John Croft (architect)

John Croft (1800–1865) was a British architect, practising in Islington, London, who was one of the "rogue-architect"s described by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel.

St John the Baptist, Lower Shuckburgh. Designed by John Croft.

Early life

John Croft was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, in 1800. He married Emma and at the time of the 1861 census was living at 26, Wellington Street, Islington, London. The census of that year records that he had three sons and a daughter. His sons Arthur (1828) and John (1841) were artists while his son Adolphus (1831) was an architect. He had a daughter Jessy (1841).[1]

Works

Croft designed the Church of St John the Baptist, Lower Shuckburgh, Warwickshire, on the site of an earlier church, almost nothing of which now remains. The building is grade II listed and was completed in 1860[2] or 1864.[3] He also designed the vicarage.[4]

Croft also designed All Saints, Cold Hanworth, Lincolnshire.[5]

References
  1. 1861 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription. Retrieved 29 May 2016. (subscription required)
  2. "Parishes: Upper and Lower Shuckburgh", in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 6, Knightlow Hundred, ed. L.F. Salzman. London, 1951. pp. 215-219. British History Online Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  3. Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (1355437)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  4. Pevsner, Nikolaus & Alexandra Wedgwood. (1966). Warwickshire. (The Buildings of England). London: Penguin Books. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-300-09679-8.
  5. Pevsner, Nikolaus; John Harris; Nicholas Antram. (2002). Lincolnshire. (The Buildings of England) (2nd ed.). New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0.


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