Richard Twentyman

(Alfred) Richard Twentyman (1903–1979) was an English architect based in Wolverhampton; chiefly known for modernist buildings around the English midlands.

Life

Twentyman was born in 1903 in Bilbrook, Staffordshire. He was educated at Cambridge University where he studied engineering and then architecture at the Architectural Association in London. In 1933 he joined H. E. Lavender in Wolverhampton and formed Lavender and Twentyman.

He served with the Royal Engineers during World War II. The gallery held an exhibition of his paintings and drawings after his death.

Twentyman died on 13 December 1979 aged 76.

Works

The Mitre, Bradmore 1935 Golden Lion, Cannock Road, Wolverhampton 1935 Oxley Moor Hotel, Wolverhampton 1937 The Pilot, Wolverhampton 1937 The Spring Hill, Penn 1937 The Red Lion, Wednesfield 1938 The Spring Hill, Wolverhampton 1939 The Victoria, Moseley 1939 St Martin's Church, Parkfields, Wolverhampton 1939 St Gabriel's Church, Walsall 1939 All Saints' Church, Darlaston 1952 Bushbury Crematorium, Wolverhampton 1954 GKN Research Laboratories, Birmingham New Road, Wolverhampton 1954 The Good Shepherd Church, Castlecroft, Wolverhampton 1955 Emmanuel Church, Bentley, Walsall 1956 St Nicholas' Church, Radford, Coventry 1957 (demolished 2024) St Chad's Church, Rubery 1960 St Andrew's Church, Runcorn 1964 St Andrew's Church, Wolverhampton 1965 - 1967 Redditch Crematorium 1973