Henry Goodridge

This article is about the English architect. For the Canadian politician of the same name, see Henry Goodridge (Alberta politician).

Henry Edmund Goodridge (1797, Bath – 26 October 1864) was an architect whose work started in the 1820s.

Works

Goodridge's neoclassical buildings in Bath include:

• Cleveland Bridge;
• one of the earliest shopping arcades (The Corridor)
• Bath's much loved folly Beckford's Tower, commissioned by the eccentric William Thomas Beckford and now owned by the Bath Preservation Trust and operated as a museum
• The Byzantine gateway to the cemetery adjacent to Beckford's Tower in which William Beckford's sarcophagus stands
• Several Italianate villas on Bathwick Hill including his own house Bathwick Grange, which was formerly known as Montebello.

His designs outside Bath include the chapel of Downside Abbey (1828), Devizes Castle (1840) and the library of Hamilton Palace (1845).

Personal life

Goodridge maintained a financial interest in The Corridor and, a few years after the death of his widow, his Will led to a huge family dispute which had to be resolved by the Chancery Court.

External links

• Bath Preservation Trust

References

• H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 (1997) ISBN 0-300-07207-4