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WILLIAM EDEN NESFIELD (1835-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:EDEN See also:NESFIELD (1835-1888)  , See also:British architect, one of the leaders of the See also:Gothic revival in See also:England, was See also:born in See also:Bath on the 2nd of See also:April 1835 . His See also:father, See also:Major See also:William See also:Andrew See also:Nesfield, a well-known landscape gardener, laid out See also:Regent's See also:Park and St See also:James's Park, and remodelled See also:Kew . Educated at See also:Eton, Nesfield was articled first to Mr See also:Burn, a classicist, and then to his See also:uncle, See also:Anthony Salvin, who took the Gothic See also:side in the " See also:battle of the styles." Nesfield travelled for study in See also:France, See also:Italy and See also:Greece, afterwards See also:publishing a See also:volume, Sketches from France and Italy (See also:London, 1862), which became one of the See also:text-books of the Gothic revival . In 1859 Nesfield settled down in London . His first important See also:commission was to build a new wing to See also:Combe See also:Abbey for See also:Lord See also:Craven . In 1862 began a nominal See also:partnership with See also:Norman See also:Shaw, the fruits of which have been exaggerated; they shared rooms in Argyle See also:Street for some years, but never collaborated . It was in Argyle Street that the See also:principal See also:work of Nesfield's See also:life was conceived—Combe Abbey, Cloverly See also:Hall and Kinmel Park . Here he showed a mastery of planning and construction, a conscientious regard for detail, an See also:eye for the picturesque, an unfailing regard for.dignity, which make his achievements landmarks in the See also:history of his See also:art . He built the See also:lodge in Regent's Bark (1864) and that in Kew Gardens (1866) . Combe Abbey and Cloverly are some-what " See also:early See also:French " in See also:style, but as Nesfield See also:developed he adopted a purely See also:English, manner, and presented his newer ideas in See also:Loughton Hall and Kinmel Park . The See also:gate lodge at Kinmel Park, Abergele, is entirely " English See also:Renaissance "; Cloverly Hall (1864), planned when he was twenty-nine, with its. See also:great hall, See also:fine approaches to the See also:staircase, and the staircase itself, is already See also:half English, and See also:Eastlake, in his History of Gothic Revival, praises it on that very ground . The full development of the revived classic See also:taste in Nesfield came with his addition to Kinmel Park—red See also:brick, See also:stone dressings, See also:grey-See also:green slated See also:roofs —which elevated that originally unpretentious 18th-See also:century See also:building into a small Renaissance See also:palace .

For contrast in style, harmonious as they are in See also:

artistic expression, Cloverly and Kinmel are the typical examples of the artist's style . Other See also:works are See also:Farnham Royal See also:House near See also:Slough, See also:Lea See also:Wood, Loughton Hall and Westcombe Park . His more notable See also:urban works are the See also:bank at See also:Saffron See also:Walden (1873), and the See also:Rose and See also:Crown Hotel; they stand next See also:door to each other and exhibit another contrast, the former being See also:medieval and the latter what is called " See also:Queen See also:Anne." Though he built no new important See also:church, Nesfield rebuilt the Early Decorated St See also:Mary's, . Farnham Royal, near Slough, mainly on the old lines . He restored See also:King's Walden church, Herts (1868), and Radwinter church, See also:Essex (1871), and Cora church near See also:Whitchurch, Salop; but no great public building came from him . Nesfield's career was a comparatively See also:short one . On the 3rd of See also:September 1885 he married Mary Annetta, eldest daughter of See also:John See also:Sebastian See also:Guilt and granddaughter of See also:Joseph Guilt, and he retired from practice some years before his See also:death at See also:Brighton on the 25th of See also:March 1888 . He See also:left behind him a valuable See also:series of sketches and measured drawings, most of which are now in the library of the Royal See also:Institute of British Architects . (J . M .

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