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British architect
The Joint Stock Bank (now a pub) , Temple Row West was intended to be a library
[1]
St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston , 1868.
St Mary & St Ambrose, Edgbaston, 1897–98.
Julius Alfred Chatwin
FRIBA ,
ARBS ,
FSAScot (24 April 1830 – 6 June 1907) was a British architect. He was involved with the building and modification of many churches in
Birmingham , and practised both
Neo-Gothic and
Neo-Classical styles. His designs always included all of the carvings and internal fittings.
Career
Born the son of John Chatwin (1796-1855), a button manufacturer in Great Charles Street, Birmingham, and Harriet (1793-1848; née Turner),
[2] and educated at
King Edward's School on
New Street and the
University of London , he was known by the name Alfred. He worked from 1846 as an architect for the largest builders in the country,
Branson and Gwyther of Birmingham. He was articled to
Charles Barry in 1851 and worked with Barry and
Augustus Pugin on the
Victoria Tower of the
Houses of Parliament . He worked again for Gwyther personally on his enterprises in
Llandudno ,
North Wales . In 1855 he opened an office on Bennett's Hill in Birmingham. He was, from 1866, architect to the
Governors of King Edward's School and designed the first
King Edward VI High School for Girls on
New Street . From 1864 he became architect to
Lloyds Bank for over thirty years.
From 1866 he worked with his son, Philip Boughton Chatwin (
P. B. Chatwin ) (1873–1964) who became his partner in 1897.
He was made a Fellow of the
Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) on 30 November 1863 and member of the
Royal British Society of Sculptors (ARBS),
Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and Fellow of the
Royal Antiquary Society of Scotland .
He married at St James,
Handsworth on 26 October 1869. He is buried with his wife Edith Isabella Chatwin and daughter Isabella Gertrude Chatwin in
St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston . His gravestone also mentions his daughter Grace Constance Chatwin (cremated).
J.A. Chatwin was the great-grandfather of the writer
Bruce Chatwin .
[3]
Works
He designed:
Bingley Hall , 1850, now demolished
[4]
School House,
Solihull School , 1882,
Grade II listed
[5]
Most of the north side of
Colmore Row after 1866
Birmingham Greek Orthodox Cathedral – Dormition of the Mother of God and St Andrew (built as a
Catholic Apostolic church), Grade II listed
[6]
St Clement, Nechells Park Road , 1857-9 (his first church)
Holy Trinity Church, Birchfield , 1860-3 Grade II*
The Joint Stock Bank (later Lloyds Bank, now the Old Joint Stock pub and
Old Joint Stock Theatre ), Temple Row West, 1862–64, Grade II listed
[7]
St Matthew's Church, Duddeston and Nechells 1866 addition of galleries to increase seating capacity.
Knutsford Lodge, 25 Somerset Road, Grade II* listed
[8]
St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston , 1868, with 185-foot spire added later, Grade II* listed
[9]
St Lawrence's Church, Duddeston 1868 (demolished 1951)
St Gabriel's Church, Deritend 1867 – 1869
Christ Church, Summerfield , Edgbaston 1883 – 1885
St. John's Church, Ladywood 1881 new chancel
All Saints' Church, King's Heath 1883 north aisle
St John, Bewdley Road,
Kidderminster new nave 1890–94
[10]
King Edward VI Five Ways School 1882 – 1883
[11]
Lloyds Bank, Queen Square,
Wolverhampton , Grade II listed (where he is commemorated by a
blue plaque )
[12]
St Mark's Church, Washwood Heath 1890 – 1899
St Martin in the Bull Ring , (except tower and spire), Grade II* listed
[13]
St Mary,
Oldswinford , chancel 1898
[14]
St Mary, Bearwood Road,
Bearwood , 1888
[15]
St. Mary's Church, Moseley (rebuilt), Grade II listed
[16]
St Mary the Virgin, Acocks Green , chancel 1894
St Mary and St Ambrose, Pershore Road, Edgbaston , (a
red brick and terracotta church, 1897–98), Grade II listed
[17]
Saints Peter and Paul – Aston Parish Church , 1879, (except tower and spire), Grade II* listed
[18]
St. Paul's, Lozells Road, Birmingham
[19]
St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham (enlarged, with new chancel), Grade I listed
[20]
School and church,
Catherine-de-Barnes , Solihull, 1880
Work on
Uppingham School , 1870
St John the Evangelist's Church, Perry Barr 1888 new chancel, vestry and organ chamber
Wolverhampton Art Gallery , 1882, Grade II listed
[21]
New Berry Hall ,1880 & Berry Hall Lodge, Marsh Lane, Solihull, 1884, Grade II listed
[22]
St. Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston 1885 new chancel, chapels and north arcade.
Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Underwood 1890
[23]
Bishop Ryder Church , Birmingham 1894 new chancel
St. John's Church, Kidderminster 1892–1904 new chancel, nave and aisles
All Saints' Church, Stechford 1894-1898
St James' Church, Handsworth 1895; rebuilding
[24]
St James' Church, Aston 1906 (demolished 1980)
St Peter's Church, Handsworth 1907
References
^
The Pub , The Old Joint Stock Bank. Retrieved 15 October 2015
^
"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/66097 .
ISBN
9780198614111 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Bruce Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare, Random House, 2010, p. 28
^ Little, Bryan (1971).
Birmingham Buildings, The Architectural Story of a Midland City .
ISBN
0-7153-5295-4 .
^
Historic England .
"Solihull School (1203448)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"Birmingham Orthodox Cathedral (1235501)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"Joint Stock Bank (1343158)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"25 Somerset Road (1076157)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston (1076255)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Pevsner, Nikolaus (1968). Worcestershire .
The Buildings of England . p. 206.
^
"The Visit of Mr. Mundella to Birmingham. Opening of the Five Ways Grammar School" . Birmingham Daily Post . England. 17 January 1883. Retrieved 1 February 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^
Historic England .
"Details from listed building database (1279604)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"St Martin in the Bull Ring (1075690)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Pevsner, Worcestershire , p. 228
^
Pevsner, Worcestershire , p. 88
^
Historic England .
"St. Mary's Church, Moseley (1076209)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"SS Mary and Ambrose, Edgbaston (1076224)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"Saints Peter and Paul – Aston (1290008)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
"Celebration as restoration of gothic "Masterpiece" nears completion" .
English Heritage . 10 December 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2008 .
^
Historic England .
"St Philip's Cathedral (1076173)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"Wolverhampton Art Gallery (1201828)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^
Historic England .
"New Berry Hall (1076709)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 February 2015 .
^ More Churches in the Ashfield Area. Ashfield District Council.
^
"Religious History – Churches built since 1800" . A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7 . pp. 379–396. Retrieved 18 May 2014 .
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