William Jeffrey Hopkins (1820–1901) was a British architect.

Career

One of Hopkins' earliest works, the Public Hall in

Worcester Worcester may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Worcester, England, a city and the county town of Worcestershire in England ** Worcester (UK Parliament constituency), an area represented by a Member of Parliament * Worcester Park, London, Engla ...

(1848–49), was

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

.Pevsner, 1968, pages 329–330 Most of his work thereafter was of 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 ...

. For many years he was the Worcester Diocesan Architect, and as such he mostly built or rebuilt

Church of England parish church A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes ca ...

es in

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

Works

*Public Hall,

, 1848–49 (demolished ''circa'' 1968) *St. Martin's parish church, Worcester: east window, 1855–62 *St. Barnabas' parish church, Drakes Broughton,

, 1857 * Cow Honeybourne parish church, Honeybourne, Worcestershire, 1861–63 *Holy Trinity parish church, Shrub Hill, Worcester, 1863 (demolished 1965) *St. James' parish church,

Hindlip Hindlip or Hinlip is a village and civil parish north east of Worcester, in the Wychavon district, in the county of Worcestershire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 180. The parish touches Tibberton, Martin Hussingtree, Salwarpe, ...

, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1864 *St. John the Baptist parish church, Bradley, Worcestershire, 1864–65 *St.Nicholas' parish church, Worcester: restoration, 1867 *Saints Philip and James parish church,

Hallow, Worcestershire Hallow is a village and civil parish beside the River Severn, about north-west of Worcester in Worcestershire. The village is on the A443 road that links Worcester with Holt Heath. Hallow has a public house, a post office and a Church of Engl ...

, 1867–69 *Bohun Court, Hallow, Worcestershire, 1860s (demolished 1925) *St. James' parish church, Churchill, Worcestershire, 1868 *St. Peter ad Vincula parish church,

Tibberton, Worcestershire Tibberton is a village in Worcestershire, England. It is located around 4 miles north-east of Worcester and less than a mile from junction 6 of the M5 motorway. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal passes just to the north of the village. A numbe ...

, 1868 *St. Paul's parish church, Blackheath,

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

, 1869 *

Bromsgrove School Bromsgrove School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England. Founded in 1553, it is one of the oldest public schools in Britain, and one of the 14 founding members of the Headmaste ...

, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire: enlarged chapel, 1869 *St. Mary's parish church,

Icomb Icomb is a village in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, near to Stow on the Wold. The population taken at the 2011 census was 202. The village appears as ''Iacumbe'' in the Domesday Book. Parish Church The Church of St Mary is the parish churc ...

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

: restoration, 1871 * St. Nicholas' parish church, King's Norton,

: restoration, 1871 *St. Kenelm's parish church, Upper Snodsbury, Worcestershire: rebuilt church, 1873–74 *St. James' parish church, Norton-by-Kempsey: restoration (with

Ewan Christian Ewan Christian (1814–1895) was a British architect. He is most frequently noted for the restorations of Southwell Minster and Carlisle Cathedral, and the design of the National Portrait Gallery. He was Architect to the Ecclesiastical Commiss ...

), 1874–75 *St. John the Baptist parish church,

Grafton Flyford Grafton Flyford is a village about east of Worcester, in Worcestershire, England. It neighbours Stock Green, with the large farm house Hill Top Farm standing on the border. In 1377, or 1378, Henry de Ardern was granted the manor of Grafton Flyf ...

, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1875 *St. John the Baptist parish church, Suckley, Worcestershire: rebuilt church, 1878–79 * All Saints' parish church,

Wilden, Worcestershire Wilden is a small village about 1 mile north east of Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire. It is in the Stour valley and both the River Stour and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal pass through the parish before joining the River Seve ...

, 1880 *St. Peter's parish church,

Besford Besford is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 147. The village is near Pershore, off the road from Upton-upon-Severn. A historic house, Besford Cou ...

, Worcestershire: restoration, 1880–81 *St. James' parish church,

Kington, Worcestershire Kington is a village in Worcestershire, England, situated near to Flyford Flavell. History The earliest known recording of Kington in the Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript ...

: rebuilt chancel, 1881 *St. Eadburga's parish church, Abberton, Worcestershire, 1881–82 *St. Peter's parish church, Flyford Flavell, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1883 *Saints Mathias and George parish church,

Astwood Bank Astwood Bank is a district within Redditch. Astwood Bank is near the Warwickshire - Worcestershire border, near villages such as Studley, Sambourne, Callow Hill, Feckenham, and Cookhill. Astwood Bank is noted for its successful cricket tea ...

, Worcestershire, 1884 *St. Bartholomew's parish church, Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1897Pevsner, 1968, page 223

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