Archibald Matthias Dunn

Archibald Matthias Dunn
Archibald Matthias Dunn
Born 1832
Wylam in Northumberland
Died 17th January 1917
Branksome Park, in Bournemouth
Nationality English
Alma mater Ushaw College and Stonyhurst College
Awards President of the Northern Architectural Association
Work
Practice Dunn and Hansom
Buildings Downside Abbey transepts

Archibald Matthias Dunn FRIBA, JP, (1832 – 17 January 1917) born in Wylam in Northumberland, was with his partner Edward Joseph Hansom, among the foremost Catholic architects in North East England during the Victorian era.[1]

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Biography

His father was Matthias Dunn, a Mining Engineer and Manager and one of the first Government Inspectors of Mines for the North East of England. Archibald Dunn was educated at Ushaw College and Stonyhurst College. He then went to Bristol to be apprenticed to architect Charles Francis Hansom, the younger brother of Joseph Aloysius Hansom, the inventor of the Hansom cab and founder of The Builder. It was here that Dunn met his future partner Edward Joseph Hansom, the son of his employer, Charles Francis Hansom.[1]

Their principal works in North East England include the tower and spire of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne, and the church of St. Michael in Elswick, Tyne and Wear. Dunn was also a prominent local landowner. Across the valley from Prudhoe is Castle Hill House (1878-9), which he designed and built as his own home in Wylam, where he had been born. Previously he had lived in Gateshead, where he was an Alderman, Mayor and a Justice of the Peace for County Durham. In 1870 was Dunn was President of the Northern Architectural Association.[1]

In 1862 Dunn married Sara Armstrong, an authoress. They both enjoyed travel, and in 1886 Dunn published a book entitled ‘Notes and Sketches of an Architect', which was a collection of sketches made in France, Germany, Spain and England.

Dunn retired between 1883 – 87, with his architectural firm later becoming Dunn, Hansom & Fenwicke.[2] In 1901 the Dunns moved to Wood House, Branksome Park, in Bournemouth, where he died on 17th January 1917 aged 85.

Buildings designed by Dunn

1854 Saint Mary’s RC Church, Blackhill

1858 National School, Blythe

1858 St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Hexham

1858 St. Joseph’s RC Church, Gateshead

1860 St Anthony of Padua RC Church, Walker, Newcastle

1858 Our Lady and St Wilfrid RC Church, Blythe

1869 St George’s RC Church, Bells Close, Lemington

1873 Saint Dominic’s RC Church, Newcastle

18?? St. Nicholas’ Cemetery, Newcastle.

1868 Prudhoe Hall, Prudhoe

1868 Mining Institute/Wood Memorial Hall, Newcastle

1878 Castle Hill House, Wylam.

Dunn & Hansom

1860 Spire of Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Newcastle.

1882 Alterations to Pugin’s Chapel, Ushaw

1876 Saint Matthew’s School (mainly Hansom), South Road, Prudhoe

Dunn, Hansom & Dunn

1885 Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge[3]

1887 Medical School, Northumberland Road, Newcastle

1887-1937 Durham University College of Medicine; housed the Dental School of the University of Durham 1945-78; and from 1978, housed the Law School of the University of Northumbria

1891 St Michael’s RC Church, Westmorland Rd, Newcastle

1891 Our Lady and St Cuthbert RC Church, Prudhoe

1893 St Joseph’s RC Church, Hartlepool.

References

  1. ^ a b c [1] Short biography of Dunn
  2. ^ [2] Dunn & Hansom Architectural Practice
  3. ^ Wilkins, P. S. 'The Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge' 1st edn. Cambridge University Press (1955)

Johnson, Michael A., 'The architecture of Dunn & Hansom of Newcastle' (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: University of Northumbria, MA Dissertation, 2003)

Johnson, Michael A., 'Architects to a Diocese: Dunn and Hansom of Newcastle' in Northern Catholic History, No.49, 2008, pp3–17.

Johnson, Michael A., ‘English Gothic, Early Perpendicular Style’ in Zeilinski, P. (2007) The Church That Moved. Hebburn: Smith Bros.

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