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22:(1807–1869) was an English architect. He trained under his father, William Hurst Ashpitel before setting up his own practice in 1842, and working in partnership with John Whichcord Jr. between 1850 and 1855. Ashpitel's works include the churches of St Barnabas, Homerton and St John the Evangelist, Blackheath.
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of a former leper hospital at Great Ilford for the Rev. James
Reynolds, with whom he had been to school, adding a porch, and a residence, and in 1858 and wrote a history of the building. In 1861 he designed a Venetian Gothic facade for a public house in Red Cross Street in the City of London,
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as "probably the first attempt to render the mediaeval style appropriate for such a business". In 1861 he rebuilt St Mary's Church,
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