Somers Clarke

George Somers Clarke
Born	1841 Brighton, England
Died	31 August 1926 Egypt
Occupation	Architect

George Somers Clarke (1841–1926)^[1] was an architect and English Egyptologist who worked at a number of sites throughout Egypt, notably in El Kab, where he built a house. He was born in Brighton.

As an architect he worked in partnership with John Thomas Micklethwaite from offices at 15 Dean's Yard, Westminster, London.

View of Reid's Hotel in Funchal, Madeira, photographed by Sarah Angelina Acland (c. 1910).

After his retirement Clarke continued to live in Egypt and died in Mahamid in August 1926.^[1]

Works

• 1872–78 Wyfold Court, Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire^[2]
• 1874–75 St Martin's parish church, Lewes Road, Brighton (Wagner Memorial Church), the largest church in Brighton, complete except proposed saddle-back tower. Spectacular pulpit based on the Sacrament House in St. Lorenz, Nuremberg.^[3][4]
• 1875 scheme for remodelling and extending St Peter's Church, Brighton (only partly achieved)^[5]
• 1879 St Nicholas parish church, Kiddington, Oxfordshire: vestry and organ loft^[6]
• 1885 Parish church of St John The Divine, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire^[7]
• 1885 Church at Wimbledon (proposed)^[8]
• 1890 St Peter's parish church, Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire: restoration (with Micklethwaite)^[9]
• 1891 Reid's Palace Hotel, Funchal, Madeira^[10]
• 1892 St Saviour's parish church, Folkestone, Kent^[11]
• 1892 designs for wall paintings by C.E. Kempe in St Nicholas' Church, Brighton^[12]
• 1900–06 (with Micklethwaite) St Peter's parish church, Brighton: new chancel with eleven-light east window^[13]
• 1910 Chichester Cathedral: reredos^[14]
• SS Philip & James parish church, Oxford: reredos^[15]

References

1. "Death Of Well Known Architect: Mr Somers Clarke Passes Away In Egypt". Dundee Courier. 1 September 1926. Retrieved 24 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
2. Sherwood & Pevsner 1965, p. 738.
3. Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 433.
4. Church Guide Book. St Martin's, Brighton. 1975.
5. Building News. 1 January 1875. Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. Sherwood & Pevsner 1965, p. 669.
7. The Builder. 46: 932. 1884. Missing or empty |title= (help)
8. The Builder: 792. 5 December 1885. Missing or empty |title= (help)
9. Sherwood & Pevsner 1965, p. 698.
10. Denby, Elaine (1998). Grand Hotels: Reality & Illusion; An Architectural and Social History. Reaktion Books. p. 183. ISBN 978-1861891211.
11. The Builder. 6 October 1892. Missing or empty |title= (help)
12. Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 428.
13. Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 436.
14. Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 155.
15. Sherwood & Pevsner 1965, p. 298.

Sources

• Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). Sussex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 69–71, 155, 427, 438, 433, 436. ISBN 0-14-071028-0.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 403, 669, 698 738. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

External links

• Works by or about Somers Clarke at Internet Archive