Unbuilt Hertford: T. G. Jackson's contextual dilemmas

Architectural History

Volumn 45, Issue , 2002, Pages 347-362

  Whyte, William ^a  

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8. Only one of these designs has ever been referred to before. See James Bettley, The Oxford Buildings of Sir Thomas Jackson, catalogue of an exhibition at the Examination Schools, Oxford (1983), p. 16. The variant Bridge of Sighs has remained apparently undisturbed in the College archives since 1897.
9. For T. G. Jackson's other unexecuted work, see Howard Colvin, Unbuilt Oxford (New Haven and London, 1983), ch. 9.
10. J. Mordaunt Crook, Dilemma of Style (London, 1989), especially ch. 6.
11. An exception is J. Mordaunt Crook, 'T. G. Jackson and the Cult of Eclecticism', in In Search of Modern Architecture, ed. H. Searing (New York, 1982), pp. 102-20.
12. Oxford Journal, 13 October 1900, p. 5.
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14. On Hertford, see Peter Howell, 'Oxford Architecture, 1800-1914', in The History of the University of Oxford, VII, ed. M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys (Oxford, 2000), pp. 729-80 (p. 753).
15. See William Whyte, T. G. Jackson and the Rhetoric of Education (Oxford University, M.St. Thesis, 1997), pp. 9-17.
16. Both James Bettley, 'T. G. Jackson and the Examination Schools', Oxford Art Journal, 6:1 (1983), pp. 57-66
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29. Not by his son, Edward William Garbett, as most modern authorities suggest. Howard Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 3rd edn (New Haven and London, 1995), p. 391.
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33. Kerry Downes, Hawksmoor, 2nd edn (London, 1979), pp. 138-47.
34. Philip Ziegler, The Sixth Great Power: Barings 1762-1929 (London, 1988), p. 192.
35. For which, M. G. Brock, 'A "Plastic Structure"', in History of the University of Oxford, VII, ed. Brock and Curthoys, pp. 3-60.
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50. I must thank Mr Richard Norton for lending me transcripts of letters relating to their excursion of 1902. See also, Richard Norton, 'Henry Boyd and Thomas Graham Jackson: their rowing exploits', Hertford College Magazine, 82 (1995-97), pp. 106-11.
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52. The standard account of this is H. M. Colvin, 'Architecture', in History of the University of Oxford, v, ed. Sutherland and Mitchell, pp. 831-56.
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62. see also Whyte, 'Jackson', pp. 13-16.
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96. Hertford College Magazine, 19 (1930), pp. 1-2.
97. For an attack on Jackson's Hertford work, see Anthony F. Kersting and John Ashdown, The Buildings of Oxford (London, 1980), p. 106.
98. This was perceived as a real need. See Hastings Rashdall, 'Hertford College', in Andrew Mark, The Colleges of Oxford (London, 1891), p. 459.