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Name
  
Edward Lamb


Role
  
Architect

Edward Buckton Lamb

Died
  
1869, London, United Kingdom

Edward Buckton Lamb (1806–1869) was a British architect who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1824. Lamb was labelled a 'Rogue Gothic Revivalist', and his designs were roundly criticised for breaking with convention, especially by The Ecclesiologist. More recently Nikolaus Pevsner called him "the most original though certainly not the most accomplished architect of his day".

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Life

He was born in London, England, his father James Lamb being a government official. He was articled to Lewis Nockalls Cottingham.

He was selected to design the chapel for the Brompton Hospital, then being built to the designs of Frederick John Francis, and was retained to complete the main building, in collaboration with Francis.

He contributed to Loudon's Encyclopaedia (1833), published studies on Gothic Ornament (1830), Ancient Domestic Architecture (1846) with text by William Henry Leeds, and contributed regularly to the Architectural Magazine (1834–8).

Buildings

Notable buildings he was responsible for include:

  • Brompton Hospital Chapel, London, and in collaboration with F.J. Francis, parts of the main Hospital building.
  • All Saints' Church, Hartlepool
  • St Stephen's church, Aldwark, Yorkshire (1846–53)
  • St Luke's Chapel, Brompton Hospital (1849)
  • St Margaret's, Leiston, Suffolk (1853)
  • Christ Church, Hartlepool (1854)
  • Berkhamsted Town Hall
  • Episcopal Church, Dumfries
  • Eye Town Hall
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  • St. Martin's church, Vicar's Road, Gospel Oak, London (consecrated 1865)
  • St Mary Magdalene Church, Addiscombe (1868–70)
  • Hughenden Manor, alterations for Benjamin Disraeli
  • Wadhurst Castle
  • Publications

  • Etchings of Gothic Ornament 1830
  • Studies of Ancient Domestic Architecture 1846
  • References

    Edward Buckton Lamb Wikipedia


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