The Streatham Society
  • Home
  • Blogs & Posts
  • Talks
  • Newsletters
  • Publications
  • Donations
  • Membership
  • Events
  • Guided Walks
  • Virtual Self Guided Walks
  • Photo Gallery
  • Research and Queries
  • Planning and Regeneration
  • Heritage and Conservation
  • WW1 Roll Of Honour
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Instagram posts
  • Archive News
  • Members' Page

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey

12/2/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941), architect and designer died On This Day 12 February 1941.

He is recorded living at "Staumoor" 45 Tierney Road and he was responsible for the design of "Dixcot" in Streatham for Sir Richard Walter Essex MP



Voysey was educated at home until the family moved to London in 1871, when he was sent, for two years, to Dulwich College. His academic work was undistinguished and, believing himself to be the dunce of the family, he later claimed to have become an architect because it was the only profession for which one did not need to pass any examinations.

Early published drawings describe a stylistic debt to the picturesque, half-timbered buildings of R. Norman Shaw and Devey In his rejection of the elaborate quasi-Elizabethan style affected by Devey, Shaw, and Sir Ernest George, Voysey may certainly be described as the originator of a new movement; moreover, he was the mentor of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, W. M. Dudok, and J. J. P. Oud, usually acclaimed as pioneers.

He was elected a fellow of RIBA in 1929 and was awarded the royal gold medal for architecture in 1940

​

(M. S. Briggs and Wendy Hitchmough. Image Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941 by Harold Speed, 1905 © National Portrait Gallery, London)
Picture
Dixcot, Streatham Park
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Mark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society

    Archives

    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020

Next Meeting

The latest edition of our newsletter - 254, Autumn 2023 are now being posted or delivered to local addresses


​Our next event is on Tuesday 5th December 2023, a paid-up member's-only Christmas party and talk by Andy Thomas on "A Festive Christmas"














​

Social media & email

Picture