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Contents
Personal life
Career
Churches
Public and private buildings
Death and legacy
References
Further reading
External links
Personal life
John Johnson was born in 1807; little is known of his life, but he enjoyed fishing, and was for ten years on the committee of the
Thames Angling Preservation Society.[1]
For some time in the 1860s, Johnson was based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk,[2] and was once the district surveyor for the London
Borough of East Hackney.[1]
Career
Churches
Johnson was a prolific designer of religious buildings and churches. In 1849 he was instructed to design the Church of St Edward the
Confessor in Romford, Essex,[3] and returned in 1864 to complete his second church in the town, St Andrew's, in what is in now the
Waterloo Estate.[4] In 1853 he took on the rebuilding of the parish church of All Saints in Beyton, Suffolk, which retained the
medieval core and tower.[5]
Johnson created the original designs for St Luke's Church, Euston Road, between 1856 and
1861. In 1866 it was dismantled and re-designed by Johnson, and re-erected as a
Congregational churchin Wanstead. The church was relocated because of the purchase of land
by the Midland Railway, which obtained an Act of Parliament in 1863 to extend its line to
London and build a new terminus, (which became St Pancras railway station) on the land
occupied by Johnson's church. It was described by Historic England as "one of few examples
of churches which have been moved and substantially reconstructed to their original form, and
by the original architect".[6]
Other religious buildings followed, including the Old Vicarage in Oakley Square, Camden, in
1861;[7] and St Andrews Church in Hertford in 1875.[8][9] One of his final churches was St
Mary's Church in Tidworth, Wiltshire, which was completed in the year in which Johnson
died. It is his only Grade I listed building.[10][11] St Edward the Confessor
Church in Romford, Essex
Kelk and Johnson worked together in 1862 as part of the Kensington Exhibition,[1]
and again on the construction of Alexandra Palace, which Johnson co-designed with
Alfred Meeson (1808–1885). The palace burnt down in 1873 and Johnson and
Meeson designed the new building which exists to this day.[12] Kelk personally
St Mary's in South Tidworth, Wiltshire
funded the project and used the contractors Charles and Thomas Lucas to construct
the property.[1]
His designs for the Town Hall in Staines, Surrey, were submitted as part of a public competition in 1878 and the building was
completed between 1879 and 1880.[15]
References
1. John Johnson (1807–1878).(http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/johnson/bio.html) Archived (https://web.arc
hive.org/web/20180127202332/http://www .victorianweb.org/art/architecture/johnson/bio.html)2018-01-27 at the
Wayback Machine. Jacqueline Banerjee, The Victorian Web, 8 December 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2018 .
2. "To Builders", Bury and Norwich Post, 22 May 1860, p. 2.
3. Historic England. "St Edward the Confessor's Church (Market Place) (1358535)"(https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listin
g/the-list/list-entry/1358535). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
4. Historic England. "Church of St Andrew (1184660)"(https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1184660)
.
National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
5. Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1032500)"(https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1032500)
.
National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
6. Historic England. "Wanstead United Reformed Church (1393337)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-e
ntry/1393337). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
7. Historic England. "The Old Vicarage and attached railings, gate& wall (1322083)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listi
ng/the-list/list-entry/1322083). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
8. Historic England. "Church of St Andrew, Hertford (1268748)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1
268748). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
9. "Hertford St Andrews: Interesting features of the present building"(https://www.hertfordstandrews.co.uk/Articles/298
304/Hertford_St_Andrews/about_us/Our_History/Interesting_features_of.aspx) . www.hertfordstandrews.co.uk.
Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20180127004442/https://www .hertfordstandrews.co.uk/Articles/298304/Hertfor
d_St_Andrews/about_us/Our_History/Interesting_features_of.aspx)from the original on 2018-01-27.
10. Historic England. "Church of St Mary (1093240)"(https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1093240)
.
National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
11. "St Mary's, South Tidworth" (http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/johnson/4.html). Victorian Web. Archived (ht
tps://web.archive.org/web/20170317125217/http://www .victorianweb.org/art/architecture/johnson/4.html)from the
original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
12. Historic England. "Alexandra Palace including former Alexandra Palace Station to North (1268256)" (https://HistoricE
ngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1268256)
. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
13. "Deaths", The Standard, 31 December 1878, p. 1.
14. 1879 Probate Calendar, p. 129. (https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar/GetImgSrc?filePath=%2F1879%2F
J%2F003166_johnson_1879.Png)
15. Historic England. "Staines Town Hall (1187053)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1187053)
.
National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
Further reading
Obituary in The Builder, 11 January 1879, pp. 53 & 137.
Obituary in The Fishing Gazette, 3 January 1879, p. 7.
External links
The Victorian Web page on John Johnson.
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