Edgar Wood

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Edgar Wood (17 May 1860 – 12 October 1935)[1] was a British architect, artist, and draftsman who practised from Manchester at the turn of the 20th century and gained a considerable reputation in the United Kingdom. He was regarded as a proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement, which was prevalent between 1860 and 1910.

Wood's work is principally domestic, but he designed several churches and small commercial buildings. He worked as an individual designer, mostly with only one assistant, and confined himself to the smaller type of building that he could control personally. Although he was active in Manchester for over twenty years, most of his work is in nearby towns, such as Rochdale, Oldham and Middleton (of which he was native), and in outlying districts such as Bramhall and Hale.

Wood contributed to Manchester in various ways. He was a founder of the Northern Art Workers' Guild in 1896, one of the major provincial societies within the Arts and Crafts Movement, and was president of the Manchester Society of Architects from 1911 to 1912. Wood retired in 1921 and over twenty of his architectural works are listed.Template:Fact

Early years

Edgar Wood was born in 1860, the sixth of eight children born to Thomas Broadbent Wood and Mary Sykes. Only three of the children lived to adulthood. The family lived in Middleton and Wood's father was a mill owner, a Unitarian, a Liberal, and had a reputation as a strict disciplinarian. Edgar Wood was educated at the local Queen Elizabeth Grammar School.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Fact

The direction of Edgar Wood's life after school was a controversial subject in the Wood household. It had been assumed by his father that Edgar would enter the family cotton business but he had different ideas. Edgar's ambition was to be an artist. The difference in opinion was finally resolved in a compromise which saw Edgar agreeing to train as an architect.Template:Fact

Career

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Masterplan for suburban development in Withington in 1909
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Edgar Wood Centre, Victoria Park, Manchester (1903)

Wood was articled to Mills and Murgatroyd, a Manchester architectural firm responsible for a number of prominent buildings in the Manchester area. Perhaps the best way to judge how Wood felt about his years as a pupil can be gleaned from his own comments in a lecture he delivered in 1900 in Birmingham, "My earliest architectural years were passed in an atmosphere where beautiful creative powers as applied to building, and life in design generally, were drowned in the solemnity of commerce, tracing paper and the checking of quantities."Template:Fact

Wood passed the RIBA qualifying examinations and became an Associate in 1885. He set up his own office in Middleton and his first commission seems to have been for a shelter and drinking fountain (below) paid for by his stepmother and placed in the Middleton market square to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee.Template:Fact

By 1892 it appears that his practice was flourishing and he moved into new premises at 78 Cross Street in the heart of Manchester. Ever the artist he would arrive at work wearing a large black cloak, lined with red silk, a flat, broad-brimmed hat, and brandishing a silver-handled cane. He said, "If an architect is not allowed to advertise his name he must advertise his personality."Template:Fact

John H. G. Archer says of Wood that, "Architecturally, Wood's sympathy lay with the progressive movement of the day, represented first by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement". Wood was a founder member of the Northern Art Worker's Guild and became its Master in 1897. Wood practised in various crafts and he designed furniture, jewellery, and metalwork. Archer adds, "In Wood's architecture the influences of both the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau are clearly apparent, the former by his revival of the vernacular traditions of Lancashire and West Riding buildings, and the latter by his use of elongated forms and interwoven motifs."[2]

Wood was instrumental in saving the colonnade of Manchester's first town hall, designed by Francis Goodwin, which stood in King Street and was demolished c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1911. Wood raised a public appeal and prepared a scheme for the re-erection of the colonnade in Platt Fields park, and when this was rejected he drew up another for a site in Heaton Park where the colonnade now stands.[3]

Wood devised numerous masterplans for the Manchester Corporation. The city was burgeoning by the Edwardian era and needed houses to clear slums. One of his masterplans which was submitted in 1909 included an unorthodox radial suburban plan for Withington which centred on a small village.[4] Wood's masterplan was rejected, but influenced future designs. Numerous housing estates in south Manchester in areas such as Withington and Burnage have houses centred on a radial plan as opposed to straight streets of terraced houses.

Works

Name and location Image Built Grade Ref. / Notes
Rhodes Schools, Middleton
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 1884 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [5]
Temple Street Baptist Church, Middleton
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 1889 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [6]
Halecroft, Hale
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 1890 align="center" Template:Grade II* colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [7]
Hillcrest and Briarhill, Middleton
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 1892 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [8]
Royal Bank of Scotland, Middleton
File:Royal Bank of Scotland, Middleton.jpg
 1892 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [9]
Silver Street Chapel, Rochdale
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Barcroft, Rochdale
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Redcroft and Fencegate, Middleton
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 1895 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [12]
Briarcourt, Lindley
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 1895 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [13]
Norman Terrace, Lindley
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Old Clergy House, Almondbury
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31–37 Broad Street, Rochdale
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 1899 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [16]
Long Street Methodist Church, Middleton
(now renamed The Edgar Wood Centre)
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 1899 align="center" Template:Grade II* colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [17]
51–53 Rochdale Road, Middleton
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 1900 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [18]
Gatehouse, Lindley
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 1900 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [19]
Homestead, Trafford
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Banney Royd, Huddersfield
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Arkholme, 1 Towncroft Avenue, Middleton
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 1901 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [22]
Ponsonby and Carlile Office, Oldham
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Silkstone Hall, Hinderwell, North Yorkshire
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Lindley Clock Tower, Lindley
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The Lodge to New Cragg Hall,
Cragg Vale, West Yorkshire
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Azo House, Birkby Lodge Road
Cruden, Birkby Hall Road
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Parsonage House, Thurlstone
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Edgar Wood Centre, Manchester
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 1906 align="center" Template:Grade I colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [30]
36 Mellalieu Street, Middleton
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 1906 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". With J. Henry Sellers[31]
Staircase and Exedra, Jubilee Park, Middleton
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 1906 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [32]
Hill House (formerly Davnyveed),
Barley, Hertfordshire
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22–24 Mount Road, Middleton
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33, 35 and 37 Middleton Gardens, Middleton
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 1908 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [35]
Upmeads, Stafford
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 1908 align="center" Template:Grade II* colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [36]
Elm Street School, Middleton
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Former Independent Labour Club, Middleton
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 1911–12 align="center" Template:Grade II colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [38]
Royd House, Hale
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 1916 align="center" Template:Grade I colour|Script error: No such module "sort". [39]
Edgecroft, Heywood
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References

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