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33: 214: 403: 185:, which had been destroyed by fire, and the erection in the following year of the Floral Hall adjoining, afford examples of his energy, constructive skill, and artistic ability. These works were executed for his own private clients, and without diminishing the assistance which he was then rendering to his father. In 1860 Sir Charles Barry died suddenly, and upon Edward devolved the duty of completing his father's works. Foremost of these was the new 178:, and even while assisting his father found time to devote to works of his own. The first of these was St. Saviour's Church, Haverstock Hill, in 1855–56. His designs for St. Giles's schools, Endell Street, which were carried out under his own superintendence in 1859–60, gave him a recognised position. It was to the originality displayed in these works that he owed his admission, in 1861, as an associate to the Royal Academy. 691: 439:(his supervision of his father’s work was finally completed in 1870; the only substantial element for which Edward was entirely responsible was the colonnade on New Palace Yard and the striking railings around the Yard, but included work on the Queen's Robing Room, Royal Staircase and the decoration of the Central Octagon Hall) 241:
in 1809) was destroyed in a fire in 1857. Edward Barry was commissioned to design the new "Royal Italian Opera" as it was then known, completing it for its official opening on 15 May 1858. He also designed the adjacent Floral Hall, a glass and cast iron structure heavily influenced by
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On 29 March 1862 he married Lucy, daughter of Thomas Kettlewell. The remaining years of his life record a long series of works designed by him, many of them of national magnitude and importance. In 1869 he was elected an academician, and in 1873, on the retirement of Sir
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for a short time, after which he joined his father's practice. He continued to assist his father until the latter's sudden death in 1860, but he had already made considerable progress in working on his own account. In 1848 he had become a student at the
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Among his most significant contributions to London’s architectural scene is the Theatre of the
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The reconstruction, in 1857, in the short space of eight months, of the theatre at
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Among the projects jointly attributed to them are Temple Gardens chambers at
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This article on his father contains a paragraph describing Edward's career.
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Towards the end of his life, Barry began working with his eldest brother,
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London and Westminster Bank, Temple Bar (additions and alterations) (1873)
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cemetery (1858) (photograph in the gallery of West Norwood Cemetery)
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London
United Kingdom
London
United Kingdom
King's College London
Royal Opera House (London)
Royal Opera House (Valletta)
St Dunstan's College
RA
architect
Charles Barry
Blackheath
Walthamstow
King's College London
Thomas Henry Wyatt
Royal Academy
Covent Garden
Palace of Westminster
Halifax Town Hall
George Gilbert Scott
Sydney Smirke

Plazzotta
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
Robert Smirke
the Crystal Palace
Great Exhibition of 1851
Royal Opera House

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