3-028-120 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New buildings of the London University, Burlington Gardens, opened by the Queen, 1870. 'Its design is of the Palladian style of architecture, refined and enriched...The towers carry a clock and a wind dial; between them is a projecting portico with five entrances...The principal figures are those on the balustrade of the portico. These are by Mr. Durham;...from east to west, they are statues of Newton, Bentham, Milton, and Harvey, as representatives of the four Faculties - Science, Law, Arts, and Medicine. The figures on the central roof line represent ancient culture, in the persons of Galen, Cicero, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes, and Justinian. Of these the first three are by Mr. Westmacott, the last three by Mr. Woodington...To the roof line Mr.Wyon has contributed Galileo, Goethe, and Laplace; to the niches, Mr. M'Dowell has contributed Leibnitz, Cuvier, and Linnaeus. The west wing is adorned with English worthies - Hunter, Hume, and Davy - by Mr. Noble, on the balustrade; and Adam Smith, Locke, and Bacon, by Mr. Theed, in the niches...The architect is Mr. Pennethorne, architect to her Majesty's Commissioners of Works. The contractors are Messrs. Jackson and Shaw. The materials...are red Portland and red Mansfield stone intermixed...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.