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Henry Clutton’s country houses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Penelope Hunting
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Henry Clutton trained under Edward Blore and inherited many of Blore’s clients. Like Blore, Clutton was a proficient designer of Tudorbethan country houses. Clutton, however, was one of the younger, bolder generation of architects and — with conviction and occasional brilliance — broke out of the rather dull Bloreian tradition in which he had been trained. His red sandstone castle at Ruthin, his early sixteenth-century château at Minley, his experiments with the vernacular ‘Old English’ style and his interpretation of the Jacobean country house, show an originality of which Blore was incapable.

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Architectural History , Volume 26 , 1983 , pp. 96 - 104
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1983

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Notes

1 Victoria and Albert Museum, prints and drawings A 182 f and g.

2 Diary of W. S. Dugdale (1838-50), entry under 3 April 1844. Warwickshire County Record Office, microfilm M1 313.

3 ‘Mr Clutton called at 10 and went with me to Frederick West to talk over Ruthyn Castle.’ Diary of W. S. Dugdale (1838-50), 19 May 1848.

4 Hunting, Penelope, ‘The life and work of Henry Clutton 1819-93’, Ph.D. thesis, London, 1979 Google Scholar, Appendix C.

5 Diary of W. S. Dugdale (1838-50), 22 May 1848.

6 Hitchcock, H. R., Early Victorian Architecture in Britain, 1 (1954), 243 Google Scholar.

7 Some of Clutton’s sketchbooks are in the care of Messrs Clutton, Great College Street, London sw1.

8 See Hope, W. H. St John, Windsor Castle an architectural history, 1 (1913), pls xx, xxi Google Scholar; II, 548. I am indebted to Mr John Newman for raising this point.

9 Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, 11 (1851), class xxvi, exhibit 19, pl. 139.

10 W. Burges, ‘Abstract’ (1851), p. 21. I am grateful to Professor J. Mordaunt Crook for access to material on Burges.

11 W. Burges, ‘Abstract’ (1852), p. 24; (1853), p. 26; (1855), p. 30; (1856), p. 32. See also Crook, J. Mordaunt, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream (1981), p. 295 Google Scholar.

12 Kip, J., Britannia Illustrata (1720), pl. 47 Google Scholar.

13 Clutton, H., Remarks with Illustrations on the Domestic Architecture of France, from the accession of Charles VI to the demise of Louis XII (1853, 1856), p. vi Google Scholar.

14 Eastlake, C. L., A History of the Gothic Revival (1872), edited by Crook, J. Mordaunt (Leicester 1970, 1978), P. 317 Google Scholar.

15 H. Clutton, op. cit., p. 29.

16 Drawing signed and dated October 1871. RIBA Drawings Collection.

17 1858, ‘59, ‘60. Clutton’s passport is in the care of Flight Lt N. Clutton.

18 Builder, XVI (1858), 306. It has been claimed that J. F. Bentley made many of the drawings for Minley Manor. See de l’Hôpital, W., Westminster Cathedral and its architect, 11 (1919), 350 Google Scholar.

19 Currie, B. Wodehouse, Recollections, Letters and Journals, 1 (1901), 56 Google Scholar.

20 Sketch in the possession of The Hon. C. Phillimore Esq.

21 Kerr, Robert, The Gentleman’s House (1864), edited by Crook, J. Mordaunt (1972), p. 68 Google Scholar.

22 Diary of Mark Philips (1844-73), 7 August 1862. In the care of Mrs T. Rose.

23 Ibid., 16 October 1862.

24 Mark Philips possessed a copy of this book, in which he marked features which were to be copied at Welcombe. Information from Mrs M. Moorman.

25 Ibid., 16 August 1865.

26 Gawthorpe Hall was built between 1599-1602 for the Rev. Laurence Shuttleworth, possibly to designs by Robert Smythson.

27 Bedfordshire Mercury, 25 May 1878.