James Whitton | |
|---|---|
 The Lumley, Skegness 1878 | |
| Born | c.1819 |
| Died | 2 February 1903 Poulton-le-Fylde |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings | The Turkish Swimming Baths, Skegnes |
| Projects | The design and layout of Skegness 1878-80 for the Earl of Scarbrough. |
James Whitton was an architect and surveyor who worked in Lincoln, Lincolnshire from about 1846 to 1886. His most notable project was the design and layout of Skegness as a holiday resort for Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough.
James Whitton started work around 1846 for the Lincoln architect William Adams Nicholson and after Nicholson's death in 1853 he continued to work for Michael Drury. In 1863 he set up his own practice at 27 Monks’ Road, Lincoln, when he described himself as Architect, Surveyor and House Agent. [1] Later that year he moved the business to 22 Silver Street, Lincoln, [2] where he remained until moving to 22, Newland Lincoln. By 1880 he was at 7 Tentercroft Street, Lincoln [3] and in 1886 he retired and sold the contents of his house by auction. [4] He died, aged 84, at Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire on 2 February 1903. [5]
Initially most of Whitton's work was in Lincoln and between 1866 and 1882, he submitted forty applications for the construction of new buildings to the City of Lincoln Council. [6] His business seems to have taken off after 1878 when he started supervising of the construction work required for the new resort of Skegness and during the following years he was occupied by the design and contraction of many of the new buildings. Apart from working in Lincoln and Skegness, he is also known to have been the architect for the parsonage at Stallingborough in Lincolnshire and a farmhouse and farm cottages in Hanslope in Buckinghamshire. His buildings were in a High Victorian style, sometimes using decorative Minton tiles on the frontages of the houses he designed.
Skegness started to develop as holiday resort after the opening of Skegness station on 28 July 1873. In 1876 Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough to commissioned George Booth Walker, a surveyor from Wainfleet to produce an initial plan for the resort. [7] The resort then appears to have been developed by Whitton on a grid plan to the north of the high street and to the north east of the railway station with the sea to the east. [8]
It appears that the Lincolnshire Show was designed and laid out by James Whitton in the 1870s and early 1880s. [9]
Kime, W. (1986), The Book of Skegness, Ingoldmells, Addlethorpe and Chapel St Leonards, Barracuda Books, Buckingham. Robinson, D.N. (1983) The Book of the Lincolnshire Seaside p. 66.
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