Charles Barry [also known as Sir Charles Barry] was born in Westminster, London, England on 23 May 1795 and was articled to Middleton & Bailey, a firm of surveyors in Lambeth, London from 1810 to 1816. In 1817 he embarked on a three year study tour of Continental Europe.
He returned to England on 1 September and later that year set up in private practice in London, with an office at Ely Place.
From 1830 to 1858 Barry acted as architect and surveyor to the Dulwich College Estate.
He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of British Architects (FIBA) in 1834. He was also elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1840, a Royal Academician (RA) in 1844, a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1857. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1850 and was knighted in 1852. He died at his home in Clapham, London on 12 May 1860.
Church of All Saints (1821–25); St Matthew’s (1821-25); St Peter’s, Brighton, Sussex (1823-1828); Royal Institution, Manchester, now the City Art Gallery (1824-35); The Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton (1828); St. John's National School, Holloway Road, London (1830); Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, London (1830-32); King Edward VI School, Birmingham, with ornamentation by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1833-37); St. Peter's Church, St. Peter's Street, London (1834); Horsey Place, Surrey (1834); Trentham Hall, Staffordshire (1834-42); Alterations and additions to Bowood House, Wiltshire (1834-37); Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn, London (1835-36); the New Palace of Westminster, assisted by his son, Charles Barry Jnr., with ornamentation by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1835-60); Atheneaum, Princess Street, Manchester (1837-39); Unitarian Church, Upper Brook Street, Manchester (1837-39); Remodelling of Kingston Lacy, Dorset (1835–39); Reform Club, Pall Mall, London (1839-41); Terrace and steps of Trafalgar Square, opposite the National Gallery, London (1840); Alterations to Highclere Castle, Hampshire (1842); Holy Trinity Church, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex (1843-45); Dunrobin Castle, Sitherland (1844-50); Façade of the Treasury, Whitehall, London (1845); Façades of12, 18-19 and 20 Whitehall, London (1845); Lansdowne Monument, Cherhill, Wiltshire (1845); Bridgewater House, Cleveland Row, London (1845-54); Façade, Pentonville Prison, Caledonian Road, London (1847); Additions and alterations, St. John's Lodge, Regent's Park, London (1847); Additions and alterations to Shrubland Park, Suffolk (1849-54); Cleveden, Buckinghamshire (1850-51); Additions to Canford Manor, Dorset (1854-55); Schools in Dowlais, Glamorgan, Wales (1855); and Town Hall, Halifax (1859-63).
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For a more detailed list of architectural projects by Charles Barry see Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 4th edition, 2008 pp. 100-102
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See also:
Avery, Derek. Victorian and Edwardian Architecture. London: Chaucer Press, 2003
Barry, Alfred. The architect of the new palace at Westminster : A reply to a pamphlet by E.W. Pugin, Esq., entitled "Who was the art-architect of the Houses of Parliament?" London: John Murray, 1868 [See also: Pugin, Edward Welby. Who was the art architect of the Houses of Parliament?]
