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132: 38: 124: 282:. Jeckyll produced an enormous number of designs for the front panels of Barnard's very popular range of slow combustion fireplaces. These featured a deep grate, and allowed air through the front rather than below, reducing the inflow of air and consequently burning more slowly. Jeckyll started decorating these with designs inspired by Japanese art in 1873. 297:. Jeckyll's behaviour had become quite erratic, and in his absence Whistler took over the decorating. Whistler painted over Jeckyll's leather-covered walls, shelving and sideboard. “While the result was undoubtedly splendid it effectively overwrote Jeckyll's contribution to art history.” Whistler described Jeckyll in 1877 as “one of my intimate comrades”. 176:
sees the Aesthetic Movement as having "sparked a revolution in the architecture and interior decoration of houses that led to a widespread recognition of the need for beauty in everyday life". His ecclesiastical architecture was often controversial, for example the remarkable polychrome pointed
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clerk who had taken holy orders, was curate of the Abbey Church in Wymondham and was married to Maria Ann Balduck. Thomas later changed his surname to 'Jeckyll.' His brother Henry was a brass founder in
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His early death at fifty-four was brought about by a mental breakdown and severe depression. He became ill in 1877 and died in a Norwich asylum in 1881.
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Jeckyll pioneered the use of Anglo-Japanese style furnishings. In 1859 he started associating with the Norwich ironworks firm of
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One of his first projects was the design of the Norwich Gates, which were displayed at the
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including adding a North transept and a rose window in Eastern end of the North aisle.
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Sideboard designed for the Oak Parlour at Heath Old Hall
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In the 1870s he designed interiors for clients such as
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Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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introducing him to the so-called Chelsea aesthetes,
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Thomas Jekyll
Thomas Jeckyll and his father
Norfolk
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Anglo-Japanese style
Wymondham
Norfolk
Norwich
Peacock Room


Nonconformist
Dudley
St Andrew's Hospital, Norwich
Aesthetic Movement
Tate
Arts and Crafts movement
V&A
Holt, Norfolk
Great Hautbois
Norfolk
Brome
Suffolk
Gothic Revival
Wymondham
Elsing Hall
Dereham
Gothic Revival
Sculthorpe
Royal Institute of British Architects

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