Edward Buckton Lamb was a British architect who exhibited at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...

 from 1824. Lamb was labelled a 'Rogue Gothic Revivalist

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

', and for breaking with convention, his designs were roundly criticised, especially by The Ecclesiologist.

Life

He was born in London

London

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, England

England

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, his father James Lamb being a government official. He was articled to Lewis Nockalls Cottingham

Lewis Nockalls Cottingham

Lewis Nockalls Cottingham was a British architect who pioneered the study of Medieval Gothic architecture. He was a restorer and conservator of existing buildings...

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He contributed to Loudon's Encyclopaedia

John Claudius Loudon

John Claudius Loudon was a Scottish botanist, garden and cemetery designer, author and garden magazine editor.-Background:...

(1833), published studies on Gothic

Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....

 Ornament (1830), Ancient Domestic Architecture (1846) with text by William Henry Leeds

William Henry Leeds

William Henry Leeds was an English architectural critic and journalist.Leeds was a frequent contributor to the Foreign Quarterly Review in the 1830s, writing for them on Russian literature as well as architecture. In the 1840s he wrote for the Westminster Review...

, and contributed regularly to the Architectural Magazine (1834–8).

Buildings

Notable buildings he was responsible for include:

• All Saints' Church, Hartlepool
  Hartlepool
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• St Margaret's, Leiston, Suffolk (1853)
• Christ Church, Hartlepool (1854)
• Berkhamsted
  Berkhamsted
  -Climate:Berkhamsted experiences an oceanic climate similar to almost all of the United Kingdom.-Castle:...
  
   Town Hall
• Episcopal Church, Dumfries
  Dumfries
  Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South...
  
  
• Eye
  Eye, Suffolk
  Eye is a small market town in the county of Suffolk, East Anglia, England, south of Diss, and on the River Dove.Eye is twinned with the town of Pouzauges in the Vendée Departement of France.-History:An island...
  
   Town Hall
• St Mary Magdalene Church, Addiscombe
  Addiscombe
  Addiscombe is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Croydon. It is situated south of Charing Cross.It is situated just to the northeast of central Croydon, and is home to a high proportion of people who commute to Central London, owing to its proximity to the busy...
  
   (1868–70)
• Hughenden Manor
  Hughenden Manor
  Hughenden Manor is a red brick Victorian mansion, located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. In the 19th century, it was the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli...
  
  , alterations for Benjamin Disraeli

Publications

• Etchings of Gothic Ornament 1830
• Studies of Ancient Domestic Architecture 1846

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