Jeffry Wyatville practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Jeffry Wyatville as English architect and garden designer (1766–1840).
Jeffry Wyatville was born at Burton upon Trent in 1766. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is St Michael's Church. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society.
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.
Jeffry Wyatville died in 1840, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: St Michael's Church
- Fellow of the Royal Society
