THE LATE MR. C.F. HANSOM.
E regret to announce the death of Mr. Charles Francis Hansom, architect, of Bristol, which occurred at his residence, 1, Claremont-place, Clifton, on Friday last, at the age of 72 years, the immediate cause of death being cancer. Mr. Hansom, who was one of the last survivors of the pioneers of the Gothic Revival, had carried out a very large number of churches, schools, and convents for the Roman Catholics, chiefly in the Decorated style, and all thoroughly English in character and treatment. He was a younger brother of the late Joseph Stanislaus Hansom, who died in 1882, also an ecclesiastical architect, but more widely known as the inventor of the cab which bears his name; the brothers were in partnership from 1854 to 1859, and since September, 1886, Mr. C.F. Hansom has been associated in business with Mr. F. Bligh Bond, a former pupil. He leaves a widow and one son, Mr. E.J. Hansom, formerly in partnership with him, but now of the firm of Dunn and Hansom, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Among Mr. Hansom’s chief works may be named the Pro-Cathedral at Clifton; Roman Catholic churches at Erdington, Coventry, Edgehill, Wolverhampton, Bath (St. John), Rugeley, Thurnham, Appleforth, Cardiff, Cheltenham (St. Gregory), and elsewhere, in all about seventy in number; convents at Stone, Stoke-on-Trent, Clifton, Loughborough, and Taunton; colleges at Clifton (which is about to be completed from his designs), Malvern, and Tavistock (Kelly Memorial), and designs prepared for Bristol Medical School. For the Bristol School Board, Messrs. Hansom and Bond have built Easton-road schools, another at Ashton Gate is in progress, and on the day of Mr. Hansom’s death the Board adopted modified designs on which he had been at work to the last for a third school in Anvil-street. For the last three-and-twenty years he had been a Fellow of the R.1.B.A.,and he took an active part in the formation and working of the Bristol Society of Architects, of which at the time of his death he was president. He also assisted in the establishment of the local Artillery Volunteer Corps, in which he held a captain’s commission. Mr. Hansom was buried on Tuesday at the Catholic Cemetery at Bath, at the special request of St. John’s clergy in that city, the cemetery having been laid out, and the Hyre mortuary chapel within it built, from his designs, The funeral was attended by Mrs. Hansom, his son, and other relatives, and by the vice-presidents and a dozen other members of the Bristol Society of Architects, besides other professional brethren. [763]
Transcription by Jacqueline Banerjee.
Bibliography
"The Late Mr C.F. Hansom." The Building News and Engineering Journal. Vol. 55. 2. (July-December 1888): 763. Internet Archive, from a copy in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Web. 29 July 2026.
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