Bath City Surveyor
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The prominent post of Bath City Architect and Surveyor was bestowed by the Corporation of Bath, Somerset
on an architect who would be repeatedly chosen for civic
projects. The posts were often bestowed separately with surveyor being the first appointment. Surveyors such as Lowder never shared the title with that of City Architect
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Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
on an architect who would be repeatedly chosen for civic
Civic center
A civic center or civic centre is a prominent land area within a community that is constructed to be its focal point or center. It usually contains one or more dominant public buildings, which may also include a government building...
projects. The posts were often bestowed separately with surveyor being the first appointment. Surveyors such as Lowder never shared the title with that of City Architect
Bath City Architect
The prominent post of Bath City Architect was bestowed by the Corporation of Bath, England, on an architect who would be repeatedly chosen for civic projects.* Thomas Warr Attwood –1775* Thomas Baldwin 1780–1792* John Palmer 1792–1817...
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- Thomas Warr AttwoodThomas Warr AttwoodThomas Warr Attwood was an English builder, architect and local politician in Bath.He was a member of a prominent local family and a member of the city Council from 1760. Although he held no formal appointment, he acted as city surveyor and architect...
(unofficially) –1775 - Thomas BaldwinThomas Baldwin (architect)Thomas Baldwin was an English surveyor and architect in Bath.He did not originally hail from Bath but was first recorded in the city in 1774, where he was initially a clerk to plumber, glazier, and politician Thomas Warr Attwood. By 1775, he was appointed as the Bath City Architect after...
1776–1792 - John Palmer 1792–1817
- John LowderJohn Lowder (architect)John Lowder was an architect and surveyor working in Bath, Somerset. He was the Bath City Surveyor for a short time.In Bath, he designed the Commission church of Holy Trinity, James Street, in the classical style but it was constructed in a Gothic style...
1817–1823 - George Phillips MannersGeorge Phillips MannersGeorge Phillips Manners was an English architect, City Architect and →to the city of Bath from 1823 to 1862.In his early career he worked with Charles Harcourt Masters and after about 1845 was in partnership with C.E. Gill...
1823–1862