James Fowler (architect)

James Fowler
James Fowler memorial, Louth Church
Born	11 December 1828 Lichfield
Died	10 October 1892 Louth
Nationality	English
Occupation	Architect

James Fowler JP, FRIBA, (11 December 1828, Lichfield – 10 October 1892, Louth) known as 'Fowler of Louth',^[1] was an English ecclesiastical architect of the Victorian Age chiefly associated with the restoration and renovation of churches.

Fowler was born in Lichfield. He was a pupil of Lichfield architect Joseph Potter, and trained at Manchester.^[2] His chief centre of interest was the restoration of Lincolnshire churches, and occasionally schools, although his work can be seen within other eastern counties of England. He was the Diocesan Surveyor for Lincolnshire between 1871 and 1886, and was for five times the mayor of Louth.^[3]

Works

• Amcotts – Rectory (1882 and 1888)^[4]
• Bainton – Church of St Andrew (1866)^[5]
• Benington, Lincolnshire – Church of All Saints (1873)^[6]
• Benniworth – Church of St Julian^[7]
• Beswick – Church of St Margaret (1871)^[8]
• Binbrook – Church of Sts Mary and Gabriel (1869)^[9]
• Blyborough – Church of St Alkmund (1877–88)^[10]
• Bole – Church of St John Baptist (1874)^[11]
• Boughton – Church of St Matthew (1868)^[12]
• Brattleby – Church of St Cuthbert (1858)^[13]
• Caistor – Caistor Primary School and School House (1859–60)^[14]
• Clarborough - Church of St John the Baptist^[15]
• Croydon – Church of All Saints (1870–72)^[16]
• Bucknall – Church of St Margaret (1884)^[17]
• Claxby – Church of St Mary (1871)^[18]
• Cleethorpes – Church of St Peter (1866–77)^[19]
• Colsterworth – Church of St John Baptist (1876)^[20]
• Croxton – Church of St John the Evangelist (1876)^[21]
• Cuxwold – Church of St Nicholas (1860)^[22]
• Dalby – Church of St Lawrence and Bishop Edward King (1862)^[23]
• Dalby – Dalby Hall (1856)^[24]
• Easby – Church of St Agatha (1881)^[25]
• East Halton – Church of St Peter (1868)^[26]
• East Ravendale – Church of St Martin (1857)^[27]
• East Ravendale – School^[28]
• Edlington – Church of St Helen (1859–60)^[29]
• Fotherby – Allenby Almshouses (1869)^[30]
• Fotherby – Church of St Mary (1863)^[31]
• Frampton – Church of St Michael (1863)^[32]
• Gedney Hill – Church of Holy Trinity (1875)^[33]
• Georgeham – Church of St George (1876)^[34]
• Goxhill – The Old Vicarage (1872–73)^[35]
• Grayingham – Church of St Radegund (1870)^[36]
• Great Carlton – Church of St John Baptist (1860)^[37]
• Grimsby – Town Hall (1861–63)^[38]
• Grimsby – Church of the Holy Trinity and Holy Mary (1878)^[39]
• Gunby – Church of St Peter (1868–70)^[40][41]
• Gunness – The Old Rectory (1864–66)^[42]
• Gunness – Stable Block (1864–66)^[43]
• Hagworthingham – Church of Holy Trinity (1859)^[44]
• Halton Holegate – Church of St Andrew (1866)^[45]
• Harswell – Church of St Peter (1871)^[46]
• Hatton – Church of St Stephen (1870)^[47]
• Healing – Church of St Peter and St Paul (1874–76)^[48]
• Heckington – Church of Church of St Andrew (1887–88)^[49]
• Hibaldstow – Church of St Hybald (1875)^[50]
• Irby – Church of Saint Andrew (1883)^[51]
• Irby – The Old Rectory (1883)^[52]
• Laceby – Church of Saint Margaret (1883)^[53]
• Langton-by-Partney – Langton Hall (1869)^[54]
• Lenton – Church of St Peter (1879)^[55]
