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Edward Browning (1816 – 1882) was an English architect working in Stamford.


Life

Edward Browning or Edward Bailey Browning was the son of the Stamford architect Bryan Browning (1773-1856). He was apprenticed to the London architect George Maddox and by 1847 was in partnership with his father. The partnership continued until his father's death in 1856. Edward Browning qualified as an
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on 22 March 1847. Their architectural practice was at No.16, Broad Street, Stamford. He held a number of ecclesiastical appointments as an architect and surveyor. These included the position of Architect and Surveyor for Dean and Chapter of Peterborough Cathedral for the Cathedral Precincts and surveyor of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations for the Archdeaconry of Oakham, which he resigned in 1882 due to ill health. Browning served as Mayor of Stamford in 1862-3 and gave the town its gold mayoral chain. He was after 1870 an auditor for the Midland Bank. The Stamford architect
Joseph Boothroyd Corby Joseph Boothroyd Corby (1839–1913) was an English architect who worked in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Career Joseph Boothroyd Corby was born in Stamford and was articled to the local architect Edward Browning. He later became the surveyor of the ...
was a pupil of Browning and the architectural practice was continued by J. C. Traylen. Apart from the Marquess of Exeter at
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, Edward Browning also worked extensively for a number of the leading aristocratic and landed families in Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and elsewhere. He took over from his father Bryan Browning with work at Apethorpe Palace for the
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, and, apart from Apethorpe, designed estate housing, farms and other building at
King's Cliffe King's Cliffe (variously spelt Kings Cliffe, King's Cliff, Kings Cliff, Kingscliffe) is a village and civil parish on Willow Brook, a tributary of the River Nene, about northeast of Corby in North Northamptonshire. The parish adjoins the count ...
. For the
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he added a major extension to Orton Hall near Peterborough. For the
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, whose main residence was at
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, he designed a large house at Millwood in
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, in Cumbria. In Essex he undertook a re-modelling of Barrington Hall in Essex for the Barrington/Loundes family. More extensive was his work for Lord Brownlow of
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and for other members of the Cust family, which included a number of schools and other buildings in the
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area. Browning was married to Louisa Ann Fox on 12 September 1850 at St Michael's Church, Stamford, and they had 16 children. On retirement he moved to London and died on 14 April 1882.


Works


With his father, 1848-1856

*Stamford Town Bridge, St Mary's Hill /St Martins. Rebuilt over the river Welland by Messrs Browning 1848 *3 St Mary's Hill. Stamford. 1848. Former Boat and Railway Hotel. *4 St Mary's Hill, Stamford. Adjacent to the
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and rebuilt at the same time as the Town Bridge was built. *5 St Mary's Hill. Former Conservative Club, Stamford. Adjacent to the
River Welland The River Welland is a lowland river in the east of England, some long. It drains part of the Midlands eastwards to The Wash. The river rises in the Hothorpe Hills, at Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, then flows generally northeast to Market ...
. *Building on corner of Red Lion Square and High Street. 1848. Jacobean style. *Byard House. 19 St Paul's Street, Stamford. 1851. Two storey ashlar house was built in 1851, on the site of a building dating to 1666. It has two full height bay windows in a 17th-century style, with heavy corbelled gables in a 17th-century style. Now part of Stamford Endowed Schools. *Midland Bank, Corner of St Mary's Street and St Mary's Hill, Stamford 1848. Three storeys with shaped gables to the attic dormer windows. *16 Broad Street, Stamford. The Browning's offices, possibly the work of Edward Browning, c.1855.


By himself


Schools

*Grantham National School 1858-9 * Little Gonerby National School, Grantham. (1863). Now Belvoir House Care Home. The ''
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'' recorded that school was opened on 17 June 1863 and the school had been built through "the munificence of the Hon. & Rev. Rd. Cust" with Edward Browning as architect and John Wilson builder, and "The building will have a stone exterior of very handsome appearance, and will form a very handsome architectural addition to the group of villa residences already built in the neighbourhood. The stone is from the quarries of Mr. Wilson, at
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". *Totternhoe Board School,Castle Hill Road,
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, Bedfordshire. 1867. Built for Marian Lady Alford in memory of her son, the late Lord Brownlow. T-shaped building with school and master's house. Arched windows with decorative brick over windows and banding. To accommodate 140 children. The school was let to Bedfordshire County Council in 1916 when the Lord Brownlow sold the Totternhoe Estate. The school was demolished after 1950. * Hough-on-the-Hill, Old Primary School. 1867. Grade II. School with schoolhouse attached to south. T-plan. Coursed ironstone rubble, ashlar dressings, banded fishscale slate roof. Roofs with iron ridge with small ventilators and three chimney stacks. The school runs to the north at right angles from schoolhouse with an ornate shaped gable and coped chimney. West front has plain sashed window to north, another ornate projection with ornate shaped gable with finial and a large three-mullioned rectangular window with small triangular opening above. Small buttress to south. Cross wing has small buttress and small rectangular window on north side with large ashlar dressed lateral stack with 2 tall chimneys. Pointed doorway to north end of west front of projection. Plaque above with a large 'B' for Brownlow inscribed on shield. Large coped gable on west side, with bell hood. * Stamford High School High Street St Martin's, Stamford, 1876. With gothic detailing to the first floor windows and the arched entrances, but otherwise with some surprisingly modern characteristics.


