Informative Walking Tour around Chester yesterday evening
ICAEW Chester and North Wales | Pan-professional networking event |
#Planning #networking #heritage #chester
This is what I learnt:
Thomas Meakin Lockwood (1830 – 15 July 1900) was an English architect whose main works are in and around Chester in Cheshire.He was articled to Philip Causton Lockwood, the Borough Surveyor of Brighton. He then worked in offices including that of George Woodhouse, and of T.M Penson in Chester.
In 1862 he established an independent practice in Chester. His works are located mainly in Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales, his designs being influenced by John Douglas and Norman Shaw.
These builds are frequently the black and while timber framed buildings as seen in Chester In Cheshire and North Wales, where his most important patron was the First Duke of Westminster.
In 1892 Lockwood's sons, William Thomas and Philip H. Lockwood, joined him in partnership; the practice was known as T. M. Lockwood and Sons, and was continued by his sons after his death.
The firm continued into the 20th century as Lockwood Abercrombie and Saxon, with Philip being joined in partnership by internationally-renowned architect and town planner Sir Patrick Abercrombie ❤️.
Lockwood's firm still continues to operate in Chester as Lovelock Mitchell Architects now one of the world’s oldest architectural firms.
According to the architectural historian Edward Hubbard, Lockwood is the only 19th-century Chester architect other than John Douglas to have acquired a national reputation.
