Basil Fulford Lowther Clarke

Basil Fulford Lowther Clarke (6 March 1908 – 27 January 1978) was a priest and architectural historian. He served as Secretary of the Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches, a member of the Council for the Care of Churches, on the advisory board for the Care of Redundant Churches and was a member of the Westminster Abbey Architectural Advisory Panel.

Life Basil Fulford Lowther Clarke was born on 6 March 1908, the son of the Rev. W. K. L. Clarke.

Clarke contributed to the Collins Guide to English Parish Churches by Sir John Betjeman and also wrote about Anglican church architecture outside the British Isles, the Parish Churches of London, The Building of the Eighteenth Century Church and, with Sir John Betjeman, English Churches.

In 1970, Clarke was appointed an honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. On retirement, he concentrated his energies on church architecture and preservation, serving on a number of administrative bodies.

Clarke died on 27 January at the age of 69. In 1939 Clarke married Eileen Noel Coates and was survived by her, one son and two daughters.