Jeptha Pacey (died 1862) was an architect, surveyor and building contractor working in
Boston
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in Lincolnshire. Pacey was working as an ''architect'' at 10 Witham Place in Boston in 1826.
Works
*Boston Assembly Rooms 1819-1820. The design of these buildings may be based partly on designs submitted earlier to Boston Corporation by the London architect
William Atkinson. The building has a
pediment
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ed front with a canted first floor bay supported on
Tuscan columns with a lattice balcony. Tall windows light a big assembly room. In 1826 White records the Assembly Rooms as having been built in 1819-20. They were over the poultry house and butter market). The rooms formed a ''handsome elevation, containing a suite of elegant and capacious assembly and banqueting rooms''.
Churches
Five of six of churches built as a result of the
Fens Chapels Act 1816 have been attributed to Jeptha Pacey by
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (195 ...
. These churches are at
Carrington (1816),
Wildmore,
Langrick,
Midville and
Frithville and are built in a late
Georgian style. The exact reasons for Pevsner’s attribution are unclear, except for some similarity with the church at Whaplode Drove. A sixth church in a similar style at
Eastville is known to have been designed in 1840 by the Louth architect
Charles John Carter.
*Whaplode Drove Church 1821. Designed with W Swansborough of
Wisbech
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.
*Chapel at Chapel Hill,
Tattershall, Lincolnshire.
*Episcopal Chapel (St Aiden’s) High Street, Boston. 1820. Jeptha Pacey was buried in the crypt of this chapel. Demolished.
Houses
*Wigtoft Vicarage, Lincolnshire 1817
["Antram", (1989), pg.798.]
References
Literature
*Antram N (revised),
Pevsner, N. & Harris J, (1989), ''
The Buildings of England
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: Lincolnshire'', Yale University Press.
*Colvin H. A (1995), ''Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840''. Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, pp. 719–20.
External links
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19th-century English architects
English ecclesiastical architects
Architects from Lincolnshire
1862 deaths
1785 births