Thomas Garner was one of the leading English Gothic Revival architects of the Victorian era.
12 Facts About Thomas Garner
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Thomas Garner is known for his almost 30-year partnership with the architect George Frederick Bodley.
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Thomas Garner was articled to the architect Sir Gilbert Scott at the age of 17.
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When he returned to Warwickshire, Garner undertook various small works as a representative of Scott, including the repair of the old chapel of the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick, which he buttressed into security.
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Thomas Garner lived at No 20 Church Row in Hampstead from 1867 to 1893.
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Bodley and Garner's pupils included the garden designer Inigo Thomas who specialised in formal gardens with geometrical plans in 17th and 18th century styles, which suited the numerous houses that Bodley and Garner renovated for wealthy clients.
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Thomas Garner was almost exclusively responsible for the design and supervision of most of the work at Oxford, including the alterations and tower at Christ Church, St Swithin's Quadrangle and the High Street Entrance Gate at Magdalen College, and the Master's Lodgings at University College.
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Thomas Garner was entirely responsible for the subsequent President's Lodgings at Magdalen College.
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Thomas Garner designed River House in Tite Street, Chelsea, and the new classroom building at Marlborough College.
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Thomas Garner designed the altar screen in St Paul's Cathedral and several sepulchral monuments, including those of the Bishops of Ely, Lincoln, Winchester and Chichester, and that of Henry Parry Liddon.
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In 1898 Thomas Garner was received into the Roman Catholic Church, and his partnership with Bodley was dissolved for fear that this might harm the latter's business.
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Thomas Garner finally returned to the countryside for his final home, Fritwell Manor in Oxfordshire, the Jacobean house that he restored in 1893 and where he died in 1906.