John Palmer (c. 1738 – 19 July 1817) was an English architect who worked on some of the notable buildings in the city of Bath, Somerset, UK.[1] He succeeded Thomas Baldwin as City Architect in 1792. He died in Bath.
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John Palmer |
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Born | 1738 |
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Died | 19 July 1817 |
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Nationality | British |
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Occupation | Architect |
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- St James' Church, Bath, on Stall Street (1768–1769, demolished for the Marks & Spencer building)
- St James's Parade (1768)[2][3]
- Cottles House, now Stonar School, Atworth, Wiltshire (1775)[4]
- Church of St Swithin, Bath, The Paragon, Bath (1777–1780)[5]
- Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset (1785)
- Lansdown Crescent, Bath,[6] and the adjacent Lansdown Place West and Lansdown Place East (1789-1793)[7][8]
- Cross Bath remodelled by Palmer after work by Thomas Baldwin (1789)[9]
- Grand Pump Room, Bath, begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin who resigned in 1791; Palmer continued the scheme[10]
- St George's Place (c.1790)[11]
- Cumberland House, Norfolk Crescent, Bath (c. 1790–1800, continued by John Pinch after 1810)
- Park Street (1790-1793)[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]
- 1-8, Bath Street (1791-1794)[34]
- Nelson Place West, Bath (c. 1800–1820, continued by John Pinch after 1810)
- Stall Street, Bath (c. 1790–1800)
- St James's Square, Bath (1791–1794)[35]
- St James's Street (1791)[36][37]
- 6-9, Abbey Church Yard (1790s)[38]
- Royal Mineral Water Hospital additions, Bath (1793)[39]
- Kensington Chapel, London Road, Walcot, Bath (1794)[40]
- Kensington Place, Bath, London Road, Walcot, Bath (1795)[41]
- 10, Abbey Church Yard (c.1795)[42]
- Christ Church, Bath (1798)[43]
- Theatre Royal, Bath (1804–1805), designed by George Dance the Younger and erected by Palmer[44]
- New Bond Street, Bath (1805–1807)
- H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (1997). ISBN 0-300-07207-4.
- Michael Forsyth, Bath, Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003). ISBN 0-300-10177-5.
- Jane Root, "Thomas Baldwin: His Public Career in Bath, 1775–1793" (in, ed. Trevor Fawcett, Bath History, Volume V Bath: Millstream Books Publishing Limited, 1994), pages 80–103.