Thomas Warr Attwood

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Thomas Warr Attwood (c.1733 – 15 November 1775) was an English builder, architect and local politician in Bath.

He was a member of a prominent local family and a member of the city Council from 1760. Although he held no formal appointment, he acted as city surveyor and architect. He was also able to use his position to obtain valuable contracts and building concessions on council-owned land — indeed, he was Mayor of Bath at the time that the council adopted his proposal to build a new gaol — and this caused controversy in the city.

He was killed by the collapse of a derelict building which he was inspecting on the site of the proposed new Guildhall. His assistant Thomas Baldwin was appointed City Architect and Surveyor. Attwood's monument is in the churchyard at Weston.

[edit] List of works

Paragon Crescent (1768)
Oxford Row (1773)
The New Gaol, Bathwick (1772-3)

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[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
C. Noble, The new gaol in Bathwick (1772-1842), Bath History IX (2002) 64-86