Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Baldwin, Thomas

736449Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 03 — Baldwin, Thomas1885Ernest Radford

BALDWIN, THOMAS (1750–1820), was appointed city architect at Bath about the year 1775, and continued in that office till 1800. Baldwin completed, upon an improved plan, the building of the new guildhall, which had been begun in 1768. He designed the Cross baths, the portico of the great pump room, and many other public and private buildings. Some time before 1796 he was made chamberlain of Bath. He had drawings prepared, which seem not to have been published, of a Roman temple discovered near the king's bath in 1790. He died on 7 March 1820, at the age of 70.

[Dict. of Architectural Publication Society, 1853; Natte's Views in Bath, fol., London, 1806; Redgrave's Dict. of English Artists.]

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