John Palmer (Bath architect)
English architect
John Palmer
Born 1738 Died 19 July 1817 Nationality British Occupation Architect
John Palmer (c. 1738 – 19 July 1817) was an English architect who worked on some of the notable buildings in the city of Bath, Somerset , UK.[ 1] He succeeded Thomas Baldwin as City Architect in 1792. He died in Bath.
Some works
St James' Church, Bath , on Stall Street (1768–1769, demolished for the Marks & Spencer building)
St James's Parade (1768)[ 2] [ 3]
Cottles House, now Stonar School , Atworth , Wiltshire (1775)[ 4]
Church of St Swithin, Bath , The Paragon , Bath (1777–1780)[ 5]
Shockerwick House , Bathford , Somerset (1785)
Lansdown Crescent, Bath ,[ 6] and the adjacent Lansdown Place West and Lansdown Place East (1789-1793)[ 7] [ 8]
Cross Bath remodelled by Palmer after work by Thomas Baldwin (1789)[ 9]
Grand Pump Room, Bath , begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin who resigned in 1791; Palmer continued the scheme[ 10]
St George's Place (c.1790)[ 11]
Cumberland House, Norfolk Crescent, Bath (c. 1790–1800, continued by John Pinch after 1810)
Park Street (1790-1793)[ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] [ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] [ 31] [ 32] [ 33]
1-8, Bath Street (1791-1794)[ 34]
Nelson Place West, Bath (c. 1800–1820, continued by John Pinch after 1810)
Stall Street, Bath (c. 1790–1800)
St James's Square, Bath (1791–1794)[ 35]
St James's Street (1791)[ 36] [ 37]
6-9, Abbey Church Yard (1790s)[ 38]
Royal Mineral Water Hospital additions, Bath (1793)[ 39]
Kensington Chapel , London Road, Walcot, Bath (1794)[ 40]
Kensington Place, Bath , London Road, Walcot, Bath (1795)[ 41]
10, Abbey Church Yard (c.1795)[ 42]
Christ Church, Bath (1798)[ 43]
Theatre Royal, Bath (1804–1805), designed by George Dance the Younger and erected by Palmer[ 44]
New Bond Street, Bath (1805–1807)
References
H.M. Colvin , A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (1997). ISBN 0-300-07207-4 .
Michael Forsyth, Bath , Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003). ISBN 0-300-10177-5 .
Jane Root, "Thomas Baldwin: His Public Career in Bath, 1775–1793" (in, ed. Trevor Fawcett, Bath History , Volume V Bath: Millstream Books Publishing Limited, 1994), pages 80–103.
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