Clark Rampling (bapt 6 April 1793 – buried 7 March 1875) was an English architect who worked from offices in London and from about 1820 in

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(now in

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). By 1841 he was joined in partnership in Birkenhead by his nephew Robert Bushell Rampling and the practice was known as C. and R. B. Rampling. His best known work is the

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, which was built in 1835–37 in Neoclassical style. This building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II*

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. Earlier, he had designed the Church of St Mary, Birch, a

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Gothic Revival style Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

, (c. 1827/28) which has since been demolished. Other works in Cheshire and

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include * 1832 Villas at Mill Bank, Nr.

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* 1833/35

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* 1834 House for Spencer Jones, West Derby * 1837 The Fish Hall, Murray Street,

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* 1830/40 Estate cottages,

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, West Kirby * 1840 Magistrates' offices, Birkenhead * 1840 St John the Evangelist,

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* 1845 Market etc., Birkenhead Clark Rampling died in 1875 in Tranmere, which is now in

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British neoclassical architects Architects from Cheshire 1793 births 1875 deaths Gothic Revival architects English ecclesiastical architects {{UK-architect-stub