Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel

Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel CBE (1887 in Cambridge^[1] – 21 June 1959 in Westminster, London^[2]) was a British architect, writer and musician.

Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley (architect: H. S. Goodhart-Rendel)

Life

Harry Stuart Goodhart was born on 29 May 1887 in Cambridge, England. He added the additional name Rendel by royal licence in 1902.^[3] He was educated at Eton College,^[4] and read music at Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked briefly for Sir Charles Nicholson, and then set up his own architectural practice. He is known for his church projects.^[5] In 1936 he converted to Catholicism. ^[6]

He was Oxford's Slade Professor of Fine Art, from 1933 to 1936.^[7] His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival of interest in Victoriana, by Nikolaus Pevsner.^[8] He served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 1937 to 1939.

He was appointed a CBE in 1955.

Although he was a good 25 years older than Michael Noble, later Baron Glenkinglas, the two had a friendly feud based on the much nastier Andrew Noble – George Whitwick Rendel feud.

Works

• 1924: Nicholas Hawksmoor
• 1932: Vitruvian Nights
• 1934: Fine Art
• 1937: Hatchlands, Surrey
• 1938: Architecture in a Changing World
• 1947: How Architecture is Made
• 1953: English Architecture Since the Regency
• The Goodhart-Rendel Index of 19th century church builders, a card index which he compiled is held in the British Architectural Library, London.^[9][10]

Buildings

St Olaf House, Tooley Street, London

St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings (1881; rebuilt in 1951 by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel)

• Eton Manor Boys' Club, Riseholme Street, London E9 (1912; demolished 1969)^[11]
• St Olaf House, London (1928–1932)
• St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton (1932–1934), now converted into residential apartments
• Princes House, Brighton (1935–1936)
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Banstead Wood, Surrey (1948)
• St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea (rebuilding after war damage, 1951)
• Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley (1955–59)
• Sacred Heart Church, Cobham, Surrey (1958)
• Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone
• Several houses in the Surrey village of East Clandon were built to his drawings including Antler's Corner, Appletree Cottage, Meadow Cottage and 5 School Lane (1910), Prospect Cottages (1914), Snelgate Cottages (1926) and the St Thomas' Housing Society Cottages (1947)
• Goodhart-Rendel designed a cover for the organ at the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park.^[12]
• St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church, George Street, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Galloway, Scotland, 1959–1960. [1] His only known building in Scotland. The interior has seen some reordering with the moving forward of the altar from the East wall after the Second Vatican Council. At that time the baldacchino was also removed, together with some decorative ironwork. The East elevation has a carved Hew Lorimer crucifix mounted on the wall.^[13]

  

  St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church, Whithorn, Wigtownshire; consecrated 1960

Family

His father was Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), a former international footballer who became professor of Latin at the University of Edinburgh. His mother was Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel, the daughter of Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, from whom in 1945 he inherited a substantial estate including Hatchlands Park which he subsequently made over to the National Trust.^[14]

Notes

1. "England & Wales Births 1837–2006". Find my Past. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
2. "England & Wales Deaths 1837–2007". Find my Past. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
3. "Mr H Goodhart-Rendel – Architect and Critic". The Times. No. 54493. London. 22 June 1959. p. 14.
4. "Alpine Eagle – Bill Borchert Larson". Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2008.
5. "Historic Review of Roman Catholic Churches in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
6. "Goodhart-Rendel, Harry Stuart (1887–1959)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 6 February 2018, retrieved 29 December 2023
7. "Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel". Exploring Surrey's Past.
8. Taylor, Miles; Wolff, Michael (2004). The Victorians Since 1901: Histories, Representations and Revisions. Manchester University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-7190-6725-9.
9. "Unpublished, pictorial and manuscript sources – General". Sussex Parish Churches. 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
10. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1969). Lancashire: The industrial and commercial South. Penguin Books. p. 13.
11. Robey, Ann (2009). "Eton Manor Boys Club". In Rigg, Lisa (ed.). Hackney – Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored: 40 Buildings to Mark 40 Years of the Hackney Society. The Hackney Society. pp. 96–99. ISBN 978-0-9536734-1-4.
12. Jane Roberts (1997). Royal Landscape: The Gardens and Parks of Windsor. Yale University Press. pp. 347–. ISBN 978-0-300-07079-8.
13. "St Martin and St Ninian Roman Catholic Church". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. n.d. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
14. "East Clandon Conservation Area Study and Character Appraisal". 2 Historical Development. Guildford Borough Council. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.

Sources

• Powers, Alan, ed. (1987). H.S. Goodhart-Rendel: 1887–1959. Architectural Association. ISBN 978-0-904503-90-6.

External links

• The Clandons: a look into the past (includes "The last squire of East Clandon", by Maurice Wiggin
• St Olaf House, Tooley Street