Henry Goodridge

Henry Edmund Goodridge (1797, Bath – 26 October 1864) was an architect whose work started in the 1820s.

Works

Goodridge's neoclassical buildings in Bath include:

• Cleveland Bridge;
• one of the earliest shopping arcades (The Corridor)
• Bath's much loved folly Beckford's Tower, commissioned by the eccentric William Thomas Beckford and now owned by the Bath Preservation Trust and operated as a museum
• The Byzantine gateway to the cemetery adjacent to Beckford's Tower in which William Beckford's sarcophagus stands
• Several Italianate villas on Bathwick Hill including his own house Bathwick Grange, which was formerly known as Montebello.^[1]

His designs outside Bath include the chapel of Downside Abbey (1828), Devizes Castle (1840) and the library of Hamilton Palace (1845).

Personal life

Goodridge maintained a financial interest in The Corridor and, a few years after the death of his widow, his Will led to a huge family dispute which had to be resolved by the Chancery Court.

External links

• Bath Preservation Trust

References

• H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 (1997) ISBN 0-300-07207-4