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Thomas Talbot Bury (26 November 1809 – 23 February 1877) was a British architect and 
Bury's works included thirty-five churches and chapels, fifteen parsonages, twelve schools and twenty other large public buildings and private homes. His ecclesiastical works included St Mary the Virgin's Church, Woodlands (near
lithographer
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. There seems to be some dispute about Bury's date of birth. According to Grace's Guide, the 1877 Institution of Civil Engineers Obituaries gives a DOB as 26th of September 1811, the Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 Vol.1 and the Library of Congress agree. The Royal Academy gives a date of simply 1809 and the Science Museum agrees with them.
Bury was articled to 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 ...
in 1824 and started his own practice in Soho
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The area was develop ...
in 1830. At various times he collaborated with other notable architects including Charles Lee ( partners between 1845 and 1849), Lewis Vulliamy
Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect descended from the Vulliamy family of clockmakers.
Life
Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 179 ...
and A. W. N. Pugin, with whom he detailed the Houses of Parliament
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under Sir Charles Barry
Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860) was a British architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament) in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsi ...
.
Bury's works included thirty-five churches and chapels, fifteen parsonages, twelve schools and twenty other large public buildings and private homes. His ecclesiastical works included St Mary the Virgin's Church, Woodlands (near West Kingsdown
West Kingsdown is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England, on the A20 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Swanley, 5.5 miles (9 km) northeast of Sevenoaks and from London.
The Area
The parish was part of Axsta ...
), Kent
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(1850); the chapels at Tonbridge
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cemetery (1856); St James's Church, Dover
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, (1859); St Ann's Church, Tottenham, (1861); St John the Evangelist's Church in Burgess Hill
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, West Sussex, (1861–63), St Mary's, Lambourn
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Woodlands and Welford St Gregory, both near Newbury, Berkshire
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. He also carried out a restoration
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* Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage
** Audio restoration
** Film restoration
** Image restoration
** Textile restoration
* Restoration ecology
...
of St Peter and St Paul's Church at Temple Ewell
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near Dover.
Bury was also known for his engravings and lithography, notably of the works of Augustus Welby 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 ...
and Owen Jones
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. He exhibited at the Royal Academy
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between 1846 and 1872, and was noted for the sketches he produced for Ackermann's series of lithographs and aquatints of the "Coloured Views of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway", in 1831, republished in 1976.
Bury was made a Fellow of the RIBA
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in 1843 and was elected vice-president in 1876. He was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a council member of the Royal Archaeological Institute
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of Great Britain and Ireland and an associate of the Society of Civil Engineers.
Bury died at his home in Cavendish Square, London and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery
West Norwood Cemetery is a rural cemetery in West Norwood in London, England. It was also known as the South Metropolitan Cemetery.
One of the first private landscaped cemeteries in London, it is one of the " Magnificent Seven" cemeteries of L ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bury, Thomas Talbot 1809 births 1877 deaths 19th-century English architects Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Gothic Revival architects English ecclesiastical architects Burials at West Norwood Cemetery English lithographers