Thomas Talbot Bury (26 November 1809 – 23 February 1877) was a British architect and

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. There seems to be some dispute about Bury's date of birth. According to Grace's Guide, the 1877

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Obituaries gives a DOB as 26 September 1811, the Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 Vol.1 and the

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agree. The Royal Academy gives a date of simply 1809 and the Science Museum agrees with them. Bury was articled to

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in 1824 and started his own practice in

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in 1830. At various times he collaborated with other notable architects including Charles Lee ( partners between 1845 and 1849),

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and A. W. N. Pugin, with whom he detailed the

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under Sir

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. Bury's works included thirty-five churches and chapels, fifteen parsonages, twelve schools and twenty other large public buildings and private homes. His ecclesiastical works included St Mary the Virgin's Church, Woodlands (near

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(1850); the chapels at

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cemetery (1856); St James's Church,

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, (1859); St Ann's Church, Tottenham, (1861); St John the Evangelist's Church in

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, West Sussex, (1861–63), St Mary's,

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Woodlands and Welford St Gregory, both near

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. He also carried out a restoration of St Peter and St Paul's Church at

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near Dover. Bury was also known for his engravings and lithography, notably of the works of Augustus Welby Pugin and

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. He exhibited at the

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between 1846 and 1872, and was noted for the sketches he produced for Ackermann's series of lithographs and aquatints of the "Coloured Views of the

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", in 1831, republished in 1976. Bury was made a Fellow of the

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in 1843 and was elected vice-president in 1876. He was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a council member of the

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of Great Britain and Ireland and an associate of the Society of Civil Engineers. Bury died at his home in Cavendish Square, London and is buried at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bury, Thomas Talbot 1809 births 1877 deaths 19th-century English architects Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Gothic Revival architects English ecclesiastical architects Burials at West Norwood Cemetery English lithographers