| John
Loughborough Pearson 1817-1897
 Pearson
was one of the most prominent of the architects who built so many fine
Gothic revival churches in the 19th Century. Thurstaston was fortunate
in the generosity of the Hegan family, and the services of so distinguished
an architect. Pearson lies today in the nave of
Westminster Abbey alongside
Charles Barry,
George Gilbert Scott and
George Edmund Street, three other
great exponents of Victorian Gothic revival architecture..
Born in Durham he was not
formally trained but worked instead for ten years in the office of
Ignatius Bonomi. His first commission was a small chapel in Brantigham, Nr
Brough, Yorkshire. Other commissions followed and soon he was fluent
in his 'small cathedral' gothic style. Much of his work continued in
the North of England. Then in the late 1850s he was receiving
commissions in London, up to the end of the 1870s. In the 1880s
commissions came from the North again and Thurstaston Parish Church was
completed in 1885.
Pearson's greatest commission
was
Truro
Cathedral built between 1880 and 1910, although the cloisters were never
finished. |
