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William Lethaby
All Saints' Church, Brockhampton
Born
(1857-01-18)18 January 1857
Barnstaple, Devon, England
Died
17 July 1931(1931-07-17) (aged 74)
Bayswater, Middlesex, England
Occupation
Architect
Buildings
Avon Tyrell House; Melsetter House
William Richard Lethaby (18 January 1857 – 17 July 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian[1] whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of conservation and art education.
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Lethaby, William Richard" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
William Richard Lethaby (18 January 1857 – 17 July 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the...
specialist art teaching for workers in the craft industries. The architect WilliamLethaby (1857–1931) was the first Principal, as recorded by a blue plaque on...
and Crafts movement of William Morris and John Ruskin. The first principal, from 1896 until 1911, was William Richard Lethaby; a blue plaque in his memory...
1884, the Art Workers Guild was initiated by five young architects, WilliamLethaby, Edward Prior, Ernest Newton, Mervyn Macartney and Gerald C. Horsley...
published copies of manuscripts by architect William Harrison Cowlishaw, he was introduced to WilliamLethaby in 1898, principal of the Central School of...
continent, it was dominant in England until the mid-16th century. In 1906 WilliamLethaby, Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey, proposed that the origin...
Kenton & Co.. His co-founders were Sidney Barnsley, Reginald Blomfield, WilliamLethaby, Ernest Gimson, Stephen Webb and Colonel Harold Esdaile Malet. The...
to be an influence on the "school of rational builders" surrounding WilliamLethaby, and Ernest Gimson and his community of architect-craftsmen based at...
of Imereti. The incident caused the cupola and ceiling to collapse. WilliamLethaby called it "the finest of Georgian monuments". Conservation and restoration...
published copies of manuscripts by architect William Harrison Cowlishaw, he was introduced to WilliamLethaby in 1898, principal of the Central School of...
Loughborough Pearson (1878–1897) John Thomas Micklethwaite (1897–1906) WilliamLethaby (1906–1928) Walter Tapper (1928–1935) Charles Reed Peers (1935–1951)...
of week-ending for our politicians" in the words of Webb's friend WilliamLethaby. Two south-facing drawing rooms were connected by double doors, allowing...
Central School of Arts and Crafts. Oxford Reference. Accessed July 2013. Lethaby, William Richard (1857–1931): Plaque erected in 1957 by London County Council...
east. 122-124 Colmore Row, former Eagle Insurance Company offices (WilliamLethaby and Joseph Ball, 1900 114–116 Colmore Row, former Atlas Assurance office...
all sited at either end of The Mall in central London. Robert Atkinson, William Bidlake, George Frederick Bodley, Ninian Comper, Charles Holden, Goscombe...
architect William Harrison Cowlishaw, and a handbook by Edward F. Strange, he was introduced to Cowlishaw in 1898 and then to WilliamLethaby, principal...
Stansfield Dixon; to the mystically charged symbolism of the work of WilliamLethaby. Birmingham's existing visual culture made it highly receptive to Arts...
fusion of Eastern feeling with his style." The architectural historian WilliamLethaby describing the Tower House The cultural historian Caroline Dakers wrote...
furniture business along with Sir Mervyn MacCartney, Reginald Blomfield, WilliamLethaby, Ernest Gimson, Stephen Webb and Colonel Harold Esdaile Malet.. Sidney...
were designed by another leading Arts and Crafts Movement architect, WilliamLethaby, as was the altar front with its intertwined wild roses, leaves and...
design in nature in On Growth and Form and by architect WilliamLethaby. His admiration for William Morris led him to adopt Morris's favourite colour of...
Hospital on 5 October 1953. In 1899, aged 18, Rooke was employed by WilliamLethaby in the school holidays to make drawings of the Chapter House at Westminster...
glass in a memorial window in the church was designed around 1884 by WilliamLethaby, who later became Professor of Ornament & Design at the Royal College...
Doesburg, Dutch polymath, leader of De Stijl (born 1883) July 17 – WilliamLethaby, English Arts and Crafts architect and designer (born 1857) September...
respect for the past. On 11 April 1898, the architect and historian WilliamLethaby offered Edward Johnston a job teaching illuminating and calligraphy...
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