Richard Charles Sutton

Richard Charles Sutton was an architect based in Nottingham. He was born 1834 and died on 18 October 1915.

He was a member of Nottingham City Council from 1887 - 1901.

Career

He was articled to Samuel Sanders Teulon and commenced independent practice in Nottingham in 1857.^[1] He went into partnership with his son, Ernest Richard Eckett Sutton, in 1894. He retired in 1906.

He attended to the execution of Richard Thomas Parker outside Shire Hall, Nottingham on 10 August 1864.^[2] This was the last execution in Nottingham.

He stood as Liberal candidate for the Sherwood Ward of Nottingham Town Council in the elections of 1886,^[3] and won.^[4]

Buildings by Sutton

• Shire Hall, Nottingham 1859. New grand jury room.
• Wesleyan Methodist School, 12 Kirkhill, Bingham. 1859
• Shipley and Cotmanhay national schools 1860.^[5]
• Police stations at Basford, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Arnold and West Stockwith. 1861^[6]

Castle Gate Congregational Church

• Castle Gate Congregational Centre, Nottingham. 1863
• St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham. 1863
• Christ Church, Peas Hill, Nottingham. 1863
• Moneta House, 53 Ricardo Street, Stoke-on-Trent. 1865
• Walter Fountain, Greyfriars Gate and Carrington Street, Nottingham. 1866. Demolished 1950.
• Congregational Chapel, Albion Square, Pembroke Dock 1867. Demolished 1989.

Ilkeston Town Hall

• Ilkeston Town Hall. 1867-68
• The Workhouse, Southwell. 1868. Extension.
• St. Mary's Church, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 1868-69. Repairs.
• St Ann's Well Road Congregational Church 1870
• St. Peter's Church, Radford. 1870-72. Extension.
• Parliament Street Methodist Church, Nottingham. 1874
• Forest Road Primitive Methodist Church, Nottingham 1874
• Methodist New Connexion Chapel, rough close, Staffordshire 1874
• St. Peter's Church, Mill End, Rickmansworth. 1875
• St. Mary's Church, Arnold 1877^[7] restoration
• Beauvale School, Greasley, Nottinghamshire 1878
• St. Philip's Church, Pennyfoot Street, Nottingham. 1879. Demolished 1963.
• Stapleford Board Schools, 1880^[8]
• Boot & Co. Ltd, 16-20 Goose Gate, Nottingham. 1883.
• Kimberley Cemetery mortuary chapel 1883.
• Long Eaton United Free Methodist Church 1885.
• St George in the Meadows, Nottingham. 1887-91^[9]
• Morley Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Blue Bell Hill, 1888^[10] - 1889 Closed 1942, demolished 1972.
• United Methodist Free Church, Kimberley. 1890^[11]
• Schools at Morley Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Blue Bell Hill 1891^[12]
• Norton Street Congregational Church 1894

Gainsborough United Reformed Church - formerly the John Robinson Memorial Church

• John Robinson Memorial Church, Gainsborough 1894^[13]
• Warehouse, 3 Stoney Street, Nottingham. 1896
• Musters Road Methodist Church, West Bridgford, Nottingham. 1899.

Sources

• The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner

1. Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: Antonia Brodie. British Architectural Library
2. Derby Mercury - Wednesday 10 August 1864
3. Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 10 May 1886
4. Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 19 May 1886
5. Derby Mercury - Wednesday 11 January 1860
6. Nottinghamshire Guardian - Thursday 17 January 1861
7. Nottinghamshire Guardian - Friday 23 February 1877
8. Nottinghamshire Guardian - Friday 1 October 1880
9. Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 3 November 1891
10. Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 06 November 1888
11. Nottingham Evening Post - Friday 3 January 1890
12. Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 12 October 1891
13. Stamford Mercury - Friday 19 January 1894