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Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856 – 27 December 1942) was a British
United Kingdom

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 architect
Architect

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, garden designer
Garden designer

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 and author
Author

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.

Early life and career
Reginald Blomfield was born in Nymet Tracey, Devon
Devon

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, son of the local clergyman.






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Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856 – 27 December 1942) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
, garden designer
Garden designer

The term garden designer can refer either to an amateur or a professional. Amateurs design their own gardens. Professionals design other people's gardens....
 and author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
.

Early life and career


Reginald Blomfield was born in Nymet Tracey, Devon
Devon

Devon is a large Counties of England in South West England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county but often indicating a shire....
, son of the local clergyman. He was educated at Haileybury
Haileybury and Imperial Service College

Haileybury and Imperial Service College, , is a British independent school founded in 1862. It is a co-educational boarding school enrolling pupils at 11+, 13+ and 16+....
 school and at Exeter College
Exeter College

Exeter College may refer to:* Exeter College, Oxford a college of Oxford University* Exeter College, Exeter a college in Exeter, Devon...
, Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
. His uncle, Sir Arthur Blomfield
Arthur Blomfield

Sir Arthur William Blomfield was an England architect....
, was an architect and Blomfield followed him into the profession, training first under his uncle, then at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. As an academy, it functions to encourage British art, and has a membership of practising artists....
 in London, where he later became a professor of architecture in 1906.

Design work


After establishing his own practice, he designed:

  • 1906, redesigned the United University Club
    United University Club

    The United University Club was a London gentlemen's club, founded in 1821. It occupied the purpose-built University Club House, at 1, Suffolk Street, London, from 1826 until 1971....
     in Pall Mall
    Pall Mall, London

    Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London, situated in London SW1 and parallel to The Mall , from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square....
     on a grander scale.
  • The Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres
    Ypres

    Ypres , Ieper , or Ypern is a Belgium Municipalities in Belgium located in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders....
    , Flanders
    Flanders

    Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
    .
  • 1915, Brandhoek Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
    Brandhoek Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

    Brandhoek Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War I located near Ypres in Belgium on the Western Front ....
    , Ieper
    Ypres

    Ypres , Ieper , or Ypern is a Belgium Municipalities in Belgium located in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders....
    , West Flanders
    West Flanders

    West Flanders is the westernmost Provinces of regions in Belgium of Flemish Region, in Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands, the Flemish Region province of East Flanders and the Wallonia province of Hainaut in Belgium, on France, and the North Sea....
    , Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
    .
  • 1923, the Royal Air Force Memorial
    Royal Air Force Memorial

    The Royal Air Force Memorial is a 1923 military memorial on Victoria Embankment in central London, dedicated to the memory of the casualties of the Royal Air Force in World War I ....
     in London.
  • The Pall Mall premises of the Carlton Club
    Carlton Club

    The Carlton Club is a gentlemen's club in London....
     destroyed in the Second World War; (not the current premises in St James's Street).
  • Ditcham Park School
    Ditcham Park School

    Ditcham Park School is an England co-educational, selective, independent school set in the secluded countryside of Hampshire, overlooking the South Downs....
    , Hampshire.
  • Lambeth Bridge
    Lambeth Bridge

    Lambeth Bridge is a road traffic and footbridge crossing the River Thames in an east-west direction in central London; the river flows north at the crossing point....
    , crossing the River Thames
    River Thames

    The Thames is a major river flowing through southern England. While best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows through several other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading, Berkshire and Windsor, Berkshire....
    .
  • Works at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
  • Highgate School
    Highgate School

    Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate is a British Independent School in Highgate, London, England. It is a member of both the Headmaster's Conference and the Eton Group....
    .
  • Goldsmiths College.
  • The Cross of Sacrifice
    Cross of Sacrifice

    The Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the focal point of the numerous Commonwealth war Cemetery throughout the world....
     or War Cross, for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    Commonwealth War Graves Commission

    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is a joint governmental organisation responsible for marking and maintaining the graves of members of the Commonwealth of Nations' military forces that died in the two world wars, to build memorials to those with no known grave, and to keep records of the war dead....
    . These are in Commonwealth cemeteries in many countries.


He became known for remodeling streets in the early 20th century such as:

  • Regent Street
    Regent Street

    Regent Street is one of the major high street in London's West End of London, well known to tourists and Londoners alike, and famous for its Christmas illuminations....
     in London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     in the 1920s; among other architects working on Regent Street in the first decades of the twentieth century, were Norman Shaw, Aston Webb
    Aston Webb

    Sir Aston Webb, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of British Architects, was an England architect, active in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century....
    , John James Burnet
    John James Burnet

    Sir John James Burnet was a Scotland Edwardian architecture architect who was noted for a number of prominent buildings in Glasgow, Scotland and London, England....
    , Arthur Joseph Davis
    Arthur Joseph Davis

    Arthur Joseph Davis was a United Kingdom architect. Davis studied at ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the 1880s. He was a senior partner in the firm Mewes and Davis, with Charles Mew?s....
    , Henry Tanner, and Ernest Newton.
  • The Headrow in Leeds
    Leeds

    Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
     from 1929. These are notable for being constructed in a uniform architectural style, and Nikolaus Pevsner
    Nikolaus Pevsner

    Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, Order of the British Empire, was a German-born British scholar of art historian and, especially, of history of architecture....
     comments on the similarity of the Leeds scheme to the earlier one in Regent Street.


Awards and Honors


  • 1913 awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
    Royal Institute of British Architects

    The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom.Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson and John Buonarotti Papwor...
     (RIBA)
  • 1914 elected to the Royal Academy
    Royal Academy

    The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. As an academy, it functions to encourage British art, and has a membership of practising artists....


See also

  • St. Thomas' Church, Aslockton
    St. Thomas' Church, Aslockton

    St. Thomas' Church, Aslockton is a parish church in the Church of England in Aslockton, Nottinghamshire.The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest....


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