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His Derby Museum, Library and Art Gallery, a gift to Derby by Michael Thomas Bass, was completed in 1876.
His Derby Museum, Library and Art Gallery, a gift to Derby by Michael Thomas Bass, was completed in 1876.
His work, in Victorian Gothic style and typically recalling the Decorated Period of later medieval architecture, can be seen in several cities and towns across the north of England. He worked in total on about 140 buildings, of which about half survive in some form. Freeman was a fellow of the Manchester Society of Architects and president of that Society from 1890-1891.
Freeman"s work included new churches, restorations, vicarages, schools, homes, museums, municipal buildings and hospitals.
He designed additions to Southport Pier and an "Indian Pavilion" for Blackpool"s North Pier in 1874. Responding to the growth of the Moscow British community, church officials desired an English architect, and Freeman responded by submitting plans for a "typical English church in Victorian Gothic style".
The church was completed in 1884. In 1887 Freeman worked as the architect on a home in Bryerswood, Far Sawrey, delegating the job of supervising construction to his assistant, Dan Gibson.
British garden designer Thomas Hayton Mawson was hired to work on the garden at the same time.
Freeman"s Holy Trinity Church, Blackpool was completed in 1895, as was his church of Street Lawrence in Barton, Preston. He also built Street Margaret"s Church in Hollingwood, did restoration work for the Worsley Church, and designed a hospital. He continued his father"s practice as Freeman & Son and built several churches in a style similar to his father"son