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series, Austin is described as a "local man of genius" with whom the firm "achieved greatness, distinguished for their thoughtfully creative designs with masterful handling of space, line and plane", and who transformed the firm into a practice which decorated Lancashire ... with churches the
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was of the opinion that it was he "it seems, who was responsible for the firm's masterpieces". When he came to the practice "the character of the architecture of the firm changed – a nobility and at the same time resourcefulness appeared which had not until then been seen in its products".
135:, and they had five children. The family lived in a house called The Knoll in Westbourne Road, Lancaster, which Austin had designed. He took little part in the civic life of the town other than being a Commissioner of 100:. However Hubert Austin died the following year, his son was on active service in the First World War and did not return to the practice after the war, so Henry Paley continued the practice as the sole partner. 568: 553: 563: 548: 139:
in 1886. Outside the practice, his main interests were music, painting and sketching; he was a member of the local orchestral and choral societies. In religion, he was an
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Elsewhere Pevsner describes him as "brilliant" and of raising the work of the practice "to the level of the best in the country". In the
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to his older brother, Thomas, an architect in Newcastle upon Tyne. He then worked with Sir
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In 1870 Austin married Fanny Langshaw, who was a niece of Edward Paley's former partner
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Hubert Austin was involved in the design of more than 100 new churches, mainly in
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Hubert James Austin was the youngest son of the Revd Thomas Austin, later the
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Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942
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The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East
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The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West
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became a partner in the practice and its title changed to
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Non-ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–1944)
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Non-ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1895–1914)
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Ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–1944)
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Ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1895–1914)
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List of non-ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
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Lancaster
rector
Redmarshall
Richmond Grammar School
articled
George Gilbert Scott
Lancaster
E. G. Paley
Paley and Austin
Henry Paley
Paley, Austin and Paley
Austin and Paley
Austin, Paley and Austin
Gothic Revival
church restorations
Pevsner
Buildings of England
Edmund Sharpe
Land Tax
Anglican
parish church
Lancaster Priory
warden
sidesman
Cumbria
Hampshire
Sharpe, Paley and Austin
List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin

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