Thomas Larkins Walker (c.1811–1860) was a Scottish architect.

Life

Baptised on 20 May 1811 in Dysart, Fifeshire, the son of Adam Walker, he was a pupil of

Augustus Charles Pugin Augustus Charles Pugin (born Auguste-Charles Pugin; 1762 – 19 December 1832) was an Anglo-French artist, architectural draughtsman, and writer on medieval architecture. He was born in Paris, then the Kingdom of France, but his father was Swi ...

, and an executor of his will. In practice initially with

Benjamin Ferrey Benjamin Ferrey FSA FRIBA (1 April 1810–22 August 1880) was an English architect who worked mostly in the Gothic Revival. Family Benjamin Ferrey was the youngest son of Benjamin Ferrey Snr (1779–1847), a draper who became Mayor of Christc ...

1833–8, he resided at

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, and then at

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was in practice with Robert Johnson Goodacure to 1856. Emigrating to China, he died in

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on 10 October 1860.

Works

Designs

Walker's designs included: *1838–9, All Saints' Church, Spicer Street,

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; *1839, Camphill House, Warwickshire, for J. Craddock; *1839–40, church at

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, Nuneaton, for

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; *1840–2, St. Philip's Church, Mount Street,

Bethnal Green Bethnal Green is an area in the East End of London northeast of Charing Cross. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the common land, Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heat ...

; *1841, hospital (almshouses) at

Bedworth Bedworth ( or locally ) is a market town and unparished area in the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire, England.OS Explorer Map 232 : Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000) : It is situated between Coventry, 6 miles (9.5 km) to the south, a ...

, Warwickshire; *1842,

Hartshill Hartshill is a large village and civil parish in North Warwickshire, England, 2.5 miles (4 km) north-west of the town of Nuneaton. The parish borders the district of Nuneaton and Bedworth at the south, the North Warwickshire district parishes ...

church, Warwickshire. He also restored

St Mary's Church, Ilkeston St Mary's Church, Ilkeston is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Built in the 14th century, it is known as the "Mollis Chapel" because of a stained glass window which shows the rising sun above the ...

in Derbyshire.

Writings

Walker published illustrated architectural works in the style of Augustus Pugin: * ''Vicar's Close Wells'', 1836. * ''Manor House and Church at Great Chalfield, Wilts'', 1837. * ''Manor House of South Wraxhall, Wilts, and Church of St. Peter at Biddlestone'', 1838. These volumes are continuations of Pugin's ''Examples of Gothic Architecture'', and the plates in the first are by

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( ; 1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and, ultimately, Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival st ...

. * ''The Church of Stoke Golding, Leicestershire'', 1844, for John Weale's "Quarterly Papers on Architecture". He also edited Christopher Davy's ''Architectural Precedents'', 1841, in which he included an article describing his almshouses at Bedworth.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Thomas Larkins 1810s births 1860 deaths Scottish architects Scottish writers