Surviving Works
Hansom designed around 200 buildings, including Birmingham Town Hall; Arundel Cathedral; Oxford Oratory; Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth; St George's Catholic Church in York; Mount St Mary's Catholic Church, the 'Famine Church' in Leeds; St Walburge's Church in Preston (with the tallest church spire in England); St Beuno's Jesuit Theologate in North Wales (1848); Our Lady the Immaculate Conception Church in Devizes, Wiltshire (opened 1865); St Edward King and Confessor Catholic Church, Clifford; the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester (1871); The Roman Catholic Plymouth Cathedral (built 1856 — 1858); and St Mary's Priory, Fulham Road (1876). New Walk Museum building in Leicester, formerly a Prep School, as well as Leicester’s central library, formally a Baptist chapel is in Hansom's Classical style. In Cornwall he designed the Roman Catholic churches of Falmouth and Liskeard.
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