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The Italianate garden front of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, showing the central transept which was 194 feet high (60 metres).

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004601
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The fountains on the Italian terraces of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, which had 11,788 jets and rose to a height of 200 feet (70 metres). The water used was stored in towers designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, at either side of the main building.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004602
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

A view of the fountains from the terrace of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. This photograph is believed to show the visit of 45,000 Foresters to the Crystal Palace in 1862 for a convention, the Ancient Order of Foresters having been founded in 1834.

Date:
1862
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004603
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

A view from below the Circular Basin looking towards one of the two water towers that fed the fountains. Paxton's original design failed and Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the 284 feet (86.5 metres) tall brick towers. They were demolished in 1941.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004604
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

A view of the Rosarium, a specialist garden for the growing and historical study of roses. A young man is posed by the wrought iron entrance arch, the Crystal Palace is in the background.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004605
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The interior of the vast nave of the Crystal Palace, taken from the gallery above the Queen's Screen at the south end. The nave was 100 feet 3 inches high (30 metres), and the building was 1608 feet or about a third of a mile long (490 metres).

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004606
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The interior of the nave from the gallery at the north or Tropical end with its Winter Garden, all of which was destroyed by fire on the 30th December 1866.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004607
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

Copies of Greek sculpture in the nave of the Crystal Palace, for the education of the public. Sculptures shown include Flora, the original of which belonged to the Renaissance Farnese family, and the Triton from Genoa, with the Italian Court behind.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004608
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

Casts of Greek sculptures in the nave of the Crystal Palace, showing Antinous of the Capitol and the Vatican Mercury, with ancient Roman busts and the front of the Roman Court. Many male statues were provided with strategically placed fig leaves.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004609
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

Plaster casts of Greek sculpture in the nave of the Crystal Palace, including the Farnese Hercules Reposing, the Berlin Juno and the Wounded Amazon. The statues were placed near the Courts of the periods or countries to which they belonged.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004610
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

Ferns and water lilies in the Tropical Fountain Basin at the north end of the Crystal Palace, which had an under floor heating system to protect the plants from British winters.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004611
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The interior of the Tropical Transept looking along the Avenue of the Sphinxes to the Mammoth Tree, a sequoia from California, the original of which was 363 feet high (126 metres) and 4000 years old.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004612
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The giant figures that dominated the Tropical transept at the north end of the Crystal Palace depicted Rameses II and were copied from those carved from the rock at the entrance to his temple at Abu Simbel, discovered by Egyptologists in 1813.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004613
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

Foliage plants around the fountain basin at the Tropical End with the front of the Nineveh Court behind. The city of Nineveh, in modern Iraq, had been excavated by British archaeologists in the 1840s.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004614
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The classical fountain playing in the Tropical Basin with the facade of the Nineveh Court behind, also known as the Assyrian Court.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004615
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The front of Nineveh Court viewed across the water lily basin at the Tropical end. This was the first of the Fine Art Courts, a chronological set of displays bringing the history, architecture and archaeology of the world to the British public.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004616
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The front of the Nineveh Court showing the winged bulls, huge sculptures with crowned heads, eagles wings and the body of the wild bull, representing spiritual guardians. They have five legs each, and can be interpreted as standing or walking.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004617
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The facade of the Egyptian Court, the second of the Fine Art Courts. It was based on the Temple of Philae, begun by Ptolemy II and dedicated to the goddess Isis.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004618
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The entrance to Egyptian Court, flanked by Nubian lions. The Egyptian and Alhambra Courts were designed by Owen Jones, drawing on his extensive travels to the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004619
Type:
Photograph (Digital)

The Egyptian Court showing the portico from the Memnonium, Thebes, the statues representing the god Osiris. The temple was part of a large complex built by Rameses II.

Date:
c.1859
Location:
Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19
Reference:
DP004620
Type:
Photograph (Digital)