Harry Drinkwater
| Harry Drinkwater | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1844 |
| Died | 1895 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings |
New Theatre, Oxford St. Margaret's church, Oxford |
| Projects | The Lion Brewery, Oxford |
Harry George Walter Drinkwater was an architect who practised in Oxford.
Career
Drinkwater was a pupil of William C.C. Bramwell in Oxford 1860–65 and then assistant to the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street 1865–73.[1] After a year as a Royal Academy travelling student Drinkwater began independent practice in Oxford.[1] Drinkwater was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1882.[1] Drinkwater followed Street into designing and restoring Church of England churches and designing vicarages, but also undertook a number of commissions for Hanley's,[2] Morrell's[2][3] and Weaving's breweries.[2]
He was the uncle of the poet and playwright John Drinkwater
Work
- St. Frideswide's vicarage, New Osney, Oxford (undated)[4]
- Lion Brewery, Oxford, 1879–1901[5]
- St. Margaret's parish church, Walton Manor, Oxford, 1883–93[6]
- St. Augustine's parish church, Dudley, Worcestershire (now West Midlands), 1884[7]
- St. James' parish church, Aston, Oxfordshire: alterations 1885–89[8]
- New Theatre, Oxford, 1886 (demolished and replaced by new building in 1933)
- St. Philip and St. James old vicarage, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, 1886–87[9] (now part of St Antony's College, Oxford)
- St. Andrew's parish church, Priestwood, Bracknell, Berkshire, 1888[10] (demolished circa 1989)
- Hanley's Brewery, Oxford: square room and stores, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford[5] (now Modern Art Oxford)
- St. Leonard's parish church, Eynsham, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1892[11]
- W.F. Lucas's Clothing Factory, 59 George Street, Oxford, 1892[12]
- Cape of Good Hope public house, The Plain, Oxford, 1892[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Brodie et al. 2001, p. 562.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Woolley 2010, p. 83.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tyack 1998, p. 269.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 334.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Woolley 2010, p. 79.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 293.
- ↑ Pevsner 1974, p. 121.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 426.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 321–322.
- ↑ Pevsner 1966, pp. 93–94.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 600.
- ↑ Woolley 2010, p. 88.
Sources
- Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan; Pinfield, Leslie, eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, A–K. London and New York: Continuum. p. 562. ISBN 978-0-8264-5513-0.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 93–94.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Staffordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 121. ISBN 0-14-071046-9.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 269. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford An Architectural Guide. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. p. 269. ISBN 0-19-817423-3.
- Woolley, Liz (2010). "Industrial Architecture in Oxford, 1870 to 1914". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) LXXV: 79, 83, 88. ISSN 0308-5562.
External links
- St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford — Grave of H.G.W. Drinkwater, with biography