Edward Peek
| Revd. Edward Peek MA | |||||||
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| Born | 1841 | ||||||
| Died | 1898 | ||||||
| Residence | Lyme Regis | ||||||
| Occupation | church | ||||||
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1891.01.10 proposed for election at next meeting
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Rousdon’s first vicar was the Reverend Edward Peek, who “owned and lived in Poulet House, now the Alexandra Hotel, where he built the Peek Chapel in the converted stables.” Edward also founded St Michael’s College in Pyne House in Broad Street in Lyme Regis, for the education of sons of the clergy, and he built Coram Tower for college masters to live in. He also paid for the re-decoration of the inside of Lyme’s Elizabethan Guildhall.
the Reverend Edward Peek, a high-church Anglican priest without a parish ... The Reverend Edward Peek (1841-1898) was brother of Sir Henry Peek, Baronet, Conservative MP for Wimbledon, a tea merchant in the City of London and a campaigner for public open spaces, who built the Rousdon estate. The family wealth enabled Edward Peek, who had no church appointment in Lyme itself, to buy Poulett House, now the Alexandra Hotel. From 1884-86 he employed Vialls to completely redesign the interiors and to convert the stables into a chapel ‘in the style of the English renaissance’. This was not Vialls’ usual church style. Vialls’ brief included the design of all the furnishings, which were acquired from leading suppliers in London. In 1884 Peek also commissioned Vialls to design a new churchyard cross for Combpyne as a memorial to the rector William Poulton and to produce the plans for his St Michael’s College, intended as a school for the sons of clergy for which he bought the former vicarage in Pound Road in 1888 (now Coram Court and the adjoining Coram Tower). Vialls’ work here was in a mixture of styles: Coram Court was modified by adding a turret with a fine carving of St Michael by the leading architectural sculptor Thomas Earp (1828-93); Coram Court is early 17th century in style. In 1889 Peek paid for the new screen in the parish church, designed by Vialls. The College did not long survive Edward Peek’s death in 1898. The Peek family eventually gave the chapel to the vicar of Lyme Regis, it continuing in use for religious purposes until the 1960s.
