page_title: John Marriott Blashfield
section_title: Dated work
hierarchical_section_title: John Marriott Blashfield / Examples of Blashfields Work / Dated work
caption_attribution_description: English: The Wedgwood Institute, a Grade II* Listed building in Burslem, Stoke on Trent This is a photo of listed building number 1195840.
context_page_description: John Marriott Blashfield was a property developer and mosaic floor and ornamental terracotta manufacturer. He originally worked for the cement makers Wyatt, Parker and & Co in Millwall, but moved the business to Stamford in Lincolnshire in 1858, when it was renamed The Stamford Terracotta Company.
context_section_description: 1843–45. Mosaic flooring in the saloon of the old Conservative Club, St James's Street, London SW1. Sydney Smirke and George Basevi, 1843–45; mosaic by John Marriott Blashfield.
  1856. Albany, Liverpool. Possible use of Blashfield’s Terracotta for friezes and dressings. Designs by J. K. Colling.
  1859 Garthmyl Hall, Berriew, Montgomeryshire. Designs by J. K. Colling. Ornamental friezes and consoles. Coat of arms with foliage and roses.
  1854 Crystal Palace, Sydenham.  Statues of Australia, California, Birmingham and Sheffield (modelled by John Bell)
  1854 Triton fountain (modelled by John Bell) for the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
  1863–1873 Wedgwood Institute, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.   Processes of the pottery industry, relief panels (modelled by Matthew Eden) The terracotta panels of the processes of industry were modelled  by Mathew Eden and produced by John Marriott Blashfield. 
  c1865 Victoria Park, Mumbai (Bombay), India. Entrance gateway and clock-tower.
  1865 Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth, Devon. Decorative terracotta work for the architect C Forster Hayward. When threatened with demolition in 1977 the hotel was described by Sir John Betjeman as "one of the finest examples of Victorian gothic architecture he had ever seen", and in 1988 its future was secured.
  1866 Farnham Town Hall, Decorative ornaments.
  1866-7 Dulwich College, London. Decorative ornaments designed by Charles Barry Jnr.
  1867-8 Terrace gardens, Castle Ashby Park, Castle Ashby – South Northamptonshire. Terraced gardens, to north and east of Castle Ashby House. Designed by Matthew Digby Wyatt with decorated Blashfield terracotta. Fountains, pedestals, balustrades and gate piers
  1868-9 Parapets and decorative panels for Sturgis at Pinebank, Boston, Mass.
  1871. Scotgate Inn, 5 Scotgate, Stamford. Built for Phipps Brewery of Northampton as a store for wines and spirits. Terracotta rustication and window surrounds, with a parapet inscribed with the name of the brewery. The parapet is surmounted with the arms of Northampton. Now offices.
  1875 Replacement of terracotta window mullions and two new windows at Sutton Place, Surrey.
  1870-6 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Sturgis and Brigham
caption: Josiah Wedgwood Memorial Institute, Stoke-on-Trent
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