John Brown (1805–1876) was a 19th-century architect working in Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, England. His buildings include churches and workhouses.

Life

All Saints, Hainford, Norfolk - geograph

He was the pupil of the architect William Brown of Ipswich, a close relative. He was, along with his two sons, the

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for Norwich Cathedral, where his work there included a restoration of the crossing tower, undertaken during the 1830s. He was appointed county surveyor for Norfolk in 1835.

Works

Brown's works include: *St Peter:

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, Suffolk; built 1833; white brick with no tower, Carpenter's Gothic style; demolished circa 1974 * St Michael's (St Michael the Greater): Stamford, Lincolnshire; built 1835–36; Early English style; by 2002 no longer used as a church *Sudbury workhouse: Sudbury, Suffolk; built 1836(–37?) after enactment of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. * The Norwich Yarn Factory (St James Mill): Norwich; built 1836–37. *Workhouse at

Lingwood Lingwood is a village and former civil parish, east of Norwich, now in the parish of Lingwood and Burlingham, in the Broadland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. In 2011 the built-up area had a population of 2,719 and the built-up ...

, Norfolk; built 1837. Later called "Homelea". and since demolished. *Workhouse at

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, Norfolk; built 1838. Later the Northgate Hospital. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "Red brick and still classical in its proportions and its details". *All Saints,

Hainford Hainford (originally Haynford) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 951 in 365 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 989 in 391 households at the 20 ...

, Norfolk; 1838–40. Flint with red brick dressings; lancet windows. *Christ Church: East Greenwich in south-east London; built 1847–49; Robert Kerr, co-architect *

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: Lee, London; built 1839–41 *Christchurch:

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, Norwich; built 1841. *St Mark:

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, Norwich; built 1844; modified perpendicular style. *St Matthew: Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich; built 1851; Neo-Norman style; Robert Kerr, co-architect; by 2002 offices. *The Old Corn Exchange: Fakenham, Norfolk; built 1855; by 2002 a cinema. *St Peter & St Paul

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, Norfolk; 1838. Major internal re-ordering for Revd John Thomas Pelham.Geoffrey Kelly, Book of Bergh Apton (Halsgrove 2005)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, John 19th-century English architects Architects from Norwich 1805 births 1876 deaths English ecclesiastical architects