Robert Lugar (1773 – 23 June 1855), was a British
architect
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and engineer in the
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going f ...
.
Although born in
Colchester
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Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colch ...
,
England
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, Lugar carried out much of his most important work in
Scotland
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and
Wales
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, where he was employed by several leading industrialists to design grand houses such as
Balloch Castle
Balloch Castle is an early 19th-century country house situated at the southern tip of Loch Lomond, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Balloch was a property of the Lennox family from the 11th century, and the old castle was built in the 13th centur ...
(1808),
Cyfarthfa Castle
Cyfarthfa Castle ( cy, Castell Cyfarthfa; ) is a castellated mansion that was the home of the Crawshay family, ironmasters of Cyfarthfa Ironworks in Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The house commanded a view of the valley and the works, which ‘ ...
(1824). The Rectory in
Yaxham
Yaxham is a village and civil parish in centre of the English county of Norfolk. The parish includes the village of Yaxham, together with the neighbouring community of Clint Green. Together, they lay some south of Dereham and west of Norwich.
...
, Norfolk, which is now known as Yaxham House, was designed for Rev John Johnson (1817), with its mirror image later used for Ffrwdgrech House in
Brecon
Brecon (; cy, Aberhonddu; ), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town in Powys, mid Wales. In 1841, it had a population of 5,701. The population in 2001 was 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census. Historically it was the c ...
(1828). He designed Denham Mount in south Buckinghamshire for Nathaniel Snell, a London merchant and partner in George Baillie and Company and
Wyelands
Wyelands, sometimes styled The Wyelands or Wyelands House, is a Grade II* listed building and estate located about north of the village of Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom and about west of the edge of Chepstow. It is a neoclass ...
in Monmouthshire, Wales, now owned by Sanjeev Gupta. Lugar also designed
Bardon Hall
Bardon is a civil parish and former village in North West Leicestershire about southeast of the centre of Coalville. The parish includes Bardon Hill, which at above sea level is the highest point in Leicestershire. With the population remaini ...
(1837) in
Leicestershire
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.
Lugar published a pattern book in 1815 of cottages, rural dwellings and villas.
Archibald Simpson
Archibald Simpson (4 May 1790 – 23 March 1847) was a Scottish architect, who along with his rival John Smith, is regarded as having fashioned the character of Aberdeen as "The Granite City".Simpson, William Douglas, (1947) ''The Archibald S ...
worked for Lugar in his Holburn office from 1810. He died aged 82 at his London home in
Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensington Garden ...
on 23 June 1855.
['Births, Marriages, and Deaths', '' The Examiner'', 30 June 1855, p. 413.]
References
External links
Robert Lugar on Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyRobert Lugar on Parks and Gardens UKRobert Lugar on The DiCamillo Companion
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19th-century Scottish architects
People from Colchester
1773 births
1855 deaths
Architects from Essex