Charles Francis Hansom
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Charles Francis Hansom (1816-1888)1 was a prominent Roman Catholic Bristol-based Victorian architect who primarily designed in the Gothic Revival style. He was also the brother of J. A. Hansom, architect, and creator of the Hansom cab, and architect Edward J. Hansom.
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[edit] Clifton College
The original Clifton College buildings were all designed by Hansom .
His first design at Clifton was for Big School (then a meeing hall and now the school canteen) and a proposed dining hall. Only the former was actually built and a small extra short wing was added in 1866 – this is what now contains the Marshal’s office and the new staircase into Big School.
Hansom was called back to the College in the 1870’s and asked to design what is now the Percival Library and the open-cloister classrooms. This project was built undertaken in two stages and largely completed by 1875 – although the Wilson Tower was not built until 1890.
[edit] Other work
- Altar in Gothic Mortuary Chapel, Perrymead Roman Catholic Cemetery (altar carved by Boulton of Chetenham, lodge and chapel designed in 1855 by a Mr. Hill).
- Erdington Abbey (1848), Erdington, Birmingham
- St John's, Bath (1861-1863), Bath, Somerset
- Woodchester Mansion, Nympsfield, Glos.
- Papal Count Eyre Memorial Chantry Perrymead Roman Catholic Cemetery, Lyncombe, Bath, Somerset.
[edit] Sources
- Clifton College archives.
This article, about an architect of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.[edit] References
1. The Victorian Society: Avon Group, “The Quick and the Dead: A Walk Round Some Bath Cemeteries” (15 Sept 1979)