Barry, Alfred. Memoir of the Life and Works of Sir Charles Barry, R.A., F.R.S. London: John Murray, 1867
Binney, Marcus. ‘The Travels of Sir Sir Charles Barry’. Binney, Marcus. ‘The Travels of Sir Charles Barry’. Country Life vol. 146, 28 August 1969 pp. 494-498 [First part of a three-part article. Discusses the travel made by Barry in Italy in the early years of his career and the influence of Italian architecture in his later work]
Binney, Marcus. ‘The Travels of Sir Charles Barry’. Country Life vol. 146, 4 September 1969 pp. 550-552 [Second part of a three-part article. Discusses the travel made by Barry in Italy in the early years of his career and the influence of Italian architecture in his later work]
Binney, Marcus. ‘The Travels of Sir Charles Barry’. Country Life vol. 146, 11 September 1969 pp. 622-634 [Third part of a three-part article. Discusses the travel made by Barry in Italy in the early years of his career and the influence of Italian architecture in his later work]
Bissett, D. G. Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) : a reassessment of his travels and early career. Ph.D., Oxford Polytechnic, 1983
Chancellor, E. Beresford. ‘A New Westminster: the vision of Sir Charles Barry’. Architectural Review vol. 61, June 1927 pp. 207-209
Chancellor, E. Beresford. ‘Pioneers of London development’. Architectural Review vol. 49, May 1921 pp. 123-126 [Discusses London clubs designed by Barry]
Collingwood, Frances. ‘Sir Charles Barry: architect and Gothic Revivalist’. Country Life vol. 114, 22 October 1953 p. 1308
Colvin, Howard, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840. New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press, 4th edition, 2008
Cornforth, John. ‘Bowood, Wiltshire, revisited’. Country Life vol. 151, 8 June 1972 pp. 1448-1451 [Part one of a three-part article on alterations and additions made to Bowood, Wiltshire by Barry and numerous other architects]
Cornforth, John. ‘Bowood, Wiltshire, revisited’. Country Life vol. 151, 15 June 1972 pp. 1546-1550 [Part two of a three-part article on alterations and additions made to Bowood, Wiltshire by Barry and numerous other architects]
Cornforth, John. ‘Bowood, Wiltshire, revisited’. Country Life vol. 151, 15 June 1972 pp. 1610-1613 [Part three of a three-part article on alterations and additions made to Bowood, Wiltshire by Barry and numerous other architects]
Cornforth, John. ‘Stafford House, revisited’. Country Life vol. 144, 7 November 1968 pp. 1188-1191 [Part one of a two-part article. Barry took over from Benjamin Dean Wyatt in the design of Stafford House]
Cornforth, John. ‘Stafford House, revisited’. Country Life vol. 144, 7 November 1968 pp. 1257-1261 [Part two of a two-part article. Barry took over from Benjamin Dean Wyatt in the design of Stafford House]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Ferriday, Peter. ‘Sir Charles Barry 1795-1860’. Architectural Review vol. 128, December 1960 p. 393
Fleetwood-Hesketh, Peter. ‘Sir Charles Barry’ in Victorian Architecture, edited by Peter Ferriday. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 pp. 123-133
Girouard, Mark. ‘Charles Barry: a Centenary Assessment’. Country Life vol. 128 pp. 796-797 [Review of an exhibition of the work of Charles Barry at the RIBA in London in 1960]
Girouard, Mark. The Victorian Country House. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, revised and enlarged edition, 1979
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. Early Victorian Architecture in Britain vol. 1. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1954 pp.162-136
The Houses of Parliament. Edited by M. H. Port. London: Yale University Press, 1976
‘The late Sir Charles Barry’. The Builder vol. 18, no. 902, 1860 pp. 305-307
Pugin, Edward Welby. Who was the art architect of the Houses of Parliament? : A statement of facts, founded on the letters of Sir Charles Barry and the diaries of Augustus Welby Pugin, by E. Welby Pugin. Most respectfully dedicated to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Lords and Commons of Great Britain and Ireland. London : Longmans, Green, & Co., 1867 [See also: Barry, Alfred. The architect of the new palace at Westminster : A reply to a pamphlet by E.W. Pugin, Esq.]
Service, Alastair. The Architects of London and their buildings from 1066 to the present. London: The Architectural Press, 1979
Statham, H. Heathcote. ‘The Architectural genius of Sir Charles Barry’. The Builder vol. 80, 5 January 1901 pp. 3-8
Statham, H. Heathcote. ‘Sir Charles Barry’. Architectural Association Notes vol. 17, July 1902 pp. 97-99
Whiffen, Marcus. The Architecture of Sir Charles Barry in Manchester and Neighbourhood. Manchester: Manchester Institution, 1950
Whiffen, Marcus. ‘The Reform Club: A Barry Triumph’. Country Life ol. 108, 3 November 1950 pp. 1498-1501
Wyatt, Matthew Digby. On the architectural career of the late Sir Charles Barry. London : Published at the rooms of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1860 [also published in the Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1859–60), pp. 118–137]