page_title: Temple Moore
section_title: Life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Temple Moore / Life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Tombstone of Temple Lushington Moore, north churchyard extension, St John at Hampstead.jpg. Also features his son Richard Moore.
context_page_description: Temple Lushington Moore was an English architect who practised in London. He is famed for a series of fine Gothic Revival churches built between about 1890 and 1917 and also restored many churches and designed church fittings. He did some work on domestic properties, and also designed memorial crosses.
context_section_description: Temple Moore was born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland, and was the son of an army officer. He was educated at Glasgow High School, then from 1872 privately by the Revd Richard Wilton in Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire.  In 1875, he moved to London and was articled to architect George Gilbert Scott, Jr.  Although Moore set up his own practice in 1878, he continued to work closely with Scott, helping to complete his works when Scott's health deteriorated. From the early 1880s he travelled widely studying buildings on the continent, chiefly in Germany, France and Belgium. He was particularly impressed by the great medieval brick churches of north Germany, echoes of which can be found in some of his own impressively austere brick churches
  In 1884 he married Emma Storrs Wilton, the eldest daughter of the Revd Wilton and thus was related to  Canon Horace Newton for whom he undertook church restoration work and a large house, Holmwood, Redditch, Worcestershire.  Moore's pupils included Giles Gilbert Scott, son of George Gilbert Scott, Jr.
  In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Moore's only son, Richard (1891-1918), was articled to his father and it was expected that he would continue the practice.  However he pre-deceased his father, being killed in 1918 when RMS Leinster was torpedoed and sunk off Dublin.  Temple Moore's son-in-law, Leslie Thomas Moore, joined the practice during the following year.
  Temple Moore died at his home in Hampstead in 1920, and was buried at St John's Church, Hampstead.  His estate amounted to a little over £5,635 (equivalent to £230,000 in 2019). Leslie Moore continued the practice, completing some of Temple Moore's commissions.
caption: Moore's tombstone, also commemorating his son Richard Moore, lost in 1918 in the sinking of the RMS Leinster.
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