Temple Lushington Moore (7 June 1856 – 30 June 1920) was an English architect who practised in London. He is famed for a series of fine
Gothic Revival churches built between about 1890 and 1917 and also restored many churches and designed church fittings. He did some work on domestic properties, and also designed memorial crosses.
Life and career
Temple Moore was born in
Tullamore
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The town retained ...
,
County Offaly, Ireland, and was the son of an army officer. He was educated at
Glasgow High School, then from 1872 privately by the Revd Richard Wilton in
Londesborough
Londesborough is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north of the market town of Market Weighton.
The civil parish is formed by the village of Londesborough and the hamlet of Mid ...
in the
East Riding of Yorkshire
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. In 1875, he moved to London and was
articled
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to architect
George Gilbert Scott, Jr. Although Moore set up his own practice in 1878, he continued to work closely with Scott, helping to complete his works when Scott's health deteriorated. From the early 1880s he travelled widely studying buildings on the continent, chiefly in Germany, France and Belgium. He was particularly impressed by the great medieval brick churches of north Germany, echoes of which can be found in some of his own impressively austere brick churches
In 1884 he married Emma Storrs Wilton, the eldest daughter of the Revd Wilton and thus was related to
Canon Horace Newton
Horace Newton (1844–1920) was a priest within the Church of England, philanthropist, and country landowner.
Life
He lived at the country house of Holmwood, Redditch, Worcestershire, which he had built for him in 1892–3 by Temple Lushington ...
for whom he undertook church restoration work and a large house,
Holmwood, Redditch, Worcestershire. Moore's pupils included
Giles Gilbert Scott
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was a British architect known for his work on the New Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral, and ...
, son of George Gilbert Scott, Jr.
[
In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the ]Royal Institute of British Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supp ...
. Moore's only son, Richard (1891-1918), was articled to his father and it was expected that he would continue the practice. However he pre-deceased his father, being killed in 1918 when RMS Leinster
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was torpedoed and sunk off Dublin. Temple Moore's son-in-law, Leslie Thomas Moore, joined the practice during the following year.
Temple Moore died at his home in Hampstead in 1920, and was buried at St John's Church, Hampstead. His estate amounted to a little over £5,635 (). Leslie Moore continued the practice, completing some of Temple Moore's commissions.[ ()]
Works
Moore's main contributions to architecture were his churches; he designed about 40 new churches, and the cathedral in Nairobi
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. He also restored older churches, and made alterations and additions to others. In addition he designed fittings and items of furniture for the interiors of churches. In other fields, he designed and altered country houses, and other buildings including schools, vicarages, parish halls, a court house, and memorial and churchyard crosses.[ He was also a contributor to ''English Domestic Architecture of the XVII & XVIII Centuries'' by ]Horace Field
Horace Field was a London-born architect. His work was often in a Wrenaissance style, as well as other post-gothic English historical revival styles, with influences from the Arts and Crafts movement and Richard Norman Shaw. His commissions incl ...
and Michael Bunney
Michael Frank Wharlton Bunney MBE (1873–1927) was an English architect who was closely associated with the development of Hampstead Garden Suburb.
He was born in Venice where his father, John Wharlton Bunney was doing watercolours for John Ru ...
(1905).
In 1908, Moore made the organ case, choir stalls
A choir, also sometimes called quire, is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir. It is in the western part of the chancel, between the nave and the sanctuary, which houses the altar and Church tab ...
, reredos and communion rail
The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, from the nave and oth ...
for St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton
St Michael and All Angels is a Grade I listed church on the estate of the Duke of Beaufort in the village of Great Badminton, Gloucestershire, England. Attached to the Duke of Beaufort's residence, Badminton House, it is an active Anglican parish ...
.[St. Michael and All Angels, Great Badminto]
(webpage)
19 July 2013. Also
Moore's career spanned the closing years of the Gothic Revival, but he developed the style rather than merely continuing it. In his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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the author states that his "artistic destiny was not to preserve an attenuating tradition but to bring to maturity a development which otherwise would have remained incomplete", and also expresses the opinion that he was "England's leading ecclesiastical architect from the mid-Edwardian years".[ Of his work, the architectural historian ]Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
said that he "is always sensitive in his designs and often interesting". Moore was an Anglican in the Anglo-Catholic
Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasise the Catholic heritage and identity of the various Anglican churches.
The term was coined in the early 19th century, although movements emphasising the Catholic nature of Anglica ...
tradition, which prefers its churches to have beautiful surroundings and fine fittings to enhance worship; Moore's designs reflect this.[
The ]National Heritage List for England
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shows that at least 34 of Moore's new churches are designated as listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
s. Two of these, St Wilfrid, Harrogate, and All Saints, Stroud, are listed at Grade I, and at least 16 of the others are at Grade II*. For his secular works, Moore received praise from his contemporaries for remodelling South Hill Park
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History
Construction by Watts
The original South Hill Park mans ...
in Berkshire, and for restoring the Treasurer's House and St William's College in York
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.[
]
See also
*List of new churches by Temple Moore
Temple Moore (1856–1920) was an English architect who practised from an office in London. He was born in Tullamore, Ireland, and was the son of an army officer. He was educated at High School of Glasgow, Glasgow High School, then privately. ...
* List of church restorations and alterations by Temple Moore
*List of church fittings and furniture by Temple Moore
Temple Moore (1856–1920) was an English architect who practised from an office in London. He was born in Tullamore, Ireland, and was the son of an army officer. He was educated at Glasgow High School, then privately. In 1875, he was articl ...
*List of miscellaneous works by Temple Moore
Temple Lushington Moore, Temple Moore (1856–1920) was an English architect who practised from an office in London. He was born in Tullamore, Ireland, and was the son of an army officer. He was educated at High School of Glasgow, Glasgow High ...
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1856 births
1920 deaths
English ecclesiastical architects
Gothic Revival architects
Burials at St John-at-Hampstead
English Anglo-Catholics
People from Tullamore, County Offaly