Isaac Taylor was born in Rusholme, Manchester, Lancashire, England in 1872 and was articled to his father, James Medland Taylor (1834-1909) in Manchester from 1888 to 1892 and to Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835-1924) in London in 1892-93. He then returned to Manchester and worked as an assistant to his father until 1898 when he established his own architectural practice.
From c.1914 he shared an office with Frank Brookhouse Dunkerley (1868-1951). Although they collaborated on occasion on projects they appear not to have had a formal partnership until 1922 when they formed the partnership Dunkerley, Taylor & Young with Cecil Young (1889-1977) who had previously worked as an assistant to Taylor. The partnership was dissolved in 1927.
Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1906. He was also a member of the Manchester Society of Architects and was its President from 1918 to 1920. He was a member of Manchester Diocesan Architects Committee. In addition to his work as an architect he designed church furniture.
His address was given as 147 Dickenson Road, Rusholme, Manchester in 1881; "Stanford", Dickinson Road, Manchester in 1891; 7 Chapel Walks, Manchester in 1898 and 1906; 22 Birch Grove, Rusholme, Manchester in 1906 and 1914; 17 St. Anne's Square, Manchester in 1914; 9 Chapel Walks, Manchester in 1923; 19 Chapel Walks, Manchester in 1926 and 1928; and The Garden Dairy Didsbury Road, Stockport. in 1940. He died in Rusholme, Manchester on 28 July 1948
St. Matthew's Church, Crumpsall (limited competition); new Chancel to Southport Parish Church; School Infirmary at Abbots Bromley; new buildings at St. Anne's School, Abbots Bromley; Drill Hall at Denstons; extensions at Denstone and Ellesmere Colleges; Ladles' Jubilee School, Manchester; two glass warehouses and offices at St. Helen's; warehouse in Dyche Street, Manchester; houses and schools at Howe Bridge; alterations at Edgmond Rectory, Shropshire ; houses at Levensholme and Dlaley and at Trolleck (Mon.); alterations at Old Palace, Lincoln; cottages at Prestwich. [Source: Who's who in Architecture 1914]
For an additional list of architectural projects by Isaac Taylor see Architects of Greater Manchester 1800-1940.
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001