Alfred Brumwell Thomas

Alfred Brumwell Thomas

Sir Alfred Brunwell Thomas (1868-1948) was an architect born in Virginia Water, Surrey who trained at Westminster School of Art and became an exponent of the Baroque Revival, a style of architecture prevalent for public buildings in the early years of the 20th century.

In 1906, he was made a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, knighted by King Edward VII, and also designed two more public buildings: town halls in Woolwich in South East London, and the city of Belfast. [cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/coast/part1.shtml|title=Linenopolis leads the world|accessdate=2007-05-13] [cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/misc/30.html|title=City Hall, Belfest, by Alfred Brumwell Thomas|accessdate=2007-05-13] Belfast city hall, faced with portland stone and with a copper dome and lavish marble interiors, is thought of as the finest example of Edwardian Baroque in the British Isles. [cite web|url=http://www.helicon.co.uk/online/datasets/samples/uk/gazetteer.htm|title=United Kingdom and Ireland: Sample gazetteer articles|accessdate=2007-05-13]

Sir Alfred is also known for his war memorials at Dunkirk and Belfast.cite web|url=http://www.arthouse.dircon.co.uk/Arthouse/Arthouse%20NEW%20website/history.html|title=ARTHouse - History of the Building|accessdate=2007-05-13]

Notable works

* Stockport Town Hall, 1905 [cite web|url=http://www.stockport.gov.uk/content/business/regeneration/historicareasregeneration/Conservation1/conservationareas/townhall?a=5441|title=Town Hall (2005)|accessdate=2007-05-13]
* Belfast City Hall, 1906
* Woolwich Town Hall,Woolwich 1906 [cite web|url=http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.asp?index=23065&imageUID=76176|title=Woolwich Town Hall, Wellington Square, Greenwich, London|accessdate=2007-05-13]
* Deptford Public Library, 1914, a Carnegie Library

Further reading

Paul Larmour, ‘Thomas, Sir Alfred Brumwell (1868–1948)’, first published Sept 2004, Oxford University Press, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Index Number 101063145

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