Romilly Craze
Romilly Bernard Craze (1892-1974) was an English architect.[1]
Life
He was the son of George Henry Craze and his wife Louisa Mary Webb. He was born in 1892, and baptised on 17 February 1900 in St Luke's Church, West Norwood.
He married Elizabeth Ethel Dutton on 6 September 1919.
He spent much of his career repairing churches damaged from bombing in the Second World War, but also produced some distinctive churches of his own.
Works
- Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea Internal improvements 1933
- Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk 1937
- St Paul’s Church, Arbourthorne, Sheffield 1939[2]
- St Thomas's Church, Oakwood 1950
- St Luke’s Church, Camberwell 1954
- All Saints’ Church, Kingsbury 1954
- St Mary Abbots, Kensington New ceiling 1955
- St Aidan’s Church, Hull 1955
- St. Mary's Church, Southampton 1956
- St George's Cathedral, Southwark Rebuilding 1953 - 1958
- St Cuthbert’s Church, Wembley 1959
- St Richard’s Church, Maybridge, Goring-by-Sea 1966
- St Thomas’ Church, Kensington 1967
- Church of the Ascension, Stirchley, Birmingham 1973