John Palmer (Bath architect) facts for kids

John Palmer (c. 1738 – 19 July 1817) was an English architect who worked on some of the notable buildings in the city of Bath, Somerset, UK. He succeeded Thomas Baldwin as City Architect in 1792. He died in Bath.

Some works

• St James' Church, Bath, on Stall Street (1768–1769, demolished for the Marks & Spencer building)
• St James's Parade (1768)
• Cottles House, now Stonar School, Atworth, Wiltshire (1775)
• Church of St Swithin, Bath, The Paragon, Bath (1777–1780)
• Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset (1785)
• Lansdown Crescent, Bath, and the adjacent Lansdown Place West and Lansdown Place East (1789-1793)
• Cross Bath remodelled by Palmer after work by Thomas Baldwin (1789)
• Grand Pump Room, Bath, begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin who resigned in 1791; Palmer continued the scheme
• St George's Place (c.1790)
• Cumberland House, Norfolk Crescent, Bath (c. 1790–1800, continued by John Pinch after 1810)
• Park Street (1790-1793)
• 1-8, Bath Street (1791-1794)
• Nelson Place West, Bath (c. 1800–1820, continued by John Pinch after 1810)
• Stall Street, Bath (c. 1790–1800)
• St James's Square, Bath (1791–1794)
• St James's Street (1791)
• 6-9, Abbey Church Yard (1790s)
• Royal Mineral Water Hospital additions, Bath (1793)
• Kensington Chapel, London Road, Walcot, Bath (1794)
• Kensington Place, Bath, London Road, Walcot, Bath (1795)
• 10, Abbey Church Yard (c.1795)
• Christ Church, Bath (1798)
• Theatre Royal, Bath (1804–1805), designed by George Dance the Younger and erected by Palmer
• New Bond Street, Bath (1805–1807)