James Pigott Pritchett
James Pigott Pritchett (1789 – 1868) was an architect of London and York whose practice stretched from Lincolnshire to the Scottish borders.
[edit] Personal life
Pritchett was born on October 14, 1789 to Charles Pigott Pritchett and Anne née Rogers, and christened January 4, 1790 at St Petrox, Pembrokeshire.
He lived for a time in London, and around 1813 moved to York, where he is recorded as a Congregationalist deacon, and, together with William Ellerby, wrote A History of the Nonconformist Churches of York.
He married Peggy Maria Terry on December 22, 1813 at Beckenham, Kent. They had three sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Richard, became a Congregationalist minister; the second, Charles Pigott Pritchett (1818-1891) was an architect;[1] and in 1844 his daughter, Maria Margaret, married John Middleton (1820 – 1885), whose only child was the archaeologist and art historian John Henry Middleton (1846 – 1896), later a director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.[2]
Pritchett's second marriage was to Caroline Benson on January 6, 1829 at Belton, Lincolnshire. They had three sons and two daughters. His eldest son, James Pigott Pritchett junior (1830-1910), was trained by him as an architect and later set up a practice in Darlington in 1854. Another son, John Benson Pritchett, became a surgeon,
Pritchett died in York on May 23, 1868 and was buried in York Cemetery, whose buildings he had designed, on May 27, 1868.
[edit] Practice
Pritchett’s practice extended from Lincolnshire to the Scottish borders, with offices in York.
Known work includes:
- 1828 - Facade of the York Assembly Rooms in Blake Street.
- 1829-30 - The Savings Bank, St Helen's Square, York (now a branch of Lloyds Bank)
- 1834-5 - St Peter's Church Huddersfield.
- 1836 - St John's Church Brearton.
- 1836-7 - York Cemetery, York.
- 1837 - Holy Trinity church Thorpe Hesley.
- 1838 - St James's Church Meltham Mills.
- 1839 - St Mary's Church Rawmarsh.
- 1847-8 - Huddersfield railway station.
- 1851 - Ebenezer Chapel, York (Primitive Methodist)
Other examples are said to be found in York Minster, Rawmarsh, Brotherton and Meltham Mills.
[edit] References
- ^ Colvin, Howard (2008) [1954]. A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1660-1840 (4th ed.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12508-5.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of Architects [© Oxford University Press 2004–7 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18676?docPos=27]accessed 16 December 2006
- A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (3rd ed) by H. M. Colvin, New Haven & London 1995.
- A History of the Nonconformist Churches of York by William Ellerby and James Pigott Pritchett ed. from the original manuscript by Edward Royle, The Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York.
