Henry Richard Yeoville Yardley Thomason (17 July 1826 – 19 July 1901) was a British architect active inBirmingham. He was born inEdinburgh to a Birmingham family, and set up his own practice in Birmingham 1853–54.^[1]

Yeoville Thomason was a grandson of SirEdward Thomason, a silversmith and medallist in Birmingham, and son of Henry Botfield Thomason and Elizabeth Yardley.^{[citation needed]}

He was a pupil ofCharles Edge, and after qualifying as an architect he worked for the borough surveyor. He designed the Council House after winning a competition.

As architect to Birmingham, Dudley and District Banking Company he designed several bank buildings in the area.^[1]

He retired in 1896. He died in 1901 and is buried inKensal Green Cemetery.

He designed, amongst others:

• In Birmingham:
  • The Council House and its immediate extension, the original Art Gallery, 1874–85,Grade II* listed^[2]
  • Singers Hill Synagogue, 1856, Grade II* listed^[3]
  • Great Hampton Works, 80–82 Great Hampton Street,Hockley, c 1880, Grade II* listed^[4]
  • Union Club, 85–89Colmore Row, on the corner withNewhall Street, now called Bamford's Trust House, 1870, Grade II listed^[5] The new building was noted by theIllustrated London News in 1869.
  • Birmingham Banking Company, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. Designed new entrance in 1868. BecameMidland Bank.^[6] Grade II listed^[7]
  • 38 Benetts Hill, 1868–70, Grade II listed^[8]
  • Highcroft Hospital, Main Building, Highcroft Road, Erdington (former Aston Union Workhouse). 1869, Grade II listed^[9][10]
  • Birmingham Town and District Bank, 63Colmore Row, Birmingham. (1867–69) Head Office later to become part ofBarclays Bank, facade later remodelled byPeacock and Bewlay.^[11]
  • Lewis's department store,Corporation Street, 1886, (demolished 1929 and replaced by a seven storey building), Birmingham's first iron and concrete building^[12]
  • Acocks Green Chapel, Warwick Green,Acocks Green, 1860 (closed in 1956).
  • St Asaph's Church, Birmingham 1868 (demolished 1961)
  • St John the Baptist's church, Harborne (destroyed by enemy action, 1941)
• Elsewhere:
  • Public Hall, High Street,Smethwick, (1866–67), now the Public Library.^[13]

• The Victorian Society in Birmingham (Three City Trails, Victorian Architects of Birmingham)Archived 2 May 2006 at theWayback Machine

• 1826 births
• 1901 deaths
• 19th-century British architects
• Architects from Birmingham, West Midlands
• Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery

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