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Sampson Kempthorne (1809–1873) was an English architect who specialised in the design of
He was the son of Rev. John Kempthorne. He began practising in Carlton Chambers on
Article from workhouse.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kempthorne, Sampson 1809 births 1873 deaths 19th-century English architects New Zealand architects English emigrants to New Zealand Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1841–1853)
Sampson Kempthorne (1809–1873) was an English architect who specialised in the design of workhouse
In Britain, a workhouse () was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. (In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses.) The earliest known use of the term ''workhouse'' ...
s, before his emigration to New Zealand.
Life
He was the son of Rev. John Kempthorne. He began practising in Carlton Chambers on Regent Street
Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London. It is named after George, the Prince Regent (later George IV) and was laid out under the direction of the architect John Nash and James Burton. It runs from Waterloo Place ...
in London. His father was a friend of the Poor Law Commissioner Thomas Frankland Lewis
Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, 1st Baronet (14 May 1780 – 22 January 1855) was a British Poor Law Commissioner and moderate Tory MP.
Early life
Lewis was the son of John Lewis and Anne Frankland, daughter of Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet. ...
, which may have helped him to get the commission to build workhouses.
Kempthorne came up with two designs – the square plan and the hexagonal or "Y" plan – both contained sections for the different types of inmates (men, women, boys, girls, infirm). The space between different wings was used to provide areas where inmates could exercise – segregated from the other groups.
Kempthorne designed workhouses in Abingdon, Andover
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, Bath
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, Crediton
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, Hastings
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, and Newhaven.
He also designed some cheaply built Gothic churches, including Holy Trinity
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(1834–35) (destroyed by bombing in 1940) and All Saints (1839), both in Rotherhithe
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, and St James, in Upton Street, Gloucester, originally built as a chapel-of-ease to the nearby church of St Michael, of which his father was rector.
In January 1838 he married Marianne, the fourth daughter of the Rev. Josiah Pratt
Josiah Pratt (1768–1844) was an English evangelical cleric of the Church of England, involved in publications and the administration of missionary work.
Early life
The second son of Josiah Pratt, a Birmingham manufacturer, he was born in Birmin ...
.
Kempthorne emigrated to New Zealand with his wife, arriving in May 1842. He took with him a prefabricated wooden cottage. having already purchased a piece of land at Parnell, where he settled. He was engaged by Bishop George Selwyn to build some stone Gothic churches but his first two attempts, St Thomas's at Tamaki (1847) and St Stephen's at Judges Bay
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(1848), proved structurally unsound and were soon demolished.
His assistant for a short time in 1834–35 was George Gilbert Scott
Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started ...
, who went on, in partnership with William Moffat, to begin his independent architectural career as a specialist in the design of workhouses.
References
External links
Article from workhouse.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kempthorne, Sampson 1809 births 1873 deaths 19th-century English architects New Zealand architects English emigrants to New Zealand Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council (1841–1853)