1826), a Treatise on the Rudiments of Architecture, Practical and Theoretical (1826), and his valuable Encyclopaedia of Architecture (1842), which was published with additions by Wyatt Papworth in 1867.[1]
In recognition of Gwilt's advocacy of the importance to architects of a knowledge of
His principal works as a practical architect were Markree Castle near Sligo in Ireland, and St Thomas's Church (1849–1850) at Charlton[2] in Kent[1] (today part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich) and the tower of St Thomas, Clapton Common (1829).[3]
Gwilt was also associated (c. 1813–1830) with a flawed and short-lived attempt to rebuild the mediaeval predecessor of today's St Margaret's Church in Lee. When it became clear that the foundations of the old church were incapable of supporting a new building, a new church was commissioned, from another architect, on land nearby.[4]
A portrait of him is part of the permanent collection at the
In his Encyclopaedia of Architecture, he informs us that standing stones predated all other forms of architecture, that the Druids were the world’s first race of civilised people, and that at one time the language and alphabet of the entire ancient world from Ireland to India was the same - that of the Irish Druids.[5]
Writings
- An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical, 1859, OCLC 3620766
References
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Southwark diocese entry for church of St Thomas Archived 2004-11-06 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ History of the Parish Church of St Margaret of Antioch, section 6: History "6 History - the Parish Church of ST MARGARET of ANTIOCH, Lee". Archived from the original on 5 December 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ "An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical : Joseph Gwilt : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
External links
- Free scores by Joseph Gwilt at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gwilt, Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 750.
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