Henry Sulley Explained

Henry Sulley should not be confused with Henry Sully.

Henry Sulley (1845–1940) was an English architect and writer on the temples of Jerusalem.

Sulley was born to English parents in Brooklyn, Long Island, USA, 30 January 1845, but relocated back to Nottingham when still young.

As an architect, Sulley is noted for several buildings in Nottingham,^[1] among them 2 Hamilton Road, 'a fine Victorian dwelling' designed for James White the lace manufacturer in 1883.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Although he had no formal training in archaeology, Sulley's background in architecture allowed him to develop various ideas about Solomon's Temple and the City of David. His primary area of activity was in writing concerning the temples in Jerusalem: Solomon's Temple,^[6] Herod's Temple and Ezekiel's Temple.^[7] In 1929 Sulley was the first to propose that the watercourse of Siloam tunnel was following a natural crack,^{[8] [9] [10] [11]} a theory developed by Ruth Amiran (1968),^[12] and Dan Gill (1994).^[13]

Sulley had been baptised as a Christadelphian in October 1871 at the age of 26 following lectures by Robert Roberts and reading Elpis Israel.^[14] As a Christadelphian Sulley toured Australia,^[15] New Zealand,^{[15] [16] [17]} America and Canada, showing his large illustrated architectural designs for Ezekiel's temple, in lecture halls and museums, typically over two or three nights. These public lectures followed a regular pattern: archaeology, architecture, prophecy, and then preaching.^[18] On his journeys he would write articles for publication in England giving impressions on the buildings he saw: for example, noting that the Washington Monument was a marvel, but that the corner-towers of Ezekiel's temple would be two-and-a-half times taller.^[19] During the period from 1898 onwards he was a regular assistant to the second editor of The Christadelphian magazine, Charles Curwen Walker.

Buildings

• Upnah House, 22 Balmoral Road, Nottingham 1873
• Malvern House, 41 Mapperley Road, Nottingham 1874
• 2 Hamilton Road, Nottingham 1873
• Oakfield, Cyprus Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham 1882
• Elmsleigh, Hamilton Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham 1883
• Addison Street Congregational Church 1884
• Warehouse, Peachey Street, Nottingham 1887-88^[20] (Now YMCA)

Publications

• Temple of Ezekiel's prophecy (1887)^[21]
• A Handbook to the Temple of Ezekiel's Prophecy^[22]
• Pentaletheia: Five writings on the Truth^[23]
• The Sign of the Coming of the Son of Man (1906)
• What is the Substance of Faith? A Reply to Sir Oliver Lodge (1908)^[24]
• Is It Armageddon? (1915; formerly Britain in prophecy)
• A House of Prayer for All People
• Where are our dead friends?
• Divine worship in the age to come
• Spiritlism

Notes and References

1. Book: Brodie, Antonia . 20 December 2001 . Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: Vol 2 (L-Z) . Royal Institute of British Architects . 730 . 082645514X .
2. Country life – Volume 197, No.32-35 – 2003 Page 135 "Elmsleigh (pictured, above, in The British Architect magazine in 1883) was designed by Henry Sulley (1845–1940), who was born on Long Island but practised in Nottingham, creating a series of grand villas for the rich lace manufacturers of the ..."
3. [Nottingham City Council]
4. Pevsner, N. Nottinghamshire: Second Edition 1979 p.264
5. [The British Architect]
6. Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund 1893 p.179
7. Sulley, H. The temple of Ezekiel's prophecy. Nottingham 1887
8. New studies on Jerusalem: – Page 230 Eyal Baruch, מרכז אינגבורג ללימודי ירושלים – 1998 "In 1929, quite out of the blue, a Nottingham architect, Henry Sulley, sent a note to the Palestine Exploration Quarterly suggesting that the engineers had followed a fracture in the rock which led them from the spring in the north to the collection ..."
9. Sulley. H. in Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund 1929 p123
10. Jerusalem's water supply: from the 18th century BCE to the present 1993 Page 14
11. Zvi Abells, Asher Arbit The City of David water supply 1995 p15 "As long ago as 1929 an architect, Henry Sulley, wrote from England on page 124 of PEFQSt: "Since those who have inspected the tunnel mention a cleft in the rock at the point where the excavators met, it seems to me that this cleft is the explanation of the course taken by the excavators in forming this tunnel. Probably the cleft extended from the Virgin's Fountain (Gihon Spring) to the Pool of Siloam, and a small quan- tity of water would at times trickle through"
12. Ruth Amiran, Qadmoniot 1 (1968), p. 13 (Hebrew)
13. Dan Gill. Source: BAR. Waterworks underlying the City of David
14. The Christadelphian, 1871
15. News: Entertainment in the Opera House . Wanganui Herald . . 3 . . 2 November 1901 . 12 January 2013.
16. News: Museum Hall. Free Public Lectures . Wanganui Herald . . 3 . . 30 October 1901 . 12 January 2013.
17. News: Mr Henry Sulley's Lectures . Wanganui Herald . . 3 . . 1901 . 12 January 2013.
18. e.g. Wanganui Herald 1901 MR HENRY SULLEY'S LECTURES.
19. The Christadelphian 1889 p15
20. Book: Harwood, Elain . 2008 . Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham . Yale University Press. 138 . 9780300126662 .
21. http://www.christadelphianvault.net/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=Temple%20of%20Ezekiels%20Prophecy%20-%20Logos%20ed.pdf&directory=Henry%20Sulley& Automatic download
22. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21942952?versionId=26443049 Entry
23. http://www.christadelphianvault.net/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=Pentaletheia.pdf&directory=Henry%20Sulley& Automatic download
24. Full title: What is the Substance of Faith? A Criticism of Sir Oliver Lodge's Catechism and a Response to the New Theology Challenge Against Revealed Religion (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1908)