Somers Clarke

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Occupation Architect Structures Reids Palace Hotel Died August 31, 1926, Egypt		Role Architect Name Somers Clarke

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George Somers Clarke (1841–1926) was an architect and English Egyptologist who worked at a number of sites throughout Egypt, notably in El Kab, where he built a house. He was born in Brighton.

As an architect he worked in partnership with John Thomas Micklethwaite from offices at 15 Dean's Yard, Westminster, London.

After his retirement Clarke continued to live in Egypt and died in Mahamid in August 1926.

Works

1872–78 Wyfold Court, Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire

1874–75 St Martin's parish church, Lewes Road, Brighton (Wagner Memorial Church), the largest church in Brighton, complete except proposed saddle-back tower. Spectacular pulpit based on the Sacrament House in St. Lorenz, Nuremberg.

1875 scheme for remodelling and extending St Peter's Church, Brighton (only partly achieved)

1879 St Nicholas parish church, Kiddington, Oxfordshire: vestry and organ loft

1885 Parish church of St John The Divine, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

1885 Church at Wimbledon (proposed)

1890 St Peter's parish church, Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire: restoration (with Micklethwaite)

1891 Reid's Palace Hotel, Funchal, Madeira

1892 St Saviour's parish church, Folkestone, Kent

1892 designs for wall paintings by C.E. Kempe in St Nicholas' Church, Brighton

1893 The Frank James Memorial Hospital, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

1900–06 (with Micklethwaite) St Peter's parish church, Brighton: new chancel with eleven-light east window

1910 Chichester Cathedral: reredos

SS Philip & James parish church, Oxford: reredos

References

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