Significant Works
He designed, amongst others:
- 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 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. Grade II
- 38 Benetts Hill, 1868-70 Grade II
- Highcroft Hospital, Main Building, Highcroft Road, Erdington (former Aston Union Workhouse). 1869 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.
- Lewis's department store, Corporation Street, 1886, (demolished 1929 and replaced by a seven storey building), Birmingham's first iron and concrete building
- Acocks Green Chapel, Warwick Green, Acocks Green, 1860 (closed in 1956).
- Elsewhere:
- Public Hall, High Street, Smethwick, (1866-7), Now the Public Library.
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