Joseph T. Parkinson (1783 - May 1855, London) was an English architect.
He was the son of land agent and museum proprietor James Parkinson. He was articled to William Pilkington. He was a member of James Burton's Loyal British Artificers, a voluntary militia formed in consideration of the prospective invasion by France.[1] In 1805, Parkinson designed a castellated house for Burton's personal residence, which Burton named Mabledon House,[1][2] near Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent.[3][4] Parkinson's design of Mabledon was described in 1810 by the local authority as 'an elegant imitation of an ancient castellated mansion'.[1]
He converted his father's Blackfriars Rotunda building, adding a new chemical laboratory and library for its use by the Surrey Institution from 1808. In 1811 he laid out London's Bryanston Square[5] and designed houses in nearby Montagu Square.[6] He was subsequently commissioned to design a new mansion at Rotherfield Park, near Winchester from 1815.[7] Between 1822 and 1830 he supervised the reconstruction of parts of Magdalen College, Oxford,[8] and in 1831, he directed the rebuilding of the body of Streatham's St Leonard's Parish Church.[9]
His pupils included John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon, Thomas Hayter Lewis,[10] and George Ledwell Taylor.
He was later surveyor to the Union Fire Assurance Company and also district surveyor of Westminster. He is buried in Kensal Green cemetery.
References edit
- ^ a b c Williams, Guy (1990). Augustus Pugin Versus Decimus Burton: A Victorian Architectural Duel. London: Cassell Publishers Ltd. pp. 19–20. ISBN 0-304-31561-3.
- ^ "James Burton [Haliburton], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50182. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Williams, Guy (1990). Augustus Pugin Versus Decimus Burton: A Victorian Architectural Duel. London: Cassell Publishers Ltd. p. 135. ISBN 0-304-31561-3.
- ^ "Mabledon Park, Royal Tunbridge Wells, England". Parks and Gardens UK. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ "Bryanston Square". London Gardens Online. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ "34 Montagu Square". This Day in Music. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ "Rotherfield Park, Winchester, England". Parks and Gardens UK. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ "Joseph Parkinson - Summary". Parks and Gardens UK. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ "Saint Leonard, Streatham: Streatham High Road, Lambeth". AIM25. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ "Thomas Hayter Lewis". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- Torrens, H. S. "Parkinson, James (bap. 1730, d. 1813), land agent and museum proprietor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21370. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.