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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)
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Cottles House, now
Stonar School ,
Atworth , Wiltshire (1775)
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Church of St Swithin, Bath ,
The Paragon , Bath (1777–1780)
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Shockerwick House ,
Bathford , Somerset (1785)
Lansdown Crescent, Bath ,
[6] and the adjacent Lansdown Place West and Lansdown Place East (1789-1793)
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Cross Bath remodelled by Palmer after work by Thomas Baldwin (1789)
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Grand Pump Room, Bath , begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin who resigned in 1791; Palmer continued the scheme
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St George's Place (c.1790)
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Cumberland House,
Norfolk Crescent, Bath (c. 1790–1800, continued by
John Pinch after 1810)
Park Street (1790-1793)
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1-8, Bath Street (1791-1794)
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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)
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St James's Street (1791)
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6-9, Abbey Church Yard (1790s)
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Royal Mineral Water Hospital additions, Bath (1793)
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Kensington Chapel , London Road, Walcot, Bath (1794)
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Kensington Place, Bath , London Road, Walcot, Bath (1795)
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10, Abbey Church Yard (c.1795)
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Christ Church, Bath (1798)
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Theatre Royal, Bath (1804–1805), designed by
George Dance the Younger and erected by Palmer
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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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