Thomas Allom

He also worked with Sir Charles Barry on numerous projects, most notably the Houses of Parliament, and is also known for his numerous topographical works, such as Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, published in 1838, and China Illustrated, published in 1845.

The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Belgium. Works named in the authority record are St Peter's Notting Hill. Work by Thomas Allom is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Tate, Australian National Maritime Museum, M Leuven and Puke Ariki.

• Name — Thomas Allom • Born — 13 March 1804 • Birthplace — Lambeth, London, England • Place of death — Barnes, London, England • Significant Buildings — St Peter's Notting Hill • Significant Design — many Victorian churches

• Illustration — The Bosphorus, with the Castles of Europe & Asia by Allom. The original is a watercolor available in the online collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. • Illustration — St Peter's Notting Hill, designed by Allom in the Italianate style • Illustration — Holy Trinity Barnes, Allom's local church, which he designed and part-funded He was born in Lambeth, south London, the son of a coachman from Suffolk. In 1819, he was apprenticed to architect Francis Goodwin for whom he worked until 1826. He then studied at the Royal Academy School. His designs for churches shown at exhibitions in 1824 and 1827 aroused considerable interest. From 1834 to 1843, he worked in partnership with Henry Francis Lockwood in Hull, where they designed a number of Neo-classical buildings, such as Hull Trinity House (1839), extensions to Hull Royal Infirmary (1840) and Great Thornton Street Church (1843); the pair also designed the expansion of the Brownlow Hill workhouse in Liverpool (1842-1843). Allom later designed many buildings in London, including a workhouse in Marloes Road, Kensington (1847), the Church of Christ in Highbury in 1850, the Church of St Peter's in Notting Hill in 1856, and parts of the Ladbroke Estate in west London. Further afield his works included workhouses at Calne, Wiltshire (1847) and in Liverpool, design of the William Brown Library also in Liverpool, (1857–1860), and the tower of St. Leodegarius Church, Basford near Nottingham (1860). He also worked with Sir Charles Barry on numerous projects, including the Houses of Parliament and the remodelling of Highclere Castle.

Allom, who lived at 1 Barnes Villas (now 80 Lonsdale Road), Barnes, suffered from a heart condition in his later years, and although he only retired in 1870, his artistic and architectural output slowed during the 1860s. In 1865 he was commissioned to design a mausoleum for former MP George Dodd in West Norwood Cemetery (Dodd, who died on 15 December 1864, was one of the Gentlemen of Her Majesty's privy chamber from 1844, and MP for Maidstone from 29 June 1841 to May 1853). In 1868 he designed Holy Trinity Barnes (in south west London), his local church to which he contributed £50 towards the cost of its construction. Allom died aged 68 in Barnes, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

• St Peter's Notting Hill • St. Leodegarius Church, Basford

• Illustration — Ships on the Bosphorus at the Entrance to the Black Sea • Illustration — The Castles of Anadoluhisari and Rumelihisari on the Bosphorus. • Illustration — Constantinople from the Entrance of the Golden Horn. • Illustration — Grande Galerie Louvre