Horace Field

Horace Field (17 July 1861 – 16 June 1948) was a London-born architect. His work was often in a Wrenaissance style, as well as other post-gothic English historical revival styles, with influences from the Arts and Crafts movement and Richard Norman Shaw. His commissions including large houses and offices; he produced a number of works for Lloyds Bank as well as offices for the North Eastern Railway in London and York.

Horace Field was born 17 July 1861 at 22 Chalcot Crescent, London; the son of Horace Field (architect, District Surveyor of Putney and Roehampton, 1823–1879) and his wife Christina née White (d. 1866).^[1] He was brought up at 30 Thurlow Road, Hampstead and was educated at University College School (1876–8).

He trained as an architect at the Glasgow firm of John Burnet, then under Robert William Edis of London. Field was not inspired by Edis's work, but developed great admiration and respect for Richard Norman Shaw, architect and neighbour in Hampstead, who he knew socially – both for his work and as an example of humanity.^[2]

Field started his own practice in 1882, as Field and Moore, together with his father's assistant Edwin Emmanuel Moore; their first work was Wedderburn House (1884–5), a six-storey block of flats in Hampstead; Wedderburn Cottage (1886) followed adjacent.^[2]

In 1887 he married Mary Frances Campbell, daughter of James Campbell at St James Episcopal Church, Leith.^[3] He joined the Art Workers Guild in 1889.^[2] "The Hoo" (17, Lyndhurst Gardens) in Camden was built 1890, and further properties at Nos. 19–21 Lyndhurst Road in 1898.^[4]

In 1890 Field took on Michael Bunney as a trainee; Bunney became Field's chief assistant, until 1902, when he formed his own practice. Together they wrote English domestic architecture of the XVII and XVIII centuries.^[2] Field's first commercial business client was Lloyds Bank who commissioned bank buildings at Hampstead c.1895; subsequently Lloyds used Field as architect over a 30-year period.^[5]

In 1898 the North Eastern Railway (NER) chose Field as architect for their new main headquarters in York, now the Grand hotel. Working with William Bell the company's architect, whose input was mainly structural or contractual, the office buildings were constructed between 1900 and 1906, with Field receiving £1,750 payment for his work.^[6] Field also received the commission to design the NER's London offices at 4 Cowley Street, Westminster, his plans were submitted 1904 and the building completed 1906.^[7]

In 1899 Evelyn Simmons joined the practice, initially being articled, then assistant and finally in partnership from 1905 to 1915. Simmons family connections brought work in Hampstead Garden Suburb and co-operation with Amos Faulkner, Simmons's brother-in-law and son of Charles Joseph Faulkner. Amos was architect for the builders William Willett and Son, for whom the practice produced designs for several large London houses, and apartments.

Mary Field's friendship with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and her circle of friends led to him becoming the consulting architect to the New Hospital for Women on Euston Road from 1888 to 1905, where he designed a nurses home (now demolished) at the rear of the building.^[8]

Field left the Art Workers' Guild in 1903 and joined RIBA in 1906.

He was a keen golfer, which led to many commissions for "golf cottages" (the term then used for houses close to golf courses) near Woking, Surrey and Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where he also designed the Aldeburgh Golf Club house in 1911, a replacement for an earlier building by J. M. Brydon destroyed by fire.^[9]

Continuó ejerciendo hasta 1931, retirándose a Rye en 1932, donde realizó algunos encargos de diseño y reforma de casas pequeñas. Su último diseño construido fue en 1941, como un favor para su prima Daisy Field, en Great Dixter , para la conversión de un almacén anexo al secadero de lúpulo en un establo para vacas . ^{[ 10 ]}

Murió el 16 de junio de 1948 ^{[ 11 ]} y está enterrado con su esposa Mary Frances (1859–1950) en el cementerio de St Michael's Playden , Sussex.

La obra de Fields se ha descrito como de estilo renacentista ; ^{[ 12 ]} sus exteriores incluían una variedad de estilos de revival histórico, como el neorrenacimiento de la reina Ana y el neogeorgiano . La mayoría de las obras se realizaron en ladrillo rojo, a menudo con revestimiento de piedra. Con frecuencia utilizaba tejados de fuerte pendiente con buhardillas para albergar pisos adicionales. ^{[ 13 ]}

Lista de obras de Horace Field incluidas en el Registro de Edificios Protegidos de Historic England.

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• Wedderburn House, 1 Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1884–5). ^{[ 15 ]}
• "Wedderburn Cottage" 3, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1886). ^{[ 16 ]}
• 5, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1886). ^{[ 17 ]}
• 7 y 9, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1887). ^{[ 18 ]}
• 11 y 13, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1888). ^{[ 19 ]}
• "The Hoo" ; 17, Lyndhurst Gardens (1889–90). ^{[ 20 ]}
• Sala de lectura de la Ciencia Cristiana, 2a Prince Arthur Road, Hampstead (1891) ^{[ 21 ]}
• 11, 12 y 13 Gainsborough Gardens , Camden (1893–5). ^{[ 22 ]}
• 14, Gainsborough Gardens, Hampstead (1894–5). ^{[ 23 ]}
• Lloyds Bank, 40 y 40A, Rosslyn Hill, con casas adosadas contiguas, Hampstead (1895–7). ^{[ 24 ]}
• 19, 20 y 21 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead (1897–8). ^{[ 25 ]}
• Hotel Granville, Ramsgate , Kent (1900) Alteraciones. ^{[ 26 ]}
• Oficinas de la compañía ferroviaria North Eastern Railway , York (1900–1906). ^{[ 27 ]}
• 5. St.Clements Ln., 6 y 7, Portugal Street, Ciudad de Westminster (1903). ^{[ 28 ]}
• Lloyds Bank, 36 High Street, Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex (1903). ^{[ 29 ]}
• 4 Cowley Street , Ciudad de Westminster, (1904–5). Oficinas en Londres para el Ferrocarril del Noreste . ^{[ 30 ]}
• Lloyds Bank, West Street, Okehampton, Devon (1908) ^{[ 31 ]}
• 8, Barton Street , Ciudad de Westminster (1909). ^{[ 32 ]}
• 12A y 14–18 Devonshire Street, Marylebone (1912) con Simmonds y Faulkner. ^{[ 33 ]}
• 7 Palace Green, Kensington (1913) con Simmons y Faulkner. ^{[ 34 ]}
• Priors Hill, 48 Park Road, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (antes de 1914). ^{[ 35 ]}
• Gorsehill, Leiston Road, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (1928). ^{[ 36 ]}

Publicaciones

• Field, Horace; Bunney, Michael (1905), Arquitectura doméstica inglesa de los siglos XVII y XVIII  : una selección de ejemplos de edificios más pequeños medidos, dibujados y fotografiados con una introducción y notas , George Bell and Sons