Rex Critchlow
{{Short description|Architect and industrial designer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rex Critchlow
| honorific_suffix = DA RIBA
| birth_place = Southampton
| burial_place = St Helen's, Barnoldby le Beck
| education = Worksop College
Sheffield University
| occupation = Architect
| spouse = Jenifer Critchlow (married 1960-2010)
| children = 2
| father = William H Critchlow MBE
}}
Rex Critchlow (1936–2010) was an architect and industrial designer based in Lincolnshire
Life and career
Born in Southampton the third son of William Critchlow, an Esso Oil executive, and Emily (née Leach), Critchlow was educated at Grosvenor House School in Harrogate, Worksop College and the University of Sheffield. After work in London for various practices including Eric Lyons, Critchlow moved to Lincolnshire in 1962 and joined JFPye to form Pye & Partners (subsequently Pye Critchlow Architects) where he practised until 2010. Mickling Barf{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=The Modern House sales particulars and photographs |url=https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/barton-street/}} at Hatcliffe, a house designed by Rex and Jenifer Critchlow for their own occupation was Grade II listed in March 2023.{{Cite web |date=30 March 2023 |title=Historic England Official List |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1484266?section=official-list-entry}} The house was designed and constructed concurrently with Turn End in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire by the architect Peter Aldington (b.1933) as a family home and the couples became friends with both houses showing clear inspiration from the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976).
Architectural works
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- Offices and Canteen building at Easton,{{Cite book |title=Pevsner, Nikolaus (1989). Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (2nd ed.) |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1989 |isbn=0140710272 |pages=266}} near Grantham for Christian Salvesen (1973–74)
- Witham Hall,{{Cite book |title=Pevsner, Nikolaus (1989). The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire. Second Edition. Penguin Books. p. 808. ISBN 0140710272.}} Witham-on-the-Hill – stable block conversion to music school
- St Peter's Court, High St, Barton-upon-Humber (1981) – Civic Trust award for infill housing{{Cite web |title=UK Modern House directory |url=http://www.ukmoho.co.uk/html/architect/Rex_Critchlow.html}}
- Haven Mill, Grimsby – restoration & conversion of 5 storey Victorian mill to shops and restaurant with new footbridge over River Freshney
- Own house Mickling Barf at Barnoldby le Beck (1962–65){{Cite journal |date=November 1982 |title=Ideal Home |journal=Ideal Home Magazine |pages=10–13}} was listed Grade II in 2023
- House for Brian Clark, playwright in Derbyshire
- House for author and journalist Philip Oakes & Gilly Hodson at North Owersby
Industrial design
Mould-formed GRP bathroom pod, patented design acquired by Ideal Standard (1971)
References
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Category:Architects from Lincolnshire
Category:People educated at Worksop College