John Loughborough Pearson R.A.
Architect of St. Theodore's Church
   

His over all sense of design, so appreciated by the Anglo-Catholic element of the Church is one of providing a setting for awe-inspiring worship to God yet also encouraging quiet individual devotion. Little wonder he was chosen by Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot to build the most magnificent and cathedral like of her many churches in memory of her brother Theodore and sister Olivia.

With St. Theodore's Church consecrated on 5th August 1897 Pearson died on 11th December 1897. His funeral and burial took place in Westminster Abbey.

Some Other Pearson Churches:
St. Anne's Ellerker, East Yorkshire (designed 1843)
St. Matthew's, Landscove, Devon (designed 1849, completed 1850).
St. Peter's Daylesford (designed 1857-9, completed 1863).
St. Peter, Vauxhall, London (designed 1860, completed 1864).
St. Augustine's, Kilburn, London (designed 1870, completed 1897).
Lincoln Cathedral - Restoration and Cathedral Architect 1870-97.
St. Michael and All Angels Croydon, London (designed 1876-7, completed 1881)
Truro Cathedral, Cornwall (designed 1878-9, built in 3 stagers and completed by Frank).
Westminster Abbey, London - Restoration and Surveyor to the Abbey 1879-97.
St. Agnes, Toxteth Park, Liverpool (designed 1882, completed 1885).
St. Stephen's, Bournemouth, Dorset (designed 1883, completed 1898)
Peterborough Cathedral - Restoration and rearrangement 1883-97.
Brisbane Cathedral, Queensland, Australia (designed 1887-9, first phase completed by Frank).
All Saint's, Hove, West Sussex (designed 1887, completed by Frank).
St. John, Friern Barnet, London (designed 1889, completed by Frank).
St. Mary, Laverstoke, Hampshire (designed 1893, completed 1895).

 
 

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