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Charles Edward Mallows FRIBA (5 May 1864 – 2 June 1915), often known as C. E. Mallows, was an English architect and
landscape architect A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water manageme ...
. He is considered to be part of the Arts and Craft movement in British art.


Biography

Mallows was born in Chelsea, London and spent his childhood at Flatford Mill, East Bergholt,
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where his uncle ran the mill. He studied in Bedford and London. In 1895 he opened an office in Bedford with George Grocock and worked in the
Arts and Crafts A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...
tradition designing cottages, schools, shops and restoring churches including the Trinity chapel of
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. He was made a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1900 and by the following year was the diocesan surveyor for
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. Mallows rented rooms adjoining those of the landscape architect Thomas Hayton Mawson, and occasionally worked with him. He died on 2 June 1915 at his home in
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, Bedfordshire leaving an
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of nearly £3,000.


Works

Mallows's major commission was
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in
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, where, from 1907, he designed the house and the major part of the gardens. He remodelled the house and gardens of Cannons in
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, London, between 1905 and 1908. The gardens were considered by some to be the greatest to be designed in the Edwardian era. He also designed
Joyce Grove Joyce Grove is a country house built in a Jacobethan style in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England. It is owned by Sue Ryder National Charity which, until March 2020 operated its Nettlebed Palliative Care Facility at Joyce Grove at Nettlebed in Henley-O ...
in
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for Robert Fleming between 1903 and 1908. From 1914 until his death, Mallows designed the house and gardens at Craig-y-parc,
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, for the colliery owner Thomas Evans. Photographs contributed by Mallows to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of the Courtauld Connects project.


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Further reading

* 1864 births 1915 deaths English landscape architects Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects People from Chelsea, London Arts and Crafts movement artists People from East Bergholt People from Biddenham {{UK-architect-stub