Charles Buckeridge

Not to be confused with his son, Charles Edgar Buckeridge.

For the Anglican priest, see Charles Buckeridge (priest).

Charles Buckeridge
Born	1832 or 1833[1]
Died	1 September 1873[1]
Nationality	British
Occupation	Architect
Buildings	St Antony's College, Oxford

Former court house (later a probate office), New Road, Oxford (1863)

Charles Buckeridge (circa 1832–73) was a British Gothic Revival architect who trained as a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott.[2] He practised in Oxford 1856–68 and in London from 1869.[1] He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1861.[1]

Family

Charles was born in France, the son of Charles Elliott Buckeridge and his wife Eliza, the daughter of John Eyre of Reading, Berkshire. He grew up in Salisbury in Wiltshire. He was married and raised three sons and three daughters in Oxford, including John Hingeston Buckeridge, who was a church architect, and Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864–1898),[3] who painted church interiors. Charles was brother-in-law of the botanist Giles Munby.

He died of heart disease at the age of 40 on 1 September 1873 in Hampstead, and was buried at St John's Church there.[4]

Work

Much of Buckeridge's work was for parish churches and other institutions of the Church of England. Dates that Sherwood and Pevsner cite for work at Charlbury and Emmington suggest that these works, like that at Bletchingdon, were completed posthumously.

• St Cross School, Oxford, 1858 (for a time the premises of St Cross College, Oxford)[5]
• All Saints, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1859; vicarage, 1860[6]
• Ascot Priory, Ascot, Berkshire: buildings for the Society of the Holy Trinity, 1861[7]
• St Mary the Virgin, Cottisford, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1861[8]
• St Peter, Wolvercote, Oxfordshire: rebuilt church, 1862[9]
• St Helen, Benson, Oxfordshire: new chancel, 1862[10]
• St John the Evangelist, Little Tew, Oxfordshire: teacher's house, school and almshouses, 1862[11]
• 10, Parks Road, Oxford: house, 1862[12]
• 9, Norham Gardens, Oxford: house, 1862–63[13]
• St Peter, Little Wittenham, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire): rebuilt church, 1863[14]
• All Saints, Blackwater, Hampshire: extension, 1863[15]
• Court House, New Road, Oxford, 1863[16]
• Saint Swithun, Merton, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1865[17]
• St Mary, Streatley, Berkshire: rebuilt church, 1865[18]
• 3, Norham Gardens, Oxford: house, 1865–66[13]
• St Peter, Radway, Warwickshire, 1866[19]
• Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Oxford: new convent, 1866–68 (now St Antony's College, Oxford)[20]
• St Nicholas, Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1867[21]
• St Mary, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire: remodelled Old Rectory, 1867[22]
• St Mary, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire: restored church, 1867–68[23]
• All Saints, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, 1867–68[24]
• St Peter, Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1868–69[25]
• Holy Cross, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1869[26]
• St John the Evangelist, Little Tew, Oxfordshire: church tower, 1869[27]
• St Andrew, South Stoke, Oxfordshire: Vicarage, 1869[28]
• SS James & John chapel, Brackley, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1869–70[29]
• St Helen, Benson, Oxfordshire: Old Vicarage, 1869–70[30]
• Llanthony Abbey, Capel-y-ffin, 1870[31]
• All Saints, Emscote, Warwick: font cover, 1871[32]
• St Nicholas, Chadlington, Oxfordshire: new chancel, 1870[21]
• Brightwell village school (now the Stewart Village Hall), 1870[33]
• All Saints, Emscote, Warwick: font cover, 1871[34]
• St Mary, Little Houghton, Northamptonshire: rebuilding, 1873[35]
• St Peter, Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1873[36]
• St John's Home, Leopold Street, Oxford (now part of All Saints' Convent), 1873[37]
• St Michael and All Angels, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire: reredos mosaic of the Last Supper, 1873[38]
• St Mary the Virgin, Charlbury, Oxfordshire: new chancel, 1874[39]
• St Nicholas, Emmington, Oxfordshire: rebuilt chancel and nave, 1874[40]
• St Giles, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire: restoration planned 1869 and completed posthumously in 1878.[41]
• Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire: reredos paintings in north transept[42]

References

1. Brodie, 2001, page 288
2. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 366
3. Saint, Andrew. "Charles Buckeridge and his family" (PDF).
4. Death notice in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 6 September 1873, plus burial register on Ancestry for place of death and burial.
5. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 244
6. Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 304
7. Pevsner, 1966, page 68
8. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 558
9. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 851
10. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 450
11. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 691
12. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 276
13. Pevsner & Sherwood, 1974, page 318
14. Pevsner, 1966, page 169
15. Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 280
16. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 303
17. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 700
18. Pevsner, 1966, page 230
19. Pevsner & Wedgwood, 1966, page379
20. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 239
21. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 486
22. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 693
23. Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade II*) (1225457)". National Heritage List for England.
24. Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 452
25. Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 529
26. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 757–758
27. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 690
28. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 774
29. Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 116
30. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 451
31. "Grade II listed, 14 bedroom Powys monastery up for sale". Country Times. 11 July 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
32. Pevsner & Wedgwood, 1966, page 451
33. "The New School at Brightwell and Sotwell". Reading Mercury. 11 June 1870. p. 2. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
34. Pevsner & Wedgwood, 1966, page 451
35. Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 293
36. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 786
37. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 343
38. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 549
39. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 527
40. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 592
41. Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 475
42. Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 409

Sources

• Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan; Pinfield, Leslie; Oldfield, Jane, eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, A–K. London & New York: Continuum. pp. 288–289. ISBN 0-8264-5513-1.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1973) [1961]. Northamptonshire. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071022-1.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963]. Wiltshire. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 409. ISBN 0-14-0710-26-4.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David (1967). Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 280.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Wedgwood, Alexandra (1966). Warwickshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.