Jeptha Pacey (died 1862) was an architect, surveyor and building contractor working in

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in Lincolnshire. Pacey was working as an ''architect'' at 10 Witham Place in Boston in 1826.

Works

*Boston Assembly Rooms 1819-1820. The design of these buildings may be based partly on designs submitted earlier to Boston Corporation by the London architect William Atkinson. The building has a

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ed front with a canted first floor bay supported on Tuscan columns with a lattice balcony. Tall windows light a big assembly room. In 1826 White records the Assembly Rooms as having been built in 1819-20. They were over the poultry house and butter market). The rooms formed a ''handsome elevation, containing a suite of elegant and capacious assembly and banqueting rooms''.

Churches

Five of six of churches built as a result of the Fens Chapels Act of 1816 have been attributed to Jeptha Pacey by

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. These churches are at Carrington (1816),

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, Langrick, Midville and

Frithville Frithville is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population is 549, increasing at the 2011 Census to 568. It is served by the B1183 road, and is approximately north of Boston, in the West Fen ...

and are built in a late

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style. The exact reasons for Pevsner’s attribution are unclear, except for some similarity with the church at Whaplode Drove. A sixth church in a similar style at Eastville is known to have been designed in 1840 by the Louth architect Charles John Carter. *Whaplode Drove Church 1821. Designed with W Swansborough of

Wisbech Wisbech ( ) is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the Fenland district in Cambridgeshire, England. In 2011 it had a population of 31,573. The town lies in the far north-east of Cambridgeshire, bordering Norfolk and only 5 miles ...

. *Chapel at Chapel Hill,

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, Lincolnshire. *Episcopal Chapel (St Aiden’s) High Street, Boston. 1820. Jeptha Pacey was buried in the crypt of this chapel. Demolished.

Houses

*Wigtoft Vicarage, Lincolnshire 1817 "Antram", (1989), pg.798.

References

Literature

*Antram N (revised),

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& Harris J, (1989), ''

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: Lincolnshire'', Yale University Press. *Colvin H. A (1995), ''Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840''. Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, pp. 719–20.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pacey, Jeptha 19th-century English architects English ecclesiastical architects Architects from Lincolnshire 1862 deaths 1785 births