Yeoville Thomason
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
H. R. Yeoville Thomason (1826-1901) was an architect in Birmingham, England. He was born in Edinburgh to a Birmingham family. Thomason set up his own practice in Birmingham 1853-1854.
He was a grandson of Sir Edward Thomason, a button and toy maker in Birmingham. He was a pupil of Charles Edge, and after qualifying as architect he worked for the borough surveyor. He designed the Council House after winning a competition. He retired in 1896.
[edit] Significant works
He designed, amongst others:[1]
In Birmingham:
The Council House and its immediate extension, the original Art Gallery, 1874-85 Grade II* Singers Hill Synagogue, 1856 Grade II* Great Hampton Works, 80-82, Great Hampton Street, Hockley, c 1880[1]Grade II* Union Club, 85-89 Colmore Row, on the corner with Newhall Street, now called Bamford's Trust House, 1870. Grade II Birmingham Banking Company, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. Designed new entrance in 1868. Became Midland Bank.[2]Grade II 38 Benetts Hill, 1868-70[1]Grade II Highcroft Hospital, Main Building, Highcroft Road, Erdington (former Aston Union Workhouse). 1869[1]Grade II and Grade II Birmingham Town and District Bank, 63 Colmore Row, Birmingham. (1867-1869) Head Office later to became part of Barclays Bank, facade later remodelled by Peacock and Bewlay.[3] Lewis's department store, Corporation Street, 1886, (demolished 1929 and replaced by a seven storey building), Birmingham's first iron and concrete building[4] Acocks Green Chapel, Warwick Green, Acocks Green, 1860 (closed in 1956).
[edit] References
^ a b c d Images of Engand website ^ Birmingham, Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p25 ^ Birmingham, Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p35 ^ Birmingham Buildings, The Architectural Story of a Midland City, Bryan Little, 1971, ISBN 0-7153-5295-4 ^ The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p81
The Victorian Society in Birmingham (Three City Trails, Victorian Architects of Birmingham) Birmingham Hebrew Congregation - biographical detail
This article, about an architect of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
