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===Family===
===Family===
George Fellowes Prynne married Bertha Geraldine Bradbury was registered in June 1882 in Wandsworth, London. Prynne was a profoundly religious man with Anglo-Catholic convictions, and family prayers were said daily for the whole household. George and Geraldine Prynne latterly lived at number 3 Grange Road Ealing. He designed St Saviour's Church on Grove Road, Ealing (built in 1899) where was heavily involved in the life of his parish in Ealing, including being a sideman at the Church.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life |journal=Ecclesiology Today |date=June 2012 |volume=41 |issue=SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930 |pages=106 & 118 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref> St Saviour's was demolished in 1940 following bomb damage, although the Clergy House designed by Prynne survives.<ref>{{cite web |title=Clergy House, St Saviour's |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1417370 |website=Historic England |publisher=Historic England |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> Prynne also designed the eastern extension to [[Ealing Town Hall]] in 1930, including a new octagonally towered entrance.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oates |first1=Jonathan |last2=Lang |first2=Paul Howard |title=Ealing in 50 Buildings |date=2019 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Ltd |isbn=1445687070}}</ref>
George Fellowes Prynne married Bertha Geraldine Bradbury was registered in June 1882 in Wandsworth, London. Prynne was a profoundly religious man with Anglo-Catholic convictions, and family prayers were said daily for the whole household. George and Geraldine Prynne latterly lived at number 3 Grange Road Ealing. He designed St Saviour's Church on Grove Road, Ealing (built in 1899) where was heavily involved in the life of his Parish in Ealing, including being a sideman{{Clarify|text= What is a sideman in this context? Was he a musician too?|date=November 2021}} at the Church.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life |journal=Ecclesiology Today |date=June 2012 |volume=41 |issue=SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930 |pages=106 & 118 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>. St Saviour's was demolished in 1940 following bomb damage, although the Clergy House designed by Prynne survives.<ref>{{cite web |title=Clergy House, St Saviour's |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1417370 |website=Historic England |publisher=Historic England |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref>


Prynne and his wife had seven children, five boys and two girls. Four of his five sons were in active service: Aubrey was blown over by a shell and his heart was displaced, and Harold was invalided out of the Army with severe dysentry. Both recovered, but Aubrey never regained good health. Both Edgar<ref>{{cite web |title=CAPTAIN EDGAR GEORGE FELLOWES PRYNNE |url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1549654/prynne,-edgar-george-fellowes/ |website=Commonwealth War Graves |publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Foundation |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> and Norman<ref>{{cite web |title=Norman Fellowes Prynne |url=https://www.everyoneremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1651995/ |website=Everyone Remembered |publisher=Royal British Legion |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref>Fellowes Prynne were killed in active service.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life |journal=Ecclesiology Today |date=June 2012 |volume=41 |issue=SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930 |pages=106 & 118 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>
Prynne and his wife had seven children, five boys and two girls. Four of his five sons were in active service: Aubrey was blown over by a shell and his heart was displaced, and Harold was invalided out of the Army with severe dysentry. Both recovered, but Aubrey never regained good health. Both Edgar<ref>{{cite web |title=CAPTAIN EDGAR GEORGE FELLOWES PRYNNE |url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1549654/prynne,-edgar-george-fellowes/ |website=Commonwealth War Graves |publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Foundation |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> and Norman<ref>{{cite web |title=Norman Fellowes Prynne |url=https://www.everyoneremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1651995/ |website=Everyone Remembered |publisher=Royal British Legion |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref>Fellowes Prynne were killed in active service.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life |journal=Ecclesiology Today |date=June 2012 |volume=41 |issue=SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930 |pages=106 & 118 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>

Prynne died on 7 May 1927.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life |journal=Ecclesiology Today |date=June 2012 |volume=41 |issue=SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930 |pages=106 & 118 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>


==Buildings==
==Buildings==

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George Fellowes Prynne
George Fellowes Prynne
All Saints Church, West Dulwich, South London, completed in 1897
St Peter's parish church, Staines, Middlesex, completed in 1894

George Halford Fellowes Prynne (1853–1927) was a leading Victorian and Edwardian English church architect. Part of the High Church school of Gothic Revival Architecture, Prynne's extensive work can be found across the south of England.[1]


Biography

Early life

George Halford Fellowes Prynne was born on 2 April 1853 at Wyndham Square, Plymouth, Devon. He was the second son of the Rev. George Rundle Prynne and Emily Fellowes (daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes KCB DCL).[2] His elder brother was the painter Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne. George Fellowes Prynne studied at St Mary’s College, Harlow. He went on to Chardstock College, and thence to Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy at Southsea.[2]

