Half-Wrecked
Mary Beard: What’s left of John Soane, 17 February 2000
John Soane: An Accidental Romantic
by Gillian Darley.
Yale, 358 pp., £25, September 1999,0 300 08165 0 Show More
by Gillian Darley.
Yale, 358 pp., £25, September 1999,
John Soane, Architect: Master of Space and Light
by Margaret Richardson and Mary-Anne Stevens.
Royal Academy, 302 pp., £45, September 1999,0 300 08195 2 Show More
by Margaret Richardson and Mary-Anne Stevens.
Royal Academy, 302 pp., £45, September 1999,
Sir John Soane and the Country Estate
by Ptolemy Dean.
Ashgate, 204 pp., £37.50, October 1999,1 84014 293 6 Show More
by Ptolemy Dean.
Ashgate, 204 pp., £37.50, October 1999,
“... Tombs do not rank high in the history of modern architecture. Only two grave monuments in London have been designated as Grade One Listed Buildings: the icon of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery, and the aggressively idiosyncratic construction that is the memorial to the family of Sir John Soane (‘architect to the Bank of England &c &c &c’, as the inscription proclaims) in the burial ground next to Old St Pancras Church – the romantic spot where Shelley first caught sight of Mary Godwin, but now part of some lugubrious gardens sandwiched between the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, the mainline railway and St Pancras Coroner’s Court ... ”
