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For the English surgeon, see Henry Hugh Clutton.

Minley Manor (1858–1860)

Henry Clutton (19 March 1819 – 27 June 1893)[1][2][3] was an English architect and designer.

Life

Cliveden House Clock Tower (1861)

Henry Clutton was born on 19 March 1819, the son of Owen and Elizabeth Goodinge Clutton. He studied with Edward Blore between 1835 and 1840, but began his own practice in 1844. He became an expert in French medieval architecture. Clutton also worked with William Burges. John Francis Bentley was a student of Clutton.

In 1855, Clutton and Burges won the competition to design Lille Cathedral; however, the idea of entrusting the construction of a church in honour of the Virgin to foreign architects of an Anglican confession raised objections. Therefore, the project was given to a local architect.[4]

Between 1858 and 1860, Clutton built Minley Manor in the French chateau style for Raikes Currie, a partner in Glyn Mills' Bank and a member of the Currie family who benefited substantially from slavery in the British West Indies.[5] It was later used by the Royal School of Military Engineering.

After Cliveden House burned down for the second time, around 1859, George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland commissioned Clutton to design a nearby water tower. The 100-foot (30m) clock tower was added in 1861 and still provides water for the house today. It is rendered in Roman cement like the rest of the house, and features four clock faces framed by gilded surrounds and a half-open staircase on its north side. It was described by the architectural critic Nicholas Pevsner as "the epitome of Victorian flamboyance and assertiveness."[6]

He is buried at St Mary Magdalen, Mortlake.

Works

  • Illustrations of Medieval Architecture in France, from the Accession of Charles VI. to the Demise of Louis XII: With Historical and Professional Remarks

Buildings

  • Battle Abbey
    Battle Abbey
  • Quantock Lodge
    Quantock Lodge
  • St Michael's Church, Ditton
    St Michael's Church, Ditton
  • St Mary's Church, Ewell
    St Mary's Church, Ewell
  • Hoar Cross Hall
    Hoar Cross Hall
  • The Sandy Lodge
    The Sandy Lodge

References

  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48422
  2. ^ Hunting, Penelope. "Henry Clutton's Country Houses", Architectural History, Vol. 26, (1983), pp. 96-180
  3. ^ Photograph | http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GScid=1366392&GRid=12186732&PIgrid=12186732&PIcrid=1366392&PIpi=3000944&
  4. ^ Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Yale University Press, 1987, p. 255ISBN 9780300053203
  5. ^ "Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest". English Heritage. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  6. ^ Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, London, 1960, p. 48
  7. ^ Historic England. "Hoar Cross Hall (1038508)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  8. ^ The Book of Dunstable and Houghton Regis, Evans, ISBN 0 86023 223 9
  9. ^ English heritage review of diocesan churches (including picture)
  10. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary the Virgin (1252395)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
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