Romilly Bernard Craze (1892–1974) was an English architect.
[A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. James Stevens Curl. Oxford University Press. 2006. p.209 ]
Life
He was the son of George Henry Craze and his wife Louisa Mary Webb. He was born in 1892, and baptised on 17 February 1900 in
St Luke's Church, West Norwood.
He married Elizabeth Ethel Dutton on 6 September 1919.
Craze worked in partnership with Sir William Victor Mordaunt Milner, with whom he formed the firm of Milner & Craze.
[ He spent much of his career repairing churches damaged by bombing during the ]Second World War
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, but also produced some distinctive churches of his own.
Works
* Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea, internal improvements, 1933.
* Offices, workshops and a garage for the Stepney Carrier Co. at 94–100 St John Street, London, 1935. Demolished.
*Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
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, Norfolk, 1937.
* St. Martin's Church, Hull, 1939.
*St Paul’s Church, Arbourthorne, Sheffield 1939.[The Buildings of England. Yorkshire, The West Riding. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Books. 1967 p.458. ]
* St Thomas's Church, Oakwood, 1939.
*St Luke’s Church, Camberwell, 1954.
*All Saints’ Church, Kingsbury, 1954.
*St Mary Abbots
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, Kensington, new ceiling, 1955.
*St Aidan’s Church, Hull, 1955.
* St. Mary's Church, Southampton, 1956.
*St George's Cathedral, Southwark
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Rebuilding, 1953 - 1958.
*St Cuthbert’s Church, Wembley, 1959.
*St Barnabas Church, Temple Fortune
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, nave, 1962
*St Richard’s Church, Maybridge, Goring-by-Sea
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, 1966.
*St Thomas’ Church, Kensal Town
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, 1967.
*SS Peter & Paul, Enfield Lock, 1969.
* Church of the Ascension, Stirchley, Birmingham, 1973.
References
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1892 births
1974 deaths
Architects from London