I am not without hope, however, that it will become almost universal in its use, and that the system will be extended for manufacturing purposes, as well as general cemeteries, and also for horticultural buildings, so that even market gardeners will advantageously apply it in the growing of foreign fruits for the London markets.
I even go so far as to indulge in the sanguine hope that agriculture will be ultimately benefited by the application of cast iron and glass. In short, there is no limit to the uses to which it may be applied — no foresight can define the limits where it will end; and we may congratulate ourselves that in the nineteenth century the progress of science and the spirit of manufacturers have placed at our disposal the application of materials which were unknown to the ancients, and thereby enabled us to erect such structures as would have been deemed impossible even in the early part of the present century. — Joseph Paxton, “The Industrial Palace in Hyde-Park” —
General
- Iron Structures and Victorian Architecture
- Opposing Forces in Victorian Architecture — The Example of St. Pancras
- Cast Plate-Glass in the Victorian Period
Markets and Arcades
- Borough Market (12 views)
- Smithfield Meat Market (9 views)
- Leadenhall Market
- The Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne (8 views)
- Burlington Arcade (6 views)
- Iron and Glass Roof, Manchester (2 views)
- Galleria di Vittorio Emanuelle II, Milan, Italy (4 views)
- The Arcade, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (1828; 2 views)
- The Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia (1898; 2 views)
- Mercado do Ferreira Borges, Porto, Portugal (three views)
- Lau Pa Sat Festival Market, Singapore
- Fish and Produce Markets, Rijeka, Croatia
- Macca-Vilacrosse Passage, Bucharest, Romania (5 views)
- The Central Market, Budapest
Museums and Exhibition Halls
- Crystal Palace (many views)
- The Crystal Palace's Influence upon Victorian Architecture and Architects
- The Oxford University Natural History Museum
- Main Hall, the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh
- The 1865 Dublin International Exhibition
Railroad Stations
- Barlow's St. Pancras Trainshed (many views)
- Central Station, Newcastle — "the first covered station in the world"
- Tynemouth Station
Greenhouses
- John Claudius Loudon and the First Iron and Glass Greenhouses
- Greenhouses at Chatsworth
- The Great Stove [heated greenhouse] at Chatsworth
- Turner and Burton's Hot House at Kew Gardens (3 views)
- Lanyon's Palm House, Belfast (5 views)
- Mackenzie and Moncur's Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool (3 views)
- The Glass House, Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens, Bangalore, India (2 views)
- Conservatory, Frederick John Horniman's home in Croydon
- The Winter Gardens and Aquarium at Blackpool, Lancashire
Miscellaneous
- The Eiffel Tower, Paris
- The Floral Hall, Covent Garden (Royal Opera House)
- St George's Church, West End, Esher (corrugated iron and wood)
- East Pier, Brighton
- The remains of West Pier, Brighton
- Buu Dien Thanh-Pho [City Post Office], Saigon, Vietnam (five views)
- Oriel Chambers, Water Street, Liverpool
- Gardner's Warehouse, Glasgow
Related Material
- A Review of Kate Colquhoun's "The Busiest Man in England:" A Life of Joseph Paxton, Gardener, Architect, and Visionary
Bibliography — Newer Works
Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
In some respects an odd book, and in others an uneven one [in part because of some heavy, jargon-filled sentences], Victorian Glassworlds is nonetheless to be welomed as a major work, not least because of its willingness to put centre stage some of the strange and haunting details of Victorian life which have usually been relegated to the margins. — Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, TLS (11 July 2008): 29.
Last modified 24 November 2023