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THOMAS RICKMAN (1776-1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 315 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:RICKMAN (1776-1841)  , See also:English architect, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:June 1776 at See also:Maidenhead, See also:Berkshire, where he assisted his See also:father (a Quaker) in business as a See also:grocer and druggist until 1797 . He was then engaged in various businesses until 1818 . All his spare See also:time was spent in sketching and making careful measured drawings, till he gained a knowledge of See also:architecture which was very remarkable at a time when little See also:taste existed for the beauties of the See also:Gothic styles . In 1811 alone he is said to have studied three thousand ecclesiastical buildings . When in 1818 a large See also:grant of See also:money was made by the See also:government to build new churches, See also:Rickman sent in a See also:design of his own which was successful in an open competition; thus he was fairly launched upon the profession of an architect, for which his natural gifts strongly fitted him . Rickman then moved to See also:Birmingham, and by 183o became one of the most successful architects of his time . He built churches at See also:Hampton See also:Lucy, Ombersley, and Stretton-on-Dunsmore, St See also:George's at Birmingham, St See also:Philip's and St See also:Matthew's in See also:Bristol, two in See also:Carlisle, St See also:Peter's and St See also:Paul's at See also:Preston, St See also:David's in See also:Glasgow, See also:Grey Friars at See also:Coventry, and many others . He also designed the new See also:court of St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, a See also:palace for the See also:bishop of Carlisle, and several large See also:country houses . These are all in the Gothic See also:style, but show more knowledge of the outward See also:form of the See also:medieval style than any real acquaintance with its spirit, and are little better than dull copies of old See also:work, disfigured by much poverty of detail . Rickman nevertheless played an important See also:part in the revival of taste for medievalism perhaps second only to See also:Pugin . His See also:Attempt to discriminate the Styles of Architecture in See also:England shows pains-taking See also:research, and ran through many See also:editions . Rickman died at Birmingham on the 4th of See also:January 1841 .

He was married three times: first to his See also:

cousin, Lucy Rickman of See also:Lewes; secondly to Christiana Hornor; thirdly to See also:Elizabeth See also:Miller of See also:Edinburgh, by whom he had a son and a daughter .

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