John Jones Bateman (1817–1903) was an English

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, active in the town (later city) of

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, where he designed a number of important civic buildings, and

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churches, often in partnership with George Drury. He was the founder and first president of the

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. The 1861 and 1871 censuses show his home as Hawkesford House (since demolished and replaced by an apartment block of the same name),

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. Bateman had five daughters and three sons, although one of the latter died in infancy. The younger of his surviving sons, Charles Edward Bateman, was also an architect and was

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to his father from 1881 to 1886. becoming his partner, as Bateman and Bateman, in 1887. Another of Bateman's clerks was

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. Bateman died on 13 June 1903 aged 85 and is buried with his wife Mary (died 1869, age 45), their eight children, and his sister, also Mary, in the family plot in graveyard of St Mary & St Margaret at Castle Bromwich.

Works

Church of the Messiah, Broad Street, Birmingham

Bateman's works include: * Mechanics Institution, Newhall Street, Birmingham (with G Drury) * Bromsgrove Union Workhouse (1837, with G Drury; only entrance block survives) * Stratford-upon-Avon Union Workhouse (1837, with G Drury; only minor buildings survive) * Leek Union Workhouse (1838, with G Drury; now a geriatric care home) *

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, Bath Row, Birmingham (1841, with G Drury; now

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student accommodation) *

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(1843, with G Drury; facade replaced 1904, rear since demolished)''A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 7 – The City of Birmingham'', ed W. B. Stephens, University of London Institute of Historical Research, Oxford University Press, 1964 ** a new Museum for the college (1856) * Church of the Saviour, Edward Street/ Helena Street, Birmingham (1846, with G Drury; demolished) *

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(1850, with G Drury; now derelict) * Church of the Messiah (1860; demolished 1978)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bateman, John Jones 1817 births 1903 deaths Architects from Birmingham, West Midlands