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

All Saints' Church, Kingsbury (also known as All Saints' Church, Queensbury) consecrated in 1954
St Richard's Church, Maybridge 1966

References

  1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. James Stevens Curl. Oxford University Press. 2006. p.209 ISBN 9780198606789
  2. The Buildings of England. Yorkshire, The West Riding. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Books. 1967 p.458. ISBN 0140710175