Thomas Smith: An Architect of Note
JOHN CORFIELD qualified in 1951 after naval service in WW2 that also included a period with the Free French navy for which he received the Croix de Combattant. In 1950, he was awarded the Banister Fletcher Essay Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects for an essay entitled “The Smaller English Country House: Its Setting and Furnishing”.
In 1982 the same institute awarded him one of their annual research grants for : “Cockett and Nash: A Study of their Union Workhouses under the 1834 Act”.
At the present moment, he is researching Henry George Oldfield, an antiquary and topographical artist active in Hertfordshire and elsewhere in the Home Counties in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The aim being to prepare a catalogue containing the titles and whereabouts of all the work attributed to him.
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Sadly John Corfield died just weeks before this work was sent to the printers. His scholarly contributions to local history and architecture will be sorely missed.