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SOMERSET ARCHITECTS INDEX
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ABBOTT, ARTHUR JOE BOLLEN. Commercial Chambers, Vicarage St, Yeovil. PASI, MRSI, Mem Inst of Hygiene, advert at back of brochure for Wimpey houses, Cedar Grove, Preston, Yeovil, may mean that he designed them c. 1931. 1882-1949. Born Totnes, in Barnet by 1910, from c. 1927 practice in Yeovil, in 1931 dir, home at The Homestead, Noble's Knap, Yeovil; SAS;
1930 Village Hall, North Cadbury, Som; VCH;
1931-2 East Somerset Memorial Hospital, Balsam Park, Wincanton, Som; Legg 108, AJB Abbott; FS 15.10.31; opened 16.7.32; dem;
1933-4 Church hall, Westonzoyland, Som; SRO D/P/w.zoy/5/4/1; conversion of National School of 1840 to church hall, dated 1934 on plaque.
1946 Ref to meeting in Horsington, Som re war memorial building; WG 14.6.46;
ABBOTT, JOHN Plasterer, Frithelstock, Devon. John Abbott Sr 1565-1635 was followed by son Richard Abbott and then by grandson John Abbott Jr 1639-1727. Tiny notebook, family sketchbook over 150 years of designs in Devon RO. John Abbott Sr may have done Triumph of Time overmantel at Binham Grange, Old Cleeve as book has design for similar panel at Dean Head, Swimbridge, Devon, but there are too many dissimilarities to be sure. Binham Grange plaster is by same hand as Marshwood Farm, Blue Anchor, Carhampton, nearby and Penoyres suggest the Skimmington Ride at Montacute (J&J Penoyre, Decorative Plasterwork, 43-44). Linked also are overmantels in Luttrell Arms, Dunster, and No 18 Fore St, Tautnon. Penoyres conclude that Robert Eaton as likely to be responsible as John Abbott Sr. John Abbott Jr did work at the Custom House, Exeter 1680-1, his only authenticated work, in the grand manner of the Dunster Castle ceilings of 1681. There was similar Devon work at Dunsland (c1690 dem) and there is still at Youlston Park (one coat of arms refers to marriage of 1715) and Royal Hotel in Bideford (1688), over Long Gallery at Portledge (late C17), over stairs at Pynes (Upton Pyne c.1700) and Downes (arms of 1739-42 but perhaps earlier) and in Cleeve Ho (late C17) and Franklyn Ho (late C17)(both nr Exeter), Hensleigh, Tiverton (c.1700), and Shell Ho, Topsham (late C17). Somerset ceilings that may be by John Abbott Jr are Steyning Manor, Stoursey (late C17), No 1 High St Wiveliscombe, Fitzhead Court, Nettlecombe Court (c.1704) and Stockland Lovell (Fiddington).
ABERNETHY, GEORGE N. Westminster, engineer. Son of James Abernethy qv. The George Abernethy engineer to Swansea Docks BN 1857 1160, where James Abernethy qv was engineer from 1847, was Georgre's uncle, James's brother, 1815-64, who operated as his assistant on Swansea Docks, Birkenhead Graving Dock;
1892-3 alts Clevedon Pier, Som; Kelly 1906 thoroughly repaired and enlarged and timber landing stage erected for £10,000, reopened 3.4.93, new head 100' long and 50' wide;
ABERNETHY, JAMES Engineer MICE. 1814-96 born Aberdeen, son of George Abernethy who moved to South Wales in 1823 to manage the Dowlais ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, moved to London as foundry manager in 1826, and worked on construction of London Docks. Worked with father at Hythe Pier 1832, then went to Sweden 1833, rejoined father to work on Start Point lighthouse, Devon, 1835. On own from 1836, worked on Goole Navigation, became specialist in marine engineering and docks. Worked on Aberdeen, engineer to Swansea from 1847 and Birkenhead, then dock schemes all over: Cardiff, Fraserburgh, Newport, Swansea, Silloth, Portpatrick, Watchet, Falmouth, Hull (Alexandra Dock). At Birkenhead Rendel’s plans were used, failed, docks rebuilt to Abernethy plans 1866. Grand Canal Cavour, Italy 1862-7; also railways inc Swansea & Neath 1862-3, Turin & Savona, Hayling Island, consultant on Manchester Ship Canal. His brother George 1815-64 worked as his assistant at Swansea and Birkenhead, died suddenly at Natal. James was in partnership with sons James and George qv from 1893;
1858-63 Watchet Harbour, Som; sent by Admiralty in 1855 to report on state of harbour, advised constructing large harbour; commission set up 1857; other plans by Rice Hopkins who died in 1858 and Brunel, both £20000, Abernethy selected £15,250; existing harbour wrecked in Great Storm 1859; new harbour built 1861-3 with 390’ West pier and cast-iron lighthouse 1862 by Hennet, Spink & Else £75, lamp £90 by Stevens & Son; made of stone and wood, severely damaged in 28/12/1900 storm; contractor William Tredwell, £15,068/10/2d; WH Norman, Tales of Watchet Harbour; Samuel Brown resident engineer, Kelly 1906.
ACANTHUS FERGUSON MANN see Ferguson Mann;
ACLAND BARON & SMITH. Devon. Architects. Anne Lady Acland was wife of Sir Richard Acland 1906-90 of Killiton, Devon. Lady Acland ARIBA +1992 was Anne Alford, married 1936, in practice with - Baron and Michael Smith; Baron and Smith had been in architects and buildings branch of the Dept of Educ & Science before going to private practice, inf JFoden. Jeff Sneasby who acted as consultant to Somerset County Council on schools may have been with AB&S (do not recall a Jeff Sneasby perhaps he was with AB&S – JFoden)
(1962-74 buildings, Dartington School, Devon; BoE; Arts Centre 1962 by MSmith; Blacklers 1964, Drama Centre by MSmith;)
1963 Primary School, Chard, Som, for Somerset CC; inf from meeting with SCC architects; possibly Avishayes Primary School, Chard;
1963-4 Parkfield Primary School, Parkfield Rd, Taunton, Som; for Somerset CC, JFoden thinks by Lady Acland;
19?? School for the Disabled, Nailsea, Som; inf SCC architects;
ADAM, ROBERT. Architect, London. 1728-92. Son of William Adam architect, born Kirkcaldy, worked for father and continued business 1748 with elder brother John. Grand Tour 1754-8, set up with brothers William & James. Leading architect of late C18; HC; died Albemarle St BC 8.3.92 consequence of bursting blood vessel in his stomach;
(1761-4 adds Bowood, Wilts: dining room, portico, orangery; also mausoleum complete 1764; WBR; HC; main house dem 1955 apart from orangery and mausoleum; marble chimneypieces 1763 made by Benjamin & Thomas Carter, one Portland stone, six marble;
c1762 Witham Park, Witham Friary, Som. Mansion for William Beckford Sr; land bought 1761, house apparently completed but never occupied (Beckford exh catalogue) when Beckford died 1770 and rapidly dismantled; BAR British Series 267 1998 59; HC; AH 40 997 81-98; illustrated Vitruvius Britannicus 5 38-42; Collinson; SAS says that stones were still being used in 1870 for works on Witham Friary church;
(1763 ?des for Fonthill Splendens, Wilts for William Beckford Jr; WBR, possibly interior work, or error for Witham Park; not in HC: house c1757-70 by a Mr Hoare)
1767 interior decoration Temple of Harmony, Halswell Park, Goathurst, Som; HC; temple designed by Thomas Prowse qv; RL; for Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte; SAS: plasterwork by Thomas Stocking, statue of Terpsichore by John Walsh, drawings in Soane Museum collection;
(1767 des for Pinford Bridge, nr Sherborne, Dorset, with Capt Digby of Sherborne Castle; BoE)
176? Unex plan for Assembly Rooms, Bath; MF; not HC; AFtext very ambitious rejected as too expensive; J Wood II design 1769 accepted;
1769-74 Pulteney Bridge, Bath; MF; BoE N; alts 1792 by T Baldwin, N side reblt 1802-4 by J Pinch Sr; HC;
c1770 Unex des New Prison, Grove St, Bath; for W Pulteney, MF; not in HC; des 1772-3 by TW Atwood qv;
(1770 adds Castle Hotel, Calne, Wilts, WBR; HC has rebuilt garden wall at Castle House for David Bull, dem c1960;
17?? Unex des for Pulteney New Town, Bath; BoE N; not in HC or MF, planned by Thomas Baldwin and blt from 1788, MF;
(1775 monument, Milton Abbey ch, Dorset to Lady Milton; by A Carlini; HC;
ADAM, ROBERT Robert Adam Architects. Neo-traditional designers for Prince of Wales. See also George Saumarez-Smith.
