Joseph Boothroyd Corby

Joseph Boothroyd Corby (c. 1838–1913) was an architect who worked in Stamford, Lincolnshire.[1]

Joseph Boothroyd Corby
Burleigh Estate Office, and 62–63 High Street St Martins, Stamford
Born	1839 Stamford
Died	1913 Stamford
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Articled to Edward Browning of Stamford
Occupation	Architect
Practice	15 All Saints Place Stamford and 1 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall Street, London E. C. in 1896

Career

Joseph Boothroyd Corby was born in Stamford was articled to the Stamford architect Edward Browning. He later became the surveyor of the Burleigh Estates for the Marquess of Exeter.He was elected a fellow of the Surveyor's Institute in 1891. A member and PMG of the Stamford District Oddfellows and Chairman and surveyor to the Stamford Building Society. He took a prominent part in Stamford Town Council from 1891 as a Conservative and became a mayor of Stamford. He was also a member of the Kesteven County Council representing Stamford.[2]

Works include

Public, Commercial Buildings and Museums.

Burleigh Estate Office, Stamford

• Burleigh Estate Offices. High Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire. Built 1879, Listed Grade II [3]

Oundle Town Hall

• Oundle Town Hall, Northamptonshire. Listed Grade II, where it is stated that it was built in 1830. This seems too early for the Tudor revival style of the building, which is stated to be by Corby in his obituary.[4] A cruciform building of two storeyswith gabled roofs of Welsh slate. Stone mullioned windows to 1st floor. Ground floor originally open as for a market with four centre-arched heads to bays. [5]
• Oddfellows Hall, 19-20 All Saints' Street, Stamford. [6] Limestone ashlar pedimented gable with coat of arms and dated 1876. Below lettered ODD FELLOWS HALL and two round arched windows and below a Romanesque revival entrance. There was a 450-seat hall upstairs and a 250 seat hall downstairs at ground level. In 1909, films were screened in the upstairs hall and it was to become the PIcturedrome which closed in World War II. Now converted into flats.
• Museum of the Spalding Gentlemen's' Society, Broad Street, Spalding.The museum was built in 1910 to a design by the architects J. B. Corby and Sons. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, with a slate roof, and is of two storeys. There are various inscribed labels.[7]

Hospitals and Armshouses

• Westminster Cottage Hospital, Shaftesbury, England, 1871[8]

• Kingston Cottage Homes Spalding, 1905/7. Four red brick tudoresque almshouses with fish-scale tiled roofs around a courtyard and chimneys, with strapwork and crenulations. [9]

School

• Duddington Northamptonshire. Village School. Designed by J. B. Corby of Stamford and built in 1891–2 by W. Goddard Jackson [10]

Chapels

• Wesleyan Chapel, Lytchett Minster, Poole. 1865. [11]

Church Restorations

• St John the Baptist Church, Wakerley, Northamptonshire. Church restoration in 1875.[12]

Houses

• Rockbourne, Park Street, King's Cliffe. Northamptonshire 1900. [13]

References

1. ”Brodie” (2001), Vol. 1, p. 437
2. Obituary Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 18 August 1913 pg. 5
3. "Antram" (1989), 707.
4. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 18 August 1913 pg 5
5. British Listed Buildings
6. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 18 August 1913 pg 5
7. Heritage Gateway
8. Building News, Vol. 20, 3 Feb. 1871, pp. 98–99; + winner declared 17 Feb. 1871, p. 132
9. "Antram" (1989), 675.
10. Information from Geograph caption for illustration
11. Poole & Dorset Herald - Thursday 06 April 1865 pg 5.
12. Information from Geograph caption for illustration
13. Information from Geograph caption for illustration

Literature

• Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
• Brodie A. (ed), (2001.) ‘’Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914’’: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects.

External links

• Media related to Joseph Boothroyd Corby at Wikimedia Commons