William Wilkins (architect)
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William Wilkins was an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist. He designed the National Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge and University College London, and buildings for several Cam
The Grange, Northington
Trafalgar Square in 1852
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Wilkins is buried in the chapel at centre.
National Gallery, London
Nelson's Pillar
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Nelson's Pillar was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio Nelson, built in the centre of what was then Sackville Street in Dublin, Ireland. Completed in 1809 when Ireland was part of th
William Wilkins (architect)
…St. Paul's Church, George Street, Nottingham 1822 and the Yorkshire Museum (1830). He was responsible for two columns commemorating Admiral Nelson, Nelson's Pillar in Dublin and the Britannia Monument in Great Yarmouth. Both predate William Railton's design for Trafalgar Square. He also produced buildings in the…
Nelson's Pillar, c. 1830
William Blakeney, whose Sackville Street statue preceded Nelson's
Nelson's death aboard HMS Victory. Painting by Denis Dighton, c. 1825
Lower Sackville Street and the Pillar depicted by William Henry Bartlett in the early 1840s, around the time of Thackeray's visit