Joseph T. Parkinson (1783 - May 1855, London) was an English architect.
He was the son of land agent and museum proprietor James Parkinson. He was articled to William Pilkington. He was a member of James Burton's Loyal British Artificers, a voluntary militia formed in consideration of the prospective invasion by France. In 1805, Parkinson designed a castellated house for Burton's personal residence, which Burton named Mabledon House,[1] [2] near Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent.[3] [4] Parkinson's design of Mabledon was described in 1810 by the local authority as 'an elegant imitation of an ancient castellated mansion'.[1]
He converted his father's Blackfriars Rotunda building, adding a new chemical laboratory and library for its use by the Surrey Institution from 1808. In 1811 he laid out London's Bryanston Square[5] and designed houses in nearby Montagu Square.[6] He was subsequently commissioned to design a new mansion at Rotherfield Park, near Winchester from 1815.[7] Between 1822 and 1830 he supervised the reconstruction of parts of Magdalen College, Oxford,[8] and in 1831, he directed the rebuilding of the body of Streatham's St Leonard's Parish Church.[9]
His pupils included John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon, Thomas Hayter Lewis,[10] and George Ledwell Taylor.
He was later surveyor to the Union Fire Assurance Company and also district surveyor of Westminster. He is buried in Kensal Green cemetery.