Samuel Sanders Teulon

Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812-1873) was a notable English architect of the 19th century.

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1812 - 1873 - English - Architect - 19th century

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Teulon was born in Greenwich, in south-east London, the son of a French Huguenot cabinet-maker (his younger brother, William Milford Teulon (1823-1900), also became an architect).

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Greenwich - London - French - Huguenot - 1823 - 1900

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Samuel attended the Royal Academy Schools, exhibited at the Academy in 1835, and commenced in practice as an architect in 1838. He was a friend of George Gilbert Scott and became a member of the council of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Royal Academy - 1835 - 1838 - George Gilbert Scott - Royal Institute of British Architects

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He particularly specialised in Victorian Gothic styles of churches, but also delivered several country houses and even complete villages ? indeed, his first large-scale commission came in 1848 from the Duke of Bedford to design cottages for the Thorney estate.

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Victorian - Gothic - 1848 - Duke of Bedford - Thorney

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Other clients included the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of St Albans and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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Archbishop of Canterbury - Duke of Marlborough - Duke of St Albans - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Projects include:

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• Rectory at St Mary's, North Creake, Norfolk (1845)
• restoration of All Saints Church, Icklesham, near Rye, East Sussex (1847-1852)
• Thorney Model Village, Cambridgeshire, for Duke of Bedford (from 1848)
• Tortworth Court, South Gloucestershire (1849-1852)
• Christ Church, Croydon (1851-1852)
• St Margaret's Church, Angmering (1852-1853)
• St John's, Ladywood, Birmingham (completed 1854)
• St Andrew's church, Lambeth (1854)
• Holy Trinity church, Hastings, East Sussex (1851-9)
• extensions to Shadwell Park, Norfolk (1856-1860)
• St John the Baptist, Burringham (1856)
• St Giles church, Uley, Gloucestershire (1857-1858)
• Christchurch, Wimbledon (1857-1860)
• St James, Leckhampstead, Berkshire (1858-1860)
• Netherfield parish church, East Sussex (c. 1859)
• renovation of Elvetham Hall, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire (1859-1862)
• vicarage, Gainford, County Durham (1860)
• St Mary's church, Woodchester, Gloucestershire (1861)
• St Mark's Church, Silvertown, east London (1861-1863)
• Bestwood Lodge, Nottinghamshire for the Duke of St Albans (1862-1865)
• village of Hunstanworth, County Durham (1863)
• St Peter and St Paul Church, and nearby Hawkley Hurst house, Hawkley, Hampshire (1865)
• Buxton Memorial Fountain in Victoria Tower Gardens, London (1865)
• St Mary's church, Ealing (1866-73)
• The Court House, St Andrew Holborn, London (1867)
• St Stephen's church, Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London (1869)
• alterations to Parish Church of St John The Baptist, Windsor, Berkshire
• St Frideswide, New Osney, Oxford (1873)
• All Saints church, Crowborough, East Sussex
• internal alterations to St Mary's Church, Sunbury
• restoration of All Saints church, Wordwell, and alterations to St Mary?s church, Pakenham, both in Suffolk
• restoration of St John's church, Rushford, Norfolk
• Font in Royal Lodge Chapel, plus cottages in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire
• alterations to Wrotham Park house, Hertfordshire
• Enbrook House, Sandgate, Kent
• alterations to Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire
• Holkham Hall, Norfolk
• Riseholme Hall, Lincolnshire
• porch and conservatory at Sandringham House, Norfolk
• Brick Lane Music Hall, London
• Church of St John the Baptist, Huntley, Gloucestershire