Edmund Sharpe practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Edmund Sharpe as English architect and engineer (1809-1877).
Edmund Sharpe was born at Knutsford in 1809. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He trained at Sedbergh School and St John's College.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect and engineer.
Among his best-known works are Christ Church, Weston Point and Holy Trinity Church, Bickerton. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Royal Gold Medal.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Edmund Sharpe died in 1877, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Christ Church, Weston Point
- Notable work: Holy Trinity Church, Bickerton
- Royal Gold Medal
- Trained at Sedbergh School and St John's College
