Norman Jewson
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Norman Jewson was an English
architect
-craftsman of the Arts and Crafts movement
, who practiced in the Cotswolds
. He was a distinguished, younger member of the group which had settled in Sapperton, Gloucestershire
, a feudal village in rural southwest England, under the influence of Ernest Gimson
. Surviving into old age, he brought their ideas and working methods into the late twentieth century. His book of reminiscences has become established as a minor classic of the English Arts and Crafts movement. His repair of the Tudor
Owlpen Manor
in 1925–26 is often regarded as his most representative and successful work.
timber merchants in Norwich
, Norfolk
, and spent all his early life in East Anglia
. He went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
.
He served his articles in the architectural practice of Herbert [Bertie] Ibberson in London
, which he ‘disliked as a place to live in permanently the longer [he] stayed there’. Ibberson had worked in the same office as Gimson, Ernest Barnsley and Alfred Hoare Powell
under J.D. Sedding, in the ‘crafted Gothic’ tradition, with a love of handicraft. Like William Morris
, Philip Webb
and Norman Shaw, Sedding had been a pupil of George Edmund Street
.
Jewson describes, in his autobiographical reminiscences, By Chance I did Rove (1951), how, having finished his apprenticeship in 1907, he set out with a donkey and trap on a sketching tour in the Cotswolds, ‘a part of the country little known at that time’. He had no idea that he would stay there for the rest of his life.
Ibberson had recommended him to visit the workshops of Ernest Gimson, who soon took him on as an ‘improver’, or unpaid assistant and put him to work at making sketches from life and studying the crafts of modelled plasterwork, woodcarving and design for metalwork.
For Gimson, architecture and the crafts were vitally interdependent. He describes how, as part of his training under Gimson, he was encouraged to draw a different wild flower every day from nature, noting its essential characteristics and adapting it to a formal pattern suitable for modelled plasterwork, wood-carving or needlework.
Jewson soon became an invaluable member of the group, and a pupil, friend and close companion of Gimson in his later years. In 1911 he married Ernest Barnsley
’s daughter, Mary (1889–1966), and converted for himself a group of cottages at Bachelor’s Court in Sapperton
.
He supervised much of Gimson’s architectural and repair work. He writes that he admired in Gimson an assured distinction, traditional in the use of the best craftsmanship and materials, where in design grace of form was combined with simplicity; these are the qualities of his own best architectural work. He set up in practice on his own in 1919 and soon gained a reputation for the sympathetic conservation and adaptation of old buildings. His credo was clear:
and, in the Cotswolds, Guy Dawber
had done. The Lindens, Norwich (1921), and The Garden House, Westonbirt
, are some of his most successful essays in a whimsical, vernacular classicism
, with characteristically fine plasterwork detail and restrained use of mouldings. He travelled whenever he could in Italy, making sketches of architectural details, lettering, farm carts, landscapes and village scenes. Many of these are now at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire.
As John Ruskin
had taught in the Lamp of Truth, working by hand was working with joy. And in accordance with Ruskin’s advice to Sedding, Jewson always had either pencil or chisel in his hand, acutely involved in the simple craft processes of building, experimenting and practising with delight, familiarizing himself with the qualities of tested materials, tools and techniques, rediscovering, reviving the fabrics, textures and disciplines of traditional construction, from drystone walling in the Cotswolds, and cob, which he used with success on his summer house at Lane End, Kilve
, in the Quantock Hills
, to twisted gut in a weather-clock set above a row of simple almshouses.
He worked for a time with William Weir
, a skilful architect in the repair of old buildings and churches, such as Salle
, in Norfolk, on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
, and The Priest’s House at Muchelney
. He also assisted Ernest Barnsley, supervising the completion of Rodmarton Manor
when Barnsley died in 1925, most notably the chapel (1929). Rodmarton was Ernest Barnsley’s most important work; ‘probably’, Jewson wrote, ‘the last house of its size to be built in the old leisurely way, with all its timber grown from local woods, sawn on the pit and seasoned before use.’
In 1925, he purchased Owlpen Manor, whose repair is often considered his outstanding work. His other major architectural repair work was at Campden House (formerly Combe House) outside Chipping Campden
, where he demolished some untidy Victorian additions and domestic offices, unifying with the skilled use of detail and materials a cluttered design of various dates to form a pleasing and comfortable house, with terraced garden and summerhouse.
He became established as a well-known ‘gentleman’s architect’ in the Cotswolds between the Wars, working on a number of distinguished Cotswold manor houses and farmhouses (listed below), and adapting historic buildings to modern uses.