1994ff Plan for Field Farm estate, Shepton Mallet, Som, for Duchy of Cornwall; architecture by Oldfield King; trad style; AFtext;
ADAMS, HENRY PERCY see Adams & Holden
ADAMS & HOLDEN, London. Henry Percy Adams (HPA) (1865-1930) was articled to B Binyon of Ipswich and then with S Salter 1888-98 (S&A); 1st pr Dorking workhouse 1898 HPA. Charles Henry Holden (1875-1960) joined 1898 as assistant designing for Adams (Bristol Central Library 1902), partner 1907 (A&H); Lionel G Pearson joined 1903, partner 1913 (AH&P). Percy Webster Adams partner 1925. One of the leading early C20 firms; ASG 84-5, 211-4; ASG 85 list of works 1901-6. Charles Holden did London underground stations from 1923, London Univ from 1931, RIBA Gold Medal 1936. Wings Cheltenham Gen Hospital 1929 & 1934; biography of Holden by Eitan Karol (EK). AH&P of 9 Knightsbridge in 1922;
(1902-6 Central Library, Bristol; 1902 competition won by HPA but designs were by CHH; sculpture by Charles James Pibworth 1878-1958; Br 2.9.05; Br 20.1.06; CF Dening resident architect; carving by William Aumonier?;
(1910 Adds Bristol Royal Infirmary, King Edward VII Memorial Wing 1911-12 by A&H; AFtext)
(1921 War Memorial gateway, Clifton College, Bristol; SNB; by AH&P, RA 1937 exh; ?by CHH)
1922 Willoughby Cleeve, Hodder Combe, Holford, Som; by CHH acc to EK; dated 1921 for G Falk of WD & HO Wills tobacco; plans by AH&P, D/R/wil/24/1/25; letters re drains signed by Lionel Pearson; HW Pollard & Sons bldrs;
1925-8 Great Hillcroft, Hill Lane, Bicknoller, Som; by CHH, EK; Henry Bickersteth Mayor +1948 former master at Clifton College, inf JSchwieso; similar to but larger than the Holford house;
1932 Royal United Hospital, Bath, Som; by HPA with AJ Taylor qv; SNB; but HPA died 1930;
(1948 Torbay Hospital Chapel, Torquay, Devon; by CHH;
ADAMS, HOLDEN & PEARSON see Adams & Holden
ADAMS, BERNARD CHARLES Somerset County Architect from 1962 in succession to RO Harris. Cf. Somerset County Architects.
ADAMS, HUGH Glastonbury
1819 Vicarage, St John ch, Chilkwell St, Glastonbury, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/ 47; 2st 3w hipped deep-eaved, with Soaneian incised outer piers and French windows.
1821 Parsonage, Walton, Som; VCH; 3-storey; SRO D/D/Bbm/52; large double gabled plain house in Blue Lias;
ADLAM, GEORGE George Adlam & Sons engineers and architects, Bristol, brewery specialists, founded c. 1800, in business until 1965; SAS;
1890 adds Somerset Steam Brewery, West St, Somerton; Thomas Lydford of Castle Cary, builder; SAS; PP;
1896 Bath Brewery, Weston, Bath T: BC 8.10.96 £8393 Henry Martin of Northampton tender accepted;
ADP. Architects, Hendford Manor, Yeovil. Branch of Architects Design Partnership originally in Oxford, with offices in Oxford, Birmingham, Manchester, London and New Delhi. Yeovil office run by James Middleton-Stewart and Chris Thornton (since 1991), with Graham McRuvie associate (since 2001) and Karen Turnbull as EMS and Sustainability manager. Practice did restoration of Oxford Castle 2004-7, numerous university buildings in Oxford, Liverpool, Canterbury, Preston, Birmingham, Warwick. Soar Valley College, Leics;
1995 1st prize Public Library, Glastonbury, Som; curving roof on external columns; 2nd pr to Somerset County Architects, 3rd to Edwards Associates; unex;
2002-4 St Margaret’s Hospice, East Coker Rd, Yeovil, Som; £2.5m
2007 Leonardo Building, Yeovil College, Som; Karen Turnbull proj archt; £4.5 m;
2007 Woodland Court student housing, Bath University, Som; £17.5m; ?not designed in Yeovil office; AJ 20.5.10
2010 (Adds Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton, AJ 20.5.10)
ADSHEAD, STANLEY DAVENPORT 1868-1946 1890 in office of George Sherrin, and several others inc W Flockhart; resident arch at WF’s Rosehaugh, Scotland. 1898 practice w Ernest Willmott, 1911 w Stanley C Ramsay (A&R). 1909ff taught at Liverpool Univ, professor of Civic Design 1912, prof Town Planning London Univ 1914;
(1904 Carnegie Library, Ramsgate, Kent; Br 21,5,04; ASG;
(190? Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate, Kent;)
19?? Restored Assembly Rooms, Bath, Som; bombed 1942; ASG 87;
(1911ff Duchy of Cornwall estate and ch, Kennington, London; A&R; ASG;
ADYE, CHARLES SEPTIMUS Town Hall Chambers, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts; 1841-1906 or c1911, son of doctor, articled Manners & Gill, joined Henry Weaver as assistant later partner W&A; first County Surveyor Wilts 1889-1906. By 1889 worked with son Arthur Herbert Archibald Adye (A&Son). Lived Woolley St, Bradford, 1875 and 1903 dirs; biog in Wilts & Dorset Contemporary Biographies, 1906: of Westbury House, Bradford, MSCS, MSA, practice church restoration and new buildings in Wilts, Som, Worcs, Dorset, Devon, Essex and Derbyshire, important buildings for Wilts CC including police stations, county offices, adds to county lunatic asylum;
(1868 St Catherine Almshouses, Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon Wilts; WBR; three tenements, fourth added 1878, 1878 date on cross-wing)
(1872ff rest Holt ch, Wilts; WSRO 1555/31
(1874 alts Winsley House, Winsley, Wilts; Wilts Times 14.3.74; WBR2; dem and rebuilt 1902 by Silcock & Reay qv;
(1874-6 rest Keevil ch, Wilts; WBR)
(1875? rest Monkton Farleigh ch, Wilts; WBR
(1875-81 rest St Laurence ch, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts; Saxon church discovered by Canon Jones and JT Irvine qv, restoration mainly directed by Jones with supervision and advice from Irvine but Adye, whom Irvine thought young and inexperienced was on spot. He may have designed W wall, c1875, BoE, but this is not clear; Irvine complains of his taking down the teacher's house abutting the S wall as destabilising, and resigned 1881; elev and plan in chapel by Adye; cf HM Taylor in Archaeol Journal 1973 for Irvine's letters;
(1876 St Andrew ch, Melksham Forest, Wilts; WBR;
(1876-8 rest Tallboys, Keevil, Wilts; WBR
(1878 add to St Catherine Almshouses, Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; cf 1868;
1878-9 vicarage, St Luke ch, Wells Rd, South Lyncombe Bath A 7.9.78; £1525 Hill & Gray builders;
(1879 Temperance Tavern, Silver St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; opened 8.8.79; later Knee’s Corner; WBR; dem for road widening.
1888 vestry, Freshford ch, Som; SRO cf/1888/12
1889-90 rest Lamyatt ch, Som; WG 19.10.88; 1889-95 ICBS repair & new Ew, rejected; 1888-90 nave roof embellishments, chancel rebuilt, new E window, SAS;
(1889 Wilts County Council offices, Trowbridge, Wilts, WBR)
(1895-6 Newtown Schools, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; dem; by HA Adye, WBR; plans 1895 by 'MA Adye' WRO G/13/760/4, built as addition to Trinity School Church St the National School built 1836;
(1898 Police Station, Marlborough, Wilts C: BJ 1.12.97; also other police stations;
(1898 Adds Lunatic Asylum, Roundway, Devizes, Wilts C: BJ 8.12.97
(1903 adds Lunatic Asylum Roundway, Wilts WBR, possibly laundry, conv of isolation hospital to villa, and erection of 54-bed villa adjoining;
AEDAS Bristol.
