Joseph Clarke (architect) explained

Joseph Clarke
Nationality:British
Birth Date:1819 3, df=yes
Significant Projects:Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Training Institution;
Culham College

Joseph Clarke (1819–1888) was a British Gothic Revival architect who practised in London, England.

Career

In 1839, Clarke exhibited an antiquarian drawing with the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture.[1] He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1841 and a Fellow of the RIBA in 1850. He became a member of the Ecclesiological Society in 1853.[2] He served as Diocesan Surveyor to the sees of Canterbury and Rochester, and from 1871 to the see of St Albans. He was also Consultant Architect to the Charity Commissioners.

In 1852, Clarke published Schools and Schoolhouses: a series of Views, Plans, and Details, for Rural Parishes. In this he condemned the set of model plans issued by the Committee of Council on Education as "unsuitable in every way" and stressed the advantages of employing an architect for every new school, rather than relying on a standardised design:

The plan should always be formed to the site, and reference had to local materials; the design of the school, again, should conform to the materials. Brick and stone each require their separate uses, and so their several applications.[3]
The book included plans of twelve schools he had built in Kent, Essex and Oxfordshire, at Monks Horton, Lydd, Little Bentley, Coggeshall, Clifton Hampton, Coopershall, Wellesborough, Brabourne, Boreham, Foxearth, Hatfield and Leigh (Essex).[4]

He drew up ambitious plans for an extension to the House of Charity in Greek Street Soho, including a chapel, refectory, dormitories and cloisters. Only the chapel (begun 1862) was actually built.His association with commissions in Oxfordshire make it possible that he was the "Joseph Clarke, esq., architect" who presented plans for restoring the gatehouse at Rye, the intended scene of the Rye House Plot, to the Oxford Architectural Society in May 1842.[5]

Clarke exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1845 and 1870. The exhibition catalogues give his address as 1, Lincoln's Inn Fields, from 1845 to 1850; and 13, Stratford Place, thereafter.

He is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Work

Buildings

Writings

Sources

Notes and References

  1. 1839 . none . Proceedings . Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture . 23 .
  2. The Ecclesiologist . 1854 . 44 . 15 . Ecclesiological Late Cambridge Camden Society.
  3. June 1852 . School Architecture . The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal . 15 . 161 . Laxton . William .
  4. . Reviews . 199 . 1852 . 13.
  5. Noted in July 1842 . Architecture . . 78 .
  6. s.v. "Underwood, Henry Jones"
  7. Subject of an article in November 1852 . Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Training Institution . The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal . 15 . 361 . Laxton. William.
  8. Web site: The Church of St Alban's . Living Memories: Churches & Faith . Sparth then and now.
  9. Salter 2000, page 131
  10. Book: Stephens, W.B. . 1970 . History of Congleton: Published to Celebrate the 700th Anniversary of the Granting of the Charter to the Town . Manchester . . 978-0-7190-1245-7 . 222 .
  11. The Church Builder . Churches Restored or Enlarged . 89 . 1867.
  12. Tender reported in 19 March 1870 . none . . 28 . 234 .
  13. Web site: CHURCH OF ST MARY, Dacorum . . historicengland.org.uk . Historic England . 1 March 2021 .
  14. Web site: Holy Trinity, Beckenham . John E. Vigar's Kent Churches . 2013 .
  15. Web site: London Gardens Online. londongardensonline.org.uk. 2016-01-28.
  16. Web site: Holy Cross Church, Hoath - Architectural & Historical Information. 6 August 2015.

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