George Frederick Bodley
George Frederick Bodley RA (14 March 1827 – 21 October 1907) was an English Gothic Revival architect. He was a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and worked in partnership with Thomas Garner for much of his career. He was one of the founders of Watts & Co.
George Frederick Bodley
14 March 1827
21 October 1907 (aged 80)
Architect
Royal Gold Medal for Architecture (1899)
Bodley and Garner
Personal life[edit]
Bodley was the youngest son of William Hulme Bodley, M.D., of Edinburgh, physician at Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, who in 1838 retired to his wife's home town, Brighton, Sussex, England. George's eldest brother, the Rev. W.H. Bodley, became a well-known Roman Catholic preacher and a professor at St Mary's College, New Oscott, Birmingham.
He married Minna F.H. Reavely, daughter of Thomas George Wood Reavely, at Kinnersley Castle in 1872. They had a son, George H. Bodley, born in 1874.
Death[edit]
Bodley died on 21 October 1907 at Water Eaton, Oxfordshire and is buried in the churchyard of the Church of St James, Kinnersley, Herefordshire.
The Church of All Saints, Selsley
The Church of the Holy Angels, Hoar Cross
St Mary's Church, Eccleston
Alternative exterior view of All Saints', Cambridge
St John the Baptist Church, Tue Brook
St Alban's Church, Sneinton, Nottingham
St Matthew's Church, Chapel Allerton, Leeds
St Peter in Eastgate, Lincoln, is the combined work of three eminent architects - nave and chancel by Sir Arthur Blomfield (1870), south aisle by Temple Moore (1914) and the chancel decoration by Bodley (1884).
