James Chapman Bishop (1783 – 2 December 1854) was a notable British

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manufacturer of the 19th century.

History

He was apprenticed to Benjamin Flight and then set up his own business in London in 1807 initially at York buildings in Marylebone and later at 250

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. On his death in 1854, the business was run by his son, Charles Augustus Bishop (born 1821), John Starr and William Ebenezer Richardson, and was known as ''Bishop, Starr and Richardson'' from 1854 to 1857, and then ''Bishop and Starr'' from 1857 onwards. From 1873 it became ''Bishop and Son''.

Works

* All Saints' Church, Northallerton 1818 *St Peter's Church, Dorchester 1823 *

St Mary Abchurch St Mary Abchurch is a Church of England church off Cannon Street in the City of London. Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it is first mentioned in 1198–1199. The medieval church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and replace ...

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St John's Church, Waterloo St John's Church, Waterloo, is an Anglican Greek Revival church in South London, built in 1822–24 to the designs of Francis Octavius Bedford. It is dedicated to St John the Evangelist, and with St Andrew's, Short Street, forms a united benefice ...

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St Mary Aldermanbury St Mary Aldermanbury was a parish church in the City of London first mentioned in 1181 and destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Rebuilt in Portland stone by Christopher Wren, it was again gutted by the Blitz in 1940, leaving only the ...

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All Souls Church, Langham Place All Souls Church is a conservative evangelical Anglican church in central London, situated in Langham Place in Marylebone, at the north end of Regent Street. It was designed in Regency style by John Nash and consecrated in 1824. As it is d ...

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St Mark's Church, North Audley Street St Mark's, Mayfair, is a Grade I listed building, a former Anglican place of worship in North Audley Street, in the Mayfair district of London. History St Mark's was built in 182528 as a response to the shortage of churches in the area. The popu ...

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St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Grad ...

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Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone Holy Trinity Church, in Marylebone, Westminster, London, is a Grade I listed former Anglican church, built in 1828 and designed by John Soane. In 1818 Parliament passed an act setting aside one million pounds to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon. ...

1828 * The Revd Dr Philip Wynter, President, St John's College, Oxford 1828 * St James's Church, Bermondsey 1829 *St Bartholomew's Church, Wednesbury 1830 *St James' Church, Clapham 1832 * St Edmund, King and Martyr 1833 * Norwich Cathedral 1834 *St Michael's Church, Coventry 1836 *

St Peter's Church, Eaton Square St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square, is a Church of England parish church at the east end of Eaton Square, Belgravia, London. It is a neoclassical building designed by the architect Henry Hakewill with a hexastyle portico with Ionic columns and ...

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St Giles Church, Willenhall The Church of St Giles is a parish church in Willenhall, Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. Although the current church building dates to 1867, a church has been located in Willenhall since c. 1313, where a chaplain is menti ...

1837 *Port Antonio Church, Jamaica 1838 *Shrewsbury Music Hall 1839 *St James' Church, Devizes 1841 *Catholic Chapel, Dalton Square, Lancaster 1841 *Gravesend Literary Institution 1842 *

Church of St Barnabas, Queen Camel The Church of St Barnabas in Queen Camel, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. A former church in Queen Camel was the mother church to Somerton, Chilton Cantelo and the surrounding ...

1842 *Roman Catholic Chapel,

Stockton-on-Tees Stockton-on-Tees, often simply referred to as Stockton, is a market town in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It is on the northern banks of the River Tees, part of the Teesside built-up area. The town had an estimated ...

1842 * Savoy Chapel 1843 *

St Giles' Church, Camberwell St Giles' Church, Camberwell, is the parish church of Camberwell, a district of London which forms part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is part of Camberwell Deanery within the Anglican Diocese of Southwark in the Church of England. The c ...

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St Martin's Church, Liskeard St Martin's Church, Liskeard is a Church of England parish church in Liskeard, Cornwall, the second-largest parish church in Cornwall after St Petroc's Church, Bodmin. History The church includes some Norman fragments, but is mostly 15th centur ...

1844 *St Kentigern's Church, Crossthwaite, Cumbria 1844-45 *

Holy Trinity Church, Clapham The Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church located in Clapham, London. Completed in 1776, it was the base for the so-called Clapham Sect who worshipped there. It is located on the north side of Clapham Common and is a Grade II* listed build ...

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St John's, Notting Hill St John's Notting Hill is a Victorian Anglican church built in 1845 in Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, London,

1846 *Holy Trinity Church, Paddington 1846 * St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere 1846 *Brighton Town Hall 1847 * Jesus College, Cambridge 1847 *Catholic Chapel, Lowther Street, Carlisle 1848 *

Hereford Cathedral Hereford Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Hereford in Hereford, England. A place of worship has existed on the site of the present building since the 8th century or earlier. The present building was begun in 1079. S ...

1849 *St Mark's Church, Pensnett 1849 * St James's Church, Piccadilly 1852 *

St George's, Bloomsbury St George's, Bloomsbury, is a parish church in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom. It was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and consecrated in 1730. The church crypt houses the Museum of Comedy. History The Commissioners for the ...

1853

References

Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery 1783 births 1854 deaths British pipe organ builders {{England-musician-stub