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Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel CBE (1887 in Cambridge[1] – 21 June 1959 in Westminster, London[2]) was a British architect, writer and musician.

Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley (architect: H. S. Goodhart-Rendel)

Life

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Harry Stuart Goodhart was born on 29 May 1887 in Cambridge, England. He added the additional name Rendel by royal licence in 1902.[3] He was educated at Eton College,[4] and read music at Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked briefly for Sir Charles Nicholson, and then set up his own architectural practice. He is known for his church projects.[5] In 1936 he converted to Catholicism. [6]

He was Oxford's Slade Professor of Fine Art, from 1933 to 1936.[7] His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival of interest in Victoriana, by Nikolaus Pevsner.[8] He served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 1937 to 1939.

He was appointed a CBE in 1955.

Although he was a good 25 years older than Michael Noble, later Baron Glenkinglas, the two had a friendly feud based on the much nastier Andrew Noble – George Whitwick Rendel feud.

Works

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  • 1924: Nicholas Hawksmoor
  • 1932: Vitruvian Nights
  • 1934: Fine Art
  • 1937: Hatchlands, Surrey
  • 1938: Architecture in a Changing World
  • 1947: How Architecture is Made
  • 1953: English Architecture Since the Regency
  • The Goodhart-Rendel Index of 19th century church builders, a card index which he compiled is held in the British Architectural Library, London.[9][10]

Buildings

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St Olaf House, Tooley Street, London
St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings (1881; rebuilt in 1951 by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel)

Family

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His father was Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), a former international footballer who became professor of Latin at the University of Edinburgh. His mother was Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel, the daughter of Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, from whom in 1945 he inherited a substantial estate including Hatchlands Park which he subsequently made over to the National Trust.[14]

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