Joseph Clarke (architect)

Joseph Clarke FRIBA (1819–1888) was a British Gothic Revival architect who practised in London, England.

[1] In 1839, Clarke exhibited an antiquarian drawing with the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture.

In 1852, Clarke published Schools and Schoolhouses: a series of Views, Plans, and Details, for Rural Parishes.

In this he condemned the set of model plans issued by the Committee of Council on Education as "unsuitable in every way" and stressed the advantages of employing an architect for every new school, rather than relying on a standardised design:[4]The plan should always be formed to the site, and reference had to local materials; the design of the school, again, should conform to the materials.

[4] The book included plans of twelve schools he had built in Kent, Essex and Oxfordshire, at Monks Horton, Lydd, Little Bentley, Coggeshall, Clifton Hampton, Coopershall, Wellesborough, Brabourne, Boreham, Foxearth, Hatfield and Leigh (Essex).