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John Hayward (1807–1891) was a Gothic Revival architect based in Exeter, Devon, who gained the reputation as "the senior architect in the west of England".

Biography edit

John Hayward was born in London on 26 September 1807, the son of a 'house and ornament painter', John Pearson Hayward and Frances Barry and related to Sir Charles Barry, the designer of the Palace of Westminster, with whom he served as pupil.^[1]

He was an accomplished painter and draughtsman; by 1826, he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy and, by 1834, he had left Barry and set up practice in Cathedral Yard, Exeter, Devon.^[2]

Hayward was official architect of The Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society,^[3] which meant that all new designs for the churches in the Exeter Diocese passed through him for approval, and a member of Cambridge Camden Society, later The Ecclesiological Society.

So popular was his work on local churches that St Andrew's, Exwick^[4] was described by The Ecclesiologist in July 1842, as the "best specimen of modern church we have yet seen."^[5]

This accolade soon led to further work; in Scotland, Lady Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot, the Marchioness of Lothian, commissioned Hayward to design St John's Church, Jedburgh in 1844,^[6] and in Oxfordshire he designed St. James' Church in Little Milton, Oxfordshire, to which he added the west tower in 1861.

But probably his most famous design was for The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.^[7] which opened in 1868 as a practical memorial to Prince Albert, and is the largest museum in the city.

Whilst many of his designs were for religious use, he also designed schools and worked on other buildings, including The Hall, Pembroke College, Oxford, (1844)^[8] which Nikolaus Pevsner described as "the most ambitious of all halls except Wolsey's" at Christ Church College,^[9] and Exeter Prison^[10] on New North Road, Exeter, which was based upon the plans of the new model prison at Pentonville.

Hayward died on 7 May 1891. His son, Pearson Barry Hayward,^[11] worked under him, but died before his father in 1888;^[12] their practice was known as Messrs Hayward & Son.

Work edit

Work, including restoration, undertaken by John Hayward and his practice includes:

In Cornwall edit

All Saints, Herodsfoot^[13]
All Saints, Tuckingmill, Camborne
Holy Trinity, Carnmenellis
St Cleder, St Clether

In Devon edit

St Andrew, Exwick
St Mary, Bickleigh^[14]
St Mary, Bicton^[15]
St Michael, Sowton
St Mark, Dawlish
St David, Exeter
St Mary Arches, Exeter
St Andrew, Halberton
St Gregory, Harpford
St John the Baptist, Holcombe Burnell
St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear
St Mary Magdalene, Monkton
St Michael, Mumsbury
St Michael, Beer^[16]
St Mary, Appledore, Northam
St Mary, Rockbeare
St Mary, Whimple
St Mary the Virgin, Woolfardisworthy, Mid Devon
St Swithun, Sandford
St Peter, Uplowman
St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter^[17]
St John The Evangelist, Tipton St John^[18]
Holy Trinity, Ilfracombe^[19]
St Philip and St James, Ilfracombe^[20]
Paschoe House, Crediton^[21]
All Saints, Okehampton
St Bridget, Bridestowe
Holy Trinity, Buckfastleigh
Holy Trinity, Burrington
St Eustachius' Church, Tavistock^[22]
St Peter, Twitchen
St Mary, Uffculme^[23]
Crediton Parish Church^[24]
St Michael and All Angels, Alphington^[25]
St Luke's College, Exeter University^[26]
The Exeter Diocesan Training School, now part of St. Luke's Campus
All Hallows on the Wall, Exeter (since demolished)
Queen Elizabeth School, Crediton^[27]
Hele's School, Exeter^[28]
The New Buildings, Blundell's School, Tiverton^[29]
Blundell's School chapel, Tiverton
The High School for Girls, Exeter. Renamed in 1912 as The Maynard School.^[30]^[31]
All Saints chapel, Bradfield, Uffculme
The Board School, Dawlish^[32]
Holcombe Court, Holcombe Rogus
The Halford Wing, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Southernhay, Exeter, Devon^[33]
Ashbury House, Ashbury, Devon (since demolished).^[33]

In Jersey edit

St Mark, Saint Helier
St Luke, Saint Saviour
St George, Saint Ouen^[34]
St Ouen, St Ouen
Victoria College, St Helier
Natwest Bank, Library Place, St Helier

Elsewhere edit

St Michael, Milverton, Somerset^[35]
St Peter, Walgrave, Northamptonshire
St James, Little Milton, Oxfordshire^[36]
St. John, Jedburgh, Scottish Borders^[6]
The Hall, Pembroke College, Oxford^[8]
The New Buildings of 1846 (since renamed the Robert Stevens building), Pembroke College, Oxford

Gallery edit

Victoria College at St Helier, Jersey
Bank building in Library Place, Saint Helier, Jersey – built in 1873 by John Hayward for Jersey Banking Company
Blundell's School new buildings completed in 1882
The Hall, Chapel Quad, Pembroke College, Oxford
St Mary, Appledore, Devon
All Saints at Herodsfoot, Cornwall
St. St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear, Devon
North Cloisters, St Luke's Campus
Bradfield House, the South front and service wing, added by Hayward in the 1860s
Holcombe Court, the North and West fronts were added by Hayward in 1863.^[37]
St Mary, Bicton, Devon. Built for the Rolle family in 1850.
St James' Little Milton, Oxfordshire.
St Thomas the Apostle, St Thomas, Exeter

References edit

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^ "St Andrew's Church - Exwick". Exeter Memories. 31 July 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
^ Stanton, P.B. (1997). The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture: An Episode in Taste, 1840–1856. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 128. ISBN 9780801856228. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Jedburgh, The Pleasance, St John The Evangelist's Episcopal Church | ScotlandsPlaces". scotlandsplaces.gov.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
^ "About RAMM | RAMM, Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery". Archived from the original on 30 March 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b Salter, HE; Lobel, Mary D, eds. (1854), "Pembroke College", A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3, the University of Oxford. British History Online, London, pp. 288–297, retrieved 12 December 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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^ "Tavistock". Dorset County Chronicle. England. 26 June 1845. Retrieved 27 September 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Church History – St Mary's Uffculme". stmarysuffculme.org.uk. Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ "A Short History". Crediton Parish Church. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
^ David Cornforth. "Exeter Memories – St Michael's, Alphington". exetermemories.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ "Graduate School of Education". University of Exeter. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ "BBC – Devon – Discover Devon – Home Town – Crediton". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ "Former Hele's School". Historic England. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
^ "Classic View" (PDF). Blundell's Diary. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016.
^ The British architect: a journal of architecture and the accessory arts, Volume 30
^ "Bradfield House, Uffculme". Historic England. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
^ "Dawlish in White's Directory of 1878". devonheritage.org. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b "The Building News and Engineering Journal". 1891.
^ Lemprière, R. (1980). Buildings and Memorials of the Channel Islands. Hale. ISBN 9780709181361. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
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