• Leverton – Church of St Helen (1892)^[56]
• Lichfield – Church of St Mary (1868–70)^[57]
• Lincoln – Church of St Swithin (1869–870)^[58]
• Lincoln – St Swithin's Vestry (1888)^[59]
• Louth – Church of St James (1861–69)^[60]
• Louth – Church of St Michael (1863)^[61]
• Louth – parts of Edward VI Grammar School (1866)^[62]
• Louth – Orme Almshouses (1885)^[62]
• Ludborough – Church of St Mary (1858)^[63]
• Ludford Magna – Church of Sts Mary and Peter (1864)^[64]
• Market Deeping – Church of St Cuthlac (1875^[65] or 1878^[66])
• Market Rasen– Church of St Thomas (1862)^[67]
• Market Rasen – Grammar School [De Aston School] (1862)^[68]
• Market Rasen – Grammar School, Headmaster's House (1863)^[69]
• Mavis Enderby – Church of St Michael (1875)^[70]
• Miningsby – Church of St Andrew (1878)^[71]
• Moorby – Church of All Saints (1866)^[71]
• Moorhouses – Church of St Laurence (1875)^[72][73]
• Moor Monkton – Church of All Saints (1879)^[74][75]
• Muckton – Church of Holy Trinity (1878–79)^[76]
• Nettleton – Church of St John Baptist (1874)^[77]
• New Clee – Church of St John (1879)^[19]
• Newton by Toft – Church of St Michael (1860)^[78]
• Normanby le Wold – Church of St Peter (1868)^[79]
• North Coates – Church of St Nicholas (1865)^[80]
• Nottingham – Church of St Leonard (1885–87)^[81]
• Nuthall – Church of St Patrick (1884)^[82]
• Odstock – Church of St Mary (1870)^[83]
• Odstock – The Old Rectory (1869)^[84]
• Old Bolingbroke – Church of Sts Peter and Paul (1890)^[85]
• Ranby – Church of St German (1861)^[86]
• Redbourne – The Old Vicarage and Coach House (1861)^[87]
• Rigsby – Church of St James (1863)^[88]
• Roxby – Church of St Mary (1875)^[89]
• Saltfleetby by St Peter – Church of St Peter (1877)^[90]
• Scawby – Church of St Hybald (1870)^[91]
• Sixhills – Church of All Saints (1869 and 1875)^[92]
• Skegness – Church of St Clements (1884)^[93]
• Skegness – Church of St Matthew (1879–80)^[94][95]
• Skipsea – Church of All Saints (1856–60)^[96]
• Snitterby – Church of St Nicholas (1866)^[97]
• South Ormsby – Church of St Leonard (1871–72)^[98]
• South Reston – Church of St Edith (1864–65)^[99]
• Spridlington – Church of St Hilary (1875)^[100]
• Stainfield – Church of St Andrew^[101]
• Stamford – Browne's Hospital (1870)^[102]
• Stamford – Warden's House (ca. 1870)^[103]
• Stewton – Church of St Andrew (1886)^[104]
• Newington – Church of St Mary (1886)^[105]
• Tealby Church of All Saints (1872)^[106]
• Temple Bruer Church of St John (1874)^[107]
• Thimbleby – Church of St Margaret (1879)^[108]
• Thoresway – Church of St Mary (1879–80)^[109]
• Thornton Curtis – Church of St Lawrence (1884)^[110]
• Toynton St Peter – Church of St Peter (1876)^[111]
• Upton – Church of All Saints (1874–75 and 1880)^[112]
• Utterby – Rectory (1863)^[113]
• Waithe – Church of St Martin (1861)^[114]
• Waltham – Church of All Saints (1867 and 1874)^[115]
• West Butterwick – The Old Vicarage (1863)^[116]
• Willoughby – Rectory (1875)^[117]
• Willoughby – Church of St Helen (1880)^[118]
• Wilsthorpe – Church of St Faith (1869)^[119]
• Withcall – Old Rectory (1869)^[120]
• Wold Newton – Church of All Hallows (1862)^[121]
• Wroot – Church of St Pancras (1878)^[122]
• Wroot – Rectory (1878)^[122]
• Wyham cum Cadeby – Church of All Saints with Railed Tomb (1886)^[123]

