Arthur Stansfeld Dixon (26 August 1856 – 8 January 1929) was an English metal worker and architect.
Born in
Edgbaston,
Birmingham, he was the eldest son of education reformer and MP
George Dixon. He founded the
Birmingham Guild of Handicraft
Birmingham Guild of Handicraft was an Arts and Crafts organisation operating in Birmingham, England, established at the end of the 19th century.
History
The Guild began as a loose part of the Birmingham Kyrle Society, then became a more fully f ...
and designed their headquarters in Great Charles Street. The building is still extant, but converted to offices.
He also designed the
Romanesque style, brick-built
Church of St John & St Basil (1910–1911) in Heath Mill Lane in Birmingham's
Digbeth
Digbeth is an area of Central Birmingham, England. Following the destruction of the Inner Ring Road, Digbeth is now considered a district within Birmingham City Centre. As part of the Big City Plan, Digbeth is undergoing a large redevelopment ...
district It was described by
Nicholas Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
as "the finest example of his Arts and Crafts primitivism".
A further church design was
St Andrew's Church
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,
Barnt Green
Barnt Green is a village and civil parish in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, England, situated south of Birmingham city centre, with a population at the 2011 census of 1,794.
History
Originating from the development of the railway ...
,
Worcestershire
In 1917, he was commissioned to design
Seoul Anglican Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Nicholas (Korean: 대한성공회 서울주교좌대성당), Seoul Anglican Cathedral, or simply Seoul Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral in Seoul, South Korea. It is the mother church of both the ...
in
Korea; construction began in 1922 but was only completed in 1996 after the original plans were rediscovered.
In 1923, along with
Holland W. Hobbiss
Holland William Hobbiss, (8 February 1880 – 22 July 1970) was an English architect in the Birmingham area. He traded under the names ''Holland W. Hobbiss and Partners'' and ''Holland W. Hobbiss and M. A. H. Hobbiss''.
Life
Hobbiss was born ...
he helped to design the rebuild of
St Giles Church, Rowley Regis, after it was burned downed. It is the 4th building on that site.
His son James, serving in the
Royal Warwickshire Regiment during
World War I, was killed aged 22.
Pevsner described Dixon as "an
Anglo-Catholic Socialist who associated
Gothic
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with establishment conservatism and dreary
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
piety".
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Arthur Stansfeld Dixon
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1856 births
1929 deaths
Anglo-Catholic socialists
English Christian socialists
Architects from Birmingham, West Midlands