Thomas Charles Sorby
[15] In December 1866, Sorby was appointed, by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to the Surveyorships of Police Buildings in the Metropolitan District and in the County Courts of England and Wales, following the death of his mentor Charles Reeves, who had held tenure.
[5] Charles Reeves and his pupil, Sorby, designed this listed building in "brick with stone-faced rusticated ground storey and dressings",[22] which was completed by 1865.
[29] Although the chapels formed an "attractive feature in the landscape",[30] they were both demolished in 1958 to create more burial space, but the lodge – also designed by Sorby – remains.
It was eventually rented by an estate agent, the local paper said it was "monstrous", and it was demolished in 1933,[34][35][36] being replaced in 1906 by a new town hall designed by R. Frank Atkinson.
[53] It was built for the Church Extension Society,[2] in an area with a background of severe flood, poverty, dirt and smoke, and was "therefore ... very plain in character".
Above the north window, which has arched and fanlighted doors with "elaborate hinges" on either side, is the royal coat of arms and the date "18 AD 69".
[66][67] It was designed in 1868 by Sorby,[32] as County Court Surveyor, to replace an inadequate and temporary room in Brighton Town Hall (built 1832), which was threatened with "notice to quit at any time".
Due to Council prevarication, the build was delayed, but was eventually carried out "nearly opposite the Corn Exchange ... at the bottom of Church Street, then occupied by an old tenement and a slaughter house".
The judge's court was well-lit and ventilated, was heated by hot air and water pipes, and had "an open Gothic roof of stained wood, the timbers resting on carved stone corbels".
[75]This is a grade II listed building in "Italianate style" with "ornament in loose, almost brutal, manner" according to Historic England, replacing a previous station of 1842,[78] which had been overtaken by railway development.
[83] Historic England describes the materials of the building as follows:[82] in Italianate style, dated 1870 above the public entrance door ... Postlip stone ashlar over brick, with Portland, Polyphant and Doulting stone dressings, and brick to the rear; the building has a slate roof and tall lateral stack, with cornice and acroteria off-centre left, and iron railings and gates with ashlar end pier.
[88][89] The Building News described the new works:[90] The architect has relieved this [Georgian style] by insterting two handsome stone dorrways with pediments and severe Grecian mouldings, the one in Beast-market front especially noticeable for the clever manner in which a transome head, with small columns, has been introduced to take off the appearance of excessive height in the doorway.
The second floor contains kitchen, parlour, scullery and two bedrooms for the office-keeper, larder, coal house, &c.[90]This is a grade II listed building,[92] designed by Sorby,[32][93] who was invited to a celebratory supper at the Royal Hotel, Barnsley, after the opening.
[94] The courthouse originally fronted both Regent Street (no.22), and Eastgate, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and was a new build at the behest of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, under whose auspices Sorby was architect.
[99] Sorby designed the Gothic Revival County Court building at the junction of Baths Bridge Road and Old Elvet, Durham.
[105] Sorby designed this building, which was begun in 1875,[106] and completed in 1877, as a mansion in Old Bedford Road, Bramingham, Luton, at £10,000 (equivalent to £1,189,934 in 2023) for the solicitor and businessman Frank Chapman Scargill (1836–1919).
On the first-floor are six bedrooms, two dressing-rooms, day nursery, with large oriel window, bath-room, linen room, &c., and above, good attics and lumber-rooms.
The joiners' work, generally, is pitch-pine and red deal, with Vancouver pine in panels, all stained and varnished, very little paint being used internally.
At the rear of the house is a range of stabling, and at the entrance a gate-lodge, all corresponding in style ... the architect, Mr T. C. Sorby, of Bedford-row, London.
Its north transept contained a lower room for the heating boilers and for tea-making, and an upper area for the small pipe organ.
It was built in chalet style, "fifty miles west of Banff, Alberta, in Kicking Horse Canyon, at the base of Mount Stephen".
The Float would be terminated at New Quay instead of at Stone Bridge, as at present, the drawbridge removed, add the reclaimed land to building purposes.
Secondly, Mr Sorby suggests the continuation of Broad-street westwards, reversing the present gradient so as to obtain a regular rise to Perry-road.
The surface of Park-row would have to be slightly altered to ensure a uniform fall from the top of Park-street to Perry-road, thus relieving the gradients of the whole route.
[125]In London in April 1859, Sorby exhibited a design for a chapel at Hanley Cemetery, Staffordshire, described as "Gothic, with red brick".
[138] This plan laid out the Praed Street Estate, London (on either side of, and behind, the present Paddington tube station of 1868) ...[139] ... giving accommodation for small dwellings for [railway] operatives, and shops.
Behind the station he places a block of model dwellings for 36 families, while a range of neat shops and stables behind occupy the vacant part of the frontage of Praed-street.
Moreover, it admits of leaving the windows open to a fixed limit day and night for ventilation, at the same time ensuring safety, and it can be applied to meeting rails at any height above the floor and worked from any convenient position.
[145][nb 8]At the International Exhibition of 1871, Sorby displayed drawings alongside thirty other architects and artists, including Edward Middleton Barry, Alfred Waterhouse, Matthew Digby Wyatt, John Hungerford Pollen and Horace Jones.
Those documents include "three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and one architectural sketch ... of a proposed plan of the Parliament buildings of British Colombia".
