Nathaniel William Harrison (5 May 1865 – 7 November 1944) was an English

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Family

Nathaniel William Harrison was born at

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on 5 May 1865, the son of Nathaniel Harrison junior of

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and Maria Frances Baxter of

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. He had two sisters (Maria and Fanny) and two brothers (Hude and Gilbert). His family moved to 48 Rectory Road in St Clement's, Oxford in about 1870. By 1906, he had moved to Highlands in

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(now numbered 57), where he was to spend the rest of his life. In 1909, he married Jeannie Watt Fulton, and they had four children. Harrison died at age 79 on 7 November 1955 at 57 Old Road, Headington, Oxford.

Career

Harrison was still at school at the beginning of 1881, but later that year he was articled to the Oxford architects Wilkinson & Moore. He studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. In 1892, Harrison was admitted as a Member of the Society of Architects. He started practising independently in Oxford in 1899, at first from his parents' home in Rectory Road. In 1903 he was appointed architect to

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and served as the

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to the North Oxford building estate, laying out Bainton Road and designing many houses there.Tanis Hinchcliffe, North Oxford (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1992) In 1910, he took on Thomas Rayson as his pupil architect. Also from that year until about 1918 he was in partnership with his younger brother Gilbert Andrew Harrison, M.S.A. From 1926 until his death Harrison had an office at 5

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, Oxford.

Works

* Cherwell Boat House, Oxford (1904) * Extension to

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Infants’ School (1905)''Oxford Chronicle'', 13 October 1905, p. 9 * Renovation of

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, 52 Banbury Road, Oxford (1905) * Improvements to house for Sir William Osler at 13

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, including an addition to the garden front and a new bay on the south-west side (1905 and 1907)''Oxford Chronicle'', 11 October 1907, p. 9 * Remodelling of St Giles’ Gate, 46 Banbury Road, Oxford (1907) * School of Forestry, Parks Road, Oxford (1908)''Oxford Chronicle'', 9 October 1908, p. 11 * Alterations to the Old Bank, 92

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, including an extension of the front and a new larger entrance (1908) * Restoration of 9

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for St John's College (1909)Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Jennifer Sherwood, ''The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East'' (Yale University Press, 2023) * New building consisting of showrooms and cellarage for Messrs Eagleston & Son in St Clement's near The Plain, Oxford (1909)''Oxford Chronicle'', 8 October 1909, p. 9 * New chapel at

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, Oxford (1909) *

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, Oxford: Reconstruction of upper portion of cupola in

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(1909) *

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: Renovation of clock tower in

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(1910)''Oxford Chronicle'', 14 October 1910, p. 8) * Extensive improvements and alterations to The Rookery,

, to adapt it as the residence of Mr John Massie (1910) * Alteration of the interior of George Street Congregational Church, Oxford (1911) * Nurses' home at the

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, Headington (1913–14) * Gardener's Cottage for Mr Massie of the Rookery,

(1914)''Oxford Chronicle'', 9 October 1914, p. 8 * New building for Martyr Brothers hairdressers and William Baker china and furniture on corner of 1 & 3 Broad Street and 31

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in consultation with Mr Payne Wyatt of London (1914) * Schools of Rural Economy, Parks Road, Oxford (1914) * Restoration of the Oxford Institute at 29 & 30 St Aldate's Street, Oxford (1916) * The clock in the front quadrangle (over the doorway to the north quadrangle) of St Johns College, Oxford (1919) *

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's Church, Merton,

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: Tower Repairs (1926–7) * Restoration of west front of the Library of The Queen's College, Oxford (1927) * Corpus Christi College barge, Oxford (now a private houseboat near

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) (1930) * Restoration of the roof of Iffley Church (1932)''The Times'', 3 December 1932 * Extension to Savile House,

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for New College (1935) * Chancel of All Saints' Church,

(1937) * New houses for St John's College on the North Oxford building estate: Nos. 1, 3, 9, 11, 15, 17, 25, 27, 29, 10, 16, 22, & 30

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(1905–1921); Nos. 14 & 12

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(1905 and 1910); No. 199 Woodstock Road (1909); Nos. 5, 7, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, & 16

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(1911–1917; No. 21

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(1915); and 11

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(1932)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Nathaniel William 1865 births 1944 deaths 20th-century English architects Architects from Oxford Alumni of the Ruskin School of Art Architects from Oxfordshire People associated with St John's College, Oxford