Clark Rampling (bapt 6 April 1793 – buried 7 March 1875) was an English architect who worked from offices in London and from about 1820 in

Birkenhead Birkenhead () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. The town is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. It lies within the Historic counties of England, historic co ...

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(now in

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). By 1841 he was joined in partnership in Birkenhead by his nephew Robert Bushell Rampling and the practice was known as C. and R. B. Rampling. His best known work is the

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, which was built in 1835–37 in Neoclassical style. This building is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II*

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. Earlier, he had designed the Church of St Mary, Birch, a

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Gothic Revival style Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century ...

, (c. 1827/28) which has since been demolished. Other works in Cheshire and

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include * 1832 Villas at Mill Bank, Nr.

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* 1833/35

Birkenhead Town Hall Birkenhead Town Hall is a civic building and former town hall in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England. The building was the former administrative headquarters of the County Borough of Birkenhead, and more recently, council ...

* 1834 House for Spencer Jones, West Derby * 1837 The Fish Hall, Murray Street,

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* 1830/40 Estate cottages,

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, West Kirby * 1840 Magistrates' offices, Birkenhead * 1840 St John the Evangelist,

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* 1845 Market etc., Birkenhead Clark Rampling died in 1875 in Tranmere, which is now in

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British neoclassical architects Architects from Cheshire 1793 births 1875 deaths Gothic Revival architects English ecclesiastical architects {{UK-architect-stub