- Alfred Hoare Powell
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name=Alfred Hoare Powell
nationality=British
birth_date=1865
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death_date=1960
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significant_buildings=Bransby Hall, YorkshireBedales School
significant_projects=Long Copse, Ewhurst, Surrey
awards=|Alfred Hoare Powell (1865–1960) was an English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery.
Career
Alfred Powell was a pupil of
John Dando Sedding , working in the 'crafted Gothic' tradition inspired byJohn Ruskin . His wife, Louise Powell, née Lessore, was the daughter of an artist, and studied embroidery, calligraphy and illuminating. Together Alfred and Louise Powell became celebrated as pottery designers forWedgwood s. They collaborated on the revitalisation of the arts and crafts, rejecting industrialisation and designing furniture decoration, embroidery and ceramics, and encouraging a communitarian spirit in the SouthCotswolds .Alfred Powell with the younger architect
Norman Jewson was the most significant associate ofErnest Gimson and the brothers Ernest and Sidney Barnsley atSapperton , inGloucestershire , in the Cotswold Arts and Crafts revival. He settled nearby at The Thatched House, Tunley, nearOakridge , in the late 1890s. He worked withDetmar Blow and F.W. Troup for both the National Trust and theSociety for the Protection of Ancient Buildings .Architectural works
Powell's architectural works include a house at Bransby Hall,
Yorkshire , for Hugh Fairfax-Cholmeley; repairs atBarrington Court ,Somerset and Queen's College,Cambridge ; and projects with others of the Gimson school at Pinbury Park andRodmarton Manor , near Sapperton, andBedales School inHampshire . Long Copse (1897), at Ewhurst, was much praised by contemporaries; it was described by the painterG.F. Watts as the most beautiful house inSurrey .Alfred Powell edited the memorial volume to his friend Ernest Gimson, "Ernest Gimson: his life and work" (1924), with contributions by
William Richard Lethaby andF.L. Griggs .Literature and Sources
*"Good Workmanship with Happy Thought: The Work of Alfred and Louise Powell", Exhibition Catalogue, 1992
*Jacqueline Sarsby, 'Alfred Powell: Idealism and Realism in the Cotswolds', "Journal of Design History", vol. 10, No. 4, "Craft, Culture and Identity" (1997), pp. 375-397
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