John Shewell Corder

Corder came from a well-connected Quaker family with links in East Anglia, North England and Berkshire. He was the son of Frederick Corder and Jane Ransome, daughter of James Ransome.[2] Along with other siblings the family moved to Ipswich in 1860.[3] He was given the name of Shewell from Fredrick's mother, Mary Shewell.[4]

During the period 1872-7, Corder was articled to his step-uncle, the architect Joseph Morris based in Reading.[4] Frederic Corder had married Maria Morris, Joseph's sister, both of whom were children of Thomas Morris and Ann Talwin Shewell.[4]

Corder worked on the exposed timbers and plaster work of the Black Boy using a Tudor style

Corder has been credited with over 100 commissions. These include:[3]

• Boscombe House, 65 Anglesea Road, Ipswich, (Grade II listed building)
• Hacheston Lodge, The Street, Hacheston
• Extra classrooms for Woodbridge School in Burkitt road, Woodbridge, Suffolk,
• Work on the Black Boy public house, Sudbury
• Tranmer House, 1910. Home of Edith Pretty during the 1938-39 excavation of the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial mounds.[5]

He trained Harold Ridley Hooper who later became a prominent Ipswich architect.[6]

Christchurch or Withepole House: A Brief Memorial

Corder joined the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology & History. He also made several contributions to their journal:

• "The Guild Hall, of Corpus Christi, Lavenham" Volume VII, part 2 (1890)

• "The timber framed buildings of Ipswich and their pargetting", Volume VII Part 3 (1891)
• "Notes on Bury corner posts", Volume XVI Part 3 (1918) Published as a separate booklet, 50 copies.[7]

Other publications:

• Ye Olde Corner Posts of Ipswich, (1890) S. H. Cowell: Ipswich
• Christchurch or Withepole House: A Brief Memorial (1893) S. H. Cowell: Ipswich

• Bettley, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2015). Suffolk: East. Buildings of England. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-19654-2. OCLC 995084088.