Archibald Matthias Dunn

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Archibald Matthias Dunn

Archibald Matthias Dunn FRIBA , Justice of the peace, Vicar , (* 1832 in Wylam ; † January 17, 1917 in Bournemouth ) belonged with his partner Edward Joseph Hansom to the Catholic architects in North East England during the Victorian era .

Life

Archibald Matthias Dunn was the son of Matthias Dunn . He studied at the Catholic colleges Ushaw College and Stonyhurst College . He then pursued space-forming studies with Charles Francis Hansom , Joseph Hansom's brother , in Bristol and met his business partner Edward Joseph Hansom, the son of Charles Francis Hansom.

The work of the architectural community includes the design of the tower of St. Mary's Cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne and from 1889-1891 St. Michael's Church Westmorland Road Elswick in Elswick and in 1882 the transept and crossing of Downside Abbey . Dunn was a prominent local landowner.

From 1870 Dunn was president of the Northern Architectural Association . He was then councilor, mayor and justice of the peace for County Durham in Gateshead . Over the valley of Prudhoe in Wylam he had Castle Hill House built as his residence from 1878 to 1879.

In 1862 Dunn married Sara Armstrong, a writer. Both went on a trip to Europe in 1886, after which Dunn published Notes and Sketches of an Architect , sketches from France, Germany, Spain and England. In 1901 the Dunn family moved to Wood House, Branksome Park, Bournemouth .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Architects to a Diocese: Dunn and Hansom of Newcastle
  2. ↑ ST ANDREW'S CEMETERY ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / list.english-heritage.org.uk
  3. ↑ NOTES and SKETCIIES of an ARCHITECT, in England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain
  4. ↑ Ed . : Nicholas Rogers, Catholics in Cambridge , p. 248
personal data
SURNAME Dunn, Archibald Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Wylam
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1917
Place of death Bournemouth