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Charles Harrison Townsend
b. Birkenhead, 1851;
d. Northwood, 1928.
Charles Harrison Townsend - Highly individualistic famous architect of the English Arts & Crafts movement who transcended the movement’s largely domestic aspirations and developed a personal vocabulary more appropriate to the demands of the metropolitan environment. Townsend was articled to a Liverpool architect (1870) but moved south [...]