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Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803–82): His Yorkshire Works, Patronage and Contribution to the Catholic Revival

Penelope HarrisView further author information
Pages 175-193 | Published online: 03 Dec 2013

  • For biographies of Hansom, see Penelope Harris, The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803–1882), Designer of the Hansom Cab, Birmingham Town Hall, and Churches of the Catholic Revival (Lewiston, 2010); Denis Evinson, ‘Joseph Hansom’ (unpublished MA diss., Courtauld Institute, London University, 1966).
  • Sotheran’s Guide for Strangers and Visitors Through the City of York (York, 1852?), p. 161; Bartholomew City Guides: York (Edinburgh, 1980), pp. 300–6; Pigot & Co’.s National Commercial Dir. (1828–9), p. 1133.
  • Kenneth Clark, The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste (Trowbridge and Esher, 1978).
  • Charles L. Eastlake, A History of the Gothic Revival (Leicester, 1978), p. 348.
  • Harris, Architectural Achievement.
  • Bryan Little, Catholic Churches since 1623 (London, 1966), p. 5.
  • Joseph Gillow, A Literary and Bibliographical History or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics from the Breach with Rome in 1534 to the Present Time, iii (London, New York, 1885), 115.
  • John Harvey, York (London and Sydney, 1975), pp. 72, 73.
  • York City Archives, Acc. 260, lists of freemen.
  • Ushaw College Archives, Durham, Tate-Slater correspondence, letters 11 Feb. 1842 and 23 May 1842.
  • Builder, 1, 18 Mar. 1843, p. 65. Paternoster Row, in York, has not been certainly located.
  • Middlesbrough Diocesan Archives, letter Joseph Hansom to Rt Revd John Briggs, 13 Apr. 1842.
  • Ushaw College Archives, unpub. report by Grace McCombie, ‘Ushaw College: Chronology’ (June 2007).
  • Pigot & Co’.s National Commercial Dir. (1828–9), p. 1133.
  • A. H. Kimberlin, The Return of Catholicism to Leicester, 1746–1946 (Hinckley, 1946), p. 11.
  • J. Derek Holmes, ‘Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Catholicism in England’, Yorkshire Catholics: Essays Presented to the Rt Revd William Gordon Wheeler on the occasion of his retirement as Bishop of Leeds, ed. G. T. Bradley (1985), p. 27.
  • Judith Champ, William Bernard Ullathorne, 1806–89: A Different Kind of Monk (Leominster, 2006), p. 116.
  • Harris, Architectural Achievement, p. 10.
  • Howard Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (Yale University Press, 1978), p. 599, quoting Pevsner.
  • Lambeth Palace Lib., ICBS 01217, minute book vol. 1, p. 69; vol. 5, p. 148.
  • Yorkshire Gazette, 23 Mar. 1827.
  • YCA, Y920.Popp.
  • Architectural Mag., ii (1835), 325.
  • Lambeth Palace Lib., ICBS 00006.
  • Yorkshire Gazette, 19 May 1827.
  • Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, MGA/1828/3.
  • Michael Port, Six Hundred New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818–56 (Reading, 2006), table II, p. 110.
  • Oswald Allen, History of the York Dispensary: Containing an Account of its Origin and Progress to the Present Time (York, 1845), pp. 70–2; Katherine A. Webb, ‘One of the most useful charities in the City’: York Dispensary 1788–1988 (Borthwick Paper 74, 1988), pp. 13–14.
  • Bill Fawcett, ‘Some Notes on the Rebuilding of Acomb Parish Church’, Yorkshire Historian, 14 (1997), 56.
  • Fawcett, ‘Acomb Parish Church’, p. 53.
  • Anselm Cramer OSB, ‘St John’s Easingwold: A Sesquicentenary, 1833–1983’, Ampleforth Jnl, 89 (1984), 22.
  • R. D. Marshall, A Brief Sketch of the Origins of St John’s Catholic Church, Easingwold, near York (1945); Tablet, 8 Oct. 1870, p. 404.
  • Cramer, ‘St John’s Easingwold’, p. 23.
  • Church of England Record Centre, ECE/7/1/18273, J. H. Brondsby, vicar of Hull, to the Church Commissioners, 30 Mar. 1829.
  • Evinson, ‘Hansom’, pp. 41, 39–40.
  • CERC, CBC/7/1/3, fol. 168v, surveyor’s report, 4 Jun. 1832.
  • CERC, CBC/7/1/3, fols 170r, 171r.
  • Hull Packet and Humber Mercury, 17 Mar. 1829.
  • York Herald and General Advertiser, 19 Dec. 1829; Hull Packet, 15 Dec. 1829.
  • CERC, CBC/7/1/3, fol. 188r, surveyor’s report, 22 Jan. 1833.
  • Bulmer’s History and Dir. of North Yorks. (Preston, 1890), p. 514.
  • Harris, Architectural Achievement, pp. 25–36.
  • Leics., Leic. and Rutland RO, DG39/2026/4, Hansom’s estimate of works, 20 Mar. 1840.
  • Tablet, 13 Nov. 1841, p. 744.
