S.S. Teulon (1812-73) tends to be known largely by reputation as one of the most wilful and idiosyncratic Victorian Goths – a reputation founded on a relatively short period in his career and then largely on his ecclesiastical work. Yet domestic architecture ranging from model workers’ cottages to country houses accounts for a considerable part of his prolific output. Illustrated with photographs taken during the author’s extensive fieldwork, this lecture will provide an overview of a richly diverse group of buildings that so far have been little studied, presenting several that have been attributed for the first time.
Edmund Harris is an independent architectural scholar with a special interest in Victorian architecture. He is the author of ‘The Rogue Goths’, published by Liverpool University Press in 2024, a study of three of Goodhart-Rendel’s ‘rogue architects’, which draws on material from his blog, ‘Less Eminent Victorians’. Mr Harris is a graduate of the Cambridge Master of Studies in Building History. He is also Secretary to St Edmundsbury and Ipswich DAC.
All attendees will be sent a recording of the talk.
Image: Tea House, Frogmore House Gardens, Windsor, Photo by Pam Fray CC BY-SA 2.0