Charles Arthur Ford Whitcombe Explained

Charles Arthur Ford Whitcombe (1872-1930) A.R.I.B.A. was a British architect, best known for his ecclesiastical designs. He was from Tibberton, Worcestershire and had his London office at 5 Newman Street, Oxford Street. In 1916 he emigrated to Queensland, Australia to become 'Chief Instructor - Architecture' at the Central Technical College, Brisbane.^[1]

List of work

United Kingdom

• 1896 Chapel of St Mary's Convent, Chiswick, London.
  • Picturesque chapel with a small tower, in a free arts and Crafts Gothic. Classical reredos. Ceiling paintings by George Ostrehan; tapestry panel by Morris & Co.^[2]
• 1900 Church of St James Huddington, Worcestershire^[3]
  • • 1900–01 Church of St Michael Huddington, Worcestershire 1902–05 Church of Holy Trinity Ettington, Warwickshire 1902–06 Church of All Saints Huthwaite, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
  • The new church built on the Common and Sutton Roads, Hucknall, Huthwaite [sic], has been erected from designs by Mr C. Ford Whitcombe, of London. The style is that of the fourteenth century period of English Gothic, and the building will seat 500 people.^[4]
• 1903 Church of Christ Church Broadheath, Worcestershire
• 1903 Church of St John the Baptist and St Felix Felixstowe, Suffolk
  • Pulpit 1903 by Whitcombe and Cogswell.^[5]
• 1903–05 Church of St Andrew Hampton, Worcestershire
• 1903–05 Church of St John the Baptist Feckenham, Worcestershire
• 1904–05 Church of St Mary Herbrandston, Pembrokeshire
• 1905–07 Church of All Saints Chadshunt, Warwickshire
• 1905–08 Church of St John the Baptist Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire
  • 1905–08 Church of St Mary Magdalen Himbleton, Worcestershire 1905–08 Church of St Barnabas Southfields, London^[6]
• 1906 Church of St Andrew Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire
• 1906 Church of St Michael Huddington, Worcestershire
• 1909 Church of St John Helen's Bay, Belfast, in partnership with William Gerald St John Cogswell.^[7]
• 1909 The Church of St Peter Rugby, Warwickshire.;^[8]
• 1909 The Church of St Matthew Buckley, Flintshire.
  • A three-light window depicting St Anne teaching her daughter Mary, St Hilda teaching in her monastery at Whitby, and St Monica teaching her son Augustine.^[9]

Notes and References

1. https://qldarch.net/architect/summary?architectId=752 'Charles Ford Whitcombe'
2. 'Hounslow' in London 3: North West by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (Yale University Press, 1981) p. 394
3. https://www.himbletonchurch.org/huddington-church-building/ St James History
4. 'Ecclesiastical Architecture'. The Architects' Magazine (Jan 1904; 4, 39)
5. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1182986 'Church of St John the Baptist and St Felix'
6. http://images.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/luna/servlet/LPLIBLPL~34~34 Records of the Incorporated Church Building Society
7. https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/5598/whitcombe%26cogswell%23 'Whitcombe and Coggswell'
8. https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/places-we-helped/st-peter-and-st-john-0 'St Peter and St John'
9. http://stainedglass.llgc.org.uk/object/94 'Women Teaching Children'