Percy Richard Morley Horder
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Percy Richard Morley Horder (18 November 1870 – 7 October 1944) was an English architect who early in his career worked from offices in Stroud and later in London. His early work was in the Arts and Crafts style, but after the First World War his buildings were increasingly in the Neo-Georgian fashion. His work included public houses for the Godsell Brewery and designing new country houses or partially rebuilding existing houses. He also designed country-house gardens and is noted for laying out Highfields Park, Nottingham together with the adjacent Nottingham University Campus. He undertook architectural work in many parts of the British Isles including Ireland. He is probably best remembered for the Trent Building in the University of Nottingham.[1] and for design of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His work at Upton House, Warwickshire for Viscount Bearsted is notable, but it is his work for Jesse Boot, both the Boots the Chemists stores, but most importantly the Trent Building and the laying out the campuses of the University of Nottingham, which influenced design at other English universities, for which he must take the greatest credit.[2]
Percy Richard Morley Horder | |
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Born | 1870 Torquay |
Died | 1944 Dartford, Kent |
Nationality | English |
Alma mater | City of London School. Articled to Devey and Williams. |
Occupation | Architect |
Practice | Williams and Morley Horder 1895
Morley Horder and Briant Alfred Poulter, 1919–1925. Morley Horder and Verner Owen Rees, 1925–1929. |
Buildings | Trent Building, Nottingham University. |
Projects | Shops for Boots the Chemist |