Lincoln-based architects. Pearson Bellamy (1822–1901) and John Spence Hardy (1814–1892) were in practice together from 1853 until the latter’s death, Bellamy subsequently continuing on his own until his retirement in 1896. Bellamy and Hardy won 18 competitions, including that for Ipswich Town Hall (completed 1868), and designed many corn exchanges. Bellamy was described as ‘a man who delights to build palazzos in streets decidedly not sun baked’, well-illustrated in Bellamy’s Italianate Town Hall for Louth, Lincolnshire (1854).
Bibliography: Architects of Greater Manchester 1800–1940: ‘Bellamy and Hardy’; H. Birkin (ed.), Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800–1914. A Working Document Compiled from a Variety of Sources, Ipswich, 1991; R. Cocke, Public Sculpture of Norfolk and Suffolk, Liverpool, 2013, p. 158; Wikipedia: ‘Bellamy and Hardy’.
Richard Cocke, 2013; revised, Terry Cavanagh, April 2025
