William West Neve (7 June 1852 – 26 December 1942)
was a minor English architect in the
Arts and Crafts style.
Career
Neve was educated at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire and began his architectural training as an assistant in the office of
Richard Norman Shaw
Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), also known as Norman Shaw, was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. He is considered to be among the g ...
before leaving in 1877 to practice on his own at No.4 Chilworth Street, London and later from 1878 at No.5 Bloomsbury Square, London. In 1882, Neve worked in partnership with fellow ex-Norman Shaw pupil
Ernest Newton
Ernest Newton (12 September 1856 – 25 January 1922) was an English architect, President of Royal Institute of British Architects and founding member of the Art Workers' Guild.
Life
Newton was the son of an estate manager of Bickley, Ke ...
.
Neve regularly had his work published in journals
and was also a regular exhibitor at the
Royal Academy in London.
[Graves, Algernon (1906)''The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904'', Henry Graves, pp.349-350]
Notes on built works
St Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield
In 1893, Neve (with assistance from architect and churchwarden Frank Brind) proposed a design to remodel elements of St Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield, Kent. This included the construction of a vestry and the installation of a new organ. The original drawings for this scheme are preserved in the library of
Canterbury Cathedral.
Kingsbury Manor
In 1899, Neve designed a large halftimbered manor house at Roe Green Park, London for Mary, dowager
Duchess of Sutherland, the wife of
Sir Albert Kaye Rollit, M.P.
Moniaive
Several Arts and Crafts style buildings by Neve were commissioned by his sister Ellen Maria Monteith – the widow of Glencairn Parish Minister John Monteith - in the village of
Moniaive
Moniaive ( 'monny-IVE'; gd, Am Moine Naomh, ''"The Holy Moor"'') is a village in the Parish of Glencairn, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. It stands on the Cairn and Dalwhat Waters, north-west of the town of Dumfries. Moniaive has ...
in south-west
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...
, including St. Ninian’s Chapel of Ease (1887), Glenluiart (1901) and an L-shaped row of cottages at Dunreggan (1906).
Neve's drawings of Glenluiart are held at the Archive Centre,
Dumfries, under the title of 'House at Craigdarroch'.
Gallery
file: Grammar_School_Cranbrook.jpg, Unbuilt proposal for QE Grammar School, Cranbrook, 1878
file: William West Neve – Warehouses, Devonshire Street, London, 1879.jpg, Warehouses, Devonshire Street, London, 1879
file: 1880 – Coffee Tavern, Cranbrook, Kent.jpg, Coffee Tavern, Cranbrook, Kent, 1880
file: Offices_Cranbrook.jpg, Offices for Philpott & Wood, Cranbrook, 1881
file: William West Neve – House at Cranbrook, Kent, 1882.jpg, House at Cranbrook, Kent, 1882
file: William West Neve – Stables for The Red House, Streatham, London, 1884.jpg, Stables for The Red House, Streatham, London, 1884
file: William West Neve - Glenluiart, Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, 1901.jpg, Glenluiart, Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, 1901
Photographs
file: Temperance House Cranbrook.jpg, Coffee House, Cranbrook, 1880
file: St Ninian's Moniaive.jpg, St. Ninian’s Chapel of Ease, Moniaive, 1887
file: Goddington_House.jpg, Goddington House, Orpington, c.1890
file: Chelsfield, Saint Martin 04.JPG, Organ, St Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield, 1893
References
External links
Randolph Caldecott – The Chelsfield Connection.'Hollowforth' - E Jeaffreson Jackson's Richard Threfall House, 1891-92.
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1852 births
1942 deaths
Architects from Kent
Arts and Crafts architects
People from Cranbrook, Kent