JOHN MIDDLETON Victorian, Provincial Architect by Brian E Torode
I have lived in Cheltenham for forty years and have been associated with St Stephen’s Church, Tivoli, for most of that period. This church was designed by the architect, John Middleton in 1873 and when co-writing the history of the church to commemorate the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone in 1973, I was puzzled by the lack of information that I was able to access about Middleton the man. Continue reading
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MIDDLETON AND SON, ARCHITECTS by Brian E Torode
A more detailed version of Brian’s book is available here. Continue reading
CHELTENHAM LADIES’ COLLEGE – Development of the Bayshill Site by Brian Torode
A time-line of the development of the site by John Middleton and his successors. Continue reading
SOME CHELTENHAM BUILDINGS – mainly designed by John Middleton and William Hill Knight, by Brian Torode
A selection of lesser-known Cheltenham buildings designed by John Middleton, William Hill Knight and others, including St John’s Lodge in Tivoli Circus, Dorothea Beale’s house, St Hilda’s College, Western Road, The Ladies’ College Sanatorium, Westholme, Eastholme, Dewerstone, and Cheltenham College Boarding Houses Hazelwell, Leconfield and Cheltondale. Continue reading
MIDDLETON AND ST DAVID’S COLLEGE, LAMPETER by Brian Torode
Due to the increasing number of students, the Council of St David’s College, Lampeter, decided in 1884 that more accommodation was needed…The new block of buildings which Messrs Middleton, Prothero and Phillot of Cheltenham have designed … will contain two spacious lecture rooms, a physical laboratory, twenty one double sets of dwelling rooms with offices and will cost without fittings, about £6,000. Continue reading
