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(b Brighton, 14 March 1827; d Water Eaton, 21 Oct 1907). English architect. He was the leading British church architect of the late 19th century, and with George Gilbert Scott (ii) jr and J. D. Sedding he was one of the three architects principally responsible for undermining the hegemony of High Victorian Gothic, a style principally based on 13th-century, usually French examples, in favour of later, and English styles of medieval architecture. He was also responsible for setting the dominant tone for Anglican church architecture until well into the 20th century and built up a large practice, designing both new buildings and church furnishings.

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(1827–1907)

Hull-born English architect, one of the most successful and sensitive of the Gothic Revival. A student of George Gilbert Scott in the 1840s, his first churches include St Michael and All Angels, Brighton (1859–61), an essay in C13 polychromy of the ‘muscular’ type; All Saints', Jesus Lane, Cambridge (1862–9), which marks Bodley's rejection of Continental influences in favour of English Second Pointed; and St John the Baptist, Tue Brook, Liverpool (1868–71), representing a glowing and refined English C14 Second Pointed revival of the utmost delicacy, with glorious colour all over the walls, roof, and furnishings (beautifully restored by S. E. Dykes Bower). From 1869 to 1897 Bodley was in partnership with Thomas Garner, designing several churches, including the exquisite and scholarly Holy Angels, Hoar Cross, Staffs. (1872–1900); St Augustine's, Pendlebury, Manchester (1870–4), with the internal buttress arrangement of Albi Cathedral translated into English Second Pointed (the buttresses being pierced to form aisle-passages); and St Mary the Virgin, Clumber Park, Notts. (1886–9), a cruciform church with a central tower and spire, the ensemble being in Bodley's most elegant flowing Second Pointed style. Bodley designed most of Clumber on his own, as he did with St Mary's, Eccleston, Ches. (1894–9), again nominally C14 in style, with stone rib-vaulting throughout. His Holy Trinity, Prince Consort Road, Kensington, London (1902), is light and airy, quite unlike his earlier work. His last great church was the Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul, Washington, DC (1906–76, finally completed in 1990).

Bibliography

  • B. Clarke (1969)
  • J. Curl (2002b)
  • Dixon & Muthesius (1985)
  • Eastlake (1970)
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)

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Bodley, George Frederick (bŏd'lē), 1827-1907, English architect. One of the most prominent and prolific ecclesiastical architects, Bodley was a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott. A friend of William Morris and the other Pre-Raphaelites, he also did much to foster good taste in the applied arts. Among his many works is Queens' College Chapel at Cambridge. His secular buildings include additions to Magdalen and other colleges at Oxford. Besides his English work, he designed cathedrals in Tasmania, in San Francisco, and, with his pupil James Vaughan, the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Washington, D.C.

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See B. F. L. Clarke, Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century (1938).

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George Frederick Bodley
Personal information
Name George Frederick Bodley
Nationality English
Birth date 14 March 1827
Birth place Hull
Date of death 21 October 1907
Place of death Water Eaton, Oxfordshire
Work
Buildings
Awards Royal Gold Medal for Architecture (1899)

George Frederick Bodley (14 March 1827 – 21 October 1907) was an English architect working in the Gothic revival style.

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Personal life

Bodley was the youngest son of William Hulme Bodley, M.D. of Edinburgh, who moved his medical practice from Kingston upon Hull to Brighton, Sussex, England, in his son's youth. George's elder brother, the Rev. W. H. Bodley, became a well-known Roman Catholic preacher and a professor at St Mary’s College, New Oscott, Birmingham.

He married Minna F. H. Reavely, the daughter of Thomas George Wood Reavely, at Kinnersley Castle in 1872. They had one son, George H. Bodley, born in 1874.

Career

George Bodley was articled to the famous architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, under whose influence he became imbued with the spirit of the Gothic revival, and he gradually became known as the chief exponent of 14th century English Gothic, and the leading ecclesiastical architect in England. He is regarded as the leader of the resurgence of interest in English and northern European late-medieval design. He is also noted for his pioneering design work in the Queen Anne revival. [1]

His secular work included the London School Board offices, and in collaboration with Thomas Garner, the new buildings at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Hewell Grange, Worcestershire (for Lord Windsor).

From 1872 he worked in a twenty-eight year partnership with Thomas Garner, designing collegiate buildings in Oxford and Cambridge, country houses and churches throughout the British Isles. He also designed (with his pupil Henry Vaughan) the cathedral at Washington, D.C., and cathedrals at San Francisco and in Hobart. Bodley also worked with his lifelong friend, the stained glass designer C E Kempe, also from Brighton. They collaborated on a number of projects including: St John the Baptist, Tuebrook in Liverpool; Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge; All Saints, Danehill, East Sussex and Clumber Park Chapel in Nottinghamshire.[1]

In 1874 Bodley founded the firm of Watts and Co. together with his partners Thomas Garner and George Gilbert Scott, Jr.. [1]

In 1902 Bodley was one of the assessors for the competition to design the new Anglican cathedral in Liverpool, selecting the design by the young Giles Gilbert Scott. When construction of the cathedral began in 1904, Bodley was appointed to oversee Gilbert Scott's work and made several changes to the interior design of the Lady Chapel.

Bodley’s final architectural accomplishment was the design of the chapel at Bedford School, England, the foundation stone of which was laid on 18 May 1907 by Lord St John of Bletso. Building work took only a year, the consecration of the chapel taking place in July 1908, by which time the architect had died.

Bodley began contributing to the Royal Academy in 1854, and in 1881 was elected A.R.A., becoming RA in 1902. In addition to being a most learned master of architecture, he was a beautiful draughtsman, and a connoisseur in art; he published a volume of poems in 1899; and he was a designer of wallpaper and chintzes for Watts & Co., of Baker Street, London. He served as prime warden of the Fishmongers' Company in 1901–2. In early life he had been in close alliance with the Pre-Raphaelites, and he did a great deal, like William Morris, to improve public taste in domestic decoration and furniture. Bodley was a significant early patron of William Morris.[1]

He died on 21 October 1907 at Water Eaton near Oxford.

Gallery

The Church of the Holy Angels, Hoar Cross

St. Mary's Eccleston

St. Bride's Episcopal Church, Glasgow

St. Chad's Church, Burton-on-Trent

Clumber Park Chapel

All Saints' church, Cambridge

Richly decorated Arts and Crafts interior of All Saints' church, Cambridge.

St. John the Baptist, Tue Brook

Church of St Augustine, Pendlebury

St. Alban's, Sneinton, Nottingham

St Michael and All Angels Church, Brighton

Holy Trinity, Prince Consort Road

Offices of the London School Board by Bodley and Garner (1872-76; demolished 1929

The Lady Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral.

Interior of St John the Divine, Kennington

St Matthew's, Chapel Allerton, Leeds

Vaughan Porch, Leicester Cathedral

Works

New Churches

Church repairs and alterations

Secular buildings

References

Search Wikisource Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Bodley, George Frederick.

"BODLEY, GEORGE FREDERICK". Dictionary of national biography, 2nd supplement, vol. 1: pages 187-190. 1912. http://books.google.com/books?id=bMkcAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA187. 

  1. ^ a b c d The Churches Conservation Trust (2007-07-01). "George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907)". Bodley & Kempe Centenary: A celebration of Victorian church art and design. http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/uploads/publications/90.pdf. Retrieved 2008-05-30. 

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