James Savage (architect)

He was architect to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, and carried out restoration work at Lincoln Cathedral and St Mary-le-Bow.

Savage exhibited his design for the new location as Richmond Bridge forming the approach to the Four Courts, Dublin at the Royal Academy in 1809.

[2] Charles Locke Eastlake, writing in the 1870s, described it as "probably the only church of its time in which the main roof was groined throughout in stone", but criticised the building for its "machine made look" and " the cold formality of its arrangement".

[4] Savage originally intended the tower to have an open spire, like that of Wren's St Dunstan-in-the-East, but this was forbidden by the Board of Trade.

He told the committee that he had used the same principles in designing the arches that he had in the vaults of St Luke, Chelsea, where, he said, there had not been "the slightest settlement in any part of the building, nor even a thread opening in any of the joints of the courses to indicate any strain or inequality of pressure."

[2] In 1825, he drew up a plan which he called the "Surrey Quay" for embanking the south bank of the Thames, from London Bridge to Lambeth.

[2] In 1830, Savage became architect to the Society of the Middle Temple for whom he built the Plowden Buildings, and added a clock tower to their hall.