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Thomas Lee (Jnr) (1794 – 5 September 1834), the son of Thomas Lee of
Thomas Lee (Jnr) (1794 – 5 September 1834), the son of Thomas Lee of Barnstaple
Barnstaple ( or ) is a river-port town in North Devon, England, at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool and won great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, bu ...
, Devon, was an English architect.
He was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School
The Park Community School is a coeducational secondary school located in Barnstaple, Devon, England.
History and houses
It was founded in 1910 as Barnstaple Grammar School, and was the first secondary school to be built by Devon County Counci ...
and left to train briefly in 1810 at Sir John Soane's office, where his father no doubt placed him, but left for the office of David Laing. He was also admitted to the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
School in 1812 and won a Royal Academy silver medal in 1816, for a drawing of Lord Burlington's villa at Chiswick, and a gold medal from the Society of Arts, for a design for a British Senate House.The British Senate House design is conserved at the Royal Institute of British Architects library (Colvin)
His first major work was the Wellington Monument, Somerset. Lee's further work was characterised as "eclectic" by Howard Colvin, who instanced the pared-down Soanean neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was ...
of Arlington Court, Devonshire (1820-23 for Col. J.P. Chichester), the Tudor Gothic Eggesford House, Devon (1822 for Hon. Newton Fellowes; now a ruin), several "Commissioners' Gothic" churches in Worcestershire, Cheshire and Staffordshire, as well as an unusually early neo-Norman one. In 1826 he designed the Guildhall in Barnstaple
Barnstaple ( or ) is a river-port town in North Devon, England, at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool and won great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, bu ...
(finished 1828 and currently being restored) which makes an impressive frontage for the later Pannier Market.
In 1834 he died in a swimming accident at
Morthoe
Mortehoe is a village and former manor on the north coast of Devon, England. It lies 10 miles north-west of Barnstaple, near Woolacombe and Lee Bay, and is sited in a valley within the hilly sand-dune-like land behind Morte Point, almost direc ...
, near Barnstaple
Barnstaple ( or ) is a river-port town in North Devon, England, at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool and won great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, bu ...
His brother, Frederick Richard Lee was a successful painter.
Notes
see "Some men who made Barnstaple..." 2010 by Pauline Brain {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Thomas (1794-1834) 1794 births 1834 deaths 19th-century English architects British neoclassical architects Architects from Devon People educated at Barnstaple Grammar School