Prior's Field,
originally called Prior's Garth.

1900

Puttenham, near Guildford,
Surrey.

For F. H. Chambers.

 

Chambers never lived in the house. It was sold after it was built to Leonard Huxley.
His wife, Julia Huxley, converted the building in a 'High Class School for Girls' in 1901-2.

Thomas Müntzer, Voysey's pupil, designed extensions to the school in 1904.

 

 


Images courtesy of RIBA Drawings Collection

The drawings for the building are identical with an unexecuted house at Collington Avenue, Bexhill, Sussex,
for A. Barker in 1898

 

 

Prior's Field, image on picuki.com
Courtesy of RIBA Drawings Collection

 

 

North elevation from the Barker House, Bexhill, Sussex, 1898, published in The British Architect, 9th September 1898.

 

 

Elevations from the Barker House, Bexhill, Sussex, 1898, published in The British Architect, 9th September 1898.

 

 

Drawings from the Barker House, Bexhill, Sussex, 1898, published in The British Architect, 9th September 1898.

 

 

Ground plan from the Barker House, Bexhill, Sussex, 1898, published in The British Architect, 9th September 1898.

 

 

First floor plan from the Barker House, Bexhill, Sussex, 1898, published in The British Architect, 9th September 1898.

 

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Ground floor plan for Prior's Field,
published in Studio, 21/1901, p. 244.
RIBA Drawings Collection

 

 


ERDGESCHOSS = GROUND FLOOR for Prior's Field,
published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, p.132.

DRAW.R. = DRAWING ROOM

HALLE U. ESSZ. = Halle und Esszimmer = DINING HALL

ARB.Z = Arbeitszimmer = STUDY

WINDF. = Windfang = PORCH

FAHR. = Fahrräder = BICYCLES

W.R. = Waschraum = LAVATORY

C. = WC

VORRÄTE = PANTRY

GESCH. = Geschirr = DISHES

KÜCHE = KITCHEN

SPÜ.K. = Spülküche = SCULLERY

FL. = Flaschen (bottles) = BOOTS (at the English ground plan)

KOHL. = Kohlen = COALS

HOF = YARD

 

First floor plan for Prior's Field,
published in: Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, p.133.

SCHL. Z. = Schlafzimmer = BED ROOM
BAD = BATHROOM

 

Garden.
Published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus.

 

 

Published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, p.132.

 

Photo published in Walter Shaw Sparrow, The British home of today;
a book of modern domestic architecture & the applied arts,
1904

 

 

Photo on priorsfieldschool.net

 

 

The left wing was designed by Voysey in 1900,
the right wing was designed by Thomas Müntzer, Voysey's pupil, in 1904.
Photo on www.trinity-travel.ru

 

 

The left wing was designed by Voysey in 1900,
the right wing was designed by Thomas Müntzer, Voysey's pupil, in 1904.
Photo on www.godalmingmuseum.org.uk

 

 

Prior's Field, Puttenham, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

Prior's Field, Puttenham, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

Prior's Field, Puttenham, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

Prior's Field, Puttenham, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

Photo published in Walter Shaw Sparrow, The British home of today;
a book of modern domestic architecture & the applied arts,
1904

 

Rear Elevation
Photo on www.priorsfieldschool.net

 

 

Rear Elevation
Photo on www.priorsfieldschool.net

 

 

Rear Elevation
Photo on www.priorsfieldschool.net

 

 

Prior's Field, photo by Deborah Mays on twitter.com

 

 

Prior’s Field School (1904) photo on exploringsurreyspast.org.uk

 

 

Photo on priorsfieldschool.net

 

Prior's Field on twitter

 

Prior's Field, Puttenham, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

Prior's Field, Puttenham, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

Prior's Field, photo by Deborah Mays on twitter.com

 

 

Prior's Field, photo by Deborah Mays on twitter.com

 

 

The extensions on the right were built by Thomas Müntzer in 1904.
On the left is the field wing extension built in 1988.
Photo on priorsfieldschool.net.

 

 

Phases of construction, painted by Richard Kent, former Chairman of Prior's Field School.
Voysey's building is in red on top of the image.
Source: "Prior's Garth to Prior's Field School" by Catherine Sidwell,
in The Journal of The Voysey Society, Number Three, Autumn 2014, p. 48.

 

 

Photographs and Drawings Courtesy of The Royal Institute of British Architects.
Photographs, drawings, perspectives and other design patterns
at the Royal Institut of British Architects Drawings and Photographs Collection.
Images can be purchased.
The RIBA can supply you with conventional photographic or digital copies
of any of the images featured in RIBApix.

Link > RIBApix: Gate at Piors's Garth

Link > RIBApix: all Voysey Images

 

Link > Black & white photographs on flickr taken in 1976

Link > www.priorsfieldschool.net

Link > https://archive.priorsfieldschool.com

Link > www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk

Link > Wikipedia

 

The entry in Pevsner's Surrey (with Charles O'Brien, Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry, 2022) reads:

PRIOR’S FIELD SCHOOL. Originally Prior’s Garth, a simple rectangular block with roughcast walls, sloping buttresses at the corners, plain hipped roof, and two-storey canted bays on the garden front flanking a seat under the cover of an extension of the roof. Short square tower at the rear corner. By Voysey, 1900, repeating an unused design of 1898 for a house in Bexhill-on-Sea (East Sussex). Commissioned by Frank Harding Chambers, Assistant Master at Charterhouse, but never occupied by him. Inside, mostly preserved details, especially the oak-panelled hall (former dining room) with Wrecclesham green tiles round a concave fireplace in a pillared surround, and stair within a cage and screen of thin uprights. From 1901 Julia Huxley took it over as a progressive girls’ school. Tom Muntzer, Voysey’s assistant and son of his builder, designed the big extension of four ranges round an inner courtyard, completed after his death 1904-6. This presents a three-and-a-half storey central gable and nearly symmetrical side gables to the playing fields and steep roofs broken by large windows on the entrance side. Library on the first floor refitted in 1928 with furnishings by Russells of Broadway. Additional, very harmonious, classrooms (Field Wing) to the N by Brandon-Jones & Ashton in 1964 (extended 1988) and similarly treated Sports Hall of 2001 by Modern Design Group, Godalming.


References:

The Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, XVI, 1903, B4.

Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, pp.132-3.

Walter Shaw Sparrow, The British home of today;
a book of modern domestic architecture & the applied arts,
1904

Catherine Sidwell, 'Prior's Garth to Prior's Field School',
The Orchard, The Journal of The Voysey Society, Number Three, Autumn 2014, pp.37-50.

David Cole, The Art and architecture of CFA Voysey : English pioneer modernist architect & designer, 2015.

 

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