Percy Worthington
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Sir Percy Scott Worthington (31 January 1864 – 15 July 1939) was an English architect.
He was born in Crumpsall, Manchester, the eldest son of the architect Thomas Worthington. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1887, and he qualified as an architect in 1890. He subsequently worked as assistant to John Macvicar Anderson in London, attending the Royal Academy Schools and University College London, before returning to his father's office where he was made a partner in 1891. He continued the business after his father's death along with his much younger brother Hubert Worthington, who became a partner in 1913. Percy's son Thomas Scott Worthington later joined the partnership.{{cite web |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=204600 |title=DSA Architect Biography Report |date=2016 |publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects |access-date=29 January 2019}}
In his early years he was interested in the Arts and Crafts movement and this was reflected in the Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool, which he designed with his father. From 1904 he became more involved in the revival of classicism. He was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1930 and was knighted in 1935. He died at his home in Mobberley, Cheshire, in 1939.{{Cite ODNB | last = Archer| first = John H. G.| title = Worthington family (per. 1849–1963)| orig-year = 2004| year = 2007| doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/65161| url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65161| access-date = 11 September 2013 }} ({{ODNBsub}})
Projects
In a professional life of almost fifty years Worthington was responsible for more than a hundred projects—domestic, educational, ecclesiastical, and medical—and won many of his major commissions in competition. His work on hospitals was described by his obituarist and confrère W. G. Newton as pioneering.
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- War Memorial Cottage Hospital, Northwich Road, Knutsford{{sfn|Hartwell|Hyde|Hubbard|Pevsner|2011|p=442}}
- Kerfield House, Chelford Road, Ollerton{{Cite web|publisher=Cheshire East Council |date=2010 |url=http://cheshireeast-consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/planning/spd/locallist?pointId=1299169990199|title=Local List of Historic Buildings Supplementary Planning Document |access-date=29 January 2019}}
- Radbroke Hall, Peover Superior{{cite book |last1=De Figueiredo |first1=Peter |last2=Treuherz |first2=Julian |date=1988 |title=Cheshire Country Houses |location=Chichester |publisher=Phillimore |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/150 150–153] |isbn=0-85033-655-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/150 }}
- Woodgarth, Legh Road, Knutsford{{sfn|Hartwell|Hyde|Hubbard|Pevsner|2011|p=428}}
- Convalescent Home, Great Warford{{sfn|Hartwell|Hyde|Hubbard|Pevsner|2011|p=382}}
- War Memorial, Mobberley{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42804 |title=Mobberley - WW1 and WW2 Cross |publisher=Imperial War Museums |access-date=29 January 2019}}
- War Memorial, Whalley, Lancashire; Grade II listed{{NHLE |num=1096086 |desc=War Memorial |grade=II |accessdate=24 May 2020}}
- Manchester Grammar School
- Hulme Hall, Manchester
- Ashburne Hall
- University of Manchester Library, original part.
- Parts of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, following the original part by his father.
Citations
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Category:20th-century English architects
Category:Architects from Greater Manchester
Category:People from Crumpsall
Category:People educated at Clifton College
Category:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Category:Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal
Category:Arts and Crafts architects
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