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Thomas Rickman (8 June 1776 – 4 January 1841) was an English architect and architectural antiquary who was a major figure in the Gothic Revival.
Jun 4, 2024 · Thomas Rickman was a Gothic Revival architect, whose book An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture (1817) established the classification of English medieval architecture and the use of such terms as decorated and perpendicular Gothic.
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Thomas "Tom" Rickman (February 8, 1940 – September 3, 2018) was an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his work on Coal Miner's Daughter. Biography. He was born in Sharpe, Kentucky.
Thomas Rickman was born on 8 February 1940 in Sharpe, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) and Everybody's All-American (1988). He was married to Kate Hawley. He died on 3 September 2018 in the USA.
First published in 1817, this highly influential study by Thomas Rickman (1776–1841) provides a classic overview of English medieval architecture. A devotee of the Gothic style, Rickman forged a successful career as an architect of Anglican churches, in the face of criticism from his Quaker brethren.
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In 1817, the architect Thomas Rickman is one of the first to label the different styles of medieval architecture. He produces a chronology, entitled; ’An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation’.
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Rickman, Thomas (1776–1841). English architect, of great importance in the history of the Gothic Revival as he was the first (as early as 1811) to subdivide the medieval styles into ‘Norman’, ‘Early English’, ‘Decorated English’, and ‘Perpendicular English’ Gothic.
