Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel

Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel CBE (1887 in Cambridge^[1] – 21 June 1959 in Westminster, London^[2]) was a British architect, writer and musician.

Life[edit]

Harry Stuart Goodhart was born on 29 May 1887 in Cambridge, England. He added the additional name Rendel by royal licence in 1902.^[3] He was educated at Eton College,^[4] and read music at Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked briefly for Sir Charles Nicholson, and then set up his own architectural practice. He is known for his church projects.^[5] In 1936 he converted to Catholicism. ^[6]

He was Oxford's Slade Professor of Fine Art, from 1933 to 1936.^[7] His 1934 lectures on Victorian architecture were considered important, as part of the informed revival of interest in Victoriana, by Nikolaus Pevsner.^[8] He served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 1937 to 1939.

He was appointed a CBE in 1955.

Although he was a good 25 years older than Michael Noble, later Baron Glenkinglas, the two had a friendly feud based on the much nastier Andrew Noble - George Whitwick Rendel feud.

1924:

Nicholas Hawksmoor

1932: Vitruvian Nights

1934: Fine Art

1937: Hatchlands, Surrey

1938: Architecture in a Changing World

1947: How Architecture is Made

1953: English Architecture Since the Regency

The Goodhart-Rendel Index of 19th century church builders, a card index which he compiled is held in the , London.^[9]^[10]

British Architectural Library

Riseholme Street, London E9 (1912 demolished 1969)^[11]

Eton Manor Boys' Club

St Olaf House, London (1928–32)

(1932–34), now converted into residential apartments

St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton

(1935–36)

Princes House, Brighton

Banstead Wood, Surrey (1948)

Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children

(rebuilding after war damage, 1951)

St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea

(1955–59)

Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley

Sacred Heart Church, (1958)

Cobham, Surrey

Our Lady of the Rosary,

Marylebone

Several houses in the Surrey village of were built to his drawings including Antler's Corner, Appletree Cottage, Meadow Cottage and 5 School Lane (1910), Prospect Cottages (1914), Snelgate Cottages (1926) and the St Thomas' Housing Society Cottages (1947)

East Clandon

Goodhart-Rendel designed a cover for the organ at the in Windsor Great Park.^[12]

Royal Chapel of All Saints

St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church, George St, , Wigtownshire, Galloway, Scotland, 1959-60. [1] His only known building in Scotland. The interior has seen some reordering with the moving forward of the altar from the East wall after the Second Vatican Council. At that time the baldacchino was also removed, together with some decorative ironwork. The East elevation has a carved Hew Lorimer crucifix mounted to wall.^[13]
St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church Whithorn Wigtownshire consecrated 1960

Whithorn

Family[edit]

His father was Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), a former international footballer who became professor of Latin at the University of Edinburgh. His mother was Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel, the daughter of Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, from whom in 1945 he inherited a substantial estate including Hatchlands Park which he subsequently made over to the National Trust.^[14]