This application will be heard at the Planning meeting on Wednesday 11 March in the Council Chamber at 6.45pm. Please consider attendance if you are able.
This house has grand associations, said to be a former home of Sir Edward Clarke, former Conservative M.P. for Southwark (briefly) then Plymouth (for twenty years), and Solicitor-General from 1886–92. St Peter’s Church Staines was endowed by Sir Edward Clarke. In his role as Solicitor -General, the stalwart Sir Edward was involved in many famous cases. For example, he courageously and without fee represented Oscar Wilde in court, though he failed to win him an acquittal. During the Plymouth years, Clarke had become a close friend of Rev. George Rundle Prynne (see Clarke’s obituary of Rev. Prynne in Sharville), and it was natural that the commission for St Peter’s Church should go to his son, who had already made a name for himself as an architect. On its consecration in 1894 the fine new St Peter’s Church became “a separate benefice, with a parish attached” (Reynolds).
The society have commented on this application – you can see our full submission under the “Planning Applications” tab, on this website.
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