William Hopkins (architect)

{{short description|British architect (1820–1901)}}

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William Jeffrey Hopkins (1820–1901) was a British architect.

Career

One of Hopkins' earliest works, the Public Hall in Worcester (1848–49), was Italianate.Pevsner, 1968, pages 329–330 Most of his work thereafter was of the Gothic Revival. For many years he was the Worcester Diocesan Architect, and as such he mostly built or rebuilt Church of England parish churches in Worcestershire.

Works

  • Public Hall, Worcester, 1848–49 (demolished circa 1968)
  • St. Martin's parish church, Worcester: east window, 1855–62Pevsner, 1968, page 319
  • St. Barnabas' parish church, Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire, 1857Pevsner, 1968, page 134
  • Cow Honeybourne parish church, Honeybourne, Worcestershire, 1861–63Pevsner, 1968, page 125
  • Holy Trinity parish church, Shrub Hill, Worcester, 1863Pevsner, 1968, page 321 (demolished 1965{{Cite web |title=In pictures: Do you remember any of our lost chapels and churches? |url=https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/19496196.pictures-looking-back-worcesters-lost-chapels-churches/ |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=Worcester News |date=10 August 2021 |language=en}})
  • St. James' parish church, Hindlip, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1864Pevsner, 1968, page 196
  • St. John the Baptist parish church, Bradley, Worcestershire, 1864–65Pevsner, 1968, page 95
  • St.Nicholas' parish church, Worcester: restoration, 1867Pevsner, 1968, page 320
  • Saints Philip and James parish church, Hallow, Worcestershire, 1867–69Pevsner, 1968, page 182
  • Bohun Court, Hallow, Worcestershire, 1860s (demolished 1925)
  • St. James' parish church, Churchill, Worcestershire, 1868Pevsner, 1968, page 119
  • St. Peter ad Vincula parish church, Tibberton, Worcestershire, 1868Pevsner, 1968, page 280
  • St. Paul's parish church, Blackheath, Birmingham, 1869Pevsner, 1968, page 88
  • Bromsgrove School, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire: enlarged chapel, 1869Pevsner, 1968, page 111
  • St. Mary's parish church, Icomb, Gloucestershire: restoration, 1871Verey, 1970, page 280 (mis-transcribed as "W.J. Hophis")
  • St. Nicholas' parish church, King's Norton, Birmingham: restoration, 1871Pevsner & Wedgwood, 1966, page 188
  • St. Kenelm's parish church, Upper Snodsbury, Worcestershire: rebuilt church, 1873–74Pevsner, 1968, page 283
  • St. James' parish church, Norton-by-Kempsey: restoration (with Ewan Christian), 1874–75Pevsner, 1968, page 227
  • St. John the Baptist parish church, Grafton Flyford, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1875Pevsner, 1968, pages 156–157
  • St. John the Baptist parish church, Suckley, Worcestershire: rebuilt church, 1878–79Pevsner, 1968, page 275
  • All Saints' parish church, Wilden, Worcestershire, 1880Pevsner, 1968, page 290
  • St. Peter's parish church, Besford, Worcestershire: restoration, 1880–81Pevsner, 1968, page 82
  • St. James' parish church, Kington, Worcestershire: rebuilt chancel, 1881Pevsner, 1968, page 208
  • St. Eadburga's parish church, Abberton, Worcestershire, 1881–82Pevsner, 1968, page 68
  • St. Peter's parish church, Flyford Flavell, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1883Pevsner, 1968, page 156
  • Saints Mathias and George parish church, Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, 1884Pevsner, 1968, page 74
  • St. Bartholomew's parish church, Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire: rebuilding, 1897Pevsner, 1968, page 223

References

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Sources and further reading

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Brodie |editor1-first=Antonia |editor2-last=Felstead |editor2-first=Alison |editor3-last=Franklin |editor3-first=Jonathan |editor4-last=Pinfield |editor4-first=Leslie |editor5-last=Oldfield|editor5-first=Jane|year=2001 |title=Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, A–K |location=London & New York |publisher=Continuum |isbn=0-8264-5513-1 }}
  • {{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1968 |series=The Buildings of England |title=Worcestershire |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth }}
  • {{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |author1-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Wedgwood |first2=Alexandra |year=1966 |series=The Buildings of England |title=Warwickshire |location=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |page=188}}
  • {{cite book |last=Verey |first=David |year=1970 |series=The Buildings of England |title=Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds |volume=I |location=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-071040-X |page=280}}

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Category:1820 births

Category:1901 deaths

Category:Architects from Worcestershire

Category:Gothic Revival architects

Category:English ecclesiastical architects