page_title: John Foulston
section_title: Ker Street, Devonport
hierarchical_section_title: John Foulston / Urban Planning of Plymouth / Ker Street, Devonport
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Hotel Plymouth by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt - Day &amp; Son (lithographer)
context_page_description: 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 in Plymouth, Devon, and after relocating he remained Plymouth's leading architect for twenty-five years.
context_section_description: Most of Foulston's work was in the Greek Revival style, but his best known project was the creation of a group of buildings in Ker Street, Devonport in 1821–24. This eclectic group consisted of a Greek Doric town hall and commemorative column; a terrace of houses in Roman Corinthian style and two houses in Greek Ionic; a "Hindoo" nonconformist chapel and an "Egyptian" library. Of these, all but the chapel and the houses survive, and are Grade I listed.
caption: The Royal Hotel, Plymouth
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