Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel (1887 in

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– 21 June 1959 in

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) was a British architect, writer and musician.

Life

Harry Stuart Goodhart was born on 29 May 1887 in Cambridge, England. He added the additional name Rendel by royal licence in 1902. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...

, and read music at

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. He worked briefly for

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, and then set up his own architectural practice. He is known for his church projects. In 1936 he converted to Catholicism. He was Oxford's

Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...

, from 1933 to 1936. His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival of interest in Victoriana, by

Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (195 ...

. He served as president of the

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(RIBA) from 1937 to 1939. He was appointed a

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in 1955. Although he was a good 25 years older than Michael Noble, later Baron Glenkinglas, the two had a friendly feud based on the much nastier Andrew Noble – George Whitwick Rendel feud.

Works

*1924: ''

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'' *1932: ''Vitruvian Nights'' *1934: ''Fine Art'' *1937: ''Hatchlands, Surrey'' *1938: ''Architecture in a Changing World'' *1947: ''How Architecture is Made'' *1953: ''English Architecture Since the Regency'' *The Goodhart-Rendel Index of 19th century church builders, a card index which he compiled is held in the

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, London.

Buildings

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, Riseholme Street, London E9 (1912; demolished 1969) *

St Olaf House St Olaf House is a Grade II* listed building on Tooley Street in the London Borough of Southwark. The house was built on the site of St Olave's Church, Southwark, St Olave's Church between 1928 and 1932, and is now part of London Bridge Hospita ...

, London (1928–1932) *

St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton St Wilfrid's Church is a former Anglican church in the Elm Grove area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Designed and built in the 1930s to replace a temporary building in the densely populated Elm Grove area, its unusu ...

(1932–1934), now converted into residential apartments *

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(1935–1936) *

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, Banstead Wood, Surrey (1948) *

St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea St John the Evangelist's Church is the Anglicanism, Anglican parish church of the Upper St Leonards area of St Leonards-on-Sea, a town and seaside resort which is part of the Hastings, Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. The present bui ...

(rebuilding after war damage, 1951) *

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(1955–59) *Sacred Heart Church,

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(1958) * Our Lady of the Rosary,

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* Several houses in the Surrey village of

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were built to his drawings including Antler's Corner, Appletree Cottage, Meadow Cottage and 5 School Lane (1910), Prospect Cottages (1914), Snelgate Cottages (1926) and the St Thomas' Housing Society Cottages (1947) *Goodhart-Rendel designed a cover for the organ at the

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. * St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church, George Street,

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, Wigtownshire, Galloway, Scotland, 1959–1960

His only known building in Scotland. The interior has seen some reordering with the moving forward of the altar from the East wall after the

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. At that time the

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was also removed, together with some decorative ironwork. The East elevation has a carved

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crucifix mounted on the wall. St_Martin_and_St_Ninian_Catholic_Church_Whithorn_Wigtownshire_consecrated_1960

Family

His father was Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), a former international footballer who became professor of Latin at the

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. His mother was Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel, the daughter of

Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel (2 July 1834 – 4 June 1913), was a British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician. He sat as a Liberal Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Montgomery ...

, from whom in 1945 he inherited a substantial estate including

Hatchlands Park Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres). It is located near Guildford along the A246 between East Clandon and West Horsley. Hatchlands Park has b ...

which he subsequently made over to the

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Notes

Sources

External links

The Clandons: a look into the past (includes "The last squire of East Clandon", by Maurice Wiggin
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