Joseph Maltby Bignell

Joseph Maltby Bignell (1827–1887) was a British architect, who spent much of his career working with Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811–78).

[1] He was born in Sloane Square Chelsea, west London, on 18 March 1827 to Joseph and Elizabeth Bignell, and was baptised on 22 April the same year at St James's church, Westminster.

[2] Over a period of some forty years [from 1845], restoration was carried out on an intermittent basis successively under the direction of four architects: James Cranston, William Butterfield, Sir George Gilbert Scott and Joseph Maltby Bignell [from 1878 to 1883].

[4] "The church of ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, Palmerston Road, the largest in Walthamstow, was built in 1885, to the design of J. M. Bignall [...] The cost was met by public subscription assisted by the bishop of St. Albans' fund.

The building, of brown and red brick with stone dressings, is in the Early English style, and has a very lofty nave and chancel with lower side aisles.