‘Improvement and embellishment united’ – the architectural scene in Thomas Rickman’s

Joseph Sharples

Thomas Rickman’s Liverpool, University of Liverpool, 19–20 May 2017 Walmsley’s Yard, Berry Street, John Walmsley, c. 1798

Castle Street, fragments of 1786 rebuilding Map of Liverpool published by J. Stockdale, 1793 (Liverpool Record Office) Map of Liverpool, J. Gore, 1814 (Liverpool Record Office) Survey of John Chorley’s premises, Hanover Street, 1810 (Liverpool Record Office)

Hanover Street, detail of watercolour by W. G. Herdman, 1857 (Liverpool Record Office) House of Thomas Parr, Colquitt Street, c. 1799 Detail from M. A. Gage, Trigonometrical Plan of the Town and Port of Liverpool (1836) Great George Square, laid out from 1800, built up from 1804 Original East façade of the Exchange (Town Hall), John Wood, 1749–54 Exchange Alley (exterior), c. 1790, watercolour by Herdman, 1859 (Liverpool Record Office) Exchange Alley (interior), c. 1790, photograph of a watercolour by Herdman, 1859 (Liverpool Record Office) House of George Dunbar, 68 Mount Pleasant, c. 1788, and detail of door lintel Villas at Everton, from R. Horwood, Plan of the Town and Township of Liverpool, 1803

View of Everton, published by J. Stockdale, 1798 (Athenaeum Library) Plan of William Perry’s property at Everton, by J. Sherriff, 1815 (Liverpool Record Office) Detail from M. A. Gage, Trigonometrical Plan of the Town and Port of Liverpool (1836) Spekelands, Edge Hill, John Foster Sen., 1802–4 (Liverpool Record Office) Houses in Duke Street, 1790s

Cottage near Liverpool for John Ashton Case, from Robert Lugar, Villa Architecture: a collection of views, with plans, of buildings executed in England, Scotland, &c, (1828). House for P. B. Ainslie, Esq., and lodge for Mr Okill, both near Liverpool, from Robert Lugar, Villa Architecture: a collection of views, with plans, of buildings executed in England, Scotland, &c, (1828) Greenbank, remodelled c. 1812–16 (Athenaeum Library) Greenbank, remodelled c. 1812–16 Heywood’s Bank, Brunswick Street, 1798–1800 Lyceum, Bold Street, Thomas Harrison, 1800–2, engraved for Lancashire Illustrated, 1828 Union News Room, Duke Street, John Foster sen., 1800 Preparing the site of Exchange Buildings, c. 1802, watercolour (Liverpool Record Office)

North wing of the Town Hall, James Wyatt, from 1788 Exchange Buildings, James Wyatt and John Foster sen., 1803–8 North elevation of Exchange Buildings (Liverpool Record Office) Exchange Buildings and Nelson Monument, from Lancashire Illustrated Nelson Monument, , Matthew Cotes Wyatt and , 1807–8 Detail from M. A. Gage, Trigonometrical Plan of the Town and Port of Liverpool (1836) St George’s Crescent and Castle Street, engraved for Lancashire Illustrated, 1831

Harrington Chambers, North John Street, c. 1830 (© Historic England) Exchange Buildings during demolition, c. 1864 (Historic England) Liverpool Town Hall Town Hall dome, James Wyatt, completed 1802 Town Hall , James Wyatt, completed 1811 St Luke’s, Bold Place, foundation stone laid 1811, completed 1831 St Nicholas’s church, tower by Thomas Harrison, 1811–15; gate by Harrison, 1818 St Nicholas’s church, detail of tower Church design, probably for Liverpool, J. M. Gandy, 1810 (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London) Church design, probably for Liverpool, J. M. Gandy, 1810 (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London) Competition design for Wellington Rooms, J. M. Gandy, 1814 (by courtesy of the Trustees of Sir ’s Museum) Wellington Rooms, engraving from Lancashire Illustrated, 1831 Wellington Rooms, Mount Pleasant, Edmund Aikin, 1814 Wellington Rooms: details Portico of Liverpool Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, 29 Rodney Street, porch by Edmund Aikin, 1817 Edmund Aikin, 1815