Norman Jewson
British architect
Died when: 91 years 197 days (1098 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Norman Jewson (12 February 1884 – 28 August 1975) was an English architect-craftsman of the Arts and Crafts movement, who practised in the Cotswolds.
He was a distinguished, younger member of the group which had settled in Sapperton, Gloucestershire, a village in rural southwest England, under the influence of Ernest Gimson.
Surviving into old age, he brought their ideas and working methods into the second half of the twentieth century.His book of reminiscences has become established as a minor classic of the English Arts and Crafts movement.
His repair of the Tudor Owlpen Manor in 1925–26 is often regarded as his most representative and successful work.
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