Francis Johnson (architect)

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See Francis Johnston (architect) for Irish architect with a similar name.

Francis Frederick Johnson

Francis Johnson's favoured field of work was domestic architecture. He is known particularly for country houses in a Georgian style. He designed a number of churches in the post-war period for clients, including the Church of England Commissioners. These simple buildings often show the influence of the Scandinavian classical architecture he had admired on his European tour.

Francis Johnson also restored and remodelled a large number of historic buildings, including Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, Belton House, Lincolnshire, Burton Agnes Hall, East Yorkshire, and Fairfax House, York.^[2] His approach to restoration involved detailed research into the original colour schemes of buildings, which was a concern ahead of his time in the 1960s.

Churches

• St Margaret, Hilston, East Riding of Yorkshire (1956–1957)
• Ascension, Calvert Road, Kingston upon Hull chancel (1957–1958)
• St Michael and All Angels, Orchard Park, Kingston upon Hull (1957–1958)
• Holy Nativity
  RC, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
  (1954–1955)
• St Luke's RC, Scarborough, North Yorkshire (1955–1956)
• St George RC, Scarborough, North Yorkshire (1957–1958)
• Methodist Chapel, Ripon (1958–1960)
• St Joseph's RC, Newby, Scarborough, North Yorkshire (1958–1960)
• Methodist Church, Sewerby (1963)
• St Thomas, Pennywell, Sunderland (1964)
• St Christopher, Tong, West Yorkshire (1967–1968)
• St Luke, Willerby (1968)

Private houses

• The Old Rectory
  , Winestead restoration (1947–1948)
• Sunderlandwick Hall, Sunderlandwick (1962–1963)
• Settrington House, Settrington rebuilt after fire in 1963 (1965)
• Whitwell-on-the-Hill, Malton (1969)
• Corn Exchange House, Bridlington (1972)
• Garrowby Hall, Garrowby south range (1981–1982)
• Hilborough House, Norfolk designed 1989–90 (1996–2000)

Other

• The King's School, Tynemouth
  , Northumberland new block (1959–1960)
• St Anne's Houses, Bridlington (1961–1965)
• St Chad's College
  , Durham (1961–1964)
• Beach House, Grenada (1968–1969)
• Rectory
  , Church Green, Bridlington (1970)
• Rectory, Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire (1973)
• The Pavilion (
  Opera House), Thorpe Tilney Hall, Lincolnshire
  (1976–1980)
• Swimming Pool Pavilion, Burton Agnes Hall (1985)

Archives

Part of Johnson's archives were deposited with Hull University Archives at the Hull History Centre. In November 2013 these secured an award of £32,729 from the National Cataloguing Grants Programme administered by The National Archives.^[3] The project to catalogue and make the material available was undertaken between January 2014 and August 2015.^[4]

The remaining papers, drawings and photographs were deposited at the Hull History archive in June and July 2022 when the continuing practice, Francis Johnson and Partners, was dissolved on the retirement of the surviving partners.

References

• ISBN 978-0-9536574-3-8
• ISBN 0-300-09593-7

• Francis Johnson & Partners
• Jonathan Glancey in the Guardian on the 2001 exhibition of Francis Johnson's work in London from The Guardian.
• Article on London Exhibition from the Spectator.
• Article on recent work by Francis Johnson & Partners from Country Life.
• Hull History Centre Francis Johnson Archive