Henry Sephton (c. 1686 – 2 June 1756) was the leading mason and architect in

St Helens, Lancashire St Helens () is a town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 102,629. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, which had a population of 176,843 at the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 Census. St Helens i ...

during the second quarter of the eighteenth century, the architect-builder of

Ince Blundell Hall Ince Blundell Hall is a former country house near the village of Ince Blundell, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. It was built between 1720 and 1750 for Robert Blundell, the lord of the manor, and was designed by Hen ...

and Halton Court House,

Halton, Cheshire Halton, formerly a separate village, is now part of the town of Runcorn, Cheshire, England. The name ''Halton'' has been assumed by the Borough of Halton, which includes Runcorn, Widnes and some outlying parishes. History There is evidence o ...

(now a hotel), who worked in both classical and

Gothic revival 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 ...

styles, including the expansion of

Prescot Parish Church Prescot Parish Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is in the town of Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is an active Anglican parish churc ...

Howard Colvin Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840' ...

, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840'', 3rd ed. (Yale University Press) 1995, ''s.v.'' "Sephton, Henry"

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