John Hayward (1807–1891) was a Gothic Revival architect based in

Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...

, Devon, who gained the reputation as "the senior architect in the west of England".

Biography

John Hayward was born in London on 26 September 1807, the son of a 'house and ornament painter', John Pearson Hayward and Frances Barry and related to

Sir Charles Barry Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860) was a British architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament) in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsi ...

, the designer of the

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, with whom he served as pupil. He was an accomplished painter and

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; by 1826, he was exhibiting at the

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and, by 1834, he had left Barry and set up practice in Cathedral Yard, Exeter, Devon. Hayward was official architect of The Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society, which meant that all new designs for the churches in the Exeter Diocese passed through him for approval, and a member of

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, later

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. So popular was his work on local churches that St Andrew's,

Exwick Exwick is an historic parish and manor in Devon, England, which today is a north-western suburb of the City of Exeter. Its name is derived from the River Exe, which forms its eastern boundary. It is also an Ecclesiastical parish and an elector ...

was described by

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in July 1842, as the "best specimen of modern church we have yet seen." This accolade soon led to further work; in

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, Lady Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot, the Marchioness of Lothian, commissioned Hayward to design

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in 1844, and in

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he designed St. James' Church in

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, to which he added the west tower in 1861. But probably his most famous design was for The

Royal Albert Memorial Museum Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and overseas archaeolo ...

, Exeter. which opened in 1868 as a practical memorial to Prince Albert, and is the largest museum in the city. Whilst many of his designs were for religious use, he also designed schools and worked on other buildings, including The Hall,

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, (1844) which

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described as "the most ambitious of all halls except Wolsey's" at Christ Church College, and Exeter Prison on New North Road, Exeter, which was based upon the plans of the new model prison at

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. Hayward died on 7 May 1891. His son, Pearson Barry Hayward, worked under him, but died before his father in 1888; their practice was known as Messrs Hayward & Son.

Work

Work, including restoration, undertaken by John Hayward and his practice includes:

In Cornwall

*All Saints, Herodsfoot * All Saints, Tuckingmill, Camborne *Holy Trinity,

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*St Cleder,

St Clether St Clether is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the east flank of Bodmin Moor approximately eight miles (13 km) west of Launceston in the valley of the River Inny. The population o ...

In Devon

*St Andrew,

*St Mary,

Bickleigh Bickleigh may refer to the following places in Devon, England: * Bickleigh, Mid Devon, a village near Tiverton ** Bickleigh Castle * Bickleigh, South Hams Bickleigh is a small village on the southern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It ha ...

*St Mary, Bicton *St Michael,

Sowton Sowton is a village and civil parish east of Exeter in East Devon, England. It has a population of 639. Its parish council merged with that of nearby Clyst St Mary in 1976 to form Bishop's Clyst. St Michael's church was rebuilt in 1844–45 ...

*St Mark,

Dawlish Dawlish is an English seaside resort town and civil parish in Teignbridge on the south coast of Devon, from the county town of Exeter and from the larger resort of Torquay. Its 2011 population of 11,312 was estimated at 13,355 in 2019. It is t ...

*St David,

*St Mary Arches, Exeter *St Andrew,

Halberton Halberton is a village and civil parish in Devon, England. The Grand Western Canal runs through the village. The village is situated between the historic market towns of Tiverton and Cullompton. The large parish has an area of about and it i ...

*St Gregory,

Harpford Harpford is a small village in East Devon, England. It lies on the east side of the River Otter, less than 1 mile north east of the larger village of Newton Poppleford. Harpford was an ancient parish. The parish was a strip parish, which in ...

*St John the Baptist,

Holcombe Burnell Holcombe Burnell is a civil parish in Devon, England, the church of which is about 4 miles west of Exeter City centre. There is no village clustered around the church, rather the nearest village within the parish is Longdown. Only the manor hou ...

*St Thomas of Canterbury,

Kingswear Kingswear is a village and civil parish in the South Hams area of the English county of Devon. The village is located on the east bank of the tidal River Dart, close to the river's mouth and opposite the small town of Dartmouth. It lies within ...

