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'''John Brown''' (1805–1876)<ref name=dsa>{{cite web|title=Basic Biographical Details|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201640|publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|accessdate=15 September 2013}}</ref> was a 19th-century [[architect]] working in [[Norwich]], in the county of [[Norfolk, England]]. He was the pupil of the architect William Brown of Ipswich, a close relative.<ref name=dsa/> He is best known for his [[Church (building)|church]]es. He was also, along with his two sons, the [[Surveyor (surveying)|surveyor]] for [[Norwich Cathedral]].
'''John Brown''' (1805–1876)<ref name=dsa>{{cite web|title=Basic Biographical Details|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201640|publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|access-date=15 September 2013}}</ref> was a 19th-century architect working in [[Norwich]], in the county of [[Norfolk]], England. His buildings include churches and workhouses.


==Works==
==Life==
[[File:All Saints, Hainford, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 319025.jpg|thumb|All Saints, Hainford, Norfolk (1838&ndash;40).]]
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Brown's works include:<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Howard Colvin]]|title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840|year=1978|publisher=John Murray|isbn=0 7195 3328 7|page=145}}</ref>
He was the pupil of the architect William Brown of Ipswich, a close relative.<ref name=dsa/> He was, along with his two sons, the [[Surveyor (surveying)|surveyor]] for [[Norwich Cathedral]], where his work there included a restoration of the crossing tower, undertaken during the 1830s.<ref>Pevsner 1962, p.211.</ref> He was appointed [[county surveyor]] for Norfolk in 1835.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pevsner|first=Nikolaus |authorlink =Nikolaus Pevsner |title=Norfolk 2: North West and South|year=2002 |series=The Buildings of England |publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=9780300096576|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qsqx_SK3bzUC&pg=PA133|edition=2nd |orig-year=1999 |last2=Wilson |first2= Bill}}</ref>


