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Occupation
  
Architect

Projects
  
Cranleigh School

Education
  
Eton College


Role
  
Architect

Name
  
Henry Woodyer

Structures
  
Tyntesfield

Henry Woodyer

Born
  
1816
Guildford, Surrey, England

Buildings
  
Holy Jesus' Church, Lydbrook; St. Martin's Church, Dorking

Died
  
1896, Padworth, United Kingdom

Henry Woodyer (1816–1896) was an English architect, a pupil of William Butterfield and a disciple of A.W.N. Pugin and the Ecclesiologists.

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Life

Woodyer was born in Guildford, Surrey, England, in 1816, the son of a successful, highly respected surgeon, who owned Allen House in the Upper High Street. His mother came from the wealthy Halsey family who owned Henley Park, just outside Guildford.

Woodyer was educated first at Eton College, then at Merton College, Oxford. As a result, he could claim to be one of the best educated architects since Sir Christopher Wren. Whilst at Oxford, he became involved in the Anglican high church movement and throughout his career he saw his work as an architect as a means of serving the church.

Churches (new)

  • Holy Innocents' Church, Highnam, Gloucestershire (including sexton's cottage), 1847
  • St. Paul's Church, Sketty, Swansea, Glamorgan, 1849–50, for John Henry Vivian
  • Holy Jesus' Church, Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, 1850–51
  • Christ Church, Christchurch Road, Reading, Berkshire, 1861-2
  • St. Martin's Church, Dorking, 1868–77, described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as Woodyer's most important
  • All Saints Church, Portfield, Chichester (1869–71)
  • St. Andrew's Church, Grafham, Surrey
  • St. John the Baptist Church, Odo Street, Hafod, Swansea, 1878–80, for Henry Hussey Vivian
  • St John the Evangelist Church, Woodley, 1873, for Robert Palmer
  • Holy Trinity Church, Millbrook, Southampton (1873–1880)

    • Churches (restoration or rebuilding)

  • St. Blaise Church, Milton, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1849–51
  • St Nicolas' Church, Newbury, Berkshire, 1858
  • St Mary's Church, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, 1859
  • St. Andrew's parish church, Clewer, Berkshire: north arcade, 1858
  • St. John the Baptist parish church, Berwick St. John, Wiltshire, 1861
  • St. Bartholomew's parish church, Wanborough, Surrey, 1861
  • St George's parish church, Evenley, Northamptonshire 1864-5
  • St. Lawrence parish church, Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire, 1865
  • St. Swithin's parish church, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire: chancel, chancel chapels and north porch (1866)
  • St. Laurence parish church, Caversfield, Oxfordshire, 1874
  • St. John the Divine parish church, Patching, West Sussex, 1888–89

    • Other institutional buildings

  • School (now the Stewart Hall), Sketty, Swansea, 1853, for John Henry Vivian
  • St. Edmund's Church School, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1860
  • Fisherton Anger Church School, Fisherton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1867
  • House of Mercy, Clewer, Berkshire, 1853–73
  • Cranleigh School, Surrey 1863-65 and the Chapel 1869
  • New Schools, Eton College, 1861–63
  • St. Michael's College, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
  • The Chapel at St Thomas's Home for the Friendless and Fallen, Darlington Road, Basingstoke dedicated on 21 July 1885, the eve of St Mary Magdalen's feast day
  • All Saints Hospital and Chapel, Eastbourne (1867–74)

    • Domestic buildings

  • Woodyer House, Bramley, Surrey
  • Alterations to Parc Wern (now Parc Beck), Sketty, Glamorgan, 1851–3 for H.H. Vivian
  • Church Cottage, Tutshill, c. 1852.
  • Brynmill Lodge (gate-lodge) and (attributed) Verandah (a small Gothic house, 1853) at Singleton Abbey, Swansea) for J.H. Vivian
  • Alterations to Hall Place, Buckinghamshire, 1868
  • Alterations to Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset for Matilda Blanche Gibbs, circa 1880
  • Twyford Moors House Twyford Hants 1861
  • Creeting House, Suffolk 1863

    • References

    Henry Woodyer Wikipedia
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