Daniel Harris (architect)

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Daniel Harris (* circa 1761 ; † June 1840 , Oxford , England ) was an architect and civil engineer and prison director in Oxford, England.

Life

Harris's birthplace and date are unknown, but he was born around 1761 as the St-Peter-le-Bailey death register lists him as 79 years old when he died in 1840. He was married to Elizabeth Tomkins of Oxford since 1789. The couple had four daughters who were born between 1791 and 1801. Harris died in his home on New Road, Oxford, in June 1840.

Career

Harris came to Oxford as a traveling carpenter and was the governor of Oxford Castle's prison from 1786 to 1809. He built a prison labor business that he expanded with the addition of contractors for wage labor.

Harris became active in waterway construction when he received the contract to expand the Oxford Canal from Hayfield Road to Worcester Street and the construction of the Worcester Street wharf in 1788-89.

He also built four ship locks to replace the flood gates that had been used until then . The first lock was the Osney Lock for the Thames Navigation Commission in 1790. In Oxford, the Oxford Canal and the Thames were originally connected to each other by a lock at Hythe Bridge. From 1795 to 1797 Harris replaced it with the Isis Lock , which gave Thames Barges access to the Oxford Canal Company's wharfs on Worcester Street. None of Harris' locks still exist in the form in which he designed them.

From 1812 to 1837 Harris worked with the architect John Plowman.

buildings

Braziers Park House, Ipsden
  • Oxford Prison, Oxford: enlargement 1785–1805 (based on plans by William Blackburn)
  • Oxford Canal, Oxford: Worcester Street Wharf, 1788–89
  • Thames , Oxfordshire: Osney Lock, Oxford, 1790
  • Thames, Oxfordshire: Godstow Lock , Godstow, 1790
  • Thames, Oxfordshire: Pinkhill Lock , Farmoor, 1791
  • Oxford Canal, Oxford: New Road Wharf, Oxford, 1793 and 1801
  • Thames, Oxfordshire: Sandford Lock , Sandford-on-Thames, 1795
  • Oxford Canal, Oxford: Isis Lock 1795–97 (rebuilt 1844)
  • Wyaston House, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford 1795-97 (for the Oxford Canal Navigation Company) (now Linton House, part of St Peter's College)
  • Braziers Park House, Ipsden, Oxfordshire: Facade, 1799
  • Saint Mary's Parish Church, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Refectory remodeling, 1799
  • Saint Botolph's Parish Church, Swyncombe, Oxfordshire: Refectory, 1803
  • Abingdon Prison, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 1805-11 (based on plans by Jeffry Wyattville)
  • Saint Mary Magdalene Parish Church, Stoke Talmage, Oxfordshire: expansion of the refectory, 1820

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Howard Colvin: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. Yale University Press, New Haven 1997, ISBN 0-300-07207-4 , p. 484.
  2. ^ A b Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. Oxford Towpath Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-9535593-1-9 , p. 77.
  3. ^ A b Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. 2003, p. 76.
  4. ↑ Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. 2003, pp. 55-56.
  5. ^ A b Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. 2003, p. 43.
  6. ↑ Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. 2003, p. 52.
  7. ↑ Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. 2003, p. 55.
  8. ↑ Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. 2003, p. 94.
  9. ↑ Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. 2003, p. 56.
  10. ↑ Fred. S. Thacker: The Thames Highway. Volume II: Locks and Weirs. 1920. p. 135 (reprinted 1968 by David & Charles, ISBN 0-7153-4233-9 ) OCLC 55209571
  11. ↑ Mark Davies, Catherine Robinson: A Towpath Walk in Oxford. 2003, p. 62, p. 76.
  12. ↑ Jennifer Sherwood, Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides - The Buildings of England. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974, p. 663.
  13. ↑ Jennifer Sherwood, Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides - The Buildings of England. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974, p. 432.
  14. ↑ Jennifer Sherwood, Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides - The Buildings of England. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974, p. 800.
  15. ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner, Berkshire, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1966, p. 57.
  16. ↑ Jennifer Sherwood, Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides - The Buildings of England. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974, p. 790.
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British architect
DATE OF BIRTH around 1761
DATE OF DEATH June 1840
Place of death Oxford