Richard Reynolds Rowe

Richard Reynolds Rowe (5 June 1824 – 21 December 1899)

In 1850 he set up practice in Cambridge as an architect, and designed and built several buildings around Cambridge and elsewhere in Cambridgeshire. and also served as the architect attached to the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Asylum at Fulbourn and the clerk of works for Ely Cathedral. In later life, he lived at Parkside in Cambridge.

Works His most-notable work in Cambridge is the Cambridge Corn Exchange (1873–75). His other buildings in the town include St Matthew's Church (1864–66), number 6, Trumpington Road (1866), Wilton Terrace, Station Road, almshouses on King Street (1880), and (with C. R. Scott) the Red Cow pub on Corn Exchange Street (1898).

Outside Cambridge, he built Anglican churches at Burwell (1863), Prickwillow (1866–68) and Wendy (1866; demolished in around 1950), and was involved in restoring many Anglican churches in Cambridgeshire, including those at Stuntney (1875–76) and Haddenham (1871–77). He also built vicarages or rectories at Graveley (1853–54), Fulbourn (1859) and Chatteris (1878–80).

His non-ecclesiastical work in Cambridgeshire includes the police station (1855) at Linton and Arkenstall's Endowed School at Haddenham (1863).