Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) | |
CONTENTS | |
1 Executed Buildings | |
2 Unexecuted Projects | |
3 Furniture and Clocks | |
4 Wallpaper, Textiles, Carpets and Bookplates | |
5 Metalwork, Lighting and Fireplaces | |
6 Biography | |
7 Bibliography | |
8 British Architects and Designers in Voysey's Time | |
9 Art Nouveau (1890s to 1910s) | |
10 Modern
Architecture (1920s to 1930s) |
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Information Resources The Royal Institute of British Architects |
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Victoria & Albert Museum | |
The Voysey Society |
Chronological list of buildings, parts of
buildings, monuments & memorials.
Please click on the textual links or images to see more photographs, drawings and descriptions. |
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Date |
Project / Place / Client / Notes |
Photographs / Drawings / Links (RIBA) |
Literature / References |
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1888 |
For Sir Michael H. Lakin. |
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The British Architect, The Studio, Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1890 | New wing to THE CLIFF, 102 Coventry Road, Warwick. For Sir Michael H. Lakin. |
The British Architect, |
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1890 |
WALNUT TREE FARM. Also known as Bannut Tree House, now known as Bannut Farm House.
Castlemorton, Malvern,
Alterations and
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The British Architect, XXXIV, 1890, pp. 208 & 302; XLVI, 1894, pp. 417, 420; XLIV, 1895, p. 419. The American Architect & Building News, XXX, 1890, p. 75, pl. 775. Academy Architecture, II, 1895, pp.10 & 143. The Studio, XI, 1897, pp. 17 & 22. Country Life, The
Architect, Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1890-91 |
14 SOUTH PARADE. Bedford Park, London. For J. W. Forster.
New wing to the left |
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The British Architect, The Studio,
Architectural Association
David Gebhard, Charles F. A.
Budworth, D., '14
South Parade: Butlin, G., 'C.F.A.
Voyseys Prof. Ian Hamerton,
Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The
Art and |
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1891 |
STUDIO.
17 St Dunstan's Road, London. |
The
British Architect, Stuart
Durant, C F A Voysey, Prof. Ian Hamerton,
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1891 |
14
& 16 HANS ROAD Knightsbridge, London. For Archibold Grove.
According to Wendy Hitchmough
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The British Architect, Wendy Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1893 |
PERRYCROFT.
Upper
Colwall,
near Malvern, For J. W. Wilson.
New stables 1903. |
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The British Architect, XLI, 1893, p. 454; XLII, 1894, pp. 5-6; XLIV, 1895, p. 120. The Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, IV, 1896, pp. 67-68. Dekorative Kunst, I, 1897, p. 246. The Studio, XXI, 1901, p. 244. The Architect, LXXVI, 1906, p. 404. T. Raffles Davison, Modern Homes, 1909, pp. 20-21. Richard Havelock, The Orchard, Number Seven 2018, pp.51-62. Duncan
Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1894 | Cottage and outbuildings at ALTON, Hampshire. For Mrs
Mary Scott. |
No drawings located. |
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1894 |
LOWICKS.
Sandy Lane, Tilford, near Frensham, For E. J. Horniman.
1898-1916 alterations |
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The British Architect, Builder's Journal &
The Studio,
The House, David Gebhard,
Jack Warshaw,
Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1895 |
THE WENTWORTH ARMS INN.
Elmesthorpe, Hinckley,
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The British Architect, XLV, 1896, p. 42. |
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1895 |
ANNESLEY LODGE. 8 Platts Lane, London. For the Reverend Charles Voysey (Voysey's father). 1913 alterations and additions. The house has been devided |
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The British Architect The Studio, XI, 1897, p. 18; Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1895 |
HILL CLOSE. Studland Bay, Swanage, Dorset. For Alfred Sutro.
Originally a studiohouse. |
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1896 |
WORTLEY COTTAGES. 6 cottages at Elmesthorpe, Leicestershire. For the Earl of Lovelace. Originally thatched but rebuilt by Voysey with slate roofs after a fire in 1914. |
The British Architect, The Studio,
Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1896-97 |
GREYFRIARS HOUSE. Also known as Merlshanger and Wancote. The Hog's Back, near Puttenham, Surrey. For Julian Russell Sturgis. Additions and alterations by H. Baker, 1913. |
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The Builder's
Journal & Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1897 |
DIXCOT. 8 North Drive, Tooting, Wandsworth, Greater London. For Richard Walter Essex.
The house was built by Walter Cave
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The Studio,
The Builder's Journal
C. Holme (ed.), David
Cole, The Art and
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1897 |
NORNEY GRANGE. Shackleford, Surrey. House & lodge for the Reverend Leighton Grane. 1903 additions and alteration to house. Unexecuted designs for new stable buildings and cottage for J. G. Wainwright, 1903. |
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Dekorative Kunst, The Studio,
Hermann Muthesius,
The Builder,
The Architect,
J. Brandon-Jones, Ian Hamerton, Catherine Sidwell, 'Norney Richard Havelock, 'Norney
Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. Wendy Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1897-98 |
THE HILL. Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire. For J. C. E. Hope Brooke. |
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The British Architect, XLIX, 1898, p. 346. Builder's Journal &
The Builder,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1897 |
NEW PLACE. Farnham Lane, Haslemere, Surrey. The house was known as 'Hurtmore' until January 1900. For A. M. M. Stedman,
Additions and alterations1899 and 1901. |
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The Studio,
XXI,
1901, House and Garden, Architectural Review (Boston),
W. Shaw Sparrow (ed.),
W. Shaw Sparrow,
Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1898 | Additions
to 16
CHALCOT GARDENS, Englands Lane, Hampstead, Camden, Greater London. For the artist Adolphus J. Whalley. Front and rear extensions added. |
No drawings extant. |
Prof.
Ian Hamerton, 'Small
Houses of Artistic Pretensions', - C F A Voysey's studio designs for artistic clients, in The Orchard, Number Ten, Autumn 2021, pp.22-24. |
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1898 |
BROAD LEYS. Ghyll Head, near Cartmel Fell, Lake Windermere, Cumbria. For Arthur Currer Briggs.
Broadleys is now the
1899 design for a free-standing lodge. |
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The British Architect, LI, 1899, p. 256. The Studio, XVI, 1899, p. 158; XXXI, 1904, p. 127. Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, XVI, 1902-03, p. 389; XVII, 1903, p. 29. Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, I, 1904-05, pp. 159-164. The Architect, LXXIX, 1908, p. 208. David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, 1975, figs. 72-75. David Cole, Broad Leys, Windermere - George H Pattinson archive Collection, in The Orchard, Number Nine, Autumn 2020, pp.22-62.
Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1898-9 |
MOOR CRAG.
Gillhead,
near Cartmel Fell, For J. W. Buckley.
1900 stables. |
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The Builder's Journal & Architectural Review (Boston), The Studio, The Studio Yearbook, The Architect, David Gebhard,
Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1899 |
SPADE HOUSE.
Radnor Cliff Crescent, Sandgate,
For H. G. Wells. Extensive alterations. |
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The British Architect,
Duncan
Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1899 |
OAKHILL.
54 Hill Grove Crescent, For F. J. Mayers. |
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Darby, J., Discovering Oakhill,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1899 |
WINSFORD COTTAGE HOSPITAL. Originally called Beaworthy Cottage Hospital.
Halwill Junction,
near Beaworthy, For Mrs M. L. Medley. Additions 1924. |
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The Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, XVII, 1903, p. 231. Alastair Dick-Cleland, Restoration of Winsford Cottage Hospital, in The Orchard, Number Nine, Autumn 2020, pp.3-15.
Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1899 |
GORDONDENE.
15 Princes Way, Putney,
For Cecil E. Fitch. |
Architect & Building News, King, P.G., 'Gordondene: a David
Cole, The Art and
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1899 |
THE ORCHARD.
Shire Lane, Chorleywood,
For C.F.A. and Mary Maria Voysey,
Voysey left the Orchard in 1906.
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Country Life, Architectural Review, Charles Holme, The Ideal House,
Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1899 | Addition of a new studio building. 65 Hamilton Terrace, For George Simonds (Sculptor). |
Wendy
Hitchmough,
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1899
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Park
Keeper's Lodge at Bury Hill Park, Oldbury, Birmingham. For J.W.Wilson. Extensively altered since Voysey's time. |
Christopher Pancheri, 'Park Keeper's Cottage at Bury Hill Park', The Orchard, no.2, 2013, pp.28-36. |
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1900 |
OAKHURST. Now called Ropes & Bollards.
Ropes Lane, Fernhurst, For Mrs E. F. Chester.
1919 extended on the S side; |
The Builder's
Journal & Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1900 |
PRIOR'S GARTH later called PRIOR'S FIELD.
Puttenham,
near Guildford,
For F. H. Chambers.
1901-2 converted to Additions by John Brandon-Jones
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The Builder's
Journal &
Hermann
Muthesius,
"Prior's Garth to
Prior's Field David
Cole, The Art and
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1901 |
THE PASTURES.
North Luffenham, Rutland, For Miss G. Conant.
1909 alterations and
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The Builder's Journal
The Studio,
Moderne
Bauformen, The Architect,
CII, 1919, p.352;
Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1902 |
SANDERSON & SONS
FACTORY.
Barley Mow Passage, Chiswick,
For Sanderson & Sons |
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The Builder's Journal
The Journal of Decorative Art Charles Lawrence, 'Voysey, Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1902
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New wing to Roughwood Farm, Roughwood Lane, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire.
For Captain Williams. |
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1902 |
VODIN.
Old Woking Road, For F. Walters. |
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The Builder's
Journal & The Studio, XXXI, 1904, p. 132. The British Architect,
David Gebhard,
Richard Havelock, 'Recollections
Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1903 |
TY
BRONNA.
1904 stables. |
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The Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, XIX, 1904, p. 308.
