Richard Charles Sutton was an architect based in

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and nor ...

. He was born 1834 and died on 18 October 1915. He was a member of Nottingham City Council from 1887 to 1901.

Career

He was articled to

Samuel Sanders Teulon Samuel Sanders Teulon (2 March 1812 – 2 May 1873) was an English Gothic Revival architect, noted for his use of polychrome brickwork and the complex planning of his buildings. Family Teulon was born in 1812 in Greenwich, Kent, the son of a ...

and commenced independent practice in Nottingham in 1857. He went into partnership with his son,

Ernest Richard Eckett Sutton Ernest Richard Eckett Sutton (1860 - 19 July 1946) FRIBA (also Richard Ernest Eckett Sutton) was an English architect based in Nottingham. Career He was born the son of Richard Charles Sutton and was articled to him in 1876. Later he was assis ...

, in 1894. He retired in 1906. He attended to the execution of

Richard Thomas Parker Richard Thomas Parker (1834 – 10 August 1864) was an English murderer who was the last person to be publicly executed in Nottingham. Life He was christened in Thurgarton on 26 October 1834. Richard Thomas Parker of Fiskerton, a butcher, was p ...

outside Shire Hall, Nottingham on 10 August 1864. This was the last execution in Nottingham. He stood as Liberal candidate for the Sherwood Ward of Nottingham Town Council in the elections of 1886, and won.

Buildings by Sutton

* Shire Hall, Nottingham 1859. New grand jury room. *Wesleyan Methodist School, 12 Kirkhill, Bingham. 1859 *Shipley and Cotmanhay national schools 1860. *Police stations at Basford, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Arnold and West Stockwith. 1861 *

Castle Gate Congregational Centre Castle Gate Congregational Centre is in Nottingham. It is a Grade II listed building. History The congregation formed in the 1650s. The first meeting house on Castle Gate was established in 1689 under the Act of Toleration. The present build ...

, Nottingham. 1863 * St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham. 1863 *

Christ Church, Peas Hill Christ Church, Peas Hill is a former Unitarian Church which was at the junction of Peas Hill Road and Raglan Street in Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary aut ...

, Nottingham. 1863 *Moneta House, 53 Ricardo Street, Stoke-on-Trent. 1865 *'' Walter Fountain, Greyfriars Gate and Carrington Street, Nottingham. 1866. Demolished 1950.'' *''Congregational Chapel, Albion Square, Pembroke Dock 1867. Demolished 1989.'' Town Hall Ilkeston

* Ilkeston Town Hall. 1867-68 *Congregational Institute, Forest Road, Nottingham 1868 Grade II listed. (now Nottingham Deaf Society) * The Workhouse, Southwell. 1868. Extension. * St. Mary's Church, Attenborough,

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. 1868–69. Repairs. * St Ann's Well Road Congregational Church 1870 * St. Peter's Church, Radford. 1870–72. Extension. * Parliament Street Methodist Church, Nottingham. 1874 * Forest Road Primitive Methodist Church, Nottingham 1874 *Methodist New Connexion Chapel, rough close, Staffordshire 1874 *St. Peter's Church, Mill End,

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. 1875 * St. Mary's Church, Arnold 1877 restoration *Beauvale School,

Greasley Greasley is a civil parish north west of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. Although it is thought there was once a village called Greasley, there is no settlement of that name today as it was destroyed by the Earl of Rutland. The built up ...

, Nottinghamshire 1878 *'' St. Philip's Church, Pennyfoot Street, Nottingham. 1879. Demolished 1963.'' *Stapleford Board Schools, 1880 * Wollaton Road Methodist Church, Beeston 1882-83 *Boot & Co. Ltd, 16-20 Goose Gate, Nottingham. 1883 *Kimberley Cemetery mortuary chapel 1883 *Long Eaton United Free Methodist Church 1885 *Shops on Heathcote Street, Nottingham 1887 * St George in the Meadows, Nottingham. 1887-91 *'' Morley Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Blue Bell Hill, 1888 – 1889 Closed 1942, demolished 1972.'' *United Methodist Free Church,

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. 1890 *''Schools at Morley Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Blue Bell Hill 1891'' * Norton Street Congregational Church 1894 Gainsborough - United Reformed Church - geograph

Gainsborough - United Reformed Church - geograph

*John Robinson Memorial Church, Gainsborough 1894Stamford Mercury – Friday 19 January 1894 *Warehouse, 3

Stoney Street, Nottingham Stoney Street is an historic street in Nottingham City Centre between High Pavement and Carlton Street. History The street is medieval and formed the north to south spine of the Saxon town. For many years the street was a cul-de-sac, terminat ...

. 1896 * Musters Road Methodist Church,

West Bridgford West Bridgford () is a town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Rushcliffe, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies south of Nottingham city centre, east of Wilford, north of Ruddington and west of Radcliffe-on-Trent ...

, Nottingham. 1899.

Sources

*''The Buildings of England'',

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 ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton, Richard Charles 19th-century English architects 1834 births 1915 deaths Nottingham City Councillors Architects from Nottingham