John Berry Clacy (1810–1880) was a Victorian architect whose practice was centred on Reading and Wokingham in the English county of Berkshire.
Family John's paternal grandfather and his ancestors were long resident around Barkham in Berkshire. John was brother-in-law of the Australian travel writer Ellen Clacy.
Career Most of Clacy's significant works are Gothic Revival buildings, but the Corn Exchange in Reading that he designed with F. Hawkes is in a style that Nikolaus Pevsner described as "free, debased Renaissance".Pevsner, 1966, page 204 Clacy's son had joined him in his practice by 1862.Pevsner, 1966, page 75 In 1868 Clacy and Son's practice was recorded as being in Reading.
Work St. Mary's parish church, Burghfield, Berkshire, 1843Pevsner, 1966, page 107 King Alfred's Grammar School, Wantage, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1849–50Pevsner, 1966, page 254 Corn Exchange, Reading, 1854 (with F. Hawkes) St. Helen's parish church, Dry Sandford, Oxfordshire, 1855Pevsner, 1966, page 130 Holy Trinity and All Saints parish church, Hawley, Hampshire: extensions, 1857Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 280 St. Andrew's parish church, South Stoke, Oxfordshire: restoration and extensions, 1857Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 773 St. James' parish church, Barkham, Berkshire, 1860–62 (with his son)
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