W. Shaw Sparrow,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1903 |
The White Cottage. 68 Lyford Road, Wandsworth, London. For C. T. Coggin. Additions and alterations since Voysey's time. |
David
Cole, The Art and
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1903 | Upton Cottage, now called Chimneys, at Ockham, Ockham Park, Surrey. For the Earl of Lovelace. According to Nairn & Pevsner Ockham Park was originally a Jacobean house built in the 1620s,altered after 1724, italianized about 1830, altered by Voysey in 1894-5, and burnt in 1948. |
No photographs and drawings |
See Nairn & Pevsner, Surrey, 1971, p. 394, and Joanna Symonds, C.F.A. Voysey, p. 38. |
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1903 |
HOLLYBANK now Sunnybank. Shire Lane, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire. For Dr H. R. T. Fort, nominally built for the Reverend Matthew Edmeads. House and doctor's practice. Near The Orchard. |
The Builder's Journal &
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1903 |
TILEHURST. 10 Grange Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire. For Miss E. Somers. |
W. Shaw Sparrow, The Modern Home, 1906, p. 54. M. E. Macartney, 'Recent English domestic architecture', Architectural Review, 1908, p. 172. Chris and Morag Kane, 'Myholme and Tilehurst: The Voysey houses of Bushey', The Orchard, Number Four, Autumn 2015, pp.28-34. Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1904
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MYHOLME. Merry Hill Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire. Children's home. 1911 additions and alterations. |
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The Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, XX, 1904, pp. 271 & 272. The Architect, LXXVIII, 1907, p. 408. Architectural Review, 1908, pp. 171-173. Chris and Morag Kane, 'Myholme and Tilehurst: The Voysey houses of Bushey', The Orchard, Number Four, Autumn 2015, pp.28-34. David
Cole, The Art and
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1904 |
House at HIGHAM, Woodford, Essex. Lodge, electric engine house & motor house, with chauffeur's cottage. For Lady Henry Somerset. The house was built without Voysey's superintendence, and differs in several respects from his design. |
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The British Architect,
Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1904 |
HOUSES
AND INSTITUTE at WHITWOOD, near Normanton, Yorkshire. For Henry Briggs, Son & Co. Only one of the two terraces of housing was executed, but not under Voysey's superintendence. The Institute has been converted into The Rising Sun Public House by Tetley's Brewery, Leeds. |
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Dekorative Kunst, XIV, 1906, pp. 193, 196-197. The British Architect, LXIX, 1908, pp. 208 & 334.
David Gebhard, Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1905 |
WHITE HORSE INN. Now known as the White Horse Stables. Stetchworth, near Newmarket, Cambridgeshire. For the Earl of Ellesmere. |
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The British Architect, LXIV, 1905, p. 440; LXVI, 1906, p. 274.
Moderne Bauformen, The Architect, Country Life,
Architectural Review, Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1905 |
HOUSE
at
ASWAN, Egypt. For Dr H.E. Leigh Canney. |
The British Architect,
Stuart
Durant, CFA Voysey, Wendy Hitchmough,
Jonathan Dawson,
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c. 1905 | ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
OF ST JOHN FISHER. Shire Lane, Chorleywood, Three Rivers, Hertfordshire. Formerly known as Hill Cottage. |
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1905 | Additions and alterations to WOODBROOK, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. For A. Heyworth. House c1845 for J de Castro, extensively rebuilt 1906 by C F A Voysey for Heyworth. |
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The British Architect, |
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1905 |
HOLLY
MOUNT. Amersham Road, Knotty Green, near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. For C. T. Burke. The summer-house is no longer existent. |
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The British Architect, LXV, 1906, p. 148; LXVI, 1906, p. 346; LXVIII, 1907, p. 60. The Studio Yearbook, 1910, p. 81. Moderne Bauformen, Architectural Review,
M. Macartney, The Architect, David Gebhard,
Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1905-6 |
THE HOMESTEAD. Second Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. For Sydney Claridge Turner. |
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The British Architect, LXV, 1906, p. 310; LXVII, 1907, p. 370. Country Life, Moderne Bauformen,
M. Macartney, L. Weaver, Architectural Review,
David Gebhard,
Duncan Simpson,
C.F.A. WendyHitchmough,
Wendy Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1906-07 | WILVERLEY, now called Highlands. Extensions & alterations to old house & new stables & cottages, Holtye Common, Sussex. For J. F. Goodhart.
1906 coachman's cottage
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The British Architect,
Richard Havelock, |
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1906 | Altering & decorating existing house. Garden Corner, 13 Chelsea Embankment, London. For E. J.
Horniman. The
house is
Only
a certain proportion of the fittings |
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Wendy
Hitchmough,
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1906 |
Interior design for
the Essex and
Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society, Capel House, New Broad Street, London. For S. Claridge Turner. Dismantled about 1950. |
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Wendy
Hitchmough,
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1906 |
LITTLEHOLME. Upper Guildown Road, Guildford, Surrey. For George Mόntzer. Design for summerhouse, 1908. 1909 addition of dormer-windows and rooms in roof; 1911 Gardener's cottage; 1925 Alterations. The house has been divided into two units. |
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The British Architect, The Architect, G. Jekyll & L. Weaver, Moderne Bauformen -
R. Randal Phillips, Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1907 | Houses in 601& 602 Finchley Road, Hampstead, London, for Vernon Hart. Destroyed by bombing about 1940. There are 2 designs, one of which was executed and the other was not executed. |
RIBA Drawings Collection. |
The British Architect, LXVIII, 1907, p. 148. Nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, published by Garland in 1976, p. 314. |
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1909 |
LODGE STYLE. Shaft Road, Combe Down, near Bath, Somerset. For T. Sturge Cotterell. |
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The British Architect, The Builder, The Studio Yearbook, The Architect, Duncan
Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1909 |
LITTLEHOLME. 103 Sedbergh Road, Kendal, Cumbria. For A. W. Simpson. c.1923 unexecuted design for addition. |
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Architectural Review,
1911, Moderne Bauformen,
The Craftsman, The Builder,
David Gebhard, Duncan
Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1909 |
BUNGALOW near SLINDON, West Sussex. For Arthur Annesley Voysey, C. F. A. Voysey's younger brother. |
Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, London 1995, p. 203. |
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1909 |
BROOK END. New Road, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. For Miss F. Knight. Conversion of the stables into garages. |
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The Architect,
David Gebhard, Duncan
Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David
Cole, The Art and
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1910 | THE OLD BARN. Holmbury St Mary, near Dorking, Surrey. For Frederick James Mirrilees. Conversion of an existing barn into a convalescent home. Now converted into a private house. Enlargement at the backside not by Voysey. Booklet by Knight Frank. |
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1911 |
HOUSE in BELFAST. Malone Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. For Robert Hetherington. Executed substantially as shown on the design with the porch omitted. |
The British
Architect, C. E. B. Brett,
Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
Wendy
Hitchmough, David
Cole, The Art and
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1911 | Remodelling a Perfume Shop. 24 Old Bond Street, London. For J. & E. Atkinson. The shop was rebuilt
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The British Architect, RIBA Journal, David Gebhard,
Moderne Bauformen -
Monatshefte |
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1912 | Design for a shop in an existing building. 165 Victoria Street, Westminster, London. For Perry & Co. |
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1912 |
Design for a Burial Ground. Helenenthal, near Iglau. for Dr. Carl Lφw. |
Jindřich
Vybνral, Charles F. A. Voysey's Forgotten Designs for Southern Moravia, Uměnν LIII / 2005 |
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1912 | LILLYCOMBE HOUSE, near Porlock, Somerset. For Mary Countess of Lovelace.
Voysey made some alterations
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The British Architect, LXXVIII, 1912, p. 60.
Anne Anderson, |
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1913 |
Emslie Horniman Pleasance Gardens.
East Row, Kensal Green, |
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The British Architect, LXXX, 1915, pp. 273, 276. Caroline Wilson, 'Emslie Horniman Pleasance and its restoration', The Orchard, Issue no.2, Autumn 2013, pp.16-20. |
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1914 |
HIGH GAUT. White Cliffe or The Fairway, St Margaret's at Cliffe, near Dover, Kent.
For P.A. Barendt. |
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The British Architect,
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1919 |
HAMBLEDON HURST. The Green, Hambledon, Surrey. For A.H. van Gruisen. |
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Hambledon Parish Magazine, September 2017, p. 8. David Cole, The Art and architecture of CFA Voysey : English pioneer modernist architect & designer, 2015. |
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1919 |
HASLINGTON COTTAGE, now called Cob Nash, 108 Wells Road, Malvern Wells, Worcestershire. For Major G.A. Porter. |
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1919 |
WAR MEMORIAL. Wells Road, Malvern Wells, Worcestershire.
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The Builder,
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1920 |
WAR MEMORIAL. High Street, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. The Memorial was moved to its present position at the junction of The Causeway and Hatfield Road. |
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The Architect, The Builder, |
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1920 | WAR MEMORIAL.
Master's House, For Major Arnold. |
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1920 | WAR MEMORIAL to King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, for York Minster, West Aisle of the North Transept. NOTES: "A slightly simplified version of this design was executed. It is located in the west aisle of the north transept." (RIBA) |
RIBA Executed memorial: photo and description on www.iwm.org.uk |
The Builder, CXIX, 1920, p. 544. |
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1920/1935 | LAUGHTON HILLS. Laughton, near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. For William Taylor.
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The Builder, CXIX, 1920, pp. 65-66.
Carpenter & Builder,
Richard Hollis,
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1921 | Tomb of Arnold Stuart and family in Hampstead Cemetery, Camden, Greater London. Historicengland.org.uk |
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early 1920s | Worthy Manor, Porlock, Somerset. |
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Images Courtesy of The Royal Institute of British Architects
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Date |
Project / Place / Client / Notes |
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Please click on the underlined textual links or images for a larger version. |
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1882-4 |
Competition for Admiralty Buildings behind Whitehall. Voysey's design was unplaced. No record of this project appears to have survived. The award was given to Messrs. Leaning & Leaning. |
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1882-4 |
Design for the South Devon Sanatorium Company, Teignmouth, Devonshire. |
Dekorative Kunst, I,
Mόnchen, 1897 (elevation).
