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The Late Sir C. Barry, R.A.
for Lord Willoughby , to Drummond Castle ; for a restoration of Drumlanrig Castle , for the Duke of Buccleugh ; ancl for works at Buchan House , for the Duke of Montrose ; for a new residence for the Duke of Northumberland on the site of Northumberland House , and for one for the Duke of Newcastle , at Clumber : there were those for the new Westminster Bridge , ivhich may be regarded as being partially carried out in the works in
now progress ; for the rearrangement ancl enlargement of the British Museum ancl of the National Gallery , Trafalgar-square ; for new Law Courts proposed in Lincoln ' s-inn , wherein Grecian Doric architecture was used ; for the improvement and enlargement of the Horse Guards ; the completion of the Palace at AVestminster , at New Palace-yard , ancl on the site of the . present Law Courts ; and for the Royal Academy ou the site of
Burlington House . His principal reports — exclusive of those , ivhich were numerous , on the construction and decoration of the Palace —related to Westminster Bridge , to the Thames embankment , for _ which he tendered a design as a member of tho commission wliich sat thereon , ancl to the British Museum . His design exhibited at the Eoyal Academy , for the Government Offices , wherein he proposed ( as did his youngest sonin the competition
, , in a different design ) , to treat the offices as one building , of ivhich the present structure in Whitehall should form part , was noticed by us when it appeared ; and our readers are also aware that he prepared designs for the street-improvement of Westminster and parts adjacent , and of the great value of the suggestions which were therein made . It is to bo hoped that some of these designsin the hands of those who survive himancl who have
, , participated in his labours , may yet be turned to public advantage . Of his latest works , the Westminster Palace is hardlyto . be caifed complete ; though all for which designs hacl been approved may be said to be so , save the final coronal or apex to the roof of the Victoria Tower , intended to bear aloft the standard ho did not live to raise . The Halifax Town Hall is but little advanced . The
loss to our art from the severance of his connection with that building is , in the present state of architecture , not the least important part of tbe general loss which has been sustained . We ivere permitted to engrave his design ; but what he would have made of the building , only those who knew his mode of working can form an idea of . We are inclined to think that the termination of the tower would have become different ; at least wc judge so from observations of bis
respecting it . We doubt not the building , called Italian in style , ivould have been a rival to the artwork of the Netherlands ; and it coedd scarcely but have helped to solve questions which are rife , and to remove the impediment to progress ivhich there is by the pursuit of style in place of art . Of what he really did at an important juncture we cannot further speak at the length which the case deserves . Under the
disadvantages of a time when architectural education was supposed to consist only in the observance of ancient models , and practice in the imitation of them ; when such old works in any number were grafted into use , and there was no more regard or general consistency and public appreciation of art ( unless onl y in painting and sculpture ) than there was of a breathing architecture by architects themselves : when aesthetics ancl criticism and the prolific literature of every kind bearing upon architecture , hacl to be created , Charles Barry may have gone to the limit of
discursiveness m the common pursuit of many different styles . The wonder is that he could become equally familiar and equally infuse art into all ; and perhaps by him alone was such infusion thoroughly accomplished . There were , however , evidences in the later period of bis career , that he would have been able to give to the aesthetics of architecture , and the adjustment of any question of art and style , more than he could have derived therefrom . He deliberately proposed the of the ForeiOfficewhilst
, on question gn , reversinothe opinion of one side , and that expected by the other from himself , to erect a building of classical style opposite to the Gothic of the Westminster Palace , ancl said he would not care to object to a Gothic building on the score of the difference , were its position opposite St . Paul ' s Cathedral . Were this the continuation of old opinions and practice , there might have been little to hope for butcombined with wellknown of much
, - disapproval of latter practice , his condemnation of extravagance in colour , and the manner of his more recent designs , or notably the Halifax Town Hall , it appears to be rather a form of assertion of the supremacy of the art-element over style ; whilst had he his course to go over again , it would have been marked by less of the discursivenessand would have gained in art and appreciation b
