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'''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.<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 |page=120 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>
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'''George Halford Fellowes Prynne''' (1853–1927){{Citation needed|date=April 2022|reason=No death date in article}} was a Victorian and Edwardian English church architect. Part of the [[High Church]] school of [[Gothic Revival Architecture]], Prynne's work can be found across [[Southern England]].<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 |page=120 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
===Early life===
===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).<ref name="British architects book">{{cite book |last1=Felstead |first1=Alison |last2=Girouard |first2=Mark |last3=Franklin |first3=Jonathan |title=Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914 |date=2001 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826455147 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Directory_of_British_Architects_1834_191/GkThQYLb3ZUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Edward+Arthur+Fellowes+Prynne+collection&pg=PA417&printsec=frontcover |access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref> His elder brother was the painter [[Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne]]. George Fellowes Prynne studied at [[Harlow College|St Mary’s College]], [[Harlow]]. He went on to Chardstock College, and thence to [[Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy]] at [[Southsea]].<ref name="British architects book">{{cite book |last1=Felstead |first1=Alison |last2=Girouard |first2=Mark |last3=Franklin |first3=Jonathan |title=Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914 |date=2001 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826455147 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Directory_of_British_Architects_1834_191/GkThQYLb3ZUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Edward+Arthur+Fellowes+Prynne+collection&pg=PA417&printsec=frontcover |access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref>
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).<ref name="British architects book">{{cite book |last1=Felstead |first1=Alison |last2=Girouard |first2=Mark |last3=Franklin |first3=Jonathan |title=Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914 |date=2001 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826455147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkThQYLb3ZUC&dq=Edward+Arthur+Fellowes+Prynne+collection&pg=PA417 |access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref> His elder brother was the painter [[Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne]]. George Fellowes Prynne studied at [[Harlow College|St Mary’s College]], [[Harlow]]. He went on to Chardstock College, and thence to [[Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy]] at [[Southsea]].<ref name="British architects book">{{cite book |last1=Felstead |first1=Alison |last2=Girouard |first2=Mark |last3=Franklin |first3=Jonathan |title=Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914 |date=2001 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826455147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkThQYLb3ZUC&dq=Edward+Arthur+Fellowes+Prynne+collection&pg=PA417 |access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref>


===Career===
===Career===
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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.<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=107–8 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |last2=Wilson |first2=Susan |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture |date=26 Feb 2015 |publisher=Oxford |isbn=9780191918742 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191918742.001.0001/acref-9780191918742-e-6880?rskey=raWLXF&result=1}}</ref>


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.<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=107-8 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |last2=Wilson |first2=Susan |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture |date=26 Feb 2015 |publisher=Oxford |isbn=9780191918742 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191918742.001.0001/acref-9780191918742-e-6880?rskey=raWLXF&result=1}}</ref>
Four years later, Prynne had gained a senior position in the office, and offer of employment from the architect [[George Edmund Street]].<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=107–8 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref> He was employed by Street for a year, later working with architects Swinfen Harris, R.J. Withers, [[Alfred Waterhouse]], and at the London School Board offices. He was a student at the Royal Academy between 1876 and 78. He commenced independent practice in 1879. Prynne became Architect to the Diocese of Oxford from 1913.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |last2=Wilson |first2=Susan |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture |date=26 Feb 2015 |publisher=Oxford |isbn=9780191918742 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191918742.001.0001/acref-9780191918742-e-6880?rskey=raWLXF&result=1}}</ref>


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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 [[Victorian restoration|restoration]] work, and in all is said to have been designed or restored over 200 buildings.{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}} Examples include [[All Saints Church, West Dulwich]]<ref>{{cite web |title=CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064976 |website=Historic England |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> and St Peter’s, Budleigh Salterton.<ref>{{cite web |title=CHURCH OF ST PETER |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103783 |website=Historic England |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref>
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Four years later, Prynne had gained a senior position in the office, and offer of employment from the architect [[George Edmund Street]].<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=107-8 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |last2=Wilson |first2=Susan |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture |date=26 Feb 2015 |publisher=Oxford |isbn=9780191918742 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191918742.001.0001/acref-9780191918742-e-6880?rskey=raWLXF&result=1}}</ref>


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Prynne collaborated extensively with his brother [[Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne]] who provided artwork for a number of the architect's churches. This includes St Peter’s Church Staines, which possesses Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne windows of remarkable quality and beauty.<ref>{{cite book |title=St Peter's Church, Staines Parish: A Guide to the Stained Glass Windows. |publisher=St Peter's Church, Staines}}</ref> Other examples include altar panels at Holy Trinity, Roehampton, and St Mary, East Grinstead, and a reredos at [[St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes]],<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=117–0 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref> where both brothers Prynne are now buried.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peatfield |first1=Susan |title=Angels in Ealing |date=2022 |publisher=St Peter's Church Ealing |location=London}}</ref>
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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 [[Victorian restoration|restoration]] work, and in all is said to have been designed or restored over 200 buildings. Prominent examples include [[All Saints Church, West Dulwich]]<ref>{{cite web |title=CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064976 |website=Historic England |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> and St Peter’s, Budleigh Salterton.<ref>{{cite web |title=CHURCH OF ST PETER |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103783 |website=Historic England |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref>