References

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23. "Church of St Lawrence and Bishop Edward King", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
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27. "Church of St Martin", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
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33. "Church of Holy Trinity", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 13 August 2011
34. "Church of St George", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
35. "The Old Vicarage", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
36. "Church of St Radegund", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 13 August 2011
37. "Church of St John the Baptist", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
38. "Town Hall", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
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45. "Church of St Andrew", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
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48. "Church of St Peter and St Paul", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
49. "Church of St Andrew", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
50. "Church of St Hybald", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
51. "Church of Saint Andrew", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
52. "The Old Rectory", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
53. "Church of Saint Margaret", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
54. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 293; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09620-8
55. "Church of St Peter", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
56. "Church of St Helen", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
57. "Church of St Mary", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
58. "Church of St Swithin", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
59. "St Swithin's Vestry and Adjoining Wall", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
60. "Parish Church of St James", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
61. "St Michael and All Angels", stmichaels-louth.org.uk, Retrieved 12 August 2011
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63. "Church of St Mary", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
64. "Church of St Mary and St Peter", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
65. "Church of St Cuthlac", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
66. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 601; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09620-8
67. "Church of St Thomas", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
68. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 313; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09620-8
69. "De Aston School, Headmaster's House", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
70. "Church of St Michael", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
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77. "Church of St John the Baptist", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
78. "Church of St Michael", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
79. "Church of St Peter", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
80. "Church of St Nicholas", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
81. "Church of St Leonard and Attached Boundary Wall", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
82. "Church of St Patrick", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
83. "Church of St Mary", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
84. "The Old Rectory", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
85. "Church of St Peter and St Paul", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
86. "Church of St German", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
87. "The Old Vicarage and Coach House/stable Adjoining to Right", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
88. "Church of St James", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
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90. "Church of St Peter", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
91. "Church of St Hybald", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
92. "Church of All Saints", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
93. "Church of St Clements", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 10 March 2015
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95. "Church of St Matthew", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
96. "Church of All Saints", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
97. "Church of St Nicholas", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
98. "Church of St Leonard", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
99. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 371; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09620-8
100. "Church of St Hilary", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
101. "Church of St Andrew", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
102. "Number 4 (Brownes Hospital) Chapel and Hall. All other buildings at Browne's Jospital", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 13 August 2011
103. "Warden's House to Browne's Hospital", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
104. "Church of St Andrew", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
105. "Tower and Portal of Church of St Mary, Newington", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
106. "Church of All Saints", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
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108. "Church of St Margaret", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
109. "Church of St Mary", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
110. "Church of St Lawrence", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
111. "Church of St Peter", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
112. "Church of All Saints", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
113. "The Old Rectory", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
114. "Church of St Martin", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
115. "Church of All Saints", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
116. "The Old Vicarage", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
117. "The Rectory", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
118. "Church of St Helen", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
119. "Church of St Faith", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
120. "Old Rectory", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 14 August 2011
121. "Church of All Hallows", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2011
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Further reading

• Directory of British Architects 1834–1914 Vol 1 p. 354. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.; 2nd edition (2001); ISBN 0-8264-5513-1
• Jenkins, Simon; England's Thousand Best Churches p. 387; Penguin (2000); ISBN 0-14-029795-2
• Gurnham, Richard; History of Lincoln p. 177; Phillimore & Co Ltd (2009); ISBN 1-86077-551-9

External links

• “James Fowler's house”, geolocation.ws. Retrieved 12 August 2011
• Victorian treasure that's out of the ordinary, thisislincolnshire.co.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2011
• James Fowler – Church Restorer and Mayor of Louth, rodcollins.com. Retrieved 12 August 2011
• Louth Historic Capital of the Lincolnshire Worlds, www.louth.org. Retrieved 12 August 2011