Charles Robert Cockerell, Edinburgh Building Photos, England, Scotland

CR Cockerell Architect : Architecture

19th Century British Architect – Key UK Buildings information and photos

post updated 18 May 2025

Featured Buildings

Key Cockerell building: National Monument Edinburgh designed with Playfair – Scottish architects practices – on top of Calton Hill, just east of the city centre:

National Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland

photo © Steven Powell

CR Cockerell – Key Projects

Ashmolean Museum & Taylorian Institute, Oxford, England, UK
Dates built: 1839-42

image from architect
Ashmolean Museum

Office for the Sun Life Assurance, Threadneedle Street, London, England
Dates built: 1840’s, demolished 1970

Cockerell was Architect to the Bank of England from 1833

Bank buildings designed include:-

Courtney Street, Plymouth, Southwest England
Date built: 1835

Broad Street, Bristol, Southwest England
Dates built: 1844-47

King Street, Manchester, Northwest England
Date built: 1845

Castle Street, Liverpool, Northwest England
Dates built: 1851-54

Assize Courts & St George’s Hall, Liverpool, Northwest England
– this major English Neoclassical building was completed after the death of Elmes.

Location: London, England, UK

Charles Cockerell Practice Information

Former English architect

Charles Robert Cockerell RA PRIBA
(1788-1863)

born in London; ARA in 1829, RA in 1836, President of the RIBA in 1860.

Scottish Architects Practices

Natonal Monument Edinburgh:

picture © Adrian Welch

C. R. Cockerell trained in the London architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Later he worked on the rebuilding of Covent Garden Theatre as assistant to Robert Smirke, followed by an architectural tour of Europe (he discovered reliefs from the Temple of Phigalia, on show in the British Museum).

Charles Cockerell set up his own practice on his return to London in 1817.

photo © Adrian Welch
St George’s Hall Liverpool