Richard Twentyman
{{short description|British painter}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date|1903}}
| birth_place = Bilbrook, Staffordshire, England
| alma_mater = Cambridge University
| other_names = Alfred
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|12|13|1903|df=y}}
| nationality = English
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(Alfred) Richard Twentyman (1903–1979) was an English architect based in Wolverhampton; chiefly known for modernist buildings around the English midlands.
Life
Twentyman was born in 1903 in Bilbrook, Staffordshire. He was educated at Cambridge University where he studied engineering and then architecture at the Architectural Association in London. In 1933 he joined H. E. Lavender in Wolverhampton{{cite journal |title=Obituary |journal=Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects |date=April 1980 |page=29}} and formed Lavender and Twentyman.
He served with the Royal Engineers during World War II.
Twentyman was awarded the RIBA bronze medal in 1953 and received a Civic Trust Award in 1970.
He was an accomplished watercolourist and painter in oils, holding an exhibition of his works at a London gallery in 1978. An oil painting by him, Pigeon Loft, Sedgley, is held by Wolverhampton Art Gallery.{{ArtUK bio}} The gallery held an exhibition of his paintings and drawings after his death.{{cite web |title=Twentyman's Churches |url=http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/Twentyman/Churches.htm |website=History Website |access-date=4 April 2022}}
Twentyman died on 13 December 1979 aged 76.
Nikolaus Pevsner praised his work at Rubery and Redditch. St Chad's Church, Rubery is described as being a fine Modernist example, and his crematorium at Redditch as a model example for that class of building.{{cite book |title=The Buildings of England. Worcestershire |first=Nikolaus |last=Pevsner |publisher=Yale University Press |date=2007 |page=90 |isbn=9780300112986}}
Works
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- The Mitre, Bradmore 1935
- Golden Lion, Cannock Road, Wolverhampton 1935
- Oxley Moor Hotel, Wolverhampton 1937
- The Pilot, Wolverhampton 1937
- The Spring Hill, Penn 1937
- The Red Lion, Wednesfield 1938
- The Spring Hill, Wolverhampton 1939
- The Victoria, Moseley 1939
- St Martin's Church, Parkfields, Wolverhampton 1939
- St Gabriel's Church, Walsall 1939
- All Saints' Church, Darlaston 1952{{NHLE|num=1431982|desc=Church of All Saints, Darlaston|grade=II|accessdate=23 February 2016}}
- Bushbury Crematorium, Wolverhampton 1954
- GKN Research Laboratories, Birmingham New Road, Wolverhampton 1954
- The Good Shepherd Church, Castlecroft, Wolverhampton 1955
- Emmanuel Church, Bentley, Walsall 1956{{NHLE|num=1432183|desc=Church of Emmanuel, Bentley and church hall|grade=II|accessdate=11 March 2016}}
- St Nicholas' Church, Radford, Coventry 1957
- St Chad's Church, Rubery 1960
- St Andrew's Church, Runcorn 1964
- St Andrew's Church, Wolverhampton 1965 - 1967
- Redditch Crematorium 1973
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Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
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Category:Architects from Staffordshire
Category:Artists from Wolverhampton
Category:British Army personnel of World War II
Category:English ecclesiastical architects
Category:English watercolourists
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