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John Croft (1800–1865) was a British architect, practising in

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, London, who was one of the "rogue-architect"s described by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel.

Early life

John Croft was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, in 1800. He married Emma and at the time of the 1861 census was living at 26, Wellington Street, Islington, London. The census of that year records that he had three sons and a daughter. His sons Arthur (1828) and John (1841) were artists while his son

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(1831) was an architect. He had a daughter Jessy (1841).

Works

Croft designed the Church of St John the Baptist,

Lower Shuckburgh Lower Shuckburgh is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Upper and Lower Shuckburgh, (which in the 2001 census had a population of 82) in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in eastern Warwickshire, England. In 1961 the parish ...

, Warwickshire, on the site of an earlier church, almost nothing of which now remains. The building is

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and was completed in 1860 or 1864. He also designed the vicarage. Croft also designed All Saints, Cold Hanworth, Lincolnshire.

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1800 births 1865 deaths Architects from Staffordshire People from Bilston {{UK-architect-stub