Henry Cole Building

Captain Fowke, Godfrey Sykes, and others

1856-84

The Victoria and Albert Museum

Cromwell Road, London

Photograph and text by George P. Landow

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According to Jones and Woodward (who date the structure 1863-73), "the Henry Cole Building was first occupied by the School of Naval Architects, then the Science School, followed by the Imperial College of Science" (181) and was originally called the Huxley Building. In this photograph, we look towards at the wall of the inner courtyard, now recently renamed the Perelli Courtyard, in the direction of the museum's main entrance. The hideous top of the main tower, a conglomerate of gothic, renaissance, and baroque revivals, appears above the renaissance-revival façade decorated by James Gamble, Rueben Townroe, and Godfrey Sykes.

References

Jones, Edward, and Christopher Woodward. A Guide to the Architecture of London. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992.

Last modified 18 July 2001