Henry Wilson (architect and designer)
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Henry Wilson was a British architect, jeweller and designer.
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[edit] Career
He was born in Liverpool in 1864.
He studied at the Kidderminster School of Art before being articled to the architect Edward James Shrewsbury in Maidenhead. He then worked in the practices of John Oldrid Scott, John Belcher and J. D. Sedding.
After Sedding's death in 1891 he completed many of Sedding's schemes. Wilson followed Sedding's ideals, however, his designs were more original and grander in scale.
From about 1895 Wilson designed metalwork, church plate and furnishings, jewellery and sculpture, becoming a gifted craftsman in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
From 1901 he taught metalwork at the Royal College of Art and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, both in London. He was associated with the circle of William Richard Lethaby in the Liverpool Cathedral Scheme of 1902. He was Master of the Art Workers Guild in 1917 and President of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (1915-22). He was the first editor of the Architectural Review (1896-1901).
[edit] Personal Life
He married the daughter of Francis Morse, Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham.
He died in Menton, France on 7 March 1934.
[edit] Architectural works
- Welbeck Abbey chapel and library 1890 - 1896
- Public Library, Ladbroke Grove, 1891[1]
- St. Peter's Church, Mount Park Road, Ealing. London 1892[2]
- St. Clement's Church, Boscombe, Hampshire. 1895
- St Mark’s, Brithdir, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd 1895 - 1898[3]
- St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, redecoration 1895 - 1911
- St. Mary's Church, Nottingham Bronze doors in south porch. 1904
- Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York. North bronze doors. 1905
[edit] References
[edit] Bibliography
- Manton, Cyndy. Henry Wilson: Practical Idealist, The Lutterworth Press (2009), ISBN 9780718830977.
