John Lowder was an architect and surveyor working in

Bath, Somerset Bath () is a city in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary area in the county of Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. At the 2021 Census, the population was 101,557. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, ...

, England. He was the Bath City Surveyor for a short time. In Bath, he designed the

Commissioners' church A Commissioners' church, also known as a Waterloo church and Million Act church, is an Anglican church in the United Kingdom built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Acts of 1818 and 1824. The 1818 Act supplie ...

of Holy Trinity, James Street, (1819–1822) in the classical style but it was constructed in a Gothic style. Declared redundant after being severely damaged by bombing in 1942, the structure was demolished in 1957 and its congregation moved to a neighbouring church, which has subsequently been renamed Holy Trinity, Queens Square.

List of works

*Rectory, now Bishopstone House, Bishopstone near Salisbury, 1812–1819 *The National School, Bath, 1816–1818 (demolished in the late 1960s) *Holy Trinity, James Street, 1819–1822 (demolished in the late 1950s)

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19th-century English architects Architects from Bath, Somerset Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{England-architect-stub