User:Ephebi

User: Ephebi 

Interests: Victoriana, Middle East history, Industrial archaeology, Building, Civil engineering and historic civil engineers, South London, Biographies relating to West Norwood Cemetery. I also edit some areas where I have professional experience, for WP at the moment this is notably in the areas around carbon trading, transportation planning/transport economics, & technology


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Victorian funerary symbolism, architecture, terms & glossary

 * Acanthus (ornament) decorating Corinthian order columns
 * Acroterion and Acroteria angularia on corners
 * Alto-relievo
 * Ante-fixae
 * anthemion aka Palmette
 * Arabesque patterning
 * Arch of keystone, voussoirs & Imposts w. extrados & Intrados
 * Bas-relief
 * Boss (architecture)
 * Broken column
 * Bucranium or Ox-head
 * Cairn
 * 4 Cardinal virtues: prudence temperance fortitude & justice
 * Cartouche (design) aka cartoccia
 * Category:Columns and entablature
 * Category:Ornaments
 * Collonade
 * Columbarium & recordia
 * Corbel
 * Crocket
 * Cymatium cornice moulding
 * Dentil
 * Entablature on top of a Capital or Collonade
 * Finial
 * Gothic architecture
 * Gothic Revival architecture
 * Guilloché interlinked circular moulding
 * Groove on a Doric order column
 * headstone symbolism
 * 7 Holy virtues: chastity abstinence liberality diligence patience kindness & humility
 * Masonic symbolism: Square & compasses 24"-rule Eye of Providence pyramid of Giza Acacia Maul & Gavel Perfect Ashlar Blazing star 2-columns(Jachin & Boaz)
 * Mausoleum
 * Metope between triglyphs in a Doric frieze above the architrave
 * Neoclassicism
 * Obelisk
 * Patera disks on ceiling coffers or Rotunda
 * Pediment
 * Peristyle or Pseudoperipteral columns on a stepped Stylobate
 * Pilaster, lower in relief than Engaged columns found on Cella
 * Pteron, a Peristyle on a high Podium
 * Rock of Ages
 * Romanesque architecture
 * Rosette (design)
 * Rusticated vs Ashlar finish
 * Sarcophagus
 * 3 Theological virtues: Faith Hope & Charity
 * Tracery
 * Funerary urn aka cinerary urn
 * Volute on an Ionic order or Composite order column

Materials:

 * Fieldstone
 * Granite
 * Iron
 * Marble & limestone
 * Sandstone
 * Slate
 * Bronze
 * White Bronze aka zinc
 * Wood

Victorian builders of the modern world
Civil engineers buried in WNC:
 * George Henry Andrews: railway surveyor & artist
 * Captain Samuel Brown RN?: chains & suspension bridges
 * Richard Henry Brunton: Japanese lighthouses & plasterwork
 * Sir George Buchanan (engineer): harbours
 * Alfred Burges: docks, lighthouses, roads, bridges & railways
 * Sir Henry Bessemer: steel process
 * Sir William Cubitt: bridges viaducts, canals, Crystal Palace
 * William Carpmael: Cheshire saltworks, Metropolitan Board of Works
 * George Drysdale Dempsey, railways & author of civil engineering studies
 * Sir Robert Francis Fairlie: railways & railway engines
 * Joshua Field: co-founded ICE, ships' blocks
 * James Henry Greathead: tunnelling & London Underground
 * Henry Grissell: Regents Canal Iron Foundry, Buck Palace
 * John William Grover: UK & Venez. railways, Albert Hl, waterworks
 * John Hughes: ironmaster of Hughesovska
 * Richard Reader Harris: UK & Bolivian railways, barrister, evangelist
 * Sir John Jackson MP: marine works
 * Robert Mallet: railways, bridges & seismology
 * Joseph Maudsley: marine steam engines & screws with Joshua Field
 * William Mills: Snr engineer of London, Chatham & Dover Railway
 * Thomas Sopwith (geologist): French railways & mining
 * John Webster (engineer): piers, bascule & suspension bridges
 * Alfred Williams: gasworks at Crystal palace, Bromley, Croydon
 * Robert Wingate: Canada, Russia, Hungarian, Uraguay railways
 * Alexander Wright: Western Gas Light Co, gaslights in mines

Architects interred in WNC (also see British architects):
 * Charles Baily: assistant to City of London architect
 * John Belcher: architect of London buildings & Colchester
 * William Burges (architect): son of Alfred Burges
 * Thomas Talbot Bury: churches & watercolour painter
 * John Jenkins Cole: architect to Stock Exchange
 * Henry Currey: RIBA pres, St Thomas', Buxton Pump Room
 * Charles Henry Driver: Crossness, railway stations
 * Philip Mainwaring Johnston: churches, Great War memorials
 * Sir Horace Jones: architect to the City of London
 * James Knowles Snr: Grosvenor Hotel at Victoria Stn, Cintra
 * Arthur Beresford Pite: Director, LCC School of Building
 * Sir William Tite MP: Gothic railway stations & cemeteries
 * Ebenezer Trotman: railways, principal assistant to Tite
 * James Wier: nonconformist churches & Westinghouse Brake Co
 * William Huff Wontner: Holland & Sons furniture designer

Architects & designers who worked on WNC:
 * Sir William Tite MP: see above
 * Thomas Allom GII for George Dodd MP
 * Anderson & McKenzie, scuptors, John Stevens' GII obelisk
 * Edward Middleton Barry GII temple Ralli & GII* Berens
 * William Burges GII* Alfred Burges
 * George Godwin architectural journalist, GII* John Britton
 * John Oldrid Scott GII* St Stephen's Greek Orthodox Chapel
 * George Edmund Street GII* JP Ralli & St Luke's
 * Robert Stark Wilkinson, architect, GII Henry Doulton

Construction & materials
 * John Marriott Blashfield: mosaic & terracotta manufacturer
 * Paul Emile Chappuis: daylight reflectors & diffractors
 * Joseph Bernard Clark: ornamental fibrous plasterer
 * Benjamin Colls & William Abraham Colls: contractors
 * John Dibblee Crace, father John, g-father Frederick: architectural decorator, Brighton Pavilion, Houses of Parliamant
 * Thomas Cubitt: builder of Belgravia & Buckingham Palace
 * Charles Larkin Francis: early cement manufacturer
 * Christopher Gabriel & son Sir Thomas Lord Mayor: timber merchant
 * John George Hammack: timber merchant, surveyor to City of London
 * William Higgs: contractor, Nat His Museum, Spurgeon's Tabernacle
 * George Jennings: Sanitary works, rubber taps, Scutari hospital
 * George Myers: contractor for many of Pugin's works
 * Frederick Nettlefold: wood screws & fixings
 * John Oakey: sandpaper
 * Frederick Ransome: artificial sandstone, slag & lime cement
 * James John Stevens & son John: railway signals & gaslights
 * Tredwell Brothers: John & Thomas, railway contractors

Electrical engineers
 * Alexander Muirhead: telegraphy & electrocardiogram
 * James Wimshurst: shipwright surveyor, electrostatics
 * John George Appold: Fen drainage & 1st Transatlantic cable
 * John Peter Gassiot: voltaic batteries, vacuum tubes & Kew observatory