*St Mary Magdalene, Monkton *St Michael, Mumsbury *St Michael,

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*St Mary,

Appledore Appledore may refer to: Places England * Appledore, Kent ** Appledore (Kent) railway station * Appledore, Mid Devon, near Tiverton * Appledore, Torridge, North Devon, near Bideford U.S.A. * Appledore Island, off the coast of Maine In fiction * App ...

, Northam *St Mary,

Rockbeare Rockbeare is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of the county of Devon, England, located near Exeter Airport and the city of Exeter. "Whilst the name has nothing to do with either 'rocks' nor 'bears', it simply means 'rooks in t ...

*St Mary, Whimple *St Mary the Virgin, Woolfardisworthy, Mid Devon *St Swithun, Sandford *St Peter,

Uplowman Uplowman () is a village and civil parish in Devon, situated about 4 miles north-east of the town of Tiverton. The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Hockworthy, Sampford Peverell, Halberton, Tiverton, and Huntsh ...

*St Thomas the Apostle,

*St John The Evangelist,

Tipton St John Tipton St John is a village in the civil parish of Ottery St Mary in the English county of Devon. It has a population of around 350. The village is built on rising ground overlooking the River Otter. Railway Between the village and the river l ...

Holy Trinity The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (, from 'threefold') is the central dogma concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the F ...

Ilfracombe Ilfracombe ( ) is a seaside resort and civil parish on the North Devon coast, England, with a small harbour surrounded by cliffs. The parish stretches along the coast from the 'Coastguard Cottages' in Hele Bay toward the east and along the ...

*St Philip and St James,

*Paschoe House,

Crediton Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the junction with the A3072 road to Tiverton, about north west of Exeter and around from the M5 motorway ...

*All Saints,

Okehampton Okehampton ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in West Devon in the English county of Devon. It is situated at the northern edge of Dartmoor, and had a population of 5,922 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards are based i ...

* St Bridget,

Bridestowe Bridestowe () is a civil parish and village in the district of West Devon, Devon, England. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Bratton Clovelly, Sourton, Bridestowe and Sourton Common, Lydford, Lewtrenchard and ...

*Holy Trinity,

Buckfastleigh Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway ( A38) at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. It is part of Teignbridge and, for ecclesiastical purposes, lies within the Totnes Deanery. ...

*Holy Trinity, Burrington * St Eustachius' Church, Tavistock *St Peter, Twitchen *

St Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...

Uffculme Uffculme (, ) is a village and civil parish located in the Mid Devon district, of Devon, England. Situated in the Blackdown Hills on the B3440, close to the M5 motorway and the Bristol–Exeter railway line, near Cullompton, Uffculme is on the ...

Crediton Parish Church Crediton Parish Church, formally the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross and the Mother of Him who Hung Thereon, is a prominent building and worshipping community in the Devon town of Crediton. The church is built on the site of what was the "c ...

*St Michael and All Angels, Alphington * St Luke's College, Exeter University *The Exeter Diocesan Training School, now part of

St. Luke's Campus St Luke's Campus is a small university campus which is part of the University of Exeter. The School of Sport and Health Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and the Medical School are all based at St Luke's. St Luke's is also home to the ...

*All Hallows on the Wall, Exeter (since demolished) * Queen Elizabeth School,

Hele's School, Exeter Hele's School was a boys' grammar school, and latterly a comprehensive school, in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. Elize Hele’s bequest Elize Hele was born in 1560 at Winston Manor near Plympton, Devon. He was a lawyer of the Inner Templ ...

*The New Buildings,

Blundell's School Blundell's School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school in the English public school tradition, located in Tiverton, Devon. It was founded in 1604 under the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in England at the tim ...

, Tiverton *Blundell's School chapel, Tiverton *The High School for Girls, Exeter. Renamed in 1912 as

The Maynard School The Maynard School is an independent and selective day school for girls aged 4–18 in the city of Exeter in Devon. Founded in 1658, the school is the second oldest girls' school in the country, only predated by the Redmaids' High School in ...

