Charles Robert Cockerell - Notable Buildings

British architect, the son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell. He travelled in the Levant and Italy (1810–17), was professor of architecture in the Royal Academy (1840–57), and designed the Taylorian Institute at Oxford and the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge.

As an archaeologist, Cockerell is remembered for discovering the reliefs from the temple of Apollo at Bassae, near Phigalia, which are now in the British Museum. Replicas of these reliefs were included in the frieze of the library of the Travellers Club, of which Charles Robert Cockerell was a founding committee member in 1819.

With Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Cockerell was also a member of the committee formed in 1836 to determine whether the Elgin Marbles and other Greek statuary in the British Museum had originally been coloured (see Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1842).

Notable Buildings

1822-1827 - The Saint David's Building, University of Wales, Lampeter. 1824-1829 - The National Monument, Edinburgh. 1835 - The Bank of England, Courtney Street, Plymouth. 1838 - London & 1839-1845 - The Ashmolean Museum and Taylor Institution, Oxford University. 1844-1847 - The Bank of England, Broad Street, Bristol. 1845 - The Bank of England, King Street, Manchester. 1845-1848 - Bank of England, Liverpool. 1848 - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University. 1851-1854 - The Bank of England, Castle Street, Liverpool. 1854 - St. George’s Hall, Liverpool.