Quinlan and Christine Terry at home and work in Suffolk

 

Morality, Architecture and Belief, Quinlan and Christine Terry at home and work in Suffolk

27th April 2022

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/morality-and-architecture-belonging-and-belief-quinlan-and-christine-terry-at-home-and-work-in-suffolk

 

Quinlan Terry is a deeply serious proselytiser for classical architecture.

His traditional practice  – operating outside the mainstream architectural establishment – has gained him many plaudits and the occasional brickbat.

 

Half-hidden by a Wellingtonia, the house with its Georgian facade, into which Quinlan and Christine Terry moved with their four children in 1980. The classical facade disguises a much older house of red brick. Inside everything is in accord, harmonious and all of a piece and nothing is superfluous – this house has a poetic completeness.

 

Christine Terry was born in Poland in the year in which war broke out and came to England on finishing her Baccalaureate at the age of 16, to train at the AA  [Architectural Association] where she and Quinlan Terry met. ‘ I never really liked the Modern. I knew about the classical orders and how to put washes on watercolours, and Quin rather employed me to help him do a classical scheme.’(…)