George Halford Fellowes Prynne was a church architect working in the Gothic Revival style.
Born Plymouth. 1871 emigrated first to the States and then to Canada, where he was a pupil of architect Richard Windeyer of Toronto, 1872-5. Returning to England he worked in the office of G. E. Street. He set up in independent practice in 1879, established a good reputation as a church architect and was diocesan architect for Oxford from 1913. Collaborated extensively with his brother the painter Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne who provided artwork for a number of the architect's churches.
Latterly Prynne and his family lived at 3 Grange Road, Ealing (building lost). Anglo-Catholic and profoundly religious, he was heavily involved in the parish life of the nearby church that he had designed, St Saviours. He lost two sons in WW1 and went on to design war memorials, though we have not found any by him, that we know of.
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Our colleague, Andrew Behan, states that in addition to the information given on his , his death was registered as aged 74 years in the 2nd quarter of 1927 in the Brentford Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater London). Probate records confirm that his address remained as The Gables, 3 Grange Road, Ealing, Middlesex (now Greater London) and that he died on 7 May 1927. The states that his body was buried in Plot 3746 in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Church Road, Hayes, UB3 2LR. Probate was granted on 1 June 1927 jointly to the Reverend George Henry Marten and to Edward Fletcher Emmet - a solicitor. His effects totalled £5,145-8s-1d.
He is shown as G•H•FELLOWES•PRYNNE : ARCHT on the foundation stone of St Saviour's Church House, The Grove, London, W5.
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