Joseph Page (architect)


Joseph Page was an architect based in Kingston upon Hull, England.

Life

He was born in Barton-on-Humber, the son of a bricklayer Francis Page and his wife Elizabeth. He was baptised in St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber on 26 February 1718.
He was apprenticed to a Hull bricklayer in 1733 and completed his apprenticeship in 1740. He became one of the leading architects and master builders of Georgian Hull.
He died on 23 April 1776 and was buried in St Peter's Churchyard, Barton-upon-Humber. On his gravestone is the epitaph architect and master builder, of an extensive genius in the liberal arts superior to many and excell’d by few.

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