Gerald Beech
Gerald Rushworth Beech (1921 – 2013) was an English architect.
Beech was born in 1921 in Congleton, Cheshire,[1][2] and educated at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture starting in 1937, and was a staff member there from 1948 to the 1980s.[3]
Beech also ran an architectural practice in Liverpool, Gerald Beech and Partners.[3] He designed the Wyncote Sports Pavilion for the University of Liverpool's sports grounds in Allerton, which won the Civic Trust Award in 1964.[4] Cedarwood, a house he designed with Dewi-Prys Thomas in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, was named "House of the Year" in 1960 by Woman's Journal and was Grade II* listed in 2007.[5][6][7] They also collaborated on a few other buildings, such as the modernist Quaker Meeting House, Heswall, opened 1963, where Beech also designed later modifications in the 1970s.[4] In 1975 he was elected as chairman of the North West Regional Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects.[1]
Beech died in 2013.[3] The Gerald Beech Partnership Papers are held by the University of Liverpool Library.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Special Collections & Archives :: Search :: Results :: Display in Summary". Sca-arch.liv.ac.uk. 20 May 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ↑ "Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006".
- 1 2 3 "Gerald Beech - School of Architecture - University of Liverpool". Liverpool.ac.uk. 22 October 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- 1 2 "Quaker Meeting House, Heswall" (PDF). Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
- ↑ The Twentieth Century Society (2017). 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. ISBN 9781849944373.
- ↑ "Biography". Dewi-Prys Thomas Trust. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ↑ "Cedarwood". English Heritage. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
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