# Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel

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{{Short description|British architect, writer and musician}}
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'''Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (1887 in [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=harry%20stuart&lastname=goodhart&eventyear=1887&eventyear_offset=2|title=England & Wales Births 1837–2006|work=Find my Past|access-date=2018-07-22}}</ref> – 21 June 1959 in [Westminster](/source/Westminster), [London](/source/London)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-deaths-1837-2007?lastname=goodhart-rendel|title=England & Wales Deaths 1837–2007|work=Find my Past|access-date=2018-07-22}}</ref>) was a British architect, writer and musician.
thumb|Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley (architect: H. S. Goodhart-Rendel)

==Life==
Harry Stuart Goodhart was born on 29 May 1887 in Cambridge, England. He added the additional name Rendel by royal licence in 1902.<ref name="obit">{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Mr H Goodhart-Rendel – Architect and Critic |date=22 June 1959 |page=14 |issue=54493 }}</ref> He was educated at [Eton College](/source/Eton_College),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.alpineeagle.co.uk/Restorations/Historica/Historica.html |title=Alpine Eagle – Bill Borchert Larson<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2 May 2008 |archive-date=16 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916053004/http://www.alpineeagle.co.uk/Restorations/Historica/Historica.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>  and read music at [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Cambridge). He worked briefly for [Sir Charles Nicholson](/source/Sir_Charles_Nicholson%2C_2nd_Baronet), and then set up his own architectural practice. He is best known as a prolific ecclesiastical architect, designing a large number of churches for new suburban areas. He also carried out numerous restorations, enlargements and reorderings of numerous ancient buildings, as well as designing new buildings, including domestic premises, warehouses and industrial buildings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abdiocese.org.uk/Resources/DABNet/English%20Heritage%20Reports%20Extracts/Cobham%20EH.pdf |access-date=2014-06-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817043925/http://www.abdiocese.org.uk/Resources/DABNet/English%20Heritage%20Reports%20Extracts/Cobham%20EH.pdf |archive-date=17 August 2014 |title=Historic Review of Roman Catholic Churches in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton }}</ref> In 1936 he converted to Catholicism. <ref>{{Citation |title=Goodhart-Rendel, Harry Stuart (1887–1959) |date=2018-02-06 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.013.33455 |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |access-date=2023-12-29 |publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.013.33455 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

He was Oxford's [Slade Professor of Fine Art](/source/Slade_Professor_of_Fine_Art), from 1933 to 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/people/architects/harry_stuart_goodhartrendel |work=Exploring Surrey's Past |title= Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel}}</ref>
His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival of interest in Victoriana, by [Nikolaus Pevsner](/source/Nikolaus_Pevsner).<ref name="TaylorWolff2004">{{cite book|last1=Taylor|first1=Miles |last2=Wolff|first2=Michael |title=The Victorians Since 1901: Histories, Representations and Revisions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-MEXXKgGGwC&pg=PA128|year=2004|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6725-9|page=128}}</ref> He served as president of the [Royal Institute of British Architects](/source/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects) (RIBA) from 1937 to 1939.

He was appointed a [CBE](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) in 1955.

Although he was a good 25 years older than [Michael Noble](/source/Michael_Noble%2C_Baron_Glenkinglas), later Baron Glenkinglas, the two had a friendly feud based on the much nastier Andrew Noble – [George Whitwick Rendel](/source/George_Wightwick_Rendel) feud.

==Works==
*1924: ''[Nicholas Hawksmoor](/source/Nicholas_Hawksmoor)'' 
*1932: ''Vitruvian Nights'' 
*1934: ''Fine Art'' 
*1937: ''Hatchlands, Surrey'' 
*1938: ''Architecture in a Changing World''
*1947: ''How Architecture is Made'' 
*1953: ''English Architecture Since the Regency''
*The Goodhart-Rendel Index of 19th century church builders, a card index which he compiled is held in the [British Architectural Library](/source/British_Architectural_Library), London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/18/32/|title=Unpublished, pictorial and manuscript sources – General|access-date=2011-04-28|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319001421/http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/18/32/|archive-date=19 March 2012|df=dmy-all|work=Sussex Parish Churches|date=31 October 2011}}</ref><ref name="Pevsner1969">{{cite book|last=Pevsner|first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner|title=Lancashire: The industrial and commercial South|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Je_uAQAACAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Penguin Books|page=13}}</ref>

