John Jones Bateman (1817–1903
) was an English
architect
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, active in the town (later city) of
Birmingham
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, where he designed a number of important civic buildings, and
nonconformist churches, often in partnership with
George Drury.
He was the founder and first president of the
Birmingham Architectural Association
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.
The 1861 and 1871 censuses show his home as Hawkesford House (since demolished and replaced by an apartment block of the same name),
Castle Bromwich
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.
Bateman had five daughters and three sons, although one of the latter died in infancy.
The younger of his surviving sons,
Charles Edward Bateman, was also an architect and was
articled
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to his father from 1881 to 1886. becoming his partner, as Bateman and Bateman, in 1887.
Another of Bateman's clerks was
Frederick John Yates.
Bateman died on 13 June 1903 aged 85 and is buried with his wife Mary (died 1869, age 45), their eight children, and his sister, also Mary, in the family plot in graveyard of
St Mary & St Margaret at Castle Bromwich.
Works
Bateman's works include:
* Mechanics Institution, Newhall Street, Birmingham (with G Drury)
* Bromsgrove Union Workhouse (1837, with G Drury; only entrance block survives)
* Stratford-upon-Avon Union Workhouse (1837, with G Drury; only minor buildings survive)
* Leek Union Workhouse (1838, with G Drury; now a geriatric care home)
*
Queen's Hospital
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, Bath Row, Birmingham (1841, with G Drury; now
Grade II listed
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student accommodation)
*
Queen's College, Birmingham (1843, with G Drury; facade replaced 1904, rear since demolished)
[''A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 7 – The City of Birmingham'', ed W. B. Stephens, University of London Institute of Historical Research, Oxford University Press, 1964]
** a new Museum for the college (1856)
* Church of the Saviour, Edward Street/ Helena Street, Birmingham (1846, with G Drury; demolished)
*
Birmingham Union Workhouse
The Birmingham Union Workhouse was a workhouse on Western Road in Birmingham, England.
Earlier workhouse
The ''Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary'' was a workhouse constructed in 1734 on the site of the present day Coleridge Passage in the city cen ...
(1850, with G Drury; now derelict)
*
Church of the Messiah (1860; demolished 1978)
References
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1817 births
1903 deaths
Architects from Birmingham, West Midlands