4050 x 6075 px | 34,3 x 51,4 cm | 13,5 x 20,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
settembre 2009
Ubicazione:
Streatham, London, England, UK
Altre informazioni:
Wild, James William (1814–1892), architect, son of Charles Wild (1781–1835), watercolour painter, and his wife, Margaret, was born on 9 March 1814 in Lincoln. In 1830 he was articled to George Basevi. Already familiar with the Gothic style through his father's work he made rapid progress and at the conclusion of his pupillage was entrusted with the design and erection of a small country church. Independent practice rapidly followed, and Wild was elected an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 29 May 1837. Before 1840 Wild had built six churches. In Christ Church, Streatham (1841), Wild designed a church of remarkable originality, often described as being in a Byzantine manner but in fact richly eclectic, combining Early Christian, Italian Romanesque, Islamic, and moorish elements. He relied on simple decoration, with innovatory brick and terracotta polychromy for the exterior details, to secure a distinctive building at the low cost to which his employers restricted him. He was assisted in the internal decoration of the church by Owen Jones, who later became his brother-in-law (by marrying Wild's sister Isabella in 1842).
