Samuel Rollinson
Samuel Rollinson (1827 - 17 April 1891) was an English architect[1] based in Chesterfield.
Family
He was the son of Samuel Rollinson (b.1801) and Lydia Wardman (b.1806) and baptised on 30 March 1827 in Chesterfield.
On 29 April 1850 he married Lavinia Heald[2] (b. 1830) in Bolsover, Derbyshire. This marriage produced the following children:
- Charles Wardman Rollinson (b. 1851)
- Alfred E Rollinson (b.1854)
- Walter Rollinson (b.1854)
- Frederick S Rollinson (b.1857)
- Arthur H Rollinson (b.1859)
- Tom Rollinson (b.1862)
- Edith L Robinson (b.1865)
- Florence E Rollinson (b.1867)
- Ernest Rollinson (b.1870)
- Anthony Rollinson (1871 - 1903)
On his death in 1891 he left an estate valued at £2,175 17s 3d (equivalent to £300,145 in 2023).[3]
Career
Initially he started work as a mason, and the clerk of the works to Chesterfield Grammar School. He then went as a pupil to Thomas Chambers Hine of Nottingham. When he returned to Chesterfield, he became surveyor of highways, and practiced privately as architect for new property on the estates of the Duke of Devonshire.[4] One of his earliest projects was the north aisle of Hasland Church.
He set up a practice in Chesterfield and later entered into a partnership with his son, Arthur H. Rollinson, as S. Rollinson and Son.
He was architect to Brampton Brewery in Chesterfield. His son continued the business after Samuel’s death in 1891, designing many notable public houses in Chesterfield.
New buildings
- St Michael and All Angels' Church, Sheldon 1864[5]
- St Peter’s Church, Dunboyne, County Meath. 1866-1868
- Christ Church, Chesterfield 1869-1870
- Brimington cemetery chapel
- Chesterfield Board Schools
- Ashgate Industrial School of the Chesterfield Union.
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Restorations and alterations
- St Paul's Church, Hasland[6] 1866
- St Mary the Virgin's Church, Beighton 1867-1868
- Holy Trinity Church, Chesterfield 1889
- Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield 1874. South transept door and window.[7]
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References
- ^ "Rollinson, Samuel". Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940. Irish Architectural Archive. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ "Marriages". Nottinghamshire Guardian. England. 2 May 1850. Retrieved 21 January 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
- ^ "The late Councillor Rollinson of Chesterfield". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 25 April 1891. Retrieved 21 January 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Consecration and opening of Sheldon Church near Bakewell". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 15 October 1864. Retrieved 21 January 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Hasland, St Paul". Lambeth Palace Library. Church of England. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ Derbyshire Courier, Saturday 15 August 1874 p5 col5: Chesterfield Parish Church in memoriam