Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (1872–1935), was an English architect, designer, illustrator and writer.

Biography

Quennell was the son of a builder and grew up in a house at Cowley Road on the Holland Town Estate, Kennington

Kennington

Kennington is a district of South London, England, mainly within the London Borough of Lambeth, although part of the area is within the London Borough of Southwark....

, London. Bourne was his mother's maiden name. He was the husband of Marjorie Quennell

Marjorie Quennell

Marjorie Quennell was a British historian, illustrator and museum curator.Her husband was architect Charles Henry Bourne Quennell . They met at the Junior Art Workers Guild...

 whom he met in 1903 at the Junior Art Worker's Guild and father of Peter Quennell

Peter Quennell

Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic....

. With his wife, he wrote extensively on social history.

Discussing the leading English furniture designs of the time, Herman Muthesius  wrote:
'... that inspired artist Henry Wilson and the excellent designer C. H. B. Quennell far outshine the rest of the group and produce work of high artistic sensibility.'

Quennell died in December 1935; his final words to his wife were "There you go - butting in as usual"

Career

He was articled to Newman and Newman, and worked in the offices of J. McK. Brydon and of J. D. Sedding and Henry Wilson. He obtained the National Gold medal for Architecture, and RIBA Medal of Merit and £5 in the Soane Medallion competition in 1895 . He began practice in 1896 working with his brother William developing houses at Hampstead Garden Suburb

Hampstead Garden Suburb

-Notable Residents :*Theo Adams*Martin Bell*Sir Victor Blank*Katie Boyle*Constantine, the last King of Greece*Greg Davies*Richard & Judy Finnigan*David Matthews*Michael Ridpath*Claudia Roden*Jonathan Ross*Sir Donald Sinden*Marc Sinden...

 and then with developer George Washington Hart.

Positions

1912-15 Member of the Council of RIBA
1914-25 Member of the Town Planning Committee of RIBA
1928-30 Member of the Board of Architectural Education

Writing

• 1906 Modern Suburban Houses, Batsford, London, 1906
• 1906 A Guide to Norwich Cathedral, (Bell's Cathedral Series), 1906.
• 1910 "Symposium on Town Planning"
• 1911 "The House and its Equipment", Country Life (various articles)
• 1919 "Standard types of Standardised Methods?",
• 1919 "Berkhamsted War Memorial Town Improvement Scheme"
• 1921 "How to revive public confidence in building"

Works in collaboration

• Marjorie & C. H. B. Quennell, A History of Everyday Things in England
  A History of Everyday Things in England
  A History of Everyday Things in England is a series of four history books for children written by Marjorie Quennell and her husband Charles Henry Bourne Quennell between 1918 and 1934. The books concern English history between 1066 and 1914. The series has been in print as late as year 2000,...
  
  , London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1918–1934
  • Volume I 1066-1449
  • Volume II 1500-1799
  • Volume III 1733-1851
  • Volume IV 1852-1914
• Marjorie & C. H. B. Quennell, A History of Everyday life in.., London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1921-1926.
  • Everyday life in Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Norman times
  • Everyday Life in Roman Britain
  • Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times (vol. 1 The Old Stone Age, vol. 2 The New Stone Age)
• Marjorie & C. H. B. Quennell, Everyday things in Greece, London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1929-1932.
  • Vol 1, Homeric Greece
  • Vol 2, Archaic Greece
  • Vol 3, Classical Greece
• Marjorie & C. H. B. Quennell, The Good New Days, London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1935.
• C. H. B. & P. Quennell Somerset. (Shell Guide.) London: Architectural Press, 1938

Works

• 1899 The Chapel, Cambridge House
• 1899 Design for Liskeard Church
• 1904 Gallops Homestead, Sussex
• 1904 Campbell Mausoleum, St Mary's Cemetery, Harrow Road, Hammersmith, London
• 1905 Vale Cottage and Burnt Oak Cottage, Bickley
• 1905 Four Beeches, 3 Denbridge Road, Bickley
• 1905 Phyllis Court, Rosecroft Avenue, Hampstead
• 1905-6 St John's Church, Hall and Vicarage, Edmonton
• 1906 1 Denbridge Road, Bickley
• 1906 Barn Hawe, 2 Denbridge Road, Bickley
• 1906 8 Denbridge Road, Bickley
• 1906 The Grosvenor Gallery, 157 New Bond Street (interior)
• 1907 19 Woodlands Road, Bickley
• 1907 12 Denbridge Road, Bickley
• 1907 19 St George's Road, Bickley
• 1907 Halstow, 22 St George's Road, Bickley
• 1908 Southborough House, 2 New London Rd, Chelmsford for F W Crittall
• 1908 10 Edward Road, Bromley
• 1909 21 St George's Road, Bickley
• 1909 Linden Oaks, 24 St George's Road, Bickley
• 1909 Denbridge House, Bickley
• 1910 Englefield, 8 Woodlands Road, Bickley
• 1910 St Mark's School, Masons Hill, Bromley, Kent
• 1911 Hadlow, 6 Woodlands Road, Bickley
• 1911 Lynch House, Allerford, Somerset
• 1912 Deerwood, 7 Woodlands Road, Bickley
• 1912 Mowden School, The Droveway, Hove
• 1912-4 Aultmore, Inverness-shire
• 1913 Orchard House, 5 Woodlands Road, Bickley
• 1918-20 Houses at Braintree (1-41 Clockhouse Way and 152-194 Cressing Road) for Crittall
• 1920 Southcourt Housing Estate, Barton Hartshorn, Buckinghamshire
• 1923 Housing Scheme, Aylesbury
• -?- 19-21 Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst, Kent"
• -?- Crabtrees, Gravel Path, Berkhamsted
• -?- 'Crockies' (assisted by Thomas Tait - location unknown)
• 1926-32 Houses at Silver End, Essex for Crittall
• 1926 The Manors, Silver End
• -?- Houses on Eastbury Road and Carew Road, Northwood, London

External links

• http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=202812:] C H B Quennell
• Peter Quennell: Oxford DNB index entry