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Francis Goodwin (1784-1835): An Architect of the 1820's

A study of his relationship with the Church Building Commissioners and his quarrel with C. A. Busby

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Michael Port
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Francis Goodwin emerges from obscurity at the age of 34, in 1818, about the time that Parliament voted one million pounds for building new churches in populous parishes. The architects attached to the Office of Works (John Nash, Sir John Soane, and Robert Smirke) had been invited to advise the Treasury on the likely expense of such churches: Soane had consequently made enquiries about churches then building. Among these was St. Philip, Turner Street, Stepney (Plate 3), of which the nominal architect was John Walters (1782-1821).

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Research Article
Information
Architectural History , Volume 1 , 1958 , pp. 61 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1958

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References

1. Now demolished.

2. Soane Museum, Correspondence 2, X.E.3.

3. Church Building Commission, First report 1821 (Parliamentary Papers).

4. Thos. Rickman, Diary, 26 Jan. 1820.

5. ibid. 8 Dec. 1818.

6. ibid., 8 Feb. 1820.

7. Soane Museum, 2.X.E.

8. Rickman, Diary, 9 Feb. 1820.

9. CBC. 1st Report.

10. CBC.Minute Book 3, 6 Jun. 1820.

11. Diary, 8 Feb. 1820.

12. ibid., 15 Jun. 1821.

13. The account which follows of Busby's accusations and Goodwin's replies is drawnfrom CBC. Minute Books 5 and 6.

14. Soane Museum, 2.X.E.

15. CBC.Minute Book 6, 26 Feb. 1822 (Paper 2).

16. CBC.Minute Book 5, 13 Nov. 1821.

17. CBC.MB.6, 18 Mar. 1822.

18. ibid.26 Feb. 1822.

19. CBC.MB.6, 27 Nov. 1821.

20. Church Commissioners' file.

21. CBC.MB.14, 23 Nov. 1824.

22. ibid.

23. Messrs. Maudsley, Donkin, Bramah, Brunel, Galloway, Millington, Walker and Tredgold. These are printed in Busby's leaflet (v. infra.). This letter is dated 13 Nov. 1821.

24. Rickman, Diary, 28 Feb. 1820.

25. ibid., 28 Feb. 1821, 5 Jun. 1821.

26. vol. liv. (Oct. 1822), p. 211.

27. Rickman, Diary, 18 Feb. 1822.

28. CBC.MB.6, 12 Mar. 1822.

29. ibid., 19 Mar. 1822.

30. ibid.

31. ibid.

32. vide A. Dale, Fashionable Brighton.

33. CBC.MB.8, 22 Oct. 1822.

34. ibid.

35. CBC.MB.13, 16 Mar. 1824.

36. CBC.MB.14, 8 Jun. 1824.

37. CBC.10, 6 May 1823.

38. CBC.MB.13, 16 Mar. 1824.

39. vide M. Whiffen, Stuart and Georgian churches outside London, pp. 83, 84.

40. CBC.MB.20, 7 Feb. 1826.

41. Principal Probate Registry, P. C. C. Admons.