Internal remodelling: Birkby Lodge, Birkby Lodge Road. Huddersfield

Internal Remodelling.  Alterations were made at Birkby to an earlier house. (A watercolour by Wood, now in the RIBA Drawings Collection, of a room was exhibited at the Royal Academy 1903. The room was given an elaborate medieval style treatment with panelled walls, a plaster relief over the fireplace by Albert Toft (1862 B 1949), naturalistic metalwork door furniture and a painted frieze. The frieze showing the Arthurian legend of the Holy Grail ran right around the room. In the final part, the quest is within sight. One of the knights is given the features of Edgar Wood. Though it is likely that (F.W.) Jackson designed the frieze, Wood may have helped him to paint it; he is recorded as having helped with the mural at Old Road Chapel, Middleton. [John Archer]

RA        Exhibited at Royal Academy 1903 (no 1508)

Reference    British Architect 19 December 1902 Page 442 and illustration
Reference    John Archer, Partnership in Style, Catalogue to an exhibition of the works of Edgar Wood & J. Henry Sellers, Manchester City Art Gallery, Oct/Nov 1975.