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Richard Jupp (1728 – 17 April 1799) was an 18th-century English
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 ...
, particularly associated with buildings in and around
London
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. He served for many years (c. 1755 – 1799) as surveyor to the
British East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
.
Works
His work included:
* alterations to
St Matthias Old Church
St Matthias Old Church is the modern name given to the Poplar Chapel built by the East India Company in 1654, in Poplar in the East End of London. The church is designated a Grade II* listed building.
St Matthias Old Church is one of the ver ...
,
Poplar, London
Poplar is a district in East London, England, the administrative centre of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, borough of Tower Hamlets. Five miles (8 km) east of Charing Cross, it is part of the East End of London, East End.
It is identi ...
(1755)
* Manor House, (Old Road,
Lee, London
Lee, also known as Lee Green, is an area of South East London, England, straddling the border of the London Borough of Lewisham and the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is located northwest of Eltham and southeast of Lewisham. It is within the h ...
(1772) - now a Grade II
listed building
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) – built for a wealthy London West India merchant,
Thomas Lucas
Thomas Lucas (c.1720–1784) MP, was a West India merchant, treasurer of Guy's Hospital 1764–1774 and then president of its board of governors until his death.
Business interests
His directorships included the Union Society in 1759, the Sout ...
, president of Guy's Hospital, but bought in 1796 by
Sir Francis Baring
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (18 April 1740 – 11 September 1810) was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets.
Early life
He was born at Larkbeare House near Exeter, s ...
, founder of
Barings Bank
Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London, and one of England's List of oldest banks in continuous operation, oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative. It was founded in 1762 ...
, it is now used as a public
library
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and its gardens have become a public park (Manor House Gardens).
* Mansion at
Painshill Park
Painshill (also referred to as "Pains Hill" in some 19th-century texts), near Cobham, Surrey, England, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park. It was designed and created between 1738 and 1773 by Charle ...
, near
Cobham,
Surrey
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(1774)
* Entrance and wings of
Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre.
...
, London (1774–1777)
*
Wilton Park House, near
Beaconsfield
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(c. 1780)
* a
folly
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
Eighteenth-cent ...
,
Severndroog Castle
Severndroog Castle is a folly designed by architect Richard Jupp, with the first stone laid on 2 April 1784.
While commonly referred to as a castle due to its turrets, it was built as a folly, as can be discerned by its small size and because it ...
(built as a memorial to Commodore Sir
William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.
James is considered to be a leading thinker of the lat ...
– a former chairman of the East India Company), on
Shooter's Hill
Shooter's Hill (or Shooters Hill) is a district in South East London within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It borders the London Borough of Bexley. It lies north of Eltham and south of Woolwich. With a height of , it is the highest point in t ...
in south-east London (1784).
* East India House,
Leadenhall Street
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Leadenhall Street () is a street in the City of London. It is about and links Cornhill, London, Cornhill in the west to Aldgate in the east. It was formerly the start of the A11 road (England), A11 road from London to Norwich, but th ...
, London (1796–1799 - the project was carried out after Jupp's death by his successor,
Henry Holland)
Death
Jupp died at his house in King's Road (now Theobald's Road), Bedford Row, on 17 April 1799.
References
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External links
Lee Manor Society (PDF)
1728 births
1799 deaths
18th-century English architects
British East India Company people
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