Arthur Blomfield

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Sir Arthur Blomfield
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Born(1829-03-06)6 March 1829
Fulham Palace, London
Died30 October 1899(1899-10-30) (aged 70)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge
OccupationArchitect
AwardsRoyal Gold Medal (1891)
BuildingsRoyal College of Music in London,

Selwyn College, Cambridge, Bancroft's School in London,

St. George's Anglican Cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana
ProjectsSouthwark Cathedral restoration

Sir Arthur William Blomfield ARA FRIBA (6 March 1829 – 30 October 1899) was an English architect. He became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 and vice-president of the RIBA in 1886. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Architecture.

Background[]

He was the fourth son of Charles James Blomfield, Anglican Bishop of London, who began a programme of new church construction in the capital. Born in Fulham Palace, Arthur Blomfield was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He was then articled as an architect to Philip Charles Hardwick, and subsequently obtained a large practice on his own account.[2]

The young Thomas Hardy joined Blomfield's practice as assistant architect in April 1862, and the writer remained friends with Blomfield. He became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 (proposed by George Gilbert Scott, H. Brandon and J. P. Seddon); and vice-president of the RIBA in 1886.[2] In 1889, he was knighted. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1891.

He was twice married. His second wife, Lady Blomfield, was an author and humanitarian.[3] He had two sons, Charles J. Blomfield and Arthur Conran Blomfield (1863–1935), whom he brought up to his own profession, of which they became distinguished representatives.[2] His nephew, Sir Reginald Blomfield, apprenticed under him, went on to design numerous buildings, public works, and sculpture, including the Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross, for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. These are in Commonwealth cemeteries in many countries.

Major works[]

Selwyn College, Cambridge
St Peter in Eastgate, Lincoln. A replacement for a medieval church, St Peter's is the combined work of three eminent architects: nave & chancel by Sir Arthur Blomfield (1870), south aisle by Temple Moore (1914) and the chancel decoration by George Frederick Bodley (1884).

In 1882 Blomfield designed the Royal College of Music in London. In 1887 he became architect to the Bank of England and, in association with , designed the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England in Fleet Street.[1] A. E. Street was the son of the architect G. E. Street.[4]

In 1890–7 he rebuilt the nave of St. Saviour's parish church, Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral), replacing an earlier reconstruction of 1839–40.[5] It is a notable example of his use of a Gothic Revival style. He was highly regarded as a restorer;[2] a spokesman for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings said of his 1898 restoration of Salisbury Cathedral spire "conducted in the most conservative way possible ... I am confident that anyone who had been privileged to see the work that is being done ... would not withhold his subscriptions even though he was as ardent an anti-restorer as your obedient servant."[6]

In 1899 he completed St. George's Anglican Cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana, which was the tallest wooden church in the world until 2003 when the Peri Monastery near Săpânţa in northern Romania was completed.

The Royal College of Music in London was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield

Other works (in chronological order)[]

Denton Hall, 1879–1883

As Sir A.W. Blomfield and Sons[]

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