Thomas Cundy the younger (1790 – 15 July 1867) was an English architect, son of another architect of the same name. He joined his father's practice and ultimately succeeded his father as surveyor of the

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, and held the position during the main phase of the development of

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and Pimlico by the contractor

Thomas Cubitt Thomas Cubitt (25 February 1788 – 20 December 1855) was a British master builder, notable for his employment in developing many of the historic streets and squares of London, especially in Belgravia, Pimlico and Bloomsbury. His great-great-g ...

Life

He was eldest son of Thomas Cundy and his wife Mary Hubert. He worked with his father on many projects, and, following his father's death in 1825 took over his practice, and his position as surveyor to Lord Grosvenor's London estates. He held this position for 41 years, covering the entire period of

's speculative developments. The buildings he designed or alterered included Hewell Grange; Tottenham Park; Moor Park, Hertfordshire, (alterations for Earl Grosvenor in 1828 and 1831); Fawsley Park and Grosvenor House. He also designed St Matthew's Church,

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(1826). In later years he worked mostly on building churches on the west side of London, including Holy Trinity Paddington, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, and St Barnabas's, St Michael's, St Saviour's and St Gabriel's in Pimlico. St Barnabas was built to suit the high church tendency, with a richly decorated interior and a screen separating nave from chancel. It forms part of a unified scheme, with schools and a parsonage in the same Early English style: Charles Locke Eastlake commented that the parsonage "was probably the first instance in which a Victorian drawing-room received its light from a lancet window." Cundy lived at

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in Kent in his later years, and died on 15 July 1867, aged 77. He left three sons and one daughter from his marriage to Arabella Fishlake of Salisbury. His third son, the third Thomas Cundy, took over the business. He was buried in

Brompton Cemetery Brompton Cemetery (originally the West of London and Westminster Cemetery) is a London cemetery, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Establ ...

, London.

Works

Houses

Hewell Grange Hewell Grange is a former country house in Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England. "One of the most important late 19th century country houses in England", the mansion was built between 1884 and 1891 by George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner fo ...

Tottenham Park Tottenham House is a large Grade I listed English country house in the parish of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, about five miles southeast of the town of Marlborough. It is separated from the town by Savernake Forest, which is part of the Tottenha ...

* Moor Park, Hertfordshire * Fawsley Hall * The picture gallery at Grosvenor House (1826–7), the London residence of the Duke of Westminster. In 1842–3 he added a screen to front the courtyard towards Upper Grosvenor Street.

Churches

* St Matthew's Church,

(1826) * St Michael's, Chester Square (1846) * St Barnabas, Pimlico (1847–50) *

St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace, is an Anglican church in the leafy St John's Wood neighbourhood of the City of Westminster, London. The building was completed by 1847 and was badly damaged in an unexplained fire on 26 January 2023. It is loca ...

(1846–7), tower built by his son *

Holy Trinity, Paddington Holy Trinity was a church that once stood on the corner of Bishop's Road, now Bishop's Bridge Road, and Westbourne Terrace, in Paddington, London. It was built 1844–46 to a design by Thomas Cundy. Before 1873, the church of Saint Paul, Harro ...

St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, is a Grade II*listed Anglican church of the Anglo-Catholic tradition located at 32a Wilton Place in Knightsbridge, London. History and architecture The church was founded in 1843, the first in London to champion ...

St Gabriel's, Warwick Square St Gabriel's, Pimlico, is a Church of England, Anglo-Catholic parish church in Pimlico, London. It lies within the Deanery of Westminster (St Margaret) within the Diocese of London. Designed by Thomas Cundy (junior), it was constructed betwee ...

St Saviour's, Pimlico St Saviour's is an Anglo-Catholic church in Pimlico, City of Westminster, London, England, located at the north end of St George's Square. It was constructed in the 1860s as part of Thomas Cubitt's development of the area on behalf of the Marqu ...

References

* H. M. Colvin, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840'' (1997) * L. H. Cust
‘Cundy, Thomas, the younger (1790–1867)’
rev. Richard John, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 3 January 2008

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cundy, Thomas 1790 births 1867 deaths English surveyors Burials at Brompton Cemetery 19th-century English architects