Randall Wells
Illustration — St Edward's Church, Kempley (1903–04) Albert Randall Wells (1877–1942) was an English Arts and Crafts architect, designer, craftsman and inventor. He was the son of an architect, Arthur Wells of Hastings. After a practical training in joinery and founding as well as architecture, Randall Wells was discovered by William Lethaby and acted as his resident architect at All Saints' Church, Brockhampton, Herefordshire (1901–02) where Lethaby's experimentation with the employment of direct labour under a site architect instead of a contractor under a formal building contract, and deliberately produced few drawings, gave Wells freedom to evolve the design as the building rose and to engage in the physical activity of building.
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- Born
- 1877
- Died
- 1942
- Occupation
- architect
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — St Edward's Church, Kempley (1903–04) Albert Randall Wells (1877–1942) was an English Arts and Crafts architect, designer, craftsman and inventor. He was the son of an architect, Arthur Wells of Hastings. After a practical training in joinery and founding as well as architecture, Randall Wells was discovered by William Lethaby and acted as his resident architect at All Saints' Church, Brockhampton, Herefordshire (1901–02) where Lethaby's experimentation with the employment of direct labour under a site architect instead of a contractor under a formal building contract, and deliberately produced few drawings, gave Wells freedom to evolve the design as the building rose and to engage in the physical activity of building.
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- 1.DSA biography
- 2.Wandering Architects; Michael Drury, 2000
- 3.Sanatorium Chapel, High Kelling, Norfolk.
- 4.Pevsner, Nikolaus and Bettley, James; Essex, Yale University Press, 2007.
- 5.The £150 Cottage
- 6.Listing of 126 Wilbury Road, Letchworth
- 7.Randall Wells; Nikolaus Pevsner & Enid Radcliffe; Architectural Review, November 1964
- 8.Playfair, Giles, My Father's Son, Geoffrey Bles, London 1937
- 9.BBC Year Book 1932, p.70.
- 10.1. 5028 HIGH STREET (north side) Teddington No 23. Lloyds Bank TQ 1671 23/26 II 2, see Images of England No. 205455 National Monuments Record, English Heritage (retrieved 10 March 2012)
- 11.Religion and Place in Leeds; English Heritage, 2008. ISSN 1749-8775
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