Architectural Drawing
1869
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Philip Webb designed Church Hill House, later known as Trevor Hall, for Major (later Colonel) Gillum, a retired army officer and philanthropist, in 1868. The house and surrounding buildings were built between October 1868 and 1870. Gillum was not part of the 'artistic' circle from whom Webb drew most of his clients, but he was an enthusiastic patron of many Arts and Crafts practitioners; he owned paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite circle and commissioned interior decoration from Morris and Co. Webb also designed a row of houses, workshops and shops for Gillum in Worship Street, London. Church Hill House was on the site of another of Gillum's philanthropic projects, a farm school established to train destitute boys in agricultural skills. Webb would later also work on buildings for the school.
Object details
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| Brief description | Design for stables for a house at Church Barnet for Lt. Col. Gillum, by Philip Webb, 1869 |
| Physical description | Drawings in pencil, ink and coloured wash showing designs for stables at Lt. Col. Gillum's house at Church Barnet. A note in pencil indicates that a tracing was taken by Mr Sharpington [the builder] in March 1869. The sheet contains a ground plan of the stables and attached service buildings, and a plan of the upper floor. It also shows front and side elevations, and sections through the structure at three points indicated on the ground plan. The sheet is annotated throughout with calculations and rough pencil sketches. |
| Production type | Unique |
| Summary | Philip Webb designed Church Hill House, later known as Trevor Hall, for Major (later Colonel) Gillum, a retired army officer and philanthropist, in 1868. The house and surrounding buildings were built between October 1868 and 1870. Gillum was not part of the 'artistic' circle from whom Webb drew most of his clients, but he was an enthusiastic patron of many Arts and Crafts practitioners; he owned paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite circle and commissioned interior decoration from Morris and Co. Webb also designed a row of houses, workshops and shops for Gillum in Worship Street, London. Church Hill House was on the site of another of Gillum's philanthropic projects, a farm school established to train destitute boys in agricultural skills. Webb would later also work on buildings for the school. |
| Bibliographic reference | Philip Webb's work for William James Gillum is discussed in Sheila Kirk, 'Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts and Crafts Architecture', (Wiley, 2005), p.112-14 |
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| Accession number | E.133-1916 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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