Cockerell, Samuel Pepys
Cockerell, Samuel Pepys (1753–1827). English architect. A pupil of Sir Robert Taylor, he held several important official posts from 1774. On Taylor's death, he became Surveyor to the Foundling and Pulteney Estates in London: he was also Surveyor to the Victualling Office (from 1791), to the East India Company (from 1806), to the See of Canterbury, and to St Paul's Cathedral (1811–19).
He was responsible for laying out the Bloomsbury Estate for the Governors of the Foundling Hospital, London (from 1790), and developed a large and prosperous practice. His pupils included his son, C. R. Cockerell, Latrobe, Porden, and Tatham. His architecture was eclectic and varied from work of an advanced French Neo-Classical type to the exotic. Tickencote Church, Rut. (1792), incorporating a C12 chancel, is in a harsh Romanesque style, while his Sezincote House, Glos. (c.1805), is a country-house with exotic Hindoo details, the first example of that style in England.
He was responsible for laying out the Bloomsbury Estate for the Governors of the Foundling Hospital, London (from 1790), and developed a large and prosperous practice. His pupils included his son, C. R. Cockerell, Latrobe, Porden, and Tatham. His architecture was eclectic and varied from work of an advanced French Neo-Classical type to the exotic. Tickencote Church, Rut. (1792), incorporating a C12 chancel, is in a harsh Romanesque style, while his Sezincote House, Glos. (c.1805), is a country-house with exotic Hindoo details, the first example of that style in England.
Bibliography
Colvin (1995);
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004);
Summerson (ed.) (1993);
Jane Turner (1996)
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