, y that concentration of effort , with comprehensiveness of stud y , for which all now contend . But we must on another occasion pursue the subject of the influence on our art , of the life ancl works of the
artist-architect—Charles Bany . AVe have supposed our readers informed—if only from the articles in our journal on architecture , at the commencement of tliis century—of many of the circumstances under ivhich his career began , and acquainted with the progress of the work of the Palace at AVestminster . The building , commenced in 1837 as far as the coffer-dam ivas concerned ( the competition having been in 1835 ) was brought so
nearly to completion in 1852 that on February 2 nd , the New House of Commons and all the grand balls and corridors were opened , ancl the Queen alighted for the first time under the great Tower ; and on the llth of the same month , the architect received tlie honom- of knighthood at Windsor Castle . The Houses of Parliament themselves may be considered finishedbut work on the Palace remains to be done . Sir
; Charles ' s wish as to his successor is shown by the circumstance that he has specially bequeathed the whole of the papers , drawings , ancl books relating to the New Palace , to his younger son , Mr . Edward M . Barry , he having been especially connected with him in carrying out the work . Sir Charles Barry was a member of the following societies and institutes : —The Royal Academy of Artsthe Royal Societythe
, , Institute of British Architects , and the Society of Arts ; and ot the foreign academics of Rome ( the San Luca ) , of Stockholm , Antwerp , Belgium , Prussia , Russia , and Denmark , and of the American Institute of Architects . He received the Royal Gold Medal of the Institute of British Architects , and tbe Grand Medal of Honour of the French Exhibition , which exhibition he visited in a public capacity ; and he received a diamond snuff
box , with cipher in brilliants , from the Emperor Nicholas of Russia ; further , he ivas a member of the Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 . It was iu the first instance arranged that the remains of Sir Charles Bany should have been buried privately in the cemetery at Norwood but it was felt by some members of the profession that a more eminent resting place and a more public demonstration
ivere deserved and desirable . Mr . Cockerell ancl Professor Donaldson , therefore , with the concurrence of the family , went to the Dean of AVestminster , and in the name of the Institute requested that the body of Sir Charles might be buried in the Abbe } ' . This request ivas granted most readily , as we understand . The Dean of St . Paul ' s , likewise , expressed a willingness to permit the interment of the remains in the cathedral , side by side with
those of AVren ; but a wish often expressed by Barry , tbe probability that he was born in the parish , and the neighbourhood of his greatest work , fixed Westminster Abbey as the proper place . AA e have but few words to add . The circumstances of his death were very terrible . He died in a quarter of an hour after he was taken ill . The cause was disease of the heartacted bcongestion of the lungs . He
, upon y expired in Lady Barry ' s arms , between eleven and twelve , r . Jr ., and before the doctor , who had been sent for , could arrive . AA o could say much of the love he bore his family—the love they , united and happy , felt for him , and the sorrow into ivhich his loss has plunged them ; but this ivould take us beyond our province . Let it comfort them to know that this grief is shared far and wide , ancl most by those who knew him best .
On Tuesday afternoon the mortal remains of Sir Charles Barry were deposited in a grave in the nave of Westminster Abbey . The grave is near to that of Robert Stephenson , and admission was given by tickets issued by the Society of British Architects , and taking them as a whole , the arrangements were exceedingly well made . At a few minutes past one the funeral cortege arrived , and a
procession was formed at the cloister door through which the body was to be brought . It consisted of the high bailiff of AVestminster , who led tlie way ; the bedesmen of the Abbey ; the Rev . S . F . Jones , M . A ., Incumbent of St . Matthew ' s , Spring-garden , and Minor Canon of AVestminster ; the Rev . C . M . Arnold , M . A ., Minor Canon ; the Eev . J . C . Haden , the Precentor ; the Rev . J . Lupton , M . A ., Rector of Queenhithe , and Minor Canon of AVest-Archdeacon Bentinckthe Lord
minster ; the Venerable ; Eev . John Thymic , Sub-dean ; the Rev . Canon Jennings , and the Very Rev . the Dean . Then followed the coffin . Sir Charles Eastlake ; Mr . G . P . Bidder , P . I . C . E . ; Mr . A . J . Beresford Hope , M . P . ; Mr . C . R . Cockerell , E . A ., President of Royal Institution of British Architects ; Right Hon . AV Cowper , M . P . ; Lieut .-Gen . the Hon . C . Gist ; the Very Eev . Dean of St . Paul ' s ; Mr . Tite , M . F ., F . R . S . The family of the deceased , consisting of his five sons , were the chief mourners . A vast array of gentlemen , private and professional friends of
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The Late Sir C. Barry, R.A.
