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Thomas Espin (1767–1822) was an English schoolmaster, mathematician, topographical artist, antiquary and amateur architect, who spent most of his life at
In 1805 he supervised the rebuilding of the belfry windows in the tower of Louth church, and in 1815 he was invited by the Louth town council to submit plans for rebuilding of
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in Lincolnshire.
Career
Espin was the son of a farmer and educated at the Free School at Wragby in Lincolnshire. He took up schoolmastering and in 1790 was appointed to a school at Louth that had been established by Robert Mapletoft. Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1677. He advertised the school as a ''Mathematical and Architectural, nautical and Commercial Academy''. He published a ''Practical geometry consisting of definitions and some of the most useful geometrical problems selected for private use''. He was elected aFellow of the Society of Antiquaries
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Artistic work
Espin was an accomplishedwatercolour
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artist. Batholomew Howlett used many engravings of his work to illustrate his ''Views in the County of Lincolnshire'' which was published in 1805
Architectural work
In 1805 he supervised the rebuilding of the belfry windows in the tower of Louth church, and in 1815 he was invited by the Louth town council to submit plans for rebuilding of Louth Town Hall
Louth Town Hall is a municipal building in Eastgate in Louth, Lincolnshire, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Louth Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.
History
The first town hall was a small square structure i ...
, which was not undertaken. His most notable work was the Gothic revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
The Priory
The Priory Hospital, Roehampton, often referred to as The Priory, is a private mental health hospital in South West London. It was founded in 1872 and is now part of the Priory Group, which was acquired in 2011 by an American private equity firm ...
in Louth which he started in 1812. He laid out the surrounding parkland with Follies which were constructed from stonework taken from Louth Abbey. In 1818 he started on a summerhouse for himself, which became his mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...
when he died in 1822."Antram". (1985) p.554
Further reading
*Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989), ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'', Yale University Press. *Colvin H. A (1995), ''Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840''. Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, pp. 350. *Robinson D and Sturman C.(2001), ''William Brown and the Louth Panorama'', Louth.External links
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Espin, Thomas 1767 births 1822 deaths English antiquarians Lincolnshire Antiquary Architects from Lincolnshire Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London