Thomas Simpson (architect of Nottingham)

Thomas Simpson (1816 - 16 March 1880) was an English architect based in Nottingham.^[1]

Career

He married Charlotte Lovett (1819-1848) in the Wesleyan Chapel, Melton Mowbray and they had the following children:

Alfred Simpson (1844-1847)
Mary Ann Simpson (1846-1939)
Charlotte Simpson (1848-1916)

He married Rebecca Goodacre (1820-1899) on 17 April 1849 in St Paul’s Church, Nottingham and they had the following child:

Arthur Herbert Simpson (1854-1933)

He represented St Mary’s Ward on the Nottingham Town Council, and later the Trent Ward. He died at his house in Baker Street, Nottingham on 16 March 1880.^[2]

Notable works

Shakespeare Street Wesleyan Reform Chapel, Nottingham 1854^[3] (later a synagogue, and now part of Nottingham Trent University)
Hutchinson and Armitage, grocers and seed merchants, Poultry, Nottingham 1862^[4]
Great Alfred Street Chapel, (United Methodist), Alfred Street, Nottingham 1864-65
New Dining Hall, 5 Byard Lane, Nottingham 1865-66^[5]
Temporary building for the Nottingham and Midland Counties’ Industrial Exhibition, Shakespere Street, Nottingham 1865-66^[6]
Nottingham High School 1866-67^[7]
Methodist Free Church, Cheetham 1868-69^[8]
Nottingham Mechanics' Institute 1869^[9]
New Methodist Free Church, Pye Bank 1870-71^[10]
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Mansfield Road, Nottingham 1872^[11]
School room for Queen's Walk Congregational Church, Nottingham 1872-73^[12]
Exeter Hall, Peachey Street/Mansfield Road, Nottingham 1874-76^[13]

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