William Harrison Cowlishaw
William Harrison Cowlishaw ( 1869 - 1957 ) was a British architect . He was a representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement .
Among the first works of Cowlishaw include the in Crockham Hill ( Kent location) The Cearne 1896, a house for Constance Garnett and her husband Edward Garnett . He also designed The Cloisters in Letchworth Garden City . The house he designed in 1905 opened two years later as an open-air school for psychology.
After the First World War , Cowlishaw was commissioned by the Imperial War Graves Commission (today: Commonwealth War Graves Commission ) to design memorials and military cemeteries in Flanders and France. The best-known buildings are the Memorial of Pozières and at Ypres located cemeteries Prowse Point , Rifle House and Devonshire Cemetery .
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Cloistered Life . In: Utopia Britannica: British Utopian Experiments 1325-1945 . Retrieved May 20, 2019.
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| SURNAME | Cowlishaw, William Harrison |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1869 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1957 |