Stuart Colman (architect)

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High Pavement Chapel, Nottingham of 1876
Former David Thomas Memorial Church, Bristol, 1881

Stuart Colman (1848 - 1 September 1941) was an architect based in Bristol and London, England

Family[]

He was born in 1848 in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Charles Frederick Colman (1816-1887) and Mary Elizabeth Mill (1824-1913).

He was educated at the Southampton School of Art.

He married Sarah Elizabeth Watson on 29 February 1876 at the Effra Road Unitarian Chapel, Brixton[1] and they had the following children:

  • Evelyn Ruth Colman (1877-1927)
  • Stuart Mill Colman (1878-1963)
  • David Robert Colman (b. 1879)
  • Harry Mill Colman (1881-1966)
  • Alan Colman (1883-1928)
  • Edna Marion H Colman (b. 1886)

He was based in Bristol at 5 Unity Street.

He died on 1 September 1941 at 28 Sherwood Road, Forest Town, Johannesburg, South Africa.

New buildings[]

  • School Board Schools in St Philip’s, Bristol 1874[2]
  • Lecture Theatre, Bristol City Museum, University Road, Bristol 1874
  • Board School, Burnham on Sea, Somerset 1875
  • House for Mrs Norris, (now Clifton High School), Clifton Park Road, Bristol 1875
  • High Pavement Chapel Nottingham 1876
  • House at Stoke Bishop, Bristol 1876
  • Wesleyan Chapel Shirehampton 1876[3]
  • Mina Road Board Schools, Bristol 1878[4]
  • Christ Church Congregational Church, Sneyd Park, Bristol 1878[5] (demolished 1962)
  • Whitehall School, Bristol 1880[6]
  • David Thomas Memorial Church (congregational), St Andrew, Bristol 1879 - 1881[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Marriages". Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser. England. 15 March 1876. Retrieved 14 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "School Board Schools in St. Philip's". Western Daily Press. England. 13 August 1874. Retrieved 14 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "The New Wesleyan Chapel at Shirehampton". Western Daily Press. England. 29 May 1876. Retrieved 14 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "Opening of the Mina Road Board Schools". Western Daily Press. England. 7 May 1878. Retrieved 14 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "A congregational chapel for Sneyd Park". Bristol Mercury. England. 9 September 1878. Retrieved 14 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Education at St. George's. Opening of a Board School at Whitehall". Bristol Mercury. England. 29 June 1880. Retrieved 14 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "David Thomas Memorial Church". Bristol Mercury. England. 30 March 1881. Retrieved 14 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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