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  Sir Reginald Blomfield - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"SIR REGINALD BLOMFIELD (1856-), English architect and author, was born Dec. 20 1856 at Aldington in Kent, of which parish his father was rector.
As author, Sir R. Blomfield is known by various important volumes of history and criticism.
Sir R. Blomfield was elected A.R.A. in 1905, and R.A. in 1914, in which latter year he was also made Officier de l'Instruction publique by the French Government.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Reginald_Blomfield   (549 words)

  
 History of garden design in the nineteenth century
Blomfield put the question whether the garden is to be considered in relation to the house or whether the house is to be ruled out when the garden is arranged.
Blomfield attacked the chief maxims of this unsystematic method, and especially the cardinal doctrine of the imitation of Nature.
When, eight years later, Blomfield was preparing the third edition of his book, he left out the violent preface to the second edition as no longer necessary, warning people, moreover, not to set up one artificial plan instead of another, which seemed to be the danger of the moment.
www.gardenvisit.com /got/16/7.htm   (2039 words)

  
 Reginald Blomfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856–27 December 1942) was a British architect, garden designer and author.
Reginald Blomfield was born in Nymet Tracey, Devon, son of the local clergyman.
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 (1906) became Professor of Architecture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reginald_Blomfield   (312 words)

  
 Blomfield, sir reginald theodore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Blomfield, Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield, Sir Reginald Theodore.
Reginald Blomfield - Search.com Reference Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856–27 December 1942) was a British architect, garden designer and author.
Reginald Blomfield at AllExperts Regent Street London - One of Reginald Blomfields most noticeable projects Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield 20 December 1856 27 December 1942 was a British...
blomfield-reginald.trevisos.org   (1201 words)

  
 The rebuilding of Piccadilly Circus and the Regent Street Quadrant | British History Online
The two façades of the Piccadilly Hotel are merely noble fragments, and even though Sir Reginald Blomfield later completed the Quadrant with skill and propriety, the defeat of Shaw's proposals is one of the greatest of all the many lost opportunities in the architectural history of London in the present century.
Sir Reginald Blomfield's completion of the Quadrant was successful enough, in a negative way.
Blomfield had already sketched out his ideas (ref.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=41456   (10161 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Reginald Blomfield
The son of an English bishop Blomfield, something of a bombastic man, once declared that "horticulture stands to garden design much as building does to architecture".
Fabian Ware, instigator of the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission successfully persuaded Blomfield to contribute to the commemorative design of cemeteries constructed in honour of the Commonwealth war dead.
To this end Blomfield designed many of the crosses of sacrifice seen in CWGC cemeteries, including Tyne Cot; he was also the architect of the Menin Gate in Ypres which was unveiled in 1927.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/blomfield.htm   (183 words)

  
 Reginald Blomfield - a biography from the landscape architecture and Gardens Guide
Sir Reginald Blomfield was the son of a bishop.
Reginald Blomfield despised Ruskin and Morris as ornamenters.
I for the hill on which I was born; France for the French, Germany for the German, England for the Englishman'.
www.gardenvisit.com /b/blomfield.htm   (189 words)

  
 Blomfield, sir arthur william   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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Sir Arthur William Blomfield - LoveToKnow 1911 SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM BLOMFIELD (1829-1899), English architect, son of Bishop C. Blomfield, was born on the 6th of March 1829, and educated at Rugby and...
Blomfield, Sir Arthur, 1829-1899 Bohnstedt, Ludwig Franz Karl, 1822-1885...Blacking, William Henry Randoll, 1889-1958 Blomfield, Sir Reginald, 1856-1942 Burford, James, 1895-1967 Butler, Arthur Stanley George, 1888-1965...Extensive rebuilding under the direction of Sir Arthur Blomfield,...
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 :: CWGC ::
Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Reginald Blomfield, Sir Herbert Baker and Charles Holden laid the foundations for the use of classical renaissance design in the Commission’s building work prior to 1938.
These principal architects were predominantly active in Belgium and Northern France, where their work is complemented by C.S. Jagger’s rugged and realistic sculptures of soldiers, the stone figures carved by Eric Kennington and a specially commissioned font created by Macdonald Gill which is used for all headstone inscriptions.
Materials that evoke simplicity, respect and permanence are favoured by the Commission’s sculptors and architects, who combine stone, iron and bronze with brickwork, joinery, steel and concrete in their designs.
www.cwgc.org /content.asp?menuid=2&submenuid=10&id=10&menuname=Architecture&menu=sub   (649 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Peter Mandler on The English Garden and National Identity: The Competing Styles of Garden Design, ...
Blomfield was defending the recently consolidated status of the professional architect--perhaps surprisingly, given his Arts and Crafts assocations (he was an early member of the Art Workers Guild), but by 1900 he was backing off and rediscovering classicism, a significant turn rather slighted by Helmreich.
Helmreich closes her discussion by showing how the stark dichotomies represented by Robinson and Blomfield were resolved, again in a socially and intellectually elevated sphere, in the collaborative work of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.
These things are all socially rooted, too, as Robinson's and Blomfield's manifestoes were; it is just that they are rooted more specifically in the world of the garden, and if that makes them seem more specialized, that is only an honest reflection of the limits of the garden.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=160921085174573   (1332 words)

