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Henry Clutton (19 March 1819 – 27 June 1893)
[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , ][Hunting, Penelope. "Henry Clutton's Country Houses", ''Architectural History'', Vol. 26, (1983), pp. 96-180]
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Life
Henry Clutton was born on 19 March 1819, the son of Owen and Elizabeth Goodinge Clutton. He studied with Edward Blore
Edward Blore (13 September 1787 – 4 September 1879) was a 19th-century English landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary.
Early career
He was born in Derby, the son of the antiquarian writer Thomas Blore.
Blore's backg ...
between 1835 and 1840, but began his own practice in 1844. He became an expert in French medieval architecture. Clutton also worked with William Burges
William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoc ...
. John Francis Bentley
John Francis Bentley (30 January 1839 – 2 March 1902) was an English ecclesiastical architect whose most famous work is the Westminster Cathedral in London, England, built in a style heavily influenced by Byzantine architecture.
Life
Bentle ...
was a student of Clutton.
In 1855, Clutton and Burges won the competition to design Lille Cathedral
Lille Cathedral, the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Treille (french: Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille de Lille), is a Roman Catholic church and basilica in Lille, France, and the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Lille. An example of G ...
; however, the idea of entrusting the construction of a church in honour of the Virgin to foreign architects of an Anglican confession raised objections. Therefore, the project was given to a local architect.
Between 1858 and 1860, Clutton built Minley Manor
Minley Manor is a Grade II* listed country manor house, located within a Grade II registered garden, built in the French Gothic style by Henry Clutton in the 1860s with further additions in the 1880s. The Manor is situated 2 miles north of juncti ...
in the French chateau style for Raikes Currie
Raikes Currie (15 April 1801 – 16 October 1881) was Member of Parliament (MP) for Northampton from 1837 to 1857. He was a partner of the bank Curries & Co, along with his father, Isaac Currie, in Cornhill, City of London, and had several in ...
, a partner in Glyn Mills' Bank and a member of the Currie family who benefited substantially from slavery in the British West Indies
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. It was later used by the Royal School of Military Engineering.
After Cliveden House
Cliveden (pronounced ) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire. The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern H ...
burned down for the second time, around 1859, George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, KG (8 August 178627 February 1861), styled Viscount Trentham until 1803, Earl Gower between 1803 and 1833 and Marquess of Stafford in 1833, was a British Whig MP and peer fro ...
commissioned Clutton to design a nearby water tower. The 100-foot (30m) clock tower was added in 1861 and still provides water for the house today. It is rendered in Roman cement like the rest of the house, and features four clock faces framed by gilded surrounds and a half-open staircase on its north side. It was described by the architectural critic 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 epitome of Victorian flamboyance and assertiveness."
He is buried at St Mary Magdalen, Mortlake.
Works
* ''Illustrations of Medieval Architecture in France, from the Accession of Charles VI. to the Demise of Louis XII: With Historical and Professional Remarks''
Buildings
* Battle Abbey
Battle Abbey is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England. The abbey was built on the site of the Battle of Hastings and dedicated to St Martin of Tours. It is a Scheduled Monument.
The Grade I listed site is now op ...
, Sussex
* Grosvenor House
Grosvenor House was one of the largest townhouses in London, home of the Grosvenor family (better known as the Dukes of Westminster) for more than a century. Their original London residence was on Millbank, but after the family had developed ...
, remodelling, 1870–2 and 1880–1
* Hatherop Castle, Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
* Hoar Cross Hall, Staffordshire, 1862–71
* Houghton Hall, Houghton Regis
Houghton Regis is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Bedfordshire, East of England.
The parish is located in Central Bedfordshire, which includes the hamlets of Bidwell, Bedfordshire, Bidwell, Thorn, Bedfordshire, Th ...
, Bedfordshire, c.1851: overhaul of the mansion
* The Mansion House, Old Warden Park, Bedfordshire, 1896
* Merevale Hall
Merevale Hall is a private country house in Merevale, near Atherstone, Warwickshire. It is a Grade II* listed building. The estate descends from Merevale Abbey which once stood on the site.
The Manor of Merevale was granted in 1540 to Sir Wa ...
, Atherstone
Atherstone is a market town and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. Located in the far north of the county, Atherstone is on the A5 national route, and is adjacent to the border with Leicestershire which ...
, Warwickshire
* Moorhouse Chantry Chapel, Nottinghamshire, 1860
* Moorhouse, Chapel of St Nicholas, Nottinghamshire
* Mount St Mary's College
Mount St Mary's College is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding school situated at Spinkhill, Derbyshire, England. It was founded in 1842 by the Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits), and has buildings designed by notable ar ...
, Derbyshire, 1876
* Quantock Lodge
Quantock Lodge is a grade II listed nineteenth-century Gothic revival mansion built by Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton (1798–1869), to the design of Henry Clutton. It is built from Cockercombe tuff and is located near Aley in the parish of ...
, Somerset
* St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill
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, London
* St. Mary of the Isle Church, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1859
* Romanesque cloister at the Birmingham Oratory, 1860
* Ruthin Castle
Ruthin Castle ( cy, Castell Rhuthun) is a medieval castle fortification in Wales, near the town of Ruthin in the Vale of Clwyd. It was constructed during the late 13th century by Dafydd ap Gruffydd, the brother of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, ...
, Ruthin
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, Wales
* St Luke's Church, Simonsbath
Simonsbath () is a small village high on Exmoor in the English county of Somerset. It is the principal settlement in the Exmoor civil parish, which is the largest and most sparsely populated civil parish on Exmoor, covering nearly but with ...
, Exmoor, Somerset
* St Mary of the Angels, Worthing, West Sussex, 1864
* Sacred Heart Church, Bournemouth
* St Michael's Church, Ditton, Cheshire
* St Michael the Archangel Church, Chatham
St Michael the Archangel Church is a Roman Rite, Roman Catholic Church, Catholic parish church in Chatham, Kent, England. It was built from 1862 to 1863 in the Romanesque Revival style, designed by Henry Clutton. In 1935, an extension was built, d ...
, Kent
* St Mary's Church, Ewell, Surrey
* St Mary's Church, Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, 1853: rebuilding of chancel
* St. Philip's School, Birmingham
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* The Sandy Lodge, Bedfordshire
*Welcombe Hotel
Welcombe Hotel occupies a 19th-century former country mansion house near Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, which was previously known as Welcombe House. It is a Grade II* listed building.
History
Some of the lands at Welcombe, which are recorde ...
, Stratford upon Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-wes ...
, Warwickshire
* Widmerpool Hall
Widmerpool Hall is a Grade II listed English country house in Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire.
Situated on the north side of the village, it was built in 1872 for Major George Coke Robertson to the designs of Henry Clutton. This neo-Gothic manor h ...
, Nottinghamshire
*Wrotham Park
Wrotham Park (pronounced , ) is a neo-Palladian English country house in the parish of South Mimms, Hertfordshire. It lies south of the town of Potters Bar, from Hyde Park Corner in central London. The house was designed by Isaac Ware in 17 ...
, Hertfordshire
* St Mary's Church, Woburn, Bedfordshire 1865–1868
* St Peter's Church, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Gallery
image:Battle_England.jpg, Battle Abbey
Image:QS2007.png, Quantock Lodge
Image:Widnes St Michael.jpg, St Michael's Church, Ditton
Image:Ewell-StMary-fromWNW-01.JPG, St Mary's Church, Ewell
Image:HoarCross.jpg, Hoar Cross Hall
Image:Thelodge 1057.jpg, The Sandy Lodge
References
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1819 births
1893 deaths
19th-century British architects
Bedford Estate