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The Newcastle architect John Dobson was hired to design the new church, and he produced an elegant Gothic-style building at a cost of £6000. The present church was built by John Dobson, between 1827 and 1830. Galleries were added in 1837 and the seating was replaced in 1881.
John Dobson (9 November 1787 – 8 January 1865) was a 19th-century English neoclassical architect.During his life, he was the most noted architect in Northern England.He designed more than 50 churches and 100 private houses, but he is best known for designing Newcastle railway station and his work with Richard Grainger developing the neoclassical centre of Newcastle.
Assisted by the influence of his brother John, Clayton entered a scheme for the reconstruction of the St Thomas chapel, and in May, 1828, the erection of St. Thomas's Church, Barras Bridge, to a design of John Dobson, was formally begun; in October 1829 John Clayton laid the corner-stone, and a year later the edifice was consecrated and opened for public worship.
Present-day Newcastle owes much of its architecture to the work of the builder Richard Grainger, aided by architects John Dobson, Thomas Oliver, John and Benjamin Green and others. In 1834 Grainger won a competition to produce a new plan for central Newcastle.
Biddlestone Chapel was built in or about 1820 for the Roman Catholic Selby family of Biddlestone Hall, the architect probably being John Dobson who designed the now demolished Selby mansion in a severe Greek revival style. It is constructed on the site of a 13th-century pele tower, which was attached to the hall, and incorporates some of its ...
Richard Grainger (9 October 1797 – 4 July 1861) was a builder in Newcastle upon Tyne.He worked with the architects John Dobson and Thomas Oliver, and with the town clerk, John Clayton, to redevelop the centre of Newcastle in the 19th century.
Parish church. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas and was built in 1799 to the design of John Dodds, replacing an earlier medieval church building which like many parish churches had been built on top of a hill. The architect John Dobson was responsible for some alterations to the church in 1818–20. The eastern half was added in 1913, to ...
Jesmond Parish Church is a parish church in the Church of England situated in Brandling Village in the Jesmond suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England.The church's official name is the Clayton Memorial Church and is unusual among Anglican parish churches in not being named after either a saint who appears in the church's calendar or a person of the Trinity.