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Sir Arthur William Blomfield (6 March 182930 October 1899) was an English architect. He became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 and vice-president of the RIBA in 1886. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Architecture.

Background

He was the ninth son of Charles James Blomfield, Anglican Bishop of London, who began a programme of new church construction in the capital. Born in Fulham Palace, Arthur Blomfield was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was then articled as an architect to Philip Charles Hardwick, and subsequently obtained a large practice on his own account.

The young Thomas Hardy joined Blomfield's practice as assistant architect in April 1862, and the writer remained friends with Blomfield. He became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 (proposed by George Gilbert Scott, H. Brandon and J. P. Seddon); and vice-president of the RIBA in 1886. In 1889, he was knighted. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1891.

He was twice married. His first wife was Caroline Harriet Smith (1840–1882) and his second wife, Lady Blomfield, was an author and humanitarian. Memorial to a shining star London, United Kingdom, 10 August 2003 (BWNS) Two of his daughters, Mary Esther and Ellinor Blomfield, were supporters of the suffragette movement and famously made a representation to the King. Two of his sons, Charles James and Arthur Conran Blomfield, were brought up to his own profession, and of which they became distinguished representatives. His nephew, Sir Reginald Blomfield, apprenticed under him, went on to design numerous buildings, public works, and sculpture, including the Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross, for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. These are in Commonwealth cemeteries in many countries.

He died at the Royal Society in London on 30 October 1899 aged 70 and was buried on 3 November in Broadway, Worcestershire, where he lived at Springfield House.

Major works

Blomfield designed St Peter's in Eastgate in 1870 as a replacement for a medieval church. The church as it now stands is the combined work of three eminent architects: nave and chancel by Blomfield, south aisle by Temple Moore (1914) and the chancel decoration by George Frederick Bodley (1884).

In 1882 Blomfield designed the Royal College of Music in London. In 1887 he became architect to the Bank of England and, in association with Arthur Edmund Street, designed the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England in Fleet Street. A. E. Street was the son of the architect G. E. Street.

In 1890–7 he rebuilt the nave of St Saviour's parish church, Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral), replacing an earlier reconstruction of 1839–40. It is a notable example of his use of a Gothic Revival style. He was highly regarded as a restorer; a spokesman for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings said of his 1898 restoration of Salisbury Cathedral spire "conducted in the most conservative way possible ... I am confident that anyone who had been privileged to see the work that is being done ... would not withhold his subscriptions even though he was as ardent an anti-restorer as your obedient servant." William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Andrea Elizabeth Donovan, Routledge 2008 (p. 72)

In 1899 he completed St George's Anglican Cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana, which was the tallest wooden church in the world until 2003 when the Peri Monastery near Săpânţa in northern Romania was completed.

Other works (in chronological order)

