About Arthur Stansfield Dixon
Lived 1856 – 1929 (aged 72). Arthur Stansfield Dixon was a British architect and silversmith.
Arthur Stansfeld Dixon (26 August 1856 – 8 January 1929) was an English metal worker and architect.
Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, he was the eldest son of education reformer and MP George Dixon. He founded the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft and designed their headquarters in Great Charles Street. The building is still extant, but converted to offices.
He also designed the Romanesque style, brick-built Church of St John & St Basil (1910–1911) in Heath Mill Lane in Birmingham's Digbeth district It was described by Nicholas Pevsner as "the finest example of his Arts and Crafts primitivism". A further church design was St Andrew's Church, Barnt Green, Worcestershire
In 1917, he was commissioned to design Seoul Anglican Cathedral in Korea; construction began in 1922 but was only completed in 1996 after the original plans were rediscovered.
In 1923, along with Holland W. Hobbiss he helped to design the rebuild of St Giles Church, Rowley Regis, after it was burned downed. It is the 4th building on that site.
His son James, serving in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment during World War I, was killed aged 22.
Pevsner described Dixon as "an Anglo-Catholic Socialist who associated Gothic with establishment conservatism and dreary Anglican piety".
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English architect and metal worker (1856–1929)
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Arthur Stansfield Dixon was born on 26 August 1856 in Edgbaston.
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Arthur Stansfield Dixon died on 8 January 1929.
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Arthur Stansfield Dixon was an architect and silversmith.
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