Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887 in

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

– 21 June 1959 in

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) was a British architect, writer and musician.

Life

Harry Stuart Goodhart was born on 29 May 1887 in Cambridge, England. He added the additional name Rendel by royal licence in 1902. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England, Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. i ...

, and read music at

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. He worked briefly for Sir Charles Nicholson, and then set up his own architectural practice. He is known for his church projects. He was Oxford's Slade Professor of Fine Art, from 1933 to 1936. His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival of interest in Victoriana, by

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. He served as president of the

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(RIBA) from 1937 to 1939. He was appointed a CBE in 1955. Although he was a good 25 years older than Michael Noble, later Baron Glenkinglas, the two had a friendly feud based on the much nastier Andrew Noble - George Whitwick Rendel feud.

Works

*1924: ''

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'' *1932: ''Vitruvian Nights'' *1934: ''Fine Art'' *1937: ''Hatchlands, Surrey'' *1938: ''Architecture in a Changing World'' *1947: ''How Architecture is Made'' *1953: ''English Architecture Since the Regency'' *The Goodhart-Rendel Index of 19th century church builders, a card index which he compiled is held in the

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, London.

Buildings

* Eton Manor Boys' Club, Riseholme Street, London E9 (1912 demolished 1969) *St Olaf House, London (1928–32) *

St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton St Wilfrid's Church is a former Anglican church in the Elm Grove area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Designed and built in the 1930s to replace a temporary building in the densely populated Elm Grove area, its unusu ...

(1932–34), now converted into residential apartments *

Princes House, Brighton Princes House (formerly Norwich Union House) is an office and residential building in the centre of Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. The prominently sited building, an example of Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel's " ...

(1935–36) * Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Banstead Wood, Surrey (1948) *

St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea St John the Evangelist's Church is the Anglicanism, Anglican parish church of the Upper St Leonards area of St Leonards-on-Sea, a town and seaside resort which is part of the Hastings, Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. The present bui ...

(rebuilding after war damage, 1951) *

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(1955–59) *Sacred Heart Church,

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(1958) * Our Lady of the Rosary,

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* Several houses in the Surrey village of

East Clandon East Clandon is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England on the A246 between the towns of Guildford to the west and Leatherhead to the east. Neighbouring villages include West Clandon and West Horsley. In 2011 it had a population of 268 in ...

were built to his drawings including Antler's Corner, Appletree Cottage, Meadow Cottage and 5 School Lane (1910), Prospect Cottages (1914), Snelgate Cottages (1926) and the St Thomas' Housing Society Cottages (1947) *Goodhart-Rendel designed a cover for the organ at the

Royal Chapel of All Saints The Royal Chapel of All Saints or Queen Victoria's Chapel is a Grade II listed church in the grounds of the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, England and is a Royal Peculiar, serving as an informal parish church for the inhabitants an ...

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. * St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church, George St,

Whithorn Whithorn ( �ʍɪthorn 'HWIT-horn'; ''Taigh Mhàrtainn'' in Gaelic), is a royal burgh in the historic county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about south of Wigtown. The town was the location of the first recorded Christ ...

, Wigtownshire, Galloway, Scotland, 1959-60

His only known building in Scotland. The interior has seen some reordering with the moving forward of the altar from the East wall after the

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. At that time the

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was also removed, together with some decorative ironwork. The East elevation has a carved Hew Lorimer crucifix mounted to wall. St_Martin_and_St_Ninian_Catholic_Church_Whithorn_Wigtownshire_consecrated_1960

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Family

His father was Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), a former international footballer who became professor of Latin at the

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. His mother was Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel, the daughter of Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, from whom in 1945 he inherited a substantial estate including

Hatchlands Park Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres). It is located near Guildford along the A246 between East Clandon and West Horsley. Hatchlands Park has be ...

which he subsequently made over to the

National Trust The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is a separate and ...

Notes

Sources

External links

The Clandons: a look into the past (includes "The last squire of East Clandon", by Maurice Wiggin

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