Wendy Hitchmough,
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1884 |
Design
for Chapel & Crematorium at
Sundrum, Ayr, Scotland. |
Building News, later Architect and Building News, Vol. 51, 1886, pp. 686, 746. |
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c.1885 |
Design for a Cottage for Voysey himself. | The British Architect, Vol. 40, 1888, after p. 76. The Studio, IV, 1894, p. 34. Dekorative Kunst, I, Mόnchen, 1897, p. 244. David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, p. 102, fig. 19.
Wendy Hitchmough,
David Cole,
The Art and |
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c.1885(?) |
Country House with an Octagonal Hall. |
The British Architect,
XXXI, 1889. Dekorative Kunst, |
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c.1885(?) |
An Artist's Cottage.
According to Stuart Durant, the
Devey
John Brandon-Jones pointed out, |
The British Architect, XXXI, Feb.1889. John Brandon-Jones and others,
David Gebhard,
Prof.
Ian Hamerton, in The Orchard,
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1888-9 |
Design for a house at
14 South Parade, Bedford Park, London, for Mrs Forster. A modified version was built in 1891. |
John Brandon-Jones,
Wendy Hitchmough,
Prof. Ian Hamerton,
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c.1888-9 |
Design for
'A Tower House'. Tierney Road, Streatham Hill |
The British Architect, XXXI, 1889, p. 70.
John Brandon-Jones,
David Gebhard,
Wendy Hitchmough,
Prof. Ian Hamerton,
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c.1888-9 |
A Verandah House. | The British Architect, XXXI, Feb. 1889.
David Gebhard,
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1889 |
House at Dovercourt, Essex, for A. J. W. Ward. |
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Dekorative Kunst,
1898, p. 252. The British Architect, 11th April 1890, p. 259. |
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1889 |
House at Bellagio, for W. Allport. |
The British Architect, 10th June 1898. Dr Peter King, 'Voysey and The British Architect', in The Orchard, Number Nine, Autmn 2020, pp. 98-101. Prof. Ian Hamerton, The Orchard, Number Ten, Autumn 2021, pp. 9-10. |
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1889 |
A Country
Residence. |
The British Architect, 4th January 1889. |
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1889 |
Drinking Fountain at Southampton. | The British Architect, 17th May 1889, p. 355. |
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c.1890 |
A Cockney Villa. | The British Architect, 25th April 1890, p. 296. |
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1890 |
COTTAGE at Llandrindod, Wales, for E. L. Lakin. |
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1890 |
Lodge for a Manchester suburb. The walls are roughcast, the windows have wood frames and the roof is covered with green slates. |
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1891 |
An Artist's Cottage. |
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The British Architect, December 1891, p. 456.
David Gebhard, |
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1891 |
Houses
on Lord Wentworth's estate at Chelsea (Swan Walk), London, for Daw & Son. |
The British Architect, 1st January 1892, p. 5. |
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1892 |
Row of four studios, Glebe Place, Chelsea, London, for Conrad Dressler.
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The British Architect, volume 38, 2nd December 1892. David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, fig. 39. Prof. Ian Hamerton in The Orchard, Number Ten, Autumn 2021, p. 15. |
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1892 |
Design for a Staircase. | David Gebhard,
Charles F. A. Voysey, fig. 38. |
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1893 |
Studio
for Miss Forster. Brook Green. |
The British Architect, 19th August 1898. Wendy Hitchmough, C F A Voysey, p. 116. David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, p. 21 and fig. 37. (Alternative plan) Prof. Ian Hamerton, in The Orchard, Number 10, Autumn 2021, p.16. |
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1894 |
An
Artist's Town House for Miss J. B. Forster, 5 Aynhoe, Brook Green. |
The British Architect, 6th July 1894. Prof. Ian Hamerton in The Orchard, Number Ten, Autumn 2021, pp. 16-7. |
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1894 |
Mrs. Mary Scott house, Hampshire. |
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David Gebhard,
Charles F. A. Voysey, figs. 58-9. |
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1895 |
Design for a new house, at Ockham Park, Ripley, Surrey, for the Earl of Lovelace. |
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The British Architect, XLVI, 1895, pp. 182-4. |
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1895 |
Design for a monument to Queen Victoria. |
This
image is from a volume of drawings (entitled Vol II) by various designers produced for or presented to the Quarto Imperial Club, London, between 1892 and 1897. (RIBA) |
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1897 |
Block of two Studios & Houses at Studland Bay, for Alfred Sutro. |
The British Architect, XLVIII, 1897, pp. 199, 202. David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, fig. 57. Prof. Ian Hamerton, The Orchard, Number Ten, Autumn 2021, pp. 19-20. |
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1897 |
Studio-house at Studland Bay, for Alfred Sutro for the use of W. Margetson. The walls are roughcast, the windows have wood frames and the roofs are of green slate. |
The British Architect, The House, Hermann Muthesius,
Prof. Ian Hamerton, |
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1897 |
House at Colwall, near Malvern, for C.F.A. Voysey himself. There are two designs for the proposed house. The materials in both design are roughcast for the walls, wood frames and iron casements for the windows and green slate for the roofs. |
David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, fig. 68. |
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1897 |
House at Limpsfield, Surrey, for R. G. Cather. The walls are roughcast, the windows have stone dressings with iron casements and the roofs are of green slate. |
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1897 |
According to Joanna Symonds C. F. A. Voysey, p. 43 (131), the 'Black Book' (Voysey's own manuscript list of his works) mentions various other designs of 1897 for Hope Brooke for buildings at BRACKLEY: 19 cottages (not executed), a pair of semi-detached houses, a shop (not executed) and a dairy shop (not executed). |
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The British Architect,
May 13th 1898. The British Architect, August 5th 1898. |
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1898 |
House at Limpsfield, Surrey, for C. A. Sewell. The walls are roughcast and the windows have stone dressings. |
W. Shaw Sparrow (ed.), |
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1898 |
House for
H. Rickards, (Broom Cottage), near Windermere, Cumbria. The walls are roughcast, a few upper windows have wood frames and the rest have stones dressings and the roofs are of green slate. |
Horace Townsend, "Notes on Country and Suburban Houses designed by C. F. A. Voysey," The Studio, XVI, 1899, pp. 157-164. Perspectives and plans on p. 161.
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1898 |
House at Collington Avenue, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, for A. Barker.
The plans for A. Barker are identical
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The
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1898 |
House at Glassonby, near
Kirkoswald, Cumberland, for W. E. Rowley. The house is of local stone, with green slate roofs. |
The British Architect,
The Studio,
J. Brandon Jones, |
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1898 |
House at Oxshott, near
Esher, Surrey, for C. S. Loch. The walls are roughcast, the windows have stone dressings and the roofs are covered with green slates. |
Academy Architecture, XV, 1899, p. 50. The Studio, XVI, 1899, p. 161. |
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1898 |
House at Westmeston,
Sussex, for Arthur Newbold. The walls are roughcast, the windows have stone dressings, stone is used for copings and bands and the roofs are covered with red tiles. |
The British Architect, LII, 1899, p. 238. The Studio, XVI, 1899, p. 163. Builder's Journal &
David Cole, The Art
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1898 | House at Studland for Alfred Sutro. | The British Architect, L, 5th August 1898, p. 91. |
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1898 | House at Arley, Warwickshire, for Bernard Ellis. |
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1898 | House at Blackburn and stables, for A. Heyworth |
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1899 | House at Sandwich, Kent, for A. D. Blyth. The walls are roughcast, the windows have stone dressings and the roofs are covered with red tiles. |
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1899 | House at Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire, for Dr Alexander Bowie. |
RIBA |
David Cole,
The Art and architecture of CFA Voysey : English pioneer modernist architect & designer, 2015. |
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1900 | House at Worcester Park, Surrey, for J. B. Pinker. |
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1901 | Two
semi-detached
cottages at Madresfield Court, near Malvern Link, Worcestershire, for the Earl Beauchamp. The walls are roughcast and the joinery, including window frames, is in unpainted, oiled oak. |
The Builder's Journal
House & Garden, M. B. Adams, |
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1901 | House at Cuttycroft, Malvern, Worcestershire, for N. J. Peyton. The walls are roughcast, the windows are wood-framed and the roofs are of red tiles. |
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H. Muthesius,
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1901 | Design for Lincoln Grammar
School, for F. H. Chambers. The exterior of the quadrangle is faced with stone and the interior has roughcast walls. The windows have stone dressings and iron casements; the roofs are of red tiles except for the hall, which is covered with metal sheeting. |
Dekorative
Kunst, |
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1902 | House at Shooters Hill, Kent, for C.E.S. Phillips |
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1902 | House on Vache Estate, Chalfont St Giles, for J. H. Angus. The walls are roughcast, the windows have stone dressings and iron casements and the roofs are of red tiles. |
The British Architect, |
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1903 | House in Abinger Road, Bedford Park, (Brentford & Chiswick), Hounslow, London, for M. T. La Thaugue. The walls are roughcast and the windows have iron casements and stone dressings. |
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1903 | 2 cottages at Pole
Cat Lane, Shottermill, Haslemere, Surrey, for A. M. S. Methuen. The walls are roughcast, the windows are wood-framed with iron casements and the roofs are of red tiles. |
The Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, XX, 1904, p. 265.
The British Architect, |
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1903 |
Tower
house at Bognor Regis, Sussex, for W. Ward Higgs. |
John Brandon-Jones,
Wendy
Hitchmough, |
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1903 |
House on Rayrigg Estate, Windermere, Cumbria, for G. Toulmin. |
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1903
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House at Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London, for W. C. Lawrence. The windows have iron casements and stone dressings. In the RIBA drawing the roof is of red tiles and the walls are of red brick, whereas in The British Architect illustration the walls are roughcast and the roofs are of green slate.
