词条 | John Foulston |
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Urban Planning of PlymouthAt the time, Plymouth was a prosperous port town, separated along the coast of Plymouth Sound from the neighbouring towns of East Stonehouse and Devonport; collectively known as the Three Towns. Foulston was responsible for the creation of Union Street from the Frankfort Gate which was built across marshland to unite the three towns.[1] Ker Street, DevonportMost of Foulston's work was in the Greek Revival style, but his best known project was the creation of a group of buildings in Ker Street, Devonport in 1821–24.[1] This eclectic group consisted of a Greek Doric town hall and commemorative column; a terrace of houses in Roman Corinthian style and two houses in Greek Ionic; a "Hindoo" nonconformist chapel and an "Egyptian" library. Of these, all but the chapel and the houses survive,[3] and are Grade I listed.[4][5][6] The Royal Hotel, Theatre and Assembly RoomsFoulston's Royal Hotel, Theatre and Assembly Rooms were built between 1811 and 1818.[1] The theatre was notable for being one of the first buildings in Britain to use cast and wrought iron for parts of its main structure; it was demolished just before World War II to make way for a cinema.[2] Other worksAmong his other works in Plymouth were The Plymouth Athenaeum, home of the Plymouth Institution of which Foulston was a member.[7] The Athenaeum (1818–19) was bombed during World War II in 1941 and later demolished.[8] Belmont House (c.1825),[9] The Proprietary Library (1812, destroyed by bombing, 1941),[10] The Royal Union Baths (1828, demolished 1849 to make way for Millbay railway station),[10] and St. Catherine's Church (1823, demolished 1958).[8] He also designed many stucco-faced terraces and suburban villas, some of which survive as listed buildings.[11] In 1818 he designed the asterisk-shaped Cornwall County Asylum at Bodmin, later known as St Lawrence's Hospital, and now a Grade II* listed apartment building.[12] In Torquay he built the ballroom (1830, demolished), and in Tavistock he restored the medieval abbey gatehouse in Gothic style.[1] Foulston remodelled Warleigh House in Bickleigh in the Gothic style in the 1830s.[13] {{Quote box| quote = "Augustus of Rome was for building renowned And of marble he left what of brick he had found: But was not our Foulston a very great master? He found us all brick and left us all plaster." | source = —Epigram, based on one written about John Nash, published in the Western Antiquary (1884)[14] | width = 30% | align = right }} Later life and careerNot long before he retired he took into his partnership the architect George Wightwick who succeeded to his practice. After his retirement, Foulston created a set of watercolour drawings of some of his buildings, which are now in the City Art Gallery. He became a fellow of the Institute of British Architects in 1838,[1] and in the same year published "The Public Buildings of the West of England",[2] a book that included plans and drawings of many of his buildings.[15] In his later years he created an elaborate water garden at his home (Athenian Cottage in the suburb of Mutley[2]), and he was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot. He died at his home and is buried in St Andrew's new cemetery in Plymouth.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Peter Leach, Foulston, John (1772–1841), rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37425 (subscription required). Accessed 17 May 2008. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Foulston, John}}2. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.plymouthdata.info/PP-Foulston.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515165809/http://www.plymouthdata.info/PP-Foulston.htm|archivedate=15 May 2012|title=John Foulston (1772-1842)|last=Moseley|first=Brian|date=3 December 2011|website=The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History|accessdate=12 February 2015}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=The Buildings of England – Devon|author=Bridget Cherry & Nikolaus Pevsner|publisher=Penguin|location=Harmondsworth [Eng.]|year=1989|pages=675–6|isbn=978-0-14-071050-2}} 4. ^{{IoE|473550|Devonport Guildhall|accessdate=30 June 2008}} 5. ^{{IoE|473549|Devonport Column|accessdate=30 June 2008}} 6. ^{{IoE|473547|Oddfellows Hall|accessdate=30 June 2009}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.plymouthathenaeum.co.uk/page6.aspx |title=Historic People |publisher=Plymouth Athenaeum |accessdate=6 November 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106192704/http://www.plymouthathenaeum.co.uk/page6.aspx |archivedate= 6 November 2014 |df= }} 8. ^1 Cherry & Pevsner 1989, p.664. 9. ^Cherry & Pevsner 1989, p.673. 10. ^1 {{cite book|title=A New Survey of England: Devon|last=Hoskins|first=W. G.|year=1954|pages=459|publisher=Collins|location=London}} 11. ^See, for instance {{IoE|473328|St Michael's Lodge|accessdate=17 May 2008}} 12. ^{{NHLE|num=1195283 |desc=FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL |accessdate=10 July 2015 }} 13. ^{{NHLE|num=1162274|desc=Warleigh House|access-date=11 March 2018|mode=cs2}} 14. ^{{cite journal |last1= Jenkins|first1= Frank|year= 1968|title= John Foulston and His Public Buildings in Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport|journal= Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|volume= 27|issue= 2|pages= 124–135|publisher= University of California Press |doi= 10.2307/988470|jstor= 988470}}{{subscription required|via=JSTOR}} 15. ^A contemporary advert for the book is in {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gnk6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA188|title=The Architect, Engineer, and Operative Builder's Constructive Manual|publisher=Google Book Search|accessdate=17 May 2008|pages=188|year=1839}} 5 : 1772 births|1841 deaths|English architects|English urban planners|People connected with Plymouth |
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