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Richard Knill Freeman (dates) was a Victorian architect who practiced mainly in north-west England, particularly in the Bolton area where he lived. His work was mainly ecclesiastical (new churches, restorations, fittings and vicarages) but he also designed houses, schools, municipal buildings, hospitals and even made additions to the piers at Blackpool and Southport. He worked on over 140 buildings of which about sixty were new buildings. About half of the buildings survive in some form. Although his work was mainly in the north-west, he also designed buildings abroad: he built the only Anglican church in Moscow and a church and house in San Remo.

Life
He was born in 1840 in Stepney, London. Little is known of his early life; from 1854 to 1860 he was articled to George Rake of Portsea, and between 1861 and 1863 seems to have been working in both Portsmouth and Bolton. He moved to Bolton in about 1865 living first in Manchester Road, then at Haulgh Hall. He eventually settled in about 1874 at 114 Radcliffe Road where he lived until his death in 1904.

Freeman was Diocesan Surveyor of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations for Manchester and president of the Manchester Society of Architects (of which he was a fellow) from 1890-91. He was elected FRIBA on 9 January 1882 on the nomination of L Booth, A Darbyshire and GT Redmayne.

Son continued firm

Principal buildings
His works include the following; 200 buildings, variety of styles half gone. Style discussion

New churches

 * St. Margaret, Hollinwood, Oldham, Lancashire (1877-80)
 * St. Augustine, Tonge Moor, Bolton, Lancashire(1883-86)
 * St. Peter, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire(1885)
 * St. Mary Magdalene, Ribbleton, Lancashire(1889-91)
 * St. Jude, Preston, Lancashire (1889-93) (demolished)
 * Holy Trinity, Blackpool, Lancashire (1894-95)
 * St. Aidan, Bamber Bridge, Lancashire (1894-95)
 * St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Moscow, (1894-99)
 * Christ Church, Heaton, Bolton, Lancashire (1895-96)
 * St. Lawrence, Barton, Lancashire (1895-96)
 * All Saints, Moses Gate, Bolton, Lancashire(1897)(demolished)
 * St. Catherine, Horwich, Lancashire(1897-1902)
 * St. Paul, Marton, Lancashire(1899-1900)
 * St. Simon and St. Jude, Great Lever, Bolton, Lancashire (1899-1901)
 * St. John, San Remo, Italy(1900)

Church additions and restorations

 * St. Mary, Deane, Bolton (1883)
 * St Mark's Church, Worsley(1894)
 * St. Matthew, Little Lever, Bolton (1894)
 * Horwich parish church, Bolton, 1903

Public works
Chadwick orphanage, Bolton, Lancashire (XXXX) (demolished)
 * Farnworth cemetery, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire (1878) (all but lodge demolished)
 * Heaton cemetery, Bolton, Lancashire (1878) (partly demolished)
 * Bolton infirmary. Lancashire, (1880-81) (demolished)
 * Chadwick Museum, Bolton, Lancashire (1879)(demolished)
 * Derby museum and library, Derbyshire (1879)
 * High Street library, Bolton, Lancashire (1887) (demolished)
 * High Street baths, Bolton. Lancashire (1896) (demolished)
 * West Hartlepool municipal offices, Durham, (1886-89)

Houses

 * Hammarbank, Windermere - extant
 * Graythwaite, windermere - extant

New schools

 * St. Thomas, Eskrick Street, Bolton (1877)
 * Old Grammar school, Bolton (1883)
 * St. Paul's, Peel, (1884)
 * St. Peter, Farnworth, Bolton (c. 1885)
 * Board school, Bolton (1896-97)
 * St. Simon and St. Jude, Great Lever, Bolton (c. 1900)
 * St. John's. Farnworth, Bolton (1902-03)

Vicarages

 * Blackrod vicarage, Bolton, (1870)
 * Little Lever vicarage, Bolton (1875)
 * St. Annes vicarage, Lytham (1881)
 * Bradshaw vicarage, Bolton, (1881-7)
 * St Andrew's parsonage, Moscow (1894)