life, though he was later persuaded to change his mind by his wife, Elizabeth Byers (March 1882 – 1958), whom he had married in 1904. They had one daughter. Projects Manchester Opera House (1912) repairs to Ripon Cathedral, Ripon (1930s) renovations and extensions to Flitwick Manor, Bedfordshire (1936) North London Collegiate School, Canons Park, Edgware, Middlesex works on Baronscourt, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone (1947) restoration of St Malachy's (CoI) Parish Church, Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland (1951–1956) restoration of Navy Staircase (aka: Nelson Stair), Somerset House, following 1940 wartime bomb damage restoration of St Alfege's Church, Greenwich, London (1953) restoration of St James's Church, Piccadilly, London restoration of Trinity House, City of London church of St Stanislaus, Dulverton, Somerset (completed 1955) bridge linking picture galleries, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire (1955) restoration of the Wilkins Building, University College London (completed 1956) church of St Cuthbert, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire (1957) housing in Ryculff Square and Fulthorpe Road, Blackheath, London (1954) refurbishment of Sedbergh School library (1957–1958) Financial Times building, Bracken House, Cannon Street, London (completed in 1958, in 1988 it became the first post-war listed building) Tormore Distillery, Advie, Grantown on Spey, Morayshire, Scotland (1958–1960, also a listed building) restoration of the Livery Hall of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, London (1959) John White shoe factory, Rushden, Northamptonshire repairs and improvements to The Old Rectory, Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire college chapel at St Mary's University College, Twickenham in Strawberry Hill (1962–1963) restoration of Bath Assembly Rooms (completed 1963) works at Elstow Abbey, Bedford works at Harlington Manor (formerly Harlington House), Harlington, Bedfordshire completion of St Martin's church, Knebworth, Hertfordshire (1963–1964, completing work begun by Sir Edwin Lutyens) Mid Bedfordshire District Council Offices (formerly the Ampthill Rural District Council Offices, 12 Dunstable Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire (1963–1965) model village layout, housing and community centre for London Brick Company at Stewartby, Bedfordshire, 1968 (first phase) and later, the last completed 1978 Streetlights inspired by the Revo Festival design. Both wall mounting and lamp standards, Cambridge (1957) Books All published at London except where noted. London Houses from 1660 to 1820: a Consideration of their Architecture and Detail (1911) Monumental Classic: Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland (1914; reprinted 2001) Regional Architecture of the West of England (1924) The English Inn, Past And Present: A Review of Its History and Social Life (1925; reprinted 1968) The Old Inns of England (1935; reprinted 1967) The Significance of the