Henry Bowyer Joseph Lane

Lane's education included time at Blundell's School in Tiverton and subsequent professional training in England before he emigrated to Canada in 1841, living first in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and then in Toronto (around 1843–1844). One of Lane's most significant contributions is Osgoode Hall, namely the west and central wings from 1844 to 1846. He designed and oversaw the construction of the incorporated city of Toronto's second city hall in 1844. Lane's limited commissions outside of Toronto, in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Cobourg, were never as grand as his work in Toronto. During his time in Toronto, Lane married Lucy Anne Sharpe in 1844, and they left the city in 1847. He is known to have been in the Colony of Victoria, Australia thereafter. It shows the Buckland Hotel and the Buckland Post Office, and eight Chinese gold miners crossing the bridge over the Buckland River during the Australian gold rush. A European man (maybe the postmaster, William McKay) is sitting on the steps of the Post Office, chatting to a European woman. The Buckland River goldfield was near the present town of Bright in the Australian Alps. Lane is believed to have died in Birmingham, England in 1878.

• Name — Henry Bowyer Joseph Lane • Born — 1817 • Birthplace — Corfu, United States of the Ionian Islands • Died — 1878 • Place of death — Birchfield, Birmingham, England • Significant Buildings — Osgoode Hall Toronto's second City Hall • Education — Blundell's School

• Building — Year completed — Location — Notes — Image • Diocesan Theological Institute/Haskell House — 1842 — 174 Green Street and Queen Street, Cobourg, Ontario — College of Theology for Alexander Bethune, Anglican Bishop of Toronto — • St. Peter's Church original facade and tower — 1844 — 240 College Street, Cobourg, Ontario — 1st church 1844–1854 Demolished in 1854 • Brock's Monument — 1843 — Queenston Heights, Niagara Falls, Ontario — Plans to rebuild with a submission or proposal that did not win • Little Trinity Anglican Church — 1843 — 425 King Street East, Corktown, Toronto — Gothic Revival church with polychromatic brickwork. — • Illustration — Little Trinity Anglican Church • Church of St. George the Martyr — 1845 — 197 John Street, Toronto — Gothic Revival church. Remnants survived a 1955 fire. — • City Hall and New Market — 1845 — Front Street at Market Street, Toronto — Georgian architecture. Toronto's second city hall, John Wilson Siddall incorporated into St. Lawrence Market South in 1899-192 with the centre block retained without the cupola and pediment. — • Illustration — Henry Bowyer Lane's Toronto City Hall Toronto, Ontario • St. Mark's Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake — 1845 — 41 Byron Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario — Ecclesiastical furnishings only • St Paul's Church Anglican, Kingston — 1846 — 137 Queen Street, Kingston — Plans only • Osgoode Hall — 1846 — Toronto — Central and west wings. Palladian architecture. — • Church of the Holy Trinity — 1847 — Trinity Square, Toronto — Gothic Revival — • Enoch Turner School — 1848 — 106 Trinity Street, Toronto — Gothic Revival school house is believed to have been designed by Lane, who had left Toronto in 1847 —