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Field, P. J. C.

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“…There he illustrated 'The custom house, Dartmouth', of 1739, where an overscaled canopy sits at the centre of a composition similar to that at Okehampton, as well as a splendid shell canopy at Bank House, in Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, probably dating from the early eighteenth century. 42 At 14 Great College Street in 1904 he had introduced a canopy like this; at Southborough he made it the primary feature of the entire building ( Figs 6 and j). 43 His next design, however, for a new branch at 5 High Street, Andover in Hampshire (1914), reverted to the Okehampton type: it had a five-bay stone front with a dentilled pediment and an arcaded ground floor (Fig.…”

Section: Horace Field and The Bankmentioning

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Horace Field and Lloyds Bank

Brittain-Catlin¹

2010

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In 1980, Andrew Saint told members of the Victorian Society that the Arts and Crafts architect Horace Field (1861-1948) was ‘frequently referred to but rarely discussed’. Thirty years later the situation is largely unchanged. Yet Field played an influential role in the architectural development of the twentieth-century English and Welsh high street. He was a significant figure in the process by which the architectural styles of bank premises were, by the late 1920s, transformed from ones very similar to those of commercial or municipal offices into a distinct and domestic interpretation of the style of Queen Anne. His contribution was two-fold: as the designer of a series of branches of Lloyds Bank, and as co-author (with his former assistant, Michael Bunney) of the widely read English Domestic Architecture of the XVII and XVIII Centuries, published in 1905.

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Horace Field and Lloyds Bank

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2010

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