Samuel Sanders Teulon (2 March 1812 – 2 May 1873) was an English Gothic Revival architect, noted for his use of polychrome brickwork and the complex planning of his buildings.

Family

Teulon was born in 1812 in

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, the son of a cabinet-maker from a French

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family. His younger brother

William Milford Teulon William Milford Teulon (30 May 1823 – 23 June 1900, Leamington) was an English architect and landscape designer. Teulon was born in 1823 in Greenwich, Kent, the son of a cabinet-maker from a French Huguenot family. He followed his elder brother ...

(1823–1900) also became an architect.

Career

He was articled to George Legg, and later worked as an assistant to the Bermondsey-based architect

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. He also studied in the drawing schools of the Royal Academy. He set up his own independent practice in 1838, and in 1840 won the competition to design some almshouses for the

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at Ball's Pond, Islington. After this his practice expanded rapidly. During the next few years his works mainly consisted of parish schools, parsonages and similar buildings, mostly in the

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. He was a friend of

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and became a member of the Council of the

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on 6 January 1835. Between 1841 and 1842 he undertook a long study tour of continental Europe with

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who remained a lifelong friend and became his executor. Also in company during the tour was Horace Jones who was later knighted and became architect to the Corporation of the City of London and Hayter Lewis, later Professor of Architecture at

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. He built his first church, the Early English-style St Paul, Bermondsey, in 1846. Soon after this he designed St Stephen, Southwark, a building adapted to its square site by being planned in the form of a

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, with the recessed angles filled in by the tower, vestry, chancel aisles. Teulon's religious views were Low Church, and his patrons were predominantly members of established aristocratic families who shared his outlook. In 1848 he received a commission from the 7th Duke of Bedford to design cottages for the Thorney estate, and the next year he built Tortworth Court, Gloucestershire, a substantial mansion in a kind of Neo-Tudor style, with a large central tower, for the

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. Other clients included John Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury, who commissioned Christ Church in Croydon; the

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, for whom he refitted the chapel at Blenheim Palace in 1857-9; the 10th Duke of St Albans and Prince Albert. His work included the remodelling of several unfashionable 18th-century churches to suit contemporary tastes.

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, the Bishop of London, praised his alterations at St. Mary's, Ealing, as "the transformation of a Georgian monstrosity into the semblance of a Byzantine Basilica". As well as

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churches, he designed several country houses and even complete villages, as he did at

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in County Durham in 1863.

Style

Despite his classical training, Teulon's early designs were mostly in imitation of Tudor and Elizabethan styles, and he soon became an enthusiastic follower of the latest developments of the

. He was an enthusiastic user of

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brickwork. His planning was often elaborate:

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called his mansion at Elvetham Park in

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"so complex in its composition and so varied in its detailing that it quite defies description". Some of his later work was, however, more restrained: for instance at St Stephen's Church,

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, (1869–76) the exterior is of purple-brown brick, of subtly varied tones with light stone trimming. The massing of the building is also simpler than in his earlier designs.

Death

For the last 20 years of his life until his death on 2 May 1873, Teulon lived in one of four Georgian mansions on Hampstead Green which were demolished at the start of the twentieth century to make way for Hampstead General Hospital, which was itself demolished in the 1970s and replaced by

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. Opposite his home he designed St Stephen's Church,

. He is buried on the west side of

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, not far from the family vault of his former neighbour on Hampstead Green,

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. His great great great nephew, Alan Teulon, published a book on S.S. Teulon in 2009. He was survived by four sons and four daughters.

Works

*St James's Vicarage,

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, Gloucestershire; additional wing 1844 (now demolished) *St Mary's Rectory,

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, Norfolk; 1845 *

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, Norfolk, porch 1847 *St Paul's Parish Church,

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; 1848 (demolished 1961) *All Saints' Parish Church,

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, East Sussex; restoration 1848–49 *Church of the Holy Spirit,

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, East Sussex; 1848–49 *Owlpen House,

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, Gloucestershire; 1848 (demolished 1955-6, apart from the stables and lodge) * Thorney Model Village,

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; from 1848 *St Mary's Parish Church, Pakenham, Suffolk; alterations 1849 *Queen's Terrace,

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, Berkshire; 1849 *St Paul's Church, Sandgate, Kent; 1849 *St Peter's Church, Great Birch,

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; 1849–50 *

Tortworth Court Tortworth Court is a Victorian mansion in Tortworth near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. England. It was built in Tudor style for the 2nd Earl of Ducie. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The mansion was built, in Tudor styl ...

