Reginald Blomfield

The Cross of Sacrifice in Bayeux War Cemetery in France.

Regent Street, London - One of Reginald Blomfield's most noticeable projects

The Headrow, Leeds, another of Blomfield's project.

Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856 – 27 December 1942) was a British architect, garden designer and author.

Early life and career

Reginald Blomfield was born in Nymet Tracey, Devon, son of the local clergyman. He was educated at Haileybury school and at Exeter College, Oxford. His uncle, Sir Arthur Blomfield, was an architect and Blomfield followed him into the profession, training first under his uncle, then at the Royal Academy in London, where he later became a professor of architecture in 1906.

Design work

After establishing his own practice, he designed:

• 1906, redesigned the United University Club in Pall Mall on a grander scale.
• The Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Flanders.
• 1915, Brandhoek Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
• 1923, the Royal Air Force Memorial in London.
• The Pall Mall premises of the Carlton Club destroyed in the Second World War; (not the current premises in St James's Street).
• Ditcham Park School, Hampshire.
• Lambeth Bridge, crossing the River Thames.
• Works at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
• Highgate School.
• Goldsmiths College.
• The Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross, for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. These are in Commonwealth cemeteries in many countries.

He became known for remodeling streets in the early 20th century such as:

• Regent Street in London in the 1920s; among other architects working on Regent Street in the first decades of the twentieth century, were Norman Shaw, Aston Webb, John James Burnet, Arthur Joseph Davis, Henry Tanner, and Ernest Newton.
• The Headrow in Leeds from 1929. These are notable for being constructed in a uniform architectural style, and Nikolaus Pevsner comments on the similarity of the Leeds scheme to the earlier one in Regent Street.

Awards and honors

• 1913 awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
• 1914 elected to the Royal Academy

See also

• St. Thomas' Church, Aslockton

References

Riddington, Peter and others, Regent Street, History and Conservation. Donald Insall Associates, London 2001.

Notes

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External links

• http://www.gardenvisit.com/b/blomfield.htm
• http://www.veteransagency.mod.uk/remembrance/remembrance_blomfield.htm

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