Lot 148
£1,008
Auction: 11 October 2023 at 10:00 BST
pen and ink, watercolour and graphite, inscribed, to include TWO DESIGNS 'FOR SOME ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE WHITE HOUSE AT WESTMILL HERTFORDSHIRE FOR T.T. GREG ESQ', Nos. 1&2, each further inscribed CHARLES SPOONER ARCHITECT/ EYOT COTTAGE/ CHISWICK MALL/ APRIL 1900; also a DESIGN FOR THREE COTTAGES AT WEST MILL HERTS, dated 1911; and DESIGN FOR THE PRESBYTERY AT LETCHWORTH, HERTS (Presbytery of St Hugh of Lincoln, Letchworth Garden City), No. 3, undated
Note: Spooner was responsible for many buildings in the village of Westmill, returning to work on cottages, houses and the church over a period of 40 years. He was a close friend of C.F.A. Voysey, and was considered by C.R. Ashbee to be one of the four great names of the Arts & Crafts Movement, the other three being W.R. Lethaby, Sidney Barnsley and Ernest Gimson.