Two alternative schemes prepared |
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Academy Architecture,
Builder's Journal The British
Architect, |
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1904 | Competition design for
Carnegie Library and Museum, Limerick, Ireland. |
The British Architect, 10th November 1905, 17th November 1905. Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, London 1995, p. 185. |
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1905 | ALDERLEY EDGE, Woodbrook, Cheshire, for A. Heyworth. The two designs show an L-shaped house with an entrance court in the angle of the L; and in both designs the house is roughcast, with green slate roofs, and windows with stone dressing. Neither design was executed. Instead of a new house |
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1905 |
House at Ashintully, Tyringham, Mass., U.S.A., for Mrs Tytus. |
The British Architect, 20th April 1906. David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, fig. 103. |
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1905 |
Small house
at Cobham, Surrey, for W. Leighton Grane. |
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1905 | Cottage at Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, for Mr Fensom. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows are wood-framed with wood casements, and the roof is of red tiles. |
The British Architect, 27th April 1906, p.292. |
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1906 |
House at Gray's Park, Stoke Poges, near Slough, Buckinghamshire, for Joseph Hatton. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows have stone dressings and the roofs are covered with red tiles. According to Joanna Symonds there is a house in Stoke Poges which seems to be by Voysey, but it is not like this design (information from Brian Blackwood). Joanna Symonds, C. F. A. Voysey, 1976, p.42. |
The British Architect, David Gebhard, |
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1906 |
Row
of three shops at Chorley, near Blackburn, Lancashire. |
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The British Architect, 15 May 1908. |
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1906 |
3 cottages on the corner of Eldon Street & Langham Road at Blackburn, Lancashire, for the executors of Eli Heyworth. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows are wood-framed and the roofs are of red tiles. |
The British Architect, |
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1907 |
Houses in Finchley Road, Hampstead, London, for Vernon Hart. There are 2 designs, one of which was executed and the other was not executed. |
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The British Architect, LXVIII, 1907, p. 148. Nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, published by Garland in 1976, p. 314. |
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Bungalow
at Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, for S. Claridge Turner. |
The British Architect, 16th December 1910. |
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1907-08 |
House
at Frinton-on-Sea,
Essex, for S. Claridge Turner. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows have stone dressings and the roof is of blue Staffordshire tiles. |
The British Architect, |
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c.1907-08 |
Offices of the Essex & Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society, High Street, Colchester, Essex. Unexecuted design for altering the existing building. |
The British Architect, LXIX, 1908, p. 334. |
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House
at Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, for S. Claridge Turner. |
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1908 |
House at Frinton-on-Sea, for S. Claridge Turner. The materials are roughcast, with tarred plinths for walls, stone dressings and iron casements for windows and green slate for roofs. |
The British Architect, |
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1909 | House, Bigwood Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, for Miss Ling. The walls are roughcast, with tarred plinths; the casement windows have stone dressings, except for the dormer windows, which are wood-framed; the roofs appear to be of reddish brown tiles. |
The British Architect, 19th November 1909, 26th November 1909. |
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1909 | House at Slindon, for A. A. Voysey |
David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, fig. 127. |
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1910 | Two houses at Sea Road, pair of semi-detached houses, New Brighton, Cheshire, for G.E. Marshall. The two houses are contained within a single rectangular block with a hipped roof. They are separated at ground floor level by a tunnel going from front to back of the building. The walls are roughcast, with plinths in black brick, but with a label indicating 'tar' as an alternative; the windows have stone dressings, the roof is covered with grey tiles and the chimneys are of black and brown bricks. |
The British Architect, David Gebhard, |
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1910 |
Two office blocks, Tudor Street, London, for the Spicer Brothers. The windows have stone dressings and are linked together by horizontal bands of stone. The walls are of yellow brick except for the plinths, which are of black brick. |
Wendy
Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, London 1995, p. 207. |
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1910
1911 |
Convalescent Home, Pasture Wood, Holmbury St Mary, near Dorking, Surrey, for Frederick James Mirrielees. Design I, 1910
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The British Architect, LXXV, 1911, p. 402. |
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1912 |
Design for a village hall,
Porlock, Somerset. According to Joanna Symonds a village hall was built at about this time, not to a design of Voysey's, but possibly to one by Lady Lovelace. |
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1912 |
Two designs for a country cottage for a Country Life architects' competition. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows are wood-framed and the roofs tiled. |
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The British Architect, |
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1912 |
Two Designs for Burial Grounds, Helenenthal, near Iglau, Czech Republic for Dr. Carl Löw. |
The British Architect, 6th December 1912. |
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1913 |
Cottage at Ampthill,
Bedfordshire, for Miss M. Foster. The materials are roughcast with oak-framed casement windows, a red tiled roof and a brick pier supporting a corner veranda. |
The British Architect, |
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1913-14 |
Competition
for Government buildings, Ottawa, Canada. The buildings are faced with local stone, and the detailing is in a free Perpendicular Gothic. |
The British Architect, The Architect, |
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1914 |
House at
Ashmansworth,
near Newbury, Berkshire, for Arthur ΰ Beckett Terrell. The materials are roughcast, with tarred plinths on all walls except for those inside the courtyard, stone dressings and iron casements for the windows and grey slates for the roofs. |
The British Architect, LXXXII, 1914, pp. 256 & 268. Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, London 1995, p. 201. |
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1914 | House at Thatcham Cold Ash,
Berkshire, for H. Tingey. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths and the windows have stone dressings. |
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The British Architect,
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1914 | House at Wilmslow, for his brother Ellison A.Voysey. |
The British Architect,
3rd April 1914. |
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1918 |
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Design for a pair of
cottages for Mrs Cazelet. |
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The British Architect, LXXXIX, 1918, p. 45. The Builder, CXV, 1918, p. 158. |
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1919 |
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2
cottages
at Bradfield, Berkshire, for G. B. Simonds. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows have stone dressings and the roof is of red tiles. |
The Builder, |
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1919 |
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Cottages at Alderley Edge, Cheshire, for A. Heyworth. |
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The Builder, CXVII, 1919, p. 164. |
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1921 | Design for pedestal for Peruvian National Memorial. |
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1922 | House at Jihlava (Helenenthal Iglau), Czech Republic, for Dr. Carl Löw. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows have stone dressings and iron casements and the roofs are covered with oak shingles. |
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The Builder,
Jindřich Vybνral, |
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1922 | House at St Nicholas-at-Wade, Isle of Thanet, Kent, for Tom Jones. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows have stone dressings and the roof is of slate. |
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1923 | Design for
two tower blocks (for
flats) Scheme for the Treatment of the Devonshire House site, Westminster, London. According to Stuart Durant evidently influenced by North American skyscraper design, the blocks have a markedly medieval aspect. |
The Builder,
CXXV, 1923,
Wendy
Hitchmough, |
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1926 |
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House at Hillingdon, London, for Courtney Haigh. |
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The Builder,
CXXXI,1926, pp. 406 & 408. |
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1926 | Competition
design for the Masonic Peace Memorial, Great Queen Street, London. The competition was won by Ashley & Newman. |
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1927 | Competition design for a Town Hall, Wimbledon. Joanna Symonds: "The main block, facing Broadway, was to be in stone, with restained Gothic detailing,...The rest of the buildings were to be in brick with stone dressings, with Gothic detailing confined to some pointed windows. The competition was won by Bradshaw, Gass & Hope." |
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1930 | Competition design for a stand for Vanesta Ltd at Building Trades Exhibition Manchester. |
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1932 | Designs for bungalow in South Africa, for Lady Diana Gibb and Macdonald Clark. |
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1933 | Competition design for a Manchester Exhibition Hall. John Brandon-Jones: "It is hardly surprising that in 1933 Voysey's Gothic design was unplaced, and modernistic design (by R. H. Uren) won first prize." Stuart Durant: |
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1936 |
House at Hampstead, off The Bishop's Avenue, Camden, for Robert Donat. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths; the windows have stone dressings and iron casements and the roofs are of slate. |
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2 designs for a small house. The designs show two-storey, rectangular blocks which are almost identical except for the roofs. The walls are roughcast with tarred plinths, the windows have stone dressings and the roofs are covered with green slates. |
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From 1920 until the mid-30s, Voysey designed fabrics, carpets, wallpapers, and very occasionally, furniture. (Stuart Durant)
Chronology on the Voysey Society website
List of works see Wendy Hitchmough, C F A Voysey, pp. 230-4.
Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of
British Architects, C.F.A. Voysey,
by Joanna Symonds, D. C. Heath, Farnborough 1976.
In 1913 Voysey gave a selection of designs to the Victoria and
Albert Museum.
In 1940 the rest of the drawings, which he had kept, were given to the Royal
Institute of British Architects
and after the war they were presented to the
RIBA Drawings Collection by Voysey's son, Charles Cowles Voysey,
and in 1975
they were catalogued by Joanna Symonds.
There are 88 designs for buildings at the RIBA; 208 designs
for textiles and wallpapers;
260 designs for furniture; 206 graphic designs; and 8 designs for extensive
alterations to existing buildings.
The perspective watercolours were
drawn up by Howard Gaye for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions.
(W. Hitchmough, p.123)
4.
Wallpaper, Textiles, Carpets
5.
Metalwork,
Lighting, Fireplace
6. Biography
Sources:
The oysey Society (Chronology), John Brandon-Jones, Duncan Simpson, Stuart
Durant and Wendy Hitchmough.
The latest list of projects, first published 1980 by The Macmillan Press
Limited, London and Basingstoke
in:
Emanuel Muriel, Contemporary Architects, pp. 857-8.
1857-71 |
Born on the 28th May
1857 at Hessle, near Hull, in Yorkshire. Father
Reverend
Charles Voysey (18281912)
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1864 the family
moved to
Healaugh, a small
village with around 230 inhabitants, near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, where his father became vicar. Voysey was taught at home by his father until he was 14 years old.
1869 Charles Voysey was prosecuted for
heresy by
Archbishop William Thomson
He was summoned before the Chancery
Court of York for heterodox teaching, where he defended his case for two
years. He appealed to the Before the judgment, Charles Voysey had begun to hold services in London at St George's Hall, Langham Place.
