Richard Norman Shaw

Leyswood House, at Groombridge, Sussex, England, 1866 to 1869.
Craigside, at Rothbury, Northumberland, England, 1870 to 1885.
Adcote, at Shropshire, England, 1876 to 1881.
Lowther Lodge, at Kensington Gore, London, England, 1873 to 1875.
Old Swan House, at 17 Chelsea Embankment, London, Englnad, 1875 to 1877.
St. Michael and All Angels Church, Bedford Park, London, England, 1879 to 1882.
Albert Hall Mansions, at Kensington Gore, London, England, 1879 to 1886.
Savoy Theatre, at London, England, 1881.
New Scotland Yard, at London, England, 1887 to 1907.
Piccadilly Hotel, Picadilly Circus, London, England, 1905 to 1908.

      map of works

(b. Edinburgh, Scotland 1831; d. Hampstead, London, England 1913)

"Richard Norman Shaw was the most influential and successful of all Late Victorian architects in Great Britain..."
"Shaw worked in many different styles during his 35-year career. He began as a High Victorian Goth; the Church at Bingley is typical of his earlier work. His last work, the Piccadilly Hotel in London, is Edwardian Baroque. Together with Nesfield, he pioneered both the Old English and Queen Anne styles of architecture in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Shaw's reputation overshadows that of Nesfield, but both were gifted architects..."

— Randall J. Van Vunckt, ed. International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture : Volume 1, Architects, p814.

Richard Norman Shaw was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1831. He studied in Edinburgh after which he worked for William Burn, an Edinburgh architect with an office in London. In 1858 he worked for G. E. Street and in 1863 he opened his own practice with W. E. Nesfield as his partner. He designed several country houses, as well as a series of commercial buildings in a wide range of styles.

Shaw's early works are in a romantic vernacular Old English style, drawn from the Weald of Sussex. Later and in town he tended to use the more reserved Queen Anne, as well as Gothic and Renaissance in churches, and later still more classical, to Edwardian neo-Baroque.

A Royal Academician from 1877, Shaw co-edited the 1892 collection of essays "Architecture, a Profession or an Art?" In later years, Shaw moved to a heavier classical style which influenced the emerging Edwardian classicism of the early twentieth century.

Shaw died in London, England in 1913.

Reference
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p141.

Randall J. Van Vunckt, ed. International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture : Volume 1, Architects. Detroit: St. James Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55862-087-7. LC 93-13431. NA40.I48 1993. 720'.9-dc20. p813-816.

Andrew Saint. Richard Norman Shaw. 1976.

  Find books about Richard Norman Shaw

Search the RIBA architecture library catalog for more references on Richard Norman Shaw
 

Richard Norman Shaw at Archiplanet — Find, add, and edit info at the all-buildings collaboration

   Search the web for Richard Norman Shaw

We appreciate your  suggestions  for links about Richard Norman Shaw.