Henry Bowyer Lane

Henry Bowyer Joseph Lane (1817–1878) was an English architect who worked in Toronto from c. 1841 to 1847.

Lane was born to Henry Bower Lane, a Royal Artillery Captain and Elizabeth Lacey in 1817 and moved to Devon, England after 1819.^[1]

Lane's education included time at Blundell's School in Tiverton and subsequent professional training in England before he emigrated to Canada in 1841, living first in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and then in Toronto.

One of Lane's most significant contributions is Osgoode Hall, namely the west and central wings from 1844-1846. He designed and oversaw the construction of the incorporated city of Toronto's second city hall in 1844.^[2] Lane's limited commissions outside of Toronto, in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Cobourg, were never as grand as his work in Toronto.

During his time in Toronto, Lane married Lucy Anne Sharpe in 1844, and they left the city in 1847. He is believed to have died in Birmingham, England in 1878.^[3]

Works

Building	Year Completed	Location	Notes	Image
Diocesan Theological Institute/Haskell House	1842	174 Green Street and Queen Street, Cobourg, Ontario	College of Theology for Alexander Bethune, Anglican Bishop of Toronto [4]
St. Peter's Church original facade and tower	1844; demolished after 1854	240 College Street, Cobourg, Ontario	1st church 1844-1854[5]
Brock's Monument	1843	Queenston Heights, Niagara Falls, Ontario	Plans to rebuild with a submission or proposal that did not win [6]
Little Trinity Anglican Church	1843	425 King Street East, Corktown, Toronto	Gothic Revival church with polychromatic brickwork.
Church of St. George the Martyr	1845	197 John Street, Toronto	Gothic Revival church. Remnants survived a 1955 fire.
City Hall and New Market	1845	Front Street at Market Street, Toronto	Toronto's second city hall, incorporated into St. Lawrence Market South in 1899.
St. Mark’s Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake	1845	41 Byron Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario	Ecclesiastical furnishings only[7]
St Paul’s Church Anglican, Kingston	1846	137 Queen Street, Kingston	Plans only[8]
Osgoode Hall	1846	Toronto	Central and west wings
Church of the Holy Trinity	1847	Trinity Square, Toronto	Gothic Revival
Enoch Turner School	1848	106 Trinity Street, Toronto	Gothic Revival school house is believed to have been designed by Lane,[9] who had left Toronto in 1847

References

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• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, Extracted 8 May, 2009