Charles Voysey
founded the
Theistic Church. |
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1871-73 |
In April 1871 the family moved to College Road in Dulwich, London. Voysey attended Dulwich College for 18 months and left the school in July 1973 at the age of sixteen. He completed his education under a private tutor at home. He may have suffered from what would be described today as dyslexia. (Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, pp.15-16) |
1874 |
Apprenticeship to John Pollard Seddon (1827-1906), the Gothic Revivalist architect. Seddon was the son of a cabinet-maker and also designed furniture, encaustic floor tiles and ecclesiastical embroideries. Voysey was working on country churches and learned the art of decorative design. Voysey: "I determined to become an architect because it was the only profession I could take up without passing any examinations." |
1877 |
Started taking own commissions for minor house alterations and surveys. |
1879 |
Assistant to Henry Saxon Snell (1830-1904), who specialised in the design of hospitals and charitable institutions. |
1880-81
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Assistant to George Devey (1820-86). G. Devey was a friend of Voysey's father and became a member of the Theistic Church. Devey designed country houses. Devey's design principles > article by Walter H. Godfrey in Architectural Review, 1907. (29 pp., PDF, 21 MB) |
1881-82 |
1881 set up own practice at 8 Queen Anne's Gate, London. 1882 moved office to Broadway Chambers, Westminster, London. Unexecuted design for a sanatorium at Teignmouth and competition for the Admirality offices in Whitehall; entry was not placed. Voysey started his work mainly as pattern designer for wallpapers and textiles with the help of A. H. Mackmurdo, who showed him the the practice and introduced him to manufactures. |
1883 |
First pattern design was sold to Jeffrey & Co in 1883.
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1884 |
Voysey joined the Art Workers' Guild.
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1885 |
Married Mary Maria Evans. Photo of Voysey with his wife, Mary Maria Evans, and their four children. Moved
home and office to 7 Blandford Road, Bedford Park,
London. External
mosaic for Old College building at Aberystwyth University. |
1888-89 |
1888 moved home and office to Tierney Road, Streatham Hill, London. By 1885 Voysey's wallpaper designs were already in trade papers, and by 1888 he was established as one of the leading designers. David Gebhard pointed out that "Voysey's success as a designer of wallpaper and fabrics far outshown his work as an architect even as late as the beginning of the 1890s ... and provided his major livelihood ..." (David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, p.10). 1888 designed first house built: The Cottage, Bishop's Itchington, near Warwick for M.H.J. Lakin. The house was published in The British Architect in 1888. In the same year The Architect published a design for a cottage by Voysey. The British Architect published his work regularly until 1918. Exhibited at the first and second exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society at The New Gallery, 121 Regent Street, London. |
1890 |
Designed:
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1891 |
Voysey, his wife Mary Maria, son Charles Voysey, who was borne in 1889, and a servant moved home and office to 11 Melina Place, St John's Wood, London. Son Charles married Dorothea Denise Cowles in 1912 and chose to add her maiden name to his own: Charles Cowles-Voysey. 1893 son Annesley Voysey was borne. 1895 daughter Priscilla Mary Annesley Voysey was borne. borne.
Designed: |
1893 |
The Studio magazine was launched, promoting the Arts and Crafts Movement. Voysey illustrated the cover for the first issue. According to Wendy Hitchmough The Studio represented a small revolution in magazine publication ... it set out to bridge the gap between the traditional art journals and the specialist architectural press ... From the outset The Studio championed Voysey ... It made him famous ... (Wendy Hitchmough, CFA Voysey, p. 51 & 52). By the early nineties his furniture was beginning to be well known. (David Gebhard, p. 12) Designed: Perrycroft, Colwall, for John William Wilson. Cottage at Alton in Hampshire for Mrs Mary Scott. |
1894 |
Designed:
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1895 |
Moved home and office to 6 Carlton Hill, St John's Wood, London Designed: |
1896 |
Designed: Greyfriars, Hog's Back, Surrey, for Julian Sturgis, also known as Merlshanger and Wancote; Wortley Cottages, Elmesthorpe, for the 2nd Earl of Lovelace. |
1897 |
Designed: Dixcot, 8 North Drive, Tooting, Wandsworth, Greater London; New Place, Haslemere; Norney Grange, Shackleford; The Hill, Thorpe Mandeville. additions to Woodcote, Horsley, Surrey, for Sir Henry Roscoe. |
1898 |
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1899 |
Set up office 23 York Place, Baker Street, near Marylebone Station. Designed: |
1900 |
Designed:
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1901 |
Designed: |
1902 |
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1903 |
Designed:
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1904 |
Designed:
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1905 |
Designed:
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1906 |
Voysey sold the Orchard in 1906. He moved with his family to Hampstead.
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1909 |
Founding member of the Imperial Arts League (for which he later served on its Council) and of the Design Club. Designed: Lodge Style, Combe Down, village suburb of Bath; Littleholme in Kendal; House at Slindon; Brooke End in Henley-in-Arden. |
1910 |
Conversion of a barn at Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, into a convalescent home for F.J. Mirrielees, now a house called The Old Barn. |
1911 |
Designed:
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1912 |
Designed:
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1913 |
Moved office to 25 Dover Street and in July to 10 New Square, Lincoln's Inn. Designed:
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1914 |
Voysey had been separated from his wife around 1914. Designed: The end of Voysey's architectural
career.
"If a man is
successful by acting one way and the circumstances change,
"Whosoever
desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
Niccolς Machiavelli
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
H. G. Wells
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." Confucius The expression tide and time wait for no man
originates from the early 11th century. And te tide and te time ώat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet. However, the phrase appeared centuries later
in Chaucers Prologue to the Clerks Tale, published in 1395. Source:
https://english-grammar-lessons.com
Chaucers quote is in
The Clerks Tale:
For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl
no man abyde.
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1915 |
Published Individuality. |
1917 |
Moved home and office to flat at 73 St James's Street,
off Piccadilly.
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1919 |
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1920 |
Designed: Laughton Hills, Leicestershire, for William Taylor; War memorial in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire [photograph]; War memorial to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry during World War 1, in west aisle of north transept, York Minster [photograph]. |
1923 |
Lecture given at the Art Workers' Guild on 2nd February: "Tradition and individuality in art". Full text available. |
1924 |
Elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild.
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1927
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An important series of articles on Voysey were published in The Architect and building news (vol.117): C.F.A. Voysey: the man and his work, in five parts. Full text available. The jubilee certificate of 1927, signed by many of Voysey's peers and clients in recognition of his 70th birthday.
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1929 |
Elected Fellow of The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
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1931 |
Retrospective exhibition of his work at the Batsford Gallery, London.
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1936 |
Awarded title of Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts.
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1940 |
Awarded Gold Medal of Royal Institute of British Architects. Moved to live near son Charles Cowles-Voysey in Winchester.
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1941 |
Died on 12th February in Winchester. Ashes scattered at Golders Green Crematorium.
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7. Bibliography Scanned articles. Please click on the underlined textual links (PDF).
- Voysey Society (Bibliography)
-
The Black Book. Voysey's personal record of his architectural projects,
written in his own hand in a plain black notebook and known as the Black
Book.
-
A
Chronological List of Writings by Voysey and Writings about Voysey,
in David
Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey Architect,
Los Angeles
1975, pp. 83-94.
(7 p.)
- "Bibliography,"
in Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British
Architects,
C.F.A. Voysey, by Joanna Symonds, D. C. Heath, Farnborough 1976, pp.
10-12.
- "Bibliography,"
in Stuart Durant, CFA VOYSEY,
Architectural Monographs No 19,
Academy Editions,
London 1992, pp. 142-144.
- Adams, M.B., Modern cottage architecture : illustrated from works of well-known architects (Batsford, 1904), plates 7 & 8. Full text available
- Sparrow, W.S., (ed.) The British home of today : a book of modern domestic architecture and the applied arts (Hodder & Stoughton, 1904), illustrations B49, B50, E21, F30 and 2 plates in colour. Full text available
- Crane, W., Ideals in art (George Bell & Sons, 1905), pp.146-7. Full text available
- Muthesius, H., Das moderne Landhaus und seine innere Ausstattung (Bruckmann, 1905), pp.145-9, 190-1. Full text available
- Muthesius, H., Landhaus und Garten : Beispiele neuzeitlicher Landhδuser nebst Grundrissen, Innenrδumen und Gδrten (Bruckmann, 1907), pp.156-7. Full text available
- Macartney, M.E., Recent English domestic architecture, vol.1 (Architectural Review, 1908), pp.28-29, 171-3. Full text available
- Davison, T.R., Modern homes (George Bell & Sons, 1909), pp.20-1, 119-23. Full text available
- Sparrow, W.S., Our homes and how to make the best of them (Hodder & Stoughton, 1909), pp.100, 199, 238. Full text available
- Macartney, M.E., Recent English domestic architecture, vol.4 (Architectural Review, 1911), pp.167-72. Full text available
- Weaver, L., (ed.) The house and its equipment (Country Life, 1912), pp.18, 20, 35, 38. Full text available
- Elder-Duncan, J.H., Country cottages and week-end homes (Cassell, 1906; new edition 1912), pp.124-6, 196-7. Full text available
- Jekyll, G., and Weaver, L., Gardens for small country houses (Country Life, 1914), pp.76-9, 162. Full text available
- Weaver, L., Small country houses of today, vol.1 (Country Life, 1910; 3rd ed., 1922), pp.139-44. Full text available
- Sugden, A.V., and Edmondson, J.L., A history of English wallpaper, 1509-1914 (Batsford, 1926), pp.175-6, plates 145-8. Full text available
- Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects,
C.F.A. Voysey, by Joanna Symonds, D. C. Heath, Farnborough 1976.
"Charles Francis Annesley Voysey," An Introduction by John Brandon-Jones, pp.
7-10.
"Bibliography,"
pp. 10-12.
"The Drawings at the RIBA," pp. 13-14.
- John Brandon-Jones and others, C.F.A. Voysey: architect and designer 1857-1941,
Lund Humphries, London 1978.
Copyright Brighton Borough
Council (Photographs by Duncan McNeill).
This is the catalogue of the exhibition 'C. F. A. Voysey: architect and
designer 1857-1941'
held at the Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton from July 11 to September 3, 1978
and subsequently at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery from January 8 to
February 12, 1979
and the Glasgow City Art Gallery from April 5 to May 27, 1979.