===Buildings===
*The Pantiles, Englefield Green in Surrey (1911)
thumb|St Olaf House, Tooley Street, London
[[File:St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards, Hastings (IoE Code 294099).JPG|thumb|[St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea](/source/St_John_the_Evangelist's_Church%2C_St_Leonards-on-Sea), Hastings (1881; rebuilt in 1951 by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel)]]
*[Eton Manor Boys' Club](/source/Eton_Manor_Boys'_Club), Riseholme Street, London E9 (1912; demolished 1969)<ref name="Robey2009">{{cite book|first=Ann|last= Robey|chapter=Eton Manor Boys Club|title=Hackney – Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored: 40 Buildings to Mark 40 Years of the Hackney Society|editor-first=Lisa |editor-last=Rigg|year=2009|publisher=The Hackney Society|isbn=978-0-9536734-1-4|pages=96–99}}</ref>
*[St Olaf House](/source/St_Olaf_House), London (1928–1932)
*[St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton](/source/St_Wilfrid's_Church%2C_Brighton) (1932–1934), now converted into residential apartments
*[Princes House, Brighton](/source/Princes_House%2C_Brighton) (1935–1936)
*[Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children](/source/Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_for_Children), Banstead Wood, Surrey (1948)
*[St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea](/source/St_John_the_Evangelist's_Church%2C_St_Leonards-on-Sea) (rebuilding after war damage, 1951)
*[Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley](/source/Friary_Church_of_St_Francis_and_St_Anthony%2C_Crawley) (1955–59)
*Sacred Heart Church, [Cobham, Surrey](/source/Cobham%2C_Surrey) (1958)
* Our Lady of the Rosary, [Marylebone](/source/Marylebone)
* Several houses in the Surrey village of [East Clandon](/source/East_Clandon) were built to his drawings including Antler's Corner, Appletree Cottage, Meadow Cottage and 5 School Lane (1910), Prospect Cottages (1914), Snelgate Cottages (1926) and the St Thomas' Housing Society Cottages (1947)
*Goodhart-Rendel designed a cover for the organ at the [Royal Chapel of All Saints](/source/Royal_Chapel_of_All_Saints) in [Windsor Great Park](/source/Windsor_Great_Park).<ref name="Roberts1997">{{cite book|author=Jane Roberts|title=Royal Landscape: The Gardens and Parks of Windsor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYoMNbYfsQ4C&pg=PA347|year=1997|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-07079-8|pages=347–}}</ref>               
* St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church, George Street, [Whithorn](/source/Whithorn), Wigtownshire, Galloway, Scotland, 1959–1960. [http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=406695] His only known building in Scotland. The interior has seen some reordering with the moving forward of the altar from the East wall after the [Second Vatican Council](/source/Second_Vatican_Council). At that time the [baldacchino](/source/baldacchino) was also removed, together with some decorative ironwork. The East elevation has a carved [Hew Lorimer](/source/Hew_Lorimer) crucifix mounted on the wall.<ref name="BLB">{{Cite web | title = St Martin and St Ninian Roman Catholic Church | work = britishlistedbuildings.co.uk | date = n.d. | access-date = 2018-08-17 | url = https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200400177-george-street-st-martin-and-st-ninian-roman-catholic-church-including-quadrant-walls-mid-galloway-and-wigtown-west-ward#.W3bsQegza00 }}</ref>  thumb|St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church, Whithorn, Wigtownshire; consecrated 1960

==Family==
His father was [Harry Chester Goodhart](/source/Harry_Goodhart) (1858–1895), a former international footballer who became professor of Latin at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh). His mother was Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel, the daughter of [Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel](/source/Stuart_Rendel%2C_1st_Baron_Rendel), from whom in 1945 he inherited a substantial estate including [Hatchlands Park](/source/Hatchlands_Park) which he subsequently made over to the [National Trust](/source/National_Trust).<ref>{{cite web|title=East Clandon Conservation Area Study and Character Appraisal|url=http://www.guildford.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=875&p=0|work=2 Historical Development|publisher=Guildford Borough Council|access-date=7 February 2011|page=8|format=PDF|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807082631/http://www.guildford.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=875&p=0|archive-date=7 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==Sources==
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*{{cite book|editor-first=Alan |editor-last=Powers|title=H.S. Goodhart-Rendel: 1887–1959|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=npu0AAAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Architectural Association|isbn=978-0-904503-90-6}}
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==External links==
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*[http://eastclandon.org.uk/PDF-Files/TheClandonsBook.pdf The Clandons: a look into the past (includes "The last squire of East Clandon", by Maurice Wiggin]
*[http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/html/P90222343e.html St Olaf House, Tooley Street]

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