Richard Adolphus Came (23 April 1847 – 19 July 1917) was an architect who initially worked in London. He gained commissions over a wide area of south-eastern England and according to one source these included "boarding schools, private residences, country houses in Lancing, East Grinstead, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Ealing, Child's Hill, Hampstead, Winkfield and Windsor." He also designed warehouses in

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and the German Athenæum Club at 19

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in London, as well as electric light stations in Pall Mall, St. James, Richmond and Preston."Historic Woodhall Spa"

Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum The Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum also known as Woodhall Spa. (Cottage Museum, Woodall Spa,)Ascot he designed most of the residences facing the racecourse. In 1874–76 he was the architect for the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital. Subsequent to this in 1887 he was commissioned to survey and lay-out

Woodhall Spa Woodhall Spa is a former spa Village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, on the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, south-west of Horncastle, west of Skegness, east-south-east of Lincoln and north-west of Boston. It is noted for ...

in Lincolnshire as a new

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. By about 1895 he had moved his architectural practice to Woodhall and was responsible for designing many of the half timbered

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style buildings in the town."Antram", (1989), pp. 500-501 He was a pupil of

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and trained at the

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. He qualified as an

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on 6 November 1871.

Architectural work

Hospital

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, Manthorpe Road, Grantham 1874–76. Stone, Gothic revival with groups of pavilions.

Church

*The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St. Peter,

, Lincolnshire In 1895 Fr Peter Sabela from Grantham opened a Mass centre at Woodhall Spa and in the same year land off Cromwell Avenue was purchased and Thomas Young of Kingerby Hall, near Market Rasen, provided most of the funds to build a church. Came's original drawings remain in the Diocesan archives. They show that the building was intended as a "chapel or school room".

Houses

*The Golf Hotel,

Architectural work

Hospital

Church

Houses

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