Edward Haycock Sr.

Edward Haycock

Glynllifon, Caernarfonshire. From Nicholls "Annals and Antiquities of Wales", 1872. Vol 1, 315
Born 29 July 1790
Shrewsbury
Died 20 December 1870
Shrewsbury
Nationality British
Alma mater A pupil of Sir Jeffrey Wyattville
Occupation Architect
Practice J H and E Haycock c1815-30
Buildings Millichope, Glynllifon and Clytha Park.
Projects The planned town at Aberaeron, Ceredigion

Edward Haycock Sr. (29 July 1790 – 20 December 1870) was an architect working in the West Midlands and in Central and Southern Wales in the late Georgian and early Victorian periods.[1]

Family and Social life

He was the grandson of William Haycock (1725–1802) of Shrewsbury and the son of John Hiram Haycock (1759–1830), who were architects and building contractors. Edward Haycock Senior joined the family business after 1810 and took control of the business after his father's death in 1830. He stopped working as a building contractor around 1845 and was joined by his son Edward Haycock Junior (1829/30-1882), who continued the architectural practice until about 1880.[2] He married Mary Hatton on 13 February 1827 at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London. By her she had three sons and four daughters.[3]

Haycock also played an active part in the political life of Shrewsbury as a Conservative: he sat on the council for thirty-four years, rose to become an alderman, and served as mayor in 1842.[4] He was a friend of the Shrewsbury architect John Carline and also of Dr Robert Waring Darwin, the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin.[3]

He died on 20 December 1870 at his home, The Priory, Shrewsbury,[5] aged 80[4] and was buried in St Chad's churchyard.[3]

"Haycock Way", linking Shrewsbury's 20th century inner ring road to the Column roundabout at Abbey Foregate, is named for the family.[6]

Architectural career

Lord Hill's column, Shrewsbury 1815. Designed by Edward Haycock and modified by Thomas Harrison.

Edward Haycock received professional training in London under Sir Jeffrey Wyattville, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1808 and 1810. He then rejoined his father in the family building firm, working as builder and architect until about 1845, when he became a full-time architect. Work for the Gwynne family of Monachty led to the planning of Aberaeron. He was appointed County Surveyor of Shropshire from 1834 to 1866.

Haycock's Architectural Associations and Style

Haycock was a member of a group of architects, which included Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, Joseph Bromfield and John Carline, who established Shrewsbury as a major centre for architectural innovation in the later 18th and first half of the 19th century. This group gained many major architectural commissions in Shropshire and over much of Wales, despite competition from major London architects. Edward Haycock Snr specialised as a Gothic Revival architect.

Harbourmaster Hotel, Aberaeron

His father had used the Ionic orders very effectively on the Shrewsbury Shirehall[7] and Edward Haycock continued with the use of Ionic orders on his major projects as at Millichope Park, Glynllifon and Clytha Park.[8] His churches tend to be more pedestrian, using a simplified Gothic, often with crocketed pinnacles on the towers. A departure from this is St Catherine's, Doddington, (a suburb of Whitchurch, Shropshire) 1836-7, which has an impressive Grecian revival facade.

Edward Haycock and the laying out of Aberaeron

County Hall, Market Street, Aberaeron1833-4

Traditionally, it has been thought that the planning and layout of Aberaeron was by John Nash.[9] The town was founded following an Act of Parliament in 1807, but it appears that town did not start to be laid out until about 1830.[10] Edward Haycock was employed by Colonel A J Gwynne for supervising the building of houses and their layout in a grid plan around squares. In 1833, Samuel Lewis’s “Topographical Dictionary of Wales” records “Upwards of thirty new leases have been granted, pursuant to which several houses have been already built, and others are already in progress; a general post-office, a posting-house and an excellent hotel have been established". The Town Hall (1833–35), which later became the Cardiganshire County Hall, a typical building in Haycock’s style soon followed.[11] The building of planned town continued until the 1850s with a house in Alban Square dated 1855. The posting house mentioned by Lewis could be the Castle and the hotel could be the Harbourmaster Hotel. Haycock achieved a consistency of style throughout the project which results in the attractive appearance of Aberaeron today.

List of architectural work

Public Building and Monuments

The Music Hall, Shrewsbury by Edward Haycock

A newspaper obituary states Haycock also "obtained first prizes for plans for the Birmingham and New Orleans Infirmaries"[16] but these are not mentioned by Colvin.

Churches

Shropshire

Staffordshire

Breconshire

Cardiganshire

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Glamorgan

Merioneth

Monmouthshire

Montgomeryshire

Country Houses

Shropshire

Herefordshire

Northamptonshire

  • Kelmarsh Hall. Minor alterations 1842.[18]
  • Farthingstone Rectory. Enlarged 1842-3.[18]

Caernarfonshire

Caermarthenshire

  • Stradey Castle 1849–53.[18]

Cardiganshire

Ceredigion

  • Nanteos Portico, new dining room and new frontage to Stable block c1839-49. The original stable block appear to have been built to designs by John Nash of c1813-5.[18]

Glamorgan

Montgomeryshire

Monmouthshire

Radnorshire

  • Stanage Park. Alterations 1845.[18]

Literature

References

  1. ↑ Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, 1995, 478–481. The 4th edition, published in 2008 may contain further information.
  2. ↑ Antonia Brodie (ed) Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001, 871–2.
  3. 1 2 3 Peter Leach, 'Haycock, Edward (bap. 1790, d. 1870)', rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 He was mayor of Shrewsbury in 1842. http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=37523&back=
  4. 1 2 J. L. Hobbs, 'The Haycocks', Shropshire Magazine, 11 (Feb 1960), 17–18
  5. ↑ "Deaths (notices)". The Shrewsbury Chronicle. 23 December 1870. p. 5.
  6. ↑ Shrewsbury Local History website. The page features a photograph of Edward Sr.
  7. ↑ http://shrewsburylocalhistory.org.uk/haycock.htm
  8. ↑ J Mordaunt Crook 'The Greek Revival: Neoclassical Attitudes in British Architecture 1760–1870 John Murray 1972, 98& 102, Pls 98, 122 &135
  9. ↑ Hilling J B "The Historic Architecture of Wales: An Introduction” Univ. Wales Press,1976, 150, fig 91
  10. ↑ H.V. Pythian Adams “The Planning of Aberaeron”, Ceredigion, viii, 1979, 406–7
  11. ↑ Lloyd T et al.:"Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion: The Buildings of Wales", Yale University Press 2006, 394
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Colvin" 3rd edition, 479
  13. ↑ R Scourfield and R Haslam "The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire" Yale University Press 2013, 398
  14. ↑ Keeling-Roberts, Margaret (1981). In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary. North Shropshire Printing Company. pp. 26–27.The completion stone of the rebuild names the architect as "Edward Haycocks" (sic).
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Colvin" 3rd edition, 480
  16. ↑ "The Late Edward Haycock, Esq.". Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal. 28 December 1870. p. 5.The latter being Touro Infirmary, founded 1852.
  17. ↑ "Newman and Pevsner" 251
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Colvin" 3rd edition, 481
  19. ↑ J Newman and N Pevsner "The Buildings of England: Shropshire”, Yale 2006344-5
  20. ↑ "Sketty Hall-A Place in Local History". Retrieved 4 July 2013.
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