Joseph Clarke

Joseph Clarke (1819–1888) was a British Gothic Revival architect who practised in London, England. He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1841 and a Fellow of the RIBA in 1850. He served as Diocesan Surveyor to the sees of Canterbury and Rochester, and from 1871 to the see of St Albans. The book included plans of twelve schools he had built in Kent, Essex and Oxfordshire, at Monks Horton, Lydd, Little Bentley, Coggeshall, Clifton Hampton, Coopershall, Wellesborough, Brabourne, Boreham, Foxearth, Hatfield and Leigh (Essex).

He drew up ambitious plans for an extension to the House of Charity in Greek Street Soho, including a chapel, refectory, dormitories and cloisters, although only the chapel (begun 1862) was built. His association with commissions in Oxfordshire make it possible that he was the "Joseph Clarke, esq., architect" who presented plans for restoring the gatehouse at Rye, the intended scene of the Rye House Plot, to the Oxford Architectural Society in May 1842.

Clarke exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1845 and 1870. The exhibition catalogues give his address as 1, Lincoln's Inn Fields, from 1845 to 1850; and 13, Stratford Place, thereafter.

He is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

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Buildings

St Mary and St Nicholas parish church, Littlemore, Oxfordshire: chancel and tower, 1848 St Mary's parish church, Garsington, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1849 St Paul's parish church, Culham, Oxfordshire: rebuilding, 1852 Culham College, Culham, Oxfordshire, 1852 (now the European School, Culham) Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan Training Institution, Fishponds, Gloucestershire (in partnership with John Norton of London), 1852 (later St Matthias' College) All Saints Church, Cockermouth, Cumbria, 1854 Holy Trinity parish church, Ardington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire): tower and spire, 1856 St John the Baptist's parish church, Wateringbury, Kent: restoration and south aisle, 1856 St Alban's parish church, Rochdale, Lancashire, 1856 (demolished 1973) St Mary's parish church, Slaugham, West Sussex: restoration, 1857–1860 St Mary the Virgin parish church, Farnham, Essex, 1858–59 St Stephen's parish church, Congleton, Cheshire, 1860 St Luke's parish church, Heywood, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), 1860–1862 St James' parish church, Aston, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1862 St Mary's chapel of ease, Shifford, Oxfordshire, 1863 St John the Baptist parish church, Niton, Isle of Wight: new churchyard cross on 15th-century base, 1865 St Paul's parish church, Choppington, Northumberland, 1866 St Michael's parish church, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire: alterations to chancel and ceilings, extension of north aisle, 1868–69 St Mary's parish church, Apsley, Hertfordshire, 1871 St Peter's Church, Woodmansterne, Surrey, 1876–77 St Mary the Virgin parish church, Hillborough, for Reculver parish, 1876–1878 Holy Trinity parish church, Beckenham, Kent, 1878 All Saints', Friern Barnet, London Holy Cross Church, Hoath, Kent: restoration, north aisle added, new roofs and north arcade, new fittings including font, pulpit and pews, 1866–67

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