"C.F.A. Voysey: An Introduction," by John Brandon-Jones, pp. 9-12, 17-24;
and "Architecture," by John Brandon-Jones and Joanna Heseltine, pp. 30-32.
- Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.
VOYSEY
an architect of individuality
with a preface by Sir James Richards,
Lund Humphries,
London 1979.
Full text available (Internet Archive)
Cover,
Preface by Sir James Richards,
Acknowledgements and Introduction, pp. 1-11.
Biographical details, p. 12.
Chapter 1
C.F.A. Voysey : An Architect of Individuality, pp. 13-18.
Chapter 2
Establishing a Practice - The
Years up to 1895, pp. 19-42.
Early Furniture designs and other work
Perrycroft and Lowicks
Chapter 3
Some Important Experiments,
1895-7, pp. 43-62.
Norney, New Place, Experiments in Furniture, 1895-7
Chapter 4 The Years of Mature Practice,
1898-1910, pp. 63-107.
Broadleys, Moorcrag, Spade House, Winsford Cottage Hospital, The Orchard,
The Pastures, Sanderson & Sons, Vodin, Tilehurst, Higham, Whitwood, White Horse Inn,
Hollymount, The Homestead, Lodge Style, Kendal, Brook End
Chapter 5 Furniture Designs, 1898-1910
and the Voysey Interior, pp. 109-128.
Chapter 6 The Practice in Decline,
1910-41, pp. 129-141.
Furniture Designs, 1910-41
Chapter 7 The Voysey Inheritage, pp.
143-148.
Individuality
Gothic and Grotesque
The Inheritage
List of extant works, pp. 149-151.
Bibliography, pp. 153-155.
Notes, pp.156-158.
Index of buildings and designs, pp. 159-160.
- Stuart Durant, The Decorative Designs of C.F.A. Voysey,
The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge 1990.
Cover, Introduction, Chronological Outline of
Voysey's Life (pp. 1-8).
Biography (pp. 9-28).
Selected List of Surviving Buildings, Manufactures and Retailers
(p. 29).
Bibliography: Books, Selected Articles, Catalogues (pp. 30-32).
Stuart Durants newly revised edition of his 1990 work,
The Decorative Designs of C.F.A.
Voysey, |
- Stuart Durant, CFA VOYSEY,
Architectural Monographs No 19, Academy Editions, London 1992,
pp. 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20,
21.
Stuart Durant was an Honorary Member of the Voysey Society, for whom he gave the second Annual Voysey Lecture. He was invited to write the first History of Design thesis at the Royal College of Art. He later taught Design and Architectural History at Kingston University, where he became Reader. He has also directed the Post Graduate course in Communication Design at Kingston. He was the originator of the International Design Yearbook and he has published extensively on ornament and architecture. Stuart Durant's writings have been widely translated.
- Wendy Hitchmough, The Homestead : C.F.A. Voysey, Phaidon Press, London, 1994.
- Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, Phaidon Press, London 1995.
John Brandon-Jones:
"Wendy Hitchmough's book is welcome because it is not just another picture-book but a serious study of the background and sources that lay behind Voysey's unique contribution to architecture and to the decorative arts." Architectural Review: '' The Voysey book that we have been waiting for. A rounded and perceptive portrait. It will remain the definitive biography." |
- Schofield, A.S., C.F.A. Voysey's buildings at Whitwood (Alice Shirley Schofield, 1997). Full text available (PDF)
- Anne Stewart ODonnell, C. F. A. Voysey:
Architect, Designer, Individualist, 2011.
>
Look inside
the book (a few sample pages from the book)
- Karen Livingstone, The bookplates and badges of
C.F.A. Voysey:
architect and designer of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Antique Collectors'
Club, 2011.
- Karen Livingstone, V&A patterns : C.F.A. Voysey,
V&A Publishing, Pomegranate, 2013.
- M. Hyde, Broad Leys by C.F.A. Voysey : the
creation, life and times of an Arts and Crafts house:
home to Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club, Compass, 2013.
-
David Cole,
The Art and architecture of
CFA Voysey :
English pioneer modernist architect & designer,
Images Publishing
Group, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia,
2015.
252 pages, richly
illustrated in full colour with old and new photographs
and magnificent reproductions of Voyseys plans,
elevations and perspective drawings.
> Preview
> Review by Phillip James Dodd on www.period-homes.com
> www.designhistorysociety.org (Review)
> www.caareviews.org (Marie Frank)
>
Review by James Stevens Curl. The Antiquaries Journal,
Volume 96, September 2016, pp. 477-478,
published online by Cambridge University Press:
07 March 2016.
- Karen Livingstone with Max Donnelly and Linda
Parry, C. F. A. Voysey Arts & Crafts Designer,
Victoria & Albert Museum Publishing, London 2016.
320 p. ill., (some colour) 28cm.
Focuses on Voysey as a designer of furniture, metalwork, and textiles.
- Karen Livingstone, Voysey's Birds and Animals, 2020.
Karen Livingston is Director of Masterplan and Estate at the Science Museum
and a former curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
THE ORCHARD, The Journal of the C F A Voysey
Society
Back copies of the annual journal at £10.00 per copy for members (£12 for
non-members), post-free in the UK. More information.
Contents
Issue no.1, Autumn 2012 (PDF)
Issue no.2, Autumn 2013 (PDF)
Issue no.3, Autumn 2014 (PDF)
Issue no.4, Autumn 2015 (PDF)
Issue no.5, Autumn 2016 (PDF)
Issue no.6, Autumn 2017 (PDF)
Issue no.7, Autumn 2018 (PDF)
Issue no.8, Autumn 2019 (PDF)
Issue no.9, Autumn 2020 (PDF)
Issue no.10, Autumn 2021 (PDF)
Issue no.11, Autumn 2022 (PDF)
Issue no.12, Autumn 2023 (PDF)
New transcriptions and summaries of Voysey's original working records:
Index of Voysey's designs in journals included in his scrapbook
Archival material relating to C.F.A. Voysey at the RIBA and the V&A
Correspondence between Voysey and Hermann Muthesius : Hermann Muthesius (1861-1927) was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural modernism such as the Bauhaus. He was the author of Das englische Haus (Ernst Wasmuth, 1904-5). Alternative source with notes in English
Correspondence about reproduction of the River Rug design : a lengthy negotiation in 1911 between Voysey, his assistant Gerard Fairtlough and Messrs Epworth & Co. regarding the purchase of a water-colour drawing of the "River Mat"
Books on Arts and Crafts Architecture
with significant Voysey content
- Peter Davey, Arts and Crafts Architecture: The Search for
Earthly Paradise,
224 pages,
Architectural Press, London 1980.
Peter Davey was an architect, historian and journalist, and
was Editor of the Architectural Review.
-
Major survey of architects of the Arts and Crafts movement
of the 1870s and 1880s.
- Focuses on British
architects and the movement in England, with separate chapters on the latter's
influence in California,
the American
Midwest and Continental Europe.
Contents (PDF)
Chapter 1 Once Upon a Time, pp. 8-9
PDF
(... that a movement opposing the imitation of styles ... has had the most
gratifying results. Muthesius)
Chapter 2 Gathering Grounds, pp. 10-20
(Pugin, Ruskin, Butterfield, Devey)
PDF
Chapter 3 The Prophet
(Morris)
PDF
Chapter 4 Lamplighters, pp.30-45
(Webb and Shaw) PDF
Chapter 5 The Guilds are Forged (Mackmurdo)
PDF
Chapter
6 The Guide, pp.56-67
(Lethaby)
PDF
Chapter
7 The Explorer. pp.68-81
(Schrφder Prior) PDF
Chapter 8 The Pathfinder, pp. 82-96.
(Voysey)
PDF
Chapter
9 Into the Country, pp. 97-115.
(Other Architects in Voysey's Time)
PDF
Chapter 11 The Attempt on the Summit. (Ashbee, Gimson, Barnsley)
PDF
Chapter 12 The Descent, pp. 154-170.
(Shaw, Lutyens, Baillie Scott) PDF
Chapter 13 Quietly Home, pp. 171-182. (Parker & Unwin) PDF
Chapter 14 Transatlantic Excursion, pp. 183-194 (no scan)
Chapter 15 Crossing the Channel, pp. 195-210 PDF
Chapter 16 Postscript: Looking back, pp. 211-213 PDF
Select
Bibliography, pp. 214-218 PDF
- Hermann
Muthesius, Das
englische Haus, 3 vols., Berlin 1904-1905.
Also translated in full as The English house,
edited with an introduction by Dennis Sharp, Frances Lincoln, 2007.
Vol. I,
pp.160-167, 219, 220.
(11 pp., 6 MB, PDF, in German)
Vol. II,
pp. 47, 83, 84, 93, 104, 105, 113, 114, 124, 125, 132, 133, 166, 185, 205, 236,
237. (18 pp. 10 MB, PDF, in German)
Vol. III,
pp. 96, 103, 110, 123, 124, 138, 154, 155, 160, 168, 175. (12
pp., 7 MB, PDF, In German, with photographs
E-book > Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus) In German, with photographs.
E-book > Hermann Muthesius (pages about Voysey) In German, with photographs.
- Muthesius, Hermann, Das englische Haus,
3 volumes (Ernst Wasmuth, 1904-5).
Full text available.
Also translated in full as The English
house, edited with an introduction by Dennis Sharp (Frances Lincoln, 2007)
- Macartney, M.E., Recent English domestic architecture, vol.1
(Architectural Review, 1908), pp.28-29, 171-3.
Full text available
- Macartney, M.E., Recent English domestic architecture, vol.4 (Architectural Review, 1911), pp.167-72. Full text available
- Davison, T.R., Modern homes (George Bell & Sons, 1909), pp.20-21, 119-123. Full text available
- Elder-Duncan, J.H., Country cottages and week-end homes (Cassell,
1906; new edition 1912), pp.124-6, 196-7.
