Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor (1777 or 1778-1826), like Thomas Johnson, was an architect who trained with James Wyatt in London. He was not employed as an architect by the Leeds Library but is noteworthy for the drawing of the new library building executed for T.D. Whitaker’s Loidis and Elmete published in 1816. Taylor’s surveyor brother, Jonathan, was one of the developers of Commercial Street. Thomas Taylor is best remembered for his building of West Riding churches in the Gothic style.
Further reading:
Colvin, Howard – A biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (3rd edition, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995, pp.967-968)
Frank Beckwith – Thomas Taylor : regency architect, Leeds (Thoresby Society monographs no. 1, Leeds, The Thoresby Society, 1949)