for Lord Willoughby , to Drummond Castle ; for a restoration of Drumlanrig Castle , for the Duke of Buccleugh ; ancl for works at Buchan House , for the Duke of Montrose ; for a new residence for the Duke of Northumberland on the site of Northumberland House , and for one for the Duke of Newcastle , at Clumber : there were those for the new Westminster Bridge , ivhich may be regarded as being partially carried out in the works in
now progress ; for the rearrangement ancl enlargement of the British Museum ancl of the National Gallery , Trafalgar-square ; for new Law Courts proposed in Lincoln ' s-inn , wherein Grecian Doric architecture was used ; for the improvement and enlargement of the Horse Guards ; the completion of the Palace at AVestminster , at New Palace-yard , ancl on the site of the . present Law Courts ; and for the Royal Academy ou the site of
Burlington House . His principal reports — exclusive of those , ivhich were numerous , on the construction and decoration of the Palace —related to Westminster Bridge , to the Thames embankment , for _ which he tendered a design as a member of tho commission wliich sat thereon , ancl to the British Museum . His design exhibited at the Eoyal Academy , for the Government Offices , wherein he proposed ( as did his youngest sonin the competition
, , in a different design ) , to treat the offices as one building , of ivhich the present structure in Whitehall should form part , was noticed by us when it appeared ; and our readers are also aware that he prepared designs for the street-improvement of Westminster and parts adjacent , and of the great value of the suggestions which were therein made . It is to bo hoped that some of these designsin the hands of those who survive himancl who have
, , participated in his labours , may yet be turned to public advantage . Of his latest works , the Westminster Palace is hardlyto . be caifed complete ; though all for which designs hacl been approved may be said to be so , save the final coronal or apex to the roof of the Victoria Tower , intended to bear aloft the standard ho did not live to raise . The Halifax Town Hall is but little advanced . The
loss to our art from the severance of his connection with that building is , in the present state of architecture , not the least important part of tbe general loss which has been sustained . We ivere permitted to engrave his design ; but what he would have made of the building , only those who knew his mode of working can form an idea of . We are inclined to think that the termination of the tower would have become different ; at least wc judge so from observations of bis
respecting it . We doubt not the building , called Italian in style , ivould have been a rival to the artwork of the Netherlands ; and it coedd scarcely but have helped to solve questions which are rife , and to remove the impediment to progress ivhich there is by the pursuit of style in place of art . Of what he really did at an important juncture we cannot further speak at the length which the case deserves . Under the
disadvantages of a time when architectural education was supposed to consist only in the observance of ancient models , and practice in the imitation of them ; when such old works in any number were grafted into use , and there was no more regard or general consistency and public appreciation of art ( unless onl y in painting and sculpture ) than there was of a breathing architecture by architects themselves : when aesthetics ancl criticism and the prolific literature of every kind bearing upon architecture , hacl to be created , Charles Barry may have gone to the limit of
discursiveness m the common pursuit of many different styles . The wonder is that he could become equally familiar and equally infuse art into all ; and perhaps by him alone was such infusion thoroughly accomplished . There were , however , evidences in the later period of bis career , that he would have been able to give to the aesthetics of architecture , and the adjustment of any question of art and style , more than he could have derived therefrom . He deliberately proposed the of the ForeiOfficewhilst
, on question gn , reversinothe opinion of one side , and that expected by the other from himself , to erect a building of classical style opposite to the Gothic of the Westminster Palace , ancl said he would not care to object to a Gothic building on the score of the difference , were its position opposite St . Paul ' s Cathedral . Were this the continuation of old opinions and practice , there might have been little to hope for butcombined with wellknown of much
, - disapproval of latter practice , his condemnation of extravagance in colour , and the manner of his more recent designs , or notably the Halifax Town Hall , it appears to be rather a form of assertion of the supremacy of the art-element over style ; whilst had he his course to go over again , it would have been marked by less of the discursivenessand would have gained in art and appreciation b
