Edgar Wood - A bibliography
The Group would like to thank John H. Rumsby for the compilation of this extensive bibliography.
Books and Articles
J H G Archer, ‘An introduction to two Manchester Architects: Edgar Wood and James Henry Sellers.’ RIBA Journal 62 (Dec 1954).
J H G Archer, ‘Edgar Wood: A Notable Manchester Architect.’ Trans Lancs & Cheshire Ant Soc 73-74 (1963-4) 52-187.
J H G Archer, ‘Edgar Wood and Mackintosh.’ In Patrick Nuttgens (ed),Mackintosh and his Contemporaries (London, 1988) pp. 58-74.
Banney Royd Study Group, Banney Royd: “An Agreeable House”.(Huddersfield, 1991).
Michael Bunney, ‘Edgar Wood.’ Moderne Bauformen 6 (1907) 49-77.
Andrew Crompton, ‘The Destruction of Durnford Street School, Middleton.’ In Clare Hartwell & Terry Wyke (eds), Making Manchester: Aspects of the History of Architecture in the City and Region since 1800: Essays in Honour of John H G Archer (LCAS, 2007).
T Raffles Davison, ‘Edgar Wood – Architect.’ Architecture (1897) 99-112.
Edgar Wood Heritage Group, Edgar Wood in Huddersfield (Huddersfield, 2009, revised 2012).
Richard Fellows, Edwardian Architecture: Style and Technology (London, 1995) pp. 149-151. [Banney Royd.]
Keith Gibson & Albert Booth, The Buildings of Huddersfield (Stroud, 2005),pp 110-8. [Huddersfield buildings by Edgar Wood.]
Sarah Hill, ‘The Cross and the Crown: the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester, by Edgar Wood.’ Chapels and Chapel People (The Chapel Society Miscellany Two, London 2010) 52-72.
David Morris, The Buildings of Edgar Wood, Architect, Designer, Artist & Craftsman in Middleton Town Centre (Rochdale MBC, nd).
Stefan Muthesius, The English House. Ed D Sharp, translated from German edition 1904-5 (3 vols, London, 1979). [Banney Royd.]
Manchester City Art Gallery, Partnership in Style: Edgar Wood and J Henry Sellers (Exhibition Catalogue, Manchester, 1975).
Jill Seddon, ‘The furniture design of Edgar Wood (1860-1935).’ Burlington Magazine 117 (873) (1975) 857-867.
George Sheeran, Brass Castles: West Yorkshire New Rich and their Houses 1800-1914 (Stroud, 2nd edn 2006) pp 54-9, 171. [Briarcourt and Banney Royd.]
Lawrence Weaver (ed), Small Country Houses of Today (London, 1911). [Upmeads, Salford.]
Edgar Wood, ‘An Architect’s Experiences in the Development of Design.’Builders’ Journal and Architectural Record II (March 7 1900) 73-5.
Edgar Wood, ‘Colour as Applied to Architecture.’ RIBA Journal (1912).
Drawing of the communion table, British Architect (1895, July 19).
Plan and drawing of Briarcourt, British Architect (1895, August 23).
Unpublished theses
J H G Archer, Edgar Wood and the Architecture of the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau Movements in Britain (MA University of Manchester, 1968).
David Walker Bamforth, The Life and Work of Edgar Wood (1860-1935) (BA Leicester Polytechnic Sept 1981).
Ann Dearman, Contemporaries in Architecture: A Study of Selected Works by Edgar Wood and Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Undergraduate essay, BA Art and Design, Feb 1994).
C J Wilkin, Edgar Wood: His Work in the Huddersfield District 1895-1903(Dissertation presented to the RIBA, June 1979).
Contemporary references to work by Wood and his associates
(listed in chronological order of publication)
‘Memorial Communion Table for Wesleyan Chapel Lindley.’ The British Architect 44 (1895) 44-45.
‘Briarcourt.’ The British Architect 44 (August 23 1895) 133.
‘A Gatehouse at Lindley.’ The British Architect 55 (May 3rd 1901) 311.
The Studio 22 (1901),p. 109 Cottages at Langley Lane, Manchester [plan and elevation] (in article ‘Some Modern Cottages.’ By Esther Wood pp 104-112).
‘Dining Room, Birkby Lodge, Huddersfield.’ Architectural Review 22 (1902) 119.
‘New Clock and Chimes and Clock Tower.’ Huddersfield Examiner 27 December 1902.
The Studio 30 (1903-4),pp 65-6. Description of exhibits at the Exhibition of the Northern Art Workers’ Guild, Manchester. It mentions designs for glass and tiles by Wood, and illustrates a bronze font on an oak pedestal. It also illustrates a section of plasterwork produced by J R Cooper for a house by Wood in Huddersfield – probably Banney Royd.
