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See also:GWILT, See also:JOSEPH (1784-1863) , See also:English architect and writer, was the younger son of See also:George Gwilt, architect surveyor to the See also:county of See also:Surrey, and was See also:born at See also:Southwark on the rlth of See also:January 1784. He was educated at St See also:Paul's school, and after a See also:short course of instruction in his See also:father's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was in 1501 admitted a student of the Royal See also:Academy, where in the same See also:year he gained the See also:silver See also:medal for his See also:drawing of the See also:tower and See also:steeple of St See also:Dunstan-in-the-See also:East. In 1811 he published a See also:Treatise on the See also:Equilibrium of See also:Arches, and in 1815 he was elected F.S.A. After a visit to See also:Italy in 1816, he published in 1818 Notitia architectonica italiana, or Concise Notices of the Buildings and Architects of Italy. In 1825 he published an edition of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Chambers's Treatise on See also:Civil See also:Architecture; and among his other See also:principal contributions to the literature of his profession are a See also:translation of the Architecture of See also:Vitruvius (1826), a Treatise on the Rudiments of Architecture, See also:Practical and Theoretical (1826), and his valuable See also:Encyclopaedia of Architecture (1842), which was published with additions by See also:Wyatt Papworth in 1867. In recognition of Gwilt's advocacy of the importance to architects of a knowledge of See also:mathematics, he was in 1833 elected a member of the Royal Astronomical Society. He took a See also:special See also:interest in See also:philology and See also:music, and was the author of Rudiments of the Anglo-Saxon See also:Tongue (1829), and of the See also:article " Music " in the Encyclopaedia metropolitana. His principal See also:works as a practical architect were Markree See also:Castle near See also:Sligo in See also:Ireland, and St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas's See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at Charlton in See also:Kent. He, died on the 14th of See also:September 1863.
End of Article: GWILT, JOSEPH (1784-1863)
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