Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson
Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson (1813–1906) was an Anglo-Indian barrister, spiritualist, socialist and amateur architect.
After three years at school, Peterson ran away to sea, working at a
Calcutta. Retiring in the 1870s, he bought land near Sway, Hampshire, building and extending his house, Arnewood Towers, "from a small villa into a commodious country residence of somewhere near forty rooms, with the necessary outbuildings, built entirely of concrete".[1]
Becoming a convert to
Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift and Thomas Paine.[3] In late 1877 Lawrence also served as the channel for 'Spiritual drawings' from William Blake and Henry Fuseli.[2]
Sir Christopher Wren, through Lawrence, directed Peterson to build a large concrete tower in Sway: foundation work began in 1879, and in 1886 the tower was completed, at a height of 218 feet (66 meters) and a cost of £30,000.[2] It remains the world's tallest non-reinforced concrete structure.[4][5]
Works
- Essays from the Unseen, delivered through the mouth of W. L., a sensitive, and recorded by A T. T. P., 1885
References
- ^ James Burns, Medium and Daybreak, 15 June 1883, pp. 369-71. Quoted in Philip Hoare, England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia, p. 159
- ^ a b c Hoare, England's Lost Eden, chapter 11 'Mr Peterson's Tower', pp. 346-371
- ^ Blake Pinnell, Country House History Around Lymington, Brockenhurst and Milford-on-Sea, ch. 8 'Arnewood Court', pp. 157-166
- ^ James, J. (1997). All about Sway Tower. Lymington: Lymington Museum Trust.
- ^ Trout, Edwin (October 2002). "Sway Tower: an early example of high-rise concrete construction". Concrete: 64–5.
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