He executed church repair work (Chalford
, near Stroud
, was re-ordered by him), and designs for memorials, inscriptions, headstones, and lettering; also for metalwork, as Gimson had done, including sconces, chimney furniture and gates, and architectural leadwork.
He turned his hand to the woodcarving of details such as finials and newels for his houses. A number of furniture designs are strikingly successful, from the fine piano-case with marquetry inlay, made by Waals, which he designed for Mrs Clegg of Wormington Grange, to the sturdy child’s chair with back splats showing humorous carvings of village characters which he made and painted himself, as well as a number of toys, for his daughters.
in a whining, sing-song drone.
He did little professional work after 1940, and felt increasingly at odds with modernism
and the historical-artistic developments of the post-war period. He died suddenly at his house in Sapperton in 1975, aged 91, when the art historian David Gould wrote the following account:
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
-craftsman of the Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...
, who practiced in the Cotswolds
Cotswolds
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, an area across and long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
. He was a distinguished, younger member of the group which had settled in Sapperton, Gloucestershire
Sapperton, Gloucestershire
Sapperton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire in England, about west of Cirencester. It is most famous for Sapperton canal tunnel and its connection with the Cotswold Arts and Crafts Movement in the early 20th century. It has a population of 424.The parish...
, a feudal village in rural southwest England, under the influence of Ernest Gimson
Ernest Gimson
Ernest William Gimson was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers"...
. Surviving into old age, he brought their ideas and working methods into the late twentieth century. His book of reminiscences has become established as a minor classic of the English Arts and Crafts movement. His repair of the Tudor
Tudor style architecture
The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons...
Owlpen Manor
Owlpen Manor
Owlpen Manor is a Tudor Grade I listed manor house of the Mander family, situated in the village of Owlpen in the Stroud district in Gloucestershire, England. There is an associated estate set in a picturesque valley within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
in 1925–26 is often regarded as his most representative and successful work.
Early career
Jewson was born in 1884 of a family of the long-established JewsonJewson
Jewson is one of the largest chain of British general builders' merchants, selling to small building contractors and the general public with over 500 branches across the country....
timber merchants in Norwich
Norwich
Norwich is a city in England. It is the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. During the 11th century, Norwich was the largest city in England after London, and one of the most important places in the kingdom...
, Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
, and spent all his early life in East Anglia
East Anglia
East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...
. He went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
.
He served his articles in the architectural practice of Herbert [Bertie] Ibberson in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, which he ‘disliked as a place to live in permanently the longer [he] stayed there’. Ibberson had worked in the same office as Gimson, Ernest Barnsley and Alfred Hoare Powell
Alfred Hoare Powell
Alfred Hoare Powell was an English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery.-Career:Alfred Powell was born in Reading, Berkshire, on 14 April 1865 , the son of Thomas Edward Powell by Emma Corrie.He was the architectural pupil of John Dando Sedding, working in the 'crafted...
under J.D. Sedding, in the ‘crafted Gothic’ tradition, with a love of handicraft. Like William Morris
William Morris
William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
, Philip Webb
Philip Webb
Another Philip Webb — Philip Edward Webb was the architect son of leading architect Sir Aston Webb. Along with his brother, Maurice, he assisted his father towards the end of his career....
and Norman Shaw, Sedding had been a pupil of George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex.- Life :Street was the third son of Thomas Street, solicitor, by his second wife, Mary Anne Millington. George went to school at Mitcham in about 1830, and later to the Camberwell collegiate school, which he left in 1839...
.
Jewson describes, in his autobiographical reminiscences, By Chance I did Rove (1951), how, having finished his apprenticeship in 1907, he set out with a donkey and trap on a sketching tour in the Cotswolds, ‘a part of the country little known at that time’. He had no idea that he would stay there for the rest of his life.
Ibberson had recommended him to visit the workshops of Ernest Gimson, who soon took him on as an ‘improver’, or unpaid assistant and put him to work at making sketches from life and studying the crafts of modelled plasterwork, woodcarving and design for metalwork.
For Gimson, architecture and the crafts were vitally interdependent. He describes how, as part of his training under Gimson, he was encouraged to draw a different wild flower every day from nature, noting its essential characteristics and adapting it to a formal pattern suitable for modelled plasterwork, wood-carving or needlework.
