James Demaine (1842–6 May 1911) was an English architect, mainly active in the

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 ...

style.

Life

Born at Bolton Abbey to Emma and James Demaine senior, a gardener and farmer, he was an architect's pupil by 1861 and joined the York-based firm led by Peter Atkinson II, J. B. and W. Atkinson (now known as

Brierley Groom Brierley Groom is an architecture practice in York, England, founded in 1750 by architect John Carr (architect), John Carr, making it the longest running practice in the United Kingdom, and one of the oldest in the world. It was once run by Walter ...

) in 1870. He became a partner in the firm in 1874 after John's death and taking sole control on William's retirement in 1878.

Walter Henry Brierley Walter Henry Brierley (1862–1926) was a York architect who practised in the city for 40 years. He is known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens" or the "Lutyens of the North". He is also credited with being a leading exponent of the "Wrenaissan ...

became a partner of the firm in 1885 and he and Demaine frequently collaborated until Demaine's retirement in 1889. He died in York in 1911.

Selected works

*1883 - All Saints,

Shiptonthorpe Shiptonthorpe is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of the market town of Pocklington and north-west of the market town of Market Weighton. ...

, restoration only *1883-1884 - All Saints' Church, Wistow, restoration only *1885 - St Michael le Belfrey, York, organ case

With Brierly

*1890 -

All Saints' Church, Bolton Percy All Saints' Church is the parish church of Bolton Percy, in North Yorkshire in England. There was a church in Bolton Percy at the time of the Domesday Book. The current church was built while Thomas Percy was rector, and it was consecrated on 8 ...

, restoration only *1895 -

All Saints' Church, Rufforth All Saints' Church is the parish church of the village of Rufforth, in the rural western part of the City of York, in England. A church was constructed on the site in the 12th century. It was restored in 1832. In 1866, it was described as "mu ...

*1897 - Midland Bank, Doncaster

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Demaine, James category:Architects from Yorkshire category:19th-century English architects category:20th-century English architects category:English ecclesiastical architects category:1842 births category:1911 deaths People from Wharfedale category:Gothic Revival architects