Thomas Henry Lyon

Architect and aesthete – his life and work

Michael Yelton

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Sacristy Press
15 December 2023

Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; Religious buildings; Biography: general; Biography: religious & spiritual

Thomas Henry Lyon (1869–1953) was an important architect whose work has often been ignored, because he did not take up the Modernist ideas of many of his contemporaries. His work was also almost entirely concentrated in either Cambridge or the edge of Dartmoor. His contribution to the inter-War development of the Colleges of Cambridge was immense and often overlooked: this book seeks to restore his reputation.

The book restores to public consciousness the extensive architectural work carried out by Lyon, particularly in Cambridge, and does not gloss over the disaster of a church in Wembley which had to be closed after less than 30 years. It also looks at the important work he carried out in South Australia in the pre-1914 age, as well as his masterly reconstruction and furnishing of Sidney Sussex College chapel, which established his reputation. It has been extensively researched in archives across England, but particularly in those of the Colleges of Cambridge.

By: Michael Yelton
Imprint: Sacristy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9781789593259
ISBN 10: 1789593255
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Yelton is a former undergraduate and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, where Lyon also studied and where he lived for many years. He is a retired Judge who has lived in Cambridge for many years and has written extensively on Anglo-Catholic history and on ecclesiastical architecture.