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Edward Blore (
1787 -
1879) was a
19th century British
architect and
antiquary. He was born in
Edinburgh,
Scotland. (Some sources claim he was originally from
Derby, England.)
Blore is most notable for his completion of
John Nash's design of
Buckingham Palace, following Nash's dismissal. He completed the palace in a style similar but plainer than that intended by Nash. In
1847 Blore returned to the palace and designed the great
facade facing
The Mall thus enclosing the central
quadrangle. He also worked at
Lambeth Palace and
St James' Palace in London, and a large number of other designs in both England and Scotland, including restoring Salisbury Tower at
Windsor Castle.
Blore was personal friend of Sir
Walter Scott, and like him was interested in the
baronial architecture of Scottish castles. This led to
Prince Vorontsov's suggestion to design his extensive
Vorontsov's Palace in
Alupka,
Crimea (
now Ukraine). The Alupka palace was built between
1828 and
1846, in a mixture of styles ranging from
Gothic Revival to
Moorish Revival. The palace's guidebook describes the building as "Blore's tribute to
Muslim architecture". The structure features two facades, contrasting "the starkness of Scottish Baronial on its landward side with Arabian fantasy facing the sea" .
As a recognised establishment architect Blore was involved in many projects related to the
British Empire, this included
Government House in
Sydney,
Australia, which he designed circa
1870 in the form of a Gothic castle. Such designs were unusual and display a more adventurous side to Blore's work than can be seen from his work in London. His East front, the public face, of Buckingham Palace was criticised from the moment of its completion as banal street architecture, a view shared by King
George V who had the facade redesigned in
1913. He was elected Fellow of the
Royal Society in
1841.
Blore died in 1879, and is buried in
Highgate Cemetery (West), Highgate,
London,
England. He was tutor to the architects
Philip Charles Hardwick and
Frederick Marrable.
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