Jewson soon became an invaluable member of the group, and a pupil, friend and close companion of Gimson in his later years. In 1911 he married Ernest Barnsley
Barnsley brothers
Ernest and Sidney Barnsley were Arts and Crafts movement furniture designers and makers associated with Ernest Gimson. In the early 20th century they had workshops at Sapperton, Gloucestershire....
’s daughter, Mary (1889–1966), and converted for himself a group of cottages at Bachelor’s Court in Sapperton
Sapperton, Gloucestershire
Sapperton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire in England, about west of Cirencester. It is most famous for Sapperton canal tunnel and its connection with the Cotswold Arts and Crafts Movement in the early 20th century. It has a population of 424.The parish...
.
He supervised much of Gimson’s architectural and repair work. He writes that he admired in Gimson an assured distinction, traditional in the use of the best craftsmanship and materials, where in design grace of form was combined with simplicity; these are the qualities of his own best architectural work. He set up in practice on his own in 1919 and soon gained a reputation for the sympathetic conservation and adaptation of old buildings. His credo was clear:
Architectural work
He worked confidently in a classical idiom in his country houses, when necessity or the spirit of place demanded it, as Norman Shaw, Edwin LutyensEdwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA was a British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era...
and, in the Cotswolds, Guy Dawber
Guy Dawber
Sir Edward Guy Dawber, RA, ARA was an English architect working in the late Arts and Crafts style whose work is particularly associated with the Cotswolds....
had done. The Lindens, Norwich (1921), and The Garden House, Westonbirt
Westonbirt
Things named Westonbirt include:*Westonbirt House, a country house in Gloucestershire, England.*Westonbirt School, which now occupies the house.*Westonbirt Arboretum, which is nearby....
, are some of his most successful essays in a whimsical, vernacular classicism
Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint...
, with characteristically fine plasterwork detail and restrained use of mouldings. He travelled whenever he could in Italy, making sketches of architectural details, lettering, farm carts, landscapes and village scenes. Many of these are now at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire.
As John Ruskin
John Ruskin
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
had taught in the Lamp of Truth, working by hand was working with joy. And in accordance with Ruskin’s advice to Sedding, Jewson always had either pencil or chisel in his hand, acutely involved in the simple craft processes of building, experimenting and practising with delight, familiarizing himself with the qualities of tested materials, tools and techniques, rediscovering, reviving the fabrics, textures and disciplines of traditional construction, from drystone walling in the Cotswolds, and cob, which he used with success on his summer house at Lane End, Kilve
Kilve
Kilve is a village in West Somerset, England, within the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the first AONB to be established, in 1957....
, in the Quantock Hills
Quantock Hills
The Quantock Hills is a range of hills west of Bridgwater in Somerset, England. The Quantock Hills were England’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty being designated in 1956 and consists of large amounts of heathland, oak woodlands, ancient parklands and agricultural land.The hills run from...
, to twisted gut in a weather-clock set above a row of simple almshouses.
He worked for a time with William Weir
William Weir (architect)
William Weir was a Scottish architect who specialised in the repair of ancient structures.Weir left school at sixteen to become a pupil of Edinburgh architect Archibald MacPherson, while also attending the Edinburgh School of Art...
, a skilful architect in the repair of old buildings and churches, such as Salle
Salle
Salle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.The civil parish has an area of and in 2001 had a population of 50 in 21 households...
, in Norfolk, on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings was founded by William Morris, Philip Webb and J.J.Stevenson, and other notable members of the Pre Raphaelite brotherhood, in 1877, to oppose what they saw as the insensitive renovation of ancient buildings then occurring in Victorian...
, and The Priest’s House at Muchelney
Muchelney
Muchelney is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, on the River Parrett, south of Huish Episcopi and miles south west of Somerton in the South Somerset district...
. He also assisted Ernest Barnsley, supervising the completion of Rodmarton Manor
Rodmarton Manor
Rodmarton Manor is a large country house, in Rodmarton, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, built for the Biddulph family. It is a Grade I listed building. It was constructed in 1909-1929 in an Arts and Crafts style, to a design by Ernest Barnsley. After Barnsley's death in 1925, it was completed by...
when Barnsley died in 1925, most notably the chapel (1929). Rodmarton was Ernest Barnsley’s most important work; ‘probably’, Jewson wrote, ‘the last house of its size to be built in the old leisurely way, with all its timber grown from local woods, sawn on the pit and seasoned before use.’
In 1925, he purchased Owlpen Manor, whose repair is often considered his outstanding work. His other major architectural repair work was at Campden House (formerly Combe House) outside Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a small market town within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its elegant terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century...