  
 Sir Reginald Blomfield ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Reginald or Renold Elstrack, Portrait of William the Conquerer, 16th - 17th century
Reginald or Renold Elstrack, Portrait of Edward IV.
Reginald or Renold Elstrack, Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, 16th - 17th century
www.wwar.com /masters/b/blomfield-sir_reginald.html   (304 words)

  
 Bilston War Memorial and gardens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Names of the fallen are recorded on a plaque set into the brick wall forming the rear boundary of the gardens.
It was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield when he was with the War Graves Commission (where, amongst other things, he also designed the Menin Gate).
Blomfield was a direct descendant of a man who came over here at the Norman Conquest and he was not inclined to forget it: "I for the hill on which I was born; France for the French; Germany for the German; England for the Englishman".
www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk /listed/localist/BilstonWarMemorial.htm   (332 words)

  
 celene-edward - pafg08.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Reginald Blomfield Brown (Minna Spencer Wills, Horatio Spencer Howe, Edward Spencer) was born on 24 Jan 1890.
Reginald married Virginia Dunn on 11 Dec 1926.
Michael Henry Blomfield Brown was born on 4 Jan 1933.
users.bigpond.net.au /bwi28/fam/celene-edward/pafg08.htm   (241 words)

  
 First World War.com - The Western Front Today - Menin Gate
Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, this monument to the allied effort was begun in June 1921 under a grant of £150,000 from the British Cabinet.
Blomfield, who was classically influenced, planned a great triumphal arch in the Roman tradition.
Owing to running sand beneath the planned foundations, huge concrete piles had to be driven 36ft into the ground.
www.firstworldwar.com /today/meningate.htm   (334 words)

  
 Menin Gate Memorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Menin Gate Memorial at the eastern exit of the town of Ypres (known as "Ieper" in Dutch) in Flanders, Belgium, marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during World War I.
The "Gate" was merely the gap in the city's star-shaped fortifications designed by Louis XIV's engineer Vauban, which were pointless in the age of shelling: Ypres was reduced to rubble.
Reginald Blomfield's triumphal arch, designed in 1921, is the entry to the barrel-vaulted passage for traffic through the mausoleum that honors the Missing, who have no known graves.
www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Menin_Gate_Memorial   (584 words)

  
 Reginald Blomfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Blomfield was the nephew of the Gothic-revival architect, Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829-1899).
John Summerson (q.v.) cites Blomfield as an example of architectural history "essay writing," the dominant form of architectural history in England before the influence of continental scholarship.
This form was abandoned after the influence of Geoffrey Webb (q.v.).
www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org /blomfieldr.htm   (92 words)

  
 Blomdata4
BLOMFIELD REGINALD CHARLES BORN WHAKATANE 1942 NEW ZEALAND.
BLOMFIELD MARY ANNE BORN 7-12-1807 FINSBURY, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.
BLOMFIELD HENRY BORN 9-4- 1817 MIDDLESEX, DIED 24-5- 1889 HASTINGS ENGLAND.
www.historyandmystery.homestead.com /Blomdata4.html   (307 words)

  
 Sulgrave Manor - The home of George Washington's ancestors.
The work was again supervised by Sir Reginald Blomfield and the Manor is fortunate to possess his drawings of the 1920 and 1927 work:
As research in the history of the house and grounds proceeds, the significance of the work of Clifford Smith and Blomfield is increasingly appreciated.
Efforts are therefore underway to fund work in the archives which will enable an assessment of the importance of the Manor's extensive collection of their drawings, plans and writings and, hopefully, to make them accessible to researchers.
www.sulgravemanor.org.uk /history/manor_through_ages.htm   (1562 words)

  
 Remembrance - Biographies
Reginald Theodore Blomfield was born on 20th December 1856 at Nymet Tracey in Devonshire.
We are all deeply grateful to you, and very proud to have been associated with you'.
A pugnacious and energetic figure, Blomfield relished a fight and engaged in the architectural controversies of his day with gusto.
www.veteransagency.mod.uk /remembrance/blomfield.html   (675 words)

  
 SAS | SAS UK Corporate Information
The house was designed and built by Reginald Blomfield, later knighted, who was also responsible for the restoration of Chequers, the British prime minister's country residence.
His original design for the house was never completed to Kearley's satisfaction, and in 1908 he was brought back to replace and enlarge the two wings and completely redesign the frontage.
Although Blomfield landscaped the estate, Kearley was responsible for actually designing and planting the under-cliff and rock gardens.
www.sas.com /offices/europe/uk/corporate/history.html   (1295 words)

