William Harrison Cowlishaw
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| W H Cowlishaw | |
 The Cloisters in Letchworth |
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Name | W H Cowlishaw |
| Nationality | British |
| Birth date | 1869 |
| Birth place | |
| Date of death | 1957 |
| Work | |
| Significant buildings | The Cloisters (Letchworth) |
| Significant projects | Commonwealth War Graves Commission sites around Ieper |
William Harrison Cowlishaw (1869-1957) was a British architect of the European Arts and Crafts school and a follower of William Morris.[1]
He lived in Norton, Hertfordshire, at that time something of an artists' colony.[2] One of his most famous works[1] is the unusual towered The Cloisters in neighbouring Letchworth Garden City, planned as a theosophical meditation centre and open-air school and which opened in 1907.[3]
An earlier work was "The Cearne" in Crockham Hill, Kent, a house designed for Russian-translator Constance Garnett and her literary-editor husband Edward Garnett.[1] It was built in 1896.
At the end of World War I, like many Arts and Crafts architects of the period, he was commissioned by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission to design memorials and cemetery layout in Flanders and France under Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, the Commission's advisor on architecture and layout.[4]
Amongst these smaller cemeteries were Prowse Point, Rifle House and Devonshire, all around the area of Ypres.
At the Commission, he worked with Charles Holden,[4] a relationship that continued after the memorial work was completed.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d "William Harrison Cowlishaw." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford University Press, 1999, 2006. Answers.com accessed 13 October 2007
- ^ Owen Hardisty (March 1997). George Adams, Socialist sandal maker and Letchworth pioneer. The Letchworth Garden City Society Journal. The Letchworth Garden City Society. Retrieved on 2007-10-13.
- ^ A Cloistered Life. Utopia Britannica: British Utopian Experiments 1325 - 1945. Retrieved on 2007-10-13.
- ^ a b Summers, Julie (2007). Remembered. London: Merrell, pp 17-19. ISBN 1858943744.
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cowlishaw, William Harrison |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cowlishaw, W H |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
