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Harold Stratton Davis

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Howard Stratton Davis MC (1885 - after 1970) was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers and architect. He specialised in churches, vicarages and rectories.

Military service

Stratton Davis began his military career as an enlisted soldier. He was promoted from lance-corporal in the Royal Engineers, South Midland Divisional Engineers, to second lieutenant in October 1915.[1] He was awarded the Military Cross in 1918 when he was lieutenant, acting major, for:

...conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in organising the digging of a line of posts under heavy machine-gun fire and visiting them all at great personal risk. On another occasion he displayed great determination and courage in collecting and assisting to reorganise, under artillery and machine-gun fire, the troops which had passed through the line of posts held by his company.[2]

Architecture

Stratton Davis practiced as an architect in Gloucester as Stratton Davis, Yates and Dolman.[3][4] He was a fellow of the Society of Architects (FSA). His son, David Stratton Davis, continued his practice.[5]

Among his notable work is grade II listed Holy Trinity Church, Longlevens, (1933-34) which he designed in a fifteenth century perpendicular Gothic style along with most of the interior fittings.[6]

Outside architecture, he was secretary and treasurer of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Trust.

Selected publications

  • Cox, John Charles. (1949) Gloucestershire. (Eighth edition) London: Methuen & B.T. Batsford. (Reviser)

References

  1. ^ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29322/supplement/10017/data.pdf
  2. ^ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30813/supplement/8793
  3. ^ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/73730f85-66a8-4c64-aabd-6d2baad0468f
  4. ^ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/01f6e1fb-1f39-407e-935b-b52251a6b7ac
  5. ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=m9W2XH11-9EC&pg=PA124
  6. ^ Historic England. "Church of the Holy Trinity (1419405)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 August 2017.