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Francis Johnston (architect) Francis Johnston (1760 – 14 March 1829) was an Irish architect, best known for building the General Post Office (GPO) on O'Connell Street, Dublin. Life Johnston was born in Armagh, Ireland, son of William Johnston, also an architect, a ...

for Irish architect with a similar name.'' Francis Frederick Johnson (18 April 1911 – 29 September 1995), was an English architect born in

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in the

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. He was active in designing churches and country houses and restoring historic buildings.

Education and early career

Johnson studied at the Leeds School of Architecture and then toured Europe in 1931 on a travelling scholarship before joining the firm of Allderidge & Clark in

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. He started his own practice in 1937 in his home town of Bridlington. This was interrupted by the

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, when he served in the Royal Engineers from 1943 to 1946.

Work

Francis Johnson’s favoured field of work was domestic architecture. He is known particularly for country houses in a Georgian style. He designed a number of churches in the post-war period for clients, including the

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Commissioners. These simple buildings often show the influence of the Scandinavian classical architecture he had admired on his European tour. Francis Johnson also restored and remodelled a large number of historic buildings, including

Hardwick Hall Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect R ...

, Derbyshire,

Belton House Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in the parish of Belton near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, built between 1685 and 1688 by Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet. It is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading t ...

, Lincolnshire,

Burton Agnes Hall Burton Agnes Hall is an Elizabethan manor house in the village of Burton Agnes, near Driffield in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was built by Sir Henry Griffith in 1601–10 to designs attributed to Robert Smythson. The older ...

, East Yorkshire, and

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. His approach to restoration involved detailed research into the original colour schemes of buildings, which was a concern ahead of his time in the 1960s.

Churches

*St Margaret,

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(1956–1957) *Ascension, Calvert Road,

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'' (1957–1958) *St Michael and All Angels, Orchard Park,

(1957–1958) *Holy Nativity RC,

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(1954–1955) *St Luke's RC, Scarborough, North Yorkshire (1955–1956) *St George RC, Scarborough, North Yorkshire (1957–1958) *Methodist Chapel,

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(1958–1960) *St Joseph's RC, Newby, Scarborough, North Yorkshire (1958–1960) *Methodist Church,

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(1963) *St Thomas,

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, Sunderland (1964) *St Christopher,

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(1967–1968) *St Luke, Willerby (1968)

Private houses

* The Old Rectory, Winestead ''restoration'' (1947–1948) *Sunderlandwick Hall,

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(1962–1963) *Settrington House,

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''rebuilt after fire in 1963'' (1965) *Whitwell-on-the-Hill, Malton (1969) *Corn Exchange House,

(1972) *Garrowby Hall,

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''south range'' (1981–1982) *Hilborough House,

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''designed 1989–90'' (1996–2000)

Other

Main buildings, St Chad's College (2006-08-12)

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, Northumberland ''new block'' (1959–1960) *St Anne's Houses,

(1961–1965) *

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, Durham (1961–1964) *Beach House, Grenada (1968–1969) *

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, Church Green, Bridlington (1970) *Rectory,

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(1973) *The Pavilion (

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), Thorpe Tilney Hall,

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(1976–1980) *Swimming Pool Pavilion,

(1985)

References

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and David Neave, (2001), ''Francis Johnson Architect'', Oblong Creative, *

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and David Neave, (1972, 2nd ed., 1995), ''Yorkshire: York and the East Riding: The Buildings of England'',

External links

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