William Wynford

William Wynford

William Wynford (flourished 1360-1405) [page 352, English Medieval Architects A Biographical Dictionary Down to 1550, John Harvey 1984] was one of the most successful English master masons of the 14th century, using the new Perpendicular Gothic style. He is first mentioned in 1360 when at work at Windsor Castle as warden of masons' work. He became master mason at Wells Cathedral in 1364-5 where he is believed to have designed the South West tower, it was probably here that he met William of Wykeham who was then a provost of the cathedral. He was probably made master of the works at Windsor Castle under Wykeham, in 1372 Edward III granted Wynford a pension of £10 per annum. In 1375-6 he was at work at Abingdon Abbey and working for the crown at Corfe Castle in 1377-78 making new rooms in the keep. In 1378 Wynford was working with Henry Yevele at Southampton.

With the death of Edward III the new king Richard II of England favoured Wykeham, with new found wealth he founded in 1379 New College, Oxford which was designed by Wynford who also designed Winchester College founded by Wykeham in 1382. There is a portrait of Wynford in the stained glass in the east window of Winchester College, this shows an old man with thinning hair, a long nose and dropping moustache and forked beard with the words 'Willms Wynfort lathomus' below. In 1389-90 he was repairing Winchester Castle, and 1394 he commenced his major work of remodelling the Norman nave of Winchester Cathedral in the latest Perpendicular Gothic style.

Wynford used a distinctive plan of placing the chapel and great hall end to end, this occurred at Windsor Castle (the chapel and Hall were united as a single Hall by Sir Jeffry Wyatville for George IV), and at Winchester and New Colleges'. The two colleges also have cloisters that are next to rather than surrounded by the main college buildings, which form a separate courtyard consisting of as well as the Great Hall and Chapel, an entrance gate with tower above, sets of rooms for scholars and fellows opening off staircases, a Library, accommodation for the Warden, the Kitchen, bakery and etc are in a separate wing at New College but surround a second courtyard at Winchester College. New college also has a bell tower next to the cloister. These were the very first educational buildings in England to be designed as a complete entity, as such they influenced later college buildings such as Eton College & Magdalen College, Oxford.

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