GWILT, JOSEPH (1784-1863)

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GWILT, JOSEPH (1784-1863) , English architect and writer, was the younger son of George Gwilt, architect surveyor to the county of Surrey, and was born at Southwark on the rlth of January 1784. He was educated at St Paul's school, and after a short course of instruction in his father's office was in 1501 admitted a student of the Royal

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, where in the same year he gained the silver

medal

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

for his drawing of the tower and steeple of St Dunstan-in-the-

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

. In 1811 he published a Treatise on the

Equilibrium

EQUILIBRIUM (from the Lat. aequus, equal, and libra, a
balance
- BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)
)

of Arches, and in 1815 he was elected F.S.A. 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

TRANSLATION

of the Architecture of Vitruvius (1826), a Treatise on the Rudiments of Architecture,

Practical

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

SPECIAL

interest

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

PRACTICAL

architect were Markree Castle near Sligo in Ireland, and St

Thomas

's church at Charlton in Kent. He, died on the 14th of September 1863.

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