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George Wilkinson, FRIBA was a British architect who practised largely in Ireland. He was born at Witney, Oxfordshire in 1814. He was the elder brother of William Wilkinson (1819–1901), who practised in Oxford. ==Career== George Wilkinson won a competition in 1835 to design a workhouse for the Thame Poor Law Union.〔(The Workhouse: Thame )〕 The building is now a campus of Oxford and Cherwell Valley College. Wilkinson went on to design a total of two dozen workhouses in England, including those at Northleach (1835)〔(The Workhouse: Northleach )〕〔Verey, 1970, page 343〕 Stow-on-the-Wold (1836)〔(The Workhouse: Stow-on-the-Wold )〕 and Woodstock (1836–37),〔(The Workhouse: Woodstock )〕 each with wings laid out in an H-plan. Wilkinson built Tenbury workhouse (1837)〔(The Workhouse: Tenbury )〕 on a double courtyard plan. For two workhouses, Witney (1835–36)〔(The Workhouse: Witney )〕 and Chipping Norton (1836)〔(The Workhouse: Chipping Norton ) 〕 he used an unusual design of a saltire of four wings radiating from an octagonal central block. For Wolverhampton he adapted this layout to six wings.〔(The Workhouse: Wolverhampton )〕 In 1839 George Wilkinson was invited to Ireland as the architect of the Poor Law Commission. Wilkinson published a ''Practical Geology and Ancient Architecture of Ireland'' (1845). He also designed the railway station in Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath and an Italianate style station at Crossdoney in Co. Cavan 〔() Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Cavan〕(1855) and later the Cavan town terminus(1862) for the Midland Great Western Railway and Harcourt Street Railway Station, Dublin (1858–59) for the Dublin Wicklow and Wexford Railway. Wilkinson was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1878.〔 He retired to England in about 1888. He died at Ryde House, Twickenham 4 October 1890.() He married Mary Clinch in Witney on 18 December 1850. Mary was a daughter of John Williams Clinch (1788–1871) the Witney brewer, banker and landowner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Wilkinson (architect)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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