Tutor information
John Bucknall
Grandson of Arthur Bucknall, Sir Ninian Comper’s assistant and “My Other Pair of Eyes”. Retired Architect. Wrote undergraduate dissertation on Comper tutored by Anthony Symondson and James Stevens Curl. SPAB Scholar. Worked on National Trust Properties with Rodney Melville including Canons Ashby and Calke Abbey. Landmark Trust’s Architectural Adviser for Palladio’s Villa Saraceno and other projects. Designer for several organ cases including the Drake Organ, Palace of Westminster. Parish Church work in Midlands and West Country. Member of Founding Committee for William Morris Craft Fellowships.
Courses
Widely hailed as one of Britain’s greatest 20th century church architects, Ninian Comper shaped Catholic taste at home and abroad. This day school in Oxford will bring together a range of new thinking on his work.