Charles Buckeridge (circa 1832–1873) was a British Gothic Revival architect who trained as a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 366 He practised in Oxford 1856–1868 and in London from 1869. He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1861.
Family
Charles was born in France, the son of Charles Elliott Buckeridge and his wife Eliza, the daughter of John Eyre of Reading, Berkshire. He grew up in Salisbury in Wiltshire. He was married and raised three sons and three daughters in Oxford, including John Hingeston Buckeridge, who was a church architect, and Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864–1898), who painted church interiors. Charles was brother-in-law of the botanist Giles Munby.
He died of heart disease at the age of 40 on 1 September 1873 in Hampstead, and was buried at St John's Church there.Death notice in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 6 September 1873, plus burial register on Ancestry for place of death and burial.
Work Much of Buckeridge's work was for parish churches and other institutions of the Church of England. Dates that Sherwood and Pevsner cite for work at Charlbury and Emmington suggest that these works, like that at Bletchingdon, were completed posthumously.
St Cross School, Oxford, 1858 (for a time the premises of St Cross College, Oxford)Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 244 All Saints, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1859; vicarage, 1860Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 304 Ascot Priory, Ascot, Berkshire: buildings for the Society of the Holy Trinity, 1861Pevsner, 1966, page 68 St Mary the Virgin, Cottisford, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1861Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 558 St Peter, Wolvercote, Oxfordshire: rebuilt church, 1862Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 851 St Helen, Benson, Oxfordshire: new chancel, 1862Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 450 St John the Evangelist, Little Tew, Oxfordshire: teacher's house, school and almshouses, 1862Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 691 10, Parks Road, Oxford: house, 1862Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 276 9, Norham Gardens, Oxford: house, 1862–63Pevsner & Sherwood, 1974, page 318 St Peter, Little Wittenham, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire): rebuilt church, 1863Pevsner, 1966, page 169 All Saints, Blackwater, Hampshire: extension, 1863Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 280 Court House, New Road, Oxford, 1863Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 303 Saint Swithun, Merton, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1865Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 700 St Mary, Streatley, Berkshire: rebuilt church, 1865Pevsner, 1966, page 230 3, Norham Gardens, Oxford: house, 1865–66 St Peter, Radway, Warwickshire, 1866Pevsner & Wedgwood, 1966, page379 Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Oxford: new convent, 1866–68 (now St Antony's College, Oxford)Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 239 St Nicholas, Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1867Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 486 St Mary, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire: remodelled Old Rectory, 1867Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 693 St Mary, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire: restored church, 1867–68 All Saints, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, 1867–68Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 452 St Peter, Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1868–69Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 529 Holy Cross, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1869Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 757–758 St John the Evangelist, Little Tew, Oxfordshire: church tower, 1869Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 690 St Andrew, South Stoke, Oxfordshire: Vicarage, 1869Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 774 SS James & John chapel, Brackley, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1869–70Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 116 St Helen, Benson, Oxfordshire: Old Vicarage, 1869–70Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 451 Llanthony Abbey, Capel-y-ffin, 1870 All Saints, Emscote, Warwick: font cover, 1871Pevsner & Wedgwood, 1966, page 451 St Nicholas, Chadlington, Oxfordshire: new chancel, 1870 Brightwell village school (now the Stewart Village Hall), 1870 All Saints, Emscote, Warwick: font cover, 1871 St Mary, Little Houghton, Northamptonshire: rebuilding, 1873Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 293 St Peter, Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1873Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 786 St John's Home, Leopold Street, Oxford (now part of All Saints' Convent), 1873Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 343 St Michael and All Angels, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire: reredos mosaic of the Last Supper, 1873Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 549 St Mary the Virgin, Charlbury, Oxfordshire: new chancel, 1874Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 527 St Nicholas, Emmington, Oxfordshire: rebuilt chancel and nave, 1874Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 592 St Giles, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire: restoration planned 1869 and completed posthumously in 1878.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 475 Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire: reredos paintings in north transeptPevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 409
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