Biography Lewis Nockalls Cottingham

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plaque cottingham @ bury st edmunds.


cottingham born in 1787 @ laxfield in suffolk of respectable family. showed talent science , arts , apprenticed builder @ ipswich. after several years moved london , there placed himself architect , surveyor. commenced professional career in 1814 @ residence near lincoln s inn fields. cottingham s first public appointment architect , surveyor cooks company in 1822. after erected mansion in perpendicular style of gothic architecture john harrison @ snelston hall in derbyshire. in 1825 became architect rochester cathedral


between 1814 , 1822 published several works illustrating medieval english architecture, including set of plans of westminster hall (1822) , larger work on henry vii s chapel. charles locke eastlake described working drawings of gothic ornaments ill-selected , coarse in execution, curious being perhaps first full-size illustrations of mediaeval carving published in form .


cottingham won competition remodel interior of chapel of magdalen college, oxford; work started in july 1829 , lasted @ least 6 years; in course of restoration, great deal of seventeenth , eighteenth century work stripped away.


george truefitt studied cottingham apprentice 1839 1844, after worked briefly 2 other members of profession. calvert vaux became in 1843, articled pupil of cottingham, 1 of elders of english gothic revival, had supervised overzealous restoration of number of important medieval churches. cottingham planned new streets , designed many urban dwellings in waterloo bridge road area on surrey side of london (where built own house); erected banks (the 1 in bury st. edmund s of 1844-1846 admired), hotels, , other commercial buildings; , published book on greek , roman architecture.


he supervised repairs @ hereford cathedral, st albans abbey, , church of


st james @ louth.








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