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Joseph Gwilt (
January 11,
1784 -
September 14,
1863),
English architect and writer, was the younger son of
George Gwilt, architect surveyor to the county of
Surrey, and was born at
Southwark.
He was educated at
St Paul's School, and after a short course of instruction in his father's office was in 1801 admitted a student of the
Royal Academy, where in the same year he gained the silver medal for his drawing of the tower and steeple of
St Dunstan-in-the-East. In
1811 he published a
Treatise on the Equilibrium of Arches, and in 1815 he was elected
FSA.
After a visit to
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
Sir William Chambers's
Treatise on Civil Architecture; and among his other principal contributions to the literature of his profession are a translation of the
Architecture of
Vitruvius (1826), a
Treatise on the Rudiments of Architecture, Practical and Theoretical (1826), and his valuable
Encyclopaedia of Architecture (1842), which was published with additions by
Wyatt Papworth in 1867.
In recognition of Gwilt's advocacy of the importance to architects of a knowledge of
mathematics, he was in 1833 elected a member of the
Royal Astronomical Society. He took a special interest in
philology and music, and was the author of
Rudiments of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue (1829), and of the article "Music" in the
Encyclopaedia metropolitana.
His principal works as a practical architect were
Markree Castle near
Sligo in Ireland, and St Thomas's church (1849-50) at
Charlton in
Kent (today part of the
London Borough of Greenwich).
A portrait of him is part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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