Joseph T. Parkinson
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 volunteers, the Loyal British Artificers (formed in 1804), working for refugees from revolutionary France, and in 1805 designed a castellated house for Burton's personal residence (Mabledon Park, near Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent).[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[2] and designed houses in nearby Montagu Square.[3] He was subsequently commissoned to design a new mansion at Rotherfield Park, near Winchester from 1815.[4] Between 1822 and 1830 he supervised the reconstruction of parts of Magdalen College, Oxford,[5] and in 1831, he directed the rebuilding of the body of Streatham's St Leonard's Parish Church.[6]
His pupils included John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon, Thomas Hayter Lewis,[7] 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
- ↑ "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 as an article on Wikisource:
"Parkinson, James (1730?-1813)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.