James Sandby Padley | |
|---|---|
 The Old Police Station, High Street, Barton on Humber by J.S.Padley. | |
| Born | 1792 |
| Died | 1881 Skegness, Lincolnshire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Architect |
James Sandby Padley was an English surveyor, architect and civil engineer who worked in Lincoln, England. He was county surveyor for the Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire from 1825 to 1881, and was also noted for his interest in antiquarian studies.
Padley claimed to have been the illegitimate son of the Rev. Charles Sandby, the younger son of a wealthy London banker, who lived in Partney, Lincolnshire between 1791 and 1794, having been "rusticated" from Oxford for having had an affair, and Elizabeth Padley, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Padley (née Hill) of East Kirkby. [1] Padley received training as a surveyor under Captain Stevens of the Royal Engineers between 1819 and 1820 while working on the initial survey of the Ordnance Survey in Lincolnshire. He then undertook the survey of the estates of Charles Chaplin near Louth and this was followed by surveys of the Temple Bruer Estate and Blankney Fen for Chaplin. Followed the death of William Hayward, probably in 1825, Chaplin was to recommend him for the post of Surveyor for County Bridges of the Parts of Lindsey and Surveyor of Sewers for the Lincoln District. He was to hold these positions until his death in 1881. He also became surveyor to the Lincoln Turnpike Trusts. [2] Padley worked from premises at 29 Broadgate, Lincoln. Before his death he had been in partnership with James Thropp. Thropp continued the practice until 1901, when he was joined by George Robinson Harding. The practice then continued as Thropp and Harding.
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Padley collected of topographical papers and formed a collection of antiquities including Roman amphorae, pottery and a sword). He also showed his skill as an artist in a variety of commissions, and his drawings of the Witham Shield and Newport Arch are noteworthy. From the 1840s he completed accomplished sketches of a number of old buildings in the county. [3] In later life his business success appears to have limited the time Padley devoted to his antiquarian interests, although a few days before his death in 1881, he completed the manuscript for his major work The Fens and Floods of mid-Lincolnshire, with a description of the river Witham, in its neglected state before 1762, and its improvements up to 1825, which was published the following year. [4] In 1851 he published Selections from the Ancient Monastic, Ecclesiastical and DomesticEdifices of Lincolnshire. This contains meticulous drawings of seven Medieval Lincolnshire buildings. These were The Greyfriars or Mechanics Institute in Lincoln, St Benedict's Church in Lincoln, the Vicars Choral Buildings in the Lincoln Minster yard, Monk's Abbey in Lincoln, the Whitefriars, High Street, Lincoln, Somerton Castle and Temple Bruer Preceptory. The engraved prints in this publication are invaluable for the amount of information they contain about the state that they were in at the time, and particularly for the half-timbered Whitefriars, which has been much altered. [5]
Lincolnshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to the north, the North Sea to the east, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to the south-west, the south and the south-east, and Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire to the west. The county town is Lincoln.
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Bardney is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,643 at the 2001 census increasing to 1,848 at the 2011 census. The village sits on the east bank of the River Witham and 9 miles (14 km) east of Lincoln.
Temple Bruer Preceptory is a historic building in the civil parish of Temple Bruer with Temple High Grange, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is one of the few Knights Templar sites left in England where any ruins remain standing. Its name comes from its Templar ownership and its position in the middle of the Lincoln Heath, bruyère (heather) from the French language current at the time. It was founded in the period 1150 to 1160 and the order was dissolved in 1312. The site is located between the A15 and A607 roads, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north from Cranwell. The site has been excavated twice, firstly by the Rev Dr. G. Oliver, the rector of Scopwick in 1832–3, and in 1908 by Sir William St John Hope.
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Lincolnshire is a large county in England with a sparse population distribution, which leads to problems funding all sorts of transport. The transport history is long and varied, with much of the road network still based on the Roman model, and the once extensive rail network a shadow of its former self.
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The Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway was an early British railway company which existed between 1845 and 1847 with the intention of providing rail services between Grimsby, New Holland and Gainsborough in the county of Lincolnshire. It amalgamated with the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway, the three being renamed the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1847.
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Edward James Willson was an English architect, antiquary, architectural writer, and mayor of Lincoln in 1851–2.
Great Limber is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 271. It is on the A18, 8 miles (13 km) west from Grimsby and 8 miles east from Brigg.
Withham Preceptory, one of the smallest Knights Templar preceptories in England, was founded, before 1164, at Temple Hill, near South Witham, Lincolnshire, and was abandoned in the early 14th century. The site of the former preceptory at Temple Hill, South Witham. It 'has been largely under pasture' since the Knights Templar left in 1308.
Thropp and Harding were surveyors and an architectural practice in Lincoln working from 1 James Street and 29 Broadgate, Lincoln. James Thropp was initially in partnership with James Sandby Padley until 1881 He then worked on his own until 1901. Between 1891 and 1896, the Lincoln architect Herbert Henry Dunn was his assistant and at the same time, 1891–6, George Robinson Harding, was articled to him. In 1901 Thropp and Harding formed a partnership which was dissolved in Oct 1921. The architectural practice continued under Harding until after the Second World War. Thropp was a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and was surveyor to the Lindsey County Council. In 1883 Thropp published a 3rd edition of Padley's large scale survey of Lincoln. James Thropp of 27 Bailgate died 8 September 1923