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John Tarring

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Tarring designed at least one church building in Ireland, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cork, (1861) in a Gothic style with a distinctive spire. The interior has a gallery to the rear with a pipe organ installed there in 1904 and seats for a choir, typical of Roman Catholic churches of the locality,
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although it may have been intended originally to provide free seating for those unable to afford pew rents; the rest of the interior with a central pulpit, no central aisle and no pillars may reflect Tarring's work on non conformist churches and chapels in the South of England.
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church in London, and is thought to have influenced the Baptists and Congregationalists to begin building churches in the Gothic style. Most of his commissions were nonconformist churches, although he had one remodelling commission of an Anglican chapel.
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Thornton Hall (now Thornton College), Buckinghamshire. Restoration and additions, including a new wing, and a new front to the main building. Tarring's work at Thornton, for the Hon. Richard Cavendish, was begun in
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Horbury Congregational Chapel, Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate (1848–9). Closed in 1935 and renamed Kensington Temple, owned first by the Church of the Foursquare Gospel and then by the Elim Pentecostal
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Chelsea Congregational Church, Markham Square, Chelsea (1858–60). With a spire 138 feet (42 m) tall. It was designed to accommodate 1,150 adult worshippers, and had schoolrooms attached.
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Westminster Chapel, Buckingham Gate (1841). Erected by the Metropolitan Chapel Fund Association. Demolished and replaced by the present building by W.F. Poulton in 1865.
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Tarring worked principally in London. His firm was variously known as "John Tarring, Esq.," "Tarring & Jones," and "J. Tarring & Son." His son
1153: 1178: 19: 353: 68:, and worked there as a carpenter or plasterer until moving to London in 1828. He studied at Brown's academy in Wells Street, and obtained a 812: 52: 380:"Tottenham Court Road (west side), Survey of London: volume 21: The parish of St Pancras part 3: Tottenham Court Road & neighbourhood" 1163: 951: 881: 790: 698: 667: 636: 36:(1806–1875) was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in the mid-nineteenth century. Based in London, he designed many 501: 292: 517: 199:
Ealing Broadway Methodist Church, Ealing (1868). Designed in collaboration with Charles Jones. Now a Polish Roman Catholic church.
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A Series of Executed Examples of Ecclesiastical and Domestic Structures, from the Designs of Modern Architects
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Antonia Brodie; British Architectural Library; Royal Institute of British Architects (20 December 2001).
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medal for a measured drawing. He became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1845.
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Congregational Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, London (1872). Demolished 1969.
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He returned to Devon, and died at Torquay on 27 December 1875. He is buried at
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Mansion Block, Queen's Gate, Hyde Park, London, in an Italianate style (1860).
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of the Dissenters", he was the first architect to design a spire for a
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Trinity Presbyterian Church, Summer Hill, Cork City, Ireland (1860–5).
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Congregational Church, Grafton Square, Clapham (1851–2). Demolished.
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Bethnal Green Meeting House, formerly Pott Street Chapel (1849).
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Free Church, Market Place, St Ives, Huntingdonshire (1863).
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Southernhay Congregational (now United Reformed) Church,
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United Reformed Church, High Street, Lewisham (1867).
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Vines Congregational Church, Rochester, Kent (1854).
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Index


Congregational Memorial Hall
FRIBA
Gothic Revival
Nonconformist

Holbeton
Plymouth
Royal Academy
Gilbert Scott
nonconformist
George Whitefield
Tottenham Court Road
Combermere Abbey
Kensal Green Cemetery
Akeley
Weybridge United Reformed Church
Weybridge
Hampstead
Great Malvern
Brixton
Exeter
Stamford Hill
Enfield
Downe
Old Town Hall, Paignton


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