, where he demolished some untidy Victorian additions and domestic offices, unifying with the skilled use of detail and materials a cluttered design of various dates to form a pleasing and comfortable house, with terraced garden and summerhouse.
He became established as a well-known ‘gentleman’s architect’ in the Cotswolds between the Wars, working on a number of distinguished Cotswold manor houses and farmhouses (listed below), and adapting historic buildings to modern uses.
He executed church repair work (Chalford
Chalford
Chalford is a village in the Frome Valley of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is about 8 km upstream of Stroud. It gives its name to Chalford parish, which covers the villages of Chalford, Chalford Hill, France Lynch, Bussage and Brownshill, spread over 2 mi² of the...
, near Stroud
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District.Situated below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills at the meeting point of the Five Valleys, the town is noted for its steep streets and cafe culture...
, was re-ordered by him), and designs for memorials, inscriptions, headstones, and lettering; also for metalwork, as Gimson had done, including sconces, chimney furniture and gates, and architectural leadwork.
He turned his hand to the woodcarving of details such as finials and newels for his houses. A number of furniture designs are strikingly successful, from the fine piano-case with marquetry inlay, made by Waals, which he designed for Mrs Clegg of Wormington Grange, to the sturdy child’s chair with back splats showing humorous carvings of village characters which he made and painted himself, as well as a number of toys, for his daughters.
Principal works
- Aycote House, RendcombRendcombRendcomb is a village in the Cotswold local authority area of the English county of Gloucestershire. It is about five miles north of Cirencester....
(new house, for I. Naylor, 1931) - Alvescote Lodge, OxfordshireOxfordshireOxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
(1923) - Bachelor's Court, Sapperton (alterations, for himself)
- Battledown Manor, CheltenhamCheltenhamCheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...
(cottage and garden house and pool; gates) - Battledown (OakfieldOakfieldOakfield may refer to:In literature:* Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East , novel by William ArnoldPlaces:in Canada* Oakfield, Nova Scotiain the United Kingdom* Oakfield Park Special School...
) - Box (new house, 1928)
- Campden House, near Chipping Campden (alterations and repairs, demolition of chapel and S wing, 1928–34)
- Charlton Park (new house, 1931)
- Chipping Campden (house for Ben Chandler)
- Christ Church, ChalfordChalfordChalford is a village in the Frome Valley of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is about 8 km upstream of Stroud. It gives its name to Chalford parish, which covers the villages of Chalford, Chalford Hill, France Lynch, Bussage and Brownshill, spread over 2 mi² of the...
, near Stroud (reordering and furnishings, including lectern, screen, panelling, font, c. 1934-7) - Charlton Abbots, near AndoversfordAndoversfordAndoversford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about six miles east of Cheltenham. The parish had a population of 668 according to the 2001 census....
(manor house, alterations) - ChedworthChedworthChedworth is a village in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswolds and best known as the location of Chedworth Roman Villa, administered since 1924 by the National Trust.- Roman villa :...
(The Orchard, for Mr Levey) - Chipping Campden (The Old Plough; Old Kings Arms [with sign by Griggs]; Studio; St James's Church [communion rails, altar, screens, panelling, 1945–58])
- Coates, Cirencester (two houses: Fosse Hill, for F.B. Swanwick, c. 1923, and The Setts House, for A. McKillop, c. 1924)
- Cirencester (almshouses in Barton Lane, 1929; Bowley almshouses in Watermoor Road, 1927); Greywalls [today Hunters], 1927; Barclays Bank, 1923)
- Climperwell (house and granary, 1930)
- Cotswold Farm (with his most extensive garden, on a hillside; plasterwork; for Maj. Birchall, c. 1926)
- Doughton Manor, near TetburyTetburyTetbury is a town and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, probably by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census.In the Middle Ages,...
(repairs for Col. F.A. Mitchell, 1933) - DumbletonDumbletonDumbleton is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire. The village is roughly 20 miles from Gloucester and 50 miles from Bristol.The village is known to have existed in the time of Ethelred I who granted land to Abingdon Abbey, and it is mentioned in the Domesday Book.St Peter's church is...
(war memorial, 1921) - Down AmpneyDown AmpneyDown Ampney is a medium-sized village located in Cotswold district in Gloucestershire, in England.It is off the A417 which runs between Cirencester and Faringdon on the A420, and about 5 km north of Cricklade,...
(cottages, alterations) - ElkstoneElkstoneElkstone is a village and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, the parish had a population of 203...
