User:Ephebi
User:Ephebi
Interests: Victoriana, Middle East history, Industrial archaeology, Building, Civil engineering and historic civil engineers, South London, Biographies relating to West Norwood Cemetery. I also edit some areas where I have professional experience, for WP at the moment this is notably in the areas around carbon trading, transportation planning/transport economics, & technology
- Acanthus (ornament) decorating Corinthian order columns
- Acroterion and Acroteria angularia on corners
- Alto-relievo
- Ante-fixae
- anthemion aka Palmette
- Arabesque patterning
- Arch of keystone, voussoirs & Imposts w. extrados & Intrados
- Bas-relief
- Boss (architecture)
- Broken column
- Bucranium or Ox-head
- Cairn
- 4 Cardinal virtues: prudence temperance fortitude & justice
- Cartouche (design) aka cartoccia
- Category:Columns and entablature
- Category:Ornaments
- Collonade
- Columbarium & recordia
- Corbel
- Crocket
- Cymatium cornice moulding
- Dentil
- Entablature on top of a Capital or Collonade
- Finial
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture
- Guilloché interlinked circular moulding
- Groove on a Doric order column
- headstone symbolism
- 7 Holy virtues: chastity abstinence liberality diligence patience kindness & humility
- Masonic symbolism: Square & compasses 24"-rule Eye of Providence pyramid of Giza Acacia Maul & Gavel Perfect Ashlar Blazing star 2-columns(Jachin & Boaz)
- Mausoleum
- Metope between triglyphs in a Doric frieze above the architrave
- Neoclassicism
- Obelisk
- Patera disks on ceiling coffers or Rotunda
- Pediment
- Peristyle or Pseudoperipteral columns on a stepped Stylobate
- Pilaster, lower in relief than Engaged columns found on Cella
- Pteron, a Peristyle on a high Podium
- Rock of Ages
- Romanesque architecture
- Rosette (design)
- Rusticated vs Ashlar finish
- Sarcophagus
- 3 Theological virtues: Faith Hope & Charity
- Tracery
- Funerary urn aka cinerary urn
- Volute on an Ionic order or Composite order column
Materials:
Victorian builders of the modern world
Civil engineers buried in WNC:
- George Henry Andrews: railway surveyor & artist
- Captain Samuel Brown RN?: chains & suspension bridges
- Richard Henry Brunton: Japanese lighthouses & plasterwork
- Sir George Buchanan (engineer): harbours
- Alfred Burges: docks, lighthouses, roads, bridges & railways
- Sir Henry Bessemer: steel process
- Sir William Cubitt: bridges viaducts, canals, Crystal Palace
- William Carpmael: Cheshire saltworks, Metropolitan Board of Works
- George Drysdale Dempsey, railways & author of civil engineering studies
- Sir Robert Francis Fairlie: railways & railway engines
- Joshua Field: co-founded ICE, ships' blocks
- James Henry Greathead: tunnelling & London Underground
- Henry Grissell: Regents Canal Iron Foundry, Buck Palace
- John William Grover: UK & Venez. railways, Albert Hl, waterworks
- John Hughes: ironmaster of Hughesovska
- Richard Reader Harris: UK & Bolivian railways, barrister, evangelist
- Sir John Jackson MP: marine works
- Robert Mallet: railways, bridges & seismology
- Joseph Maudsley: marine steam engines & screws with Joshua Field
- William Mills: Snr engineer of London, Chatham & Dover Railway
- Thomas Sopwith (geologist): French railways & mining
- John Webster (engineer): piers, bascule & suspension bridges
- Alfred Williams: gasworks at Crystal palace, Bromley, Croydon
- Robert Wingate: Canada, Russia, Hungarian, Uraguay railways
- Alexander Wright: Western Gas Light Co, gaslights in mines
Architects interred in WNC (also see British architects):
- Charles Baily: assistant to City of London architect
- John Belcher: architect of London buildings & Colchester
- William Burges (architect): son of Alfred Burges
- Thomas Talbot Bury: churches & watercolour painter
- John Jenkins Cole: architect to Stock Exchange
- Henry Currey: RIBA pres, St Thomas', Buxton Pump Room
- Charles Henry Driver: Crossness, railway stations
- Philip Mainwaring Johnston: churches, Great War memorials
- Sir Horace Jones: architect to the City of London
- James Knowles Snr: Grosvenor Hotel at Victoria Stn, Cintra
- Arthur Beresford Pite: Director, LCC School of Building
- Sir William Tite MP: Gothic railway stations & cemeteries
- Ebenezer Trotman: railways, principal assistant to Tite
- James Wier: nonconformist churches & Westinghouse Brake Co
- William Huff Wontner: Holland & Sons furniture designer
Architects & designers who worked on WNC:
- Sir William Tite MP: see above
- Thomas Allom GII for George Dodd MP
- Anderson & McKenzie, scuptors, John Stevens' GII obelisk
- Edward Middleton Barry GII temple Ralli & GII* Berens
- William Burges GII* Alfred Burges
- George Godwin architectural journalist, GII* John Britton
- John Oldrid Scott GII* St Stephen's Greek Orthodox Chapel
- George Edmund Street GII* JP Ralli & St Luke's
- Robert Stark Wilkinson, architect, GII Henry Doulton
Construction & materials
- John Marriott Blashfield: mosaic & terracotta manufacturer
- Paul Emile Chappuis: daylight reflectors & diffractors
- Joseph Bernard Clark: ornamental fibrous plasterer
- Benjamin Colls & William Abraham Colls: contractors
- John Dibblee Crace, father John, g-father Frederick: architectural decorator, Brighton Pavilion, Houses of Parliamant
- Thomas Cubitt: builder of Belgravia & Buckingham Palace
- Charles Larkin Francis: early cement manufacturer
- Christopher Gabriel & son Sir Thomas Lord Mayor: timber merchant
- John George Hammack: timber merchant, surveyor to City of London
- William Higgs: contractor, Nat His Museum, Spurgeon's Tabernacle
- George Jennings: Sanitary works, rubber taps, Scutari hospital
- George Myers: contractor for many of Pugin's works
- Frederick Nettlefold: wood screws & fixings
- John Oakey: sandpaper
- Frederick Ransome: artificial sandstone, slag & lime cement
- James John Stevens & son John: railway signals & gaslights
- Tredwell Brothers: John & Thomas, railway contractors
Electrical engineers
- Alexander Muirhead: telegraphy & electrocardiogram
- James Wimshurst: shipwright surveyor, electrostatics
- John George Appold: Fen drainage & 1st Transatlantic cable
- John Peter Gassiot: voltaic batteries, vacuum tubes & Kew observatory
Content Disclaimer
Informasi ini disarikan dari Wikipedia dan disajikan kembali untuk tujuan edukasi. Konten tersedia di bawah lisensi CC BY-SA 3.0. Kami tidak bertanggung jawab atas ketidakakuratan data yang bersumber dari kontribusi publik tersebut.
- The information displayed on this website is sourced in part or in whole from Wikipedia and has been adapted for the purpose of restating it. We strive to provide accurate and relevant information, however:
- There is no guarantee of absolute accuracy. Wikipedia is an open, collaborative project that can be edited by anyone, so information is subject to change.
- It is not intended to constitute professional advice. The content displayed is for informational and educational purposes only. For important decisions (e.g., medical, legal, or financial), please consult a professional.
- Content copyright. Wikipedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC BY-SA). This means that content may be reused with appropriate attribution and shared under a similar license.
- Responsible use. Any risk arising from the use of information from this website is entirely the responsibility of the user.