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MSB by James St Clair Wade Old Salopian James St Clair Wade Letterpress artwork by Rachel Lloyd
OS (OLD SALOPIANS) EXHIBITION: James St.Clair Wade –
Retrospective ‘The Eye of the Architect’ 27th Sept -16th October
James St. Clair Wade was educated at Shrewsbury School, and studied
architecture at St. John’s College, Cambridge and Harvard.
As a student he worked for Arrol and Snell in Shrewsbury and produced the
concept designs for Carline Fields, a sheltered housing development on the
banks of the Severn, which was later selected for inclusion in the Prince of
Wales’s A Vision of Britain (1989).
After qualification he worked for eight years at Nicholas Hare Architects in
London building up experience through a wide range of commercial and
educational projects, including new boarding houses at Leighton Park School
in Reading and Benenden School in Kent.
In 1996 he moved back to Shrewsbury and rejoined Arrol and Snell
Architects as a senior architect, remaining with them for more than twenty
years. During this time he has been involved in numerous conservation and
new build projects, ranging from cottages to country houses and rural parish
churches to cathedrals.
His new classical house, The Mount, is one of the few new buildings in
Shropshire to be listed in the latest edition of Pevsner’s The Buildings of
England (2006) and his cloistered design for the Trinity Centre, a new church
hall at Meole Brace near Shrewsbury, was awarded the EASA President’s
Award in 2008. His conservation work has also been recognised with the
SPAB John Betjeman Award (2005) and a Georgian Group Award (Best
Restoration of a Church, 2010), both for an extended programme of repairs
at St. Alkmund’s Church in Shrewsbury.
As an accomplished artist and draughtsman, he has illustrated several
books and contributed a regular series of caricatures to Shooting Times.
In April 2019 he began work on an ambitious project to record the
historic streetscape of Shrewsbury in a series of architectural views allowing
the whole length of each street to be viewed simultaneously. This is called
the Shrewsbury Streetscape Project.
BIG DRAW House art competition & Outreach ‘Drawing with Senses’
October 2023
ART STAFF EXHIBITION (Featuring our new art fellow, printmaker,
letterpress artist and bookmaker RACHEL LLOYD) 1st-9th December
Instagram: rachlloydpress
Free Admission
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