Sharpe, Paley and Austin

24 Castle Hill, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK.
This 18th century Georgian building was the offices of Paley and Austin Architects from 1868 - 1944. Edward Payley had been a pupil of the famous architect, Edmund Sharpe, and in 1842 they entered into partnership together. Sharp resigned from the practice in 1851. Sharp, Paley and Austin favoured church design in the Gothic Revival style, but Sharpe also had an interest in Romanesque church architecture.