Henry Wilson (architect and designer)
Henry Wilson (12 March 1864 - 7 March 1934) was a British architect, jeweller and designer.
Career
He was born at 91 Red Rock Street in West Derby near Liverpool on 12 March 1864.
He studied at the Kidderminster School of Art before being articled to the architect Edward James Shrewsbury in Maidenhead. He then worked in the practices of John Oldrid Scott, John Belcher and J. D. Sedding.
After Sedding's death in 1891 he completed many of Sedding's schemes. Wilson followed Sedding's ideals, however, his designs were more original and grander in scale.
From about 1895 Wilson designed metalwork, church plate and furnishings, jewellery and sculpture, becoming a gifted craftsman in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
He was in business at 17 Vicarage Gate, Kensington, London from 1896 to 1899.
From 1901 he taught metalwork at the Royal College of Art and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, both in London. He was associated with the circle of William Richard Lethaby in the Liverpool Cathedral Scheme of 1902. He was Master of the Art Workers Guild in 1917 and President of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (1915-22). He was the first editor of the Architectural Review (1896-1901).
Personal life
In 1901 he married Margaret Ellinor Morse, the daughter of Francis Morse, Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham. They had 1 son and 3 daughters.
In 1922 he emigrated to Paris, and after the death of his wife in 1931, he died in Menton on 7 March 1934.
Architectural works
- Welbeck Abbey chapel and library 1890 - 1896
- Church of our most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, Islington, London 1892 - 1895
- Public Library, Ladbroke Grove, 1891[1]
- St. Peter's Church, Mount Park Road, Ealing. London 1892[1]
- Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Refitting of chapel, 1894
- Lychgate and Vestry to Holy Trinity Church, Ilfracombe, Devon. 1894
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Norton Sub Hamdon, Somerset. Restoration work 1894 and 1904
- St. Clement's Church, Boscombe, Hampshire. 1895
- St Mark’s, Brithdir, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd 1895 - 1898[2]
- St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, Baldacchino 1899 - 1900, tabernacle door, communion rails, pavement candlesticks, frieze in choir stalls, pulpit, Lady Altar 1902, Octagonal font 1908, wooden gallery 1906.
- All Saints', Kenton, Teignbridge, Devon, Silver Rood
- Gloucester Cathedral north transept clock case 1903.
- St. Mary's Church, Nottingham Bronze doors in south porch. 1904
- Church of St Dyfrig and St Samson, Grangetown, Cardiff, reredos 1904
- St Bartholomew's Church, Sydenham, London High altar, reredos and communion rails 1904
- Elphinstone Tomb, King's College, Aberdeen 1912 - 1926
- Ripon Cathedral pulpit 1913
- Memorial Cross to Frederick Norman, St. Andrew's Churchyard, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
- Statues of Leofric, Godiva and Justice, Council House, Earls Street Coventry
- Tonbridge School Gate of Remembrance 1918
- Salada Tea Company, Boston, bronze doors. 1927
- Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York. West end bronze doors. 1927 - 1931[3]
- St Augustine of Canterbury Church, Harringay, London. Lady Chapel 1930.
Gallery
References
- ^ a b London, Anthony Sutcliffe. p.117
- ^ Church Times Issue 7527 - 15 June, 2007
- ^ Manton, Cyndy. Henry Wilson: Practical Idealist, The Lutterworth Press (2009), ISBN 9780718830977.
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