22 Facts About Edward Maufe

Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe, RA, FRIBA was an English architect and designer.

Edward Maufe built private homes as well as commercial and institutional buildings, and is remembered chiefly for his work on places of worship and memorials.

Edward Maufe was a recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 1944 and, in 1954, received a knighthood for services to the Imperial War Graves Commission, which he was associated with from 1943 until his death.

Edward Maufe started his education at Wharfedale School in Ilkley, and later attended Bradford School.

The house was designed by Philip Webb for William Morris; Edward Maufe later acknowledged the design as an early architectural influence.

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Edward Maufe was an interior designer and later a director of Heal's.

Edward Maufe enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 9 January 1917, was commissioned as a staff lieutenant that April, and saw action in Salonika.

In 1940 Edward Maufe commissioned his portrait, which is housed at the RIBA.

Edward Maufe was a silver medallist at the Paris Exhibition in 1925 which resulted in him securing a wide variety of commissions.

St Saviour's was loosely based on the design by Ivar Tengbom of Hogalid Church in Stockholm, which Edward Maufe described as being the most completely satisfying modern Swedish building he had seen.

Edward Maufe felt that Swedish architecture had a combined freshness without obviously breaking with tradition.

In 1932, Edward Maufe won a competition to design the Guildford Cathedral, coming first among 183 entries with a Gothic design in concrete faced in brick.

Edward Maufe designed a new ceiling for the chancel and a royal pew, new choir stalls and a casing for a new organ.

From 1943, Edward Maufe was principal architect UK to the Imperial War Graves Commission, eventually becoming chief architect and artistic adviser until 1969.

Edward Maufe often wrote and lectured on architecture chiefly on furnishing within the home and on present-day architecture.

Edward Maufe's designs were considered by interior designers to be modern and stylish, with built-in fitments and pastel colour-schemes, particularly pink, mauve, and cream, contrasted with silver-lacquered furniture and mirrors.

Edward Maufe designed several branch banks for Lloyds Bank, including 50 Notting Hill Gate, London in 1930.

Edward Maufe designed buildings for Trinity and St John's College, Cambridge, Balliol and St John's College, Oxford .

Edward Maufe was later commissioned to re-design the war-damaged Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, which made him an Honorary Master of the Bench in 1951.

Architectural historian Ian Nairn said that "Edward Maufe is the rare case of a man with genuine spatial gifts but out of sympathy with the style of his time".

Edward Maufe retired in 1964 to Shepherd's Hill, Buxted, East Sussex, which he had restored as his second home in the late 1920s.

Edward Maufe died aged 92 on his birthday, 12 December 1974, in nearby Uckfield Hospital.