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] In 1775 Palmer produced an alternative design for Bath Corporation's new Guildhall; however they chose Thomas Baldwin's design, promoted by Thomas Warr Attwood.[2]
Palmer is attributed with the design of arguably one of Bath's finest crescents, Lansdown with it two convex wings Lansdown Place East and Lansdown Place West. [3] It was begun in 1785 after Charles Spackman and the banker John Lowder purchased land on which to build No1 Lansdown Crescent.[4]
Bath's Mineral Water Hospital Governors employed Palmer to take on Baldwin's plans to expand the hospital, adding an upper story to John Wood's original design in 1793 costing £900.[5]
Palmer succeeded Thomas Baldwin as City Architect in 1792.
He died in Bath in 1817 and is buried in St Swithin's, Walcot. A memorial to his wife Edith, daughter Edith and grand-daughter Eliza Tylee is in the upper gallery.
Pencil drawing of Mr John Palmer, architect of Bath.
Some works
St James' Church, Bath, on Stall Street (1768–1769, gutted by incendiary bombs in 1942[6] and demolished for the former Marks & Spencer building)
Cross Bath remodelled by Palmer 1797-98 to accommodate the Baths when Bath Street was created, [14] after work by Thomas Baldwin (1789).[15] His round plan and elevation were approved by the Bath Corporation 22 July 1797[16]
↑Root, Jane (1994). Thomas Baldwin, Bath History vol V. Bath: Millstream Books. p.80. ISBN0948975377.
↑Robertson, Charles (1975). Bath an Architectural Guide. London: Faber & Faber. pp.76–77. ISBN0571108059.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
↑Elliott, Kirsden (January 2008). "The Creation of Lansdown Crescent, p. 34". The Bath Magazine– via Bath City Archives.
↑Rolls, Roger (1988). The Hospital of the Nation. Bird. p.27. ISBN0951321900.
↑Bath an Architects Guide, Charles Robertson. Intro by Jan Morris, 1975, Faber
↑Root, Jane (1994). History of Bath (1994ed.). Bath: Millstream Books. p.86. ISBN0948975377.
↑"Cross Bath". Historic England. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
↑Manco, Jean (1988). Bath History journal volume II, The Cross Bath. Bath: Millstream Books. pp.70–75. ISBN0862995086.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
↑Root, Jane (1994). Thomas Baldwin, Bath History vol V. Bath: Millstream Books. p.94. ISBN0948975377.
↑"Grand Pump Room". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (1997). ISBN0-300-07207-4.
Michael Forsyth, Bath, Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003). ISBN0-300-10177-5.
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.
