Lancashire Lantern
Lancashire Lantern: Lancashire Pioneers
Part of the Lancashire Lantern network, the Pioneers gives details of people who were famous local people in science, technology and innovation. These pioneers were either born in Lancashire or their endeavours made a significant contribution to the development of the County.
Paley and Austin - Architects Of Lancaster
In Victorian times the fortunes of the Church of England revived after a century of neglect. (The Catholic and Non-Conformist Churches also gained a freedom in one case and respectability in the other which allowed them to build grandly for the first time).
This led to a frenzy of building, much of it in the revived Gothic style of the Middle Ages.
Among the architectural practices which developed to take advantage of this activity was a Lancaster-based firm which passed under various names in over a hundred years of existence but which is best known today as Paley & Austin.
It became a by-word for the quality of its buildings.
Text and research by Jim Price, Head of Geography, St. Martin's College, Lancaster.
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