architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
.
Biography
He was born at or near
Ripon
Ripon () is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city ...
and started work as a carpenter. He later became an assistant to John Carr and was employed at
Buxton
Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is England's highest market town, sited at some above sea level.Harewood and elsewhere. In 1786 he became responsible for maintaining York's corporation property, and subsequently took over Carr's extensive works in Yorkshire and further north.
The Atkinson family of York architects continued after Atkinson's death. His son,
Peter
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, himself had sons John Bownas Atkinson (1807–1874) and William Atkinson (architect, born 1811).
Before their father's death, the two sons had taken over and for the next thirty plus years they were the most prolific of the city's architects. In 1877 William took James Demaisne (1842–1911) as partner.
Works
Among Atkinson's works were:
* No. 18 Blake Street, York, c. 1789
* Monk Bridge, York, 1794 (later widened in 1924–26)
* Hackness Hall, 1797, a large mansion for Sir R.V.B. Johnstone at
Hackness
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(near
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). In 1910 the building was gutted by fire, but was subsequently restored by
Walter Brierley
Walter Henry Brierley (1862–1926) was a York architect who
practised in the city for 40 years. He is known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens" or the "Lutyens of the North".
He is also credited with being a leading exponent of the " Wrenaissance ...
* Hainton Hall, Lincolnshire, rebuilt the west front for George Heneage in 1800
* A stable block at Wortley Hall, West Riding of Yorkshire, for Earl of Wharncliffe c.1800
* Enlargement of the Female Prison in
York Castle
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by adding the end bays to match John Carr's Assize Courts, 1802 (the Female Prison is now part of
York Castle Museum
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)
* Additions at Ormsby Hall, South Ormsby, Lincolnshire, for Charles Burrell Massingberd, 1803
* York, No. 51
Bootham
Bootham is a street in the city of York, in England, leading north out of the city centre. It is also the name of the small district surrounding the street.
History
The street runs along a ridge of slightly higher ground east of the River Ous ...
, for Sir R. V. B. Johnstone, now a school, 1803
* Gateway and farm buildings at
Harewood House
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, West Riding, for the 1st Earl of Harewood, c. 1803
* Brockfield Hall, Warthill, North Riding of Yorkshire, for Benjamin Agar, 1804–7