George Wightwick
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George Wightwick was a British architect based in Plymouth, and possibly the first architectural journalist.
View of the RCPS building designed by George Wightwick
John Foulston
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John Foulston was an English architect who was a pupil of Thomas Hardwick and set up a practice in London in 1796. In 1810 he won a competition to design the Royal Hotel and Theatre group of buildings
George Wightwick
…of travel and study in Italy, he published Select Views of Roman Antiquities (1828) . In the late 1820s, Wightwick moved to Plymouth, and worked with John Foulston, succeeding to Foulston's practice after six months. From then until 1852, when he retired to Bristol, he completed many public and domestic buildings…
An 1820s print of Foulston's town hall, column and library in Devonport
The same view in 2008
The Royal Hotel, Plymouth