Thomas Henry Lyon : Architect and Aesthete - His Life and Work txt
- 362 pages : color illustrations ; maps ; plans ; 24 cm. book
Preface iv -- Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1. Family and early life to 1883 3 -- Chapter 2. Family and school life (1887-95) 19 -- Chapter 3. training as an architect and life at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1887-95) 32 -- Chapter 4. Three weddings and two funerals (1895-1901) 52 -- Chapter 5. St. George, Goodwood, South Australia 70 -- Chapter 6. St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, South Australia 96 -- Chapter 7. The Ilsington years (1901-11) 107 -- Chapter 8. Commissions in the Ilsington years (1901-11) 125 -- Chapter 9. St. Michael’s, Ilsington 162 -- Chapter 10. Cambridge (1910-15): Sidney Sussex and Corpus Christi Colleges 182 -- Chapter 11. The First World War years 202 -- Chapter 12. The Cambridge years (1919-38: Background 213 -- Chapter 13. Corpus Christi College (1919-38) 232 -- Chapter 14. The Cambridge years: Commissions (1919-29) 259 -- Chapter 15. St Augustine, Wembley Park 292 -- Chapter 16. The Cambridge years: Commissions (1930-8) 306 -- Chapter 17. St George, Chesterton, Cambridge and Christ the King, Parson Cross, Sheffield: Lyon’s last substantial works 300 -- Chapter 18. Retirement and death (1938-53) 352 --
The first ever description of the life and work of Thomas Henry Lyon (1869-1953), an important but neglected twentieth-century architect.