Alfred W. Blomfield (1879-1949) was a British architect, who worked as the in-house architect for the brewer

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from 1919 to 1940.

Early life

Alfred W. Blomfield was born in 1879.

Career

In about 1931, he designed

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is a

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pub at 77 Bedford Hill,

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, London, for Watney Combe & Reid, in a "neo-Georgian manner, with Arts and Crafts and Art Deco influences". Blomfield was the architect of The French House, a

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at 49 Dean Street,

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, London, built in 1937. Blomfield was the architect of the

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, built in 1936.

Nikolaus 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 ...

calls it a "highly unusual design". His other designs included The Horns, Shoreditch (now a private club), the Mitre, Holland Park, the Mail Coach, Uxbridge Road (demolished), the Angel, Edmonton (demolished), and the World Turned Upside Down, Old Kent Road (now flats), all in London, and all featured in ''Architectural Design and Construction'' (1934).

Death

Blomfield died in 1949.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blomfield, Alfred W. 1879 births 1949 deaths 20th-century English architects