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Francis Webster (1767–1827) was an architect who worked in
Kendal Civic Society has put plaques commemorating Francis Webster on several of the buildings he designed.
There are also plaques to his son George (1797–1864) who became the most important architect in the area in the early to mid-19th century.
Francis Webster (1767–1827) was an architect who worked in Kendal
Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south-east of Windermere and north of Lancaster. Historically in Westmorland, it lies within the dale of th ...
, Westmorland
Westmorland (, formerly also spelt ''Westmoreland'';R. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British IslesVision of Britain/ref> is a historic county in North West England spanning the southern Lake District and the northern Dales. It had an ...
, England. He has been described as "the first to introduce the public profession of architecture into Kendal".
Webster's family had been masons and marble polishers. He arrived in the town in about 1787 and by the end of the century he was designing houses. During the early 19th century, he designed a new Meeting House
A meeting house (meetinghouse, meeting-house) is a building where religious and sometimes public meetings take place.
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for the town's Quakers, and was also involved with the promotion and building of the Lancaster Canal which reached Kendal in 1819.
Legacy
Kendal Civic Society has put plaques commemorating Francis Webster on several of the buildings he designed.
There are also plaques to his son George (1797–1864) who became the most important architect in the area in the early to mid-19th century.
References
1767 births 1827 deaths 19th-century English architects People from Kendal Architects from Cumbria {{UK-architect-stub