1872 – New Vestry Hall, Kensington, London
Architect: J.M. Brydon
Unrealised design for a new Vestry Hall for the Borough of Kensington.
J.M. Brydon
1875 – Spring Bank, Haverstock Hill, London
Architect: J.M. Brydon
1878 – Proposed Cathedral at Truro, Cornwall
Architect: J.M. Brydon
The see of Truro was established in 1876 and the first Bishop consecrated in 1877: this was the first cathedral to be built on a new site in England since Salisbury Cathedral in 1220.
1880 – House, Aigburth, Liverpool, Lancashire
Architect: J.M. Brydon
Published in The Building News, June 11th 1880.
1881 – St. Peters Hospital, Covent Garden, London
Architect: J.M. Brydon
“This hospital, which is devoted to the treatment of stone and diseases of the bladder, and has been established in Beruers-street for the last 20 years,
1885 – Pickhurst, Surrey
Architect: J.M. Brydon
Originally included a large service wing and internal courtyard, which was demolished in the 1950s. South west view published in The Building News,
1891 – Chelsea Polytechnic Institute, London
Architect: J.M. Brydon
1898 – Second Premiated Design for Taunton Town Hall, Somerset
Architect: J.M. Brydon
Second premiated design in architectural competition. “Today we publish some drawings of Mr. J.M. Brydon’s design,
1900 – New Sessions House, Old Bailey, London
Architect: J.M. Brydon
Interior view of the New Sessions House, published in The Building News, August 3rd 1900.
Brydon, John McKean (1840-1901)
John McKean Brydon was born in Dunfermline in 1840 and educated at the Commercial Academy there. On 1 September 1856 he was articled to William Hardie Hay and James Murdoch Hay in Liverpool for three years and in 1860 secured a place in the office of David Bryce in Edinburgh as assistant with a home address in Picardy Place.