Career

In 1871, aged 18, Prynne he sailed America to work with a cousin who had taken land, and was farming in the Western states of America. But finding the work "trying and severe", after almost two years he travelled to Toronto was appointed to the role of Junior Assistant in the office architect Richard Cunningham Windyer.[3][4]

Four years later, Prynne had gained a senior position in the office, and offer of employment from the architect George Edmund Street.[5]He was employed by Street for a year, later working with architects Swinfern Harris, R.J. Withers, A. Waterhouse R.A., and at the London School Board offices. He was a student at the Royal Academy 1876 and 77-78. He commenced independent practice in 1879. Prynne became Architect to the Diocese of Oxford from 1913.[6]

Prynne designed many parish churches in England, mostly in the southeast and southwest, and almost always on a grand scale of high church Gothic Revival architecture. He also undertook significant restoration work, and in all is said to have been designed or restored over 200 buildings. Prominent examples include All Saints Church, West Dulwich[7] and St Peter’s, Budleigh Salterton.[8]

Prynne collaborated extensively with his brother Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne who provided artwork for a number of his the architects churches. This includes St Peter’s Church Staines, which possesses Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne windows of remarkable quality and beauty. Other examples include altar panels at Holy Trinity, Roehampton, St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes and St Mary, East Grinstead.[9]

Family

George Fellowes Prynne married Bertha Geraldine Bradbury was registered in June 1882 in Wandsworth, London. Prynne was a profoundly religious man with Anglo-Catholic convictions, and family prayers were said daily for the whole household. George and Geraldine Prynne latterly lived at number 3 Grange Road Ealing. He designed St Saviour's Church on Grove Road, Ealing (built in 1899) where was heavily involved in the life of his Parish in Ealing, including being a sidemanWhat is a sideman in this context? Was he a musician too?[clarification needed] at the Church.[10]. St Saviour's was demolished in 1940 following bomb damage, although the Clergy House designed by Prynne survives.[11]

Prynne and his wife had seven children, five boys and two girls. Four of his five sons were in active service: Aubrey was blown over by a shell and his heart was displaced, and Harold was invalided out of the Army with severe dysentry. Both recovered, but Aubrey never regained good health. Both Edgar[12] and Norman[13]Fellowes Prynne were killed in active service.[14]

Buildings

Prynne was particularly noted for his screen work. Examples of his screens can be found at the churches listed below.

Stone screens

Wooden screens

Metal screens

Non-Referenced Further Reading

  • Sharville, Ruth. "George Fellowes Prynne a brief biography". Ruth Sharville.

References

  1. ^ Sharville, Ruth (June 2012). "George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life" (PDF). Ecclesiology Today. 41 (SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930): 120. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Felstead, Alison; Girouard, Mark; Franklin, Jonathan (2001). Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780826455147. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  3. ^ Sharville, Ruth (June 2012). "George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life" (PDF). Ecclesiology Today. 41 (SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930): 107–8. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  4. ^ Curl, James Stevens; Wilson, Susan (26 Feb 2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture. Oxford. ISBN 9780191918742.
  5. ^ Sharville, Ruth (June 2012). "George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life" (PDF). Ecclesiology Today. 41 (SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930): 107–8. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  6. ^ Curl, James Stevens; Wilson, Susan (26 Feb 2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture. Oxford. ISBN 9780191918742.
  7. ^ "CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS". Historic England. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  8. ^ "CHURCH OF ST PETER". Historic England. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  9. ^ Sharville, Ruth (June 2012). "George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life" (PDF). Ecclesiology Today. 41 (SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930): 117–0. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  10. ^ Sharville, Ruth (June 2012). "George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life" (PDF). Ecclesiology Today. 41 (SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930): 106 & 118. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Clergy House, St Saviour's". Historic England. Historic England. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  12. ^ "CAPTAIN EDGAR GEORGE FELLOWES PRYNNE". Commonwealth War Graves. Commonwealth War Graves Foundation. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Norman Fellowes Prynne". Everyone Remembered. Royal British Legion. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  14. ^ Sharville, Ruth (June 2012). "George Fellowes Prynne (1853-1927): a dedicated life" (PDF). Ecclesiology Today. 41 (SEVEN CHURCH ARCHITECTS 1830 – 1930): 106 & 118. Retrieved 7 November 2021.


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