Samuel Sanders Teulon

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Samuel Sanders Teulon
Born 2 March 1812(1812-03-02)
Greenwich, London, England[citation needed]
Died 2 May 1873(1873-05-02) (aged 61)[citation needed]
Tenchleys, 3 The Green, Hampstead, London[citation needed]
Nationality United Kingdom

Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–73) was a notable 19th century English Gothic Revival architect.

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[edit] Family

Teulon was born in 1812 in Greenwich in south-east London, the son of a cabinet-maker from a French Huguenot family. His younger brother William Milford Teulon (1823–1900) also became an architect. Teulon died in 1873 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery.[1] His great great great nephew, Alan Teulon, published a book on S S Teulon in 2009.[2]

[edit] Career

Teulon attended the Royal Academy Schools, exhibited at the Academy in 1835 and began practice as an architect in 1838. He was a friend of George Gilbert Scott and became a member of the Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 6 January 1835. He was an assistant to George Porter and in 1843 travelled in continent Europe with Ewan Christian.[3]

He particularly specialised in Victorian Gothic Revival churches, but also designed several country houses and even complete villages. His first large-scale commission came in 1848 from the 7th Duke of Bedford to design cottages for the Thorney estate.

Other clients included the Archbishop of Canterbury,[which?][citation needed] the Duke of Marlborough,[which?][citation needed] the 10th Duke of St. Albans and Prince Albert.

[edit] Works

Buxton Memorial Fountain in Victoria Tower Gardens, London, designed by S.S. Teulon, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834.

[edit] References

  1. ^ source: Miscellanea Geneaologica et Heraldica, 4 Series Vol II (1909) as noted in Alan Teulon's 'The Life and Work of Samuel Sanders Teulon'(2009)
  2. ^ http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/community/nostalgia/famous_ancestor_built_chapel_for_royal_family_1_3288582
  3. ^ Brodie 2001, p. 779.
  4. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 1, p. 156.
  5. ^ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 543.
  6. ^ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 600.
  7. ^ Pevsner 1966, p. 304.
  8. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 2, p. 389.
  9. ^ Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 241.
  10. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 1, p. 286.
  11. ^ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 522.
  12. ^ Pevsner & Wedgwood 1966, p. 165.
  13. ^ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, pp. 52, 53.
  14. ^ Pevsner 1966, p. 137.
  15. ^ a b Pevsner 1966, p. 296.
  16. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 857.
  17. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 2, p. 390.
  18. ^ Pevsner 1966, p. 126.
  19. ^ Pevsner & Cherry 1975, p. 250.
  20. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 788.
  21. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 1, pp. 459–460.
  22. ^ Pevsner & Cherry 1975, p. 83.
  23. ^ Pevsner & Cherry 1975, p. 363.
  24. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 701.
  25. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 1, p. 332.
  26. ^ Pevsner 1954, pp. 421–422.
  27. ^ Pevsner 1966, p. 166.
  28. ^ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 570.
  29. ^ Pevsner & Lloyd 1967, pp. 210–211.
  30. ^ a b Pevsner & Lloyd 1967, p. 280.
  31. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 1, p. 347.
  32. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 2, p. 275.
  33. ^ Pevsner 1951, p. 35.
  34. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 2, p. 274.
  35. ^ http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/024j
  36. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 1, p. 485.
  37. ^ Pevsner 1966, p. 297.
  38. ^ Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 243.
  39. ^ Verey 1970, vol. 1, p. 344.
  40. ^ Pevsner 1966, p. 298.
  41. ^ Pevsner & Lloyd 1967, p. 766.
  42. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 334.
  43. ^ Pevsner 19, p. 149.
  44. ^ Pevsner & Wedgwood 1966, p. 288.

St Peter's Church, Birch, Essex. 1850

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