Thomas Taylor: Regency architect, Leeds; by F. Beckwith.
Contents
and Synopsis of Taylors Buildings
| Date | Page | |||
| ILLUSTRATIONS, (and LIST of) | viii to xxi | |||
| I. | THE AGE. | 1 | ||
| II. | THE ARCHITECT. | |||
| (i) | APPRENTICESHIP | |||
| Birth | c.1778 | 11 | ||
| Pupil of Andrews and Wyatt | c. 1791-1805 | 12 | ||
| (ii) | AT LEEDS | |||
| Early Work | 1805-11 | 16 | ||
| Decorations to mansions and Drawings | 17 | |||
| Repairs Leeds Parish Church | 1812 | 17 | ||
| Leeds Court House | 1811-13 | 18 | ||
| Schools | 1611-17 | 21 | ||
| (iii) | CHURCH ARCHITECT BEFORE THE ACT OF 1818. | |||
| Liversedge Christ Church | 1812-16 | 25 | ||
| Minor Work: Repairs at Rothwell; Call Lane,Leeds; Union Bank Leeds | 1812-13 | 30 | ||
| Bradford Christ Church | 1813-15 | 31 | ||
| Restorations Colne and Rochdale | 1815-16 | 32 | ||
| Luddenden St. Mary | 1816- | 35 | ||
| Southowram St. Anne | 1816-19 | 36 | ||
| Huddersfield Holy Trinity | 1816-19 | 38 | ||
| Minor Work: Drawings and projected book | 1816 | 39 | ||
| Littleborough, Holy Trinity | 1818-20 | 40 | ||
| Rochdale Gallery and Parsonage Markets | 1822-23 | 42 | ||
| (iv) | CHURCH ARCHITECT. AFTER THE ACT. | |||
| Pudsey St. Lawrence | 1821-24 | 43 | ||
| Dewsbury Three Churches: | ||||
| Dewsbury Moor, St. John | 1823-27 | 45 | ||
| Hanging Heaton, St. Paul | 1823-25 | 47 | ||
| Earlsheaton, St. Peter | 1825-27 | 48 | ||
| Minor Work: Ossett and Gildersome | 1821-22 | 49 | ||
| Sheffield, St. Philip | 1822-28 | 50 | ||
| Attercliffe, Christ Church | 1822-26 | 51 | ||
| Attercliffe, National School | 1823-24 | 54 | ||
| Leeds, St. Mary (Quarry Hill) | 1823-26 | 54 | ||
| Huddersfield, Christ Church (Woodhouse) | 1823-24 | 63 | ||
| Roundhay, St. John | 1824-26 | 65 | ||
| Death | 1826 | 67 | ||
| Candidate for Leeds Commercial Buildings | 1826 | 68 | ||
| Ripon, Holy Trinity | 1826-27 | 70 | ||
| III. | THE ARCHITECTURE | 72 | ||
| APPENDICES | 96 | |||
| 1. | Taylor's Letter (Liversedge) | 1813 | 91 | |
| 2. | Rev. H. Roberson's Prospectus | 1811 | 93 | |
| 3. | Statistics of the churches | 95 | ||
Plate I. The Court-House, Leeds. Frontispiece
Drawn by N. Whittock, engraved on steel by W. Sims, London;
published by I. T. Hinton, 4 Warwick Square, 1829. Sin, x Sin. (actual
drawing, 5 3/4in. x 3 1/2in.). From Thomas Allen: History of Yorkshire, IV,
419-20. For a side view of the Court-House, see Thoresby Society,
Publications XLI {Miscellany, 12), Plate III.
Plate II. (a) Christ Church, Liversedge. Page xi
"Sketch of the church now building at Liversedge . .
."
Frontispiece to Hammond Roberson: An Account of the Ceremony . . . Leeds, Griffith Wright, 1813. Same size. Picture postcards of
interior and exterior are available.
(b) Christ Church, Bradford.
