John Tarring, F.R.I.B.A., was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in the mid-nineteenth century in London, Middlesex, Kent, and Devon, England. He is known as the "Gilbert Scott

Gilbert Scott

Gilbert Scott may refer to several of a family of British architects:* Sir George Gilbert Scott , who was principally known for his architectural designs for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and St Pancras Station...

of the Dissenters," as he was the first architect to design a spire for a Nonconformist Church in London, and is thought to have influenced Baptists and Congregationalists to first build in the Gothic style. Most of his commissions were Nonconformist churches, although he had one remodeling commission of an Anglican chapel. He was born in Devon, worked principally in London, and returned to Torquay, Devon, where he died. His firm was variously known as "John Tarring, Esq.," "Tarring & Jones," and "J. Tarring & Son." His son was Frederick W. Tarring.