The Royal School of Mines

Sir Aston Webb

1909-13

Prince Consort Road

Founded in 1851, the year of th Great Exhibition, the Royal School of Mines now houses Imperial College's departments of geology, engineering, and material science. According to Jones and Woodward, it was the last of Webb's three buildings in "hard white stone" in South Kensington, the other two being the Victoria and Albert Museum and Imperial College. "The monumental central semicircular niche with sculptures is impressive but cramped" (188). According to the school's site, T. H. Huxley was its first dean.

Related Material

• Detail (entrance)
• Alfred Beit, Sir Julius Wernher, and four allegorical figures (sculpture flanking the entrance)
• An Aerial View of Royal Albert Hall and Nearby Buildings

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References

Jones, Edward, and Christopher Woodward. A Guide to the Architecture of London. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992.

Royal School of Mines website

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