Charles Barry
English
Architect - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Son: Edward M Barry
Architect - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1795/05/23 | Frances Maybank Barry, wife Walter Edward Barry, gives birth to a son, Charles Barry, in Bridge Street, Westminster (opposite the future site of Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster). He will be baptised at St Margaret's, Westminster. | Born | |||||
| 1795/06/00 | Charles Barry is baptised into the Church of England at St Margaret's, Westminster. | Faith | Church Of St Margaret, Westminster | London | |||
| 1836/02/00 | Charles Hanbury-Tracy's Royal Commission awards Charles Barry the contract to design a Gothic-style palace. Barry receives a prize of 1500 pounds. | Architect | Palace of Westminster | London | |||
| 1836/03/00 | Charles Barry designs St Stephen's Hall, the wide passageway from Westminster Hall to the Central Lobby of his new Palace, on exactly the same footprint as the old House of Commons. | Architect | St Stephen's Hall and Cloister | Palace of Westminster | |||
| 1854/00/00 | Turret originally built as part of the parapet of the Houses of Parliament, constructed 1840-54 | Architect | Turret From Houses Of Parliament | Clitheroe Castle | |||
| 1855/00/00 | Shrubland Hall is remodeled 1849-55 by Sir Charles Barry for Sir William Fowle Fowle Middleton, Bart. | Architect | Shrubland Hall | Shrubland Park | |||
| 1855/00/00 | Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates to Black Rod Garden are erected, 1850-1860 by Sir Charles Barry and A W N Pugin, part of the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster. Magnesian limestone, Gothic-Tudor domestic. Small octagonal lodge with pointed arched door | Architect | Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates To Black Rod Garden | Palace of Westminster | |||
| 1860/05/12 | At The Elms, his home in Clapham Common, Barry suffers a heart attack, experiencing difficulty breathing and pain. He will die shortly after. | Died | |||||
| 1860/05/22 | The funeral cortege for Charles Barry begins at Vauxhall Bridge. Pall-bearers: Charles Eastlake, William Cowper-Temple, George Parker Bidder, Edward Cust, Alexander Beresford Hope, Henry Hart Milman, Charles Robert Cockerell and Sir William Tite | In Memoriam | Vauxhall Bridge | London | |||
| 1860/05/22 | During a funeral service led by the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Richard Chenevix Trench, Charles Barry, the Architect of the New Palace of Westminster, is laid to rest at Westminster Abbey. | In Memoriam | Westminster Abbey, London | London |
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