{{Short description|English architect}}{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} '''Thomas Cundy''' the younger<ref>Listing in ''Dictionary of National Biography'', volume 13</ref> (1790 – 15 July 1867) was an English architect, son of another architect of the same name. He joined his father's practice and ultimately succeeded his father as surveyor of the Grosvenor Estate, and held the position during the main phase of the development of Belgravia and Pimlico by the contractor Thomas Cubitt.
==Life== [[File:St. Barnabas' College, Pimlico. Wood engraving by C. D. Lain Wellcome V0013858.jpg|thumb|Church of St Barnabas, Pimlico.]] He was eldest son of Thomas Cundy and his wife Mary Hubert. He worked with his father on many projects, and, following his father's death in 1825 took over his practice, and his position as surveyor to Lord Grosvenor's London estates. He held this position for 41 years, covering the entire period of Thomas Cubitt's speculative developments.<ref name=dnb>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Cundy, Thomas (1790-1867)|last= Cust |first=Lionel Henry|authorlink=|no-icon=1}}</ref>
The buildings he designed or alterered included Hewell Grange; Tottenham Park; Moor Park, Hertfordshire, (alterations for Earl Grosvenor in 1828 and 1831); Fawsley Park and Grosvenor House.<ref name=dnb/> He also designed St Matthew's Church, Normanton, Rutland (1826).
In later years he worked mostly on building churches on the west side of London, including Holy Trinity Paddington, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, and St Barnabas's, St Michael's, St Saviour's and St Gabriel's, Pimlico.<ref name=dnb/> St Barnabas was built to suit the high church tendency, with a richly decorated interior and a screen separating nave from chancel.<ref name=eastlake/> It forms part of a unified scheme,<ref name=ioeba/> with schools and a parsonage in the same Early English style: Charles Locke Eastlake commented that the parsonage "was probably the first instance in which a Victorian drawing-room received its light from a lancet window."<ref name=eastlake>{{cite book |last1=Eastlake |first1=Charles Locke |title=A History of the Gothic Revival |url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorygothicr00eastgoog|year=1872 |publisher= Longmans, Green & Co|location=London}}</ref>
Cundy lived at Bromley in Kent in his later years, and died on 15 July 1867, aged 77. He left three sons and one daughter from his marriage to Arabella Fishlake of Salisbury. His third son, the third Thomas Cundy, took over the business.<ref name=dnb/>
He was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brompton.org/Residents.htm|title=Brompton Cemetery: List of notable occupants|website=brompton.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823091118/http://www.brompton.org/Residents.htm|archive-date=23 August 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Works== ===Houses=== * Hewell Grange * Tottenham Park * Moor Park, Hertfordshire * Fawsley Hall * The picture gallery at Grosvenor House (1826–7), the London residence of the Duke of Westminster. In 1842–3 he added a screen to front the courtyard towards Upper Grosvenor Street.<ref name="estate">{{cite book|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41847|title=Survey of London: volume 39: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 1 (General History)|year=1977|pages=127–140|chapter=The Architecture of the Estate: The Reign of the Cundys|access-date=17 August 2013}}</ref>
===Churches=== * St Matthew's Church, Normanton, Rutland (1826)<ref name=dnb/> * St Michael's, Chester Square (1846)<ref>{{NHLE |num=1357286 |accessdate=10 September 2013}}</ref> * St Barnabas, Pimlico (1847–50)<ref name=ioeba>{{NHLE |num=1265057 |accessdate=10 September 2013}}</ref> * St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace (1846–7), tower built by his son<ref>{{NHLE |num=1066681 |accessdate=10 September 2013}}</ref> * Holy Trinity, Paddington * St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge * St Gabriel's, Warwick Square * St Saviour's, Pimlico
==References== {{reflist}} * H. M. Colvin, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840'' (1997) {{ISBN|0-300-07207-4}} * L. H. Cust, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6909 ‘Cundy, Thomas, the younger (1790–1867)’], rev. Richard John, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 3 January 2008
== External links == {{commons category inline|Thomas Cundy junior}} {{Authority control}}
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