Lot 216
CHARLES SPOONER (1862-1938)
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS FOR BUILDINGS IN SURREY AND BEDFORDSHIRE
Auction: Day One | Lots 1 to 229 | Wed 15th April 2026 from 10am
Description
PROPERTY OF AUDLEY MACKWORTH, TILFORD: COTTAGE AT TILFORD, SURREY, FOR AUDLEY MACKWORTH ESQR, DETAILS, watercolour and graphite, signed and dated 1893, 50.5cm x 68.5cm; ADDITIONS TO MR. MACKWORTH'S HOUSE AT TILFORD, SURREY, 2 designs, pen and ink, watercolour and graphite, 55cm, x 76.5cm; PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO MR. MACKWORTH'S BUNGALO [SIC] AT TILFORD, pen and ink, watercolour and graphite, 36.5cm x 56cm; PROPOSED ADDITION TO MR. MACKWORTH'S BUNGALO [SIC] AT TILFORD, brown ink on glassine, 32cm x 46cm; and 1 similar (in brown ink on glassine, untitled).
VILLAGE HALL, WORPLESDON: 4 designs, pen and ink, watercolour and graphite, 3 on linen (these annotated ‘This is one of the drawings referred to in a contract between Sir L. E. Halsey K.B.E. and Messrs Tribe & Robinson, dated 16 December 1921’), discolouration, the design on paper with nicks and tears to edges, 56.5cm x 77cm.
NEW CHURCH DEDICATED TO S CHRISTOPHER AT HASLEMERE IN SURREY, graphite, signed ‘Charles Spooner architect’, 68 x 52cm, spotted.
Together with 2 further sheets of designs (THE COTTAGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS FOR AUDLEY MACKWORTH, ESQ., and THE COTTAGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS, apparently the same building, both pen and ink and watercolour with traces of graphite, 68cm x 51cm)
Provenance
From the collection of Dr Alec Hamilton, author of Charles Spooner (1862-1938): Arts and Crafts Architect (Donington, 2012).
Footnote
Audley Mackworth (1866-1914), an artist, was elected as a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1889.
Illustrated: Hamilton, Charles Spooner, pp. 77 ('New Church … at Haslemere'), 227 ('Cottage at Tilford … Details'), 228 ('Proposed Addition to Mr. Mackworth's Bungalo at TIlford, Surrey', brown ink on glassine drawing), 229 (‘Proposed additions to Mr Mackworth’s Bungalo at Tilford' and ‘Additions to Mr Mackworth’s House at Tilford …').