John Palmer (Bath architect)

John Palmer (c. 1738 – 19 July 1817, Bath) was an English architect who worked on some of the notable buildings in the city of Bath in England.^[1] He succeeded Thomas Baldwin as City Architect in 1792.

Some works

• St James' Church, Bath on Stall Street (1768–1769, demolished for the Marks & Spencers Building)
• Cottles House (now Stonar School, Atworth, Wiltshire (1775)^[2]
• St Swithin's Church, Walcot, The Paragon, Bath (1777–1780)
• Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset (1785)
• Lansdown Crescent, Bath (1789–1793)^[3]
• Grand Pump Room, begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin who resigned in 1791 and Palmer continued the scheme.^[4]
• Cumberland House (Norfolk Crescent), Bath c. 1790–1800 (continued by John Pinch after 1810)
• Nelson Place West, Bath c. 1800–1820 (continued by John Pinch after 1810)
• Stall Street, Bath c. 1790–1800
• St James's Square, Bath (1791–1794)
• Royal Mineral Water Hospital additions, Bath (1793)^[5]
• Kensington Chapel, London Road, Walcot, Bath (1794)
• Christ Church, Bath (1798)^[6]
• Theatre Royal, Bath (1804–1805), (facing on to Beaufort Square) designed by George Dance the Younger and erected by Palmer^[7]
• New Bond Street, Bath (1805–1807)

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), pages 80–103.