School attributed to Edward Browning

*New Road,
Easton on the Hill Easton on the Hill is a village and civil parish at the north eastern tip of North Northamptonshire, England. The village had a population at the 2011 census was 1,015. The village, sited on the A43 road, is compact in form, with the older part ...
Northamptonshire. 1867.
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Listing. Now village hall. c.1867. The adjacent master's house could also be by Browning. Single storey T-shape school. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings with a
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roof. On road frontage are three stone mullion windows. Conical ventilator on roof ridge. Elevation to left has gable and with large three light window with plate tracery and cusped-heads Small square tower attached,with a square
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cupola, with spirelet, clock face on tower and chiming bell in cupola. The school was originally endowed by Richard Garford in 1670 and rebuilt on the present site in 1867, to include a National School for girls, as well as boys, at a cost of £1,200.


Hospital and almshouses

*
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, three fever wards. *Almshouses 90-100 Church Street, Market Deeping. Listed Grade II. Six almshouses were built in 1877 to designs by Edward Browning of Stamford. They were built following a bequest by Miss Mary Ann Scotney to provide for six Protestant widows or spinsters. Single storey with
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roof and ashlar ridge chimney stacks. Squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Three-sided courtyard plan facing road. Five-bay frontage, the end bays are advanced and separately gabled. In the porch roof is a small two-light dormer window. In the gable ends are similar single windows. The left hand gable has a plaque with "MAS" in raised lettering and the right hand gable the date "1877". Both plaques have draped garlands above.


Public buildings

*Corn Exchange, Broad Street, Stamford 1859 Tudor Gothic with a large first-floor window within a shallow projecting bay. Altered after a fire in 1925. *Buttermarket, Red Lion Square, Stamford 1861.
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with a stone slate roof. Two storeys, Four windows with windows, Coat of arms below label. Small dentil cornice above the three bay round-headed arcade of the former Buttermarket. Moulded arches with keystone.
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listed. *Corn Exchange,
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1866.


Churches


=Bedfordshire

= * Bletsoe 1858. Restoration of church. * Dunton. 1861. The tower rebuilt, the south porch was partially rebuilt and the chancel restored. *
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1873. Restoration of church.


=Cambridgeshire

= *Stilton, 1857 * Holme Church, Cambridgeshire. 1862. The outside of the church rebuilt, but earlier masonry in the interior of the church. Rockfaced with double bellcote. Decorative period tracery. *
Whittlesey Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 16,058 at the 2011 Census. History and architecture W ...
, Cambridgeshire. 1858. New roof over south aisle.


=Essex

= *St Giles,
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. 1880–2. Romanesque church, largely re-built by Browning. New bell turret on the north side of the chancel and a new north aisle, vestry and porch.


=Hertfordshire

= *
St Helen's Church, Wheathampstead St Helen's Church is the oldest church in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, although the date of its origins is unknown. The wooden Anglo-Saxon structure pre-dated the Norman conquest of England, but no records survive which establish th ...
, 1864


