Richard Jupp

Richard Jupp (1728 – 17 April 1799) was an 18th-century English architect, particularly associated with buildings in and around London. He served for many years (c. 1755 – 1799) as surveyor to the British East India Company.

The expanded East India House, Leadenhall Street, London, as rebuilt 1799–1800, Richard Jupp, architect (as seen c. 1828; demolished in 1861–62)

Works

His work included:

• alterations to St Matthias Old Church, Poplar, London (1755)
• Manor House, (Old Road, Lee, London (1772) - now a Grade II listed building) – built for a wealthy London West India merchant, Thomas Lucas, president of Guy's Hospital, but bought in 1796 by Sir Francis Baring, founder of Barings Bank, it is now used as a public library and its gardens have become a public park (Manor House Gardens).
• Painshill House, near Cobham, Surrey (1774)^[1]
• Entrance and wings of Guy's Hospital, London (1774–1777)
• Wilton Park House, near Beaconsfield (c. 1780)^[2]
• a folly, Severndroog Castle (built as a memorial to Commodore Sir William James – a former chairman of the East India Company), on Shooter's Hill in south-east London (1784).
• East India House, Leadenhall Street, London (1796–1799 – the project was completed after Jupp's death by his successor, Henry Holland)

Death

Jupp died at his house in King's Road (now Theobald's Road), Bedford Row, on 17 April 1799.