William Hopkins
William Jeffrey Hopkins (1820–1901) was a British architect.
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William Hopkins
- Name
- William Hopkins
- Born
- 1820
- Died
- 1901
- Occupation
- architect
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William Jeffrey Hopkins (1820–1901) was a British architect.
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Key facts
• Name — William Hopkins • Born — 1820 • Died — 1901 • Significant Buildings — Saints Philip and James Parish church, Hallow, Worcestershire William Jeffrey Hopkins (1820–1901) was a British architect.
Career
Career
One of Hopkins' earliest works, the Public Hall in Worcester (1848–49), was Italianate. Most of his work thereafter was of the Gothic Revival. For many years he was the Worcester Diocesan Architect, and as such he mostly built or rebuilt Church of England parish churches in Worcestershire.
Works
Works
• Public Hall, Worcester, 1848–49 (demolished circa 1968) • St. Martin's parish church, Worcester: east window, 1855–62 • St. Barnabas' parish church, Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire, 1857 • Cow Honeybourne parish church, Honeybourne, Worcestershire, 1861–63 • Holy Trinity parish church, Shrub Hill, Worcester, 1863 (demolished 1965) • St. James' parish church, Hindlip, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1864 • St. John the Baptist parish church, Bradley, Worcestershire, 1864–65 • St.Nicholas' parish church, Worcester: restoration, 1867 • Saints Philip and James parish church, Hallow, Worcestershire, 1867–69 • Bohun Court, Hallow, Worcestershire, 1860s (demolished 1925) • St. James' parish church, Churchill, Worcestershire, 1868 • St. Peter ad Vincula parish church, Tibberton, Worcestershire, 1868 • St. Paul's parish church, Blackheath, Birmingham, 1869 • Bromsgrove School, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire: enlarged chapel, 1869 • St. Mary's parish church, Icomb, Gloucestershire: restoration, 1871 • St. Nicholas' parish church, King's Norton, Birmingham: restoration, 1871 • St. Kenelm's parish church, Upper Snodsbury, Worcestershire: rebuilt church, 1873–74 • St. James' parish church, Norton-by-Kempsey: restoration (with Ewan Christian), 1874–75 • St. John the Baptist parish church, Grafton Flyford, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1875 • St. John the Baptist parish church, Suckley, Worcestershire: rebuilt church, 1878–79 • All Saints' parish church, Wilden, Worcestershire, 1880 • St. Peter's parish church, Besford, Worcestershire: restoration, 1880–81 • St. James' parish church, Kington, Worcestershire: rebuilt chancel, 1881 • St. Eadburga's parish church, Abberton, Worcestershire, 1881–82 • St. Peter's parish church, Flyford Flavell, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1883 • Saints Mathias and George parish church, Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, 1884 • St. Bartholomew's parish church, Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1897
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Parks and Gardens Data Services. Mr W.J. Hopkins – Summary. Parks & Gardens UK. 2007–2009.
- 2.Pevsner, 1968, page 37
- 3.Pevsner, 1968, pages 329–330
- 4.Pevsner, 1968, page 319
- 5.Pevsner, 1968, page 134
- 6.Pevsner, 1968, page 125
- 7.Pevsner, 1968, page 321
- 8.In pictures: Do you remember any of our lost chapels and churches?. Worcester News. 10 August 2021.
- 9.Pevsner, 1968, page 196
- 10.Pevsner, 1968, page 95
- 11.Pevsner, 1968, page 320
- 12.Pevsner, 1968, page 182
- 13.Pevsner, 1968, page 119
- 14.Pevsner, 1968, page 280
- 15.Pevsner, 1968, page 88
- 16.Pevsner, 1968, page 111
- 17.Verey, 1970, page 280 (mis-transcribed as "W.J. Hophis")
- 18.Pevsner & Wedgwood, 1966, page 188
- 19.Pevsner, 1968, page 283
- 20.Pevsner, 1968, page 227
- 21.Pevsner, 1968, pages 156–157
- 22.Pevsner, 1968, page 275
- 23.Pevsner, 1968, page 290
- 24.Pevsner, 1968, page 82
- 25.Pevsner, 1968, page 208
- 26.Pevsner, 1968, page 68
- 27.Pevsner, 1968, page 156
- 28.Pevsner, 1968, page 74
- 29.Pevsner, 1968, page 223
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