RARE "English Architect" William Tite Clipped Signature For Sale

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RARE "English Architect" William Tite Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "English Architect" William Tite Clipped Signature.

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Sir William Tite CB FRS (7 February 1798 – 20 April 1873)[1] was an English

architect

who served as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He was particularly associated with various London

buildings, with railway stations and cemetery

projects. He was a Member of Parliament from 1855 until his

death. Tite was born in the parish of St

Bartholomew the Great in the City of London, in February 1798, the son of a

merchant in Russian goods named Arthur Tite. He was articled to David Laing, architect of the new Custom House, and surveyor to the Parish

of St Dunstan-in-the-East. Tite assisted Laing in the rebuilding of St Dunstan's church: according to an

article published in the Architect in 1869, Tite entirely designed the

new building, Laing himself having no knowledge of Gothic architecture. In 1827–8

Tite built the Scottish church in Regent Square, St Pancras, London, for Edward Irving,

in a Gothic Revival style, partly inspired by York Minster,

and ten years later collaborated with Charles Robert Cockerell in designing the London &

Westminster Bank head office in Lothbury,

also in the City. The rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, opened in 1844, was Tite's

greatest undertaking. The previous building was destroyed by fire in 1838, and

a competition to design a replacement was held the following year. When this

proved unproductive, a second limited competition was held between Tite, Charles Robert Cockerell, George Gwilt,

Charles Barry

and Robert Smirke. Tite's winning design has

an imposing eight-column entrance portico, inspired by the Pantheon

in Rome, while the other sides of the building are based on Italian renaissance

models.

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