Walter Godfrey
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Walter Hindes Godfrey | |
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Born | 2 August 1881 |
Died | 16 September 1961 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Architect |
Awards | RIBA Silver Medallist (Essay), 1906 |
Practice | Wratten & Godfrey |
Buildings | Burford Priory, Oxfordshire The Temple Church, Crosby Hall |
Projects | Herstmonceux Castle |
Walter Hindes Godfrey,
He was appointed a
Early life
Walter Hindes Godfrey was born at home at 102, Greenwood Road, Hackney, London, the eldest son of Walter Scott Godfrey, owner of a small wine business, and Gertrude Annie Rendall.[1] His father later gave up his own business to become manager of a larger firm, then became a minister of religion and author of several works on the subject.[2][3]
Architect
Godfrey first settled in
Author
He was the author or editor of a wide range of books and articles on architectural history and antiquarian subjects, many of them published by the Sussex Archaeological Society. He was literary director of the Sussex Record Society and chairman of its council. In 2006 a collection of Godfrey's private papers was deposited with the East Sussex Record Office.
Personal life
Godfrey married Gertrude Mary (d. 1955), second daughter of Alexander Grayston Warren, and had three daughters and a son, Emil Godfrey, also an architect, who founded the practice of Carden and Godfrey.
Bibliography
- A History of Architecture in London, arranged to illustrate the course of architecture in England until 1800, with a sketch of the preceding European styles (London: B.T. Batsford, 1911; revised ed. Phoenix House,1962)
- The English Staircase: An Historical Account of its Characteristic Types to the End of the 18th Century (London: B.T. Batsford, 1911)
- The work of George Devey, Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1820–1886 (London: Privately published for Messrs Wratten and Godfrey by B.T. Batsford, [190-])
- Some Famous Buildings and their Story, with Sir A. W. Clapham, (1913)[5]
- Gardens in the Making (Batsford, 1914)
- (with Budgen, Walter) Wilmington Priory and The Long Man (Sussex Archaeological Society, 1938)
- The Parish of Chelsea (ed.), Survey of London, vol. 7 (London County Council, 1924)
- The Story of Architecture in England, 2 volumes (London: B.T. Batsford, 1928–31)
- The Village of Highgate (with Sir George Garter) (eds), Survey of London, vol. 12 (London County Council, 1936)
- Our Building Inheritance: are we to use or lose it? (London: Faber and Faber, 1944)
- The English Almshouse with Some Account of Its Predecessor the Medieval Hospital (London: Faber and Faber, 1955)
- A History of Lewes, incorporating a Guide to the County Town (Lewes Borough Council, 1971)
- Lambeth: South Bank and Vauxhall (with Sir Howard Roberts) (eds), Survey of London, volume 23 (London County Council, 1951)
- King's Cross neighbourhood (ed.), Survey of London (London County Council, 1952)
- At the Sign of The Bull, Lewes: with an Account of Thomas Paine's Residence in Lewes by J. M. Connell (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d)
- Guide to the Church of St Margaret Angmering
- Guide to the Church of St. Mary and St. Gabriel, Harting (Harting Parochial Church Council)
- The Parish of St Pancras (with Percy W. Lovell and W.M. Marcham) (eds), Survey of London, (London County Council)
- Sussex Views: Selected from the Burrell Collections: Being the Jubilee Volume of the Sussex Record Society (with William Burrell, L. F. Salzmanand British Library Staff and Sussex Record Society Staff) (eds)
- The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street (Monograph of the London Survey Committee) (The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, 1963)
- Colsoni's Guide de Londres (1693) (ed.)
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Walter Godfrey – the Society's Chairman & Honorary Editor 1928-1960". 22 July 1965.
- ^ "inauthor:"Walter Scott Godfrey" - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ Godfrey 1939, p. 71.
- ^ "Review of Some Famous Buildings and their Story by Alfred W. Clapham and Walter H. Godfrey". The Athenaeum (4491): 600. 22 November 1913.
Further reading
- Summerson, John. "Godfrey, Walter Hindes". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33430. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- [1] East Sussex Records Office accessions 2006
- Godfrey, Walter H (1939). "Burford Priory". Oxoniensia. IV. Oxford Architectural and Historical Society: 71–88.
- 'Godfrey, Walter Hindes', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014