Reynolds-Stephens, Sir William Ernest

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Reynolds-Stephens, Sir William Ernest (1862–1943). British Art Nouveau and Arts-and-Crafts designer, born in the USA. His finest work is the interior of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Warley, Essex (1901–5), with an exquisite Art Nouveau Rood-screen and other furnishings, described by Pevsner as an ‘orgy of the English Arts-and-Crafts variety of the international Art Nouveau’. Harrison Townsend designed the building.

Bibliography

A. S. Gray (1985);
Pevsner: BoE, Essex (1954);
Tschudi-Madsen (1967)