Thomas Larkins Walker

Thomas Larkins Walker (c.1811–1860) was a Scottish architect.

Life

Baptised on 20 May 1811 in Dysart, Fifeshire, the son of Adam Walker, he was a pupil of Augustus Charles Pugin, and an executor of his will. In practice initially with Benjamin Ferrey 1833–8, he resided at Nuneaton, and then at Leicester was in practice with Robert Johnson Goodacure to 1856. Emigrating to China, he died in Hong Kong on 10 October 1860.[1][2]

Works

Designs

Courtyard view of the New hospital (almshouses) and grounds, Bedworth (1839), design by Thomas Larkins Walker

Walker's designs included:[1]

He also restored St Mary's Church, Ilkeston in Derbyshire.[1]

Writings

Walker published illustrated architectural works in the style of Augustus Pugin:[1]

These volumes are continuations of Pugin's Examples of Gothic Architecture, and the plates in the first are by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.[1]

He also edited Christopher Davy's Architectural Precedents, 1841, in which he included an article describing his almshouses at Bedworth.[1][2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Walker, Thomas Larkins". Dictionary of National Biography 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. 1 2 3 Hill, Rosemary. "Walker, Thomas Larkins". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28515. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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