==Works==
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*St. Peter: [[Lowestoft]], [[Suffolk]]; built 1833; white brick with no tower, [[Gothic architecture|Carpenter's Gothic style]]; demolished circa 1974
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Brown's works include:<ref>List from {{cite book|author=Howard Colvin|author-link=Howard Colvin|title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840|year=1978|publisher=John Murray|isbn=0-7195-3328-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000colv/page/145 145]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000colv/page/145}} except where otherwise cited.</ref>
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*St. Michael's (St. Michael the Greater): [[Stamford, Lincolnshire]]; built 1835&ndash;36; Early English [[Architectural style|style]]; by 2002 no longer used as a church
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*St Peter: [[Lowestoft]], Suffolk; built 1833; white brick with no tower, [[Gothic architecture|Carpenter's Gothic style]]; demolished circa 1974
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*Sudbury [[Poor law|workhouse]]: [[Sudbury, Suffolk]]; built 1836(&ndash;37?) after enactment of the [[Poor Law Amendment Act 1834]]
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*[[Church of St Michael the Greater, Stamford|St Michael's (St Michael the Greater)]]: [[Stamford, Lincolnshire]]; built 1835&ndash;36; Early English [[Architectural style|style]]; by 2002 no longer used as a church
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*The Norwich Yarn Factory: [[Norwich]]; built 1836&ndash;37
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*Sudbury [[workhouse]]: [[Sudbury, Suffolk]]; built 1836(&ndash;37?) after enactment of the [[Poor Law Amendment Act 1834]].
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*[[St James Mill|The Norwich Yarn Factory (St James Mill)]]: [[Norwich]]; built 1836&ndash;37.
*Workhouse at [[Lingwood]], Norfolk; built 1837. Later called "Homelea".<ref>Pevsner 1962, p.184.</ref> and since demolished.<ref>{{cite web|title=East Anglian Workhouses|url=http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC124394|publisher=Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse|access-date=1 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192902/http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC124394|archive-date=2 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Workhouse at [[Great Yarmouth]], Norfolk; built 1838. Later the Northgate Hospital. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "Red brick and still classical in its proportions and its details".<ref>Pevsner 1962, p.149.</ref>
*All Saints, [[Hainford]], Norfolk; 1838&ndash;40. Flint with red brick dressings; lancet windows.<ref>Pevsner 1962, p.158.</ref>
*Christ Church: East [[Greenwich]] in south-east London; built 1847&ndash;49; [[Robert Kerr (architect)|Robert Kerr]], co-architect<ref name="VCK106">{{cite book|last=Homan|first=Roger|title=The Victorian Churches of Kent|year=1984|publisher=Phillimore & Co. Ltd|location=Chichester|isbn=0-85033-466-7|page=106}}</ref>
*Christ Church: East [[Greenwich]] in south-east London; built 1847&ndash;49; [[Robert Kerr (architect)|Robert Kerr]], co-architect<ref name="VCK106">{{cite book|last=Homan|first=Roger|title=The Victorian Churches of Kent|year=1984|publisher=Phillimore & Co. Ltd|location=Chichester|isbn=0-85033-466-7|page=106}}</ref>
*St. Margaret: [[Lee, London]]; built 1839&ndash;41<ref name="VCK106"/>
*[[St Margaret's, Lee|St Margaret]]: [[Lee, London]]; built 1839&ndash;41<ref name="VCK106"/>
*Christchurch: [[New Catton, Norwich]]; built 1841
*Christchurch: [[New Catton]], Norwich; built 1841.
*St. Mark: [[New Lakenham, Norwich]]; built 1844; [[Gothic architecture|modified perpendicular style]]
*St Mark: [[New Lakenham]], Norwich; built 1844; [[Gothic architecture|modified perpendicular style]].
*St. Matthew: [[Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich]]; built 1851; [[Norman architecture|modern Norman style]]; [[Robert Kerr (architect)|Robert Kerr]], co-architect; by 2002 offices
*St Matthew: [[Thorpe Hamlet]], Norwich; built 1851; [[Norman architecture|Neo-Norman style]]; [[Robert Kerr (architect)|Robert Kerr]], co-architect; by 2002 offices.
*The Old Corn Exchange: [[Fakenham]], [[Norfolk]]; built 1855; by 2002 a cinema
*[[Corn Exchange, Fakenham]], Norfolk; built 1855.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Central Cinema|num= 1039424 |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
*St Peter & St Paul [[Bergh Apton]], Norfolk; 1838. Major internal re-ordering for Revd John Thomas Pelham.<ref>Geoffrey Kelly, Book of Bergh Apton (Halsgrove 2005) {{ISBN|1-84114-418-5}}</ref>
*Swaffham, Norfolk: [[Shirehall, Swaffham|The Shirehall]]; built 1839.


==References==
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==Sources==
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Latest revision as of 20:40, 13 August 2024

John Brown (1805–1876)[1] was a 19th-century architect working in Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, England. His buildings include churches and workhouses.

Life

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All Saints, Hainford, Norfolk (1838–40).

He was the pupil of the architect William Brown of Ipswich, a close relative.[1] He was, along with his two sons, the surveyor for Norwich Cathedral, where his work there included a restoration of the crossing tower, undertaken during the 1830s.[2] He was appointed county surveyor for Norfolk in 1835.[3]

Works

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Brown's works include:[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Basic Biographical Details". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  2. ^ Pevsner 1962, p.211.
  3. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Wilson, Bill (2002) [1999]. Norfolk 2: North West and South. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300096576.
  4. ^ List from Howard Colvin (1978). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840. John Murray. p. 145. ISBN 0-7195-3328-7. except where otherwise cited.
  5. ^ Pevsner 1962, p.184.
  6. ^ "East Anglian Workhouses". Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  7. ^ Pevsner 1962, p.149.
  8. ^ Pevsner 1962, p.158.
  9. ^ a b Homan, Roger (1984). The Victorian Churches of Kent. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. p. 106. ISBN 0-85033-466-7.
  10. ^ Historic England. "Central Cinema (1039424)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  11. ^ Geoffrey Kelly, Book of Bergh Apton (Halsgrove 2005) ISBN 1-84114-418-5

Sources

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Pevsner, Nikolaus (1962). North-East Norfolk and Norwich. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

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