1891 – Second Premiated design for South Kensington Museum Competition, London

The Building News felt that the view seemed conjured “up in the mind the ruins of some stately edifice in the Venetian Lagoons: the dark and massive features appear to rise out of a wet shiny pavement or lake. Surmounted by a pair of domes and fronted by a lower range containing, on the Cromwell Road side, a convex entrance court, Alfred Waterhouse, architect of the nearby Natural History Museum, considered Belcher’s proposal a magnificent design, the most original of the eight entries