Percy Richard Morley Horder

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Photograph of Percy Morley Horder aged around 28 years.

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Photograph of Percy Morley Horder aged around 55 years old.

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This portrait hangs in the National Institute of Agricultural Biology in Cambridge, England, as Percy Richard Morley Horder was the architect of the building, when it was opened by the King in 1921.

Percy Richard Morley Horder (18th November 1870 - 7th October 1944) was an English architect who specialised in English country houses but also laid out gardens such as Highfields Park, Nottingham. He worked in the Arts and Crafts style and was mainly active in Dorset and the Cotswolds. He was responsible for the Trent Building in the University of Nottingham.

Biography

He was born in Torquay, the son of the Congregationalist minister, William Garrett Horder.

Oeuvre

• He did domestic work in Surrey, Sussex and Dorset, and designed Congregational churches in Ealing Green (1911), Queen's Avenue, Muswell Hill (1900), Bushey, Hertfordshire (1904), Penge and Brondesbury Park (1911) and also designed the Cheshunt (Congregational) College in Cambridge.
• He designed the gardens of

• Court House
• Greystock in Warwick
• Mallory Court
• Moonhill, Cuckfield, Surrey.
• Nether Lypiatt Manor
• Rockbeare House
• Steeple Manor
• Upton House
• Waterston Manor
• Winwick Manor

• After the 14- 18 war he designed shops for Boots the Chemist (at Bristol, Lincoln, Windsor Brighton and Regent Street, London. Through his friendship with Sir Jesse Boot he obtained the commission to design the buildings at University College, Nottingham from 1922-28. This included the Highfields Park, the Highfields Lido and the Trent Building.