Biography
Architecture (material on this site)
- "A Building to Accommodate Four Learned Societies" (winning competition design of 1879)
- Melsetter House (designed 1898)
- Chapel of St Colm and St Margaret, Melsetter, Hoy
- All Saints' Church, Brockhampton (designed 1901)
- The (former) Eagle Insurance Building, Birmingham (designed 1898)
- High Coxlease, Lyndhurst (designed 1901)
Work in Churches
Drawings and Illustrations
Bibliography
Backemeyer, Sylvia and Theresa Gronberg, eds. W.R. Lethaby, 1857-1931: Architecture, Design and Education. London: Lund Humphries, 1984. (Catalogue of an exhibition held by the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, as a "long overdue tribute" to this "forceful disciple of Pugin, Ruskin and William Morris," 7). Print.
"Books Of The Week." The Times, Thursday 31 December 1891: 4. Times Digital Archive. Web. 16 September 2013.
Brooks, Alan, and Nikolaus Pevsner. Herefordshire. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale, 2012. Print.
Crawley, David. Introduction to Victorian Style. Royston, Herts.: Eagle Editions, 1998. Print.
de l'Hôpital, Winefride. Westminster Cathedral and Its Architect: Volume I, The Building of the Cathedral. 2 vols. London: Hutchinson, 1919. Internet Archive. Web. 16 September 2013.
Garnham, Trevor. "William Lethaby and the Two Ways of Building." Architectural Association Files. No. 10 (Autumn 1985): 27-43. Accessed via JSTOR. Web. 16 September 2003.
Greensted, Mary, ed. An Anthology of the Arts and Crafts Movement: Writings by Ashbee, Lethaby, Gimson and Their Contemporaries. London: Lund Humphries, 2005. Print.
"Handwork versus Machine Production." Ernest Gibson and the Arts & Crafts Movement in Leicester. Web. 16 September 2013.
Hart, Vaughan. "William Richard Lethaby and the 'Holy Spirit': A Reappraissal of the Eagle Insurance Company Building, Birmingham." Architectural History. Vol. 46 (2003): 145-158. Accessed via JSTOR. Web. 16 September 2003.
Kay, John. "W. R. Lethaby at the Central School." William Morris Journal. 6.3 (Summer 1985): 36: 26-30. Web. 16 September 2013.
Lethaby, W. R. Architecture, Mysticism and Myth. New York: Macmillan, 1892. Internet Archive. Web. 16 September 2013.
_____. Leadwork: Old and Ornamental, and for the most part English . London & New York: Macmillan, 1893. Internet Archive. Web. 16 September 2013.
_____. Mediaeval Art from the Peace of the Church to the Eve of the Renaissance, 312-1350. London: Duckworth, 1904. Internet Archive. Web. 16 September 2013.
_____. Westminster Abbey & The King's Craftsmen: A Study of Mediaeval Building. London: Duckworth, 1906. Internet Archive. Web. 16 September 2013.
Lethaby, W. R. and Harold Swainson. The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building. London & New York: Macmillan, 1894. Internet Archive. Web. 16 September 2013.
MacCarthy, Fiona. "Lethaby, William Richard (1857-1931)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Current online ed. Web. 16 September 2013.
Noppen, John George. "Lethaby, William Richard (1857-1931)." Dictionary of National Biography. Fifth Supplement (1931-40) (1949). Internet Archive. Web. 16 September 2013.
Osborne, Harold, ed. Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. London: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.
Pevsner, Nikolaus. Herefordshire. The Buildings of England. London: Penguin, 1963. Print.
Rubens, Godfrey. William Richard Lethaby: His Life and Work. 1857-1931. London: The Architectural Press, 1986. (Still the standard account.) Print.
Turnor, Reginald. Nineteenth Century Architecture. London: Batsford, 1950.
Watkinson, Ray. "Godfrey Rubens's Lethaby" (well-informed book review). William Morris Journal. 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 68: 25-35. Web. 16 September 2013.
Last modified 18 October 2013