2007-10 adds Writhlington School, Som; AFtext; rebuilt assembly hall after fire;
AHR ARCHITECTS
2011-14 Civic Centre, Keynsham, Som; for BANES council; Willmott Dixon Construction design & build contractor;
AIRD, Sir JOHN Engineer Sir John Aird & Co
(1902-8 Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth, Bristol; AFtext)
AKERMAN, WILLIAM SAVAGE Brick and tile manufacturer Bridgwater, son of William Hine Akerman 1815-82 successor to John Board & Co. Ltd, firm continued by Willliam Savage Akerman 1851-1937; Samson & Cottam designed a brick kiln for him in Wylds Rd Bridgwater, 1893; John Board & Co was name of firm until closure in 1958, SIAS 65 1994;
1880 built Oakfield, Wembdon, plans by Edwin Down & Son qv; SIAS;
1911 The Mount, Burnham on Sea for himself; of concrete, dem 1983; SIAS;
Also built Old Vicarage, Burnham; Malvern, Taunton Rd, Bridgwater; Huntworth house, huntworth, acc to SIAS;
ALDER, J. S. London
1891 vestry Claverton ch, Som; SRO cf/1891/8
1907-8 adds Warleigh Manor, Bathford, Som; AFtext
ALDER, QUENTIN Architect, Weston s Mare, wife Sarah Whittingham wrote book on George Oatley qv;
2011 rest Parkers Field house, North Petherton, Som; pers inf;
2011 alts Wellesley Cott, Dulcote, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
ALEXANDER & THOMAS 8 Willway St, Bristol. Hugh Alexander & Sioned Thomas. 0117 971 6478; est 1992;
1991 refurb of flats, Kingsmead, Bath for Bath City council;
1991 Sedgmoor Splash Leisure Centre, Bridgwater, Som;
(1991 Bridgend Leisure Centre, Glam)
1995 Refurb and extension, halls of residence, Bath Univ, Som;
1993 adds Lubborn cheese factory, Crewkerne, Som; ?at Cricket St Thomas;
2001 house for John Moore, ?nr Bristol, Som; by HA; AJ 10.1.2002; timber-frame from Timber Frame Co, boarded;
201? Proposed Mount Community Centre, Frome, Som;
ALEXANDER, GEORGE 9 John St, Adelphi, London. 1810-86. Designed early palazzo Revival buildings: Obit RIBAJ 2 1886 11. Probably born in Wiltshire, educated in Frome, SAS; had connection with Corsham, Wilts, as was Hon Sec of proposed Wilts Topographical Soc (Wilts Indep 28.1.1849) and promised to write History of Corsham for Society; RH Alexander of Corsham was also a council member; CE Giles qv c1840-42 was apprenticed to a London architect called Alexander which he describes as ‘as bad as the previous error (his apprenticeship 1836-40 with Henry Shaw)’ and Alexander ‘a man absolutely without talent for art of any kind’ ‘devilish temper’ ‘no clients came a second time’); George Alexander of Highworth Wilts who designed Infants School there 1866 may be same, WBR;
1841 unex design for Sunday and infant schools, Christ Church Frome, letter to Thomas Bunn requesting permission to send in plans; SAS; CL 15.11.2011;
1841-2 Bath Savings Bank, Charlotte St, Bath; MF;
(1841-2 East Stour ch, Dorset, SAS)
(1841-3 Betws Garmon ch, Caerns; ICBS; neo-Norman; GA of London & Highworth, Wilts)
(1842 Penrhos ch, Caerns; Neo-Norman)
(1842-4? rectory, Biddestone, Wilts; undated lithograph at house)
(1843 Westbourne Terrace, London;
(1843 Enmore Green ch, Dorset; SAS)
(1844 Cove ch, Hants SAS)
(1846 Motcombe ch, Dorset; SAS)
(1847 Sutton Waldron ch, Dorset SAS)
(1847 Llanwnda ch, Caerns; Norman;
(1848 Sheffield Athenaeum, Yorks;
(1848 Oddfellows Hall, Birmingham;
ALEXANDER, GEORGE PERCY Taunton, born c. 1876 (SAS);
1909 Houses, Gyffarde St, Taunton, Som; D/B/ta/24/1/40/505 design for three houses in terrace;
ALEXANDER, HUGH see Alexander & Thomas
ALLEN & SON. Builders Evercreech. 1906 dir gives Allen & Son as hydraulic & sanitary engineers.
1906 Builders, church hall, North Wootton, Som; named on plaque;
ALLEN, ALFRED Builder, Shepton Beauchamp. Allen Bros 1906 Kelly. Built Stoke Villa 1911, Touraine & Sunnyside, Owsley Cotts, Brimsgrove council houses, all in Shepton Beauchamp, P Pearce village buildings book. Did much building work at Barrington Court in 1920s for Forbes & Tate qqv;
ALLEN, JAMES Bristol Statuary mason and architect. Son of James Allen Sr (c1712-89), apprenticed James Paty 1752, freeman 1780, one of three city surveyors 1788, resigned 1792, bankrupt 1793. Called ‘the principal architect of Bristol’ in 1804;
1776d mon to Rev R Hole, Chilton Polden ch, Som; BoE, possibly JA Sr.
(1787 unex des St Paul ch, Bristol; HC; )
(1790-3 St Thomas ch, Bristol; HC; 1789 GJL; 1789-93 SNB; T: BC 27.5.90;
1796 Winford ch, Som, rebuilt except medieval tower; HC; 1796-7 SAS;
(1796 reps St Mary Redcliffe ch, Bristol; HC; GJL)
17?? Drawing for gatepiers Hinton House, Hinton St George Som; undated; HC;
ALLEN, JAMES MOUNTFORD. Crewkerne and London. 1809-83. Son of Rev John Allen headmaster of Crewkerne Grammar School, brother of Rev John Allen headmaster of Ilminster Grammar School 1822-55. Pupil 1825-30 of Robert Cornish, surveyor to Exeter Cathedral, then London with Charles Fowler. Exh RA 1839-45 drawings of or designs for new vicarages Stepney London and Barnton Cheshire, Thelwall ch Cheshire and E end Shadwell ch Norfolk; Set up in Crewkerne 1849 (1847 SAS), applied to be County Surveyor 1857. Lived at 46 Middle Path, Crewkerne, a house designed 1838 by John Patch, leased it according to owner Simon Andrew. Estate agents say that he lived in 1865 at No 3 Church Street in 1865; Obit list of works Br 3.6.83, copy in SRO;
(1839 exh RA view of Honiton ch, Devon, just erected by Charles Fowler)
1847 ?National School, West St, Crewkerne, Som; obit; infants school 1871; SAS, DD/EDS/6632;
1849 rest Knowle St Giles ch, Som; RL; by MJ Allen, E 1849 142; probably added the chancel to church of 1839-40 by Lewis Vulliamy or James Lockyer qqv; now house. Rev John Allen headmaster of Ilminster was rector here;
1851 Cricket Malherbie ch, Som; 1855 BoES, GR, Kelly; 1851 RL; nd obit; £4500; ill BN 31.1.62 church built some years ago near Ilminster to Stephen Pitt, one of smallest in county, spire, all windows glass by O’Connor, floor tiles by Minton; cf Archiseek website; plaque says founded 1851 by Elizabeth Pitt +1861 in memory husband Stephen +1848;
1852-4 Christ Church, South St, Crewkerne, Som; ICBS; Chick & Son contrs; dem; FS 31.8.52, opened 20.9.54; Br 14.10.54, £3458, Mr M Allen; Perp style; VCH 4 33 closed 1975 and dem; only forecourt walls and piers remain.
