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John West Hugall

1846 – 1878

British architect

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Lived 1846 – 1878 (aged 31–32). John West Hugall was an architect.

John West Hugall ( – 30 October 1880) was an English Gothic Revival architect from Yorkshire.

Career Hugall's works span the period 1848–78. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1871. While there, he was Secretary of the Yorkshire Architectural Society He co-wrote two books with the Rev. G.A. Poole: The Churches of Scarborough, Filey, And The Neighbourhood (1848) and An Historical & Descriptive Guide to York Cathedral and Its Antiquities (1850).

Hugall seems to have moved his practice to Cheltenham by about 1850 and to Reading and Oxford by 1871. St. Michael's parish church, Figheldean, Wiltshire: rebuilt top of bell tower, 1851 All Saints' parish church, Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire): south transept and west chapel, 1853 St. Cuthbert's parish church, Ackworth, West Yorkshire: renovated nave, 1852–1854 St. James' parish church, Winterbourne, Berkshire: rebuilt church, 1854 St. Mary's parish church, Kingskerswell, Devon: restored, St. Mary's parish church, St Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, 1856–1861 (rebuilt in 1950s after war damage) St. Michael's parish church, Highworth, Wiltshire: restoration, 1861–1862 St. James' parish church, Bourton, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1860 or 1881 St. John the Evangelist parish church, Fernham, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1861 All Saints' Church, Lullington, Derbyshire: restoration, 1861–1862 St. Leonard's parish church, Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire: restoration, 1865 St Michael and St Mary Magdalene's Church, Easthampstead, Bracknell, Berkshire, 1866–1867 St. Michael's parish church, Little Marcle, Herefordshire, 1870 St. Leonard's parish church, Sherfield on Loddon, Hampshire: spire, 1872 St. Mary's parish church, Chieveley, Berkshire: rebuilt nave, 1873 St. James' parish church, Welland, Worcestershire, 1875 All Saints' parish church, East Garston, Berkshire: rebuilt chancel, 1875 All Saints' parish church, Staunton, Gloucestershire: restoration, 1871–1872

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Born
1846, Sculcoates, Yorkshire
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Died
1878, Hastings
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Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects

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British architect

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John West Hugall was born in 1846 in Sculcoates, Yorkshire.

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John West Hugall died in 1878 in Hastings.

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John West Hugall was an architect.

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