Traylen and Lenton

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Traylen and Lenton
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Ye Olde Crowne, Clasketgate, Lincoln
Practice information
PartnersH. F. Traylen and F. J. Lenton
Founded1921
Dissolvedc.1945, but continued by F. J. Lenton
LocationStamford
Significant works and honors
ProjectsThe design of Public Houses for James Hole & Company, Brewers

Traylen and Lenton was an architectural practice in Stamford, Lincolnshire. The practice had offices at 16 Broad Street, Stamford and were the successors to a line of architects working in Stamford, starting in the 1830s with Bryan Browning and continued by his son Edward Browning. The Brownings' practice was purchased by John Charles Traylen in 1888. Henry Francis Traylen became a partner in the practice and sole proprietor after his father's death in 1907. Frederick James Lenton worked as his assistant from 1908 until he became a partner in the practice with Traylen in 1921/2. The partnership had offices in Newark, Grantham and Peterborough, as well as Stamford.

Contents

The partners

The war memorial at Easton on the Hill, Northamptonshire, by Henry Francis Traylen, 1920 Easton on the Hill War Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 2453661.jpg
The war memorial at Easton on the Hill, Northamptonshire, by Henry Francis Traylen, 1920

Henry Francis Traylen (1874-1947) was the son of John Charles Traylen. Born in Leicester and educated at Stamford School, (1884-1891). He was articled to his father, 1891-5 and passed qualifying exams for the RIBA in 1894. Assistant at the Leicester architectural practice of Everard and Pick, 1895-c.1900 and attended Peterborough and Leicester Colleges of Art, 1895-c.1899; ARIBA 1899, [1] awarded RIBA Silver Star for measured drawings of Burghley House, 1901. [2] Returned to Stamford, because of his father's ill health, and worked with his father until his father's death in 1907. [1] During the First World War, Traylen worked for the War Office supervising the construction of temporary military buildings. Immediately after the war, he designed a large number of war memorials in the East of England, which are often recognisable by their Gothic detailing. [3] In 1927 Traylen was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) and became its local secretary for Lincolnshire and Rutland. He retired in 1945. [1]

Frederick James Lenton (1888-1950) was articled to the Stamford architect T. J. Ward from 1904-1908 and then joined John Charles Traylen as his assistant. He became an ARIBA in 1912. [4]

Public buildings

Hospitals

Conservation projects

Portal to Grant's iron foundry on Wharf Road, Stamford by Browning (1845); moved by Traylen in 1937 Gate Arch Wharf Road Stamford.jpg
Portal to Grant's iron foundry on Wharf Road, Stamford by Browning (1845); moved by Traylen in 1937

While Traylen tended to concentrate on church restoration work and Lenton on secular and domestic buildings, Traylen was a forceful advocate, protecting, recording and rebuilding historic buildings in a sympathetic style if demolition was inevitable.

Examples are:

In 1934 he weighed in strongly against the inspectorate of the Office of Works, when they claimed that nothing of historic value had been found during the removal of the mound of Stamford castle, for a bus station. Traylen’s photographs in Stamford Museum show details castle keep discovered during demolition and he was instrumental in moving a threatened historic doorway from 10 High Street to the only remaining upstanding part of the castle. He also preserved the threatened 17th-century building behind the Stamford Mercury office, which was re-erected on the Sheep Market frontage of the bus station.

In 1937 he saved the 1845 monumental arch during the widening of Wharf Road in 1937 by repositioning it parallel to the street. It survived then and also the recent redevelopment of the site.

In 1938 he saved a 17th-century bay from a demolished house in St Leonard’s Street and moved it to Barnack to front the house of the artist Wilfrid Wood.

Houses

Oaks Wood Cottage, Thornhaugh Hall lodge Oaks Wood Cottage near Thornhaugh Hall (geograph 4576494).jpg
Oaks Wood Cottage, Thornhaugh Hall lodge

Public houses

Apethorpe

Apethorpe- Former Kings Head 1913 Apethorpe- The Kings Head PH 1 (geograph 5173564).jpg
Apethorpe- Former Kings Head 1913

Lincoln

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Manvers Arms

Stamford.

The London Inn The London Inn - geograph.org.uk - 616298.jpg
The London Inn

Churches restored by Traylen and Lenton

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St Margaret's, Waddingworth
Stamford School Chapel Stamford School Chapel (geograph 6394667).jpg
Stamford School Chapel

War memorials

War Memorial, Thornhaugh War Memorial, Thornhaugh (geograph 6356317).jpg
War Memorial, Thornhaugh

Traylen designing a large number of war memorials: e.g. Broad Street, Stamford, village crosses at Apethorpe, Easton-on-the-Hill, churchyard crosses at Belton-in-Rutland, Collyweston, Thornhaugh, Werrington, lychgate at Weston (Lincs) and many other memorials: panels, tablets, lychgates, doorways throughout the east of England.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Henry Traylen". Stamford Civic Society.
  2. Originals in Stamford Museum.
  3. Smith, John (Summer 2003). "War Memorials in the East of England by Henry Francis Traylen" (PDF). Friends of War Memorials Newsletter (18): 6. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  4. “Brodie” (2001), Vol.2. pg. 40.
  5. "Corn Exchange Theatre". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
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