Tortworth Tortworth is a small village and civil parish, near Thornbury in Gloucestershire, England. It has a population of 147 as of 2011. It lies on the B4509 road, which crosses the M5 motorway to the west of Tortworth. History In the Domesday Book o ...

, Gloucestershire; 1849–52 *St John's Parish Church, Rushford, Norfolk; restoration c.1850 *St Mary's Parish Church,

Benwick Benwick is a village and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. It is approximately from Peterborough and from Cambridge. The population of Benwick was recorded as 1137 in the United Kingdom Census 2011 with 452 hou ...

, Cambridgeshire; 1850 (now demolished) *St Mary's Parsonage, Grendon, Northamptonshire; 1850 *St Mary's Church, Riseholme, Lincolnshire 1851 *St John's Parish Church, Kingscote, Gloucestershire; restoration 1851 *Christ Church,

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, Surrey; 1851–1852 (largely destroyed 1985) * Holy Trinity Parish Church,

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, East Sussex; rebuilding 1851–59 *St Andrew's Parish Church, Brettenham, Norfolk; restorations and remodelling 1852 * St James' Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham; 1852 * St Margaret's Parish Church,

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, West Sussex; restoration 1852–53 * St John's Church, Ladywood, Birmingham; 1852–54 *Estate cottages, Windsor, Berkshire; 1853 *St Andrew's Church, Watford; 1853-57 *School in Oxford Road,

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, Oxfordshire; 1854 *A cottage,

, Gloucestershire; 1854 *

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, Norfolk, porch and conservatory 1854 * Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire; alterations 1854 *Schoolmaster's house and chapel,

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, Berkshire; 1854–55 *Christ Church Parish Church,

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, Wiltshire; 1854–56 *St Andrew's Parish Church,

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, London; 1855 *St Mary's Vicarage, Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire; 1856 * St John the Baptist's Parish Church,

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, Lincolnshire; 1856–57 *

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, Guisborough, North Yorkshire; 1857 (also attributed to

) *St Mary's Parish Church, Sunbury, Surrey; internal alterations 1857 *St Thomas's Church, Pearman Street,

; 1857 (demolished) * Shadwell Court, Rushford, Norfolk; extensions & remodelling 1857–60 * All Saints' Parish Church,

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, Suffolk; restoration 1857 and 1866 *St Giles's Parish Church,

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, Gloucestershire; rebuilding 1857–58 *St Mary's Parish Church,

Alderbury Alderbury is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the south of the county around southeast of Salisbury. The parish includes the village of Whaddon, which is adjacent to Alderbury, and the hamlet of Shute End. The River Avon fo ...

, Wiltshire; 1857–58 *Holy Trinity Parish Church, Oare, Wiltshire; 1857–58 -

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considered it "the ugliest church in Wiltshire". *All Saints' Parish Church,

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, Oxfordshire; rebuilding 1858 *St Bartholomew's Parish Church,

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, Gloucestershire; rebuilt chancel 1858 *Browne's Charity Almshouses and Chapel,

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, Essex 1858 *St James's Parish Church, Leckhampstead, Berkshire; 1858–60 *Prince Albert's Workshops,

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, Berkshire; 1858–61 *St Stephen's Parish Church, Manciple Street,

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; 1859 (demolished 1965) *St John the Baptist's Parish Church, Netherfield,

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; 1859 *Christ Church,

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, London; 1859–60 *

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, Hampshire; 1859–60 *Hawkleyhurst House,

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, Hampshire; 1860 *St Mary's Vicarage, Gainford, County Durham; 1860 *St Silas' Church, Penton Street,

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; 1860, completed 1863 by E.P. Loftus Brock *St Bartholomew's Parish Church,

Nympsfield Nympsfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is located around four miles south-west of the town of Stroud. As well as Nympsfield village, the parish contains the hamlet of Cockadilly. The population take ...

, Gloucestershire; rebuilt church 1861–63 * St Mark's Parish Church, Silvertown, London; 1861–62 (now the

Brick Lane Music Hall A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured cons ...

