George Frederick Bodley (14 March 182721 October 1907) was an English

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

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. He was a pupil of

Sir George Gilbert Scott Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started ...

, and worked in partnership with

Thomas Garner Thomas Garner (1839–1906) was one of the leading English Gothic revival architects of the Victorian era. He is known for his almost 30-year partnership with architect George Frederick Bodley. Early life Born at Wasperton Hill Farm in Warw ...

for much of his career. He was one of the founders of Watts & Co.

Personal life

Bodley was the youngest son of William Hulme Bodley, M.D., of Edinburgh, physician at

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, Hull, who in 1838 retired to his wife's home town,

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, England. George's eldest brother, the Rev. W.H. Bodley, became a well-known

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preacher and a professor at St Mary's College,

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, Birmingham. He married Minna F.H. Reavely, daughter of Thomas George Wood Reavely, at Kinnersley Castle in 1872. They had a son, George H. Bodley, born in 1874.

Career

Blue Plaque for George Frederick Bodley, Harley Street - geograph

Bodley was articled to the architect Sir

George Gilbert Scott Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started ...

, a relative by marriage, under whose influence he became imbued with the spirit of the

Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

, and he became known as the chief exponent of 14th century English Gothic, and the leading ecclesiastical architect in England. He is regarded as the leader of the resurgence of interest in English and

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an late-medieval design. Noted for his pioneering design work in the Queen Anne revival, Bodley became acquainted with

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in the late 1850s, and in the 1860s his commissions for stained glass and ecclesiastical decoration helped ensure the success of Morris's firm, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., founded in 1861. Bodley is said to have designed two of Morris's early wallpapers. By the late 1860s Bodley had become disenchanted with Morris, and for stained glass turned to the firm of

Burlison and Grylls Burlison and Grylls is an English company who produced stained glass windows from 1868 onwards. The company of Burlison and Grylls was founded in 1868 at the instigation of the architects George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. Both John Bu ...

, founded in 1868, for the glass in his later churches, notably St Augustine's Church,

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, near

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(designed 1870) and the Church of the Holy Angels,

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(designed 1871–72). Bodley worked with his lifelong friend, the stained glass designer

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. They collaborated on projects including: St John the Baptist, Tuebrook in Liverpool; Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge; All Saints,

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and

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. His alterations to St Stephen's Church,

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, the architect and president of

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said tamed the work of its founding 'rogue' Victorian architect, Joseph Peacock.

Partnership with Thomas Garner

From 1869 he worked in a twenty-eight-year partnership with

, designing collegiate buildings in

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and

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, country houses and churches throughout the

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. One cathedral was completed to his design:

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(first design, 1865; revised 1891; building completed 1936). In 1906 Bodley designed with his pupil

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the

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He also provided a design for

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, but it was not used. As well as Vaughan, Bodley and Garner's pupils included the garden designer Inigo Thomas who specialised in formal gardens with geometrical plans in 17th and 18th century styles, which suited the houses that Bodley and Garner renovated for wealthy clients. In 1874 Bodley founded Watts & Co. with Garner and George Gilbert Scott Jr. Bodley, Garner, and Scott all lived on Church Row in Hampstead in the 1860s and 70s. His secular work included the

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offices, and in collaboration with Garner, the new buildings at

Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College (, ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete. Today, it is the fourth wealthiest college, with a financial endowment of £332.1 million as of 2019 and one of the s ...

, and

Hewell Grange Hewell Grange is a former country house in Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England. "One of the most important late 19th century country houses in England", the mansion was built between 1884 and 1891 by George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner fo ...

, Worcestershire (for Lord Windsor).

Liverpool Cathedral competition

In 1902 Bodley was an assessor for the competition to design

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which selected a design by the young

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. When construction of the cathedral began in 1904, Bodley was appointed to oversee Gilbert Scott's work, but had no direct part in its design.

Late works

One of Bodley's final architectural works was the chapel at

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, the foundation stone of which was laid on 18 May 1907 by Lord St John of Bletso. Building took a year, the chapel was consecrated in July 1908, but by which time Bodley had died. The other was the Saint Chad's parish church,

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. Work started in 1905 and the church was consecrated in 1910. After Bodley's death his partner Cecil Greenwood Hare took over the project; his contribution was the design of an octagonal choir vestry.

Royal Academy

Bodley exhibited at the

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from 1854. He was elected an associate of the academy in 1881 and a full academician in 1902.

Other activities

As well as being an architect, he was a

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, a connoisseur of art, published a volume of poems in 1899, inspired art works by painters such as John Melhuish Strudwick and designed

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and

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es for Watts & Co. He served as prime warden of the

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in 1901–02. In early life he had been in close alliance with the

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...

s, and he did a great deal to improve public taste in domestic decoration and furniture.

Death

Bodley died on 21 October 1907 at

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and is buried in the churchyard of the Church of St James, Kinnersley, Herefordshire.

Gallery

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All Saints' Church, Cambridge All Saints' is a church on Jesus Lane in central Cambridge, England, which was built by the architect George Frederick Bodley. The church was constructed in stages between 1863 and 1870 and is a notable example of English Gothic Revival style. ...

Image:All Saints' Church Cambridge interior.jpg, Richly decorated

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interior of All Saints', Cambridge. Image:All Saints' Church, Cambridge.jpg, Alternative exterior view of All Saints', Cambridge Image:StJohnTheBaptist.jpg, St John the Baptist Church, Tue Brook Image:Church of St Augustine, Pendlebury.jpg, St. Augustine's Church,

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St German's Church St German's Church ( cy, Eglwys Sant Garmon) is a nineteenth-century Church in Wales parish church in Adamsdown, Cardiff, Wales dedicated to St Germanus of Auxerre, (the ''Garmon Sant'' of Welsh tradition). The building, located on the corner of ...

, Cardiff (1884) Image:Long Melford - geograph.org.uk - 4048.jpg,

Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed parish church of the Church of England in Long Melford, Suffolk, England. It is one of 310 medieval English churches dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The church was constructed between 1467 and 14 ...

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Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington Holy Trinity Church, South Kensington, is an Anglican church located on Prince Consort Road in the City of Westminster, London, England. The current building dates from 1901 and was built by George Frederick Bodley and Cecil Greenwood Hare. E ...

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(1870), south aisle by

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(1914) and the chancel decoration by Bodley (1884). File:Bedfordschoolchapel.JPG,

Chapel, 1908 - his last work

Works

New churches

Church repairs, alterations and furnishings

* 1859–63 St James' Church,

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: new vestry, porch and roof, reseating and repairs to walls * 1863–65 All Saints' Church,

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: rebuild * 1864–65 St James' Church,

Wigmore, Herefordshire Wigmore is a village and civil parish in the northwest part of the county of Herefordshire, England. It is located on the A4110 road, about west of the town of Ludlow, in the Welsh Marches. In earlier times, it was also an administrative dis ...

: repairs *1864–67 Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge: repairs * 1866–69 St Michael & All Angels Church,

Kingsland, Herefordshire Kingsland is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire, north-west of Leominster. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 986. The village church was built during the reign of Edward I (1239– ...

: repairs * 1868–70 St Mary's Church,

Almeley Almeley (pronounced ) is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Almeley Wooton and Upcott. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 601. Location Almeley is in the west of the ...

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, with

: repairs * 1868–70 St Nicholas's Church, South Kilworth,

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: repairs * 1870–71 St Mary the Virgin,

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, Yorkshire: repairs * 1870–73 St Michael's Church,

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: repairs * 1871–72 St Mark's Church,

Bilton, Warwickshire Bilton is a suburb of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, located about south-west of Rugby town centre. It is also a ward of the Borough of Rugby, which at the 2021 Census had a population of 6,544. It comprises much of the western half of the town ...

, with Thomas Garner: new north aisle, transept and organ chamber, with reseating, reflooring and general repairs to roofs and walls * 1871–72

Church of St Mary Magdalene, Keyworth The Church of St. Mary Magdalene is a Grade-I listed church located in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England. Description The church dates from the fourteenth century. Nikolaus Pevsner noted that the tower of the church is unique in the county. ...

: repairs * 1871–72 St Laurence's Church,

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Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

, with Thomas Garner: repairs * 1873 St Swithun's Church, East Retford

: Chantry chapel rebuilt * 1873–75 Church of St Mary the Virgin, Plumtree,

, with Thomas Garner: decoration and new organ case * 1873–79 St Michael's Church,

Shalbourne Shalbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about southwest of Hungerford, Berkshire. The parish has a number of widely spaced small settlements including Bagshot and Stype, to the north, and Rivar and Oxenwood t ...

, Berkshire, with Thomas Garner, new south aisle: reseating and general

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* 1874 St Helen's Church, Brant Broughton,

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: new chancel and repairs * 1874–78 St Peter & St Paul's Church,

Langham, Rutland Langham is a village and civil parish in Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The village is about north-west of Oakham, on the A606 main road linking Oakham and Melton Mowbray. The village's name means 'homestead/village which is long ...

, with Thomas Garner: repairs to roof, walls, tower and belfry * 1876–79 St Laurence's Church, Oxhill, Warwickshire, with Thomas Garner: repairs * 1876–88 St Wilfrid's Church, Hickleton, Yorkshire * 1880 St Swithun's Church,

Leonard Stanley Leonard Stanley, or Stanley St.Leonard, is a village and parish in Gloucestershire, England, 95 miles (150 km) west of London and 3.5 miles (5.5 km) southwest of the town of Stroud. Situated beneath the Cotswold escarpment overlookin ...

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* 1880–83 St Laurence's Church, Frodsham, with Thomas Garner: restoration * 1881–84 All Saints' Church,

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, with Thomas Garner: new vestry and organ chamber, rebuilding and enlargement of chancel, rebuilding of porch and general repairs * 1882–90 All Saints' Church,

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, with Thomas Garner: rebuild * 1884

St Mary's Church, Clifton St Mary's Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Clifton, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest. H ...

* 1885 St Michael's Church, Kirk Langley,

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, with Thomas Garner: restoration * 1886–88 St Manakneu's Church,

Lanreath Lanreath ( kw, Lannreydhow) is a civil parish and a village in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated five miles (8 km) west-northwest of Looe. The name Lanreath (pronounced Lanreth) means 'church (Lann) of Rayd ...

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, with Thomas Garner: repairs * 1887 Church of St Giles,

Wimborne St Giles Wimborne St Giles is a village and civil parish in east Dorset, England, on Cranborne Chase, seven miles north of Wimborne Minster and 12 miles north of Poole. The village lies within the Shaftesbury estate, owned by the Earl of Shaftesbury. A t ...

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, remodelling in the Gothic style * 1889–91 St Giles' Church,

Mountnessing Mountnessing is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Brentwood in south Essex, England. It is situated to the north-east of Brentwood, south-west of Ingatestone. A large proportion of the houses are situated on the Roman Road (formerly ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

, with Thomas Garner: new vestry/organ chamber, four new nave windows, reseating and general repairs to roof and walls * 1889–92 St John the Baptist Church,

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, with Thomas Garner: rebuild * 1890 St John the Divine, Kennington, London (interior) * 1890

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(chapter house) * 1890 St Saviour's Church, Ellerby Road,

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

: addition of Pusey chapel. * 1890–99 St Andrew's Church, Chelmondiston,

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

, with Thomas Garner: enlargement * 1891–1905 All Saints' Church, St Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire, with Thomas Garner: new vestry, new west window in south aisle, reseating and general repairs to roof and walls * 1892 Holy Trinity Church,

Markbeech Markbeech (sometimes styled Mark Beech)'A Vision of Britain Through Time: History oMark Beech, Kent'/ref> is a village in the civil parish of Hever in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. The village is located on the northern ridges of the ...

, Kent: new chancel * 1892

St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, is a Grade II*listed Anglican church of the Anglo-Catholic tradition located at 32a Wilton Place in Knightsbridge, London. History and architecture The church was founded in 1843, the first in London to champion ...

: new chancel, rood screen and reredos * 1895 St Martin's Church,

Womersley Womersley is a village in the Selby District, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The parish population at the 2011 census (including Stapleton and Walden Stubbs) was 515. It is near the towns of Selby, Askern and Pontefract. It is clos ...

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng ...

: rood screen and loft, nave and chancel roof decoration * 1897

St George in the Meadows, Nottingham St George in the Meadows is a parish church in the Church of England in The Meadows, Nottingham, England. The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a building of special architectural or histo ...

: added chancel * 1898

St Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow St Bartholomew's Church is in the town of Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Che ...

: clerestory added to chancel * 1898–1903

: refurbishment of main tower * 1898–1905 St Bartholomew's Church,

Reading Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of Letter (alphabet), letters, symbols, etc., especially by Visual perception, sight or Somatosensory system, touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process invo ...

Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...

: new chancel, north chapel, vestry and chapel at east end of south aisle * 1898–1905 St Paul's Church, Bedford: reorder chancel, restore choir stalls and new rood screen * 1899–1901 All Saints' Church, East Horndon,

: repairs * 1899–1904 St Carantoc's Church, Crantock,

, with

Edmund Harold Sedding Edmund Harold Sedding (1863 – 21 February 1921), often referred to as E. H. Sedding, was an English architect who practised in Devon and Cornwall. Life Sedding was born in 1863 in Pimlico, London, the son of Edmund Sedding and the nephew of J ...

: repairs * 1900–01 St Nicholas' Church,

Little Bowden Little Bowden is an area on the edge of Market Harborough and former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Market Harborough, in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. As a village it was formerly part of Nort ...

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: repairs * 1901 St Peter's Church,

Hartshorne, Derbyshire Hartshorne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,888. It is north of the town of Swadlincote. The name is pronounced Harts-horne; the sh is not a digrap ...

: enlargement * 1901 St Mary's Church,

Whitkirk Whitkirk is a suburb of east Leeds, England. It is situated between Cross Gates to the north, Austhorpe to the east, Killingbeck to the west, Colton to the south-east and Halton to the south-west. The Temple Newsam estate lies directly sou ...

: rebuilt * 1902–05 St Mary the Virgin,

Barton Mills Barton Mills is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The village is on the south bank of the River Lark. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is 'corn farm by the mill'. The village ...

: repairs * 1903

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, London, with

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: new reredos and other alterations * 1903–04 Christ Church, Mold Green,

Kirkheaton Kirkheaton () is a village and former civil parish north-east of Huddersfield, now in the parish of Kirkburton, in the county of West Yorkshire, England, Historically, it is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is in the Dalton ward of t ...

, Yorkshire: new chancel, vestry & organ chamber * 1904 St Bartholomew's Church, Elvaston repairs and rebuilding of the chancel * 1905–07 St Nicholas' Church,

Skirbeck Skirbeck is a suburb and former civil parish in the Borough of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Skirbeck is a long v-shaped formation wrapped around the south and east side of Boston parish. It has been incorporated into the Boroug ...

: new vestries, organ chamber and porches, several new windows, rebuilding of chancel, reseating and general repairs * 1906

Church of the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Souldern The Parish Church of the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Church of England parish church of Souldern, a village in Oxfordshire about northwest of Bicester and a similar distance southeast of Banbury. History The church's origi ...

: dismantled and rebuilt bell tower and tower arch * 1906 Holy Angels Church, Lilliput Road,

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: rood screen, choir stalls and organ case * 1906 St Barnabas Church, Pimlico, London: reredos, rood screen and (with Hill and Son) organ case * 1907

St Barnabas Church, Hove St Barnabas Church is an Anglican church in Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It was built between 1882 and 1883 to serve residents of the newly developed streets to the south and west of Hove railway station, which had opened ...

: reredos * 1907–09

All Saints Church, Kedleston All Saints' Church, Kedleston, is a redundant Anglican Church approx. 4 miles kmnorth-west of Derby, and all that remains of the medieval village of Kedleston, demolished in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon to make way for the adjacent Kedleston Hall, ...

: north aisle * St Paul's, Burton upon Trent: alterations

Secular buildings

* 1870

Queens' College Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...

Old Hall,

, decoration * 1872–76 Offices of the

(with

), (demolished 1929) *

The Wodehouse The Wodehouse is a grade II* listed English country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable as the family seat of the Georgian landscape designer and musicologist Sir Samuel Hellier and, a century later, Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Helli ...

near

Wombourne Wombourne is a large village and civil parish located in the district of South Staffordshire, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is 4 miles (6 km) south-west of Wolverhampton and just outside the county and conurbation of the W ...

, for the Shaw-Hellier family *

* 1905: Second Boer War Memorial, York

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External links

Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodley, George Frederick 1827 births 1907 deaths 19th-century English architects Gothic Revival architects English ecclesiastical architects Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal Architects of cathedrals Royal Academicians Architects from Kingston upon Hull