, y that concentration of effort , with comprehensiveness of stud y , for which all now contend . But we must on another occasion pursue the subject of the influence on our art , of the life ancl works of the
artist-architect—Charles Bany . AVe have supposed our readers informed—if only from the articles in our journal on architecture , at the commencement of tliis century—of many of the circumstances under ivhich his career began , and acquainted with the progress of the work of the Palace at AVestminster . The building , commenced in 1837 as far as the coffer-dam ivas concerned ( the competition having been in 1835 ) was brought so
nearly to completion in 1852 that on February 2 nd , the New House of Commons and all the grand balls and corridors were opened , ancl the Queen alighted for the first time under the great Tower ; and on the llth of the same month , the architect received tlie honom- of knighthood at Windsor Castle . The Houses of Parliament themselves may be considered finishedbut work on the Palace remains to be done . Sir
; Charles ' s wish as to his successor is shown by the circumstance that he has specially bequeathed the whole of the papers , drawings , ancl books relating to the New Palace , to his younger son , Mr . Edward M . Barry , he having been especially connected with him in carrying out the work . Sir Charles Barry was a member of the following societies and institutes : —The Royal Academy of Artsthe Royal Societythe
, , Institute of British Architects , and the Society of Arts ; and ot the foreign academics of Rome ( the San Luca ) , of Stockholm , Antwerp , Belgium , Prussia , Russia , and Denmark , and of the American Institute of Architects . He received the Royal Gold Medal of the Institute of British Architects , and tbe Grand Medal of Honour of the French Exhibition , which exhibition he visited in a public capacity ; and he received a diamond snuff
box , with cipher in brilliants , from the Emperor Nicholas of Russia ; further , he ivas a member of the Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 . It was iu the first instance arranged that the remains of Sir Charles Bany should have been buried privately in the cemetery at Norwood but it was felt by some members of the profession that a more eminent resting place and a more public demonstration
ivere deserved and desirable . Mr . Cockerell ancl Professor Donaldson , therefore , with the concurrence of the family , went to the Dean of AVestminster , and in the name of the Institute requested that the body of Sir Charles might be buried in the Abbe } ' . This request ivas granted most readily , as we understand . The Dean of St . Paul ' s , likewise , expressed a willingness to permit the interment of the remains in the cathedral , side by side with
those of AVren ; but a wish often expressed by Barry , tbe probability that he was born in the parish , and the neighbourhood of his greatest work , fixed Westminster Abbey as the proper place . AA e have but few words to add . The circumstances of his death were very terrible . He died in a quarter of an hour after he was taken ill . The cause was disease of the heartacted bcongestion of the lungs . He
, upon y expired in Lady Barry ' s arms , between eleven and twelve , r . Jr ., and before the doctor , who had been sent for , could arrive . AA o could say much of the love he bore his family—the love they , united and happy , felt for him , and the sorrow into ivhich his loss has plunged them ; but this ivould take us beyond our province . Let it comfort them to know that this grief is shared far and wide , ancl most by those who knew him best .
On Tuesday afternoon the mortal remains of Sir Charles Barry were deposited in a grave in the nave of Westminster Abbey . The grave is near to that of Robert Stephenson , and admission was given by tickets issued by the Society of British Architects , and taking them as a whole , the arrangements were exceedingly well made . At a few minutes past one the funeral cortege arrived , and a
procession was formed at the cloister door through which the body was to be brought . It consisted of the high bailiff of AVestminster , who led tlie way ; the bedesmen of the Abbey ; the Rev . S . F . Jones , M . A ., Incumbent of St . Matthew ' s , Spring-garden , and Minor Canon of AVestminster ; the Rev . C . M . Arnold , M . A ., Minor Canon ; the Eev . J . C . Haden , the Precentor ; the Rev . J . Lupton , M . A ., Rector of Queenhithe , and Minor Canon of AVest-Archdeacon Bentinckthe Lord
minster ; the Venerable ; Eev . John Thymic , Sub-dean ; the Rev . Canon Jennings , and the Very Rev . the Dean . Then followed the coffin . Sir Charles Eastlake ; Mr . G . P . Bidder , P . I . C . E . ; Mr . A . J . Beresford Hope , M . P . ; Mr . C . R . Cockerell , E . A ., President of Royal Institution of British Architects ; Right Hon . AV Cowper , M . P . ; Lieut .-Gen . the Hon . C . Gist ; the Very Eev . Dean of St . Paul ' s ; Mr . Tite , M . F ., F . R . S . The family of the deceased , consisting of his five sons , were the chief mourners . A vast array of gentlemen , private and professional friends of