building in Leadenhall Street. He entered the competition to design the Duke of York's Column, and in 1836 that for the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament. After failing to win the latter he attacked the plans of his rivals and the decision of the committee in a pamphlet signed "Phil-archimedes". He was appointed professor of architecture at the Royal Academy following the death of John Soane in 1837, but gave no lectures before he himself died at his house in Cambridge on 31 August 1839. He was buried in the crypt under the chapel of Corpus Christi College. List of publications Some Account of the Prior's Chapel at Ely in pages 105–12 Archaeologia XIV (1801) Antiquities of Magna Graecia (1807). Observations on the Porta Honoris of Caius College, Cambridge in Vetusta Monumenta, iv (1809) The Civil Architecture of Vitruvius: Comprising those Books of the Author which Relate to the Public and Private Edifices off the Ancients (1813 and 1817). Atheniensia, or Remarks of the Topography and Buildings in Athens (1816). Remarks on the Architectural Inscription Brought from Athens, and now Preserved in the British Museum in pages 580–603, Memoirs relating to European & Asiatic Turkey edited by Robert Walpole (1817). On the Sculptures of the Parthenon in Travels in Various Countries edited by Walpole (1820). Report on the State of Sherborne Church (1828). Prolusiones Architectonicae or Essays on Subjects Connected with Grecian and Roman Architecture (1837). The Lydo-Phrygian Inscription in pages 155–60 of Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, III (1839). List of architectural work Downing College, Cambridge, designed (1805), west range built (1807–13), east range built (1818–22); the remainder of the design remained unexecuted. East India College (now Haileybury College), Hertfordshire (1805–09). Norwich Cathedral, restoration work with his father (1806). Lower Assembly Rooms, Bath, Somerset, later the Bath Royal Literary Institution, (1808); demolished (1933). Nelson's Pillar, Dublin, altered in execution by Francis Johnston. The Grange, Northington, remodelling based on a Greek temple (1809). Argyll House, Argyll Street, London, alterations to the interior (1809); demolished. Pentillie Castle, Cornwall, addition of a new wing (1810). Theatre, Colchester, Essex, renovations (1811); demolished. Lensfield House, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, remodelled, including portico (1811); Wilkins' own house, demolished (1955) and now replaced by the Chemistry Department of Cambridge University. Theatre Royal, Newmarket Road, Cambridge (1814), later remodelled. Dalmeny House, West Lothian (1814–19). Nelson Column, Great Yarmouth (1815–17). Tregothnan, Cornwall