Генри Эдмунд Гудридж: Англиялық сәулетшінің өмірі мен еңбектері

English architect
the English architect

Henry Edmund Goodridge (1797, Bath – 26 October 1864) was an English architect based in Bath. He worked from the early 1820s until the 1850s, using Classical, Italianate and Gothic styles.

He was born in Bath in 1797 the son of James Goodridge, who was at that time was engaged in large speculative building projects in connection with the management of the estate of Sir William Pulteney, at Bathwick. On the advice of Thomas Telford, his father had him articled to John Lowder, then the City Architect for Bath. His first important work was the enlargement of the Roman Catholic Downside College, (1821 3) near Bath, parts of which were praised by Pugin. and the next year he acted both as developer and architect on the "Corridor" in Bath. In 1829 he visited Italy, where he sketched buildings assiduously. He designed the tower at Lansdown for William Beckford, who had recently sold Fonthill Abbey, and moved to a house in Lansdown Crescent in Bath. Beckford obtained designs from several London and Bath architects, including Goodridge, who was chosen after some prevarication. New designs were drawn up, and the tower completed up to the level of the block cornice in 28 working days. It was intended to be roofed at this point, but Beckford decided it should be increased in height with a belvedere, and then decided on an additional lantern. According to a brief biography of Goodridge, written by his son: <blockquote>In style [the tower] may be termed Greco Italian, a style Goodridge greatly adopted, as he considered therein the purity of the Greek and the freedom of the Romanesque were best combined. on which he worked with his son, A. S. Goodridge. Harvey Lonsdale Elmes and W. H. Campbell were his pupils.