Henry Woodyer

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Occupation Architect Projects Cranleigh School Education Eton College		Role Architect Name Henry Woodyer Structures Tyntesfield

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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