Thomas Simpson (architect of Nottingham)

Thomas Simpson (1816 - 16 March 1880) was an English architect based in Nottingham.

Career
He married Charlotte Lovett (1819-1848) in the Wesleyan Chapel, Melton Mowbray and they had the following children: He married Rebecca Goodacre (1820-1899) on 17 April 1849 in St Paul’s Church, Nottingham and they had the following child:
 * Alfred Simpson (1844-1847)
 * Mary Ann Simpson (1846-1939)
 * Charlotte Simpson (1848-1916)
 * Arthur Herbert Simpson (1854-1933)

He represented St Mary’s Ward on the Nottingham Town Council, and later the Trent Ward. He died at his house in Baker Street, Nottingham on 16 March 1880.

Notable works
• Shakespeare Street Wesleyan Reform Chapel, Nottingham 1854 (later a synagogue, and now part of Nottingham Trent University)

• Hutchinson and Armitage, grocers and seed merchants, Poultry, Nottingham 1862

• Great Alfred Street Chapel, (United Methodist), Alfred Street, Nottingham 1864-65

• New Dining Hall, 5 Byard Lane, Nottingham 1865-66

• Temporary building for the Nottingham and Midland Counties’ Industrial Exhibition, Shakespere Street, Nottingham 1865-66

• Nottingham High School 1866-67

• Methodist Free Church, Cheetham 1868-69

• Nottingham Mechanics' Institute 1869

• New Methodist Free Church, Pye Bank 1870-71

• Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Mansfield Road, Nottingham 1872

• School room for Queen's Walk Congregational Church, Nottingham 1872-73

• Exeter Hall, Peachey Street/Mansfield Road, Nottingham 1874-76