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Alfred Hoare Powell
Personal information
NameAlfred Hoare Powell
NationalityBritish
Birth date1865
Birth place
Date of death1960
Work
Significant buildingsBransby Hall, Yorkshire Bedales School
Significant projectsLong Copse, Ewhurst, Surrey
Awards and prizes


Alfred Hoare Powell (1865–1960) was an English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery.

Career

Alfred Powell was a pupil of John Dando Sedding, working in the 'crafted Gothic' tradition inspired by John Ruskin. His wife, Louise Powell, née Lessore, was the daughter of an artist, and studied embroidery, calligraphy and illuminating. Together Alfred and Louise Powell became celebrated as pottery designers for Wedgwoods. They collaborated on the revitalisation of the arts and crafts, rejecting industrialisation and designing furniture decoration, embroidery and ceramics, and encouraging a communitarian spirit in the South Cotswolds.

Alfred Powell with the younger architect Norman Jewson was the most significant associate of Ernest Gimson and the brothers Ernest and Sidney Barnsley at Sapperton, in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswold Arts and Crafts revival. He settled nearby at The Thatched House, Tunley, near Oakridge, in the late 1890s. He worked with Detmar Blow and F.W. Troup for both the National Trust and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

Architectural works

Powell's architectural works include a house at Bransby Hall, Yorkshire, for Hugh Fairfax-Cholmeley; repairs at Barrington Court, Somerset and Queen's College, Cambridge; and projects with others of the Gimson school at Pinbury Park and Rodmarton Manor, near Sapperton, and Bedales School in Hampshire. Long Copse (1897), at Ewhurst, was much praised by contemporaries; it was described by the painter G.F. Watts as the most beautiful house in Surrey.

Alfred Powell edited the memorial volume to his friend Ernest Gimson, Ernest Gimson: his life and work (1924), with contributions by William Richard Lethaby and F.L. Griggs.

Literature and Sources

  • Good Workmanship with Happy Thought: The Work of Alfred and Louise Powell, Exhibition Catalogue, 1992
  • Jacqueline Sarsby, 'Alfred Powell: Idealism and Realism in the Cotswolds', Journal of Design History, vol. 10, No. 4, Craft, Culture and Identity (1997), pp. 375-397
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1830s  1840s  1850s  - 1860s -  1870s  1880s  1890s
1862 1863 1864 - 1865 - 1866 1867 1868

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1930s  1940s  1950s  - 1960s -  1970s  1980s  1990s
1957 1958 1959 - 1960 - 1961 1962 1963

Year 1960 (MCMLX
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John Dando Sedding

Personal information
Name John Dando Sedding
Nationality English
Birth date 1838
Birth place
Date of death 1891

Work

Significant buildings Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London

Awards and prizes
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John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well.
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Wedgwood is a British pottery firm, originally founded in 1759 by Josiah Wedgwood, which in 1987 merged with Waterford Crystal to become Waterford Wedgwood.

Josiah Wedgwood was also the patriarch of the Darwin — Wedgwood family.
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Cotswolds

The village of Bibury features Cotswold stone cottages


Country England
Counties Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire.
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Norman Jewson

Personal information
Name Norman Jewson
Nationality British
Birth date February 12 1884
Birth place Norfolk, England
Date of death August 28 1975
Place of death Sapperton, England
Work

Significant buildings
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Ernest Gimson

Personal information
Name Ernest Gimson
Nationality British
Birth date November 21 1864(1864--)
Birth place Leicester, England
Date of death July 12 1919 (aged 56)
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Sapperton may refer to:
  • Sapperton, Derbyshire, England
  • Sapperton, Gloucestershire, England
  • Sapperton Tunnel
  • Sapperton canal tunnel
  • Sapperton, Lincolnshire, England

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    Gloucestershire (pronounced [ˈglɒstəʃə]; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England.
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    Oak Ridge or Oakridge is the name of many places:

    In the United Kingdom:
    • Oakridge, Gloucestershire, England
    • Oakridge, Hampshire, England
    In the United States of America:
    • Oak Ridge (California), a ridge in Santa Clara County

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    Detmar Blow

    Personal information
    Name Detmar Blow
    Nationality British
    Birth date 1867
    Birth place England
    Date of death 1939
    Place of death Hilles, England
    Work

    Significant buildings Hilles
    Eaton Hall (Cheshire)

    Awards and prizes
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    National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Trust does not operate in Scotland, where there is an independent National Trust for Scotland.
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    The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877, to oppose what they saw as the insensitive renovation of ancient buildings then occurring in Victorian England.
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    Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England, and the largest historic county in Great Britain. Although Yorkshire is a historic county, with no current official standing (except as part of the name of the English region of Yorkshire and the Humber), the name is
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    Barrington Court


    Building information
    Location Barrington
    Country England

    Completion date 1550s

    Style Tudor Barrington Court is a Tudor manor house begun c.
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    Somerset

    Geography
    Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
    Origin Historic
    Region South West England
    Area
    - Total
    - Admin. council
    - Admin.
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    Queen's College, Queens' College or Queens College is the name of more than one institution.

    Most widely known Queens Colleges:
    • Queens' College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, England

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    Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages.
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    Rodmarton Manor is a large country house, in Rodmarton, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, built for the Biddulph family. It is a Grade I listed building. It was constructed in 1909-1929 in an Arts and Crafts style, to a design by Ernest Barnsley.
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    Bedales School is a public school with a progressive ethos located in the village of Steep, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.

    Bedales was founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of the conventional Victorian Public School.
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      Hampshire, sometimes historically Southamptonshire, Hamptonshire, (abbr. Hants), or the County of Southampton, is a county on the south coast of England.
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      Ewhurst could be
      • Ewhurst, East Sussex
      • Ewhurst, Suffolk
      • Ewhurst, Surrey

      This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.

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      George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February, 1817 – 1 July, 1904; sometimes spelt "George Frederick Watts") was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.
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      Surrey

      Geography
      Status Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county
      Origin Historic
      Region South East England
      Area
      - Total
      - Admin.
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      William Lethaby

      Personal information
      Name William Lethaby
      Nationality British
      Birth date 1857
      Birth place Barnstaple, England
      Date of death 1931
      Place of death England
      Work

      Significant buildings Avon Tyrell House
      Melsetter House
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      Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

      October 30, 1876
      Hitchin, Hertfordshire
      June 7, 1938
      Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
      English
      Field etcher, architectural draughtsman, illustrator
      Slade School of Art

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