John Jones Bateman
{{Short description|English architect (1817–1903)}}
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John Jones Bateman (1817–1903{{cite web|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1407134 |title=Birmingham Union Workhouse and Infirmary |work=Pastscape |publisher=English Heritage |accessdate=2 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002143616/http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1407134 |archivedate= 2 October 2015 }}) was an English architect, active in the town (later city) of Birmingham, where he designed a number of important civic buildings, and nonconformist churches, often in partnership with George Drury.
He was the founder and first president of the Birmingham Architectural Association.{{cite web|url=http://www.reginaldstanley.com/frederick-john-yates.php|title=Frederick John Yates|accessdate=2 October 2015}} The 1861 and 1871 censuses show his home as Hawkesford House (since demolished and replaced by an apartment block of the same name{{Coord|52.506254|-1.788600|region:GB_type:landmark}}), Castle Bromwich.{{cite web|url=http://www.birminghamhistory.net/2015/03/02/mysterious-death-railway/|title=A Mysterious Death on the Railway - Birmingham History|accessdate=2 October 2015}}
Bateman had five daughters and three sons, although one of the latter died in infancy. The younger of his surviving sons, Charles Edward Bateman, was also an architect and was articled to his father from 1881 to 1886. becoming his partner, as Bateman and Bateman, in 1887.{{Cite web |title = Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report - Charles Edward Bateman |accessdate=2015-10-02 |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=206025}} Another of Bateman's clerks was Frederick John Yates.
Bateman died on 13 June 1903 aged 85 and is buried with his wife Mary (died 1869, age 45), their eight children, and his sister, also Mary, in the family plot in graveyard of St Mary & St Margaret at Castle Bromwich.{{cite web|url=http://castlebromwichgraveyard.co.uk/?page_id=321|title=Bateman Family Grave|work=Castle Bromwich Graveyard|accessdate=2 October 2015}}
Works
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Bateman's works include:
- Mechanics Institution, Newhall Street, Birmingham (with G Drury){{Cite book| last1=Roscoe |first1=Thomas |last2=Lecount |first2=Peter |title=The London and Birmingham railway, with the home and country scenes on each side of the line |year=1839}}
- Bromsgrove Union Workhouse (1837, with G Drury; only entrance block survives){{cite web |url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Bromsgrove/ |title=The Workhouse in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire |accessdate=2 October 2015}}
- Stratford-upon-Avon Union Workhouse (1837, with G Drury; only minor buildings survive){{cite web |url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/StratfordOnAvon/ |title=The Workhouse in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire |accessdate=2 October 2015}}
- Leek Union Workhouse (1838, with G Drury; now a geriatric care home){{cite web|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Leek/ |title=The Workhouse in Leek, Staffordshire |accessdate=2 October 2015}}
- Queen's Hospital, Bath Row, Birmingham (1841, with G Drury; now Grade II listed student accommodation)
- Queen's College, Birmingham (1843, with G Drury; facade replaced 1904, rear since demolished)A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 7 – The City of Birmingham, ed W. B. Stephens, University of London Institute of Historical Research, Oxford University Press, 1964
- a new Museum for the college (1856){{Cite web| title = new Museum, Queen's College, Birmingham, England, 1856| accessdate = 2015-10-02| url = http://www.builderindex.org/?q=node/2169}}
- Church of the Saviour, Edward Street/ Helena Street, Birmingham (1846, with G Drury; demolished){{Cite book |edition=Revised |publisher=Amberley Publishing |isbn=978-1-4456-5063-0 |last=Rudge |first=Ted |title=In and Around Ladywood Through Time |year=2015 }}
- Birmingham Union Workhouse (1850, with G Drury; now derelict)
- Church of the Messiah (1860; demolished 1978){{Cite book |last=Bartlam |first=Norman |title=Broad Street Birmingham |publisher=Sutton |year=2002 |isbn=0-7509-2874-3}}
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