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James Elmes

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49: 22: 313: 82:, reconstructing the pendulum device incorporated into it by Sir Christopher Wren to counteract the effects of strong winds. Elmes described the contraption in his biography of Wren, calling it "one of the most ingenious and appropriate of its great inventor's applications." 204:
New Churches. A Letter to the Earl of Liverpool on that part of the Speech of H.R.H. the Prince Regent which recommends the attention of Parliament to the Deficiency in the Number of Places of Public Worship belonging to the Established
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A block of large terraced houses at 6–12, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster (1837). Number 6 was built as the Parliamentary Agency Offices. Designed in collaboration with Harvey Lonsdale Elmes.
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described the book as "a useful and nearly complete, guide to the new buildings of George IV's London", while regretting that it was written "in the style of a facetious cicerone".
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A Letter to Thomas Hope, Esq., on the Insufficiency of the existing Establishments for Promoting the Fine Arts towards that of Architecture and its Professors
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Hints for the Improvement of Prisons, and for a more Economical Management of Prisoners, partly founded on the Principles of John Howard
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Elmes resigned from his post with the Port of London in 1848, due to a loss of sight, from which he later partially recovered.
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London Bridge; from its Original Formation of Wood to the Present Times with a Particular Account of the new London Bridge
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The New House of Correction, Bedford (1819). Sited on the main road from Bedford to Kettering, it was arranged on the
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The Arts and Artists; or. Anecdotes and Relics of the Schools of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
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A Thought-Book of the Wise Spirits of all Ages and all Countries, fit for all Men and all Hours
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The Royal Academy: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors from its Foundations in 1769 to 1904
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A Practical Treatise on Ecclesiastical and Civil Dilapidations, Reinstatements, Waste, &c
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Sir Christopher Wren and his Times, James Elmes, 1852, (Chapman & Hall, London)
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The Arts and Artists, or Anecdotes and relics of the schools of painting
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Metropolitan Improvements, or London in the Nineteenth Century
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Lectures on Architecture, comprising the History of the Art
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An Account of the Public Charities of the Town of Bedford
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A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts
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A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Environs
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Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren
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In 1813–4 he restored the top part of the spire of
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A Practical Treatise on Architectural Jurisprudence
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(1828). 348:Graves, Algernon (1905). 654:Summerson, John (1962). 641:The Gentleman's Magazine 467:Sussex Places of Worship 426:The Gentleman's Magazine 138:His buildings included: 61:Merchant Taylors' School 740:English civil engineers 334:Encyclopædia Britannica 164:and in the care of the 145:(1812–13) built in the 88:Annals of the Fine Arts 750:Architects from London 402:Olney, Clarke (1952). 239:Thomas Hosmer Shepherd 96:Benjamin Robert Haydon 59:Elmes was educated at 56: 30: 685:10.1093/ref:odnb/8733 122:Harvey Lonsdale Elmes 51: 24: 639:"James Elmes, Esq". 424:"James Elmes, Esq". 80:Chichester Cathedral 446:on 27 February 2015 225:(3 volumes, 1825). 154:proprietary chapel 93:historical painter 57: 31: 691:(Subscription or 498:Church of England 187:Elmes published: 757: 696: 688: 660: 659: 651: 645: 644: 635: 629: 628: 626: 624: 608:Historic England 604: 598: 597: 583: 577: 576: 574: 572: 557: 548: 547: 545: 543: 527:Historic England 523: 517: 516: 514: 512: 506: 495: 487: 481: 480: 462: 456: 455: 453: 451: 436: 430: 429: 421: 410: 409: 399: 393: 392: 382: 376: 375: 360: 354: 353: 345: 339: 338: 317: 315: 314: 308: 120:. 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Index


William Woolnoth
Greenwich

St John the Evangelist's Church, Chichester
Merchant Taylors' School
Royal Academy
surveyor
Port of London
Chichester Cathedral
Annals of the Fine Arts
historical painter
Benjamin Robert Haydon
Greenwich
Charlton
Harvey Lonsdale Elmes
John Haviland
St John the Evangelist's Church, Chichester
Classical-style
Anglican
proprietary chapel
listed building
redundant
Churches Conservation Trust
panopticon
Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
John Summerson
public domain
Chisholm, Hugh
Elmes, James

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