) *Huntley Manor, Huntley, Gloucestershire; 1862 *Bestwood Lodge,

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, Nottinghamshire; 1862–65 *St John the Baptist's Parish Church, Huntley, Gloucestershire; 1863 *Village of

, County Durham; 1863 *St Thomas's Parish Church, Agar Town, London; 1863 (now demolished) *

All Saints Church, Benhilton All Saints Church, Benhilton, is an English parish church within the Anglican Diocese of Southwark in the Church of England. The church is located in Sutton, Greater London, in the Sutton parish of Benhilton and was built between 1863 and 1867. ...

, Sutton, London; 1863 *St Mary's Parish Church,

Woodchester Woodchester is a Gloucestershire village in the Nailsworth (or Woodchester) Valley, a valley in the South Cotswolds in England, running southwards from Stroud along the A46 road to Nailsworth. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was ...

, Gloucestershire; 1863–64 *

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, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire; 1863–66 *St Peter and St Paul's Parish Church, Hawkley, Hampshire; 1865 *St Mary's Parish Church, Horsham, Sussex; south aisle 1865 *

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; alterations 1865 * St George's Parish Church,

Hanworth Hanworth is a district of West London, England. Historically in Middlesex, it has been part of the London Borough of Hounslow since 1965. Hanworth adjoins Feltham to the northwest, Twickenham to the northeast and Hampton to the southeast, with ...

, Middlesex; spire 1865 * Buxton Memorial Fountain in

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, London; 1865 *Tyndale Monument,

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, Gloucestershire; 1866 *St Paul's Parish Church,

; 1866 * St Margaret's Parish Church,

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, Norfolk; 1866-7 * St Mary's Parish Church, Ealing, London; 1866–73 *St Andrew's and St John's School, Roupell Street, Lambeth; c.1868 *Lychgate to Church of St. Peter,

, Essex 1868 *Church of St. Peter,

, Essex 1868 * St Stephen's Parish Church,

, London; 1869-71 *The Court House, St Andrew Holborn, London; 1870 *St John the Baptist's Parish Church, Windsor, Berkshire; alterations 1869–73 *Woodlands Vale House,

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, Isle of Wight; 1870–71 *St Frideswide's Parish Church, New Osney,

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; 1870–72 * Holy Trinity Parish Church,

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; remodelling 1871 *St Andrew's Parish Church,

Eastern Green Eastern Green is a mainly residential suburb in the far west of Coventry, England, and was formerly a village in Warwickshire. Its most western area is Upper Eastern Green and the eastern area is Lower Eastern Green, though residents generally d ...

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; 1875 *Embrook House, Sandgate, Kent; 1852 (demolished) *Riseholme Hall, Stable block (perhaps) Riseholme, Lincolnshire 1840–45

Gallery

File:Emancipation of Slaves 1834 monument - Victoria Tower Gardens - Millbank - Westminster - London - 24042004.jpg, up Buxton Memorial Fountain in

, London, designed by S.S. Teulon, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the

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in 1834. File:Holy Trinity Church, Hastings (IoE Code 294055).jpg, Holy Trinity parish church in

, East Sussex File:St Margaret's church, Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 1718921.jpg, thumbnail, St Margaret's Church,

, Norfolk File:All Saints Church Benhilton, SUTTON, Surrey, Greater London.jpg,

Sutton Sutton (''south settlement'' or ''south town'' in Old English) may refer to: Places United Kingdom England In alphabetical order by county: * Sutton, Bedfordshire * Sutton, Berkshire, a location * Sutton-in-the-Isle, Ely, Cambridgeshire * ...

Greater London Greater may refer to: *Greatness, the state of being great *Greater than, in inequality (mathematics), inequality *Greater (film), ''Greater'' (film), a 2016 American film *Greater (flamingo), the oldest flamingo on record *Greater (song), "Greate ...

File:Elvetham Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1739954.jpg,

File:St Stephen's Church, Rosslyn Hill - geograph.org.uk - 40308.jpg, St. Stephen's Church, Rosslyn Hill, in

, north London File:Grave of Samuel Sanders Teulon in Highgate Cemetery.jpg, Grave of Samuel Sanders Teulon in

References

Sources

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/community/nostalgia/famous_ancestor_built_chapel_for_royal_family_1_3288582 self-published book by historian and great-great-great nephew of S.S. Teulo

* * * * *

External links

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