Ernest Gimson - Architectural Work

Architectural Work

His architectural commissions include

Inglewood (1892) and The White House (1898)

in the prosperous Leicester suburb of Stoneygate;

Lea and Stoneywell Cottages

(and others) in Ulverscroft, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire (with Detmar Blow in 1897/9). In May, 2012 it was announced that the National Trust hoped to buy Stoneywell and open it to the public;

The Leasowes

his own cottage, at Sapperton (1903, with a thatched roof, since burnt);

alterations to Pinbury Park (with plasterwork) and Waterlane House

(1908), both in Gloucestershire;

Kelmscott

cottages and the village hall (completed under Norman Jewson in 1933), Oxfordshire;

Coxen

at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, constructed in cob (rammed earth); ;Whaplode Church: window, Lincolnshire.

Competition designs

His competition 'Design for the Federal Capital of Australia' (1908) is an original project in town planning for the city which was to become Canberra. Hde also submitted a design for new offices for the Port of London Authority.

Bedales

His last major project was the Memorial Library (1918–1919) built next to the 1911 Lupton Hall (also a Gimson design) at Bedales School, near Petersfield, Hampshire (built at his request by Geoffrey Lupton under Sidney Barnsley's supervision and completed in 1921).