Thomas Warr Atwood - the Monument in the Graveyard at Weston, Bath.

 

to be continued ...............

 The monument to the architect/builder/ Plumber, glazier and property developer, Thomas Warr Atwood, (Sometimes spelt Attwood) died 1775, in Weston churchyard, Bath, almost certainly designed by Thomas Baldwin and carved by The Parsons workshop of Widcombe.

Not dissimilar to the Weston monument is the Chest tomb at St Nicholas Church Winsley surmounted with a classical urn, c1810, ashlar, elongated hexagon plan with reeded strips at angles and oval south plaque with rosettes in spandrels. Husk drop in canted sections. High raised concave curved and fluted top with urn. 

South side is the inscription to Richard Atwood of Turleigh Manor, died 1808. T.W. Atwood was younger brother.

The Urn and therefore the monument were almost certainly carved in the Yard of the parsons at Claverton Street, Widcombe.

The Urn is no. 96 from the Parsons Book of Drawings - Bath Central Library, ref. B731.7 PAR 38:18

In the preface it is described as Baldwin along with 93, 94, 95, and 97.

 I am very grateful to the archivists at Bath Archives for allowing me access and to take the photograph here of this manuscript.

 I have posted previously at some length on the 18th Century stone carvers of Widcombe, Bath, Somerset see:

 https://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/07/parsons-and-greenway-sculptors-of-bath.html

 For an article on the Journal of Thomas Parsons see:  An Artisan in Polite Culture: Thomas Parsons, Stone Carver, of Bath, 1744–1813 Lawrence E. Klein, Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 75, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 27-51 (see link above).

See my previous posts for the complete contents of Thomas Parsons illustrated manuscript-

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-parsons-of-bath-18th-century-stone.html

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Some known Atwood Buildings in Bath

The Paragon (1768). Twenty one houses on a slight curve but not a deliberate crescent. 1768-75 by Thomas Warr Atwood. They are three storey, with pediments to the middle first floor windows. The principal rooms within the row were to the rear of the properties, with the staircase at the front, as a result of the views from and orientation of the houses. They have large foundations and a steep drop to Walcot Street at the rear.

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Oxford Row, Two terraces on the West side of Lansdown Road. (1773).

The New Gaol, Bathwick (1772-3).

https://historyofbath.org/images/BathHistory/Vol%2009%20-%2003.%20Noble%20-%20The%20New%20Gaol%20in%20Bathwick,%201772-1842.pdf

Guildhall, Bath.

There is a minute book containing a record of the activities of the Committee for finishing the Markets and rebuilding the Guildhall from 13 December 1774 to 13 March 1779, making it clear that Thomas Baldwin was supervising much of the work on the Markets and had designed the present Guildhall well before Atwood was killed on 15 November 1775.