John Palmer (Bath architect)

John Palmer (c. 1738 – 19 July 1817) was an English architect who worked on some of the notable buildings in the city of Bath, Somerset, UK.^[1] He succeeded Thomas Baldwin as City Architect in 1792. He died in Bath.

Some works[edit]

• St James' Church, Bath, on Stall Street (1768–1769, demolished for the Marks & Spencer building)
• St James's Parade (1768)^[2][3]
• Cottles House, now Stonar School, Atworth, Wiltshire (1775)^[4]
• Church of St Swithin, Bath, The Paragon, Bath (1777–1780)^[5]
• Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset (1785)
• Lansdown Crescent, Bath,^[6] and the adjacent Lansdown Place West and Lansdown Place East (1789-1793)^[7][8]
• Cross Bath remodelled by Palmer after work by Thomas Baldwin (1789)^[9]
• Grand Pump Room, Bath, begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin who resigned in 1791; Palmer continued the scheme^[10]
• St George's Place (c.1790)^[11]
• Cumberland House, Norfolk Crescent, Bath (c. 1790–1800, continued by John Pinch after 1810)
• Park Street (1790-1793)^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]}
• 1-8, Bath Street (1791-1794)^[34]
• Nelson Place West, Bath (c. 1800–1820, continued by John Pinch after 1810)
• Stall Street, Bath (c. 1790–1800)
• St James's Square, Bath (1791–1794)^[35]
• St James's Street (1791)^[36][37]
• 6-9, Abbey Church Yard (1790s)^[38]
• Royal Mineral Water Hospital additions, Bath (1793)^[39]
• Kensington Chapel, London Road, Walcot, Bath (1794)^[40]
• Kensington Place, Bath, London Road, Walcot, Bath (1795)^[41]
• 10, Abbey Church Yard (c.1795)^[42]
• Christ Church, Bath (1798)^[43]
• Theatre Royal, Bath (1804–1805), designed by George Dance the Younger and erected by Palmer^[44]
• New Bond Street, Bath (1805–1807)

References[edit]

• H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (1997). ISBN 0-300-07207-4.
• Michael Forsyth, Bath, Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003). ISBN 0-300-10177-5.
• Jane Root, "Thomas Baldwin: His Public Career in Bath, 1775–1793" (in, ed. Trevor Fawcett, Bath History, Volume V Bath: Millstream Books Publishing Limited, 1994), pages 80–103.