Full text available
-
Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design,
revised edition published
by Penguin Books 1975, pp. 148-163 (a Pelican Book).
-
Julius Posener, Anfδnge des Funktionalismus, Von Arts
and Crafts zum Deutschen Werkbund,
Ullstein, Frankfurt/Berlin, 1964.
> "Charles Francis Annesley Voysey 1857-1941,"
pp.70-94.
With plans and photos of
Norney Grange, Greyfriars, Vodin, The Orchard, Perrycroft and Broadleys.
In German, with photographs
> E-Book (Julius Posener, Anfδnge des Funktionalismus) In German, with photographs.
- Tim Benton and Sandra Millikin, The
Open University, Arts: a third level course,
History of architecture and design 1890-1939, Units 3-4,
Part four: The British Arts and Crafts architects, pp. 20-46, pl. 34-82,
Milton Keynes 1975.
(Voysey, Baillie Scott, Mackintosh) 145 MB
-
Hartwig Fischel, 'Neue Publikationen όber das englische Haus',
Kunst und Kunsthandwerk,
VII, 1904, Heft 10, pp. 461-485. In German
Voysey is only mentioned on page 472:
"Wohnrδume und Hallen von
Lutyens, Lorimer, Voysey zeigen zahlreiche andere feine Lφsungen nach moderner
Anschauungsweise, ..."
- Muthesius, Hermann, Das moderne Landhaus und seine innere Ausstattung (Bruckmann, 1905), pp.145-9, 190-1. Full text available.
- A
British Home of Today", 1906.
(Full text available)
- House near Cardiff (Ty Bronna), p. 55
- Unexecuted house at Limpsfield
- Unexecuted house at Studland Bay
- Muthesius, Hermann, Landhaus und Garten :
Beispiele neuzeitlicher
Landhδuser nebst Grundrissen, Innenrδumen und Gδrten
(Bruckmann,
1907), pp.156-7.
Full text available
-
Walter Shaw Sparrow, Our homes and how to make the best of them,1909.
(Full
text available)
- The Hall at New Place, p. 238
- The John Scott Collection,
Architect-Designers from Pugin to Voysey,
The Fine Art
Society, vol.8, pp.120-9.
Articles about Voysey (arranged in date order)
The articles of the periodical publications were photocopied in 1976 and have now been scanned.
- Scanned articles by the University of Heidelberg tagged with "Voysey"
Scan by University Library Heidelberg
- "An Artist's Cottage. Designed by C. F. A. Voysey," The Studio, Vol. IV, 1894, p. 34.
-
E.B.S. "Some Recent Designs By Mr. C. F. A. Voysey," The Studio, Vol. 7, 1896,
pp.209-219.
(Wallpaper and furniture)
Scan by University Library Heidelberg
-
L. F. Day, Art in advertising, Art journal (vol.59, 1897), pp.49-53
(There is only a small image by Voysey on p. 49. His name is not mentioned in
the text.)
-
G., "The
Revival of English Domestic Architecture. VI. The Work of Mr. C. F. A. Voysey,"
The Studio, Vol. 11, 1897,
pp. 16-25.
Scan by University Library Heidelberg
- "The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1896, (Third
Notice)", The Studio, vol.9, 1897, pp.189-96.
Full text available
-
"C. F. A. VOYSEY", Dekorative Kunst, Illustrierte Zeitschrift fόr angewandte
Kunst,
Vol. I,
1898, pp.241-256.
In German with drawings and photos.
- Englische Gewerbe-Kόnstler neuesten Stiles : Voysey, Ashbee,
Baillie Scott,
Illustrirte kunstgewerbliche Zeitschrift
fόr Innendekoration, IX (Heft 12, 1898), pp.177-184.
Full text available
- Vallance, A., British decorative art in 1899 and the Arts and Crafts
Exhibition,
The Studio (vol.18, 1900), pp.38-49, 185.
Full
text available.
-
Charles Holme, Modern British Domestic Architecture and Decoration,
1901,
C. F. A. Voysey "The Orchard,"
pp. 181-193 & 194;
and
selected works of
F. W. Bedford and S. D. Kitson (p. 35); W. H. Brierley (p. 55);
A house at Crowborough,
Sussex, reproduced from a Pencil Drawing by R. A. Briggs (p. 59);
John Cash (p.
62); Walter F. Cave (p. 63); Edward S. Prior (p. 150);
M. H. Baillie
Scott, pp. 157, 159, 161; W. H. Seth-Smith (p. 164 & 165).
Link for complete PDF version (54 MB) of the Charles
Holme book,
housed at the University of Toronto.
The pages on "The Orchard" start in the PDF version on
p. 231.
www.archive.org
- "An artistic use of white holly", The craftsman, Vol. IV, No. 5 (August 1903), pp. 369-370.
-
Aymer Vallance, "Some recent work by Mr. C. F. A. Voysey,"
The Studio, vol. 22, 1904, pp.127-133.
- Some recent designs for domestic architecture, The Studio (vol.34, 1905), pp.151-2. Full text available.
- P. G. Konody, C.F.A. Voyseys neuere Arbeiten, Dekorative Kunst (vol.14, 1906), pp.193-8
- Baillie Scott, M. H., "On
the Characteristics of Mr. C. F. A. Voysey's Architecture."
The Studio, vol 42, October 1907,
pp. 19-24.
Full
text on the Victorian Web.
Scan by the University of Heidelberg
- E. J. Horniman's Garden
Corner designed by C. F. A. Voysey.
The Studio 42, October 1907, pp. 24-25.
Full
text on the Victorian Web.
- Paul
George Konody, 'Eine Ausstellung modernen Kunstgewerbes in London', Kunst und
Kunsthandwerk,
Monatszeitschrift XI, 1908, Heft 2, pp. 93-106.
In German, with photographs.
- Macartney, M.E., Recent English domestic architecture, vol.1 (Architectural Review, 1908), pp.28-29, 171-3. Full text available.
-
Recent English domestic architecture
being a special issue of The
Architectural Review,
edited by Mervin Edmund Macartney, 1908,
pp.167-172 (Volume 4)
-
Paul Klopfer, "Voyseys Architektur-Idyllen",
Moderne Bauformen, vol. 9,
1910, pp. 141-148. In German, with photographs.
- Macartney, M.E., Recent English domestic architecture, vol.4
(Architectural Review, 1911), pp.167-72.
Full text
available.
-
Casimir Hermann Baer, "C. A. F. Voyseys Raumkunst",
Moderne Bauformen,
vol. 10, 1911, pp. 247-256. In German, with
photographs.
-
"Special furniture designed for individual homes: illustrated by the work of C.
F. A. Voysey",
The craftsman,Vol. XX, Number 5 (August 1911), pp. 476-486
Full text available
- Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (vol.31, 1912-1913), (p.166 Littleholme, Guildford, p.170 Lodge Style)
- Moderne Bauformen (vol.12, 1913), pp.217-21. (photos of Littleholme, Kendal & Atkinson's, London)
- Moderne Bauformen (vol.13, 1914), pp.241-44 (photos of Lowicks, Frensham)
- The International Studio (vol.55, 1915), pp.50-1 (Bookplates)
-
Sondheim, Moriz, Gesammelte Schriften : Buchkunde, Bibliographie, Literatur,
Kunst u.a., 1927, pp.175-6.
(Comparison between Morris
and Voysey) in German
- C.F.A. Voysey: the man and his work : the articles in Architect and building news in early 1927. (Voysey Society)
-
"My work was never popular ..." : Voysey's speech of thanks on receipt of the
certificate. (Voysey Society)
-
John Betjeman,
"Charles Francis Annesley Voysey,
The Architect of Individualism,"
The
Architectural Review, vol. 70, October 1931, pp. 93-96.
Full text available
-
John Summerson, "Mr. Voysey: Veteran Gold Medallist,"
The Listener, 7
March 1940, pp. 479 & 480.
-
Nikolaus Pevsner, "Charles F. Annesley Voysey,"
Architectural Review, Vol. 89, 1941, pp. 112-113.
-
"Obituary,"
Architects' journal (vol.93, 1941), pp.124, 126, pp.124,126.
Full text available.
- Schmutzler, R., Art nouveau (Thames &
Hudson, 1964), especially pp.186-9.
Partial text available.
-
Craig Farnsworth, "C.F.A. VOYSEY Architect Designer and Artist
A Confluence of Architecture Artistry and Vision" on www.academia.edu
-
David Gebhard, C.F.A Voysey - to and from America,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
(vol.30, 1971), pp.304-12.
(Only
preview at p. 304 and
thumbnails preview)
- John Brandon-Jones et al. C.F.A. Voysey: Architect and Designer, 1857-1941. Bradford, Yorkshire: Lund Humphries, 1978.
-
Gerda Breuer, Δsthetik der schφnen Genόgsamkeit oder Arts and Crafts als
Lebensform,
Bauwelt Fundamente 112. In German
- Laura Dean, C.F.A. Voysey: the
retrospective career of the "Pioneer of the Modern Movement,"
College undergraduate research electronic journal
of the
College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania (2010).
Full text
available.
-
The Studio.
Vol. 11-13. Internet Archives. Web. 29 April
2011. (72 MB !)
Book contributor:
University of Toronto
- Jack Warshaw, 'Voysey and the Arts and Crafts movement,' The Orchard
(no.1, 2012), pp.7-16.
Full text available.
- Stuart Durant, 'Voysey and Seddon, and the era of his youth', The Orchard (no.1, 2012), pp.17-23.
- Ian Hamerton, 'The evolution of Voysey's architectural clocks and timepieces', The Orchard (no.3, 2014), pp.25-36.
- Tony Peart, 'The furniture designs of C F A Voysey, Part 1: 1883-1898', The Orchard (no.5, 2016), pp. 5-15.
- Tony Peart, 'Furniture designs of C F A Voysey, part 2: 1898-1906', The Orchard (no.6, 2017), pp. 3-15.
- Tony Peart, 'Furniture designs of C F A Voysey, part 3: 1906-1934', The Orchard (no.7, 2018), pp. 3-22.
