Lewis Nockalls Cottingham

Lewis Nockalls Cottingham (1787-13 October 1847) was a British architect who pioneered the study of Medieval Gothic architecture. He was a restorer and conservator of existing buildings. He set up a Museum of Medieval Art in Waterloo Road, London with a collection of artefacts from demolished buildings and plaster casts of the medieval sculpture.

Biography

Cottingham was born in 1787 at Laxfield in Suffolk of a respectable family. He showed a talent for science and the arts early and he was apprenticed to a builder at Ipswich. After several years he moved to London and there placed himself with an architect and surveyor. He commenced his professional career in 1814 at his residence near Lincoln's Inn Fields. Cottingham's first public appointment was as architect and surveyor to the Cooks Company in 1822. Soon after this he erected a mansion in the perpendicular style of Gothic architecture for John Harrison at Snelston Hall in Derbyshire. In 1825 he became architect to Rochester Cathedral [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GJ3KCnhqAdMC&lpg=PA648&ots=RdQ-hSXOyJ&dq=%22Lewis+Nockalls+Cottingham%22+ashbourne&pg=PA648&ci=145,434,419,760&source=bookclip">The Gentleman's Magazine] accessed 2 June 2008]

Works and restorations

* 1822-30 Snelston Hall, Derbyshire (demolished 1951)
* 1822-30 Snelston domestic houses
* 1824-33 Estate at Waterloo Bridge Road, London
* 1825-30 Rochester Cathedral
* 1829-33 refitted Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford
* 1830-47 Brougham Hall, Westmorland
* 1831 Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire
* 1832-33 St Albans Abbey (now the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban)
* 1833–41 St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh
* 1836-?? Theberton, Suffolk
* 1841 Parish Church Ashbourne, Derbyshire
* 1841 Parish Church Great Chesterford, Essex
* 1841 Parish Church Horningsheath, Suffolk
* 1841-47 Hereford Cathedral
* 1842 Parish Church Milton Bryan
* 1842-47 St. Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds
* 1843-44 St. Mary's Church, Nottingham - tower restoration
* 1844 St. James Church, Louth, Lincolnshire - spire restoration
* 1846 St. Mary's Church, Clifton, Nottinghamshire
* 1845 - 47 St. Helen's Church, Thorney, Nottinghamshire. New church.
* 1846 The former Savings Bank, Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds
* 1846 Tuddenham School, Suffolk
* 1846 Great Chesterford School, Essex
* 1846 - 47 Parish Church Theberton, Suffolk
* 1846 - 47 Parish Church Barrow, Suffolk
* 1846 - 47 Parish Church Roos, Yorkshire
* 1846 - 47 Brougham Chapel, Westmorland
* 1847 Kilpeck, Herefordshire church restoration
* 1847 Ledbury, Herefordshire church restoration

Family

He married Sophia Cotton on 24 January 1821. They had 4 children.

* Nockalls Johnson Cottingham (1823-1854) who was also an architect. Nockalls Johnson was lost in the wreck of the SS Arctic on its way to New York.
* Edwin Cotton Cottingham (1825-1876)
* Sophia Anne Cottingham (1827-1827)
* Sophia Sarah Jane Cottingham (1830-1867)

References

L.N.Cottingham (1787-1847): Architect of the Gothic Revival by Janet Myles ISBN: 978-0853316787