John Turner (1806-1890) was an English architect, noted for his ecclesiastical buildings.

Life

John Turner was born in Holborn, London in 1806. He actively practised as an architect and surveyor in London between 1830 and 1868. before retiring to

Rickinghall Rickinghall is a village in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The village is split between two parishes, Rickinghall Inferior and Rickinghall Superior, which join with Botesdale to make a single built-up area. There used to be many ...

, Suffolk where he acted as a district surveyor. A memoir of his life was written by his son, John Goldicutt Turner.

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Notable buildings

*Holy Trinity,

Touchen End Touchen End, formerly written ''Touchen-end'', is a village in the civil parish of Bray in the English county of Berkshire. It is situated about south of Maidenhead and west of Windsor and lies on the border of Bray and Waltham parishes. Hist ...

, Berkshire 1861-62. Nave with

bellcote A bellcote, bell-cote or bell-cot is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells. Bellcotes are most common in church architecture but are also seen on institutions such as schools. The bellcote may be carried on brackets projecting from ...

and

chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Ove ...

. In the Decorated style. The aisle windows all low, segment-headed and of three lights with reticulation units. Wooden posts between nave and south aisle on the pattern of

Winkfield Winkfield is a village and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest unitary authority of Berkshire, England. Geography According to the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 14,998. The parish includes the hamlets of Winkfield, Maidens Green ...

.The Buildings of England, Berkshire.

Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...

. 1966 *St Peter, Church Road,

Earley Earley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire, England. Along with the neighbouring town of Woodley, the Office for National Statistics places Earley within the Reading/Wokingham Urban Area; for the purposes of local ...

, Berkshire 1844. Grey

vitrified Vitrification (from Latin ''vitreum'', "glass" via French ''vitrifier'') is the full or partial transformation of a substance into a glass, that is to say, a non-crystalline amorphous solid. Glasses differ from liquids structurally and glasses po ...

brick. *All Saints,

Dunsden Dunsden Green or Dunsden is a village in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in the South Oxfordshire ward of Sonning Common, about northeast of Reading, Berkshire. Until 1866 it was in the Oxfordshire part of Sonning parish. History The topo ...

, Oxfordshire 1842

References

External links

Church Plans Online - Plan of Holy Trinity, Touchen End
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