If you enjoy this blog – and, in particular, if you liked the post on S.S. Teulon – then be sure to tune in to an on-line lecture that I am giving next Monday 10th November 2025 at 6pm. It’s called ‘The unknown S.S. Teulon’ and is all about his domestic buildings, focusing in particularContinue reading “A less Eminent Victorian goes live!”
Category Archives: Early Victorian
Prolific inimitability: getting to grips with S.S. Teulon (1812-1873)
For many of the architects featured in this blog, single posts running to something in the region of 15 pages of copy is sufficient to give a reasonably comprehensive account of their careers. Further research might bring to light previously unknown works and thereby flesh out the picture, but is unlikely to yield anything thatContinue reading “Prolific inimitability: getting to grips with S.S. Teulon (1812-1873)”
A glimpse of Arcadia in Central Wales
Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807-1880) and David Brandon (1813-1897) have a reputation of being among the also-rans of Victorian architecture. In the earlier part of their careers, the two architects had a professional partnership which lasted from 1838 until 1851, whereupon they went their separate ways. They were commercially successful, taking on the full range ofContinue reading “A glimpse of Arcadia in Central Wales”
Amateur extravagance in the Welsh Marches
I have long fancied that one of the principal drivers of architectural development in Victorian England was boredom. Young men who had come into contact with the ideas of, say, Ruskin or the Tractarian Movement while up at Oxbridge or in the capital then found themselves out in the sticks on inheriting the family estateContinue reading “Amateur extravagance in the Welsh Marches”
Less Eminent Victorians 