Joseph Boothroyd Corby

Joseph Boothroyd Corby was born in Stamford and was articled to the local architect Edward Browning. He later became the surveyor of the Burghley Estates for the Marquess of Exeter. He was elected a fellow of the Surveyors' Institute in 1891. He was also a member of the Council of the Society of Architects, a body that was related to the RIBA, but whose members had not a formal architectural qualification. A member and PMG of the Stamford District Oddfellows and chairman and surveyor to the Stamford Building Society. He took a prominent part in Stamford Town Council from 1891 as a Conservative and became mayor of Stamford in 1912. He was also a member of Kesteven County Council, representing Stamford.Obituary Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 18 August 1913 pg. 5

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• Burghley Estate Office, High Street St Martins, Stamford, Lincolnshire. Built 1879, Listed Grade II."Antram" (1989), 707.

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• Queen Victoria Hall, Oundle, Northamptonshire, sometimes referred to as the "Queen Victoria Town Hall". The foundation stone was laid in August 1902{{cite web|url=https://www.laxtonjunior.org.uk/our-community/oundle-town/ |title=Oundle Town|publisher=Laxton Junior School|access-date=15 March 2022}} and it was completed in 1904.{{cite web|url= https://www.oundle.gov.uk/uploads/queen-victoria-hall-brochure.pdf |title=Queen Victoria Hall Brochure|publisher=Oundle Town Council|access-date=15 March 2022}} It is stated to be by Corby in his obituary.Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 18 August 1913 pg 5
• Oddfellows Hall, 19-20 All Saints' Street, Stamford.Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 18 August 1913 pg 5 Limestone ashlar pedimented gable with coat of arms and dated 1876. Below lettered ODD FELLOWS HALL and two round-arched windows and below a Romanesque revival entrance. There was a 450-seat hall upstairs and a 250-seat hall downstairs at ground level. In 1909, films were screened in the upstairs hall and it was to become the PIcturedrome which closed in World War II. Now converted into flats.

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• Constitutional Clubroom, Barnack 1886. The builder selected for this project was W. Emerson of Stamford.Stamford Mercury - Friday 05 March 1886 pg 4
• Offices of S. & G. Kingston. New Street, Spalding. Elizabethan revival, ashlar faced, with oriel windows and rising into turrets and a strapwork balustrade."Antram" (1989), 678.
• Museum of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, Broad Street, Spalding.The museum was built in 1910 to a design by the architects J. B. Corby and Sons. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, with a slate roof, and is of two storeys. There are various inscribed labels.[https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MLI94467&resourceID=1006 Heritage Gateway]

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• Westminster Memorial Hospital, Shaftesbury, England, 1871. Corby's design was won an architectural competition, in which there were 42 entries sent in.Building News, Vol. 20, 3 Feb. 1871, pp. 98–99; + winner declared 17 Feb. 1871, p. 132 Five bay ashlar fronted in Tudoresque revival style with advanced porch with oriel window at first floor level. Built to commemorate the late Marquis of Westminster.Illustrated London News - Saturday 22 July 1871 The hospital is now much extended, but still serves as a cottage hospital for Shaftesbury.
• Cornford Houses, King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire. 1891. Almshouses.{{cite web|url=http://kingscliffeheritage.org/archive_item_frame.php?id=3781|title=Bill of Quantities for proposed Almshouses, The Cornforth Homes, King's Cliffe. Drawn up by J B Corby, Architect & Surveyor, Stamford, March 1891. Pages 19 to 27, plus preamble and summary.}}
• Kingston Cottage Homes, South Parade, Spalding, 1905/7. Four red-brick tudoresque almshouses with fish-scale tiled roofs around a courtyard and chimneys, with strapwork and crenulations."Antram" (1989), 675.

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• Duddington, Northamptonshire. Village School. Designed by J. B. Corby of Stamford and built in 1891–2 by W. Goddard Jackson.Information from Geograph caption for illustration{{better source needed|date=October 2020}}

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• Wesleyan Chapel, Lytchett Minster, Poole. 1865.Poole & Dorset Herald - Thursday 06 April 1865 pg 5.
• Christadelphian Chapel, Spalding.
• Strict Baptist Chapel, Goldsmith's Passage, North Street, Stamford. 1900. Pevsner described the frontage as "Re-modelled and re-fronted in a coarse Italianate style", but in many respects may be considered as Baroque revival style with attractive use of Arts and Crafts lettering over the porch."Antram" (1989), pg.702

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• St John the Baptist's Church, Wakerley, Northamptonshire. Church restoration in 1875.{{NHLE |num= 1234011|desc= Church of St John the Baptist, Wakerley|accessdate= 20 December 2013|mode=cs2}}
• All Saints, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire. 1887. Rebuilding of the chancel and added north transept."Antram" (1989), pg.777

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• Rockbourne, Park Street, King's Cliffe. Northamptonshire 1900.Information from Geograph caption for illustration{{better source needed|date=October 2020}}

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• Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
• Brodie A. (ed), (2001.) ‘’Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914’’: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects.

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