. *All Saints chapel, Bradfield, Uffculme *The Board School, Dawlish *

Holcombe Court Holcombe Rogus is a historic manor in the parish of Holcombe Rogus in Devon, England. The present grade I listed Tudor manor house known as Holcombe Court was built by Sir Roger Bluett c.1540 and was owned by the Bluett family until 1858 whe ...

, Holcombe Rogus *The Halford Wing, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Southernhay, Exeter, Devon *Ashbury House, Ashbury, Devon (since demolished).

In Jersey

*St Mark,

Saint Helier St Helier (; Jèrriais: ; french: Saint-Hélier) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. St Helier has a population of 35,822 – over one-third of the total population of Jersey – ...

*St Luke, Saint Saviour *St George,

Saint Ouen Audoin (AD 609 – on 24 August 684; also spelled ''Audoen'', ''Ouen'', ''Owen''; la, Audoenus; known as Dado to contemporaries) was a Frankish bishop, courtier, hagiographer and saint. Life Audoin came from a wealthy aristocratic Frankish fami ...

*St Ouen, St Ouen * Victoria College, St Helier *Natwest Bank, Library Place, St Helier

Elsewhere

St Michael Michael (; he, מִיכָאֵל, lit=Who is like El od, translit=Mīḵāʾēl; el, Μιχαήλ, translit=Mikhaḗl; la, Michahel; ar, ميخائيل ، مِيكَالَ ، ميكائيل, translit=Mīkāʾīl, Mīkāl, Mīkhāʾīl), also ...

, Milverton, Somersethttp://www.churchplansonline.org/retrieve_results.asp?search_args=x%3DMILVERTON%7Cl%3DMILVERTON%7Cc%3DSomerset *St Peter,

Walgrave Walgrave is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 822 people, increasing to 868 at the 2011 Census. The village's name means 'Old's grove'. The village of Ol ...

, Northamptonshire *St James,

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, Oxfordshire *St. John,

Jedburgh Jedburgh (; gd, Deadard; sco, Jeddart or ) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire, the name of which was randomly chosen for Operation Jedburgh in su ...

, Scottish Borders *The Hall,

*The New Buildings of 1846 (since renamed the Robert Stevens building), Pembroke College, Oxford

Gallery

File:Victoria College Jersey.jpg, Victoria College at St Helier, Jersey File:Gothic revival bank Jersey architecture.jpg, Bank building in Library Place,

, Jersey – built in 1873 by John Hayward for Jersey Banking Company File:Blundells.jpg,

new buildings completed in 1882 File:Pembroke Chapel Quad.JPG, The Hall, Chapel Quad,

File:St Marys church Appledore.JPG, St Mary,

, Devon File:Church in Herodsfoot - geograph.org.uk - 361969.jpg, All Saints at Herodsfoot, Cornwall File:Kingswear church.jpg, St.

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, Kingswear, Devon File:Exeter University - St Luke's Campus.jpg, North Cloisters,

St Luke's Campus St Luke's Campus is a small university campus which is part of the University of Exeter. The School of Sport and Health Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and the Medical School are all based at St Luke's. St Luke's is also home to the ...

File:BradfieldHouseDevonSouthFront.jpg,

Bradfield House Bradfield House is a Grade I listed country house situated in the parish of Uffculme, Devon, England, south-west of the village of Uffculme. It is one of the largest mansions in Devon, having been substantially enlarged in about 1860 by Sir J ...

, the South front and service wing, added by Hayward in the 1860s File:HolcombeCourtHolcombeRogusDevon.jpg,

, the North and West fronts were added by Hayward in 1863. File:BictonChurchDevon.JPG, St Mary,

Bicton, Devon Bicton is a civil parish and a former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the town of Budleigh Salterton. The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Colaton Raleigh, Otterton, East Budleigh and ...

. Built for the

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family in 1850. File:Little Milton - church 05.jpg, St James' Little Milton, Oxfordshire. File:St Thomas' church, Exeter - geograph.org.uk - 251326.jpg, St Thomas the Apostle,

St Thomas, Exeter St Thomas (St Thomas the Apostle's) is an area of Exeter and formerly a civil parish and registration district in Devon, England, on the western side of the River Exe, connected to Exeter by Exe Bridge. It has a number of pubs, places of wor ...