  • MDA, St George’s Parish, York, file, Hansom to Rt Revd John Briggs, 13 Apr. 1842.
  • MDA, St George’s Parish, York, file, Hansom to Briggs, 13 Apr. 1842.
  • MDA, Hansom to Revd Mr Newsham, 10 May 1842. Revd Matthew Newsham was related to Charles Newsham, President of Ushaw College.
  • MDA, Hansom to Briggs, 18 May 1842.
  • The Collected Papers of A. W. N. Pugin, 1830–42, 1, ed. Margaret Belcher, p. 324, n. 1.
  • The Times, 23 May 1842.
  • MDA, Hansom to Briggs, 18 May 1842.
  • Belcher, Collected Papers of Pugin, 1, pp. 324, 326.
  • Rosemary Hill, God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (London, 2007), p. 306.
  • Dominique Minskip, A New History of St Wilfrid’s Mission York (1742 to the Present) (Middlesbrough, 2008), pp. 13, 14.
  • MDA, four site plans dated 1842, no. 3603.
  • Minskip, St Wilfrid’s, p. 15.
  • Birmingham City Archives, Hardman letters, Pugin to Hardman, 12 Jun. 1848.
  • Hill, God’s Architect, p. 354.
  • David Wilde, George of Beanhills (York, 1982), p. 38.
  • Frances Finnegan, Poverty and Prejudice: A Study of Irish Immigrants in York, 1840–75 (Cork, 1982), p. 1.
  • Minskip, St Wilfrid’s, p. 19.
  • York Herald and General Advertiser, 7 Sept. 1850, p. 6.
  • Michael Fisher, Hardman of Birmingham: Goldsmith and Glasspainter (Ashbourne, 2008), p. 16.
  • Penelope Harris, ‘J. A. Hansom and E. W. Pugin at St Wilfrid, Ripon: A Division of Labour?’, True Principles: Jnl of the Pugin Society, iv, iii (Spring 2012), 265.
  • Evinson, ‘Hansom’, p. 203; George Pace, ‘Victorian Architecture in York’, York and East Yorks. Architectural Soc. Year Book (1956–57), p. 22.
  • House of Lords Record Office, undated letter from A. W. N. Pugin, no. 578; Wilde, Beanhills, p. 41.
  • Minskip, St Wilfrid’s, p. 18.
  • Newcastle Courant, 13 Sept. 1850.
  • Leeds Diocesan Archives, unreferenced extract from conveyance, 18 Nov. 1850.
  • Yorkshire Gazette, 12 Jul. 1851.
  • Leeds Mercury, 28 May 1853; Builder, 11 (1853), 358.
  • Bernard W. Kelly, Historical Notes on English Missions (London, 1995 [1907]), p. 243.
  • BCA, Charles Hansom to John Hardman, 25 Nov. 1853.
  • J. Lenders, Minsteracres (Rochdale, 1932).
  • W. W. Morrell, The History of Selby (London and Selby, 1867), p. 148.
  • Sisters of Notre Dame Convent, Liverpool, Sister Mary of St Francis (Laura Petre) collection, Box 3, letter Fr John Rigby to the Hon. Mrs Petre, 9 Apr. 1855.
  • Leeds Mercury and Bristol Mercury, 10 Mar 1855.
  • SNDC, Petre, Box 3, Rigby to Petre, 28 Jan 1855.
  • SNDC, Petre, Box 3, Petre to Hansom, 23 Jan. 1855.
  • SNDC, Petre, Box 3, Rigby to Petre, 28 Jan. 1855.
  • SNDC, Petre, Box 3, Rigby to Petre, 28 Jan. 1855.
  • SNDC, Petre, Box 3, Rigby to Petre, 15 Feb. 1855.
  • SNDC, Petre, Box 3, Rigby to Petre, 9 Apr. 1855.
  • SNDC, Petre, Box 3, Rigby to Petre, 22 Jan. 1856.
  • Pall Mall Gazette, Jun. 1866.
  • Harry Speight, Romantic Richmondshire: Being a Complete Account of the History, Antiquities and Scenery of the Picturesque Valleys of the Swale and York (London, 1897), p. 345.
  • Penelope Harris, ‘A Nomadic Mission: The Northern Works of the Catholic Architect J. A. Hansom (1803–82)’, Northern Catholic Hist., 50 (2009), 35–6.
  • Kelly’s Dir. North and East Riding of Yorks. (1897), p. 43.
  • Frank Dobson, The Life and Times of George Silvertop of Minsteracres (Newcastle, 2004), p. 174.
  • BCA, five letters, Hansom to Hardman, between 7 Jul. 1862 and 4 Oct. 1962 refer to windows at Lartington.
  • Hildebrand Lane Fox, Chronicles of a Wharfedale Parish (Fort Augustus, 1909), p. 52.
  • Lane Fox, Chronicles, p. 53.
  • Catholic Annual Register for the Year ended Jun 30, 1850 (London, 1850), p. 117.
  • Pace, ‘Victorian Architecture’, p. 20.
  • Joseph Mordaunt Crook, The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-Modern (Chicago, 1987), p. 133.
  • Builder, 20 (1862), 356.
  • Ripon and Richmond Chronicle, 26 Apr. 1862.
  • Tablet, 26 Nov. 1864, p. 763.
  • Harris, ‘Hansom and Pugin’, p. 265, fn. 27.
  • Cuthbert Almond, The History of Ampleforth Abbey: From the Foundation of St Lawrence’s at Dieulouard to the Present Time (London, 1903), p. 346.
  • Evinson, ‘Hansom’, p. 238.
  • Ampleforth Jnl, 37 (1931), 25.
  • Wilde, Beanhills, p. 39.
  • Archives of the Monastery of Poor Clares, Much Birch, Hereford.
  • Almond, Ampleforth Abbey, p. 346.

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