(1908); Uplands (Stroud), Gloucestershire (1908–1910); Upper Tooting, All Saints (1909); Longsight (Manchester), St. Cyprian (1914); Basingstoke, All Saints (1915–1917). Moore also designed the Anglican cathedral at Nairobi (1914), the nave of Hexham Abbey (1902–1908), and the chapels at Pusey House, Oxford, and the Bishop's Hostel, Lincoln. About sixty churches were either added to or restored by him, and in many of these there is furniture and decoration of his invention. His skill in the design of such accessories brought him also many opportunities for its display in buildings with which he was not otherwise connected.
Moore was the architect of Bilbrough Hall, near York, Southill Park, near Bracknell, Berkshire, and several other houses, including about ten parsonages. He designed alterations and additions at Warter Priory and at Allerton Hall, Yorkshire, and elsewhere, and gained great credit from his contemporaries for his restoration of the Treasurer's House and of St. William's College at York. Among his miscellaneous works are some schools and parish halls, the court house at Helmsley, a hospital at Woodhouse Spa, and the Hostel of the Resurrection at Leeds.
Moore's work, like that of G. G. Scott, his master, is important in the history of English architecture not only for its beauty but for its emancipation from the uneasy theories which had hampered its antecedents. Assuming an essential incompatibility between mediaeval architecture and modern life, Augustus Welby Pugin [q.v.], the pioneer of the Gothic revival, had striven to lead men back to mediaevalism; his successor, Sir George Gilbert Scott [q.v.], had striven to bring mediaeval architecture up to date. The school identified with the name of George Gilbert Scott, junior, held that both of these processes were unnecessary; that the Gothic style was still the most natural medium for the church architect to employ, and that its resumption meant not the adoption but the abandonment of a restrictive convention. Moore, even more than Scott, seems to have thought and built in Gothic without any effort at stylism. His designs are indistinguishable in kind from those of the Middle Ages, and as independent of exact precedent as they. The limits of his style were the limits of his predilections: his buildings, although purely Gothic, appear to have been designed with no constraint save that of his vigilant good taste. The church of St. Wilfrid, Harrogate, and that of St. Peter, Barnsley, show his style at its grandest; the chapel at Pusey House, Oxford, and that at the Bishop's Hostel, Lincoln, at its most delicate.
Moore died at Hampstead 30 June 1920. He married in 1884 Emma Storrs, elder daughter of the Rev. Richard Wilton, his former tutor, who became canon of York Minster in 1893. They had three daughters and one son, Richard Temple Moore, who assisted his father in his later work, and was drowned in the s.s. Leinster in 1918. Among Temple Moore's pupils was (Sir) Giles Scott, the son of his master.
[Architectural Review, January and February 1926 (containing a descriptive list of Moore's ecclesiastical designs, illustrated); private information.]
MOORHOUSE, JAMES (1826–1915), bishop of Melbourne and afterwards of Manchester, the only son of James Moorhouse, who was master cutler in 1840, by his wife, Jane Frances, only daughter of Captain Richard Bowman, of Whitehaven, was born at Sheffield 19 November 1826. He was educated at a private school and at St. John's College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1853. After serving curacies at St. Neot's (1853–1855), at Sheffield (1855–1859), and at Hornsey (1859–1861), he was appointed perpetual curate of St. John's, Fitzroy Square, London, in 1862, and vicar of St. James's, Paddington, in 1868. In 1874 he was made chaplain in ordinary to the Queen and prebendary of St. Paul's. He married in 1861 Mary Lydia, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Sale [q.v.], vicar of Sheffield. There were no children of the marriage.
In 1876 Moorhouse was consecrated bishop of Melbourne, where his episcopate was signalized by the building of a cathedral, and by his presiding over the synod in Sydney which framed the constitution of the Church in Australia. Even more memorable were his brilliant lectures, historical, philosophical, and theological, which drew audiences of some four thousand people. By these lectures, and by undaunted courage in conflict with impurity, injustice, and violence, Moorhouse contributed greatly to the recovery of Melbourne society from the demoralizing effects of the gold-fever. By unwearied journeys, during five months in each year, to distant out-stations, he stimulated the religious life of settlers, and set the type of the colonial episcopate.
From Melbourne Moorhouse was called to the see of Manchester in 1886. Besides the ordinary activities of a very extensive diocese, to which he devoted himself wholeheartedly, he undertook a personal
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