Horace Field was born the son of the architect Horace Field (1823-1879) in London, England on 17 July 1861. After training with Sir John James Burnet (1857-1938) in Glasgow, he was articled to Sir Robert William Edis (1839-1927). He also attended South Kensington School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London. He set up an independent practice in 1885, and from 1905 to 1915 was in partnership with Charles Evelyn Simmons (1879-1952) as Horace Field & Simmons. Field and Simmons appear to have also been in partnership with Cyril Arthur Farey (1888-1954) as Horace Field, Simmons & Farey, and with Amos Faulkner (1868-1940) as Horace Field, Simmons & Faulkner [more research needed]
A drawing and a plan of a house in Suffolk by Horace Field & Simmons and a photograph of a dull bronze fireplace designed by Horace Field & Simmons, architects, and executed by the Teale Fireplace Co. are featured in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1907 (pp.21, 107) and two photographs of Gorse Cottage in Woking, Surrey, designed by Horace Field are featured in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1913 (p.24).
Field was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1903. He was the co-author, with Michael Bunney , of 'English Domestic Architecture of the XVII and XVIII Centuries' (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1905).
Field exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts between 1886 and 1930.
His address was given as 1 Langham Chambers, Langham Place, London and Cannon Place, Hampstead, London in 1903; 21 Berners Street, London and South Hill, Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey in 1914; 5 Gower Street, London in 1923 and 1930; and Stuttles, 22 Military Road, Rye, Sussex in 1939 and 1948. He died in Hastings, Sussex on 16 June 1948.
Architectural projects by Field included Wedderburn House, 1 Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1884–85); Wedderburn Cottage" 3, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1886); 5, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1886) 7 and 9, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1887); 11 and 13, Wedderburn Road, Hampstead (1888); "The Hoo"; 17, Lyndhurst Gardens (1889–90); 11, 12 and 13 Gainsborough Gardens, Camden (1893–95); 14, Gainsborough Gardens, Hampstead (1894–95); Lloyds Bank, 40 & 40A, Rosslyn Hill, with adjoining terraced houses (1895-97); 19, 20 and 21 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead (1897–98); alterations to Granville Hotel, Ramsgate, Kent (1900); North Eastern Railway company offices, York (1900–06); 5. St. Clements Lane, 6 and 7, Portugal Street, City of Westminster )1903); Lloyds Bank, 36 High Street, Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex (1903); London offices for the North Eastern Railway, 4, Cowley Street, City of Westminster, (1904–05); Church Times building, Portugal Street, London (1905); 4 Cowley Street, Westminster, London (1905); 10-15 Great College Street, Westminster, London (1905); Lloyds Bank, West Street, Okehampton, Devon (1908); 8, Barton Street, City of Westminster (1909); 12A and 14–18 Devonshire Street, Marylebone (1912), with Simmons & Faulkner; 7 Palace Green, Kensington (1913) with Simmons and Faulkner; Priors Hill, 48 Park Road, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (c.1914); and Gorsehill, Leiston Road, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (1928). He also designed the premises of G. Bell & Sons, and 'Church Times' in Portugal Street, London; and a golf clubhouse in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
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See also
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy. ‘Horace Field and Lloyds Bank’. Architectural History vol. 53, 2010 pp. 271-294
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Gray, A. Stuart. Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1985
‘Obituary’. The Builder 25 June 1948 p. 766