Moor Crag

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Moorcrag in the Studio Yearbook, 1907

Moor Crag (sometimes Moorcrag) is a Grade I listed house near Bowness-on-Windermere in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, overlooking Windermere. It lies in the north of the parish of Cartmel Fell. [1] It was designed by C. F. A. Voysey in 1898-1899 [2] as a holiday home for J. W.Buckley of Altrincham. [3]

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Duncan Simpson in his 1979 work C.F.A. Voysey: an architect of individuality describes Moor Crag as "The single most important house designed by Voysey". [4]

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  1. ↑ Historic England. "Moor Crag (1224960)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Reid, Richard. (2010). Baustilkunde : 3500 Bauten aus der alten und neuen Welt; alle Epochen und Stile in über 1700 Zeichnungen. Hipp, H. Rüdiger (Neuaufl ed.). Leipzig: Seemann. ISBN   9783865020420. OCLC   540989989.
  3. ↑ Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010). "Bowness-on-Windermere: Villas". Cumbria. Pevsner Architectural Guides. Yale UP. pp. 174–175. ISBN   978-0-300-12663-1.
  4. ↑ Simpson, Duncan (1979). C.F.A. Voysey: an architect of individuality (PDF). Lund Humphries. p. 43. ISBN   978-0853314264 . Retrieved 15 August 2016.

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