Edward Browning

Edward Browning (1816 – 1882) was an English architect working in Stamford.

Edward Browning
National School, Grantham 1858-9
Born	1816
Died	14 April 1882 Upper Tooting
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Pupil of George Maddox,
Occupation	Architect
Practice	In Stamford, first in partnership with his father, after 1856 by himself.

Life

Edward Browning was the son of the Stamford architect Bryan Browning (1773-1856). He was apprenticed to the London architect George Maddox and by 1847 was in partnership with his father. The partnership continued until his father's death in 1856. Edward Browning qualified as an ARIBA on 22 March 1847. Their architectural practice was at No. 16, Broad Street, Stamford.[1] The Stamford architect Joseph Boothroyd Corby was a pupil of Browning and the architectural practice was continued by J. C. Traylen.

He became Mayor of Stamford in 1862-3.

Works

With his father

• Stamford Bridge
• Conservative Club, Stamford.
• Red Lion Street-High Street
• Midland Bank[2]

By himself

Schools

Little Gonerby, Grantham Primary School, 1863

• Grantham National School 1858-9[3]
• Little Gonerby Primary School, Grantham. (1863). Now Belvoir House Care Home
• Stamford High School[4]

Hospital and almshouses

• Stamford Hospital, three fever wards.[5]
• Market Deeping almshouses[6]

Public buildings

Former Corn Exchange,Broad Street, Stamford

• Corn Exchange, Broad Street, Stamford 1859 Tudor Gothic with a large first-floor window within a shallow projecting bay. Altered after a fire in 1925.[7]
• Buttermarket, Stamford 1861. With a closed in [8]

Churches

• Amber Hill, Lincolnshire brick-built church.[9]
• Holme Church, Cambridgeshire.
• Dunton Church, Northamptonshire.
• St Helen's Church, WheathampsteadSt Helen’s Wheathampstead, 1864 [10]
• All Saints' Church, Fosdyke[11][12]
• Snelland Church[13]

Churches Gallery

All Saints, Fosdyke 1871-2 Amber Hill, Lincolnshire St Giles, Holme Cambridgeshire

Houses

Barrington Hall, Essex, following restoration 2019.

• Barrington Hall, Essex. Redesigned the facade in Jacobethan style in 1863[14][15]
• Byard House, Stamford
• No 16 Cornmarket, Stamford[16]

Former Boat Inn, 3 St Mary's Hill, Stamford

• Amber Hill rectory[17]
• St George's rectory, Stamford[18]
• Creeton old rectory[19]
• Clare Lodge, Kettering Road, Stamford[20]

Shop

• Albert House, 58 High Street, Stamford. An example of Ruskinian Gothic using contrasting coloured stone.

Cemeteries

• Bourne chapel of rest[21]
• Stamford cemetery chapel[22]

Miscellaneous

• Drinking fountain, Bourne[23]
• Iron Foundry entrance, Wharf Road, Stamford[24]

References

1. "Colvin" (1995), pg.172.
2. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 709.
3. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 325.
4. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 697.
5. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 699.
6. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 554.
7. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 703.
8. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 709.
9. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 99.
10. Luna http://images.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/luna/servlet/detail/LPLIBLPL~34~34~111595~116875:Signed-Edward-Browning,-Architect
11. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 283.
12. Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1360494)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
13. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 158.
14. ”Colvin” 172
15. The Architect's Engineers and Building Trades Directory, (1868), 103.
16. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 702.
17. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 166.
18. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 711.
19. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 236-7.
20. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 715.
21. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 166.
22. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 695.
23. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 173.
24. ”Antram” (1989), pg. 713.

Literature

• Antram N (revised), Pevsner, N. & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
• Antonia Brodie (ed), Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001, Vol 1, pg. 281.
• Colvin H. A (1995), Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840. Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, pg.172.

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