18-585: Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), also known as Norman Shaw , was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. He is considered to be among the greatest of British architects; his influence on architectural style was strongest in the 1880s and 1890s. Shaw was born 7 May 1831 in Edinburgh, the sixth and last child of William Shaw (1780–1833), an Irish Protestant and army officer, and Elizabeth née Brown (1785–1883), from
36-631: A family of successful Edinburgh lawyers. William Shaw died 2 years after his son's birth, leaving debts. Two of Shaw's siblings died young and a third in early adulthood. The family lived first in Annandale Street and then Haddington Place. Richard was educated at an academy for languages, located at 3 and 5 Hill Street Edinburgh until c.1842, then had one year of formal schooling in Newcastle, followed by being taught by his sister Janet. The eldest surviving child Robert had moved to London to work;
54-499: The 1892 collection of essays, Architecture, a profession or an Art? . He firmly believed it was an art. In later years, Shaw moved to a heavier classical style which influenced the emerging Edwardian Classicism of the early 20th century. Shaw died in London, where he had designed residential buildings in areas such as Pont Street , and public buildings such as New Scotland Yard . Shaw's early country houses avoided Neo-Gothic and
72-615: The Anglican parish church for the development. List of Royal Academicians This is a partial list of Royal Academicians ( post-nominal : RA ), academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections. Nephew of Andrew Freeth This is a partial list of Honorary Royal Academicians ( Post-nominal : HonRA), academicians of
90-639: The Royal Academy of Arts in London. A full list is available on the web pages of the Royal Academy Collections. HonRA St John-at-Hampstead St John-at-Hampstead is a Church of England parish church dedicated to St John the Evangelist (though the original dedication was only refined from St John to this in 1917 by the Bishop of London) in Church Row , Hampstead , London. Hampstead
108-480: The Royal Academy, with whom he briefly partnered in some architectural designs. During 1854–1856, Shaw travelled with a Royal Academy scholarship, collecting sketches that were published as Architectural Sketches from the Continent , 1858. On his return to London he moved to George Edmund Street 's practice. In 1863, after sixteen years of training, Shaw opened a practice for a short time with Nesfield. In 1872, he
126-480: The academic styles, reviving vernacular materials like half timber and hanging tiles, with projecting gables and tall massive chimneys with " inglenooks " for warm seating. Shaw's houses soon attracted the misnomer the " Queen Anne style ". As his skills developed, he dropped some of the mannered detailing, his buildings gained in dignity, and acquired an air of serenity and a quiet homely charm which were less conspicuous in his earlier works; half timber construction
144-622: The church had its first Willis organ built (it was replaced in 1883 and repaired in 1997), with Henry Willis himself employed as the organist, and in 1871 plans were mooted for 'beautifying and improving' the church. These plans originally involved the demolition of the tower, but this was shelved on protests from William Morris , Edward Burne-Jones , Holman Hunt , Ford Madox Brown , Anthony Trollope , George du Maurier , Coventry Patmore , F. T. Palgrave , George Gilbert Scott Jr. and others, in favour of simple extensions westwards in 1877–78 designed by F.P. Cockerell (though these extensions moved
162-481: The church's high altar to the geographical west end, rather than the more usual east end). In 1911–12 the Vestries were improved by Temple Moore , who also added a Morning Chapel, whilst in 1958 the dark Victorian interior scheme was removed and the original lighter, whitewashed scheme reinstated. The building is Grade I listed . The church has a fine musical tradition stretching back as far as Henry Willis. Under
180-421: The direction of Martindale Sidwell it developed a national and international reputation as being a centre of excellence for parish music, which it maintains today with a fully professional choir as well as a junior choir and regular high-profile concerts. The early records of organs date from the middle of the 18th century. The current organ was installed by Henry Willis in 1884. Restoration and rebuilding work
198-515: The rest of the family followed about 1846, living in Middleton Road, Dalston . Richard began his apprenticeship almost immediately at an unknown architect's practice. By 1849, he had transferred to the London office of sixty-year-old William Burn , at whose practice Shaw remained for five years. He attended the evening lectures on architecture given at the Royal Academy of Arts by Charles Robert Cockerell . He met William Eden Nesfield at
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#1732779855926216-416: The see was abolished in 1551 by Edward VI , with the manor and benefice of Hampstead being granted to Sir Thomas Wrothe. The church of this era was part in stone and part in timber, and also had a minor wooden tower. As Hampstead grew in popularity and size as an out-of-town health resort, the small existing church grew less and less adequate and derelict, being finally declared unusable by 1744. A new church
234-506: Was built on designs by Henry Flitcroft and John Sanderson , and dedicated on 8 October 1747 by the Bishop of Llandaff (as commissary of the Diocesan ). However, by 1827 this was again too small, though initial plans by Lewis Vulliamy were rejected as too expensive and it took until 1843 for extension plans by Robert Hesketh to be agreed upon. This extended the church 30 ft westwards by means of transepts, adding 524 more seats. In 1853
252-440: Was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy . Shaw worked for, among others, the artists John Callcott Horsley and George Henry Boughton , and the industrialist Lord Armstrong . He designed large houses such as Cragside , Grim's Dyke , and Chigwell Hall , as well as a series of commercial buildings using a wide range of styles. Shaw was elected to the Royal Academy in 1877, and co-edited (with Sir Thomas Jackson RA )
270-675: Was gifted at drawing and Shaw's career is assumed to have been an influence in Cecil Wood becoming an architect. In later life he lived at 6 Ellerdale Road, Hampstead, London. He died in London and is buried in St John-at-Hampstead Churchyard, Hampstead , London. One of Shaw's major commissions was the planning and designing of buildings for Bedford Park, London. Shaw was commissioned in 1877 by Jonathan T. Carr though his involvement only lasted until 1879. He designed St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park , as
288-926: Was granted to the Benedictine monks of Westminster Abbey by charter in 986. It is likely that they placed a church there soon afterwards, but the first records of one come from 1312 (when it was recorded that John de Neuport was its priest) and 1333 (through a mention of a Chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary). On the Dissolution of the Monasteries , the Abbey was replaced by the Bishop of Westminster , with its first and only holder Thomas Thirlby also serving as St John's rector . Thirlby appointed Thomas Chapelyne to be St John's vicar in 1545, but
306-827: Was more sparingly used, and finally disappeared entirely. On 16 July 1867, Shaw married Agnes Haswell Wood at the parish church in Hampstead . She was the daughter of James Wood and was born in New South Wales , and most of the Wood siblings were sent to England for part of their education. All the children but Agnes returned to New South Wales and from there, most of the family moved to Christchurch in New Zealand. Agnes lived with an aunt in England and in 1866, she became engaged to Shaw. Her nephew, Cecil Wood (1878–1947),
324-614: Was undertaken by Harrison and Harrison in 1964, and Bower and Co in 2000. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. and on the parish website. By virtue of the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956 , parochial church councils are entitled to levy a voluntary rate and, in 1986, Hampstead Parish Church's PCC decided to supplement their millennium redecoration appeal by this means. The levying of
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