St Leonard's Church, Linley, Shropshire, restoration, 1858
Christ Church, Crouch End 1862
Holy Trinity Church, Dartford, 1862-63 and 1877[3]Kent Archaeological Society, Holy Trinity Church, Dartford: Canterbury Diocese - Historical and Archaeological Survey, Tim Tatton-Brown, 1995. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
Christ Church, East Sheen 1863
St Mary's parish church, Jackfield, Shropshire, 1863Pevsner, 1958, page 158
All Saints' parish church, Windsor, Berkshire, 1862–64Pevsner, 1966, page 299
St Luke's chapel at the former Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, 1864Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 305
St Mary's Church, Banbury, Oxfordshire: restoration 1864Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 436
Dartford Grammar School, Kent, 1864.
St. Mary's parish church, Adwell, Oxfordshire, 1865Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 419
St Mark's parish church, Binfield, Berkshire, 1866Pevsner, 1966, page 87
St Mary's parish church, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, 1867–68
St John the Baptist parish church, Eton Wick, Buckinghamshire, 1867–69Pevsner, 1960, page 132
All Saints' parish church, Upper Caldecote, Bedfordshire, 1868
St. Mary's Church, Strood, Kent, 1868Homan 1984, page 105
Vicarage House for Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire, 1868 Jackson's Oxford Journal, 17 October 1868
St Saviour's parish church, Eddington, Berkshire, 1868Pevsner, 1966, page 136
St Mary Magdalen Church, Sheet, Hampshire, 1868–69
St John's Church, St. Moritz, 1868-75
St. Barnabas parish church, Jericho, Oxford, 1869Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 290
St Peter in Eastgate, Lincoln 1870
St Stephen's Church, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1870 (demolished in 1889 and replaced by St. Barnabas' Church on the same site)Homan 1984, page 97
All Saints' parish church, Neenton, Shropshire, 1870–71
St Saviour's Church, Oxford Street, London 1870–73
St John the Baptist, Bathwick, Bath, 1871
Whitgift School, Croydon, 1871Whitgift School, Whitgift Middle School,Trinity School 1871-1965 by FHG Percy & JW Cove, 1965
St Mary-at-the-Walls, Colchester, 1872
(1965). 9780140710113, Penguin Books. . ISBN 9780140710113
St Nicholas' Church, Chawton 1872–73 Chawton Village information
St James' parish church, Ramsden, Oxfordshire, 1872Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 734
Church of St Mary and St Ethelbert, Luckington, Wiltshire, 1872<
St. Andrew's parish church, Surbiton, Surrey 1872 Victorianweb.org
St John the Baptist parish church, Crowthorne, Berkshire, 1873Pevsner, 1966, page 124
Holy Innocents parish church, High Beach, Essex, 1873
Tyntesfield chapel, Wraxall, Somerset, 1873
Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, 1873-75
St Peter's Church, Netherseal, Derbyshire 1874
St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, 1874–90Pevsner, 1960, page 172
Grove Gardens Chapel, Richmond, Surrey, c.1875
St John the Baptist's Church, Eltham, Kent, 1875
St Michael and All Angels Church, Maidstone, Kent, 1876
Chapel Royal, Brighton, internal structural repairs and reordering 1876; new exterior 1896
Christ Church, Epsom, Surrey, 1876
Holy Innocents, Hornsey, London N8, 1876–77 A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, M A Hicks and R B Pugh, 'Hornsey, including Highgate: Churches', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6, Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey With Highgate, ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London, 1980), pp. 172–182. British History Online, accessed 8 January 2017.
Holy Trinity Church, Privett, 1876–78Pevsner, 1967, page 471
Haileybury and Imperial Service College Chapel, 1877
St Andrew's Church, Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire: restoration, 1877
All Saints' parish church, Roffey, West Sussex, 1878
St. Mary Magdalene parish church, Woodstock, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1878Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 856
Trinity College, Cambridge Bishop's Hostel additions 1878
St Paul's Church, Clapham: East end extension, 1879
Denton Hall, Denton, Lincolnshire, rebuilt 1879–1883 (demolished 1938) '1879 – Denton Hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire', archiseek.
All Saints Church, Fulham, 1880–81
Denny, Barbara (1997). 9780948667435, London: Historical Publications. ISBN 9780948667435
St Nicholas' parish church, Heythrop, Oxfordshire, 1880Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 646
St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex (1881; partly destroyed by bombing in 1943 and rebuilt by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel)
Lecture rooms, Durham University (now part of Palace Green Library), 1882
Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1882-89 See also other nearby listings
Chester Cathedral restoration and additions, 1882
St Andrew's Church, Worthing, West Sussex (1882)
St Luke's Church, Queen's Park, Brighton, Sussex, 1882–85
St Stephen's Church, North Mundham, West Sussex: addition of chancel and re-ordering of interior, 1883
St Andrew, Stoke Newington, 1883–4
(2025). 9780300096538, Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300096538
Charterhouse School, the Great Hall 1884
St Leodegar's Church, Hunston, Sussex, 1885
St. Wystan's Church, Repton restoration 1885–1886
Wellington College, Berkshire: chapel apse and dormitories, 1886Pevsner, 1966, page 262
St. Alban's Anglican Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
St Germanus' Church, Faulkbourne, Essex, 1886
St Andrew's Church, Leytonstone, Essex 1886–93.
Royal Memorial Church of St George, Cannes, 1886–92
St Mary's Church, Walmer, Kent, 1887
St James' Church, West Hampstead, 1887-88
Minster Church of St Denys, Warminster, Wiltshire: rebuilding 1887–89
Holy Trinity Church, Gosport, Hampshire, restoration and campanile, 1887-89
St David's Church Bangor, Gwynedd, 1888 CADW Listing page 16
St Mary's Church, Rostherne, Cheshire, 1888
All Saints' Church, Leatherhead, Surrey, 1888
St Mark's Church, Regent's Park, 1888-9 (alterations)
St Mary's parish church, Rickmansworth, 1888-90
St Mark's parish church, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 1889
Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, Essex, 1889
St Stephen's Church, Brighton, additions 1889
Eton College, Berkshire: Lower Chapel and Queen's Schools, 1889–91Pevsner, 1960, page 131
All Souls Church, Hastings, Sussex, 1890
All Saints' Blackheath, additions in 1890 (vestries) and 1899 (porch)
St Cyprian's Church, Brockley, London, 1890
St James' Church, West End, Hampshire 1890
Christ Church Cathedral (Falkland Islands), 1890–1892
Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London, 1891
St Mary's parish church, Liss, Hampshire 1892 Lissparishchurch.co.uk
Magdalen College School, Oxford, 1893–94Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 304
West Sussex County Asylum, Chichester, West Sussex, 1894–97Cracknell, 2005, countyasylums.com
The Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Edward the Confessor, Lyndhurst, Hants, 1894–96
Epsom College Chapel, Surrey 1895
St Werburgh's Church, Derby, new church added, 1895
St Mary's Church, Swansea, Glamorgan, 1896
St Michael's Church, Macclesfield, Cheshire, new nave and aisles, 1898–1901Pevsner & Hubbard, 1971, pages 135+, 265, 324
All Saints Church, Leamington Spa, two western bays to the nave and a south western bell tower, 1898–1902
Wellington College, Berkshire, chapel aisles, 1899
St Saviour's Church of Ireland parish church, Coolgreaney Road, Arklow, County Wicklow, 1899 Ireland.anglican.orgPhilip Smith (writer), An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Wicklow (Dublin: Wordwell Press / Government of Ireland, Department of the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, 2004). pp. 2–3, 70–71.
Glenesk Mausoleum, East Finchley Cemetery, Barnet, 1899

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St John the Evangelist's Church, Preston Village, Brighton, Sussex, 1901
St George's Church, Ashtead, Surrey, 1905
St Saviour's Church, Raynes Park, Surrey, 1905
St Michael's parish church, Abbey Wood, Kent, 1907
Sea Marge Hotel in Overstrand, Norfolk, private residence for Edgar Speyer, 1908
Church of Holy Trinity, Eltham, London, 1908
St Mellitus's Church, Hanwell 1909