David Stephenson (architect)

David Stephenson (1757–1819) was an English architect who worked in Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland.

[2] His grander buildings are in a bold style, using honeycomb sandstone and the highest quality masonry to create an effect that foreshadows work by John Dobson, who served his architectural apprenticeship with Stephenson from 1804 to 1809.

[1][page needed] He widened the Georgian Tyne Bridge in 1802, using "an ingenious contrivance"[4] of iron cramps.

He was then appointed architect to the Duke of Northumberland,[2] for whom he designed the uncompleted New Quay development at North Shields and the Percy Tenantry Column in Alnwick.

The design was adapted from an unexecuted scheme by James Gibbs for Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, London.