1853 adds Free School, Abbey St, Crewkerne; SAS, Henry Perry builder;
1853-4 National School, North St, Ilminster, Som; plans SRO; obit mentions National, Endowed and Board Schools nd, but Board School may be by Paull & Robinson; new schools by JM Allen opened TC 4.10.54, three rooms, Mr Perry, Crewkerne builder;
1853-5 alts St Bartholomew ch, Crewkerne, Som; new screen and panelling to vestry in S transept; VCH 4 32; SRO D/P/crew/4/1/3 and 6/1/2; ?all removed as organ there now;
1856 rest Stocklinch Ottersey ch, Som; book on village history; for Rev Charles Allen;
1856 National School, Shepton Beauchamp, Som; obit nd; 1865 acc to Kelly but error for 1856 acc to VCH 4 221 no archt; ?plans DD/EDS 2954 and C/E 28 not seen; extended N 1909-10, VCH;
1857 Pendomer parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/128; large gabled, now Pendomer House;
1857-9 Chard Cemetery, Som; DoE; twin chapels linked by vaulted porte cochere; £3500; lodge dated 1860; Combe Road; 1859 Pulman, Book of the Axe, 1875, 518-9; consecrated 19.11.59
1858 rebuilt Chillington ch, Som, SAS; VCH 4 128 rebuilt body of church:
1858-60 rebuilt Chaffcombe ch, Som, exc tower; BoE S; GR; ICBS 1857-60; enlarged chancel, rebuilt nave S wall, ext N aisle, rebuilt porch, new roof, RL; 1858 VCH 4 128; vestry 1877, tower reblt 1882;
1859 Vicarage, Misterton, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/133; hipped Late Georgian;
1860 rest Ilton ch, Som; obit; RL, N aisle, chancel rebuilt, nave rest; Br 29.9.60; TC 19.9.60; Charles Munden builder, monument by Henry Davis qv probably also designed by JMA, SAS; Br 29.6.60 and obituary;
1860 Ayres House, No 6 East St, Crewkerne, Som; built as solicitors’ office for Sparks & Blake; S Andrew, East St Crewkerne a guided walk, 2010, 29-30;
1860-1 rest Barrington ch, Som; 1860-3 ICBS; S aisle and vestry 1860-1 VCH 4, CB 1862 106; obit; Maurice Davis qv builder, SAS;
1862-3 Dinnington ch, Som; 1862-4 ICBS; BN 31.1.62; mostly 1863 BoE S; reopened 1863: W gallery removed nave lengthened by 3 ft, ?Br 1863; ICBS plan shows no structural alts; obit;
1863 adds vicarage, Crewkerne, Som; obit; D/D/Bbm/141 plans 1863 minor rear kitchen to a four-bay house with porch in third bay, so ?not The Grove, Pople's Well, suggested in SAS; 1862-3 VCH 4 30 vicarage built c1840, further adds by JMA 1882;
(1863-4 rebuilt Chardstock ch, Devon; BoE; obit; JMA designed E window glass by O’Connor; SCG 8.10.64; obituary says that reredos here served as model for other local churches;
1863-5 alts West Coker ch, Som; ICBS; rebuild N aisle, new S porch, windows; 1863 plans by CE Giles D/D/cf/1863/7 not used?; CB 1865 39; obit nd; Br 1864 852, mentions stained glass E window, no artist named, says four more are planned by O’Connor; opened, N & S arcades replicas of old but one bay added to W on N aisle, N aisle taken down and enlarged, chancel arch rebuilt, lengthen chancel to avoid awkward effect of three gables in line, opening side aisles to chancel with proper arcades instead of square-lintel openings; Portman aisle repaired reseated larger arch to N side; C19 S aisle modified; old porch re-erected on s side and whole aisle remodelled to same date as porch; new 3-lt windows in S side and W end;tower arch enlarged, new tower screen and new W window under which Perp door will be placed. New open timber single roofs in N aisle, chancel and chancel roof divided by ribs the plaster between stencilled and emblazoned by Mr Stansell. Open timber nave roof of near same date as old but different in character; seated w plain open benches, nave oak ones reused, chancel fitted w oak stalls, paved with encaustic tile by Maw & Co, glass in E window given by rector, in w by Mrs Penny, four S windows gifted, all by Messrs O’Connor; contractor R Bartlett (Edwin Robert Bartlett SAS) of West Coker, architect M Allen;
1865? School, Shepton Beauchamp, Som; obit nd; 1865 acc to Kelly but error for 1856 acc to VCH 4 221 no architect named; ?plans DD/EDS 2954 and C/E 28; extended 1909-10, VCH SRO C/E 28;
(1867 Drimpton ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1867-8 Thorncombe ch, Dorset; BoE)
1867 Cemetery, South Petherton, Som; lay-out, lodge, two chapels; T: SCH 18.5.67; VCH 4 191, WG 2.6.65?; tile paving plan in Maw’s archive N&Q 1994 340
1867-83 alts Middle Chinnock ch, Som; obit nd; ICBS; SAS nave ceiling and roof 1871; chancel arch and chancel roof 1873-4 by Charles Trask builder; transepts 1883, organ chamber; SAS; Charles Trask builder; WG 17.4.74;
(1868 rebuilt Broadwindsor ch, Dorset; BoE; obit;
1869-70 rest Pitminster ch, Som; obit; WG 29.4.70; SAS; RL, repewing; ICBS plan shows rebuilt N aisle wall and S porch; ?also replaced clerestory windows, chancel arch, N aisle windows; replaced arcades; top to S rood-stair turret; reopened TC 27.4.70, JM Allen; but church guide says restoration was by GG Scott; stone pulpit sent to Hemyock in 1952;
1872-3 rest Henstridge ch, Som; SRO; 1871-4 ICBS new S aisle; partial rebuild; 1872-3 SAS vestry dem N arcade and part of N wall rebuilt, S aisle porch vestry and organ chamber added; upper stage of tower rebuilt 1881; ??tower bebuilt c1900 by E Buckle qv
1873-4 chancel, Middle Chinnock ch, Som; D/D/Bbm/200; WG 17.4.74, church reopened, Charles Trask builder;
1874-6 National School, Curry Rivel, Som; obit nd; Samuel Webb, Wiltown, builder, £928; DD/EDS/6635;
1875 rest Closworth ch, Som; obit nd; SAS; by H Parsons of Haselbury acc to SRO, but Parsons the contractor; ?rebuilt after a fire;
(1875 rest chancel, Holcombe Rogus ch, Devon; BoE; obit; inc stalls, reredos carved by H Hems;
(1875-7 Corscombe ch, Dorset; BoE; WG 5.2.75;)
1875-6 report Harvey’s Almshouses, High St, Chard, Som; Tony Prior, Harveys, 2009, 18-19, JMA recommended removal of Ham stone chimneys and replacement in Stoke sub Hamdon stone, but replaced in terracotta by J Harbour qv builder, 1876.
1877 Crewkerne Board School, Som; Br 1877 170; Ashlands Primary School, North Road, Gothic; extended 1896;
1877-8 Clapton Board School,West Crewkerne, Som; RL; obit;
1877 attrib Board School, Broadway, Som, looks like Ilminster Board School but these may be by Paull & Bickerdike qv.
1878 ?Board Schools, Ditton St, Ilminster, Som, obit; but plans by Paull & Bickerdike qv. Went to tender in 1875; SRO has plans for a school by JMA for the National School 1853; JMA did the Endowed School in 1878 for Ilminster Grammar School;
1878 Endowed School, Wharf Lane, Ilminster, Som; obit; the present Greenflyte Primary School built for the Boys Grammar School; £1592/4/9d; builders John Henry Langdon & - Poole of Minehead; Wharf Lane extension 1894 by W Wooler qv lengthened S 1912; Graham, Ilminster Grammar School, 1971; SAS;
(1878 rebuilt West Knoyle ch, Wilts exc tower; WBR; WG 25.4.79, builders Oborne & Son)
1879 ?alts parsonage Henstridge, Som; obit, RL nd; ?SRO D/D/Bbm/241 1879 refers; Georgian house with adds;
1880-1 ?repairs Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; an enquiry made to ICBS not followed up; screen of 1880 was by AW Blomfield.
1882 adds Crewkerne vicarage, Som; RL; SRO D/D/Bbm/253 1882;
(1883-4 Holcombe ch, Devon, built after his death; obit)
Also:
(All Saints ch, Thelwall, Ches (obit);
(Stepney Rectory London? (obit);
(Barnton Rectory Cheshire (obit);
Oratory School, Bath (obit);
National School, Combe St Nicholas (obit) much extended in 1920s and 1930s; National School & Infant School, Crewkerne (obit). Is this the original National of 1847 in West St or the infants addition 1871 or both?
(Industrial School, Chardstock, Devon (obit);
(National School, Beaminster, Dorset (obit);
(National School Yarcombe Devon (obit);
National School, Chard, Som (obit) ?where;
Attributed, in Crewkerne:
?Brimcombe House 1855;
No 12 East St c1850-60;
adds No 3 Church St;
Board School, Broadway, Som, 1877, looks like Ilminster Board School.
ALLIES & MORRISON
(2004 visitor centre, Bristol Cathedral;)
ALLNER, JAMES Architect, Poole Dorset WwinA 1926 says considerable domestic work in Dorset, Hampshire and Somerset; also choir stalls, St Saviour Woolcott Park Bristol and alts adds to Tudor House, Winchcombe, Glos;
ALVES, GEORGE Architect, and surveyor, Norbyns Rd, Glastonbury, Kelly 1889, borough surveyor, sanitary inspector etc 1893-1929; 1856-1937, born Glastonbury, partnership with Henry Hawkins builder, see Hawkins & Alves; John Alves, mason, born 1848, apprenticed his son Maurice born 1879 to John Merrick qv of F Merrick & Son builders in 1895, SRO;
1893 WM chapel, Leigh Rd, Street, Som; by Hawkins & Alves acc to FS, James Pursey contractor;
ALVES, HAROLD NORMAN. Architect, 27 High St Glastonbury in 1931; still in practice 1950; architect & surveyor to the Upper Brue Internal Drainage Board, SAS;
1920 Council housing, Newtown, Glastonbury, Som; VCH; 1919-20 SAS;
1928-9 Masonic Hall, Harrow Square, Glastonbury, Som; SAS;
1931 plan of National Westminster Bank, High St, Castle Cary, Som; RBS archives;
193- Factory building for Morlands, Glastonbury, Som; known as The Bauhaus Building recently; inf Chris Black;
AMES, THOMAS Bath, see Wilson, Willcox & Ames
1883 chancel, St Mark ch, Lyncombe Bath; by TA of WW&A; MF;
ANDERSON, WILLIAM E. ELLERY. Architect, Cheltenham. 1887-1943. In Bristol with FB Bond c1913-14 B&EA, ?in Oxford before Cheltenham. Had office in Carmarthen in 1930s, from which secured church work in St Davids diocese, noted for good fittings. EA Roiser qv joined as chief assistant 1930 and was in charge of Carmarthen office at time of Neyland & Hundleton Pembs churches, took over when Anderson became ill in late 1930s. Firm Ellery Anderson, Roiser & Falconer in 1940s and 1950s under EAR continued in EAR name in 1960s. Inf in list & letters 1992-3 from Roiser, also letter 1992 from PM Bartosch qv that much archive lost in office moves. EAR letter says daybook of 1937 survives, little else. For work in Wales see Index Architects Wales.
