C. H. B. Quennell

Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (1872–1935), was an English architect, designer, illustrator and writer.

Biography

Quennell was the son of a builder and grew up in a house at Cowley Road on the Holland Town Estate, Kennington, London. Bourne was his mother's maiden name. He was the husband of Marjorie Quennell whom he met in 1903 at the Junior Art Worker's Guild and father of Peter Quennell. With his wife, he wrote extensively on social history.

Discussing the leading English furniture designs of the time, Herman Muthesius[1] wrote: '... that inspired artist Henry Wilson and the excellent designer C. H. B. Quennell far outshine the rest of the group and produce work of high artistic sensibility.'

Quennell died in December 1935; his final words to his wife were "There you go – butting in as usual" [2]

Career

He was articled to Newman and Newman, and worked in the offices of J. McK. Brydon and of J. D. Sedding and Henry Wilson. He obtained the National Gold medal for Architecture, and RIBA Medal of Merit and £5 in the Soane Medallion competition in 1895.[3] He began practice in 1896 working with his brother William developing houses at Hampstead Garden Suburb and then with developer George Washington Hart.[4]

Illustrations and designs

Positions

1912–15 Member of the Council of RIBA 1914–25 Member of the Town Planning Committee of RIBA 1928–30 Member of the Board of Architectural Education

Writing

Works in collaboration

Works

References

  1. Herman Muthesius (1904) The English House
  2. Peter Quennell (1976) The Marble Foot
  3. RIBA Journal, 22 December 1935, page 212
  4. Alistair Service (1989) Victorian and Edwardian Hampstead
  5. Muthesius, 1904, p. 189
  6. Muthesius, 1904, p. 186
  7. Muthesius, 1904, p. 123
  8. Muthesius, 1904, p. 104
  9. Women's Suffrage Supplement, 3 November 1910
  10. The Architects' and Builders' Journal, 1 January 1919, page 3
  11. The Architect's Journal, 9 April 1919
  12. The Architect's Journal, 19 October 1921
  13. Academy Architecture; Volume 15, 1899, page 137
  14. Academy Architecture; Volume 15, 1899, page 120
  15. Muthesius, 1904, p. 134
  16. Bromley Urban District Council Plans No 3437, 1905
  17. Small Country Houses of To-day, Edited by Lawrence Weaver, 1911, pages 130–3
  18. Architectural Review, March 1905
  19. The Builder, 25 March 1927, page 480
  20. Bromley Urban District Council Plans no 3890, November 1907
  21. Bromley Urban District Council Plans no 3735, January 1907
  22. Bromley Urban District Council Plans no 3814, June 1907
  23. Bromley Urban District Council Plan no 4255, March 1910
  24. Bromley Urban District Council Plans dated 22 September 1910
  25. Bromley Urban District Council Plans no 4387, March 1911
  26. Bromley Urban District Council Plans no 4471, January 1912
  27. Modern Building Record, 1912
  28. Academy Architecture; ii, 1913, pages 34 -5
  29. Architectural Review No.51, 1922, pages 154–5,
  30. The Architect's Journal, 19 May 1926
  31. Bromley Urban District Council Plans no 4609, February 1913
  32. Architectural Review, January 1919, pages 64–66
  33. The Buildings of England, Buckinghamshire, N. Pevsner, E. Williamson and G. K. Brandwood
  34. The Architect's Journal, 3 January 1923
  35. Daylight Saving in the Suburbs, Victorian Society walk notes
  36. Homes and Garden magazine, June 1931, page 23
  37. Conservation Today, David Pearce, 1989

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