Thomas Nicholson (architect)
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Thomas Nicholson (1823–1895) was a British architect. He is known for designing the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Forden, Powys in Wales.{{cite web|url=http://stainedglass.llgc.org.uk/person/468|title=Thomas Nicholson|publisher=Stained Glass in Wales|date=|accessdate=14 August 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://imagingthebible.llgc.org.uk/person/468|title=Thomas Nicholson|publisher=Imagining the Bible in Wales database|date=|accessdate=14 August 2012}}{{cite book|author=Mervyn Hughes|title=Thomas Nicholson - Architect: 1823 -1895|year=1994|publisher=St Edburg's Primary School}} Among his other Welsh churches were St James, Swansea and St Gabriel, Swansea.
Career
Nicholson became the Hereford Diocese Architect and was working in St Peter's Street, Hereford in 1865.Antonia Brodie (ed) Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914: Vol 2, pg1005-6, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001 He had an extensive practice in the Welsh Marches. In 1855 he extended the church at Stoke Prior started by Thomas Duckham. He was involved together with Stephen W Williams in laying out the new town at Llandrindod Wells.{{Cite web|url=http://history.powys.org.uk/history/rhaeadr/william2.html|title=Stephen W. Williams 2}} Nicholson laid out the 'Pump House' Estate portion of the development.R Scourfield and R Haslam "The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire" Yale University Press 2013, 347-60 In 1867-69, he undertook the restoration of the Church of St James, Kinnersley.A Brooks and N Pevsner "The Buildings of England: Herefordshire" Yale University Press 2012, 408-409
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Category:19th-century British architects
Category:British ecclesiastical architects
Category:Architects from Herefordshire
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