Thomas Baldwin (architect)

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Thomas Baldwin (c.1750 – 7 March 1820) was an English surveyor and architect in Bath.

He was initially a builder and assistant to Thomas Warr Attwood, appointed City Architect and Surveyor in 1776 after Attwood's death. He was surveyor to the Pulteney Estate and planned the development of Bathwick as well as being responsible for much of the building. He was dismissed from his positions in 1793 for financial irregularities and he went bankrupt in 1802. He continued to practise as an architect until his death in 1820.

He was one of the leading architects of Georgian Bath, designing some of its principal buildings, mainly in a Palladian style.

[edit] List of works

• The Guildhall, Bath (1775-1779)
• Northumberland Buildings, Bath (1778-1780)
• The Cross Bath and Pump Room, Bath (1783-1784)
• Colonnade, Old Pump Room, Bath (1786)
• Hafod House, Cardiganshire (1786-1788)
• The New Private Baths, Bath (1788-1789)
• Argyle Buildings, Bath (1789)
• Laura Place, Bathwick (1789)
• Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick (1789)
• Sydney Place and Bathwick Street, Bathwick (1788-1792)
• Northampton Street, Bath (1791-1805), continued by John Pinch the elder and George Phillips Manners
• Sydney Hotel, Bathwick (1796-1797), built to a modified design by Charles Harcourt Masters
• Union Street, Bath (1790)
• Cheap Street refronted, Bath (1790)
• Stall Street refronted, Bath (1790)
• Bath Street, Bath (1791)
• The Great Pump Room, Bath (1790-1791), finished by John Palmer (1794-1794)
• Bathford Church, Somerset extensions (1803, 1817)
• Town Hall, Devizes, Wiltshire (1806-1808)
• Hafod House, Cardiganshire, rebuilt after fire (1807)
• Rainscombe House, Oare, Wiltshire, remodelled (1816)

[edit] References

• H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 (1997) ISBN 0-300-07207-4
• M. Forsyth, Bath, Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003) ISBN 0-300-10177-5