(Pike Cottage, alterations) - Foxcote (house and cottage, 1929)
- Garden House, WestonbirtWestonbirtThings named Westonbirt include:*Westonbirt House, a country house in Gloucestershire, England.*Westonbirt School, which now occupies the house.*Westonbirt Arboretum, which is nearby....
(new house and cottage for Capt Guy Hanmer, 1939–40) - Glenfall House (for Arthur Mitchell, also a patron of both Waals and Griggs)
- Greenway Farm, near Cheltenham (alterations)
- HidcoteHidcoteHidcote may refer to:*Hidcote Bartrim, a village in Gloucestershire*Hidcote Manor Garden*Lavandula Hidcote, an alternative name for Lavandula angustifolia...
House (repairs, 1924-5) - Hill Court, near Berkeley (vase urns)
- KelmscottKelmscottKelmscott is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in West Oxfordshire, about east of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire.-Parish church:...
, LechladeLechladeLechlade, or Lechlade-on-Thames, is a town at the southern edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable. The town is named after the River Leach that joins the Thames near here....
(completion of Morris memorial cottages and village hall, 1933) - Iles Farm and cottage, Far Oakridge (for Sir William Rothenstein)
- Lane End, KilveKilveKilve is a village in West Somerset, England, within the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the first AONB to be established, in 1957....
, SomersetSomersetThe ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
(cottage for himself); also Rowditch, in Kilve) - Lechlade, St Lawrence's Church (communion rails)
- The Lindens, Eaton, Norwich (drawing room, plasterwork, for his mother, 1921)
- Llysgennydd, St David'sSt David'sSt Davids , is a city and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Lying on the River Alun on St David's Peninsula, it is Britain's smallest city in terms of both size and population, the final resting place of Saint David, the country's patron saint, and the de facto ecclesiastical capital of...
, PembrokeshirePembrokeshirePembrokeshire is a county in the south west of Wales. It borders Carmarthenshire to the east and Ceredigion to the north east. The county town is Haverfordwest where Pembrokeshire County Council is headquartered....
(for Kenneth Pringle) - Little Wolford Manor, Shipston-on-StourShipston-on-StourShipston-on-Stour is a town and civil parish on the River Stour about south of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. It is in the northern part of the Cotswolds, close to the boundaries with Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire....
, Warwickshire - Nutbeam Farm, Duntisbourne LeerDuntisbourne LeerDuntisbourne Leer is in the county of Gloucestershire, and lies within the Cotswolds, a range of hills designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is approximately southeast of Gloucester and approximately northwest of Cirencester...
- Owlpen ManorOwlpen ManorOwlpen Manor is a Tudor Grade I listed manor house of the Mander family, situated in the village of Owlpen in the Stroud district in Gloucestershire, England. There is an associated estate set in a picturesque valley within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
, near UleyUleyUley is a village in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is situated in a wooded valley in the Cotswold escarpment, on the road between Dursley and Stroud. The population is around 1,100, but was much greater during the early years of the industrial revolution, when the village was... - PainswickPainswickPainswick is a small town in Gloucestershire, England. Originally the town grew on the wool trade, but it is now best known for its parish church's yew trees and the local Rococo Garden. The town is mainly constructed of locally quarried Cotswold stone...
Lodge (completion of Ernest Barnsley's plans, cottage and gardens, 1925–33) - Painswick (cottage for Mrs Seddon, 1920)
- Poulton Grange (1929)
- Ready Token, Poulton, GloucestershirePoulton, GloucestershirePoulton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire, approximately to the south-east of Gloucester. It lies in the south of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, the parish had a population of 398.-History:Poulton was...
(house to butterfly plan, 1928-9) - Redmarley D'AbitotRedmarley D'AbitotRedmarley D'Abitot is a civil parish and village in the Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, South West England. In addition to the village of Redmarley, the civil parish also includes the settlements of Lowbands, Haw Cross, Playley Green, Kings Green and Durbridge...
(Down House) - Rodmarton Manor (chapel and leadwork) (completion of project)
- Salle Church, Norfolk (seating)
- ShiptonShiptonShipton may refer to:Places*Shipton, Gloucestershire*Shipton, North Yorkshire*Shipton, Shropshire*Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire*Shipton Brook, Buckinghamshire*Shipton Gorge, Dorset*Shipton Lee, Buckinghamshire*Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire...
Oliffe Manor, AndoversfordAndoversfordAndoversford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about six miles east of Cheltenham. The parish had a population of 668 according to the 2001 census....
