14 Facts About Temple Moore

Temple Lushington Moore was an English architect who practised in London but whose work can be seen across England, particularly in the North.

Temple Moore is famous for a series of fine Gothic Revival churches built between about 1890 and 1917 and restored many churches and designed church fittings.

Temple Moore did some work on domestic properties, and designed memorial crosses.

Temple Moore was born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland, and was the son of an army officer.

Temple Moore was educated at Glasgow High School, then from 1872 privately by the Revd Richard Wilton in Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Temple Moore was particularly impressed by the great medieval brick churches of north Germany, echoes of which can be found in some of his own impressively austere designs.

In 1884 Temple Moore married Emma Storrs Wilton, the eldest daughter of the Rev Wilton and thus became related to Canon Horace Newton; for whom he undertook church restoration work and a large house, Holmwood, Redditch, Worcestershire.

Temple Moore's pupils included Giles Gilbert Scott, son of George Gilbert Scott, Jr.

Temple Moore lived his later life in Hampstead, in Downshire Hill and then at 46 Well Walk, where he died in 1920.

Temple Moore was buried in the churchyard of St John's Church, Hampstead, which he had altered in 1912.

Temple Moore restored older churches, and made alterations and additions to others.

In 1908, Temple Moore made the organ case, choir stalls, reredos and communion rail for St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.

Temple Moore's career spanned the closing years of the Gothic Revival, but he developed the style rather than merely continuing it.

Temple Moore was an Anglican in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, which prefers its churches to have beautiful surroundings and fine fittings to enhance worship; Temple Moore's designs reflect this.