The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art (London, 1906):p. 2 Entrance Hall by J H Sellers,p. 14 Dining Room by Edgar Wood, p. 51 Sideboard and chair by Edgar Wood,p. 87 Fireplace by J H Sellers, executed by Longden & Co.
The Studio 40 (1907), p. 234 The Ferry, watercolour by Fred W Jackson, p. 236 Mont St Michel, watercolour by Edgar Wood.
The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art (1909) pp 30-1, entry for J Henry Sellers.
‘Dalny Reed, Barley, Herts.’ Architectural Review 4 (1911) 101-4.
‘Birkby Estate, Huddersfield.’ The Builder (September 6th 1912) 282
The Architectural Background
[Many of these books contain brief references to Wood’s work.]
Barrie & Wendy Armstrong, The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England: A Handbook (Wetherby, 2nd edn 2006).
Elizabeth Cumming & Wendy Kaplan, The Arts and Crafts Movement (London, 1991 and 2004).
Pater Davey, Arts and Crafts Architecture (London, 1980). [Wood is mentioned on pp. 114-5, 131-4; note that Wood’s George and Dragon Inn is placed erroneously in Castleton, Derbyshire, not Lancashire.]
Diane Haigh, Baillie Scott: The Artistic House (Chichester, 1995).
Richard Russell Lawrence, Edwardian & Interwar Housing (London, 2009).
Helen Long, The Edwardian House: the Middle-class Home in Britain 1880-1914 (Manchester, 1993).
Modern British Domestic Architecture and Decoration (Special Summer Number of The Studio, 1901).
Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design: from William Morris to Walter Gropius (3rd revised edn, London, 1975).
Margaret Richardson, Architects of the Arts and Crafts Movement (London, 1983).
Alistair Service, Edwardian Architecture (London, 1977).
The Sykes family of Lindley
Stanley Chadwick, ‘A generous Lindley family.’ Huddersfield Weekly Examiner26 April 1975.
Stanley Chadwick, ‘Honours for the Sykes family.’ Huddersfield Weekly Examiner 3 May 1975.
‘Funeral of Miss Mary Alice Sykes.’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner 17 April 1937.
If you have come across any other printed references to Edgar Wood and his work we'd love to hear from you. Email us at [email protected].
The Group would like to thank John H. Rumsby for the compilation of this extensive bibliography.
Books and Articles
J H G Archer, ‘An introduction to two Manchester Architects: Edgar Wood and James Henry Sellers.’ RIBA Journal 62 (Dec 1954).
J H G Archer, ‘Edgar Wood: A Notable Manchester Architect.’ Trans Lancs & Cheshire Ant Soc 73-74 (1963-4) 52-187.
J H G Archer, ‘Edgar Wood and Mackintosh.’ In Patrick Nuttgens (ed),Mackintosh and his Contemporaries (London, 1988) pp. 58-74.
Banney Royd Study Group, Banney Royd: “An Agreeable House”.(Huddersfield, 1991).
Michael Bunney, ‘Edgar Wood.’ Moderne Bauformen 6 (1907) 49-77.
Andrew Crompton, ‘The Destruction of Durnford Street School, Middleton.’ In Clare Hartwell & Terry Wyke (eds), Making Manchester: Aspects of the History of Architecture in the City and Region since 1800: Essays in Honour of John H G Archer (LCAS, 2007).
T Raffles Davison, ‘Edgar Wood – Architect.’ Architecture (1897) 99-112.
Edgar Wood Heritage Group, Edgar Wood in Huddersfield (Huddersfield, 2009, revised 2012).
Richard Fellows, Edwardian Architecture: Style and Technology (London, 1995) pp. 149-151. [Banney Royd.]
Keith Gibson & Albert Booth, The Buildings of Huddersfield (Stroud, 2005),pp 110-8. [Huddersfield buildings by Edgar Wood.]
Sarah Hill, ‘The Cross and the Crown: the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester, by Edgar Wood.’ Chapels and Chapel People (The Chapel Society Miscellany Two, London 2010) 52-72.
David Morris, The Buildings of Edgar Wood, Architect, Designer, Artist & Craftsman in Middleton Town Centre (Rochdale MBC, nd).
Stefan Muthesius, The English House. Ed D Sharp, translated from German edition 1904-5 (3 vols, London, 1979). [Banney Royd.]
Manchester City Art Gallery, Partnership in Style: Edgar Wood and J Henry Sellers (Exhibition Catalogue, Manchester, 1975).
Jill Seddon, ‘The furniture design of Edgar Wood (1860-1935).’ Burlington Magazine 117 (873) (1975) 857-867.
