Английская Википедия:George Wightwick

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George Wightwick (26 August 1802 – 9 July 1872) was a British architect based in Plymouth, and possibly the first architectural journalist.[1][2]

In addition to his architectural practice, he developed his skills and the market for architectural journalism. His views of church design disagreed with those of churchmen with power to commission new churches and this work dropped off after he published his ideas in Weale's Quarterly papers on Architecture in 1844/5. He married twice but had no children and died at Portishead on 9 July 1872.

Life and work

Early years

Wightwick was born in Alyn Bank, near Mold, Flintshire, Wales and trained in London under Edward Lapidge.[3] Following a year of travel and study in Italy, he published Select Views of Roman Antiquities (1828) .

Plymouth

In the late 1820s, Wightwick moved to Plymouth,[4] and worked with John Foulston,[5] succeeding to Foulston's practice after six months. From then until 1852, when he retired to Bristol, he completed many public and domestic buildings, mostly in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall.Шаблон:Cn

Wightwick, who was a member of The Plymouth Institution (now The Plymouth Athenaeum),[6] was well known in Plymouth as an architect and as an amateur actor and comedian.[4][7]

He completed designs by Foulston for Bodmin County Lunatic Asylum[8][9][10] and designed the Plymouth Mechanics' Institute,[11] Athenaeum Terrace, the Esplanade, the Devon and Cornwall Female Orphan Asylum[4][12] and the Post Office at Devonport.

In Devon, he designed Calverleigh Court, and Watermouth Castle, near Ilfracombe.[13]

Work in Cornwall

Among the buildings that he designed in Cornwall were Luxtowe House in Liskeard, Trevarno near Helston,[14][15] Penquite Manor at Golant, Compass Point storm tower near Bude,[16] and alterations to Tregrehan House at St Blazey.

In The Buildings of England: Cornwall,[17] Nikolaus Pevsner identifies as Wightwick's work St Michael and All Angels, Bude (1835),[18] St Mary's at Portreath (1841) (which he calls "rather depressing")[19] Probus Vicarage (1839),[20] St Luke's, Tideford (1845),[21] and Tregrehan House near St Blazey ("Late Georgian ... of granite, seven bays, with lower projecting wings and a one-storeyed colonnade of piers of Ionic columns across five bays of the front"),[22] and St John's, Treslothan (1841).[23][24]

Файл:Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (2007).jpg
View of the RCPS building designed by George Wightwick

Raymond L. Brett[25] has identified Wightwick as the architect of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society building in Falmouth.[26]

Networking

The ODNB articles relate how Wightwick used his social networking skills to develop his practice. An example of this is his relationship with the Fox family of Falmouth, as described by siblings Barclay and Caroline, who both kept journals which were published in the 1970s.[27] Barclay Fox notes the brilliant lecture that Wightwick gave at the Polytechnic: "The Romance of Architecture" (entry: 3 October 1838); their companionship at the meeting of the British Association in Plymouth (entry: 29 July 1841); and his visit to the new Bodmin Lunatic Asylum with Wightwick (the architect) (entry: 23 August 1841). Caroline Fox describes Wightwick's witty tabletalk, when he dined at Penjerrick, the Fox family home (entries: 6 April 1839 and 25 October 1839); her attendance at a lecture he gave (entry: 18 January 1849); and news that he would move to Clifton (entry: 27 June 1851). Through this long period, Wightwick kept contact with this family of "opinion-formers" and powerful social networkers.

Writings

His first work was Select Views of Roman Antiquities (1828). After his retirement from architectural practice, he continued his writing about architecture, both in the Bristol papers and the national professional press.

Books by "George Wightwick, Architect" held by the British Library (British Library Integrated catalogue search 11 June 2006)

  • Nettleton’s Guide to Plymouth ... and to the neighbouring country, etc. (1836).
  • Hints to Young Architects: comprising advice to those who are destined to follow the profession (1846, with new editions in 1847, 1860, 1875 and 1880).[28]
  • The Palace of Architecture: a romance of art and history' [With plates.] (1840).[29]
  • Richard the First, a romantik play in five acts [in verse, with occasional scenes in prose] (1848).
  • Henry the Second: a tragedy in five acts [in verse] (1851).

References

  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite ODNB
  2. ↑ The surname "Wightwick" is pronounced "/Whit-ick".
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  4. ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 Шаблон:Cite web
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  8. ↑ Bodmin workhouse, later St Lawrence's Hospital (Illustration) (Peter Higginbotham's Workhouse website - accessed 16 Oct 2007) Шаблон:Webarchive
  9. ↑ Middlesex University index of County Asylums. Accessed 16 Oct 2007 Шаблон:Webarchive
  10. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  11. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  12. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  13. ↑ The Courtney Library in the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro has an index card referring to "Architectural work of George Wightwick in Plymouth and the County of Devon" in Transactions of the Devonshire Society (1996) Volume 128, pp 121-138
  14. ↑ Trevarno House website
  15. ↑ Trevarno House website. Accessed 16 October 2007. Шаблон:Webarchive
  16. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  17. ↑ Buildings of England: Cornwall by Nikolaus Pevsner, 2nd edition revised by Enid Radcliffe; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970; Шаблон:ISBN (cited as "Pevsner: Cornwall")
  18. ↑ Pevsner:Cornwall p. 47 see Bude.co.uk webpage on St Michael's church. Accessed 16 Oct 2007 Шаблон:Webarchive
  19. ↑ Pevsner:Cornwall Page 145 (demolished) see St Mary, Portreath webpage - includes picture of building, now demolished. Accessed 16 October 2007 Шаблон:Webarchive
  20. ↑ Pevsner:Cornwall pg. 147
  21. ↑ Pevsner: Cornwall pg. 219: see St Germans webpage on St Luke's Parish church. Accessed 16 October 2007.
  22. ↑ Pevsner:Cornwall pg. 224 see Tregrehan House garden webpage. Accessed 16 Oct 2007 Шаблон:Webarchive
  23. ↑ Pevsner:Cornwall pg. 228 see Caerkrief webpage on St. Johns, Trelothan. Accessed 16 October 2007.
  24. ↑ Extract from the West Briton, 5 August 1842 at the time of the consecration of Treslothan Church.
  25. ↑ Barclay Fox's journal; edited by Raymond L. Brett; London : Bell and Hyman, 1979 Шаблон:ISBN and Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Littlefield Шаблон:ISBN. Note to p. 105.
  26. ↑ see also: "Architectural work of George Wightwick in the County of Cornwall" by Rosamund Reid in Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (Шаблон:ISSN) Series II, Volume 3, Part 2, pp 74-91 (1999)
  27. ↑ Barclay's journal cited above, The Journals of Caroline Fox, 1835–1871: a selection, ed. Wendy Monk; London, Paul Elek, (1972) Шаблон:ISBN
  28. ↑ The second American edition (1851) is available online at Internet Archive.
  29. ↑ Palace of Architecture, reviewed in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1840 pp.627 - 630. on GoogleBooks

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