Edmund Harris: The unknown S.S. Teulon (In-Person Registration)

S.S. Teulon (1812-73) tends to be known largely by reputation as one of the most wilful and idiosyncratic Victorian Goths - a reputation founded on a relatively short period in his career and then largely on his ecclesiastical work. Yet domestic architecture ranging from model workers’ cottages to country houses accounts for a considerable part of his prolific output. Illustrated with photographs taken during the author’s extensive fieldwork, this lecture will provide an overview of a richly diverse group of buildings that so far have been little studied, presenting several that have been attributed for the first time.

Edmund Harris is an independent architectural scholar with a special interest in Victorian architecture. He is the author of ‘The Rogue Goths’, published by Liverpool University Press in 2024, a study of three of Goodhart-Rendel’s ‘rogue architects’, which draws on material from his blog, ‘Less Eminent Victorians’. Mr Harris is a graduate of the Cambridge Master of Studies in Building History. He is also Secretary to St Edmundsbury and Ipswich DAC.