John James Cresswell (1858–1944) was an English architect who practiced in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England.
[1] A son of Samuel Cresswell, master of Mapletoft Boys' School, he worked as an articled assistant and then leading assistant to James Fowler of Louth, Lincolnshire from 1877 to 1884.
[2] He then moved to Marlborough, Wiltshire to become an assistant to Charles Ponting.
He passed the RIBA qualifying examination in 1892 and became an ARIBA in June 1893.
[3] He had moved back to Louth by 1888 and to Grimsby by 1892, setting up his own practice in the Victoria Chambers.