Thomas Bower

Biddulph Grange

Sandbach Town Hall

Sandbach Town Hall

Thomas Bower (1838–1919) was an English architect and surveyor based in Nantwich, Cheshire.^[1] He worked in partnership with at the Nantwich firm Bower & Edleston, which he founded in 1854.^[2][3] He is particularly associated with the Gothic Revival style of architecture.^[4]

In 1883, Bower was living at 140–142 Hospital Street in Nantwich.^[5] In 1914, he and Edleston had offices at Bank Chambers on Churchyard Side in the town square.^[6]

Works[]

Bower's buildings include:

• St Philip's Church, Kelsall (1860)^[7][8][9]
• Lamb Hotel (now Chatterton House), Hospital Street, Nantwich (1861)^[2]
• Spurstow School, Spurstow (1872)^[10]
• Barclays Bank, 11 Churchyard Side, Nantwich (1876)^[11][12][13]
• Free Library (now Nantwich Museum), Nantwich (1888)^[14]
• Sandbach Town Hall (1889)^[15][16][17]
• Vicarage, Narrow Lane, Crewe Green (1889)^[18][19][20]
• Remodelling of 148 Hospital Street, Nantwich (1890s)^[21]
• Petton Hall, Petton, Shropshire^[22]
• Biddulph Grange, Biddulph, Staffordshire (1896)^[23]
• Alterations to Crewe Hall, Crewe Green (1896)^[18][24][25]
• Drinking fountain, Sandbach (1897)^[26][27]

References[]

Sources[]

• Hall, J. A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester (2nd ed.) (E. J. Morten, 1972) (ISBN 0-901598-24-0)
• Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Edward Hubbard & Nikolaus Pevsner. The Buildings of England: Cheshire (Yale University Press; 2011) (ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6)
• Newman, J. & Pevsner, N. Shropshire (Yale University Press, 2006) (ISBN 0300120834)
• Pevsner, N. & Hubbard, E. The Buildings of England: Cheshire (Penguin, 1971) (ISBN 0 14 071042 6)