William Orchard (
fl. 1468died 1504) was an English
gothic
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*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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architect, responsible for the elaborate
pendant vaults of the
Divinity School, Oxford and the
chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Ov ...
of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral of the Anglican diocese of Oxford, which consists of the counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. It is also the chapel of Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford. This dual r ...
. He worked on the
cloister
A cloister (from Latin ''claustrum'', "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a ...
and designed the
Great Tower of
Magdalen College, Oxford also known as Magdalen Tower. He also designed the parish church of
Waterstock
Waterstock is a village and civil parish on the River Thame about west of the market town of Thame in Oxfordshire. The parish is bounded to the north and west by the river, to the south largely by the A418 main road, and to the east largely by ...
. He lived at Barton, a hamlet of Headington, where he owned a Quarry.
William Orchard and Headington
- Headington community website
Gallery of architectural work
File:Divinity School ceiling2.jpg, Detail of vault, Oxford Divinity School
File:Magdalen College Tower.jpg, Tower, Magdalen College, Oxford
File:Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.jpg, Oxford Cathedral, Orchard's vault is visible at the far end
File:St Leonards Church, Waterstock - geograph.org.uk - 94380.jpg, St. Leonards Church, Waterstock
References
Gothic architects
15th-century English architects
Year of birth missing
15th-century births
1504 deaths
16th-century English architects
Architects from Oxford
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