J.C. Buckler initially worked with his father before taking over his practice. From 1810 onwards he worked with his father. In 1830 his father handed over his architectural practice to him, and he worked in partnership with George until 1842.
His work included restorations of country houses and at the University of Oxford. Buckler received art lessons from the painter Francis Nicholson. In 1825 Buckler began rebuilding Costessey Hall, Norfolk, for Lord Stafford.
His work there was described by Charles Locke Eastlake, writing in 1872, as "one of the most important and successful instances of the Revival in Domestic Architecture".
lieutenant was in a "Tudor" style, in red and white brick, with stone dressings. The new buildings formed an irregular picturesque group, with stepped gables, angle turrets and richly moulded chimney-shafts, exhibiting, according to Eastlake " a knowledge of detail and proportion far in advance of contemporary work".
Buckler did a lot of work in Oxford, carrying out repairs and additions to Saint Mary"s Church, and Oriel, Brasenose, Magdalen, and Jesus Colleges. He also restored, and Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, and designed Dunston Hall, Norfolk, and Butleigh Court in Somerset.
In 1836 he came second, behind Charles Barry, in the competition to rebuild the Palace of Westminster following its destruction by fire.
Buckler"s writings included the text accompanying his father"s engravings of Views of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales (1822). In 1823 he published Observations on the Original Architecture of Saint Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, in which he expressed his hostility towards changes in the quadrangle of Magdalen College. He retired in 1860, and died, aged 100, on 10 January 1894.
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