About John Starling Chapple
Lived 1840 – 1922 (aged 81–82). John Starling Chapple was a British and English architect.
John Starling Chapple (1840–1922) was a stonemason and architect who worked as office manager for William Burges.
Born in Exeter, the son of a carpenter, Burges's practice was inherited by his brother-in-law, Richard Popplewell Pullan and Chapple worked with him on the two volumes of drawings of Burges's work which Pullan published in the mid -1880s. Chapple also worked with Pullan and William Frame in completing a number of Burges's unfinished works, including Cardiff Castle, and Castell Coch, He also completed St Michael's Church, Brighton.
Chapple retired in 1911 and died at Barnet in 1922.
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British architect
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John Starling Chapple was born in 1840 in Exeter.
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John Starling Chapple died in 1922.
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John Starling Chapple was an architect.
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John Starling Chapple was British and English.
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