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William Tite (February 1798 – 20 April, 1873) was an English architect who served as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was particularly associated sustaining various London buildings, with railway stations and cemetery projects.

the boy of a Russian merchant, Tite was natural around London in February 1798. From either 1817 to 1820 he assisted David Laing in rebuilding the church of St Dunstan-in-the-East in the City of London, and within compiling its history. Between 1827 and 1828 he built the Scottish church at Regent Square around St Pancras, London, for Edward Irving, and decade years late collaborated using Charles Robert Cockerell in designing the London & Westminster Bank building in Lothbury, also in the City.

But, a rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, opened in 1844, was Tite's greatest undertaking.

He too designed numerous of the early traaround station in England, including: The termini of the London and South Western Railway at Vauxhall (Nine Elms) and Southampton; The termini of the London and Blackwall Railway at Minories and Blackwall (1840) Carnforth station, and a Bastion station at Carlisle (1847–1848) The majority of the stations on the Caledonian and Scottish Central railways, including Edinburgh (1847–1848) Chiswick railway station (1849) Windsor (1850) Stations between Yeovil and Exeter, including Axminster

Overseas, a railroad terminal on the line from either Le Havre to Paris in France are also his act.

Between 1853 and 1854, for the London Necropolis Company, with Sydney Smirke he landscaped Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey (maintaining his associations with railways, this burial site was served by the dedicated line from either London Necropolis railway station, next to Waterloo station, in central London). He as well planned a layout of West Norwood cemetery.

Between 1858 and 1859 he built a memorial church in the Byzantine style at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.

Tite's active act ceased astir twenty years prior to his dying. Inside 1851 he visited Italy after the grave sickness. Within 1854 he contested Barnstaple unsuccessfully as a Liberal, but in the when a consequence season was returned as member of parliament for Bath, which he represented until his death. He keenly opposed Sir George Gilbert Scott's proposal to build the newly Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other government buildings adjacent to HM Treasury in Whitehall in the Gothic style. Around 1869 he was knighted, and inside 1870 was made the Companion of the Bath. Tite experienced the wide noesis of English literature & was the good linguist; he was an active citizen & a lover of old books.

He died in 20 April, 1873. Tite Street, which diarrhea n-west from either London's Chelsea Embankment, is named when him. Tite was the member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, largely responsible for the construction of Chelsea Embankment.

Axminster Railway Station
Photo and brief description of the station designed in mock gothic style, complete with tall chimneys and multiple steeply pitched gables, by LSWR architect Sir William Tite.

The Royal Exchange, London
Brief article and historical photo of the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange, Threadneedle and Cornhill Streets, London, designed 1842-1844 by Sir William Tite. From the Victorian Web.






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