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Which novelist assisted the architect of the chapel at the Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford ?
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Question set by Fay Weldon in The Independent's Christmas Quiz. I've tried the Internet and have found out the name of the architect but I just can't find anything about the novelist.
Many thanks for any help offered with this very difficult poser.
Many thanks for any help offered with this very difficult poser.
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His successful practice drew the attention of the young Thomas Hardy .. Hardy's training as a Gothic draughtsman was a strong recommendation to Blomfield, in whose office he worked on his arrival in London in 1862.
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/b lomfield/bio.html
His successful practice drew the attention of the young Thomas Hardy .. Hardy's training as a Gothic draughtsman was a strong recommendation to Blomfield, in whose office he worked on his arrival in London in 1862.
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/b lomfield/bio.html
Bit more info
It is questionable whether Hardy
assisted Arthur Blomfield in the building of Oxford�s Radcliffe Infirmary chapel in 1864 - while Beatty
(Introduction to The Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy) accepts the notion, Gittings (Young
Thomas Hardy) rejects it.
From
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:wkcikGGVJ Y8J:www.access-technology.co.uk/Hardy/Images/N ewsletter8.pdf+radcliffe+chapel+oxford+thomas+ hardy+blomfield&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=2
It is questionable whether Hardy
assisted Arthur Blomfield in the building of Oxford�s Radcliffe Infirmary chapel in 1864 - while Beatty
(Introduction to The Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy) accepts the notion, Gittings (Young
Thomas Hardy) rejects it.
From
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:wkcikGGVJ Y8J:www.access-technology.co.uk/Hardy/Images/N ewsletter8.pdf+radcliffe+chapel+oxford+thomas+ hardy+blomfield&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=2
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