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{{short description|English architect}}
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'''Roderick Gradidge''' [[Architectural Association School of Architecture|AA Dipl.]] [[ARIBA]] (3 January 1929 – 20 December 2000) was a
== Career ==
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===Country house commissions===
Gradidge had the opportunity to work on a number of buildings in Surrey by prominent architects, such as Sir [[Edwin Lutyens]], [[Harold Falkner]], [[Hugh Thackeray Turner]], [[Detmar Blow]] and [[Charles Voysey (architect)|Charles Voysey]]. He completed a number of projects elsewhere, particularly with fine interiors and country houses. One of his finest country house commissions was for a large extension at ''Fulbrook House'', one of Lutyens's finest and earliest country house commissions outside [[Farnham]], Surrey and which he published in his book, ''The Surrey Style''. He designed a library with [[David Hicks]] at [[Nicholas Hawksmoor]]'s [[Easton Neston]] in the style of the [[English Baroque]] for [[Lord Hesketh]], a [[Gothic architecture|Gothick]] conservatory at [[Cholmondeley Castle]] and altered [[Mount Stuart]] for [[Lord Bute]].
Much of Gradidge's work on Surrey country houses was with the Surrey-based architect [[Michael Blower]]. Their first projects were on [[Charles Voysey (architect)|Voysey]]'s ''New House'' in [[Haslemere]] and on [[Detmar Blow]]'s ''Charles Hill Court'' for an Austrian industrialist. From there, they went onto [[Harold Falkner]]'s ''Tancreds Ford'', which they designed and built for the writer [[Ken Follett]] and his first wife, and which was published in two articles in [[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]].<ref>Country Life 17 & 24 November 1983, by Michael Hall</ref> Next came ''Kingswood Hanger (The New House)'', reputedly designed by [[Hugh Thackeray Turner]] and for which they jointly won a [[RIBA]] Award, which was also published in Country Life.<ref>Country Life 3 September 1998, by Clive Aslet</ref> Just prior to Gradidge's death, he and [[Michael Blower|Blower]] were working on a project at ''Combe Court'', which was completed by [[Michael Blower]] and his sons through their architectural practice, [[Stedman Blower Architects|Stedman Blower]].
===Other work===
Gradidge worked on a number of pub interiors for [[Ind Coope]], such as the ''Markham Arms'' (now altered) on the [[Kings Road]], [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]] and the ''Three Greyhounds'' in [[Soho]], London. He restored the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] interior of [[E. W. Godwin]]'s [[Northampton Guildhall]], and the interior of [[Bodelwyddan Castle]] for the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]], which won the Museum of the Year Award in 1989.
At ''St Marys, Bourne Street'', [[South Kensington]] and the National Portrait Gallery in London, Gradidge carried out interior modifications, although they have since been altered. Further projects included additions to [[St Edmund's College, Cambridge]] (1990–3), [[Pugin]]'s ''St Chads, Birmingham'' and ''St Augustine, Ramsgate''.
===Society activity===
He was active in the [[Art Workers Guild]] being elected in 1969,
==Personal life==
Gradidge was born on 3 January 1929 in [[Old Hunstanton]], Norfolk, and died 20 December 2000 in London, aged 71. He spent his childhood in India, where his father was a [[Brigadier]]. He then attended [[Stowe School]].
After 2 years of [[National Service]] in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], he moved to London and the [[Architectural Association]], where he completed his training as an architect and was elected an Associate of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] ([[ARIBA]]). He remained in London practicing as an architect and writer for most of his life, where he was a prominent figure in social and architectural circles in the last half of the 20th
A large man, who was gay,<ref>A.N. Wilson, The jolly architect who couldn't have fun, ''Daily Telegraph'', 7 January 2001. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4258366/The-jolly-architect-who-couldnt-have-fun.html]</ref> Gradidge was an advocate of rational dress, a movement more usually associated with modernists, and had suits tailored in fine cloths that featured jackets and kilts. For much of his life he wore his hair uncut and tied as a plait
== Legacy ==
''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' obituary described Gradidge as ''one of the most colourful and underrated English architects of recent years''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roderick Gradidge |website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]
Towards the end of his career, he was awarded a [[RIBA]] Award, (the gold-standard of architectural awards in the UK) for the design of a house in the [[Surrey Hills AONB|Surrey Hills]], completed with [[Michael Blower]].
His legacy is limited in that he never completed a whole building from scratch and in so far as what remains of his work as an architect are wholly interiors, extensions, alterations and extensions to pre-existing buildings.
==Notes==
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==Bibliography==
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==External links==
* [http://www.blowerfoundation.org The Blower Foundation (for cultural connection) is a registered UK Charity devoted to cultural heritage and expression] and
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▲*The Blower Foundation (for cultural connection) is a registered UK Charity devoted to cultural heritage and expression and [http://www.cultural-connection.org] hold an archive of drawings by Michael Blower and Roderick Gradidge and have an online gallery of buildings by both architects.
▲*Stedman Blower Architects [http://www.stedmanblower.co.uk] hold additional correspondence and detailed information on the projects by [[Michael Blower]] and Roderick Gradidge.
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[[Category:Architects from London]]
[[Category:1929 births]]
[[Category:Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects]]
[[Category:2000 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century English architects]]
[[Category:Masters of the Art Worker's Guild]]
[[Category:People educated at Stowe School]]
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