Architect – Sir Charles Barry – Part 1, 1820 to 1837
Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) was a British architect. From 1817 to 1820 he did the Grand Tour of the Mediterranean and Middle East. Then he visited France, Italy. There he met Charles Lock Eastlake, William Kinnaird, Francis Johnson and Thomas Leverton Donaldson, with them he visited Greece and Turkey. He apprenticed with Middleton & Balley, Lambert architects. Barry favoured the Italianate architecture and designed many country houses, city mansions, and public buildings in that style. Around these mansions he would often design Italian Renaissance gardens.
Soughton Hall (remodelling) – 1820
Flintshire, Wales
All Saints Church – 1821
Whitefield, Manchester, England
Saint Peter’s Church – 1824
Chichester, England
Royal Sussex County Hospital – 1828
Brighton, England
The Pepper Pot – 1830
Brighton, England
Travellers Club – 1830
London, England
Horsley Towers – 1834
Surrey, England
Kingston Lacy – 1835
Dorset, England
Manchester Athenaeum – 1837
Manchester, England
Reform Club – 1837
London, England
Upper Brook Street Chapel – 1837
Manchester, England