James's Palace in London, and a large number of other designs in England and Scotland, including restoring the Salisbury Tower at Windsor Castle. Blore was a personal friend of Sir Walter Scott, having been introduced by Daniel Terry, and like Scott was interested in the baronial architecture of Scottish castles. This led to Prince Vorontsov's invitation to design his extensive Vorontsov's Palace in Alupka, Crimea. The Alupka palace was built between 1828 and 1846, in a mixture of styles ranging from Gothic Revival to Moorish Revival. The palace's guidebook describes the building as "Blore's tribute to Muslim architecture". The structure features two façades, contrasting "the starkness of Scottish Baronial on its landward side with Arabian fantasy facing the sea". As a recognised establishment architect, Blore was involved in many projects related to the British Empire; this included Government House in Sydney, Australia, which he designed in 1834 in the form of a Gothic castle. Such designs were unusual and display a more adventurous side to Blore's work than can be seen from his work in London. His East front, the public face, of Buckingham Palace was criticised from the moment of its completion as banal street architecture, a view shared by King George V who had the facade redesigned by Sir Aston Webb in 1913. Around 1840 Blore was possibly responsible for alterations at Wythenshawe Hall in Manchester. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1841. Death Blore died at home, 4, Manchester Square, London, on 4 September 1879, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery (West), Highgate, London. Students Architects Philip Charles Hardwick and Frederick Marrable and Henry Clutton were his pupils. William Mason worked for him before going to Australia and New Zealand. Buildings Abbotsford House Bedford Modern School, now the Harpur Centre facade Buckingham Palace Cambridge University Press: Pitt Building Chapel at College of St Mark and St John, London (1841) Crewe Hall, Cheshire: alterations and estate buildings Crom Castle, County Fermanagh, Ulster Goodrich Court, Herefordshire (1828) Government House, Sydney (1835) Great Moreton Hall, Congleton, Cheshire (1841–1843) Kingston Hall, Nottinghamshire (1842–1846) Lambeth Palace: restoration St James's Palace: alterations St John's Church, Stratford, London (1833–1834) St John the Baptist, Leytonstone, London (1832-1833) St Peter's Church, Stepney, London (1837–1838) St Thomas, Charterhouse. London, 1842 Trinity Hospital, Retford, 1833 (Grade II listed) Vorontsov Palace, Alupka Warminster Town Hall, Wiltshire (c.1837); imitates Longleat Watt Library, Greenock Westminster Abbey: choir and