John Pinch
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John Pinch the elder and John Pinch the younger were architects, father and son, working mainly in the city of Bath, England. They were both surveyors to the Pulteney and Darlington estate and responsible for many of the later Georgian buildings in Bath, especially in Bathwick.
John Pinch the Elder (1770 – 1827) started as an architect and builder in the 1790s. He was assistant to Thomas Baldwin as surveyor to the Pulteney estate and succeeded him as surveyor after Baldwin's bankruptcy in 1793; when the estate passed into the ownership of the Earl of Darlington he retained his position.
His works include
- Northampton Street, Bath (c.1793) started by Thomas Baldwin, continued by John Pinch and completed by George Phillips Manners
- Rockfield House, Nunney, Somerset (1805)
- New Sydney Place (1807), Daniel Street (1810), Raby Place (1825), Bathwick
- Cavendish Place (1808-1815), Cavendish Crescent (1817-1830), Sion Hill Place (1817-1820), Bath
- St Lawrence's Church, Hungerford (1814-1816)
- Corsley House, Corsley, Wiltshire (1814)
- St Mary's Church, Bathwick (1817-1820)
- Bishopstrow House, Wiltshire (1817-1821)
- Mausoleum for Richard Colt Hoare, St Peter's Church, Stourton, Wiltshire (1819)
- Spa Villa, Bathwick Hill (1820)
- St. Michael's Church, Twerton, Bath (1824)
- United Hospital, Beau Street, Bath (1824-1826).
John Pinch the Younger (1796 – 1849) was in joint practice with his father by 1819, later joined by his younger brother Charles. He succeeded his father as surveyor to the Darlington estate on the latter's death in 1827.
His works include
- The Nunnery, Douglas, Isle of Man (1828)
- St Saviour's Church, Larkhall, Bath (1829-1831) (probably to the designs by his father)
- St John the Baptist Church, Midsomer Norton (1830)
- Queen Square West side, Bath (1830)
- Whitton Church, Somerset (1832)
- St John the Baptist Church north aisle, Batheaston, Somerset (1834)
- St Mary the Virgin, Grittleton, Wiltshire (1836)
- Sydney Hotel additions, Bathwick (1836)
- Littleton Church south aisle, Somerset (1836)
- Christ Church Downside, Somerset (1837, declared redundant 1983)
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Paulton, Somerset (1839)
- Compton House, Over Compton (c.1840)
- Farrington Gurney church (1843).
[edit] References
- Robert Bennet, The last of the Georgian architects of Bath: the life and times of John Pinch, Bath History IX (2002) 87–103
- 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
