Charles Sydney Spooner
Born 6 January 1862
Died 30 December 1938
Active: 1891 - 1937
Country of birth and death: England
Architect, teacher, art metal work designer
He exhibited regularly with the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (a small sample of works is given below. Spooner was married to Minnie Dibdin (sometimes Dibden) Davison (also known as Mrs. Spooner), painter and miniaturist (born 18 March 1867 in St Marylebone, London and died in 1949). His works included two war memorials at Hadleigh, Suffolk (1919) and Ranby, Nottinghamshire (c.1921).
Works
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Design for a carved and painted reredos for St. Lawrence Church, Pensax
Altar, with its Ornaments and Ciborium, for a Church in Belgium
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Ninth Exhibition, 1910
'Design for a carved and painted reredos for St. Lawrence Church, Pensax'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Multiple works
Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905
Speaker at Stone-carving (Art Workers Guild), 1915
Speaker at Co-operation of the Architect and the Craftsman (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at Craft Movement and Agricultural Conditions (Art Workers Guild), 1916
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher at Central School of Arts and Crafts
1899 (Circa) - 1930 (Circa)
Listed as a teacher of 'Design for Cabinet Makers, Metal Workers' in 1899. In the 1903 school timetable, Spooner is listed as teacher of 'Furniture and Metal Work Design'. In 1908 he is listed as teacher of 'Furniture Design', he continued to teach aspects of furniture design until the late 1920s
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with H. Lawrence Christie
Collaborated with Emile Hyrlen
Collaborated with Isidore Maas
Collaborated with Christopher Whitworth Whall
Collaborated with Veronica Whall
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Architect and teacher L.C.C.' working on own account and worker and his wife, Minnie Dibdin (sic) Spooner as 'Artist (Painter)' at home
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.9.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1915, p.16.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.82, p.191, p.223, p.220, p.242.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Ninth Exhibition.
1910
p.112, p.161, p.168.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN237 RG78PN8 RD3 SD2 ED11 SN22
Central School of Arts and Crafts, Prospectus and Time-Table. Fourth Session Commencing 18 September 1899
18 September 1899
p. 2.
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus & Time-Table for the Session Commencing 21 September 1908
21 September 1908
p. 2.
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus and Time-Table of the Session 1928-1929
24 September 1928
daytime and evening timetables (no page reference)
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus and Time-Table. Eighth Session Commencing 14 September 1903
14 September 1903
pp. 2, 16
Citing this record
'Charles Sydney Spooner', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1212424639, accessed 08 Jun 2023]
