Yeoville Thomason

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Birmingham Council House

Singers Hill Synagogue

The Union Club, Bamford's Trust House, 85-89 Colmore Row//Newhall Street

H. R. Yeoville Thomason (1826-1901) was an architect in Birmingham, England. He was born in Edinburgh to a Birmingham family. Thomason set up his own practice in Birmingham 1853-1854.

He was a grandson of Sir Edward Thomason, a button and toy maker in Birmingham. He was a pupil of Charles Edge, and after qualifying as architect he worked for the borough surveyor. He designed the Council House after winning a competition. He retired in 1896.

[edit] Significant works

He designed, amongst others:^[1]

• In Birmingham:
  • The Council House and its immediate extension, the original Art Gallery, 1874-85 ^{Grade II*}
  • Singers Hill Synagogue, 1856 ^{Grade II*}
  • Great Hampton Works, 80-82, Great Hampton Street, Hockley, c 1880^{[1] Grade II*}
  • Union Club, 85-89 Colmore Row, on the corner with Newhall Street, now called Bamford's Trust House, 1870. ^{Grade II}
  • Birmingham Banking Company, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. Designed new entrance in 1868. Became Midland Bank.^{[2] Grade II}
  • 38 Benetts Hill, 1868-70^{[1] Grade II}
  • Highcroft Hospital, Main Building, Highcroft Road, Erdington (former Aston Union Workhouse). 1869^{[1] Grade II} and ^{Grade II}
  • Birmingham Town and District Bank, 63 Colmore Row, Birmingham. (1867-1869) Head Office later to became part of Barclays Bank, facade later remodelled by Peacock and Bewlay.^[3]
  • Lewis's department store, Corporation Street, 1886, (demolished 1929 and replaced by a seven storey building), Birmingham's first iron and concrete building^[4]
  • Acocks Green Chapel, Warwick Green, Acocks Green, 1860 (closed in 1956).

• Elsewhere:
  • Public Hall, High Street, Smethwick, (1866-7), Now the Public Library.^[5]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Images of Engand website
2. ^ Birmingham, Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p25
3. ^ Birmingham, Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p35
4. ^ Birmingham Buildings, The Architectural Story of a Midland City, Bryan Little, 1971, ISBN 0-7153-5295-4
5. ^ The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p81

• The Victorian Society in Birmingham (Three City Trails, Victorian Architects of Birmingham)
• Birmingham Hebrew Congregation - biographical detail

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