Michael Drury

Michael Drury
Mint Street Baptist Church, Lincoln, 1870
Born	About 1832
Died	Unknown
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Pupil of William Adams Nicholson,
Occupation	Architect
Practice	In Lincoln from 1853 -c1885, later Drury and Mortimer.

Michael Drury (1832 – after 1881) was an English architect working in Lincoln.

Life

Michael Drury was born about 1832 in Lincoln. He was apprenticed to the Lincoln architect William Adams Nicholson and appears to have continued his practice, working from No 1, Bank Street (on corner with Silver Street) in Lincoln.^[1] He became Lincoln City Surveyor and 1868 was called upon by the City Council to give evidence about the state drains in the city, which were giving rise to much ill health.^[2] Later in 1878 he was responsible for the new drainage and sewerage scheme for Lincoln and kept extensive notes on the many Roman discoveries that were made in the Bailgate and along the High Street in Lincoln.^[3] In 1863 he was the Curator and sub-treasurer of the Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society. In 1881 he was living at Foss Lodge, Lincoln. Drury specialised in church restoration work. Around 1870 he joined William Mortimer in a partnership which lasted into the 1880s.

Works

St. Thomas' church with Drury’s school conversion attached- now Heighington Heritage Centre.

St. Peter's church, Sotby, Lincolnshire

All Saints' church,North Hykeham, Lincs.

• Heighington Conversion of an earlier church building into a village school.
• The Anglican and Methodist /Dissenting Chapels at the Lincoln cemetery.
• Boultham Restoration of St Helens Church.
• Newton on Trent. Vicarage
• North HykehamLincs. Restoration of All Saints' church,North Hykeham, 1858 Neo-gothic in the 13th century style,
• Reepham, Lincolnshire|Reepham 1862
• Sotby.Lincolnshire Built a new nave to the church.

Drury and Mortimer

St Luke, North Kyme - Drury and Mortimer 1877

• Lincoln Mint St Baptist chapel. Now converted into the offices of Walters Estate agents, An example of Romanesque revival architecture in a debased Italianate Romanesque revival style in 1870.^[4]
• North KymeSt Luke's church. Red brick church built in 1877
• South Hykeham Restoration of church.

Literature

• Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
• Antonia Brodie (ed), Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001, Vol 2, pg. 565.

References

1. ”Brodie”,pg 564
2. Sir Francis Hill (1974),Victorian Lincoln, Cambridge U.P., pg 167.
3. Drury's notes on Roman discoveries are kept in Lincoln Central Library. See Jones M.J., (2002), Roman Lincoln: Conquest, Colony and Capital’', pp.14, 62 158 and figs. 2 & 32.
4. Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.pg 521-2.