Richard Ingleman

Richard Ingleman

The Lawn, Lincoln
Born 1777
Southwell
Died 11 January 1838
Southwell
Nationality English
Occupation Architect
Buildings Southwell House of Correction; The Lawn, Lincoln; Warneford Hospital, Oxford

Richard Ingleman (1777-1838) was a surveyor and architect of Southwell in Nottinghamshire, England. Initially his architectural practice was based on the Southwell area, but he was to win widespread respect for his designs for the Southwell House of Correction (1807-8). This was to lead to his gaining major commissions for prisons and mental hospitals, particularly in Wiltshire and at Oxford.[1]

Career

Richard Ingleman was the son of Francis Ingleman, a surveyor and builder of Southwell, and the grandson of Richard Ingleman, a mason who repaired Southwell Minster after a lightning strike in 1711. Richard Ingleman is first noted as a Surveyor to the fabric of Southwell Minster, a position he held from 1801 to 1808.[2] In 1807 he designed the Southwell House of Correction, a prison which was seen as a model for other prisons. This operated the silent system which required the prisoners to work in groups and to remain silent at all times. This was to give him an interest in prison and institutional design.[3] He entered unsuccessfully the competition in 1812 for the design of the Milbank Penitentiary which was to be built on the present site of the Tate Gallery. However he was successful in two other large prison projects, the rebuilding of Devizes New Bridewell[4] and the Fisherton Anger House of Correction in Salisbury. The Devizes New Bridewell was started in 1810 and at the same time Ingleman started supervising the building of the Nottingham Lunatic Asylum. It was not until 1817 that he started on the Fisherton Anger House of Correction, but by this time he had been approached to design the Warneford Mental Hospital at Oxford. This was built between 1821 and 1826. In 1826 Ingleman wrote to the Trustees of the Warneford Hospital saying that he was now incapacitated by illness and asked for the final payment of £50 for the completion of the hospital. Ingleman does not appear to have undertaken any further architectural work after this date and he died at Southwell in 1838 at the age of 51.

Howard Colvin notes that Ingleman's asylums were classical buildings of no special distinction, but the unexecuted plans he submitted for the re-building of Shelton Church, Nottinghamshire, were an essay in Early English style which were quite creditable for the time.[5] He undertook some country house building and favoured the use of Ionic columns for porches and porticos. This is seen at Conock House near Devizes and at Ordsall Rectory (now Ordsall Hall) in Nottinghamshire, while he used massive Ionic columns for the portico to the Lawn Asylum in Lincoln.[6]

Architectural work

Gateway to the Southwell House of Correction
Former Southwell workhouse, now Baptist Chapel
The Lawn Asylum, Lincoln. Coloured line engraving by W. Watkin, 1835

Gallery of work by Richard Ingleman

References

  1. "Colvin" (1995), 525-6
  2. "Colvin" (1995), 525
  3. Shilton R.P A History of Southwell
  4. Waylen J. (1839) Chronicles of Devizes pg 318
  5. "Colvin" (1995), 525-6
  6. "Antram" (1989), implies that the columns and portico were later than 1820, but they must surely be part of Ingleman's original design.
  7. Summers N, (1972) Southwell Minster pg. 23
  8. Pevsner (1979), pg. 333
  9. Pevsner (1979), pg. 331
  10. Pevsner (1979), pg. 331
  11. Southwell Workhouse
  12. ”Pevsner” (1979), pg.334
  13. "Waylen "(1839) pg 318
  14. "Colvin" (1995), 526
  15. "Colvin" (1995), 526
  16. Pevsner (1979), pg. 283
  17. "Colvin" (1995), 526
  18. "Plans for the county gaol at Fisherton Anger by R. Ingleman of Southwell, Notts.". The National Archives. 1817. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  19. Pevsner (1979), pg. 331
  20. "Colvin" (1995), 526
  21. Hutchins D. (2010), ‘‘The History of the Minster School’’
  22. "Colvin" (1995), 526
  23. "Colvin" (1995), 526

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