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Encyclopedia > Herbert Tudor Buckland

Herbert Tudor Buckland (November 20, 1869 - 1951) was a British architect, best known for his seminal Arts and Crafts houses (several of which, including his own at Edgbaston, are Grade I listed), the Elan Valley Reservoirs model village, educational buildings such as the campus of the Royal Hospital School in Suffolk and St Hugh's College Oxford. November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... Artichoke wallpaper, by John Henry Dearle for William Morris & Co. ... Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Edgbaston is an area in Birmingham, England, UK. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee. ... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ... Separating dam at Caban Coch The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man-made lakes in Wales, west of Rhayader, (also known as the Welsh Lake District), using the rivers Elan and Claerwen. ... The Royal Hospital School is a co-educational independent boarding school which takes pupils from age 11 to 18 (years 7 to 13). ... Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ...


Buckland was born in Barmouth, Wales and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and the school of architecture at Birmingham School of Art. After a period working for C. E. Bateman at the firm Bateman and Bateman Buckland set up in independent practice in 1897, entering into partnership with Edward Haywood-Farmer in 1900. In 1914 he went into partnership with William Haywood, Edward Haywood-Farmer's relative and on Haywood-Farmer's death in 1917 the practice continued with William Haywood as Buckland and Haywood. Barmouth (Welsh: Abermaw (formal); Y Bermo (colloquial)) is a town in the administrative county of Gwynedd, traditional county of Merionethshire, northwestern Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Mawddach and Cardigan Bay. ... Motto: (Welsh for Wales for ever) Anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff Official language(s) English, Welsh Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification    - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056  Area    - Total 20,779 km² (3rd... King Edwards School King Edwards School (KES) (Grid reference SP052836) is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI in 1552. ... The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in Birmingham, England. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... WILLIAM JOSEPH HAYWOOD (1876-1957) William Haywood was an English architect and Secretary of The Birmingham Civic Society for over thirty years, being a founder member in 1918. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...


Buckland served as architect to the City of Birmingham Education Committee and his buildings are amongst Birmingham's most forward-looking of their time. He also sat on the Executive Council of The Birmingham Civic Society which devised many schemes for the improvement of Birmingham in the 1920's and 1930's including the purchase of many parks and open spaces which were gifted to the city. Much of modern Birmingham owes its origins to the ideas put forward by Buckland and Haywood over 75 years ago.


The partnership of Buckland-Farmer operated from offices in Norwich Union Chambers, Corngreve Street (now demolished). Buckland & Haywood specialised in school work, and St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (1914-6) gained them a national reputation. Their largest work in this field is the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Suffolk (1925-33), which includes a splendid chapel.


In his domestic work Buckland showed an originality that was much admired, helping make Birmingham the centre for a magnificent group of provincial architects (a rare thing in Britain, where the Capital is one of the most metropolitan) at a time when London architects were some of the world's best. Alan Crawford, distinguished authority on the Arts and Crafts period, confirms that Buckland "developed such a highly personal style of such quality in domestic work that he must rank with the best of his time" - Edwin Lutyens, Charles Voysey and Baille Scott. Buckland's designs were much copied by his contemporaries and comparisons with Voysey are interesting. Radio Caroline is a European radio station that originally commenced transmissions as an offshore radio station broadcasting from a ship anchored off the coast of South East England in international waters. ... Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was arguably the greatest British architect of the 20th century[citation needed]. He designed many English country houses and was instrumental in the design and building of New Delhi. ... Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857 - 1941), an architect and furniture designer, was one of the first people to understand and appreciate the significance of industrial design. ...

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Major Built Works

  • Yateley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham has a number of fine Arts and Crafts houses, of which No. 21, designed as his own home in (1899), is among the most stylish, with its preserved Arts and Crafts period interior and garden based on a design by Gertrude Jekyll. Listed Grade I
  • Royal Hospital School, Babergh, Suffolk (1933): as spaciously planned a major building as any in the neo-Wren, neo-Georgian style, its scale and formality undeniably impressive. Listed Grade II*
  • Elan Valley Village (c.1909): an entire Model village built to service the work force of the newly constructed Elan Valley Dam.
Elan Village under construction c.1909
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Elan Village under construction c.1909
  • St Hugh's College, Oxford
  • University House, Birmingham University: built in 1908, with Neville Chamberlain as the chief fund raiser. It was the first university hostel for women, and the first to admit male guests. Listed Grade II
  • Walkers Factory, Digbeth. Industrial architecture is not normally associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, but Birmingham has some excellent examples: Bucklands factory for the Walkers family at 58 Oxford Street being one.
  • Great Roke, Witley by Buckland and Haywood-Farmer, built in 1909, with plaster work by Catterson-Smith Jr.(now Barrow Hills School). This house was the biggest, most ambitious house undertaken by the partners and is arguably one of the finest large houses produced by the Birmingham Movement. Alan Crawford describes it as "surely one of the last of the important essays in the Arts and Crafts manner".

Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Edgbaston is an area in Birmingham, England, UK. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist who created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA. She also contributed over 1,000 articles to Country Life, The Garden and other magazines. ... The Royal Hospital School is a co-educational independent boarding school which takes pupils from age 11 to 18 (years 7 to 13). ... Babergh is a local government district in Suffolk, England. ... Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Separating dam at Caban Coch The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man-made lakes in Wales, west of Rhayader, (also known as the Welsh Lake District), using the rivers Elan and Claerwen. ... The University of Birmingham is an English university in the city of Birmingham. ... Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a Conservative British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. ... Digbeth is an area of Birmingham, England. ...

Further Reading

  • Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Cambridgeshire,ISBN 0-300-09586-4, Page: 196.
  • Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Suffolk, ISBN 0-14-071020-5, Pages: 61,275.Illust.64b.
  • Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Warwickshire, ISBN 0-300-09679-8, Pages: 187,271.
  • Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, ISBN 0-14-071045-0, Page: 247.
  • Roy Hartnell, Pre-Raphaelite Birmingham, ISBN 1-85858-064-1, Page 110.
  • Martin Hampson, Images of England, Edgbaston, ISBN 0-7524-1810-6, Pages: 57,79.
  • Phillada Ballard, An Oasis of Delight, The History of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, ISBN 1-85858-246-6, Page: 67.
  • Douglas Hickman, Birmingham, ISBN 0-289-79800-0, Pages: 83,116,141.
  • Andy Foster, Pevsner Architectural Guides Birmingham, ISBN 0-300-10731-5, Pages: 22,24,26,28,29,182,229,239,242,246,251,268n,288.
  • Terry Slater, Edgbaston A History, ISBN 1-86077-216-1, Pages: 86(illust.114),53(illust.67),34,35(illust.45),30(illust.35).
  • Alan Crawford (Editor), By Hammer and Hand, ISBN 0-7093-0119-7, Pages: 41,43,55-6,35

See also

Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist who created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA. She also contributed over 1,000 articles to Country Life, The Garden and other magazines. ... Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM (March 29, 1869 - January 1, 1944), a British architect, designed many English country houses and was instrumental in the layout and building of New Delhi. ... WILLIAM JOSEPH HAYWOOD (1876-1957) William Haywood was an English architect and Secretary of The Birmingham Civic Society for over thirty years, being a founder member in 1918. ...

External links

  • The Birmingham Civic Society
  • St Hugh's College
  • Royal Hospital School
  • Royal Insitute of British Architects
  • Barrow Hills School

 

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