Somers Clarke
Architect and Egyptologist
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| Intro | Architect and Egyptologist | |
| Places | United Kingdom | |
| is | Architect Anthropologist | |
| Work field | Engineering Social science | |
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| Birth | Brighton | |
| Death | 31 August 1926Egypt |
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Biography
George Somers Clarke (1841–1926) was an architect and English Egyptologist who worked at a number of sites throughout Egypt, notably in El Kab, where he built a house. He was born in Brighton.
As an architect he worked in partnership with John Thomas Micklethwaite from offices at 15 Dean's Yard, Westminster, London.
After his retirement Clarke continued to live in Egypt and died in Mahamid in August 1926.
Works
- 1872–78 Wyfold Court, Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire
- 1874–75 St Martin's parish church, Lewes Road, Brighton (Wagner Memorial Church), the largest church in Brighton, complete except proposed saddle-back tower. Spectacular pulpit based on the Sacrament House in St. Lorenz, Nuremberg.
- 1875 scheme for remodelling and extending St Peter's Church, Brighton (only partly achieved)
- 1879 St Nicholas parish church, Kiddington, Oxfordshire: vestry and organ loft
- 1885 Parish church of St John The Divine, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
- 1885 Church at Wimbledon (proposed)
- 1890 St Peter's parish church, Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire: restoration (with Micklethwaite)
- 1891 Reid's Palace Hotel, Funchal, Madeira
- 1892 St Saviour's parish church, Folkestone, Kent
- 1892 designs for wall paintings by C.E. Kempe in St Nicholas' Church, Brighton
- 1900–06 (with Micklethwaite) St Peter's parish church, Brighton: new chancel with eleven-light east window
- 1910 Chichester Cathedral: reredos
- SS Philip & James parish church, Oxford: reredos
- Sherwood & Pevsner 1965, p. 738.
- Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 433.
- Church Guide Book. St Martin's, Brighton. 1975.
- Building News. 1 January 1875.
- Sherwood & Pevsner 1965, p. 669.
- The Builder. 46: 932. 1884.
- The Builder: 792. 5 December 1885.
- Sherwood & Pevsner 1965, p. 698.
- Denby, Elaine (1998). Grand Hotels: Reality & Illusion; An Architectural and Social History. Reaktion Books. p. 183. ISBN 978-1861891211.
- The Builder. 6 October 1892.
- Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 428.
- Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 436.
- Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 155.
- Sherwood & Pevsner 1965, p. 298.