  
 Looking at Buildings: from the Pevsner Architectural Guides. An introduction to understanding and exploring the built ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
At the same time, a new road, Eastgate, was made to continue the street as far as Quarry Hill where the Corporation were beginning to build a celebrated new housing estate.
Sir Reginald Blomfield made the design for this ambitious scheme in 1924.
That is because Sir Reginald Blomfield had been employed there in the 1920s and finished his work there before designing the Headrow.
www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk /default.asp?document=3.G.3   (338 words)

  
 The Great War In Flanders
The gate was designed in classical style by Sir Reginald Blomfield on the site of one of the old town gates.
Opened in 1927, the gate bears the names of 54,896 soldiers of the Salient who were reported missing between the outbreak of the War in 1914 and 15th August 1917.
Also designed by Reginald Blomfield in the style of an English parish church, it contains many poignant memorials.
www.salientpoints.com /flanders4.htm   (139 words)

  
 Norfolk Mills - Flordon
The picture above shows where the gable of the old mill joined onto the mill house and interestingly it would appear that the mill was once lower than the house.
They had a daughter, Ethel in 1899, a son Reginald on 24th October 1900 and another daughter, Nellie c.1902.
Kelly's 1896: Reginald Blomfield, miller (steam and water) and farmer, Flordon Mill; and at Tasburgh mill, Tasburgh
www.norfolkmills.co.uk /Watermills/flordon.html   (464 words)

  
 Manuscripts Catalogue
Letter from Reginald Blomfield to Sir Gerald Kelly.
Menu for dinner given for Sir Reginald Blomfield and MacColl, with signatures on verso including Wm.
Mentions Arthur Keen and Reginald Blomfield in connection with the letter to the Prime...
special.lib.gla.ac.uk /manuscripts/search/resultsn.cfm?NID=970&RID=   (1342 words)

  
 Crocus.co.uk garden to visit Moundsmere Manor Basingstoke Hants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The 'Wrenaissance' house was inspired by Hampton Court and designed in 1908 by Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856-1942).
To its south lies Blomfield's formal garden, with herbaceous borders backed by yew hedges and buttresses at either side, then yew avenues, and at the centre a sunken garden edged with roses and a central pool in which the house is pleasingly reflected from the far end.
Also pinetum, and good hothouses with streptocarpus, abutilons, figs, etc. This is Edwardian gardening on a grand scale, characteristically architectural, and exemplifies Blomfield's theories in The Formal Garden in England, in which he attacks the informal style supported by William Robinson.
www.crocus.co.uk /Catalog/Gardens/sale/findplant/?ContentType=GardenCard&GardenID=840   (208 words)

  
 Ernest Coxhead in San Francisco (1897-1908)
Scott commissioned Ernest Coxhead to design this residence for his daughter Alice in 1895 upon her marriage to Dr. Reginald Knight Smith, and members of the same family occupy the house today.
Thus, favored devices of Coxhead's contemporaries in England confront Morris's pattern-book Georgian, which former schoolmate Reginald Blomfield had just denounced as "weak and pretentious" in his influential book on English Renaissance architecture.
The irony of combining sources that were considered stylish and banal in London would not be caught by most observers on the West Coast; however, Coxhead developed a more obvious tension between the house and its setting.
www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_slideshow_ec_sf_02.html   (3206 words)

  
 Hellfire Corner - Tom Morgan's Ypres Battlefield Guide - The Menin Gate
The memorial was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and was built in the face of considerable construction difficulties.
Blomfield's memorial combines the architectural images of a classical victory arch and a mausoleum and it contains, inside and out, huge panels into which are carved the names of the 54,896 officers and men of the commonwealth forces who died in the Ypres Salient area and who have no known graves.
This figure, however, does not represent all of the missing from this area.
www.fylde.demon.co.uk /menin.htm   (1178 words)

  
 TCU Magazine
Near the turn of the century, Robinson's key rival, architect Reginald Blomfield, revived the formal gardens of the Renaissance, claiming they were England's authentic gardening style.
He believed the garden should be part of the living area, an extension of the home's architecture.
In Blomfield's formal gardens at Godinton, left, the hedges reflect the architecture.
www.magazine.tcu.edu /articles/1998-03-AC.asp?issueid=199803   (1060 words)

  
 DETAIL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This dissertation looks at the work of the design committee and the debates both inside and outside the Commission concerning the design of the war graves.
It examines the particular role of Reginald Blomfield who, along with Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, was one of the chief architects of the war graves.
The dissertation will examine the apparent discrepancy between Blomfield's vociferous antimodernism and the use of 'modern' design motifs in the war cemeteries.
www.rca.ac.uk /show1998/historyofdesign/students/king.html   (187 words)

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