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Description: | The Custom House was built at the centre of the Quayside, Newcastle in 1766 to collect taxes on goods. This scene by John Wilson Carmichael shows the Custom House after it had been refronted in 1833. The new front was designed by the London architect Sidney Smirke in a Neo-Classical style. For a time, the building housed the Town Court and the Mayor's office. The medieval building to the left of the Custom House, and other old buildings, were replaced by grand new buildings in the middle of the 19th century. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work artists living in the North East buildings and views art designers North East artists Newcastle men | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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