Pencil drawing, in the possession of the Ripon Diocesan Board of
Finance. 12 1/8 in. x 8 3/8 in. Other illustrations in W. Scruton, Pen and
Pencil Sketches of Old Bradford (1889). p. 39; H. Fieldhouse, Old
Bradford Illustrated (1889). p. 84.
Plate III. Holy Trinity, Huddersfield. Page xiii
Pencil drawing on buff paper, in part shaded white, with inscription
containing details of founder, architect, cost, etc., in the possession of
the Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance. Drawing, 7 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. Pictures
of interior, exterior and plan in A. S. Weatherhead, Holy Trinity,
Huddersfield . . . 1913.
Plate IV. (a) St. John, Dewsbury Moor. Page xv
Wash coloured brown drawing, in the possession of the Ripon Diocesan
Board of Finance.10 in. x 7 3/4 in.
(b) St. Paul, Hanging- Heaton.
Pen drawing, "I. L. Matthew," in the possession of the Ripon Diocesan
Board of Finance. Same size.
Plate V. (a) Christ Church, Woodhouse. Page xvii
Engraving, "T. Taylor, Ach.t, H. Winkles, sc." Frontispiece to
H. J. Maddock, Address and Prayers at the Laying of the First Stone of
Christ Church, at Woodhouse . . 1823.
(b) St. Peter, Earlsheaton.
Pencil drawing on card, 9in. x 11 in., in the possession of the Ripon
Diocesan Board of Finance. Photographs of exterior and interior in
G. R. Hall, A Short History of St. Peter's . . . (1930)
Plate VI. St. Mary's, Quarry Hill, Leeds. Page xix
Coloured drawing by W. S. Robinson, from the Boyne extra-illustrat«d
copy of Thoresby in the Leeds Public Library. 13 1/2 in. x 9 1/2 in. Photographs
of exterior and interior in G. A. Dunlop, Church of S. Mary the Virgin,
Leeds, Centenary Sourvenir (1926). A drawing by Sir Muirhead Bone,
"Leeds, a study for a print," is reproduced in The Microcosm, edited
by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. VIII, 2 (1923), p. 11, where, however, it is
wrongly listed in the contents as "Leeds Parish Church;" It shows
St. Mary's with modern excavations in the foreground,
Plate VII. Holy Trinity, Ripon. Page xxi
Engraving, same size, from The Tourist's Companion . . . (Ripon)
6th edition, Ripon, E. Langdale, 1833.
Illustrations of the remaining churches will be found as follows :
Attercliffe, Christ Church. A. Robinson, The Church in Attercliffe, 1926.
Littleborough, Holy Trinity. Exterior and interior in the parish
magazine.
Luddenden, St. Mary. Picture post-card.
Pudsey, St. Lawrence. Simeon Rayner, History and Antiquities of
Pudsey, 1887. Black and white drawing of exterior.
Roundhay, St John's. Cover of the parish magazine, and W. H. Scott,
St. John's, Roundhay . . . Centenary Souvenir, 1826—1926 (1927).
Sheffield, St. Philip's. W. Odom. The Story of St.Philip's . . . 1928
Southowram, St. Anne's. Picture post-card.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For the loan of illustrations used in this monograph, the writer is indebted to the Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance and the Leeds Public Library; and for a supply of illustrations not used here, to the Rochdale and Sheffield Public Libraries and the Vicars of Liversedge and Southowram. For most generous assistance in supplying the blocks, grateful thanks are due to Mr. Ernest Osborn, General Manager of the "Yorkshire Post."
Without the ungrudging help of numerous correspondents, the accuracy of the following account would have been much impaired; such help came from the Revs. E. I. Whitley, H, M. Doidge-Harrison, J. Lennox and J. V. Kings, and from two experts on the architecture of the period, Messrs. A. Dale and M. Whiffen. The admirable service of the Sheffield, Dewsbury and Rochdale Public Libraries, far beyond what I ought to have asked of them, is also acknowledged. And it would be ungracious not to thank Messrs. Broome and Futrell of the "Doncaster Chronicle" for their solicitude with the printing, and the compositors for their skill and care.
The Society is not responsible for the opinions of its contributors, and any errors and faults in the present work are the writer's own.