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Rectory Building of the U.Porto - Framework

John Carr (1723-1807)

John Carr was born in May 1723, in Horbury, England, to a family of stone masons. He was a distinguished architect in Yorkshire and in the north of the country.

His activity as an architect began in 1750, with the construction of Kirby Hall of Lord Burlington and Robert Morris, which earned him great fame. Thereafter, he created numerous country houses, such as Harewood House, where Robert Adam also worked, and public buildings, namely hospitals (The Infirmary, in Leeds, between 1769 and 1771, The County Lunatic Asylum, in York, between 1774 and 1777, The County Hospital, in Lincoln, between 1776 and 1777, and the municipal palaces of Newark and Chesterfield (1790).

In his architectural production some works stand out: The Crescent, in Buxton (1779-1784), a project modelled on Bath, by John Wood, built for the 5^th Duke of Devonshire, and which represented an innovative type of architecture, seen as the forerunner of the English hotel resort, built to accommodate an increasing number of spa-goers.

From his experience as an architect of the second generation of the Neo-Palladian movement and the close proximity to the British consul, John Whitehead, who was a childhood friend and fellow countryman, John Carr was invited to draft the project for the Santo António Hospital.

He died in 1807.