Jeptha Pacey
Jeptha Pacey | |
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 Assembly Rooms, Boston | |
| Born | 1785? |
| Died | 28 June 1862 Skirbeck, Boston |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings | Boston Assembly Rooms |
| Projects | Construction of Fenland churches after the Fenland Churches Act. |
Jeptha Pacey (died 1862) was an architect, surveyor and building contractor working in Boston in Lincolnshire. Pacey was working as an architect at 10 Witham Place in Boston in 1826.[1]
Works
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- Boston Assembly Rooms 1819-1820. The design of these buildings may be based partly on designs submitted earlier to Boston Corporation by the London architect William Atkinson. The building has a pedimented front with a canted first floor bay supported on Tuscan columns with a lattice balcony. Tall windows light a big assembly room.[2] In 1826 White records the Assembly Rooms as having been built in 1819-20. They were over the poultry house and butter market). The rooms formed a handsome elevation, containing a suite of elegant and capacious assembly and banqueting rooms.[3]
Churches
[edit]Five of six of churches built as a result of the Fens Chapels Act of 1816 have been attributed to Jeptha Pacey by Nikolaus Pevsner.[4] These churches are at Carrington (1816), Wildmore, Langrick, Midville and Frithville and are built in a late Georgian style. The exact reasons for Pevsner’s attribution are unclear, except for some similarity with the church at Whaplode Drove. A sixth church in a similar style at Eastville is known to have been designed in 1840 by the Louth architect Charles John Carter.
- Whaplode Drove Church 1821. Designed with W Swansborough of Wisbech.[5]
- Chapel at Chapel Hill, Tattershall, Lincolnshire.
- Episcopal Chapel (St Aiden’s) High Street, Boston. c.1820. Jeptha Pacey was buried in the crypt of this chapel. Demolished.[6][7]
Houses
[edit]- Wigtoft Vicarage, Lincolnshire 1817 [8]
References
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[edit]- Antram N (revised), Pevsner, N. & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
- Colvin H. A (1995), Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840. Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, pp. 719–20.
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