===Family and personal life===
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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.<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=117-0 |url=http://ecclsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ET42_lores.pdf |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref>
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George Fellowes Prynne married Bertha Geraldine Bradbury 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.<ref name="British architects book">{{cite book |last1=Felstead |first1=Alison |last2=Girouard |first2=Mark |last3=Franklin |first3=Jonathan |title=Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914 |date=2001 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780826455147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkThQYLb3ZUC&dq=Edward+Arthur+Fellowes+Prynne+collection&pg=PA417 |access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref> He designed [[St Saviour's Church, Ealing]] nearby on Grove Road, Ealing (consecrated in 1899), and was heavily involved in the life of its Parish. <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> He also designed new buildings for St Saviour's School, completed in 1927.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=Ealing, St Saviour's Infant School |url=https://www.georgefellowesprynne.org.uk/ealing-greater-london-st-saviours-infants-school/ |website=George Fellowes Prynne |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref> St Saviour's Church 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><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=Ealing, St Saviour |url=https://www.georgefellowesprynne.org.uk/ealing-greater-london-st-saviour/ |website=George Fellowes Prynne |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=Ealing, St Saviour's Clergy House |url=https://www.georgefellowesprynne.org.uk/ealing-greater-london-clergy-house/ |website=George Fellowes Prynne |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref>


Prynne also designed an extension to [[Ealing Town Hall]], including a new octagonally towered entrance, built in 1930.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oates |first1=Jonathan |title=Ealing in 50 Buildings |date=2019 |publisher=Amberley Books |isbn=978-1445687070}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sharville |first1=Ruth |title=Ealing Town Hall |url=https://www.georgefellowesprynne.org.uk/ealing-greater-london-town-hall/ |website=George Fellowes Prynne |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref>
===Family===
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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 had seven children. Four of his five sons were in active service,<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><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> two were killed in active service, which had a profound effect on Prynne's later years.<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==
== Works ==
<gallery>
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File:All Saints Dulwich (16129644576).jpg|[[All Saints Church, West Dulwich]], South London, completed in 1897
File:Staines.png|Window and glass at St Peter's Church Staines by George and Edward Fellowes Prynne
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File:Staines StPeter west.jpg|St Peter's parish church, [[Staines-upon-Thames|Staines]], Middlesex, completed in 1894
File:St Alban's Church, Linwood Road, Bournemouth - geograph.org.uk - 346343.jpg|[[St Alban's Church, Bournemouth]]. completed in 1909
</gallery>


== External links ==
Prynne was particularly noted for his [[rood screen|screen]] work. Examples of his screens can be found at the churches listed below.
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*[http://www.gfp.sharville.org.uk/biography.htm George Fellowes Prynne, a brief biography]

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===Stone screens===
*[[All Saints Church, West Dulwich]]
*St Peter, [[Staines]]
*St Nicholas, [[Taplow]]
*All Saints [[Sydenham, London|Sydenham]]
*[[Holy Trinity, Roehampton]]

===Wooden screens===
*St Columba, [[St. Columb Major]]
*St Mary, [[Henley-on-Thames]]
*St Bartholomew, Hyde, [[Winchester]] <!-- no article on that Hyde -->
*St Mary, [[Wargrave]]
*St Nicholas, [[Rattlesden]]
*St Peter, [[Buckland-in-the-Moor]]

===Metal screens===
*St Peter, [[Staines]]
*St Alban, [[Bournemouth]]
*All Saints, [[Elland]]
*Christ Church, [[Epsom Common]]
*St Peter, [[Porthleven]]
*St Nicolas, [[Taplow]]
*Holy Trinity, [[Roehampton]]

==Non-Referenced Further Reading==

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*{{cite web |url=http://www.gfp.sharville.org.uk/biography.htm |last=Sharville |first=Ruth |title=George Fellowes Prynne a brief biography |publisher=Ruth Sharville}}


==References==
==References==
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George Fellowes Prynne
Born(1853-04-02)April 2, 1853
Plymouth, England
Died1927
England
OccupationArchitect
Known forArchitecture
Parents
RelativesEdward Arthur Fellowes Prynne (brother)

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

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

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[edit]

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 Swinfen Harris, R.J. Withers, Alfred Waterhouse, and at the London School Board offices. He was a student at the Royal Academy between 1876 and 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.[citation needed] 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 the architect's churches. This includes St Peter’s Church Staines, which possesses Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne windows of remarkable quality and beauty.[9] Other examples include altar panels at Holy Trinity, Roehampton, and St Mary, East Grinstead, and a reredos at St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes,[10] where both brothers Prynne are now buried.[11]

Family and personal life[edit]

George Fellowes Prynne married Bertha Geraldine Bradbury 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.[2] He designed St Saviour's Church, Ealing nearby on Grove Road, Ealing (consecrated in 1899), and was heavily involved in the life of its Parish. [12] He also designed new buildings for St Saviour's School, completed in 1927.[13] St Saviour's Church was demolished in 1940 following bomb damage, although the Clergy House designed by Prynne survives.[14][15][16]

Prynne also designed an extension to Ealing Town Hall, including a new octagonally towered entrance, built in 1930.[17][18]

Prynne had seven children. Four of his five sons were in active service,[19][20] two were killed in active service, which had a profound effect on Prynne's later years.[21]

Works[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  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 c 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. ^ St Peter's Church, Staines Parish: A Guide to the Stained Glass Windows. St Peter's Church, Staines.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Peatfield, Susan (2022). Angels in Ealing. London: St Peter's Church Ealing.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Sharville, Ruth. "Ealing, St Saviour's Infant School". George Fellowes Prynne. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  14. ^ "Clergy House, St Saviour's". Historic England. Historic England. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
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