Laurence Arthur Turner
{{Short description|English artisan and master craftsman (1864–1957)}}
Laurence Arthur Turner FSA (9 July 1864 – 4 October 1957) was an English artisan and master craftsman.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7ZUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22wroughton%22|title=Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects|date=1958|issue=65|page=212}}
Career
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The brother of the architect Thackery Turner, was a leading figure in woodcarving and ornate stonemasonry, and undertook many prestigious commissions. He executed ceilings in Hampton Court Palace.
He was employed by Walter Cunliffe to decorate his new home, built in 1898, Headley Court. Here he upholstered the drawing room with limed chestnut Elizabethan jewel panelling and a chimneypiece from Hinchingbrooke Hall with very fine Jacobean style plaster ceiling. The former smoking room, now the Mess Bar, is panelled and has a carved chimneypiece with arcading on caryatides. The elaborate ceiling in this room he embellished and depicts Tudor roses, fleur-de-lis and rabbits, the latter in recognition of the family name. It was originally white.Headley Court – {{NHLE|num=1389265|accessdate=28 November 2013}}
His other commissions also include tombs for William Morris and Norman Shaw as well as decorative work for commercial and government buildings, churches, and educational establishments. He worked on a number of war memorials including the Robertson War Memorials in Netley Park, Guildford and Michel Dene, Wealden as well as Cound War Memorial, Shropshire,{{cite book|last=Francis|first=Peter|title=Shropshire War Memorial, Sites of Remembrance|year=2013|publisher=YouCaxton Publications|pages=52,129–130}} and Woolmer Green War Memorial, Hertfordshire, all of which are Grade II-listed.{{Cite web|url=https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1453319|title = Blo Norton War Memorial, Blo' Norton - 1453319 | Historic England}}
Turner was elected as Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1922, and was also a Fellow of the British Institute of Industrial Art.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I1TqAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Laurence+Arthur+Turner%22+master+art+workers+guild|title=British Sculpture 1470 to 2000: A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum|author=Bilbey. D|date=2002|page=470|publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=9781851773954}}
List of works
- Blo' Norton War Memorial, Norfolk, 1920 (grade II listed){{NHLE|desc=Blo Norton war memorial|num=1453319|grade=II|access-date=27 September 2020}}
- Bloxham War Memorial, Oxfordshire, 1920 (grade II listed){{NHLE|desc=Bloxham War Memorial|num=1438761|grade=II|access-date=27 September 2020}}
- Cound War Memorial, Shropshire, 1920 (grade II listed){{NHLE|desc=Cound War Memorial|num=1433086|grade=II|access-date=27 September 2020}}
- Epping War Memorial, Essex, 1921 (grade II listed){{NHLE|desc=War Memorial|num=1393692|grade=II|access-date=27 September 2020}}
- Robertson War Memorial Bequest Obelisk at Michel Dene, West Sussex, 1940 (grade II listed){{NHLE|desc=Robertson War Memorial Bequest Obelisk at Michel Dene, Crowlink|num=1438452|grade=II|access-date=27 September 2020}}
- Stone carvings at 10 Green Street, Mayfair.{{NHLE|desc=10 Green Street|num=1357055|access-date=10 July 2023}}
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Category:19th-century British artisans
Category:Masters of the Art Worker's Guild
Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London