Henry Edward Kendall Junior (1805–9 June 1885) was a British architect.

Background

Kendall was the son of

Henry Edward Kendall Henry Edward Kendall (23 March 1776 – 4 January1875) was an English architect. Kendall was a student of Thomas Leverton and possibly of John Nash. His wide-ranging styles included Greek, Italian and Tudor revival. His son, Henry Edward ...

, also an architect. Both were among the co-founders of what became the

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. citing obituary in:

Early career

The two initially shared a practice, which in 1834 was located at 17 Suffolk Street, London. The Esplanade and Tunnel in

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, Brighton, dating between 1828 and 1830, was one of their notable works.

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was amongst those who worked at the practice before setting up on his own.

Many works

Kendall's works included schools, a few churches including the round-arched church of St John, Harrow Road,

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(1844), parsonages, two lunatic asylums (

Herrison Hospital Herrison Hospital was a mental health facility in Charminster, Dorset. History The hospital, which was designed by Henry Edward Kendall Jr. using a Corridor Plan layout, opened as the Dorset County Asylum in 1863. A female annex, designed by Ge ...

and St Francis Hospital) and many houses including the remodelling of

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(1843),

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(1844), 'Pope's Villa',

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(built on the site of

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's house, which had been demolished in 1808/09), and a house in

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, built in 1860 for publisher Thomas Longman, subsequently home of Empress Eugénie of France and, since 1927, home to Farnborough Hill Girls School. He also designed the

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of the 2nd Earl of Kilmorey and his mistress, built in

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, London, in 1854, then relocated to

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, Chertsey in 1862, and moved to

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in 1870. He was District Surveyor for Hampstead from 1844 and produced a book on school designs. Elsewhere in London he designed the Stonebridge Park Estate (originally intended to be called Harlesdon Park), a select estate of detached and semi-detached houses, two of which survive (though one is currently under threat of demolition by

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). A view of the projected estate, showing a church that was in fact never built, depicts an idealised Victorian middle-class suburb. The estate was advertised by its developers as follows: "The aspect is South and South West overlooking 30 miles of beautiful country and THE SURREY HILLS. The surrounding lands are the property of large landholders or Ecclesiastical Corporations thus rendering it certain that no small houses or nuisances will be built in the neighbourhood ... It is proposed that Gates and Lodges shall be erected and the roads kept quite private ... this will render the Park like a Private Garden and will ... effectually Prevent all beggars, and similar annoyances, and all those little petty thefts and injuries which are so vexatious, and which are so frequently committed in the gardens and out-buildings in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis". By 1876 over 60 "smart new villas" had been built, along with the large 'Stonebridge Park Hotel'. Stonebridge Park became the home of many of the men who ran the Willesden Urban District's local government. Towards the end of his career, Kendall established a practice with his son-in-law, Frederick Mew.

Paintings

Kendall exhibited paintings of architectural subjects at the

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between 1799 and 1843.

Death

He died in 1885 in

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, aged 79.

References

External links

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Kendall's funerary sculpture

Kensal Green Cemetery Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of Queens Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. Inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, it was founded by the barrister George Frederic ...

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