Jeptha Pacey Explained
| Jeptha Pacey |
| Nationality: | English |
| Birth Date: | 1785? |
| Death Date: | 28 June 1862 |
| Death Place: | Skirbeck, Boston |
| Significant Buildings: | Boston Assembly Rooms |
| Significant Projects: | Construction of Fenland churches after the Fenland Churches Act. |
Jeptha Pacey (died 1862) was an architect, surveyor and building contractor working in Boston in Lincolnshire. Pacey was working as an architect at 10 Witham Place in Boston in 1826.[1]
Works
- Boston Assembly Rooms 1819-1820. The design of these buildings may be based partly on designs submitted earlier to Boston Corporation by the London architect William Atkinson. The building has a pedimented front with a canted first floor bay supported on Tuscan columns with a lattice balcony. Tall windows light a big assembly room.[2] In 1826 White records the Assembly Rooms as having been built in 1819-20. They were over the poultry house and butter market). The rooms formed a handsome elevation, containing a suite of elegant and capacious assembly and banqueting rooms.[3]
Churches
Five of six of churches built as a result of the Fens Chapels Act of 1816 have been attributed to Jeptha Pacey by Nikolaus Pevsner.[4] These churches are at Carrington (1816), Wildmore, Langrick, Midville and Frithville and are built in a late Georgian style. The exact reasons for Pevsner’s attribution are unclear, except for some similarity with the church at Whaplode Drove. A sixth church in a similar style at Eastville is known to have been designed in 1840 by the Louth architect Charles John Carter.
- Whaplode Drove Church 1821. Designed with W Swansborough of Wisbech.[5]
- Chapel at Chapel Hill, Tattershall, Lincolnshire.
- Episcopal Chapel (St Aiden’s) High Street, Boston. 1820. Jeptha Pacey was buried in the crypt of this chapel. Demolished.[6] [7]
Houses
- Wigtoft Vicarage, Lincolnshire 1817 [8]
Literature
- Antram N (revised), Pevsner, N. & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
- Colvin H. A (1995), Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840. Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, pp. 719–20.
Notes and References
- White’s Directory of Lincolnshire, 1826, pg 86.
- "Antram", (1989), pg.163.
- White’s Directory of Lincolnshire, 1826, pg 76.
- "Antram", (1989), pg.797.
- "Antram", (1989), pg.212.
- http://bostonpast.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/down-among-dead-men.html Old Boston
- ”Colvin” (1995), pp. 719-20
- "Antram", (1989), pg.798.
