Lot 213
CHARLES SPOONER (1862-1938)
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS, SUFFOLK AND ELSEWHERE
Auction: Day One | Lots 1 to 229 | Wed 15th April 2026 from 10am
Description
SKETCH FOR PROPOSED KEEPER'S COTTAGE AT BAWDSEY MANOR, SUFFOLK, FOR W. CUTHBERT QUILTER ESQUIRE M.P., pen and brown ink with graphite, signed and dated 1893, 24.5cm x 39cm; GAME-KEEPER'S COTTAGE, BAWDSEY MANOR, SUFFOLK, 2 designs, watercolour and graphite, each signed lower right, 56.5cm x 77cm, toned and partially spotted, each closed marginal tear to foot, one with small area of marginal loss to upper right; SUFFOLK TYPE, pen and ink, comprising elevations and a floorplan, signed in pencil, typescript memorandum pinned to upper left corner, 78 x 56cm.
With: 6 designs titled DESIGN FOR A PROPOSED NEW MISSION CHURCH, MELTON CONSTABLE, watercolour and graphite, numbered 1-6, each 49 x 61cm, with unidentified circled monogram ‘M’, otherwise unsigned, possibly by Spooner (see below), spotted; and 2 others (drawings of unidentified houses)
Provenance
From the collection of Dr Alec Hamilton, author of Charles Spooner (1862-1938): Arts and Crafts Architect (Donington, 2012).
Footnote
The suite of six designs for a church at Melton Constable in Norfolk, although carrying the unidentified monogram ‘M’ rather than Spooner's signature, were acquired by Dr Alec Hamilton as part of the ‘Cruickshank Portfolio' of Spooner's designs, which formed the basis of his monograph on Spooner and is the source of the majority of the Spooner designs now offered for sale by Lyon & Turnbull (see Charles Spooner, pp. 7 and 279).
Illustrated: Hamilton, Charles Spooner, pp. 220 ('Sketch for Proposed Keeper's Cottage …'), 221 (one of the designs titled 'Game-Keeper's Cottage …'), 241 (the two unidentified houses).