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Charles Francis Hansom (27 July 1817 – 30 November 1888) was a prominent
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Victorian architect who primarily designed in the Gothic Revival style.


Career

He was born of a
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family in
York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...
. He was the brother of
Joseph Aloysius Hansom Joseph Aloysius Hansom (26 October 1803 – 29 June 1882) was a British architect working principally in the Gothic Revival style. He invented the Hansom cab and founded the eminent architectural journal, ''The Builder'', in 1843. Career H ...
, architect and creator of the
Hansom cab The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Originally called the Hansom safety ca ...
, and father of the architect Edward Joseph Hansom. He practised in partnership with his brother, Joseph, in London from 1854. This partnership was dissolved in 1859 when Charles established an independent practice in Bath with his son Edward (born 22 October 1842) as an articled clerk. He took his son into partnership in 1867, by which time the practice had moved to
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, with a large West Country practice of church and collegiate architecture. In Bristol he took on
Benjamin Bucknall Benjamin Bucknall (1833 – 16 November 1895) was an English architect of the Gothic Revival in South West England and South Wales, and then of neo-Moorish architecture in Algeria. His most noted works include the uncompleted Woodchester Mans ...
as an assistant.


Clifton College

The original
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buildings were all designed by Hansom. His first design at Clifton was for Big School (then a meeting hall and now the school canteen) and a proposed dining hall. Only the former was actually built and a small extra short wing was added in 1866. This is what now contains the Marshal's office and the new staircase into Big School. Hansom was called back to the College in the 1870s and asked to design what is now the Percival Library and the open-cloister classrooms. This project was undertaken in two stages and largely completed by 1875, although the Wilson Tower was not built until 1890.


Works (new built)

* Our Lady the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, Devizes, Wiltshire, 1865 * St Osburg's Church, Coventry, 1845 * St Anne's Church, Edge Hill, Liverpool, 1845–46 * Our Lady and St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church, Hanley Swan, Worcestershire, 1846Pevsner, 1968, page 175 * St David Lewis and St Francis Xavier Church, Usk, Monmouthshire, 1847 * Our Lady of Dolours chapel, ,
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, Dorset, 1847–51 *
Erdington Abbey Erdington Abbey Church () on Sutton Road, Erdington, Birmingham, England, is the more usual name of the grade II listed church of Saints Thomas and Edmund of Canterbury. It is the church of a Roman Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Birmingh ...
,
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, Warwickshire, nr. Birmingham, 1848 *
St Mary and St John Church, Wolverhampton St Mary and St John Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It was opened in 1855 and designed by Charles Hansom. It is situated on the corner of Snow Hill and Ring Road St Georges. It is Grade II* list ...
, West Midlands, 1851 to 1855. * St Gregory's Roman Catholic Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1854–77 *
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(with
Joseph Hansom Joseph Aloysius Hansom (26 October 1803 – 29 June 1882) was a British architect working principally in the Gothic Revival style. He invented the Hansom cab and founded the eminent architectural journal, '' The Builder'', in 1843. Career ...
), 1856–58 *
Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Stoke-on-Trent Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church or Our Lady and St Peter's Chains Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. It was built in 1857 and designed by Charles Hansom. It is situated on Hartshill Ro ...
, 1857 * St Joseph's Church, Weston-super-Mare, 1858 * Little Malvern Court,
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, Worcestershire: west wing, 1860 * Eyre Memorial Chantry, Perrymead Roman Catholic cemetery,
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, Somerset, c.1860; altar carved by
Boulton of Cheltenham Richard Lockwood Boulton (c. 1832–1905) was an English sculptor who founded the firm Messrs R. L. Boulton & Sons. It was centred in Cheltenham, England, and built monuments made of iron and stone in the United Kingdom.
to Hansom's design * St John's, Bath, Somerset, 1861–63 * Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, Broxwood, Herefordshire, 1863 * Rhydd Court,
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, Worcestershire: chapel, 1863 * Malvern College, Worcestershire, 1863–71 * Church of St Mary, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, 1866 * St Pauls, Clifton, 1867 *
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, Oxfordshire, 1869–70 * Woodchester Park, Nympsfield, Gloucestershire (first scheme) * Christ Church,
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, 1883 (demolished 1957) * St Joseph and Teresa RC Church, Wells, Somerset, 1877 * St Clare's Abbey, Darlington (1856-7)


Remodellings

* St. Stephen, Bristol, 1880s.


References


Sources

*Clifton College archives * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hansom, Charles Francis 1817 births 1888 deaths People from York 19th-century English architects Gothic Revival architects Architects of Roman Catholic churches English Roman Catholics English ecclesiastical architects Architects of cathedrals People from Clifton, Bristol Architects from Yorkshire