Yeoville Thomason, Kensal Green Cemetery

Henry Richard Yeoville Yardley Thomason (17 July 1826 – 19 July 1901) was a British architect active in

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. He was born in

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to a Birmingham family, and set up his own practice in Birmingham 1853–54.

Life

Yeoville Thomason was a grandson of Sir

Edward Thomason Sir Edward Thomason (c. 1769 – 29 May 1849) was a manufacturer and inventor in Birmingham knighted by King William IV. Life He was born around 1769 in Birmingham. His father Edward Thomason (1740 – 1793) was a manufacturer of buckles, and ...

, a silversmith and medallist in Birmingham, and son of Henry Botfield Thomason and Elizabeth Yardley. He was a pupil of Charles Edge, and after qualifying as an architect he worked for the borough surveyor. He designed the Council House after winning a competition. As architect to Birmingham, Dudley and District Banking Company he designed several bank buildings in the area. He retired in 1896. He died in 1901 and is buried in

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Significant works

He designed, amongst others: *In Birmingham: ** The Council House and its immediate extension, the original Art Gallery, 1874–85,

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, 1856, Grade II* listed **Great Hampton Works, 80–82 Great Hampton Street,

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, c 1880, Grade II* listed **Union Club, 85–89 Colmore Row, on the corner with

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, now called Bamford's Trust House, 1870, Grade II listed The new building was noted by the ''

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'' in 1869. ** Birmingham Banking Company, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. Designed new entrance in 1868. Became

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. Grade II listed **38 Benetts Hill, 1868–70, Grade II listed **Highcroft Hospital, Main Building, Highcroft Road, Erdington (former Aston Union Workhouse). 1869, Grade II listed **Birmingham Town and District Bank, 63 Colmore Row, Birmingham. (1867–69) Head Office later to become part of

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, facade later remodelled by Peacock and Bewlay. **Lewis's department store, Corporation Street, 1886, (demolished 1929 and replaced by a seven storey building), Birmingham's first iron and concrete building''Birmingham Buildings, The Architectural Story of a Midland City'', Bryan Little, 1971, **Acocks Green Chapel, Warwick Green,

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, 1860 (closed in 1956). ** St Asaph's Church, Birmingham 1868 (demolished 1961) **St John the Baptist's church, Harborne (destroyed by enemy action, 1941) *Elsewhere: **Public Hall, High Street,

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, (1866–67), now the Public Library.''The Buildings of England: Worcestershire'', Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p81

References

External links

The Victorian Society in Birmingham (Three City Trails, Victorian Architects of Birmingham)
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