=Lincolnshire

= *
St John the Baptist's Church, Stamford St John the Baptist's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the centre of the town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the ...
. 1856. Re-ordered the interior for
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or High Church worship. Finely carved pews in the nave to Browning's designs. *St Martin Barholm 1856 *Langtoft 1859 *
St Andrew's Church, Folkingham The Church of St Andrew in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England, is Grade I–listed Anglican church. Originating in the late 12th century, it was largely completed by the late 15th, with restorations carried out in 1825, 1858 and 1860. It has e ...
. In 1860 Edward Browning advertised for tenders from builders for "Taking Down and Re-building the Pillars and Clerestory of the nave of FOLKINGHAM CHURCH with a new nave roof together with other reparations." *
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. 1860. Edward Browning undertook a thorough restoration of the church at the cost of about £500. This included cleaning the freestone of the nave, pillars, and arches. The windows of the south aisle were restored as well as the porch with a new opened timber roof. The ancient bench ends of the church were carefully reproduced in English oak as well as new prayer-desk with open tracery front and richly carved book-board, and a new lectern. A pulpit of polished alabaster, with a richly carved cornice of natural and conventional foliage provided.The pulpit is octagonal, with shafts of polished green marble at the intersections : the base and corbel are of Ketton stone, black marble shafts in the centre panel is carved a lamb and banner bearing the cross. The floor of the church was encaustic tiles with glazed bands arranged in a trellis, and square compartments. The recumbent figures of Lambert Trekingham and his wife were partially restored, and set on a plinth plain stone. *
St Mary's Church, Stamford St Mary's Church, Stamford is a parish church of the Church of England, located in Stamford, Lincolnshire, lending its name to St Mary's Hill (part of the old Great North Road) on which it stands, and which runs down to the river crossing opp ...
. 1860. Restoration of the chancel. *St Mary's, Sutterton. 1861–3. Extensively rebuilt, including tower and spire, but the overall earlier appearance of the medieval church has been retained. *St John the Baptist, Claydike Bank, Amber Hill, Lincolnshire. 1867. Red brick with polygonal apse, bellcote. Lancet windows . Decorative interior with yellow brick with red dado and black band and naturalistic foliage cut in red brick. The church was made redundant in February 1995 and was sold in April 1998 for conversion into a private home. *All Saints' Church,
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*St Andrew, Sempringham. 1868–9. Apsed chancel added and the north aisle wall extended to cover the area of the former transept. *
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Church 1862


=Northamptonshire

= * Duddington St Mary,1844 *
King's Cliffe King's Cliffe (variously spelt Kings Cliffe, King's Cliff, Kings Cliff, Kingscliffe) is a village and civil parish on Willow Brook, a tributary of the River Nene, about northeast of Corby in North Northamptonshire. The parish adjoins the count ...
. (1853) Church restored. *
St Helen's Church, Sibbertoft St Helen's Church is the Church of England parish church of the village of Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire. It is a Grade II* listed building and stands on the west side of Church Street at the north end of the village. There was presumably a chu ...
. Extensively restored in 1864. According to the Lincolnshire Chronicle a '"new south aisle and porch have been built, the aisle being divided from the church by an arcade of three arches, springing from elaborate carved caps. The old west gallery has been taken away, and the tower arch opened, the effect, as usual, adding greatly to the appearance of the church. The north aisle has been extended eastwards, the vestry being divided from it by an oak screen, the upper panels of which are perforated by quatrefoils. The nave divided from the chancel oak screen, with tracery and carved heads. The pavement throughout, except the north aisle and vestry, is composed of Minton's tiles, of various elegant patterns, from designs expressly made by the Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton." *St Leonard Rockingham, 1870


=Nottinghamshire

= * St Wilfred, Marnham. (1847) The Lincolnshire Chronicle reported that ''the Nave and chancel has been thorougly repaired, and fitted with neat stalls at great expense, the cost of the noble proprietor of the parish'' (Lord Brownlow) and that ''The roof is completely new, so also are the open seats, which are solid oak, and, although simple design, are very convenient and suited to the church; the pavement is of red and black tiles ; the reading-desk is handsomely carved, and the pulpit, of stone, is very elegant and the font, plain design''


Rutland

*St Mary, Morcott. 1874.


=Churches gallery

=


Country houses

* Apethorpe Palace, Northamptonshire. Edward Browning"s father Bryan Browning had undertaken a scheme of work for the
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on the south wing of the Palace and this was continued by Edward with alterations to the loggia and the insertion of a neo-Jacobean staircase. *Orton Hall,
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, Peterborough. 1860–1. West Wing of Orton Hall, extension of the Hall built for the
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The west wing added in 1861 is two storeys and attic, rock faced masonry with bands of ashlar, plain parapet and steeply pitched tiled roof with gabled end, large two storey bay on south side with decorative parapet and oriel in gable. On the north side is an octagonal tower with open work parapet with battlements and a large porch with stepped gable. An impressive frontage with alternative use of
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limestone and rough stone banding which is a feature of Browning's work. Browning also constructed a mortuary chapel for the Maquis of Huntley. *
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( Hatfield Broad Oak).1863 The original house was built in 1734. In 1863 Browning redesigned the facade in a
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style. Red brick with stone dressings. The ground floor of the west front has smooth rusticated masonry and the parapet has elaborate arched pillared corners with octagonal turrets. There are a number of ornamental shaped Dutch gables. The centre block of the south front has a centre piece with carved figures. The casement windows are varied in size and proportion, with stone
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,
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and architraves. *Millwood Manor,
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, Cumbria. 1860. A large house built for the
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, who had his main residence at
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in Northamptonshire. It was occupied initially by William Wadham, who was the Duke's agent. Wadham and Browning advertised for tenders for building the House with offices and a lodge. The Lodge appears to be listed but the Millwood Manor does not appear to be.


