Mervyn Macartney

Sir Mervyn Edmund Macartney
Born(1853-09-16)16 September 1853
Died28 October 1932(1932-10-28) (aged 79)
NationalityBritish
OccupationArchitect

Sir Mervyn E. Macartney FSA FRIBA (16 September 1853 – 28 October 1932) was a British architect and Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral between 1906 and 1931.[1][2] Macartney was a leading figure in the Arts and Craft movement, being a founder of the Art Workers' Guild and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, and an influential voice as the editor of The Architectural Review[3] and via his publications The Practical Exemplar of Architecture and Later Renaissance Architecture in England with John Belcher.

The English House 1860–1914: Catalogue to an Exhibition of Photographs and Drawings in 1980 stated that Macartney did not deserve the comparative obscurity that he has today,[4] while Peter Davey in his 1980 book Arts and Crafts Architecture: The Search for Earthly Paradise described Macartney as the least Ruskin of the architects that came from Richard Norman Shaw's tutorage.[5]

  1. ^ "Sir Mervyn Edmund Macartney (1853-1932)". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  2. ^ Macartney, Sir Mervyn Edmund. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U213193. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
  3. ^ London 1900. Rizzoli. 1979. p. 249. ISBN 9780847802142.
  4. ^ International Architecture (1980). The English House 1860–1914:Catalogue to an Exhibition of Photographs and Drawings. p. 27. OCLC 10772810.
  5. ^ Davey. Peter (1980). Arts and Crafts Architecture:The Search for Earthly Paradise. Architectural Press. p. 105. ISBN 9782870092699.