Romilly Bernard Craze (1892–1974) was an English architect.A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. James Stevens Curl. Oxford University Press. 2006. p.209

Life

He was the son of George Henry Craze and his wife Louisa Mary Webb. He was born in 1892, and baptised on 17 February 1900 in

St Luke's Church, West Norwood St Luke's Church in West Norwood is an Anglican church that worships in a Grade II* listed building. It stands on a prominent triangular site at the south end of Norwood Road, where the highway forks to become Knights Hill and Norwood High ...

. He married Elizabeth Ethel Dutton on 6 September 1919. Craze worked in partnership with Sir William Victor Mordaunt Milner, with whom he formed the firm of Milner & Craze. He spent much of his career repairing churches damaged by bombing during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, but also produced some distinctive churches of his own.

Works

Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea Christ Church is an Anglican church in the town and seaside resort of St Leonards-on-Sea, part of the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. Opened as the town's third Anglican church in 1860 to serve a rapidly developing residential a ...

, internal improvements, 1933. * Offices, workshops and a garage for the Stepney Carrier Co. at 94–100 St John Street, London, 1935. Demolished. *

Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Our Lady of Walsingham is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus venerated by Catholics, Western Rite Orthodox Christians, and some Anglicans associated with the Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches, a pious English noblewoman, in 1061 in the ...

, Norfolk, 1937. * St. Martin's Church, Hull, 1939. *St Paul’s Church, Arbourthorne, Sheffield 1939.The Buildings of England. Yorkshire, The West Riding. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Books. 1967 p.458. * St Thomas's Church, Oakwood, 1939. *St Luke’s Church, Camberwell, 1954. *All Saints’ Church, Kingsbury, 1954. *

St Mary Abbots St Mary Abbots is a church located on Kensington High Street and the corner of Kensington Church Street in London W8. The present church structure was built in 1872 to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, who combined neo-Gothic and early- ...

, Kensington, new ceiling, 1955. *St Aidan’s Church, Hull, 1955. *

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, 1956. *

St George's Cathedral, Southwark The Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St George, usually known as St George's Cathedral, Southwark, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark, south London, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Southwark. The cathedral is ...

Rebuilding, 1953 - 1958. *St Cuthbert’s Church, Wembley, 1959. *St Richard’s Church, Maybridge,

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, 1966. *St Thomas’ Church,

Kensal Town Kensal Town is a district located partly in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and partly in the City of Westminster. The area lies four miles north-west of Charing Cross and is part of the W postcode area. Kensal Town was an exclave o ...

, 1967. *SS Peter & Paul, Enfield Lock, 1969. * Church of the Ascension, Stirchley, Birmingham, 1973.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Craze, Romilly Bernard 1892 births 1974 deaths Architects from London