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- English
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About this book
Thomas Henry Lyon (1869–1953) was an important architect whose work has often been ignored, because he did not take up the Modernist ideas of many of his contemporaries. His work was also almost entirely concentrated in either Cambridge or the edge of Dartmoor. His contribution to the inter-War development of the Colleges of Cambridge was immense and often overlooked: this book seeks to restore his reputation.
The book restores to public consciousness the extensive architectural work carried out by Lyon, particularly in Cambridge, and does not gloss over the disaster of a church in Wembley which had to be closed after less than 30 years. It also looks at the important work he carried out in South Australia in the pre-1914 age, as well as his masterly reconstruction and furnishing of Sidney Sussex College chapel, which established his reputation. It has been extensively researched in archives across England, but particularly in those of the Colleges of Cambridge.
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Table of contents
- ivPreface
- 1Introduction
- Family and early life to 1883
- Family and school life (1883–7)
- Training as an architect and life at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1887–95)
- Three weddings and two funerals (1895–1901)
- St George, Goodwood, South Australia
- St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, South Australia
- The Ilsington years (1901–11)
- Commissions in the Ilsington years (1901–11)
- St Michael’s, Ilsington
- Cambridge (1910–15): Sidney Sussex and Corpus Christi Colleges
- The First World War years
- The Cambridge years (1919–38): Background
- Corpus Christi College (1919–38)
- The Cambridge years: Commissions (1919–29)
- St Augustine, Wembley Park
- The Cambridge years: Commissions (1930–8)
- St George, Chesterton, Cambridge and Christ the King, Parson Cross, Sheffield: Lyon’s last substantial works
- Retirement and death (1938–53)