Fittings St Catharine Wotton Gloucester 1926; reredos 1937; Holy Trinity Lydney 1933; St John Little Thurrock Essex 1933; chancel Nailsworth ch, Glos 1937-8; Holy Innocents Kidderminster, Worcs, 1938; completed St Paul ch, Gloucester 1938-9; St Oswald, Coney Hill, Gloucester 1939;
1911 St Bartholomew ch, West Lyncombe, Bath: B&EA (Hopkinson-Ball)
1912-13 reps Highbridge ch, Som, ICBS rejected; with FB Bond; B&EA
1913-14 rebld Emborough ch, Som; with FB Bond; B&EA; ICBS rejected;
1913-14 rest Kilve Ch, Som; W Ellery Anderson of B&EA; ICBS;
1913-15 res Long Load ch, Som; B&EA; ICBS;
ANDREW & HOSEGOOD Williton see TH Andrew
ANDREW, THOMAS HAWKES Williton and Minehead. FSI. 1859-1947, born in Exeter of family of surveyors and prominent Methodists in Williton including grandfather and uncle. Worked first in Manchester, started out in 1889 in Williton with his uncle Thomas Hawkes as Hawkes & Andrew qv, THA was surveyor to Williton RDEC 1902-5 with AD Cook qv; moved to Minehead as architect after dreath of Thomas Hawkes in 1906 as Andrew & Hosegood (A&H) with Andrew Webber Hosegood qv. In 1906 dir private resident at Northfield, Minehead, the plans for Northfield, 1903, D/U/M/ 22/1/181, are listed as by Andrew of Williton; brother-in-law was developer RH Holman.
1900 Stables, Croydon Hall, Rodhuish, Som for JS Bakewell; three-sided court roughcast, with half-hip gables. THA of Williton;
1901 Sherborne Arms Hotel, Wootton Courtenay; SAS; ?H&A; later Dunkery Hotel;
1903 Northfield, North Hill, Minehead, Som, for himself; large villa now Northfield Hotel, Northfield Rd; by Andrew of Williton, D/U/M/ 22/1/181; OD173; roughcast with two-storey curved bay on left gable, with mullion-and-transom windows;
1904 Bartholomew Thomas Almshouses, Woolston, Bicknoller, Som; ?ref from article in files in museum at Old School, Allerford; James Chibbett builder; West Somerset Free Press 24.2.06;
1904 Ivythorne, lodge and stables, North Hill, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/199, for George Lindrea (of Ivythorne 1906); later Hill House, alts 1914 by TH Andrew, and alts to stables, later Benares Hotel, dem 2006; OD192 villa North Hill for Mr Andrew?
1904 Alts Henry Wood premises, No 20 The Parade, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/219; OD212; including carpet shop, showrooms, cabinet makers, upholsterers; Henry Wood No 20 The Parade 1906; conversion of residential part on Summerland Rd into showrooms, BMCS;
1904 Alts kitchen, Vicarage, Vicarage Rd, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/220; OD213
1904-7 Primary School, Watchet, Som, SAS from school plans C/CA; THA
1908 Northwood, Weirfield Rd, 'house for RH Holman, North Hill', Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/338 plans for big red brick house, Georgian-ish; addition by THA 1909 D/U/M/ 22/1/343; plans 1908 OD322, adds 1909 to house for RH Holman OD 327;
1908 studio, Clanville, Martlet Rd, Minehead, for Mrs Bosanquet; A&H; D/U/M/ 22/1/329; OD311; Clanville is demolished, a stable block remains;
1909 Entrance lodge and stabling, Northfield, Minehead, for RB Magor Esq D/U/M/ 22/1/350; ?to Benares; Benares is demolished, lodge remains
1910 alts, Northwood, Weirfield Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/26 for self; OD350; ?but THA lived at Northfield, Northfield Rd;
1910 Gymnasium, Church Institute, Bancks St, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/372; OD352;
1910 New house, Northfield Road, Minehead, for RH Holman Esq D/U/M/ 22/1/402; OD402; new eight-bedroom house; ?Martlet House 1910 for RH Holman, OD;
1910 adds Metropole Hotel, Minehead; OD404; A&H, three envelopes; cf 1912; ?large addition on N with domed corner turret, 1912, OD; no plans in SRO list but plans of 1908 for alts D/U/M/ 22/1/284 are by WJ Tamlyn, large addition with mansard roofs, but no turret;
1912 coal and coke store, No 2 Bancks St, Minehead for Webber-Incledon & Newberry; OD451, A&H;
1912 Middle Moor, Higher Town, Minehead for Lt-Col Page-Henderson, D/U/M/ 22/1/470; OD455 new house Higher Town 1913; pair of houses at W end of St Michael's Rd, before Moor Rd?
1912 adds, Northfield, Northfield Rd, Minehead, for RB Magor; OD489, A&H; now Northfield Hotel
1913 adds Northcliffe, Weirfield Rd, Minehead for CH Greswell; OD484, A&H; OD thinks orig house by Tamlyn;
1914 Brook House, The Parks, Minehead for Dr William Bain +1966; SB; corner Parkhouse Rd; roughcast with boarded gable; bldr Burt & Son; OD;
1915 rear alts Hill House, Minehead, for Col W Barrett; D/U/M/ 22/1/566; single-storey kitchen add Voysey style with hipped roofs; also minor add D/U/M/ 22/1/565; OD547 by AH Andrew?; Hill House was later Benares, Northfield Rd, demolished;
1915 Cloakroom, Martlet House, Minehead (A&H); D/U/M/22/1/574 for Mrs Greswell; OD555;
ANDREWS & ANDREWS Architects, 16 Hammett St, Taunton. 1931 dir. Wallace Lancelot Andrews FRSA;
ANDREWS, - Plasterer and tiler, Clevedon
1825-30 Buckingham House, Hill Rd, Clevedon; Lilly;
ANDREWS, EDWARD JAMES. 47 Upper Bedford Place, London.
1841 Compton Martin parsonage, Som; TBC ill; SRO plans d/D/bbm/82 dreadful Jacobean; SNB;
ANDREWS, ROBERT
1833 WM chapel, windmill Hill, North Curry; presented plans and superintended works; SAS, from Dix, North Curry, 2006;
ANDREWS, T.A. Architect Exeter
(1897 Drinking Fountain, Exeter, Devon T: BJ 15.9.97)
ANDREWS, WALLACE LANCELOT, Architect, FRSA, 1909-44, born Bridgwater, practice there, then by 1931 at 16 Hammett St Taunton and by 1935 in Stoke St Gregory and Minehead, practice was Andrews & Andrews qv; SAS; awarded GC 1940 as bomb disposal officer;
ANGEL, JOHN. Sculptor, emigrated to USA, distinguished career over there.
1924 War Memorial, King’s Sq, Bridgwater, Som; Som CC war memorials website; AF notes;
ANGELL, Bath Builders. Not in 1906 Kelly.
1907-12 Contractors, rest and adds Lytes Cary, Som, for Sir W Jenner; acc to CL 1950; CE Ponting architect; made fittings inc panelled rooms in Grinling Gibbons style.
1930s Hall gallery, Combe, Nettlecombe, Som, for Boise Penrose; original stair removed and stair-hall given a first-floor gallery in early C18 style by Angell of Bath; notes by Boise Penrose at house;
ANGLO PARK PLC Winchester
1989-91 unex plans Baptist chapel, South St, Yeovil, Som; L Brooke colln, Yeovil library; redev retaining facades;
ANSTICE, ROBERT. Engineer, Dampiet House, Bridgwater, 1757-1845. FGS; born Bridgwater, amateur geologist, ornithologist, 1782-96 interest in Hamp brickworks Bridgwater; with brother William Anstice, surgeon, was one of Commissioners of Sewers, Bridgwater, involved in waterworks St Matthew's Field; involved in replacement of Town Bridge in iron from Coalbrookdale; town councillor 1799-1834, five times mayor; assistant to William Jessop, engineer qv; first County Surveyor, appointed before 1811, retired 1818. Appointed architect to restore Stogursey ch, supplanted by Richard Carver ?1815-16, SAS; SIAS 46 1987; BDCE;
1791-5 resident engineer, Kings Sedgemoor drainage, Som; William Jessop engineer; SAS;
1799 rebuilt sea wall, Huntspill, Som;
1800-5 resident engineer River Axe drainage, Som; William Jessop engineer;
1811 alts and improvements County Gaol, Ilchesrer; SAS;
1813 repairs spire, Bridgwater ch after lighnig damage; SIAS;
1814-16 County Bridewell, Shuttern, Taunton; SAS;
1815 Gave opinion April 1815 and again 1823 on roof of Stogursey church, Som, but not employed, R Carver used instead; church guide; Cf also pamphlet of 1815 ‘Stokecourcy Church. A copy of the reports of Mr Joseph Beard and Mr Robert Anstice on the state of Stokecourcy Church upon surveys respectively made and taken by them in November 1814 and April 1815’, RA agrees with Joseph Beard (qv) that tower should be take down immediately; RA report dated Bridgwater 27.4.15;
1816-8 report on Kings’s Sedgemoor Drain; Williams 216; unex;
1817 rebuilt sea wall, Blue Anchor, Som; SAS;
1821 examined County Gaol, Ilchester with GA Underwood qv architect; SAS;
Bridges repaired, widened or rebuilt included the following: Dulcote Bridge, Dulcot, new Bridge at Weare; Tone and Shuttern Bridges at Taunton; Popple Bridge near Ilchester; Long Load Bridge; Creech St Michael Bridge; Mudford Bridge and Causeway; Sparkford and Compton Pauncefoot Bridges; Bull’s Bradford and Murty Bridges near Frome [SIAS Bulletin, No. 46, 1987, 10-15]
ANTHONY, PHILIP A. Engineer. Born 1873-1949.
