(Alfred) Richard Twentyman (1903–1979) was an English architect based in Wolverhampton; chiefly known for modernist buildings around the English midlands.

Life

Twentyman was born in 1903 in Bilbrook, Staffordshire. He was educated at Cambridge University where he studied engineering and then architecture at the Architectural Association in London. In 1933 he joined H. E. Lavender in Wolverhampton and formed Lavender and Twentyman. He served with the

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during World War II. Twentyman was awarded the RIBA bronze medal in 1953 and received a Civic Trust Award in 1970. He was an accomplished watercolourist and painter in oils, holding an exhibition of his works at a London gallery in 1978. An oil painting by him, ''Pigeon Loft, Sedgley'', is held by Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The gallery held an exhibition of his paintings and drawings after his death. Twentyman died on 13 December 1979 aged 76. Nikolaus Pevsner praised his work at Rubery and Redditch.

St Chad's Church, Rubery St Chad’s Church, Rubery is a Church of England parish church in Rubery, Worcestershire. History The church evolved in 1895 as a mission church from Holy Trinity Church, Lickey. The first building was a small wooden church. The wooden church ...

is described as being a ''fine Modernist example'', and his crematorium at Redditch as ''a model example for that class of building''.

Works

*The Mitre, Bradmore 1935 *Golden Lion, Cannock Road, Wolverhampton 1935 *Oxley Moor Hotel, Wolverhampton 1937 *The Pilot, Wolverhampton 1937 *The Spring Hill, Penn 1937 *The Red Lion, Wednesfield 1938 *The Spring Hill, Wolverhampton 1939 *The Victoria, Moseley 1939 * St Martin's Church, Parkfields, Wolverhampton 1939 *

St Gabriel's Church, Walsall St Gabriel's Church is a Church of England parish church in Walsall, West Midlands (county), West Midlands. Its parish includes Fullbrook, Caldmore, Bescot, The Delves, Palfrey, West Midlands, Palfrey, and Tamebridge and Yew Tree, West Bromwich ...

1939 *

All Saints' Church, Darlaston All Saints’ Church, Darlaston is a parish church in the Church of England in Darlaston, West Midlands County, England. History The first church by George Edmund Street dated from 1872. It was erected as a memorial to Samuel Mills, and lavishly ...

1952 *Bushbury Crematorium, Wolverhampton 1954 * GKN Research Laboratories, Birmingham New Road, Wolverhampton 1954 *The Good Shepherd Church, Castlecroft, Wolverhampton 1955 *

Emmanuel Church, Bentley Emmanuel Church, Bentley is a parish church in the Church of England in Bentley, West Midlands. History The church was started in 1954 by the architect Richard Twentyman with Lavender and Percy and consecrated in 1956 by Rt. Revd. Stretton Ree ...

, Walsall 1956 * St Nicholas' Church, Radford, Coventry 1957 *

1960 *St Andrew’s Church, Runcorn 1964 * St Andrew's Church, Wolverhampton 1965 - 1967 *Redditch Crematorium 1973

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Twentyman, Arthur Richard 1903 births 1979 deaths 20th-century English architects English ecclesiastical architects People from South Staffordshire District Architects from Staffordshire Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture 20th-century British painters * Royal Engineers soldiers British Army personnel of World War II