Houses

* All Saints Vicarage, 8 St Peter's Hill, 1855. *No 16 Cornmarket, Stamford * Amber Hill rectory *16 St George's Square, Stamford. Former St George's rectory, Stamford *
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old rectory *The Tower House, St Peter's Hill, Stamford. *Bishop's Palace, Peterborough. Alterations including a new kitchen and cellarage.


=Houses at the First Drift & Second Drift, Wothorpe

= *The Elms (formerly Priory College), First Drift,
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, on the outskirts of Stamford. 1850s and apparently by Browning for himself. Large Gothic style house with some re-used medieval fragments.
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roof. Asymmetrical and gabled frontage. Two storeys. To the right is a gable incorporated into a stair tower with shouldered lancets, first floor stone Gothic oriel window and a Romanesque doorway. Set back is a
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traceried window. Stone mullioned windows, some of which are re-used medieval traceried windows. Inside the hall, vestibule and library have
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timber ceilings. The hall has a dado with re-used medieval traceried panels and a frieze (15th century) a Jacobean style screen and a staircase with twisted balusters. In the library are fine carved medieval (and 16th century ?) panels and pilasters reworked into Victorian panelling, and stencilled walls. *Clare Lodge,
Wothorpe Wothorpe is a village and civil parish in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England. It is in the far north-west of the district, and to the south of Stamford (in Lincolnshire). The parish borders Northamptonshire to the west ...
, First Drift Kettering Road, Stamford. c1870. House also built by Browning for himself. Asymmetrical Tudoresque villa with overhanging arch-braced wooden gables, imitating some French vernacular architecture. Stone balustrade with a big fleur-de-lis pattern. *Wothorpe House, Second Drift, Kettering Road.
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Grade II listed. Circa 1860–70. Two storey house with five gabled bays . The bays are asymmetrically arranged with arched braced timber-framed gables on brackets supported on corbel heads. Steeply pitched
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roofs with stone chimney stacks with slits between the square shafts. The north-west front is rock faced stone with freestone dressings. The right hand slightly advanced gable, the ground floor has a square bay with cusped arch lights and wide eaves on brackets, above is a window with three shouldered arch window lights. Central attic semi-dormer with gable on brackets. Left hand, porch with diagonal angle buttresses with set-offs. Moulded arched doorway with Burghley arms above, and first floor Gothic traceried two light window. The south-west garden front has advanced right hand twin gables with oriel and ground floor canted bay with square first floor bay rising from a hipped roof. Inside in the hall is a fireplace with corbelled stone hood; moulded ceiling beams with arched braces on corbels and chamfered joists. The open-well staircase has Gothic traceried balusters.


Shop

*Albert House, 58 High Street, Stamford. An example of
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using contrasting coloured stone.


Drinking fountain

*Drinking fountain,
Bourne, Lincolnshire Bourne is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the eastern slopes of the limestone Kesteven Uplands and the western edge of the Fens, 11 miles (18 km) north-east of Stamford, 12 mile ...
, 1860. Originally in the Market Place, Canopied gothic. Now moved to the Cemetery. The memorial drinking fountain was erected to celebrate the life of John Lely Ostler (1811–59) now Grade II listed and restored by the town council at a cost of £9,000


Cemeteries

*Bourne chapel of rest. 1855. Two Gothic chapels in a single T-plan building. *Stamford cemetery chapel, Casterton Road, Stamford 1855. Substantial chapel with tower and pyramid spire rising to an octagonal bell stage and further spirelet. Trefoiled lancets and tracery. The matching cemetery lodge is presumably also to the designs of Browning. *Grantham Cemetery, Harrowby Road. 1856–7. Grantham Burial Board advertised for tenders for "the Erection of Two CHAPELS (united), with a LODGE and ENTRANCE GATES, on the Cemetery Ground, situate in Harrowby and Somerby". Pevsner remarks "a substantial pair of chapels nicely grouped either side of an arch surmounted by a steeple, one correctly orientated, the other facing north." *Cemetery Chapel and Gate Lodge, Oundle. In 1859 Browning advertised for Builders desirous of TENDERING for the ERECTION of these Chapels, together with a Lodge, Entrance gates, and Front FenceLincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 5 August 1859, pg. 4


References


Literature

*Antram N (revised), Pevsner, N. & Harris J, (1989), '' The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'', Yale University Press. *Antonia Brodie (ed), ''Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914'': 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001, Vol 1, pg. 281. *Colvin H. A (1995), ''Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840''. Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, pg.172. *Lee S and Orpin J (2016) ''The Brownings - Architects of Stamford''. Stamford Living, August 2016


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Browning, Edward 19th-century English architects English ecclesiastical architects Architects from Lincolnshire 1816 births 1882 deaths Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects