Basic Biographical Details Name: | John Thomas Emmett | Designation: | | Born: | 1828 | Died: | 1898 | Bio Notes: | John Thomas Emmett was born in 1828. He was in a practice at 11 Beaufort Buildings, London by 1846 and came into prominence by winning the competition for the Independent Chapel in Bath Street, Glasgow, which in turn resulted in several other Scottish commissions, all in a markedly Puginian style, but the Scottish end of his practice seems to have run into some difficulty as his Sandyford Church was completed by John Honeyman.
Emmett's later years were spent as a dissident polemicist attacking the state of architecture in mid Victorian England. This comprised an article on the Courts of Justice Competition in The Quarterly Review v123 pp93-118 (1867) and 'The State of English Architecture' also published in the Quarterly Review v132 pp295-335 (1872), reprinted in 1972 with an introduction by J M Crook. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 11, Beaufort Buildings, London, England | Business | 1846 * | | | | 1, Cloudesley Square, Islington, London, England | Private | 1868 * | | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | British Architectural Library, RIBA | 2001 | Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 | | | | | Crook, J M (ed), J T Emmett | 1972 | J T Emmett: Six Essays | | New York, 1972 | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | British Architectural Library, RIBA | RIBA Biographical Files | | |
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