Robert Smirke (architect) - Church Architecture

Church Architecture

  • St Anne's Wandsworth

  • St Anne's Wandsworth

  • St Mary's Bryanston Square

  • St. Mary's Church, Bryanston Square

  • St. Philip's Church, Salford

  • St George, Brandon Hill

  • St George Tyldesley

  • The Mausoleum Milton

  • St. Peter's church Askham

  • St. Nicholas's Church, Strood

  • St. John's Church, Chatham

He advised the Parliamentary Commissioners on the building of new churches from 1818 onwards, contributing seven himself, six were in the Greek revival style, the exception being the church at Tyldesley that is in the Gothic revival style:

  • St Anne's Wandsworth (1820–22).
  • St John's Chatham, Kent (1821–22).
  • St James West Hackney (1821-3) bombed during The Blitz in 1940 & 1941 and later demolished.
  • St George, Brandon Hill in Bristol (1821–23).
  • St George, Tyldesley (1821-4).
  • St Mary's, Bryanston Square (1821-3).
  • St Philip's Church, Salford, Greater Manchester (1822-4) this is a copy of St Mary's with only minor variations.

Smirke also designed churches for clients other than the commissioners, these included:

  • Belgrave Chapel London 1812, demolished c. 1910.
  • St Nicholas Strood, this was a rebuilding in 1812 of a medieval church, the tower of which has been retained, and is in a simplified classical style.
  • the Milton Mausoleum at Milton, Nottinghamshire (1831–32) for Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle.
  • The parish church of St. Peter's at Askham, Cumbria 1832, in a Neo-Norman style.

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