Career
Bury was articled to Augustus Charles Pugin in 1824 and started his own practice in Soho in 1830. Bury"s works included thirty-five churches and chapels, fifteen parsonages, twelve schools and twenty other large public buildings and private homes. His ecclesiastical works included Street Mary the Virgin"s Church, Woodlands (near West Kingsdown), Kent (1850).
The chapels at Tonbridge cemetery (1856).
Street James"s Church, Dover (1859). And Street John the Evangelist"s Church in Burgess Hill, West Sussex (1861-1863).
He also carried out a restoration of Street Peter and Street Paul"s Church at Temple Ewell near Dover. Bury was also known for his engravings and lithography, notably of the works of Augustus Welby Pugin and Owen Jones.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1846 and 1872, and was noted for the sketches he produced for Ackerman"s series of lithographs and aquatints of the "Coloured Views of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway", in 1831, republished in 1976.
Bury was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1843 and was elected vice-president in 1876. Bury died at his home in Cavendish Square, London and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery.