Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887 in Cambridge – 21 June 1959 in Westminster, London) was a British architect, writer and musician.

Life

Harry Stuart Goodhart was born on 29 May 1887 in Cambridge, England. He added the additional name Rendel by royal licence in 1902. He was educated at Eton College, and read music at Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked briefly for Sir Charles Nicholson, and then set up his own architectural practice. He is known for his church projects. He was Oxford's Slade Professor of Fine Art, from 1933 to 1936. His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival of interest in Victoriana, by Nikolaus Pevsner. He served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 1937 to 1939. He was appointed a CBE in 1955. Although he was a good 25 years older than Michael Noble, later Baron Glenkinglas, the two had a friendly feud based on the much nastier Andrew Noble - George Whitwick Rendel feud.

Works

*1924: '' Nicholas Hawksmoor'' *1932: ''Vitruvian Nights'' *1934: ''Fine Art'' *1937: ''Hatchlands, Surrey'' *1938: ''Architecture in a Changing World'' *1947: ''How Architecture is Made'' *1953: ''English Architecture Since the Regency'' *The Goodhart-Rendel Index of 19th century church builders, a card index which he compiled is held in the

British Architectural Library The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...

, London.

Buildings

* Eton Manor Boys' Club, Riseholme Street, London E9 (1912 demolished 1969) *St Olaf House, London (1928–32) *

St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton St Wilfrid's Church is a former Anglican church in the Elm Grove area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Designed and built in the 1930s to replace a temporary building in the densely populated Elm Grove area, its unu ...

(1932–34), now converted into residential apartments *

Princes House, Brighton Princes House (formerly Norwich Union House) is an office and residential building in the centre of Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. The prominently sited building, an example of Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel's "i ...

(1935–36) * Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Banstead Wood, Surrey (1948) *

St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea St John the Evangelist's Church is the Anglican parish church of the Upper St Leonards area of St Leonards-on-Sea, a town and seaside resort which is part of the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. The present building—a "very impres ...

(rebuilding after war damage, 1951) *

Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley The Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony is a Roman Catholic church in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. The town's first permanent place of Roman Catholic worship was founded in 1861 next to a friary whose members, from ...

(1955–59) *Sacred Heart Church,

Cobham, Surrey Cobham () is a large village in the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England, centred south-west of London and northeast of Guildford on the River Mole. It has a commercial/services High Street, a significant number of primary and private s ...

(1958) * Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone * Several houses in the Surrey village of

East Clandon East Clandon is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England on the A246 between the towns of Guildford to the west and Leatherhead to the east. Neighbouring villages include West Clandon and West Horsley. In 2011 it had a population of 268 ...

were built to his drawings including Antler's Corner, Appletree Cottage, Meadow Cottage and 5 School Lane (1910), Prospect Cottages (1914), Snelgate Cottages (1926) and the St Thomas' Housing Society Cottages (1947) *Goodhart-Rendel designed a cover for the organ at the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park. * St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church, George St, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Galloway, Scotland, 1959-60

His only known building in Scotland. The interior has seen some reordering with the moving forward of the altar from the East wall after the Second Vatican Council. At that time the

baldacchino A baldachin, or baldaquin (from it, baldacchino), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne. It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature, particularly over h ...

was also removed, together with some decorative ironwork. The East elevation has a carved

Hew Lorimer Hew Martin Lorimer, OBE (22 May 1907 – 1 September 1993) was a Scottish sculptor. Early life He was born in Edinburgh, the second son of architect Sir Robert Lorimer. He was educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh, then at Magdalen Colle ...

crucifix mounted to wall. St_Martin_and_St_Ninian_Catholic_Church_Whithorn_Wigtownshire_consecrated_1960

Family

His father was Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), a former international footballer who became professor of Latin at the University of Edinburgh. His mother was Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel, the daughter of

Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel (2 July 1834 – 4 June 1913), was a British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal politician. He sat as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and 1894, and was recognised as the lead ...

, from whom in 1945 he inherited a substantial estate including Hatchlands Park which he subsequently made over to the National Trust.

Notes

Sources

External links

The Clandons: a look into the past (includes "The last squire of East Clandon", by Maurice Wiggin

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