George Sheeran, Brass Castles: West Yorkshire New Rich and their Houses 1800-1914 (Stroud, 2nd edn 2006) pp 54-9, 171. [Briarcourt and Banney Royd.]
Lawrence Weaver (ed), Small Country Houses of Today (London, 1911). [Upmeads, Salford.]
Edgar Wood, ‘An Architect’s Experiences in the Development of Design.’Builders’ Journal and Architectural Record II (March 7 1900) 73-5.
Edgar Wood, ‘Colour as Applied to Architecture.’ RIBA Journal (1912).
Drawing of the communion table, British Architect (1895, July 19).
Plan and drawing of Briarcourt, British Architect (1895, August 23).
Unpublished theses
J H G Archer, Edgar Wood and the Architecture of the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau Movements in Britain (MA University of Manchester, 1968).
David Walker Bamforth, The Life and Work of Edgar Wood (1860-1935) (BA Leicester Polytechnic Sept 1981).
Ann Dearman, Contemporaries in Architecture: A Study of Selected Works by Edgar Wood and Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Undergraduate essay, BA Art and Design, Feb 1994).
C J Wilkin, Edgar Wood: His Work in the Huddersfield District 1895-1903(Dissertation presented to the RIBA, June 1979).
Contemporary references to work by Wood and his associates
(listed in chronological order of publication)
‘Memorial Communion Table for Wesleyan Chapel Lindley.’ The British Architect 44 (1895) 44-45.
‘Briarcourt.’ The British Architect 44 (August 23 1895) 133.
‘A Gatehouse at Lindley.’ The British Architect 55 (May 3rd 1901) 311.
The Studio 22 (1901),p. 109 Cottages at Langley Lane, Manchester [plan and elevation] (in article ‘Some Modern Cottages.’ By Esther Wood pp 104-112).
‘Dining Room, Birkby Lodge, Huddersfield.’ Architectural Review 22 (1902) 119.
‘New Clock and Chimes and Clock Tower.’ Huddersfield Examiner 27 December 1902.
The Studio 30 (1903-4),pp 65-6. Description of exhibits at the Exhibition of the Northern Art Workers’ Guild, Manchester. It mentions designs for glass and tiles by Wood, and illustrates a bronze font on an oak pedestal. It also illustrates a section of plasterwork produced by J R Cooper for a house by Wood in Huddersfield – probably Banney Royd.
The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art (London, 1906):p. 2 Entrance Hall by J H Sellers,p. 14 Dining Room by Edgar Wood, p. 51 Sideboard and chair by Edgar Wood,p. 87 Fireplace by J H Sellers, executed by Longden & Co.
The Studio 40 (1907), p. 234 The Ferry, watercolour by Fred W Jackson, p. 236 Mont St Michel, watercolour by Edgar Wood.
The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art (1909) pp 30-1, entry for J Henry Sellers.
‘Dalny Reed, Barley, Herts.’ Architectural Review 4 (1911) 101-4.
‘Birkby Estate, Huddersfield.’ The Builder (September 6th 1912) 282
The Architectural Background
[Many of these books contain brief references to Wood’s work.]
Barrie & Wendy Armstrong, The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England: A Handbook (Wetherby, 2nd edn 2006).
Elizabeth Cumming & Wendy Kaplan, The Arts and Crafts Movement (London, 1991 and 2004).
Pater Davey, Arts and Crafts Architecture (London, 1980). [Wood is mentioned on pp. 114-5, 131-4; note that Wood’s George and Dragon Inn is placed erroneously in Castleton, Derbyshire, not Lancashire.]
Diane Haigh, Baillie Scott: The Artistic House (Chichester, 1995).
Richard Russell Lawrence, Edwardian & Interwar Housing (London, 2009).
Helen Long, The Edwardian House: the Middle-class Home in Britain 1880-1914 (Manchester, 1993).
Modern British Domestic Architecture and Decoration (Special Summer Number of The Studio, 1901).
Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design: from William Morris to Walter Gropius (3rd revised edn, London, 1975).
Margaret Richardson, Architects of the Arts and Crafts Movement (London, 1983).
Alistair Service, Edwardian Architecture (London, 1977).
The Sykes family of Lindley
Stanley Chadwick, ‘A generous Lindley family.’ Huddersfield Weekly Examiner26 April 1975.
Stanley Chadwick, ‘Honours for the Sykes family.’ Huddersfield Weekly Examiner 3 May 1975.
‘Funeral of Miss Mary Alice Sykes.’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner 17 April 1937.
If you have come across any other printed references to Edgar Wood and his work we'd love to hear from you. Email us at [email protected].
