Richard Charles Sutton
Richard Charles Sutton was an architect based in Nottingham. He was born 1834 and died on 18 October 1915. He was a member of Nottingham City Council from 1887 to 1901.
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Richard Charles Sutton

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- Died
- 1915
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- architect
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Richard Charles Sutton was an architect based in Nottingham. He was born 1834 and died on 18 October 1915. He was a member of Nottingham City Council from 1887 to 1901.
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He was articled to Samuel Sanders Teulon and commenced independent practice in Nottingham in 1857. He went into partnership with his son, Ernest Richard Eckett Sutton, in 1894. He retired in 1906. He attended to the execution of Richard Thomas Parker outside Shire Hall, Nottingham on 10 August 1864. This was the last execution in Nottingham. He stood as Liberal candidate for the Sherwood Ward of Nottingham Town Council in the elections of 1886, and won.
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• Shire Hall, Nottingham 1859. New grand jury room. • Wesleyan Methodist School, 12 Kirkhill, Bingham. 1859 • Shipley and Cotmanhay national schools 1860. • Police stations at Basford, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Arnold and West Stockwith. 1861 • Illustration — Castle Gate Congregational Church 1863 • Castle Gate Congregational Centre, Nottingham. 1863 • St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham. 1863 • Christ Church, Peas Hill, Nottingham. 1863 • Moneta House, 53 Ricardo Street, Stoke-on-Trent. 1865 • Walter Fountain, Greyfriars Gate and Carrington Street, Nottingham. 1866. Demolished 1950. • Congregational Chapel, Albion Square, Pembroke Dock 1867. Demolished 1989. • Illustration — Ilkeston Town Hall 1867-68 • Ilkeston Town Hall. 1867-68 • Illustration — Nottingham Congregational Institute, Forest Road 1868 (now Nottinghamshire Deaf Society • Congregational Institute, Forest Road, Nottingham 1868 Grade II listed. (now Nottingham Deaf Society) • The Workhouse, Southwell. 1868. Extension. • St. Mary's Church, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 1868–69. Repairs. • St Ann's Well Road Congregational Church 1870 • St. Peter's Church, Radford. 1870–72. Extension. • Parliament Street Methodist Church, Nottingham. 1874 • Forest Road Primitive Methodist Church, Nottingham 1874 • Methodist New Connexion Chapel, rough close, Staffordshire 1874 • St. Peter's Church, Mill End, Rickmansworth. 1875 • St. Mary's Church, Arnold 1877 restoration • Beauvale School, Greasley, Nottinghamshire 1878 • St. Philip's Church, Pennyfoot Street, Nottingham. 1879. Demolished 1963. • Stapleford Board Schools, 1880 • Wollaton Road Methodist Church, Beeston 1882-83 • Boot & Co. Ltd, 16-20 Goose Gate, Nottingham. 1883 • Kimberley Cemetery mortuary chapel 1883 • Long Eaton United Free Methodist Church 1885 • Shops on Heathcote Street, Nottingham 1887 • St George in the Meadows, Nottingham. 1887-91 • Morley Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Blue Bell Hill, 1888 – 1889 Closed 1942, demolished 1972. • United Methodist Free Church, Kimberley. 1890 • Schools at Morley Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Blue Bell Hill 1891 • Norton Street Congregational Church 1894 • Illustration — Gainsborough United Reformed Church - formerly the John Robinson Memorial Church • John Robinson Memorial Church, Gainsborough 1894 • Warehouse, 3 Stoney Street, Nottingham. 1896 • Musters Road Methodist Church, West Bridgford, Nottingham. 1899.

The north end of George Street. Viscosa House (1924) is on the left - for a detail, see 2889719. Beyond are the tower of the Central Methodist Mission (R C Sutton, 1876) and the Victoria Centre high-rise flats. The bus, bound for Boots at Beeston, is about to turn left into Parliament Street.
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Gainsborough - United Reformed Church. A handsome church, opened in 1896, but rather over-shadowed by its neighbour, the Anglican Parish Church of All Saints (see 47454).
Dave Bevis · From geograph.org.uk
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- 1.Brodie, Antonia. Directory of British Architects 1834–1914: Vol 2 (L-Z). Royal Institute of British Architects. 739. 20 December 2001. 082645514X.
- 2.Derby Mercury – Wednesday 10 August 1864
- 3.Nottingham Evening Post – Monday 10 May 1886
- 4.Nottingham Evening Post – Wednesday 19 May 1886
- 5.Derby Mercury – Wednesday 11 January 1860
- 6.Nottinghamshire Guardian – Thursday 17 January 1861
- 7.Opening of the new Congregational Institute, Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Guardian. 19 June 1868.
- 8.1247544. Nottingham Society for the Dear. cs2.
- 9.Nottinghamshire Guardian – Friday 23 February 1877
- 10.Nottinghamshire Guardian – Friday 1 October 1880
- 11.Nottingham Evening Post – Tuesday 3 November 1891
- 12.Nottingham Evening Post – Tuesday 6 November 1888
- 13.Nottingham Evening Post – Friday 3 January 1890
- 14.Nottingham Evening Post – Monday 12 October 1891
- 15.Stamford Mercury – Friday 19 January 1894
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- The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner
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