Traylen and Lenton was an architectural practice in Stamford, Lincolnshire. The practice had offices at 16 Broad Street, Stamford and were the successors to a line of architects working in Stamford, starting in the 1830s with Bryan Browning and continued by his son Edward Browning. The Brownings' practice was purchased by John Charles Traylen in 1888. Henry Francis Traylen became a partner in the practice and sole proprietor after his father's death in 1907. Frederick James Lenton worked as his assistant from 1908 until he became a partner in the practice with Traylen in 1921/2. The partnership had offices in Newark, Grantham and Peterborough, as well as Stamford.
The Partners
Henry Francis Traylen was the son of John Charles Traylen. Born in Leicester and educated at Stamford School,. He was articled to his father, 1891-5 and passed qualifying exams for the RIBA in 1894. Assistant at the Leicester Architectural practice of Everard and Pick, 1895-c.1900 and attended Peterborough and Leicester Colleges of Art, 1895-c.1899; ARIBA 1899, awarded RIBA Silver Star for measured drawings of Burghley House, 1901. Returned to Stamford, because of his father's ill health, and worked with his father until his father's death in 1907. Frederick James Lenton was articled to the Stamford architect T.J. Ward from 1904-1908 and then joined John Charles Traylen as his assistant. He became an ARIBA in 1912.
Ye Olde Crowne, Clasketgate, Lincoln. The building replicates many features of the Olde Crowne which was demolished to make way for this building.
New Manvers Arms, Monks Road, Lincoln for Mowbray and Company. Neo-Georgian brick. Closed 2007 and demolished shortly afterwards
The Roaring Meg, Nettleham Road, Lincoln; Mowbray and Company
Stamford.
London Inn, Stamford. The London Inn, at the junction of St John's and Castle Streets was built 1939-40 in a Stamford early 17th century vernacular domestic style. It is built in ashlared Limestone. It is topped by a steeply pitched Collyweston slate roof with late 17th early 18th century style chimney stacks. The building is of two storeys consisting of two façades and a splayed corner There are four gabled early 17th century style canted bays, two on each façade. The fenestration of the main building is regular and all the windows have ovolo moulded jams, mullions and lintels.
Half Moon Inn, Stamford. Corner of Star Street with St Paul's Street. Built in a Stamford early 17th century vernacular domestic style. Local Lincolnshire ashlar limestone, with a Collyweston slate roof. All the visible frontages are in traditional materials. Most of the window jambs, door frames and quoins are of artificial stone, though some on the St Paul's Street façade are natural stone. The fenestration, particularly on the Star Lane façade, do not line up with those on the ground floor, There is a single four-light window, while the remainder are three-light, under the larger gable on the Star Lane façade. following function’. Steeply pitched roof with three stone chimney stacks in a late 17th or early 18th century style.
Churches restored by Traylen and Lenton
St Margaret's church, Waddingworth, Lincolnshire. Grade II listed 13th and 14th century church restored in 1808 and again by Henry Traylen in 1913.
St Paul's Church, Stamford restored and extended in 1929-30 for use as the school chapel in commemoration of those old boys and staff who had died in the First World War.
War Memorials
Traylen designing a large number of war memorials: e.g. Broad Street Stamford, village crosses at Apethorpe, Easton-on-the-Hill, churchyard crosses at Belton-in-Rutland, Collyweston, Thornhaugh, Werrington, lychgate at Weston and many other memorials: panels, tablets, lychgates, doorways throughout the east of England.
Literature
Antram N, Pevsner N & Harris J,, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
