Dunn and Hansom

Archibald Matthias Dunn
Born	1832 Wylam in Northumberland
Died	17 January 1917 Branksome Park, in Bournemouth
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Ushaw College and Stonyhurst College
Occupation	Architect
Awards	President of the Northern Architectural Association
Practice	Dunn and Hansom
Buildings	Downside Abbey transepts

Archibald Matthias Dunn FRIBA, JP, (1832 – 17 January 1917) born in Wylam in Northumberland, was with his partner Edward Joseph Hansom, among the foremost Catholic architects in North East England during the Victorian era.

His father was Matthias Dunn, a Mining Engineer and Manager and one of the first Government Inspectors of Mines for the North East of England. Archibald Dunn was educated at Ushaw College and Stonyhurst College. He then went to Bristol to be apprenticed to architect Charles Francis Hansom, the younger brother of Joseph Aloysius Hansom, the inventor of the Hansom cab and founder of The Builder. It was here that Dunn met his future partner Edward Joseph Hansom, the son of his employer, Charles Francis Hansom.

Their principal works in North East England include the tower and spire of St Mary’s Cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne, and the church of St. Michael in Elswick, Tyne and Wear. Dunn was also a prominent local landowner. Across the valley from Prudhoe is Castle Hill House (1878-9), which he designed and built as his own home in Wylam, where he had been born. Previously he had lived in Gateshead, where he was an Alderman, Mayor and a Justice of the Peace for County Durham. In 1870 was Dunn was President of the Northern Architectural Association.

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