CHARLES SPOONER (1862-1938)
DESIGNS FOR A CHAPEL AT LETCHWORTH, HERTFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1906
£2,520
Auction: 19 April 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
pen and ink, watercolour and graphite, inscribed to two CHARLES SPOONER F.R.I.B.A. ARCHITECT/ 23 OLD BUILDINGS LINCOLNS INN W.C. and to the third CHARLES SPOONER F.R.I.B.A. ARCHITECT/ 17 BEDFORD ROW LONDON W.C.
Dimensions
46cm x 66cm
Footnote
Note: These plans by Charles Spooner are for a church in Letchworth Garden City, St Hugh of Lincoln,1907-1908. Father Fortescue claimed it was the ‘only church worth looking at West of Constantinople’. C. R. Ashbee thought that Spooner was one of the four great names of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the other three being W. R. Lethaby, Sidney Barnsley and Ernest Gimson.