William West Neve
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| birth_place = Cranbrook, Kent
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| death_place = West Court, Bray, Berkshire
| nationality = English
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William West Neve (7 June 1852 – 26 December 1942){{cite web|title= West Neve, William |url=http://www.neve-family.com/genealogy/web/ppl/g/u/QSHKH51QPYSUSVFPUG.html |publisher=neve-family.com |accessdate=2014-10-19}} was a minor English architect in the Arts and Crafts style.{{cite web|title=Randolph Caldecott – The Chelsfield Connection: A talk given by Geoffrey Copus |url=http://www.randolphcaldecott.org.uk/DOWNLOAD/GCOPUS96.RTF |publisher=Randolph Caldecott Society UK |format=Word document|date=1996|page=6}}
Career
Neve was educated at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire and began his architectural training as an assistant in the office of Richard Norman Shaw{{NHLE|desc=Goddington House |num=1391105 |accessdate=2014-10-19}} before leaving in 1877 to practice on his own at No.4 Chilworth Street, London and later from 1878 at No.5 Bloomsbury Square, London. In 1882, Neve worked in partnership with fellow ex-Norman Shaw pupil Ernest Newton.{{cite web|title=William West Neve |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=202981 |publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects }}
Neve regularly had his work published in journals{{cite web|title= W. West Neve Archives |url=http://archiseek.com/tag/w-west-neve/ |publisher=archiseek.com |accessdate=2014-10-19}} and was also a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London.Graves, Algernon (1906)The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, Henry Graves, pp.349-350
Notes on built works
=St Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield=
In 1893, Neve (with assistance from architect and churchwarden Frank Brind) proposed a design to remodel elements of St Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield, Kent. This included the construction of a vestry and the installation of a new organ. The original drawings for this scheme are preserved in the library of Canterbury Cathedral.
=Kingsbury Manor=
In 1899, Neve designed a large halftimbered manor house at Roe Green Park, London for Mary, dowager Duchess of Sutherland, the wife of Sir Albert Kaye Rollit, M.P.{{cite web|title=Kingsbury |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=26893 |publisher=british-history.ac.uk |accessdate=2014-10-19}}
=Moniaive=
Several Arts and Crafts style buildings by Neve were commissioned by his sister Ellen Maria Monteith – the widow of Glencairn Parish Minister John Monteith – in the village of Moniaive in south-west Scotland, including St. Ninian's Chapel of Ease (1887), Glenluiart (1901) and an L-shaped row of cottages at Dunreggan (1906). Neve's drawings of Glenluiart are held at the Archive Centre, Dumfries, under the title of 'House at Craigdarroch'.
Gallery
file: Grammar_School_Cranbrook.jpg| Unbuilt proposal for QE Grammar School, Cranbrook, 1878
file: William West Neve – Warehouses, Devonshire Street, London, 1879.jpg|Warehouses, Devonshire Street, London, 1879
file: 1880 – Coffee Tavern, Cranbrook, Kent.jpg|Coffee Tavern, Cranbrook, Kent, 1880
file: Offices_Cranbrook.jpg| Offices for Philpott & Wood, Cranbrook, 1881
file: William West Neve – House at Cranbrook, Kent, 1882.jpg| House at Cranbrook, Kent, 1882
file: William West Neve – Stables for The Red House, Streatham, London, 1884.jpg| Stables for The Red House, Streatham, London, 1884
file: William West Neve - Glenluiart, Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, 1901.jpg| Glenluiart, Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, 1901
Photographs
file: Temperance House Cranbrook.jpg|Coffee House, Cranbrook, 1880
file: St Ninian's Moniaive.jpg|St. Ninian's Chapel of Ease, Moniaive, 1887
file: Goddington_House.jpg| Goddington House, Orpington, c.1890
file: Chelsfield, Saint Martin 04.JPG|Organ, St Martin of Tours Church, Chelsfield, 1893
References
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External links
- [http://www.randolphcaldecott.org.uk/DOWNLOAD/GCOPUS96.RTF Randolph Caldecott – The Chelsfield Connection.]
- [http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:13426/n04_002_Phillips.pdf 'Hollowforth' – E Jeaffreson Jackson's Richard Threfall House, 1891-92.]
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Category:Arts and Crafts architects