1903-6 Resident engineer, Castle-Cary to Taunton new line for GWR; GWR magazine September 1905 says chief engineer but AW Armstrong qv was new works engineer for GWR; PAA was established at West Lydford, Som, by 1901 census in GWR office;
APG ARCHITECTURE Bristol. Architecture & Planning Group Ltd qv formerly Company of Designers Bristol formed from Moxley Jenner qv and BTP (Bristol Team Practice) c1992. Founder John Bignell, Nicola Vitagliano partner; old website included Greenland Mills Bradford on Avon Wilts; Porters Hatch, Meare (?Som) housing; Pound Lane Nailsea, Som, not there 2014;
1987 concept design for The Podium, Walcot St, Bath, with Atkins Sheppard Fidler qv for ARC Properties; website; SNB mentions only ASF
1988 Shires Yard dev, Bath, Som redev of yard behind Milson St; by Bristol Team Practice acc to SNB;
1990 Theatre for QEH School, Bristol; website; by Moxley Jenner, SNB;
199? Royal Mead offices, Railway Place, Bath, Som;
1994-8 The Piggeries, Frome, Som; infill housing in conservation area; SNB; 68 houses; HDA 1995 and 1998;
(1997 Greenland Mills redevelopment, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; HDA 1997)
1998 The Round House, Godney, Som; on APG website, but surely by Wilf Burton?
(2000 William Budd Health Centre, Leinster Rd, Southmead, Bristol; SNB)
(2001 Custom House, Redcliffe, Bristol; large complex of waterside flats)
(20?? 48 apartments, Cumberland Rd, Bristol; ISG Pearce contrs)
201? rest farm buildings, Folly Farm, Stowey, Som for Avon Wildlife Trust; £2.6m, Biggs contractors;
(20?? conv of Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Glenside mental hospital), Fishponds, Bristol to UWE Faculty of Health;
20?? Five town houses, Nore Rd, Portishead, Som
20?? proposed Healthy Living Centre, Weston s Mare, Som;
200? imprs to flats for elderly, Church St, Weston, Bath, Som;
(201? South Kielding, Upton Cheyney, Glos; new house;
(201? nine timber-framed houses, Egypt Mill, Nailsworth, Glos;)
(2014 proposed 350 houses and flats, landfill site, Theale, Berks
201? Jubilee Inn housing, Bath, Som; nine houses in Georgian style terraces;
201? music school and arts block, Queen's College, Taunton, Som;
(20?? Royal Victoria Park dev in grounds former Brentry Hospital, Bristol; 350 houses)
20?? conv Marine Hill House, Clevedon, Som to flats and five new houses Lea Grove Rd;
20?? Tangiers urban regeneration, Castle St, Taunton, Som; new riverside estate for Linden Homes;
2015 The Wave, inland surfing lake proposal, Washingpool Farm, Easter Common, Glos, N of Bristol;
APLIN, WILLIAM Surveyor and carpenter. Hutton.
1808 Parsonage, Worle, som; SRO D/D/Bbm/28; 2st 3w elevation;
APPLEBY & CHILDS Monumental masons, 71 Middle St Yeovil, partnership from before 1895 of Harry Appleby 1866-1914 and George Childs 1859-1948, later joined by Charles Wilfred Childs 1892-1964 son of George ;
1921 War Memorial, The Borough, Yeovil; designed by Wilfred Childs qv;
1925-6 builders, roof repairs Kingsdon ch, Som; WF Dickinson qv architect; SAS;
APPLEBY, DAVID
1969-70 Church hall, St Mary ch, Walton in Gordano, Clevedon, Som; AFtext
APPLETON, EDWARD Town surveyor Torquay, Devon, ref in SCG 18.6.1864;
APLIN, WILLIAM Taunton. Builder Union Pl East Reach, 1866 dir, 155 East Reach 1872 also innkeeper The Shakespeare. Innkeeper only 1875 and 1877 also brewer.
ARCHITECTON The Wool Hall, 12 St Thomas St, Bristol BS1 6JT Partnership started by John Schofield; partners 2009 Colin Harvey, Paul Richold, Robert Battersby; architecton.co.uk John Schofield jschofield54@ . Inf on work from firm website and e-mail J Schofield 11.11.09.
(1978 Housing, Rockwell Av, Lawrence Weston, Bristol; AFtext)
(1978 Housing, Tenbury Wells, Worcs; JC20Soc list of best 1970s buildings; Berrington Gardens, HDA 1980)
(1979-80 Parc Pentre, Mitchel Troy, Mon; for Bovis Houses Ltd; Gwent Planning Permission 9214; inf Simon Hartwell;
1981-5 rest gatehouse cottage, Stogursey Castle, Som, for Landmark Trust; CTA mention 1986; John Schofield architect, Trivett & Co contrs; further work 1999 Philip Ford of Colleton contr;
19?? Reps Oxenford House, Dowlish Wake, Som, for P Pilkington, later Lord Pilkington; inf owner; J Schofield architect;
1985 Barn conversion, Reed’s Court, Lydeard St Lawrence, Som; John Schofield for self, owned and repaired the farmhouse ill James Ayres, Domestic interiors 111;
1989 reps Thurlbear ch, Som, for Redundant Churches Fund; guide book; Layzells contrs; J Schofield architect;
1993-4 rest Priest’s House, Muchelney, Som; for NT; RICS Cons Award 1995; John Schofield archt, Layzells contrs;
1993-4 rest Glebe House, West Monkton, Som; Stansells contrs; West Monkton Then & Now 38;
(1997 converted WCA warehouse, Bristol, to housing; Aftext)
(1998-2007 repair, Nothe Fort, Weymouth, Dorset)
1999 further work Stogursey Castle gatehouse, Som; Philip Ford of Colleton, Devon, contr;
(2000 W end access, Central Library, Bristol; SNB; )
(2000-4 Conservation wrk, Godolphin House, Cornwall; owned by John Schofield, then Nat Trust)
(2000-6 repair Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon, for Hist Chapels Trust)
2001-6 Visitor centre, Hestercombe, Som; conv of stables £1.4m; Stansell Award 2006; John Schofield involved with replanning garden access; Paul Richold designed iron and glass roof over stable yard; Robert Battersby also involved with design of new of replica features in C18 landscape from 1995: Temple Arbour, Witch Seat, Chinese Seat, Octagon Summer-house, Gothic Alcove, for and with Philip White of Hestercombe Trust;
(2001 Art Building, Stover School, Newton Abbot, Devon)
2001 rest St Margaret’s Almshouses, Hamilton Rd, Taunton, Som, burnt 1990; Somerset Building Award 2004; £350k; Layzell & Son contrs; fr SBPT;
(2005 Science Building, Stover School, Newton Abbot, Devon)
(2005 rest Lyscombe Chapel, Piddletrenthide, Dorset as walkers hostel)
2006 Church hall, Christ Church, Weston super Mare, Som; £550k; 2004-5 SNB;
2006-7 (Heritage centre, Tewkesbury, Glos)
2008-9 Educ centre, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Som; conv of saw-mill;
2009-10 rest Charlton House, Charlton Mackrell, Som; Paul Richold archt;
2009-10 Education centre, Hestercombe, Som, conversion and rest of water-mill & barn;
2009-11 rest Tithe Barn, Nailsea, Som; AFtext;
2011-13 rest Castle House, Taunton Castle, Som; Robert Battersby proj archt; for SBPT and Vivat Trust; Coombes of Ilminster bldrs;
2013 conversion ground floor MH, Castle Cary to meeting room etc;
Also repairs at medieval house at Croscombe, Som, for Landmark Trust; rest of Brean Fort, Brean, Som (Colin Harvey job architect); repairs Enmore Castle, Som (Paul Richold); JS repaired Stephens, Shepton Beauchamp, Som, for self; JS repaired farmhouse at Middleleigh, Street, for Bancroft Clark (inf J&C Gould); PR repaired Peacock Cott, Pightly, Spaxton, Som, for self; JS did reps Seavington St Mary ch, Som, HC Back & Sons, Bishops Lydeard contrs, for Redundant Churches Fund; JS did reps Northover ch, Ilchester, Som, also for RCF;
ARCHITECTS CONSORTIUM
1973 adds Orchard Cott, Sparkhayes Lane, Porlock, Som; plans SRO;
ARCHITECTS DESIGN PARTNERSHIP, Oxford and Hendford Manor, Yeovil. See ADP.
ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING GROUP, The Georgian Ho, Gas Ferry Rd, Bristol
1994-8 The Piggeries, Frome, Som; infill housing; AFtext;
(2000 Wm Budd Health Centre, Leinster Rd, South Bristol)
(2001 Custom House, Redcliffe, Bristol; flats)
(20?? 48 apartments, Cumberland Rd, Bristol; ISG Pearce contrs)
ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH UNIT London Metropolitan University see Florian Beigel
ARCHITYPE, The Morocco Store, Leathermarket St, London SE1 and office Upper Twyford Barn, Hereford. Jonathan Hines partner; Sustainable Architect of Year 2007; designed Education Centre Horniman Museum 1995; National Memorial Arboretum Centre 2000; Buddhist Centre Taplow Hall Bucks for SGI-UK 2001; Student housing Swansea University 2003; Stroud Co-housing 2004; Chiltern Hills visitor centre 2005; 2006 rest Library, Elephant & Castle, London; St Luke Primary Sch Wolverhampton 2009; won comp for Ledbury Library, Herefs 2009;
(200- Barton Hill Primary School, Bristol;
2006 Genesis pavilion, SCAT, Taunton, Som; Centre for demonstrating and educating on sustainable buildings, built of straw, timber, mud, etc. Shortlisted 2007 RIBA award best new public building in SW England; CTA special mention 2008;
2009 two projects for Ecos housing of Langport, Som to be built in Somerset; website; ?not built
ARCO2. Bodmin. Ian Armstrong, Nathan Davis & Martin Penk.
2006 Straw-bale classroom, High Ham Primary School, Som;
ARKELL, DANIEL Birmingham. Entered comps 1886-94 RHH; 2nd pr Walsall TH 1892; 1st pr Infirmary Birmingham workhouse 1894;
1894 3rd pr Weston s Mare MH, Som; RHH;
ARMITAGE, JAMES RIBA Knuston Lodge Martock. Est 2007, worked for Porphyrios Associates and John Thompson & Ptnrs in London.
200? Adds to house near Langport, Som; linked addition to C19 house
200? Adds to house near Wells, Som; garden room;
ARMSTRONG & THOMAS Architects Bristol see William Armstrong
ARMSTRONG BURTON ARCHITECTS. Sutton Coldfield. Derek Burton.
2007-9 Pegasus Court, Somerset Square, Taunton, Som; retirement flats fronting Somerset county cricket ground for Pegasus Homes.
ARMSTRONG, ALFRED WILLIAM. Engineer, London. 1858-1921; Born Plymouth, engineer to railway lines in Cornwall 1903-5 Chacewater to Perranporth and Newquay, became New Works Engineer for GWR.
(1904 Goods Shed Bristol Docks with PE Culverhouse, converted to Explore by Wilkinson Eyre; SNB, ‘William Armstrong’;
1904-5 Castle-Cary to Taunton line, GWR: inc Skew Bridge and Viaduct Somerton, Somerton Tunnel, Langport Moor viaduct; cf centenary volume; Philip A Anthony 1873-1949 resident engineer; opened 1906; contractors Wills & Son, Westminster (Willis & Sons, SAS); GWR magazine September 2005;
ARMSTRONG, JOHN Engineer, Bristol. 1775-1854 born Ingram, Northumberland, said to have settled in Bath towards close of C18 and worked on Pulteney Bridge for which he became a contractor????, Graces Guide; worked in Bristol as millwright and engineer, did gates and sluices for Congresbury Drainage, Som; worked for Smirke on Severn Bridge, Gloucester, for Brunel on Thames Tunnel, and for Messrs Bramah on St Katherine's dock London, City Surveyor, Bristol 1831-54; AMICE;
(1804 worked on Bristol Docks under William Jessop qv)
ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM. 7 Brunswick Sq, Bristol. 1781-1858. City Surveyor Bristol 1836-58; architect, engineer; EW Godwin articled 1850; Gomme; AF; a practice of Armstrong & Thomas fl 1858-72 may have been Armstrong’s practice continued by Josiah Thomas qv;
(1829 Entrant Clifton Suspension Bridge comp, Bristol; Gomme;
1831-4 widened New Bridge, Newbridge Rd, Bath; MF; bridge late C18 single arch;
1832 enl Radstock ch, Som; HC; ICBS; AFtext;
(1834 Brunswick C chapel, Brunswick Sq, St Pauls, Bristol; Gomme;
1837 Workhouse, Keynsham, Som; .uk, £4960, dem;
(1837-41 rest St Philip & Jacob ch, Bristol; AF; 1850 Gomme;
(1840 Nos. 2-24 Arley Hill, Bristol; Gomme;
(c1841-2 Fremantle Sq, Kingsdown, Bristol; AF text; W side 1844, E & S c1845-50, Gomme;
(1843-4 C chapel, Monmouth, Mon; BoW; reduced version of Brunswick C chapel, Bristol; MM 7.6.44; Colvin; Kissack 2003, B Lawrence, Monmouth builder; galleries 1855, converted to house 2002 by G Frecknall;
(1844 Counterslip School, Temple, Bristol; dem; Gomme;
(1850 rest Cutlers' Hall, Quakers Friars, Bristol; Gomme;
(1852ff houses, Sydenham Hill, Cotham, Bristol; Gomme;
1856 Clapton in Gordano parsonage, Som; Italianate; SRO D/D/Bbm/123;
(1858 Russell Place, York Rd, Montpelier, Bristol; Gomme;
18?? New slips between dry dock and Town Bridge, Bridgwater, Som; proposals, Mr Armstrong architect; SRO A/CMY/8;
ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM New works engineer, GWR, see AW Armstrong
ARMYTAGE, WILLIAM KAYE LEWIS Surveyor, 1856-1914, Borough Surveyor Yeovil 1894-1905, born Huddersfield, came to Yeovil 1891, died Tavistock. SAS.
ARNOLD, WILLIAM. Charlton Musgrove, Somerset. + 1637. Mason, lived at Charlton Musgrove from at least c1595, where children were baptised of William Arnold alias William Goverson; Arnold Goverson mason at Longleat 1555-9 may be his father; Godfrey Arnold alias Goverson +1637 was a brother also John Arnold alias Goverson both died in Charlton Musgrove; Edmund (or Edward) & Thomas Arnold, masons at Wadham College, Oxford, may be sons, a Godfrey Arnold at Lulworth Castle, Dorset, may be a son;
Documented works:
(1608-11 rebuilt Manor House, Cranborne, Dorset, for Robert Cecil, E of Salisbury; BoE pl 56; ?also S forecourt and lodges 1620;
(1610-13 Wadham College, Oxford, for nicholas & Dorothy Wadham of Ilminster, Som;)
1617 alts Dunster Castle, Som; agreement with him by George Luttrell 1617 to build house at Dunster Castle; c1589-1620 BoE from dates 1589 and 1620 inside; Montacute NT guide says WA employed only from 1617 only and then sacked;
Attributed works:
(1570s work at Longleat, Wilts, Arnold Goverson employed there 1555 may be father; for Sir John Thynne +1580. Plan 1567, built 1572ff, but known masons were John Chapman, William Spicer, Robert Smythson;
158- Sir Maurice Berkeley tomb, Bruton ch, Som; female spandrel figures as in Montacute library fireplace; Sir Maurice + 1580, wives + 1559 and 1585; similar detail to Sir Thomas Phelips tomb Montacute;
(1589 Edmonsham House, Dorset, shaped gables like Montacute, porch dated 1589 but BoE says C19; for T Hussey +1601, owner from 1560s.
(159- Gatehouse, Clifton Maybank, Dorset, dem; similar niches, two orders columns, frieze with rectangles as at Montacute; N Cooper: gatehouse dismantled 1800 by Lord Poulett of Hinton House, Somerset, but never re-erected.
