14 Facts About Norman Shaw

Richard Norman Shaw RA, known as Norman Shaw, was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings.

Norman Shaw is considered to be among the greatest of British architects; his influence on architectural style was strongest in the 1880s and 1890s.

Norman Shaw was born 7 May 1831 in Edinburgh, the sixth and last child of William Norman Shaw, an Irish Protestant and army officer, and Elizabeth nee Brown, from a family of successful Edinburgh lawyers.

Two of Norman Shaw's siblings died young and a third in early adulthood.

Norman Shaw attended the evening lectures on architecture given at the Royal Academy of Arts by Charles Robert Cockerell.

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Norman Shaw met William Eden Nesfield at the Royal Academy, with whom he briefly partnered in some architectural designs.

Norman Shaw worked for, among others, the artists John Callcott Horsley and George Henry Boughton, and the industrialist Lord Armstrong.

Norman Shaw designed large houses such as Cragside, Grim's Dyke, and Chigwell Hall, as well as a series of commercial buildings using a wide range of styles.

In later years, Norman Shaw moved to a heavier classical style which influenced the emerging Edwardian Classicism of the early 20th century.

Norman Shaw died in London, where he had designed residential buildings in areas such as Pont Street, and public buildings such as New Scotland Yard.

On 16 July 1867, Norman Shaw married Agnes Haswell Wood at the parish church in Hampstead.

Norman Shaw was the daughter of James Wood and was born in New South Wales, and most of the Wood siblings were sent to England for part of their education.

Norman Shaw died in London and is buried in St John-at-Hampstead Churchyard, Hampstead, London.

Norman Shaw designed St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, as the Anglican parish church for the development.