- Ian Hamerton, 'Development of the lodges on the Norney Grange Estate in Surrey', The Orchard (no.5, 2016), pp. 16-24.
- Richard Hollis, Voysey's last house: Laughton Hills, 1920 and 1935: "Hidden from view", The Orchard (no.5, 2016), pp. 45-52.
- Anthony Bernbaum, 'Voysey's aluminium clocks', The Orchard (no.5, 2016), pp. 68-77.
- David Cole, 'CFA Voysey and Sir Edwin Lutyens - an illustrated architectural comparison', The Orchard (no.8, 2019), pp.24-79.
- George Butlin, 'Voysey's Metalwork',
The Orchard (no.9, 2020), pp.63-78.
(From a 1988
dissertation by Ruth Allford, edited by George Butlin)
- Bellmore, A.,
English cottage style homes in America :
expressions of architectural, technological and cultural innovation, 1889-1929
(Loyola University Chicago, PhD thesis, 2014), especially
pp.53-102.
Full text available.
-
Ken Allinson, Architects and Architecture of London:
Ken Allinson: Pevsner's opinion about Voysey:
"the international style, Pevsner pioneers: all nonsense"
Nikolaus Pevsner saw Voysey as
a pioneer of
the Modern Movement,
an attribution that Voysey did not agree with.
Voysey wrote in a letter to John Betjeman: "I have only
applied old tradition to new conditions (...)
there is nothing new in my architecture, but new thought
and feeling."
-
The Architectural Review, 24 August, 2015: CFA Voysey (1857-1941),
article by James Dunnett
From his Arts and Crafts roots, did
Voysey sow the seeds of Modernism?
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941)
is an architect whose reputation has fallen between two stools,
largely due to an issue of classification:
was he or was he not a Pioneer of the Modern Movement?
- Peart, Tony, 'Voysey's Lettering designs', The Orchard, (no.4, 2015), pp.35-45. pdf
- Peart, T., Voysey's tile designs for J.C. Edwards, Ruabon, The Orchard (no.5, 2016), pp.78-81. Full text available
- Voysey's interiors (Voysey Society)
- Voysey as a designer of furniture (Voysey Society)
- Voysey's fireplaces (Voysey Society)
Writings by Voysey
(arranged in date order)
-
Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd Series, Vol. 1,
1894, pp. 415-18.
(Article on Furniture)
-
"The Aims and Conditions of the Modern Decorator,"
A lecture given in Manchester, February 15th, 1895, by C. F. A. Voysey.
Published in The Journal of Decorative Art, Vol. 15, April, 1895, pp.
82-90.
- https://bildsuche.digitale-sammlungen.de
-
"Remarks on Domestic
Entrance Halls," by C. F. A. Voysey, The Studio,
XXI, 1901, pp. 242-6;
Scan by the University Library Heidelberg
- "The Orchard," by C. F. A. Voysey, Architectural Review, Vol. 10, 1901, pp. 32-8.
- "On Art Nouveau," by C. F. A. Voysey, The Magazine of Art, 1904, pp. 211-2.
- Reason as a basis of art (Elkin
Mathews, 1906).
Full text available (PDF, 2.5MB;
reproduced with permission from the copy
owned by Exeter University Library)
"We find often enough the man with
little or no capital seeking the house that would alone be fit for the rich. ...
His house must have an imposing front, must show itself to the public as much
above the station of the occupier as the dishonest architect can make it."
(Voysey, p.16)
"An author may use words, or even sentences taken from great writers, but the fact does not establish his claim to be regarded as a great writer. Why, then, should the architect's reproduction of ancient monuments be regarded as architecture?" (Voysey, p.18)
"Schools must be reformed, and designers trained to think and feel rightly, and encouraged not to copy blindly." (Voysey, p.19)
-
"The quality of fitness in architecture and
furnishings" by C.F. A. Voysey,
The craftsman,
Vol. XXIII, Number 2 (November 1912), pp. 174-182
(pdf version)
"We must
recoil from all form of dishonesty ...
... then will follow such qualities
as simplicity and repose ...
... evolve our elevations out of
our plans and requirements,
never making our plans
to fit a preconceived elevation...
... Low, long buildings also create
a feeling of restfulness and spaciousness...
... all ornament is pernicious
unless it inspires good thougt and feelings in others.
... We are too often afraid to be
ourselves, imitating the more wealthy."
-
"Individuality," by C. F. A. Voysey, Chapman & Hall, London, 1915,
in Stuart Durant, CFA VOYSEY,
Architectural Monographs No 19, Academy Editions,
London 1992, pp. 127, 129, 131, 132, 133.
-
"Ideas in Things," by C. F. A. Voysey, in: Raffles Davison (editor), The Arts
connected with
Building: Lectures on Craftsmanship
and Design, delivered at Carpenter's Hall, London, 1909.
10 pages were scanned from Stuart Durant, CFA Voysey, London, 1992,
pp.
113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125.
-
"The English Home," by C. F. A. Voysey, The British Architect,
Vol. 75, January 27, 1911, pp. 60, 69, 70.
-
"The Quality of Fitness in Architecture," by C. F. A. Voysey,
The Craftsman,
Vol. 23, November, 1912, pp. 174-182.
- "On Town Planning," Architectural Review, Vol. 46, 1919, pp. 25-26.
-
"Self-expression in
Art," by C. F. A. Voysey,
The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects,
3. Series, Vol. 30, 1923, p. 211.
-
"Some Fundamental Ideas in
Relation to Art,"
by C. F. A. Voysey,
Master of the Art Workers' Guild,
Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects,
Vol. 31, 1924, pp. 303 & 304.
Full text available:
https://www.voyseysociety.org
Correspondence between Voysey and Hermann Muthesius : Hermann Muthesius (1861-1927) was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany. He was the author of Das englische Haus (Ernst Wasmuth, 1904-5).
Article by M. H. Baillie Scott
-
"A Country House," by M. H. Baillie Scott, The Studio, Vol. 19, 1900,
pp. 30-37.
(... central idea of
a hall or living-room as the keynote of a home ...)
Article about George Devey
External Links
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
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The RIBA can supply you with conventional photographic or digital copies
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Link > RIBApix: Voysey Images
Video: Richard Havelock a Voysey voyage of half a century (2021)
- Victoria & Albert Museum (Photos)
-
www.vandaprints.com
V&A Prints is an online selection of images from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Portraits of Voysey at the National Portrait Gallery
- http://kulturpool.bmb.gv.at, Φsterreichs Portal zu Kunst, Kultur und Bildung: Voysey Items (Photos)
- http://www.greatbuildings.com
- https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de (Voysey)
- Recherche in den Heidelberger historischen Bestδnden - digital (Voysey)
8. British Architects and Designers in Voysey's Time
Charles Robert Ashbee (1863 1942)
Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (1865 1945)
William Arthur Smith Benson (1854 1924)
William Henry Bidlake (1861 1938)
Sir Arthur William Blomfield (1829 1899)
Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856 1942)
Detmar Jellings Blow (1867 1939)
Walter Henry Brierley (18621926)
William Burges (1827 1881)
William Butterfield (1814 1900)
Walter Frederick Cave (1863 1939)
George Devey
(1820
1886). Voysey was assistant to Devey in 1880 81.
Christopher Dresser (1834 1904)
Sir Banister Flight Fletcher (1866 1953)
Harold Herbert Fuller-Clark (1869 1934)
Sir Ernest
George
(1839 1922) and Harold Ainsworth
Peto (1854 1933)
Ernest William Gimson (1864 1919)
Edward William Godwin (1833 1886)
Charles Henry Holden (1875 1960)
Archibald Knox (1864 1933)
William Richard Lethaby (1857 1931)
Robert Stodard Lorimer (1864 1929)
Thomas Geoffry Lucas (1872 1947)
Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869 1944)
Sir Mervyn Edmund Macartney (1853 1932)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 1928)
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851 1942)
Charles Edward Mallows (1864 1915)
Arnold Bidlake Mitchell (1864 1944)
William Morris (1834 1896)
William Eden Nesfield (1835 1888)
William West Neve (1852 1942)
Ernest Newton (1856 1922)
David Barclay Niven (1864 1942) and Herbert Hardy Wigglesworth (1866 1949)
Richard Barry Parker (1867 1947) and
Raymond Unwin (1863 - 1940)
Edward Schrφder Prior (1852 1932)
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812 1852)
Halsey Ralph Ricardo (1854 1928)
Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811 1878)
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880 1960),
son of
George Gilbert Scott Jr. (1839 1897),
and grandson of
Sir George Gilbert
Scott (1811 1878)
John Dando Sedding (1838 1891)
John Pollard Seddon (1827 1906)
Richard Norman Shaw (1831 1912)
Arnold Dunbar Smith (1866 1933) & Cecil Claude Brewer (1871 1918): Mary Ward House, London
Henry Saxon Snell (1831 1904)
Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858 1925)
George Edmund Street (1824 1881)
Charles Harrison Townsend (1851 1928)
Francis William Troup (1859 1941)
Hugh Thackeray Turner (1853 1937)
Philip Webb (1831 1915)
Edgar Wood (1860 1935) and James Henry Sellers (1861 1954)
500 images of other houses designed by British architects in Voysey's time
Modern
Architecture, 1920s to 1930s
- www.victorianweb.org (Domestic Architecture for the Rich, Poor, and Those in between)
- www.victorianweb.org (Voysey)
- www.victorianweb.org (Victorian Architecture)
- www.victorianweb.org (The Arts in Victorian Britain)
- www.british-history.ac.uk ( British History Online)
- http://paradisebackyard.blogspot.de (Photos)
- https://historicengland.org.uk
Dr.-Ing. Heinz Theuerkauf
Architect
Ansprengerstraίe 9
80803 Mόnchen
(Munich / Germany)
Email: theuerkaufheinz(at)yahoo.de
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and encourage research into all aspects of Voysey's life and work and to help to
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Collection of 20 Voysey
Houses.
Black &
White Photographs taken in 1976 on
flickr.
Other interest of the author:
3,500
churches from the 4th to the18th century
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