Charles Edgar Buckeridge

Born in Headington, Oxford in 1864, the son of Annie and Charles Buckeridge, a Gothic Revival architect,[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/61057/PAR216_1_R2_1_011?pid=2011652&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D61057%26h%3D2011652%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3Ddjv884%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=djv884&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Charles Edgar Buckeridge in the Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1915] – Ancestry.com {{subscription required}} he trained with Burlison & Grylls, ecclesiastical decorators. He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1882 with a painting of Hampton Court{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/exhibition-catalogue/ra-sec-vol114-1882?all_fields=buckeridge&date=&form=exhibition_catalogues&index=1&q=buckeridge&title=&total_entries=2&utf8=%E2%9C%93|title=The exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1882. The 114th.|date=1882|website=Royal Academy|page=24}} and became known for his religious works, described as a "highly esteemed painter in this field". He often painted in the style of Van Eyck.{{Cite journal|last=Saint|first=Andrew|date=1973|title=Charles Buckeridge and his family|url=http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1973/saint.pdf|journal=Oxoniensia|volume=38|pages=357–372}}

He was employed by C. Hodgson Fowler, Arthur Blomfield, John Oldrid Scott, John Loughborough Pearson and Edmund Harold Sedding. His most important patron was George Frederick Bodley for whom he completed the decoration at St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough, that had been started by Edward Burne-Jones and Morris & Co. in the 1860s.

He worked in partnership with Charles Stephen Floyce or Fleuss (c1857-1895), until the end of 1890.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26122/page/124|title=Dissolutions of Partnerships|date=6 January 1891|work=The London Gazette|issue=26122|page=124}} They advertised as 'panel and mural painters' and 'artists in stained glass'.{{Cite book|title=Kelly's Post Office London Directory|year=1891|pages=509}} Floyce later (1892) worked with Blomfield on the Royal Memorial Church of St George, Cannes.{{Cite news|date=12 October 1892|title=Art Notes|page=1|work=Pall Mall Gazette|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/Y3200438792/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=BNCN&xid=dd2eb16b|access-date=8 October 2020|via=British Library Newspapers}}

Other projects included paintings (1894) for Pearson's chapel at the convent of the Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity (now St Antony's College, Oxford); the original architect of the nunnery had been his father.{{Cite book|title=The History of St Antony's College, Oxford, 1950–2000|last=Nicholls|first=C|publisher=Springer|year=2000|isbn=9780230598836|pages=31–32}}

The reredos formerly in St Mark's Church, Horsham, is now in St Mary's Church. It cost about £200. "The upper part of the reredos is in the form of a triptych. The framework is of oak, and the panels, gilt and coloured, are painted in oils, the work being of the Flemish school. The centre panel represents the adoration of the infant Jesus by the Virgin and St Joseph. The side panels bear figures of the four Evangelists. Sir Arthur Blomfield was the architect, and Messrs. Floyce and Buckeridge, of London, were the artists."{{Cite news|title=Horsham|date=16 January 1894|work=Sussex Agricultural Express|page=4}}

At St Mary Magdalene, Enfield, he painted the East Wall and the angels on the ceiling in the chancel (1897/8).{{Cite web|last=Banerjee|first=Jacqueline|date=14 July 2015|title=St Mary Magdalene, Enfield, by William Butterfield: I|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/butterfield/19.html|website=Victorian Web}}Church leaflet on "The Chancel", St Mary Magdalene, Windmill Hill, Enfield

"The altar and reredos of the church of St. Nicholas, Rodmersham, Kent, have been exquisitely painted by Messrs. Buckeridge and Floyce". "It represents the best order of ecclesiastical art, viz., the 15th Century German, whilst the character of the ornament is founded on the old Norfolk work".{{Cite news|date=29 September 1888|title=District News|page=2|work=Cheltenham Chronicle|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/ID3240263128/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=BNCN&xid=24ca7fa7|access-date=5 October 2020|via=British Library Newspapers}}

His masterpiece is probably the triptych (1892–93) for the architect Norman Shaw's All Saints' Church, Richard's Castle, Shropshire.{{Cite news|title=All Saints Church|date=5 November 1892|work=Ludlow Advertiser|pages=5–6}}

Charles married Ellen Dunkley in Marylebone in 1888[https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8913&h=4025313&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=djv881&_phstart=successSource Charles Edgar Buckeridge in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837–1915] – Ancestry.com {{subscription required}} and had one son, Albert (b 1881). In 1882 his address was given as 4, Duke Street, Portland Place and in 1891 Wilmot Place, St Pancras. He later lived at Mortimer Street, Marylebone. He died at 64 Agamemnon Road, West Hampstead in 1898,[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1904/31874_222515-00333?pid=2388035&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1904%26h%3D2388035%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3Ddjv882%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=djv882&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Charles Edgar Buckeridge in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995] – Ancestry.com {{subscription required}} and is buried in Camden. According to Saint "In November 1894 .. his wife destroyed one of his largest paintings and fled".

File:High altar of All Saints' Church, Richard's Castle (geograph 4813534).jpg|Reredos, Richard's Castle

File:St Pancras Old Church, Reredos.jpg|St Pancras (Old Church) Reredos

File:Enfield, St Mary Magdalene, ceiling 7.jpg|St Mary Magdalene, Enfield. The ceiling

File:Buckeridge Triptych Ickleford.jpg|Triptych, St Katharine, Ickleford

File:C E Buckeridge altar at Salisbury Cathedral.jpg|Triptych, Salisbury Cathedral

File:St Stephen’s Church, North Mundham, triptych.jpg|North Mundham

File:Reredos-winged-panel-Reredos -designed by G F Bodley and carried out by Farrer and Brindley - St. Martins church, Scarborough, North Yorkshire.jpg|St Martin, Scarborough.

File:Enfield, St Mary Magdalene, East wall northern painting.jpg|The Angel Gabriel. St Mary Magdalene, Enfield.

File:Enfield, St Mary Magdalene, East wall southern painting.jpg|The Magi. St Mary Magdalene, Enfield.

File:Leatherhead, St Mary & St Nicholas, Annunciation (R).jpg|Annunciation, Leatherhead

File:Guildford, Holy Trinity Church, sanctuary.jpg|Holy Trinity Church, Guildford

Incomplete. (After Andrew Saint with additions)

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