George Phillips Manners

George Phillips Manners was a British architect, who was Bath City Architect from 1823 to 1862.
In his early career, he worked with Charles Harcourt Masters, and after about 1845 was in partnership with J. E. Gill. He retired in 1862.

Architectural practice

The architectural practice bore the following names :

George Phillips Manners: 1820–1845
Manners & Gill: 1845–1866
John Elkington Gill: 1866–1874
Gill & Browne: 1874–1879
Browne & Gill: 1879–1899
Gill & Morris: 1899–1903
Wallace Gill: 1903–1909
Mowbray A. Green: 1909–1914
Mowbray A. Green & Hollier: 1914–1947
Frank W. Beresford-Smith: from 1947

From 1846 to 1909, the practice had its offices at No. 1 Fountain Building.

Works

His works include a number of churches, initially in Perpendicular or Norman style, latterly in Gothic.
Churches in and around Bath:

Bath Abbey, restoration
St Michael's Church, Broad Street
St Michael's Church, Twerton
Catholic Apostolic Church, now Guinea Lane Nursery
Bath Abbey Cemetery Mortuary Chapel, Widcombe
St Matthew's, Widcombe

Churches elsewhere:

Holy Trinity Church, Godney, Somerset
Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Church Of Holy Trinity, Cleeve, Somerset
Holy Trinity Church, Clandown, Somerset
St Paul's Church, Tiverton, Devon

Other designs include:

Obelisk to commemorate the coming-of-age of Princess Victoria, Royal Victoria Park, Bath
Bath City Gaol in East Twerton
Rectory, Kingston Deverill, Wiltshire, remodelling
Bluecoat School, Bath