Joseph Stanislaus Hansom

{{Short description|British architect (1845–1931)}}

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|birth_date = 1845

|birth_place = York

|death_date = 1931

|death_place = London

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|significant_buildings= Oxford Oratory,
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Joseph Stanislaus Hansom FRIBA (1845–1931) was a British architect. He was the son and partner of the better-known Joseph Aloysius Hansom, inventor of the Hansom cab.{{cite book |last1=Felstead |first1=Alison |last2=Franklin |first2=Jonathan |title=Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914: Vol. 1 (A-K)| year = 2001| publisher = Bloomsbury| isbn = 978-0-8264-5513-0| page = 835 }} He trained with his father, becoming his partner in 1869, and taking over the family practice fully in 1880.

In 1881, he inherited the practice of John Aloysius Crawley (1834 –-1881).Penelope Harris, The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-1882), Designer of the Hansom Cab, Birmingham Town Hall, and Churches of the Catholic Revival, (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), p. 170. In 1881, he designed Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Bognor Regis and extended St Mary Immaculate Church, Falmouth.[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-1426198-roman-catholic-church-of-our-lady-of-so/ Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Bognor Regis] from British Listed Buildings, retrieved 1 March 2016Historic England, [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1270006 Church of St Mary Immaculate], retrieved 31 May 2022

He was among the founders, in 1904, of the Catholic Record Society,{{cite book| author = Robert S. Miola| title = Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fxWcVSWY_3IC&pg=PA8| year = 2007| publisher = Oxford University Press| isbn = 978-0-19-925985-4| page = 8 }} and was so active on its behalf that the former Archivist of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet described him as "its prime mover and energy."[http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/31st-july-1926/14/catholic-record-society Report on the annual meeting of the Catholic Record Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402111351/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/31st-july-1926/14/catholic-record-society |date=2 April 2015 }}, The Tablet, 31 July 1926, p. 14. Accessed 15 March 2015.