(alterations to manor house; cottages and stables) - SiddingtonSiddingtonSiddington may refer to:*Siddington, Cheshire, England*Siddington, Gloucestershire, England...
(reading room and cottage) - Souldern, OxfordshireOxfordshireOxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
(gateway to church) - South CerneySouth CerneySouth Cerney is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, 3 miles south of Cirencester and close to the border with Wiltshire. It had a population of 3,074 according to the 2001 census...
(cottages) - SouthropSouthropSouthrop is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is situated on the River Leach. The Grade I listed St Peter's Church dates from the 12th century. Nearby villages include Eastleach Turville, Eastleach Martin, Little Farringdon, Claydon and Hatherop....
Manor, LechladeLechladeLechlade, or Lechlade-on-Thames, is a town at the southern edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable. The town is named after the River Leach that joins the Thames near here....
(alterations and plasterwork, 1926 and 1932-9) - Swalecliffe, Oxfordshire (alterations to cottages and park, 1937)
- Sydenhams Farm, BisleyBisley-Places:* Two villages in the United Kingdom:**Bisley, Surrey**Bisley, Gloucestershire*Bisley Ranges is near the Surrey village and is the headquarters of the National Rifle Association, UK -Others:...
- Througham Court, BisleyBisley-Places:* Two villages in the United Kingdom:**Bisley, Surrey**Bisley, Gloucestershire*Bisley Ranges is near the Surrey village and is the headquarters of the National Rifle Association, UK -Others:...
(repairs for the novelist Michael SadleirMichael SadleirMichael Sadleir was a British novelist and book collector.-Biography:He was born Michael Sadler, though upon beginning to publish novels he altered the spelling of his name to differentiate himself from his father, Michael Ernest Sadler, a historian and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds...
, 1929) - Througham Slad (large NE wing converted for William Cadbury, 1931)
- Warren's Gorse, DaglingworthDaglingworthDaglingworth is a Gloucestershire village in the Duntisbourne Valley, England, near the A417 road connecting Gloucester and Cirencester. The Church of The Holy Rood in the village is a Saxon church with well-preserved stone carvings, including a Saxon crucifixion tablet dating to 1015.In the late...
(1922) - Westington (alterations for the illustrator, graphic designer and stained glassStained glassThe term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...
artist Paul WoodroffePaul WoodroffePaul Vincent Woodroffe was a British book illustrator and stained-glass artist.Paul Woodroffe was born in Madras and as a young man in London in the 1890s he took up book illustration and then stained glass, and worked with books and windows for the rest of his life...
, 1925) - Weston-sub-Edge (lych gate, 1922)
- Woeful Dane, MinchinhamptonMinchinhamptonMinchinhampton is an ancient market town, located on a hilltop south-south-east of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, in the Cotswolds. The town is twinned with Nkokoto, in Tanzania....
- Wormington Grange (west garden, ?Ionic loggia, gates, repairs, works to Old Rectory and Grange Farm, for Mrs Henry Gordon Clegg, 1930s)
Legacy
Jewson wrote two books: By Chance I did Rove is recognised as a minor classic of the background to the Gimson group and Cotswold life before the First World War, appearing in three editions, and The Little Book of Architecture (1940; reprinted) is a useful beginner’s guide to English architectural styles. He wrote a number of poems, illustrated for his friends, and would declaim a Victorian peep showPeep show
A peep show or peepshow is an exhibition of pictures, objects or people viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass. Though historically a peep show was a form of entertainment provided by wandering showmen, nowadays it more commonly refers a presentation of a sex show or pornographic film...
in a whining, sing-song drone.
He did little professional work after 1940, and felt increasingly at odds with modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
and the historical-artistic developments of the post-war period. He died suddenly at his house in Sapperton in 1975, aged 91, when the art historian David Gould wrote the following account:
Further reading
- Nicholas ManderSir Nicholas Mander, 4th BaronetSir Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet is a British baronet.He is the elder son of Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd baronet of The Mount, by Maria Dolores , née Brödermann, of Hamburg, whom he succeeded in 2006. He was educated at Downside School, Trinity College, Cambridge , and Grenoble University...
, Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire: a short history and guide to a romantic Tudor manor house in the Cotswolds (latest edition, Dursley, 2006). ISBN 0-9546056-1-6 - Norman Jewson, By Chance I did Rove (Cirencester, 1951, 1973; Barnsley 1986)
- N. Mander, S. Verity and D. Wynne-Jones, Norman Jewson, Architect: 1884-1975 (Cirencester, 1987)