Laurence Arthur Turner
Laurence Arthur Turner was an English artisan and master craftsman.Career
The brother of the architect Thackery Turner, was a leading figure in woodcarving and ornate stonemasonry, and undertook many prestigious commissions. He executed ceilings in Hampton Court Palace.
He was employed by Walter Cunliffe to decorate his new home, built in 1898, Headley Court. Here he upholstered the drawing room with limed chestnut Elizabethan jewel panelling and a chimneypiece from Hinchingbrooke Hall with very fine Jacobean style plaster ceiling. The former smoking room, now the Mess Bar, is panelled and has a carved chimneypiece with arcading on caryatides. The elaborate ceiling in this room he embellished and depicts Tudor roses, fleur-de-lis and rabbits, the latter in recognition of the family name. It was originally white.
