Joseph Goddard

Joseph Goddard, born in 1840, often worked in a Gothic-style in the 1860s and '70s and is credited with playing an important role in the introduction of Victorian gothic to Leicester in his design of the Clock Tower. The old Midland Bank building, which opened in 1874, marked the high point and end of his use of Gothic for secular work. He later designed in a more restrained domestic revival and Queen Ann-style.