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William R. Lethaby
William Richard Lethaby (18 January 1857 – 17 July 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of conservation and art education. Life and career Early life Lethaby was born in Barnstaple, Devon, the son of a fiercely Liberal craftsman and lay preacher. After studies at Barnstaple Art School and an early apprenticeship with a local architect he found work in London in 1879 as Chief Clerk to architect Richard Norman Shaw. Shaw quickly recognized Lethaby's talent as a designer and Lethaby was to contribute significant pieces of work to major Shaw-designed buildings such as Scotland Yard in London and Cragside Cragside is a Victorian country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm. An industrial magna ...
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All Saints' Church, Brockhampton
The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church at Brockhampton in the English county of Herefordshire. The church was commissioned by Alice Foster as a memorial to her parents, Eben and Julia Jordan. The architect was William Lethaby and construction took place between 1901 and 1902. It is a Grade I listed building and is considered among the best examples of the works of the Arts and Crafts movement. History Alice Foster was the daughter of Eben Dyer Jordan of Boston, the co-founder of the Jordan Marsh department store. On Alice's marriage to the Rev. Arthur Wellesley of Yorkshire in 1885, her father bought the couple the Brockhampton Court estate as a wedding present. Following her father's death in 1895, and that of her mother in 1897, Foster commissioned William Lethaby to build the memorial church, with A. Randall Wells as clerk of works. The stained glass was by Christopher Whall. William Lethaby was born in Barnstaple, Devon in 1857, the son of a craftsm ...
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