Thomas Baldwin (1750 - 1820)

Born 1750 in Bath, Somerset, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Chapman) Baldwin — married 15 Sep 1779 in Bath, Somerset, England

Died 7 Mar 1820 at about age 70 in Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Thomas Baldwin is Notable.

Biography

Thomas Baldwin was born in Somerset, England.

Thomas Baldwin was born in 1750 in Bath, Somerset, England. He was a clerk.

He did not originally hail from Bath but was first recorded in the city in 1774, where he was initially a clerk (later builder and assistant) to plumber, glazier, and politician Thomas Warr Attwood. By 1775, he was appointed as the Bath City Architect after Attwood's death.

Thomas married Elizabeth Chapman (1753 - 1839) on 15 Sep 1779 in Bath. Their daughter was Elizabeth Caroline Baldwin. ^[1]He was buried 14 Mar 1820 at St Michael, Bath, Somerset, England^[2]

The Chapmans were a local political family, and a month after his marriage he was appointed Deputy Chamberlain to the Corporation of Bath. He was again appointed to this post on 7 January 1782, and again on 6 October 1783. His salary for this post, as recorded in October 1790 was 210 pounds per annum. He began to quarrel with the Corporation and was dismissed from this post in October 1791.

He was one of the leading architects of Georgian Bath, designing some of its principal buildings, mainly in a Palladian style, with Adamesque detailing.

Thomas died on 7 Mar 1820 in Bath aged ~69.

Thomas died on 7 Mar 1820 in Bath aged ~69. in his Great Pulteney Street terrace house home, which he had designed. He was buried at St. Michael's, Bath on 14 March 1820. ^[3]

First name(s) Thomas Country England Last name Baldwin Document type Bishop's transcripts Age 70 Page 63 Birth year 1750 Archive Somerset Archives Residence Harington Place Archive reference D/D/RR 30A Death year - Event type Baptisms, marriages & burials Burial year 1820 Year range 1813-1837 Burial date 14 Mar 1820 Record set Somerset Burial Index Denomination Anglican Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Place Bath Subcategory Parish Burials Church St Michael Collections from England, Great Britain

Sources

1. ↑ https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbprs%2fsomerset%2fmar%2f001338449%2f1
2. ↑ https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbprs%2fsomerset%2fbur%2f002531558
3. ↑ Burial: "Somerset Burial Index"
   Archive: Somerset Archives; Reference: D/D/RR 30A; Page: 63
   FindMyPast Transcription (accessed 9 February 2022)
   Thomas Baldwin burial (died age 70) on 14 Mar 1820 in Harington Place, Bath, Somerset, England.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baldwin_(architect)

List of Thomas Baldwins Work

• The Guildhall, Bath (1775–1779)
• "So-called" Kitchen of King's Bath Repair, Bath (1777, demolished four years later for his re-imagined scheme)
• Northumberland Buildings, Bath (1778–1780)
• New King's Bath Pavilion, Bath (1781, demolished in the 19th Century)
• The original (now only east facade) of The Cross Bath, Bath 1784
• The Old Pump Room, Bath (1783–1784)
• Colonnade, Old Pump Room, Bath (1786)
• Hafod House, Cardiganshire (1786–1788)
• The New Private Baths, Bath (1788–1789)
• Sydney Place and Bathwick Street, Bathwick (1788–1792)
• Argyle Buildings, Bath (1789)
• Laura Place, Bath (1789)
• Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick (1789)
• Northampton Street, Bath (1791–1805), continued by John Pinch the elder and George Phillips Manners
• Union Street, Bath (1790)
• Cheap Street refronted, Bath (1790)
• Stall Street refronted, Bath (1790)
• Bath Street, Bath (1791, originally named Cross Bath Street)
• Nash Street, Bath (from Bath Street to Westgate Street)
• Hot Bath Street, Bath
• Bow Street, Bath
• The Great Pump Room's Colonnade (12 March 1790 to Summer 1791)
• The Grand Pump Room, Bath (1790–1791), finished to John Palmer's designs by the latter (1794–1794)
• Union Street, Bath (Begun 3 June 1791 on "the ground in the Bear Yard" but not completed in 1793)
• 1–4 Henrietta Street Bath (c.1795)
• Sydney Hotel, Bathwick (1796–1797) – now Holburne Museum of Art, built to a modified design by Charles Harcourt Masters within Sydney Gardens
• Bathford Church, Somerset extensions (1803, 1817)
• Town Hall, Devizes, Wiltshire (1806–1808)
• Hafod House, Cardiganshire, rebuilt after fire (1807)
• Chapel, Duchess of Somerset's Hospital, Froxfield, Wiltshire (1813 or 1814)[1]
• Rainscombe House, Oare, Wiltshire, remodelled (1816)
• The house (now demolished) at Hafod Uchtryd

References

• "Chapel to Somerset Hospital". historicengland.org.uk. English Heritage. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
• H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (1997) ISBN 0-300-07207-4
• Michael Forsyth, Bath, Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003) ISBN 0-300-10177-5
• Jane Root, "Thomas Baldwin: His Public Career in Bath, 1775–1793" (in, ed. Trevor * Fawcett. Bath History, Volume V Bath: Millstream Books Publishing Limited, 1994), 80–103.
• "Baldwin, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.