Richard Charles Sutton was an architect based in Nottingham. He was born 1834 and died on 18 October 1915.
He was a member of Nottingham City Council from 1887 to 1901.
Career
He was articled to Samuel Sanders Teulon and commenced independent practice in Nottingham in 1857. He went into partnership with his son, Ernest Richard Eckett Sutton, in 1894. He retired in 1906.
He attended to the execution of Richard Thomas Parker outside Shire Hall, Nottingham on 10 August 1864.Derby Mercury – Wednesday 10 August 1864 This was the last execution in Nottingham.
He stood as Liberal candidate for the Sherwood Ward of Nottingham Town Council in the elections of 1886,Nottingham Evening Post – Monday 10 May 1886 and won.Nottingham Evening Post – Wednesday 19 May 1886
Buildings by Sutton
Shire Hall, Nottingham 1859. New grand jury room. Wesleyan Methodist School, 12 Kirkhill, Bingham. 1859 Shipley and Cotmanhay national schools 1860.Derby Mercury – Wednesday 11 January 1860 Police stations at Basford, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Arnold and West Stockwith. 1861Nottinghamshire Guardian – Thursday 17 January 1861
Castle Gate Congregational Centre, Nottingham. 1863 St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham. 1863 Christ Church, Peas Hill, Nottingham. 1863 Moneta House, 53 Ricardo Street, Stoke-on-Trent. 1865 Walter Fountain, Greyfriars Gate and Carrington Street, Nottingham. 1866. Demolished 1950. Congregational Chapel, Albion Square, Pembroke Dock 1867. Demolished 1989.
Ilkeston Town Hall. 1867-68
Congregational Institute, Forest Road, Nottingham 1868 Grade II listed. (now Nottingham Deaf Society) The Workhouse, Southwell. 1868. Extension. St. Mary's Church, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 1868–69. Repairs. St Ann's Well Road Congregational Church 1870 St. Peter's Church, Radford. 1870–72. Extension. Parliament Street Methodist Church, Nottingham. 1874 Forest Road Primitive Methodist Church, Nottingham 1874 Methodist New Connexion Chapel, rough close, Staffordshire 1874 St. Peter's Church, Mill End, Rickmansworth. 1875 St. Mary's Church, Arnold 1877Nottinghamshire Guardian – Friday 23 February 1877 restoration Beauvale School, Greasley, Nottinghamshire 1878 St. Philip's Church, Pennyfoot Street, Nottingham. 1879. Demolished 1963. Stapleford Board Schools, 1880Nottinghamshire Guardian – Friday 1 October 1880 Wollaton Road Methodist Church, Beeston 1882-83 Boot & Co. Ltd, 16-20 Goose Gate, Nottingham. 1883 Kimberley Cemetery mortuary chapel 1883 Long Eaton United Free Methodist Church 1885 Shops on Heathcote Street, Nottingham 1887 St George in the Meadows, Nottingham. 1887-91Nottingham Evening Post – Tuesday 3 November 1891 Morley Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Blue Bell Hill, 1888Nottingham Evening Post – Tuesday 6 November 1888 – 1889 Closed 1942, demolished 1972. United Methodist Free Church, Kimberley. 1890Nottingham Evening Post – Friday 3 January 1890 Schools at Morley Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Blue Bell Hill 1891Nottingham Evening Post – Monday 12 October 1891 Norton Street Congregational Church 1894
John Robinson Memorial Church, Gainsborough 1894Stamford Mercury – Friday 19 January 1894 Warehouse, 3 Stoney Street, Nottingham. 1896 Musters Road Methodist Church, West Bridgford, Nottingham. 1899.
Sources The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner