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15 arc 5.4 –History Of

Architecture- IV
- 5TH SEMESTER – P7

GREEK REVIVAL
• The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of
the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly
in Northern Europe and the United States.
• KEY ELEMENTS • Tall columns and pediments: The
ancient Greek temple model, with its row of tall
columns and pediments, includes two of the most
obvious characteristics of this style of historic home
design.
• Painted plaster exterior: Although the buildings and
ruins in Greece were all made of stone, American homes
of this style were not. They were instead crafted in wood
and covered in plaster, then painted in white to create
the illusion of stone.
• Horizontal transom: It sits over the front door, instead
of a fanlight like the earlier Federal period homes.

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CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES
• Heavy entablature and cornices
• Generally symmetrical façade, though entry is often to one side
• Front door surrounded by narrow sidelights and rectangular
transom, usually incorporated into more elaborate door surround
• Small frieze-band windows set into wide band trim below
cornice
• Chimneys are not prominent
• Gable or hipped roof of low pitch
• Cornice lines emphasized with wide band of trim
• Porches common, either entry or full-width supported by
prominent square (vernacular) or rounded columns (typically Doric
style)
• Columns typically in Greek orders, many still have Roman details
(Doric, Ionic or Corinthian)

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St PANCRAS CHURCH , LONDON

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• St. Pancras Church, London

• The church was built in 1819–22 to

the designs of William and Henry
William Inwood.
• It was historically often referred to as
St Pancras New Church, in order to
distinguish it from St Pancras old
church, which stands some way to the
north.
• Church is in a Greek revival style, using
the Ionic order. Erechtheum
• It is built from brick, faced with
Portland stone, except for the portico
and the tower above the roof, which
are entirely of stone.
• All the external decoration, including
the capitals of the columns is of
terracotta.
• The Inwoods drew on two ancient
Greek monuments, the Erechtheum
and the Tower of the Winds, both in
Athens, for their inspiration.
• The doorways are closely modelled
on those of the Erechtheum, as is the
entablature, and much of the other
ornamentation.

• The octagonal domed ceiling of the vestibule is in imitation of

the Tower of the Winds.
• The west end follows the basic arrangement of portico,
vestibules and tower established by James Gibbs at St Martin-in-
the-Fields.

Tower of the Winds St Martin-in-the-Fields St Pancras church

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• At the east end is an apse, flanked by two tribunes, with entablatures supported by caryatids.

• The caryatids are made of terracotta, constructed in sections around cast-iron columns, modelled by John
Charles Felix Rossi.
• Each caryatid holds a symbolic extinguished torch or an empty jug, appropriate for their positions above the
entrances to the burial vault.
• There is a stone sarcophagus behind the figures in each tribune, and the cornices are studded with lion's heads.

• The upper levels of the tribunes were designed as vestries.

• Access to the church is through three doorways ranged under the portico. There are no side doors.
• Inside, the church has a flat ceiling with an uninterrupted span of 60 feet (18 m), and galleries supported on
cast-iron columns.
• The interior of the apse is in the form of one half of a circular temple, with six columns, painted to imitate
marble, raised on a plinth.

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Arc de Triomphe , Paris

• The Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean

Chalgrin in 1806
• The Arc is located on the right bank of the Seine at
the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve
radiating avenues.
• It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory
at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of
his fortunes.

• The Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean

Chalgrin in 1806
• The Arc is located on the right bank of the Seine at
the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve
radiating avenues.
• It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory
at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of
his fortunes.

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