Henry Woodyer (1816–1896) was an English architect, a pupil of William Butterfield and a disciple of A. W. N. Pugin and the Ecclesiologists.[1]
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Holy Innocents, Highnam , Gloucestershire
Woodyer was born in Guildford , Surrey, England, in 1816, the son of a successful, highly respected surgeon, who owned Allen House in the Upper High Street. His mother came from the wealthy Halsey family who owned Henley Park, just outside Guildford.
Woodyer was educated first at Eton College , then at Merton College, Oxford . As a result, he could claim to be one of the best educated architects since Sir Christopher Wren . Whilst at Oxford, he became involved in the Anglican high church movement and throughout his career he saw his work as an architect as a means of serving the church.
Holy Trinity Church, Millbrook, Southampton St Martin's Church, Dorking Holy Innocents' Church, Highnam , Gloucestershire (including sexton's cottage), 1847
St Michael's Church, Camberley , Surrey, 1849-51[2]
St Paul's Church, Sketty , Swansea , Glamorgan, 1849–50, for John Henry Vivian
Holy Jesus' Church , Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, 1850–51Christ Church , Christchurch Road, Reading, Berkshire, 1861-2[3] St Peter's Church, Hascombe 1862, described by Betjeman as "a Tractarian work of art"[4]
St Paul's Church, Langleybury , Abbots Langley (1863-5)[5]
St Augustine's Church, Haggerston , 1866-7, Woodyer's only London church, closed in 1983[6] [7]
St Martin's Church, Dorking (1868–77) described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as Woodyer's most important[8] [9] All Saints Church, Portfield, Chichester (1869–71)[10]
St Andrew's Church, Grafham, Surrey
St James Church, Farnham, Surrey (1876)
St John the Baptist Church, Odo Street, Hafod, Swansea, 1878–80, for Henry Hussey Vivian
St John the Evangelist Church , Woodley, Berkshire, 1873,[11] Robert Palmer Holy Trinity Church, Millbrook, Southampton (1873–1880)[12]
Church of St Luke, Burpham Surrey, 1859[13]
Church of St Peter and Holy Cross, Wherwell , Hampshire
Chapel at Convent of St John the Baptist , Clewer , Berkshire (1881)[14] St Blaise Church, Milton , Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1849–51[15]
St Nicolas' Church , Newbury, Berkshire, 1858[16] St Mary's Church , Caldicot, Monmouthshire, 1859St Andrew's parish church, Clewer , Berkshire: north arcade, 1858[17]
St John the Evangelist, Twinstead , Essex, 1859-60[18]
St John the Baptist parish church, Berwick St John , Wiltshire, 1861[19]
St Bartholomew's parish church, Wanborough, Surrey , 1861
St George's parish church, Evenley, Northamptonshire 1864-5
St John the Evangelist, Twinstead, Essex Toot Baldon , Oxfordshire, 1865[20] St Swithin's parish church, Compton Bassett , Wiltshire: chancel, chancel chapels and north porch (1866)[21]
St Laurence parish church, Caversfield , Oxfordshire, 1874[22]
All Saints parish church, Wokingham , Berkshire.
St John the Divine parish church, Patching , West Sussex, 1888–89[23] Other institutional buildings
"Burning Bush", Eton College School (now the Stewart Hall), Sketty , Swansea , 1853, for John Henry Vivian
St Edmund's Church School, Salisbury , Wiltshire, 1860[24]
Fisherton Anger Church School, Fisherton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1867[25]
House of Mercy, Clewer , Berkshire, 1853–73[26]
Cranleigh School , Surrey 1863-65 and the Chapel 1869[27] New Schools, Eton College , 1861–63[28]
The "Burning Bush", Eton (1864)[29]
St Michael's College , Tenbury Wells , WorcestershireThe Chapel at St Thomas's Home for the Friendless and Fallen, Darlington Road, Basingstoke dedicated on 21 July 1885, the eve of St Mary Magdalen's feast day
All Saints Hospital and Chapel, Eastbourne (1867–74)[30]
House of Mercy, Ditchingham , Norfolk (1859)[31] Domestic buildings
Park gate and Brynmill Lodge Woodyer House, Bramley, Surrey
Muntham Court in Findon , West Sussex rebuilt in Jacobean style between 1877 and 1887[32] Alterations to Parc Wern (now Parc Beck), Sketty , Glamorgan, 1851–3 for H.H. Vivian
Church Cottage , Tutshill, Gloucestershire, c. 1852.[33] Brynmill Lodge (gate-lodge) and (attributed) Verandah (a small Gothic house, 1853) at Singleton Abbey , Swansea) for J.H. Vivian
Alterations to Hall Place, Buckinghamshire, 1868[34]
Alterations to Tyntesfield , Wraxall, Somerset for Matilda Blanche Gibbs, 1885-89[35]
Twyford Moors House Twyford, Hants 1861[36]
The Old Rectory, Creeting St Mary , Suffolk 1863
St Paul's Church Hall, Reading - Built 1859 as a school, but for the first two years was used for religious services before the completion of Christ Church. Later the building was used as a church hall for the adjacent St Paul's Church, Whitley Wood . It was sold by the church in 1983 and was converted to private housing.[37] [38]
Newman, Hughes & Ward, 2004
Nairn, Ian and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Surrey, 1970, page 128
Tyack, Bradley and Pevsner, 2010, page 445
Mural Painting in Britain 1840-1940: Image and Meaning, Clare A. P. Willsdon, p232 (2001)
Nairn, Iain (2002). London 4 : North . Cherry, Bridget., Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 513. ISBN 0-300-09653-4 OCLC 719418475 . Quiney, Anthony (1995). "Architectural History . 38 : 192–219. doi :10.2307/1568628 . JSTOR 1568628 . S2CID 195026384 . Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 108
Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 819
Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 188
Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 523
Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 444
Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 459
Stanley, Donald (1992). "A Short History of Muntham". Muntham Court Estate and Worthing Crematorium . D. Stanley. p. 6. ISBN 0952030101 Elliott, John; Pritchard, John, eds. (2002). Henry Woodyer : Gentleman architect . Reading: University of Reading. pp. 133–134. ISBN 978-0-7049-1331-8
Elleray, D. Robert (2004). Sussex Places of Worship . Worthing: Optimus Books. ISBN 0-9533132-7-1 Elliott, John; John Prichard (2002). Henry Woodyer: Gentleman Architect . University of Reading. Nairn, Ian ; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). The Buildings of England: Sussex . Harmondsworth: Penguin Books . ISBN 0-14-071028-0 Newman, John; Stephen Hughes; Anthony Ward (2004). Glamorgan . New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09629-1 Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). The Buildings of England: Berkshire Penguin Books .Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire . Harmondsworth: Penguin Books .Pevsner, Nikolaus ; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963]. The Buildings of England: Wiltshire Penguin Books . ISBN 0140710264 Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire Penguin Books . ISBN 0-14-071045-0 Tyack, Bradley and Pevsner, Geoffrey, Simon and Nikolaus (2010). The Buildings of England: Berkshire ISBN 978-0-300-12662-4 {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link ) 
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