Alexander Dick Gough

Gough was born on 3 November 1804 In 1823, at the age of 19, after some foreign travel, he became a pupil of the architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt, who entrusted him with the superintendence of several of his most important works, including Apsley House and the Duke of York's Column. In 1836 he set up in practice in partnership with another of Wyatt's pupils, Robert Lewis Roumieu. Between 1837 and 1847, the two men exhibited 14 architectural drawings at the Royal Academy, mostly of buildings they were in the course of erecting. Their works included the Islington Literary and Scientific Institution (1837–8 ), Nikolaus Pevsner attributed de Beauvoir Square, Hackney, to the partnership, although there is no documentary evidence for their involvement. During 1845 Gough made surveys, partly on his own account and partly with Roumieu, for the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast railway; for the Direct West-End and Croydon railway; and for the Dover, Deal, Sandwich, and Ramsgate Direct Coast railway. From 1846 to 1848 he made numerous surveys for compensation claims against other railway companies. He also designed schools and executed private commissions. Gough died on 8 September 1871, aged 67, and was buried in a modest grave (no.15710) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. Only the top of the headstone is visible. His son, Hugh Roumieu Gough, succeeded to his practice. ==Works==

In partnership with R. L. Roumieu • Islington Literary and Scientific Institution (Neoclassical), 1837. Now the Almeida Theatre. • Schools and teachers' residence for St Peter's church, Islington, 1839–40. • Free church and schools, Paradise Street, St Pancras, 1842 (Tudor). • Additions to Charles Barry's church of St Peter, Islington, 1843. • Milner Square, Islington, 1841–43. • Furnace chimney at Victoria Iron Works, Cubitt Town, Isle of Dogs. • Group of Italianate villas at Tollington Park, Islington. • Rebuilding of St Pancras Old Church, 1847–48 (Norman). Later works • St Matthew, Denmark Hill, consecrated 1848, tower and spire complete by 1858; destroyed 1940. • Rebuilding of St. Matthew's Church, Essex Road, Islington (Perpendicular); demolished. • St. Mark's, Tollington Park, Islington, 1853-4 (Early English). • St. Silas, Dawlish Street, Lambeth, 1864–5 (Lombardic). Built as a mission church to St Barnabas, Kennington; damaged during the Second World War and later demolished. • St. John the Evangelist, Prospect Street, Hull, 1865–6 (Decorated); • St. Saviour's, Herne Hill Road, Camberwell, 1866–7 (Gothic); • St. Anne's, Poole's Park, Islington, 1870 (Romanesque), the tower and spire being added by H. Roumieu Gough in 1877. Demolished 1965. • Schools for St. Lawrence's Church, Effingham, Surrey. Gough also reconstructed the interiors of St. Mary's, Brampton, Huntingdonshire; St. Nicholas's, Rochester (where he also built a parsonage) St. Giles's, Pitchcott, Buckinghamshire and St. Margaret's, Rainham, Kent. He built new chancels at St. Thomas's, Winchelsea, Sussex; and All Saints', Hastings. ==References==