Henry Sulley (1845–1940) was an English architect and writer on the temples of Jerusalem. Sulley was born to English parents in

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, USA, 30 January 1845, but relocated back to

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when still young. As an architect, Sulley is noted for several buildings in Nottingham, among them 2 Hamilton Road, 'a fine Victorian dwelling' designed for James White the lace manufacturer in 1883.Country life – Volume 197, No.32-35 – 2003 Page 135 "Elmsleigh (pictured, above, in The British Architect magazine in 1883) was designed by Henry Sulley (1845–1940), who was born on Long Island but practised in Nottingham, creating a series of grand villas for the rich lace manufacturers of the ..." Although he had no formal training in

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, Sulley's background in architecture allowed him to develop various ideas about

Solomon's Temple Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple (, , ), was the Temple in Jerusalem between the 10th century BC and . According to the Hebrew Bible, it was commissioned by Solomon in the United Kingdom of Israel before being inherited by th ...

and the

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. His primary area of activity was in writing concerning the temples in

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: Solomon's Temple,

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and Ezekiel's Temple. In 1929 Sulley was the first to propose that the watercourse of Siloam tunnel was following a natural crack, a theory developed by Ruth Amiran (1968), and Dan Gill (1994). Sulley had been baptised as a

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in October 1871 at the age of 26 following lectures by Robert Roberts and reading

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. When he was only 28 the bulk of the Nottingham Ecclesia left following Edward Turney into the

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for six years until Turney's death in 1879, after which most of those who had left returned. As a Christadelphian Sulley toured Australia, New Zealand, America and Canada, showing his large illustrated architectural designs for Ezekiel's temple, in lecture halls and museums, typically over two or three nights. These public lectures followed a regular pattern: archaeology, architecture, prophecy, and then preaching. On his journeys he would write articles for publication in England giving impressions on the buildings he saw: for example, noting that the

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was a marvel, but that the corner-towers of Ezekiel's temple would be two-and-a-half times taller. During the period from 1898 onwards he was a regular assistant to the second editor of

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Buildings

*Upnah House, 22 Balmoral Road, Nottingham 1873 *Malvern House, 41 Mapperley Road, Nottingham 1874 *2 Hamilton Road, Nottingham 1873 *Oakfield, Cyprus Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham 1882 *Elmsleigh, Hamilton Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham 1883 *

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1884 *Warehouse, Peachey Street, Nottingham 1887-88 (Now YMCA)

Publications

* ''Temple of Ezekiel's prophecy'' (1887) * ''A Handbook to the Temple of Ezekiel's Prophecy'' * ''Pentaletheia: Five writings on the Truth'' * ''The Sign of the Coming of the Son of Man'' (1906) * ''What is the Substance of Faith? A Reply to Sir

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'' (1908)Full title: ''What is the Substance of Faith? A Criticism of Sir Oliver Lodge's Catechism and a Response to the New Theology Challenge Against Revealed Religion'' (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1908) * ''Is It Armageddon?'' (1915; formerly ''Britain in prophecy'') * ''A House of Prayer for All People'' * ''Where are our dead friends?'' * ''Divine worship in the age to come'' * ''Spiritlism''

References

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