page_title: Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles
section_title: Mechanics Institute or Camera Obscura House, Stamford, Lincolnshire
hierarchical_section_title: Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles / Examples / Mechanics Institute or Camera Obscura House, Stamford, Lincolnshire
caption_attribution_description: English: The Old Synagogue, King Street, Canterbury, seen from the southeast. Designed by Hezekiah Marshall and opened in 1848. Acquired by King's School in 1982 and is used for lessons and concerts.
context_page_description: Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles is a survey of motifs derived from Ancient Egyptian sources occurring as an architectural style. Egyptian Revival architecture is comparatively rare in the British Isles. Obelisks start appearing in the 17th century, mainly as decorative features on buildings and by the 18th century they started to be used in some numbers as funerary or commemorative monuments. In the later 18th century, mausoleums started to be built based on pyramids, and sphinxes were used as decorative features associated with monuments or mounted on gate piers. The pylon, a doorway feature with spreading jambs which support a lintel, also started to be used and became popular with architects.
  As a result of the Napoleonic conquest of Egypt in 1798, more accurate records became available to architects and Egyptian Revival became a recognised architectural style. As the 19th century progressed Egyptian features were, on occasions, used for industrial buildings and particularly for suspension bridges, and after 1830 the Egyptian Revival style was often used for cemetery buildings and monuments in cemeteries.
context_section_description: A handsome building by the Stamford architect Bryan Browning of 1842. This has an Egyptian style portal, but the remainder of the building is in a Grecian style of architecture.
caption: The Old Synagogue, King's Street - Canterbury 1848
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