John Thomas (sculptor)

John Evan Thomas (* 1810 in the Welsh Brecon or 1813 in English Chalford, Gloucester, † 1862) was a British sculptor and architect.

His works can be found, inter alia, to at Christ Church, Chalford ( " Charity" on the south portal ), Birmingham ( Statue of ThoEnglische Löwenmas Attwood, 1859), Maidstone, Kent ( Queen Victoria statue, 1863), Balmoral Castle in Scotland ( relief ) and in Islington, London ( statue of Hugh Myddleton, posthumously completed in 1868 ). He was also involved in the decoration of Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster, there in the executive position of Supervising Carver. On all four corners of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait which separates the island of Anglesey in Wales, each monumental English lions are made ​​of stone.

Designed by him figure group The Death of Tewdrig from 1848, was carried out by his brother William Thomas Meredyth. A copy of the bronze sculpture is located in Brecknock Museum in Brecon, Wales. It represents the hero of the Welsh saints Tewdrig Mawr, King of Gwent and Morgannwg, dar. 630 AD in the moment of victory over the Saxons at the Battle of Mathern

As an architect, he designed among other things, the Regents Park Chapel in London, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, Somerleyton Hall, Suffolk.

A violent dispute about his plans for a colossal statue of William Shakespeare for the World Expo 1862 in London allegedly ruined his health so that he died in 1862. His grave is located at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.