Lewis Cubitt

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Portrait of Lewis Cubitt ( William Boxall , 1845)

Lewis Cubitt (born September 29, 1799 in London , † June 9, 1883 in Brighton ) was an English architect. He was the architect in charge of King's Cross Station , construction of which began in 1851.

Life

Lewis Cubitt was the youngest son of the Norfolk carpenter Jonathan Cubitt (1760-1807) and his wife Agnes, nee. Scarlet (te). He grew up next to five siblings. He received his training from 1815 first with his older brother Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855), at the time the leading builder in London, and later in the office of the architect Henry Edward Kendall (1776-1875). From 1824 the brothers Thomas and Lewis - together with the third brother William Cubitt (1791–1863), also a builder and later politician and mayor of London - formed the partnership Messrs. TW and L. Cubitt in Gray's Inn Road in the London borough of Bloomsbury . The partnership was dissolved again in 1827 - presumably because of Thomas Cubitt's work as the largest London speculative builder and developer of the 1820s. During the joint time, the buildings erected by the Cubitts in Belgravia and Bloomsbury were mostly realized according to plans by Lewis Cubitt.

King's Cross Station, Fig. In The Illustrated London News from 1852

From 1837 he designed and built the Italianate houses on the south side of Lowndes Square in London. In the 1840s he became a successful railroad architect and was responsible for the London terminus of the Great Northern Railway at King's Cross. Other buildings included the Great Northern Hotel (1854), the oldest hotel in central London, bordering King's Cross, and the entrance building of Bricklayers' Arms station .

On January 23, 1830 he married Sophia Kendall (1811–1879), a daughter of the architect HE Kendall.

Honors

Several places in London near King's Cross Station bear his name: Lewis Cubitt Park and Lewis Cubitt Square .

Web links

Commons : Lewis Cubitt  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Thomas Cubitt at Ranmore War Memorial (English)
  2. ^ A b Kenneth Allinson: Lewis Cubitt 1799-1883. In: Architects and Architecture of London. Routledge, 2008, p. 136. ( full text in the Google book search)
  3. ↑ Biography of Lewis Cubitt at Ranmore War Memorial (English)
  4. ^ The London Gazette, Great Britain, Part 1, June 29, 1827, p. 1404. ( Full text in the Google Book Search)
  5. ↑ Lewis Cubitt's King's Cross Station on The Victorian Web (English)
  6. ↑ The principal green space at King's Cross and Lewis Cubitt Square at Kingscross.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Cubitt, Lewis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1883
Place of death Brighton