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    Joseph Aloysius Hansom (26 October 1803 – 29 June 1882) was a British architect working principally in the Gothic Revival style. He invented the Hansom...
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    The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York.: 30  The vehicle was developed...
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    Street in the Diocese of Middlesbrough. The Church was designed by Joseph Hansom and was the first pro-Cathedral of the Diocese of Beverley. The church...
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  • Hansom is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Francis Hansom (1816–1888), an English architect Joseph Hansom (1803–1882), an English...
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  • Edward Joseph Hansom (22 October 1842 – 27 May 1900) was an English Victorian architect who specialised in ecclesiastical buildings in Gothic Revival...
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    Arundel Cathedral (category Buildings by Joseph Hansom)
    Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, commissioned the architect Joseph Hansom to design a new Catholic sanctuary as a suitable counterpart to Arundel...
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    carriage, often driven by its owner. Cabriolet: a shortening of cabriolet. Joseph Hansom based the design of his public hire vehicle on the cabriolet so the...
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  • was the brother of Joseph Aloysius Hansom, architect and creator of the Hansom cab, and father of the architect Edward Joseph Hansom. He practised in partnership...
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    part is the decorated transepts by Archibald Matthias Dunn and Edward Joseph Hansom, dating from 1882. The choir is the work of Thomas Garner (who is buried...
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    Birmingham Town Hall (category Buildings by Joseph Hansom)
    King Edward's School on New Street was then under construction. Joseph Hansom, of Hansom cab fame, and Edward Welch were chosen as the architects and they...
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    Church of St Walburge, Preston (category Buildings by Joseph Hansom)
    mid-19th century to a design by the Gothic Revival architect Joseph Hansom, the designer of the hansom cab, and is famous as having the tallest spire of any...
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    around 1830 that 6,000 persons were employed in this work. Joseph Hansom built the first Hansom cab in Hinckley in 1835. In 1899 a cottage hospital was built...
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    Penelope, "The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-1882), Designer of the Hansom Cab, Birmingham Town Hall and Churches of the...
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    international and local. The original building was designed by Joseph Hansom, designer of the hansom cab. It has been expanded several times, most recently in...
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    Francis Hansom, brother of Joseph Hansom, the designer of the Hansom cab. Various building works over the years have contributed to Pugin and Hansom's work...
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    The chapel on Belvoir Street in Leicester City Centre was designed by Joseph Hansom and built in 1845. It was sometimes called the 'Pork Pie Chapel' on...
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    1917) was a British architect. He was, along with his partner Edward Joseph Hansom, among the foremost Catholic architects in North East England during...
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    carry no more than two passengers. Then, in 1834, the hansom cab was patented by Joseph Hansom: a jaunty single-horse, two-wheel carriage with a distinctive...
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    Taxi (section Hansoms)
    in Austria, to refer to the same thing.) The hansom cab was designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York as a substantial improvement...
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    Lutterworth Town Hall was Joseph Hansom, who also designed Birmingham Town Hall and took out the first patent of the horse-drawn hansom cab. Another of the...
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    Oxford Oratory (category Buildings by Joseph Hansom)
    Harris, Penelope, "The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803–82), Designer of the Hansom Cab, Birmingham Town Hall and Churches of the Catholic...
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    Mount St Mary's College (category Buildings by Joseph Hansom)
    Jesuits), and has buildings designed by notable architects such as Joseph Hansom, Henry Clutter and Adrian Gilbert Scott. The school is a member of the...
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    by Joseph Hansom, 1849–1851. The Junior House, designed by Peter Paul Pugin, was added in 1859. St Cuthbert's Chapel, designed by Dunn and Hansom, was...
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  • Braithwaite the younger (1797–1880). 1834: The Hansom cab, a type of horse-drawn carriage, invented by Joseph Hansom (1803–1882). 1868: First traffic lights...
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    UK, inspired by those of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome, by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, 1834 Greek Revival Corinthian columns of the Sturdivant...
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    church was designed by the architectural firm Dunn, Hansom and Fenwicke, consisting of Edward Joseph Hansom, Archibald Matthias Dunn and W. Ellison Fenwick...
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    Martyrs, located on Garstang Road. St Walburge's Church, designed by Joseph Hansom of Hansom Cab fame, has, at 309 feet (94 m), the tallest spire in England...
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    opened in 1838 (originally as St Mary's). The building, designed by Joseph Hansom, was extensively remodeled in 1936. The Parish of St Anne's, Chapel...
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    Penelope (2010). The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803–1882), Designer of the Hansom Cab, Birmingham Town Hall, and Churches of the...
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    provided by Elizabeth, Countess of Clare. It was designed by Joseph Hansom, inventor of the hansom cab. Other churches include the Anglican St James Church...
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