Yeoville Thomason

Yeoville Thomason

H. R. Yeoville Thomason (1826-1901) was an architect in Birmingham, England. He was born in Edinburgh to a Birmingham family. Thomason set up his own practice in Birmingham 1853-1854.

He was a grandson of Sir Edward Thomason, a button and toy maker in Birmingham. He was a pupil of Charles Edge, and after qualifying as architect he worked for the borough surveyor. He designed the Council House after winning a competition. He retired in 1896.

ignificant works

He designed, amongst others: [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk Images of Engand website] ]

*In Birmingham:
**The Council House and its immediate extension, the original Art Gallery, 1874-85 IoEgrade|217695|II*
**Singers Hill Synagogue, 1856 IoEgrade|216781|II*
**Great Hampton Works, 80-82, Great Hampton Street, Hockley, c 1880 IoEgrade|217158|II*
**Union Club, 85-89 Colmore Row, on the corner with Newhall Street, now called Bamford's Trust House, 1870. IoEgrade|216985|II
**Birmingham Banking Company, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. Designed new entrance in 1868. Became Midland Bank."Birmingham", Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p25] IoEgrade|216772|II
**38 Benetts Hill, 1868-70 IoEgrade|216774|II
**Highcroft Hospital, Main Building, Highcroft Road, Erdington (former Aston Union Workhouse). 1869 IoEgrade|471803|II and IoEgrade|471804|II
**Birmingham Town and District Bank, 63 Colmore Row, Birmingham. (1867-1869) Head Office later to became part of Barclays Bank, facade later remodelled by Peacock and Bewlay."Birmingham", Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p35]
**Lewis's department store, Corporation Street, 1886, (demolished 1929 and replaced by a seven storey building), Birmingham's first iron and concrete building"Birmingham Buildings, The Architectural Story of a Midland City", Bryan Little, 1971, ISBN 0-7153-5295-4]
**Acocks Green Chapel, Warwick Green, Acocks Green, 1860 (closed in 1956).

*Elsewhere:
**Public Hall, High Street, Smethwick, (1866-7), Now the Public Library."The Buildings of England: Worcestershire", Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p81]

References


* [http://www.vicsoc.co.uk/ The Victorian Society in Birmingham (Three City Trails, Victorian Architects of Birmingham)]
* [http://www.singershill.com/architecture.htm Birmingham Hebrew Congregation - biographical detail]


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