John Lowder was an architect and surveyor working in

Bath, Somerset Bath (Received Pronunciation, RP: , ) is a city in Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman Baths (Bath), Roman-built baths. At the 2021 census, the population was 94,092. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, Bristol, River A ...

, England. He was the

Bath City Surveyor The prominent post of Bath City Architect and Surveyor was bestowed by the Corporation of Bath, Somerset, England, on an architect who would be repeatedly chosen for civic projects. The posts were often bestowed separately with surveyor being the f ...

for a short time. In Bath, Lowder designed the

Commissioners' church A Commissioners' church, also known as a Waterloo church and Million Act church, is an Anglicanism, Anglican church in England or Wales built with money voted by Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament as a result of the (58 Geo. 3. ...

of Holy Trinity, James Street, (1819–1822) in the classical style but it was constructed in a Gothic style. Declared redundant after being severely damaged by bombing in 1942, the structure was demolished in 1957 and its congregation moved to a neighbouring church, which has subsequently been renamed Holy Trinity, Queens Square.

List of works

*Rectory, now Bishopstone House, Bishopstone near Salisbury, 1812–1819 *The National School, Bath, 1816–1818 (demolished in the late 1960s) *Holy Trinity, James Street, 1819–1822 (demolished in the late 1950s)

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19th-century English architects Architects from Bath, Somerset Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{England-architect-stub