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Thomas Harrison (7 August (baptised) 1744 – 29 March 1829) was an English architect and bridge engineer who trained in Rome, where he studied classical architecture. Returning to England, he won the competition in 1782 for the design of Skerton Bridge in Lancaster.
Thomas Harrison was an English architect who flourished in the last two decades of the 18th century and the first three decades of the 19th century. Little is known of his early life, and his precise date of birth is not known.
NameLocationPhotographDateLancaster, Lancashire 54°02′56″N ...1782Added the clock tower. Now Lancaster City ...Lancaster, Lancashire 54°03′16″N ...1783–84Added the west tower and spire. [28] [29] ...Lancaster, Lancashire 54°03′16″N ...1783–87A new bridge crossing the River Lune ...Bridge HousesLancaster, Lancashire 54°03′14″N ...1786–87Built as a toll house and as houses for ...English provincial architect, he was nevertheless among the most advanced Neo-Classicists of his time, designing the Lycaeum, Bold Street, Liverpool (1800–3), the Portico Library, Mosley Street, Manchester (1802–6), and his masterpiece, the Castle, County Courts, Prison, Armoury, Barracks, Exchequer, and Propylaeum, Chester (1788–1822 ...
The library, mainly focused on 19th-century literature, was designed by Thomas Harrison, architect of Liverpool's Lyceum and built by one of the founders, David Bellhouse. Its first secretary, Peter Mark Roget, began his thesaurus here.
Thomas Harrison (7 August (baptised) 1744 – 29 March 1829) was an English architect and bridge engineer who trained in Rome, where he studied classical architecture. Returning to England, he won the competition in 1782 for the design of Skerton Bridge in Lancaster.
Harrison is considered to have been a leader of Greek Revival architecture in the northwest of England. His major surviving works in this style include the Lyceum in Liverpool, the Portico Library in Manchester, and the Commercial Newsroom in Chester.
‘Thomas Harrison, 1744-1829: Architect of Lancaster Castle’ by Peter Norris BA. Thomas Harrison was born in Richmond, Yorkshire in 1744, into a not very well off family. He was an average pupil at school, but showed some talent in mathematics and mechanics.
