John Palmer (Bath architect)

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John Palmer (ca 1738 – 19 July 1817, Bath) was an architect who worked on some of the notable buildings of Bath in England. He succeeded Thomas Baldwin as City Architect in 1792.

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St James' Church, Bath on Stall Street (1768-1769, demolished for the Marks & Spencers Building)
Cottles House, Atworth, Wiltshire (1775)
St Swithin's Church, Walcot, Bath (1777-1780)
Shockerwick House, Box, Somerset (1785)
Lansdown Crescent, Bath (1789-1793)
St James's Square, Bath (1791-1794)
Royal Mineral Water Hospital additions, Bath (1793)
Kensington Chapel, London Road, Walcot, Bath (1794)
Christ Church, Montpelier Row, Bath (1798)
Theatre Royal, Bath (1804-1805), designed by George Dance the Younger and erected by Palmer
New Bond Street, Bath (1805-1807)

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[edit] References

H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 (1997) ISBN 0-300-07207-4
Michale Forsyth, Bath, Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003) ISBN 0-300-10177-5
Jane Root, "Thomas Baldwin: His Public Career in Bath, 1775-1793" (in, ed. Trevor Fawcett, Bath History, Volume V Bath: Millstream Books Publishing Limited, 1994), 80-103.