J. E. K. Cutts

John Edward Knight Cutts (1847–1938) FRIBA was a prolific church architect in England.

Background Cutts was born on 20 March 1847 in Lenton, Nottingham, the son of Edward Lewes Cutts and Mary Ann Elizabeth Knight. Cutts attended the Felsted School, Felsted, 1862 – 1865. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1891. With his brother, John Priston Cutts, he designed and supervised the construction of 46 churches in England between 1873 and 1912.

He married Emma Peacock on 29 August 1882 in St Mary's Church, Islington. They had 7 children – the first two died as children and were buried in England. Five survived and all lived in Canada.

He retired to Canada in 1912.

Works

Christ Church, North Kensington, London Herne Hill Mission Competition, London St Bartholomew's Church, Notgrove, Gloucestershire 1872–73 restoration St Luke's Church, Diamond Street, Camberwell, Southwark, London 1876 -77 (destroyed by bombing in the London Blitz) St Peter's Church, Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire 1877 restoration St Peter's Church, Prescott Place, Clapham Manor Street, Lambeth, London 1878 Wyck Rissington Church, Gloucestershire 1878–79 restoration St Matthew's Church, Sydenham, London 1879–80 Cottage Hospital, Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire 1878–79 St Leonard's Church, Bledington, Gloucestershire 1878–79 restoration St Edward's Church, Evenlode, Gloucestershire 1878-79 restoration St Thomas a Becket Church, Todenham, Gloucestershire 1879 restoration South Farnborough Church 1880–81 restoration St Mary's Church, Billericay 1881 repairs St Mary the Virgin's Church, Baldock, Hertfordshire 1881–82 restoration St Augustine's Church, Dovercourt 1883–84 St Michael and All Angels Church, Stoke Newington, London All Saints' Church, Upper Holloway, London 1884–85 St Andrew's Church, Birchills, Walsall 1884–87 St Mary's Church, Lansdowne Road, Haringey, London 1886–87 St Andrew's Church, Longton, Lancashire 1887 St Barnabas' Church, Nelson Road, Gillingham Kent 1890 Holy Trinity Church, Rickmansworth Road, Northwood, Hillingdon 1894–95 addition of North aisle Oxhey Chapel, Watford, Hertfordshire 1897 Addition of vestries Marlborough College Mission Buildings 1899–1900 St Martin's Church, Kensal Rise, 1899 St George's Church, Freezywater, Enfield, Middlesex 1900–1906 St Philip the Apostle, Tottenham 1906 1909 St Mark's Church, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, Middlesex 1893–1915 St Matthew's Church, Ponders End, Enfield, Middlesex. Addition of chancel 1900-01