(1594-8 attrib The Hospice, Ansty, Wilts; WBR; BoE says windows of early C16 type);
c1595-1600 attr Montacute House, Som, for Edward Phelips (knighted 1603); BoE S, suggested by A Oswald; dates 1598-9 on stained glass and 1601 formerly over E door; 1599 on drawing room overmantel. Arnold was recommended to Dorothy Wadham by her friend and neighbour Sir Edward Phelips according to letter of recommendation from her to her brother Lord Petre; NT guide; HC; characteristic shell niches, circular niches and chimneypieces with strapwork in library & parlour. M Girouard The Elizabethan Country house;
(c1597 attrib The Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts for John Hall; N Cooper, The Jacobean Country House, 99; chimney-piece like Montacute library, shell niches upstairs as at Montacute; c1610 BoE, curved oriels as at Montacute;
(c1598 Sir Thomas Phelips tomb, Montacute ch, Som similar to Berkeley tomb Bruton; Sir Thomas + 1588, wife + 1598;
(1598 ?alts South Wraxall Manor, Wilts for Sir Walter Long; but chimney-piece in drawing room much more ornate than Montacute although has egg-and-dart frame, and room has shell niches, but with different type of fluting;
(c1600 adds Sherborne Castle, Dorset, shell niches; for Sir Walter Raleigh; but plan for corner turrets is by Simon Basill 1600; wings added after 1617 for Sir John Digby;
(c1600 attrib work at Stockton House, Wilts for John Topp; chimney-piece as at Montacute and The Hall; N Cooper The Jacobean Country house; BoE says one room with ER monograms so pre 1603)
(c1600 wk at Wolfeton Manor, Charminster, Dorset; last quarter C16 acc to BoE Long gallery chimneypiece like Montacute library, Herringston tiny figure of virtue, also Poxwell and mon at West Chelborough; rich and vulgar chimney-pieces downstairs;
c1604 Wayford Manor, Som, from loggia, niches, chimney-piece dated 1604;
dated 1602?;
(16?? work at Wolfeton Manor Dorset, from chimneypiece;
(1603-8 Lulworth Castle, Dorset from shell niches but Godfrey Arnold chief mason here 1603-5; for Viscount Bindon of Bindon Abbey, BoE
(16?? Adds Mapperton House, Dorset, from shell niches in porch; BoE says n range mid-C16 like Athelhampton, Clifton Maybank and Barrington Court. Porch added?
(16?? Alts Edington ch, Wilts, shell niches in N transept N wall. Garden ornaments to former monastic buildings to the N, turned to a house called The Priory, occ c1600 by William Paulet +1629 illeg son of Marquess of Winchester;
(16?? Monument to lady of Kymer family, West Chelborough, Dorset; has egg-and-dart arch, otherwise crude esp two reclining females; BoE pl 49
(1610 alts Iwerne Courtney ch, Dorset, for Sir Thomas Freke from screen with strapwork cresting; BoE pl 53 not really like Arnold?
(c1610 Poxwell Manor, Dorset, from shell niches in porch; scratched date 1618, for John Henning, chimneypiece similar to Herringston;
(1611 porch and courtyard gate, Keevil Manor, Wilts from shell niches; porch dated EL 1611, for Edward Lambert;
(c1614 alts Herringston, Winterbourne Herringston, Dorset from chimney-piece ‘Jacobean vulgarity at its most distressing’ (BoE); house was dated 1582 for Sir John Williams + 1617 inherited 1569, Fireplace is in Great Chamber, the ceiling dated after 1612 by P of Wales feathers.
(1616 Leweston ch, Dorset, for Sir John Fitzjames of Redlynch, similar stepped windows to Folke of 1625-8; BoE pl 51; stepped windows also at chapel of Sexey's Hospital, Bruton, Som, 1626-8;
(c1617 Sir John Williams monument, St Peter ch, Dorchester, Dorset; Williams of Herringston + 1617;
1617 Dunster Castle, Som; contract with George Luttrell October 1617; Luttrell refused to pay WA fee of £40 and WA sued. Luttrell counter-claim that design changed without his agreement and cost had risen from £462 to £1200; NT guide;
(c1620 Warmwell Manor, Dorset from loggia, for Sir John Trenchard inherited in 1618; shaped gables, round chimneys, shell niches, sunk hemispheres; BoE pl 60;
(1623? Hanford House, Dorset, shell niches in gatehouse archway, and chimneypiece in NE room ‘a piece of great vulgarity and ugliness’; for Sir Robert Seymer who bought manor 1599.
(1625-8 Folke ch, Dorset, from font; church is same as Leweston, 1616, similar St Katherine Cree ch London 1628-31, BoE 206;
1626-8 Sexeys Hospital, Bruton, Som for Hugh Sexey; chapel has similar windows to Leweston ch of 1616;
1628 attr plaster ceiling Beckington Abbey, Som; AFtext;
ARTHUR, OSWALD CORNISH. Plymouth. Architect. Son of Vice-Admiral Richard Arthur +1854; 1822-70 pupil George Wightwick; White's Directory of Devon 1850, address Frankfort Chambers, Plymouth.
(1848 Parsonage, Aveton Giffard, Devon (Devon RO) first recorded work.
(1851 Plymouth workhouse, Devon. Went into partnership with William Dwelley only for competition, won, with suggestion of corruption.(Builder, ix (1851), 649.
(1854 alts Holy Trinity, Plymouth, Devon; faculty Devon RO, see 1867-72 below;
(1857 Hotel, Old Town St, Plymouth, Devon (Builder, xv [no page number];
1860 attrib Stockland Manor, Stockland Bristol, Som see 1865-7;
(1863 rebuilt Theatre Royal, Plymouth, Devon, after fire; Br 21 1862;
1865-7 Stockland Bristol ch, Som; BoE; commissioned by Thomas Daniel of Stoodleigh, Devon, +1872 for his son Rev Henry Daniel for whom Thomas Daniel had already built Stockland Manor in 1860, possibly also by Arthur;
(1867-72 plans Holy Trinity, Plymouth, Devon, new church, rejected ICBS)
ARTIST CONSTRUCTOR. Architect/Developers started by Bob and Tim Organ; John Schofield knows story; Tim Organ was architect, Bob Organ born 1933, painter, formed company 1969, with John Schofield; changed name to Form Structures, 1973 founded Architecton qv with Colin Harvey & Paul Richold; Jeremy Gould, Peter Collins and Niall Phillips all worked with AC, also Mark Richmond; book on Robert Organ as painter by Jenny Pery; Tim Organ formed J.T. Group Bristol with John Pontin, and later set up practice in Wales; C20 Journal 2015;
1969-70 Group of houses by church, Ubley, Som, with Peter Smith; SNB;
1970 Folleigh and two other houses, Church Town, Backwell, Som; C20index;
1970 RIBA has photos of a house in Somerset of 1970 apparently a converted chapel with single storey additions,102940-4, that has been identified by Hugh Martin as The Old Chapel, Stone Allerton but all but chapel gone; also102945-50 another house, an interior possibly an opticians, and exterior of handsome late C17 town house with dormer gables and pedimented cross-windows, also a monopitch-roofed C18 stable with circular loft lights;
197? Somerfoss, Oakhill, extended 2010 by MJ Williams (MJW Architects); modern house website;
1971-3 1-5 Post Office Lane, Flax Bourton, Som; Bob & Tim Organ; SNB; 1973 C20index;
1979 Childrens’ Camp for Bristol Childrens Help Society, Barton, Winscombe, Som; AJ 1979 by Form Stuctures;
c1980 Doctor’s surgery, High St, Chard, Som; by Tim Organ with Hans Klaentchi, ?both of Form Structures, inf J Gould;
Riding for the disabled complex, N of Bristol;
house at Oakhill, Som;
ARTURUS. Firm started by Julian Hannam, see Burrough & Hannam
2003 adds Hutton ch, Som; SNB; Julian Hannam;
2005-7 Weston College, Bridgwater Rd, Weston s Mare, Som;
ARUP ASSOCIATES. Ove Arup & Partners engineers;
(1978 CEGB offices, Bridgwater Rd, Bristol; The Pavilions; 1976 JC20Soc;
(1988-90 Lloyds Bank offices, Canons Marsh, Bristol)
(1993-9 Pero’s Bridge, Bristol; design Eilis O’Connell)
ASHBEE, CHARLES ROBERT Architect; biog by Alan Crawford.
(1907 reredos and organ-case, St Mary ch, Calne, Wilts; WBR; rerdos in Epiphany chapel w figure by Alec Miller, BoE)
1913 Kirklands (now Penhaven), Hillyfields, Sidcot, Som, for S. Maltby; Alan Crawford, CR Ashbee, Yale (1985), 474;
ASHMAN & SON, Builders, Leigh on Mendip
1876-7 PM chapel, Wanstrow, Som; SWJ 25.11.76 FS laid, £235; plans and built by A&Son;
ASHMEAD, GEORGE COLLEY. Surveyor, 1802-95. Surveyor to City of Bristol, prepared town plans 1828, 1854, 1874, and made Somerset tithe maps 1839-43 for Priddy, Cossington, Litton, Westbury sub Mendip, Batcombe and Upton Noble; SAS;
1853-4 surveyor, Somerset Central Railway, Som, from Glastonbury to Highbridge, Act of 1852, CH Gregory qv engineer, J&C Rigby qv contractors; Dunning Glastonbury 76; started April 1853, opened August 1854, ILN 26.8.54; extended to Wells 1859; designed Glastonbury Station with CH Gregory, SAS;
ASHTON & SON Builders, St Mary St, Bridgwater, established 1870.
1908 Builders, Vicarage, Trull, Som; ill in Bridgwater Directory, no architect named;
ASHWORTH, EDWARD Exeter. 1814-96. Articled to Robert Cornish, surveyor Exeter Cathedral, then Charles Fowler, travelled and worked in Auckland, New Zealand (to January 1844), