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John Loughborough Pearson (1817-1897) was a 19th century architect renowned for his work in churches and cathedrals. Natural within Durham, the boy of the painter, he was at the start apprenticed to designer Ignatius Bonomi whose clergy clientele helped cause Pearson's hanker association sustaining religious architecture, particularly of the Gothic style. He sleep in central London at 13 Mansfield Street (where the blue plaque commemorates him). His boy, John A. Pearson, was a famous Toronto-based architect in the early 20th Century.
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Pearson, John Loughborough (1817-97) Brief notes on the London-based Gothic Revival architect John Pearson, designer of Truro Cathedral, Cornwall and St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, Australia, from Bob Speel. |
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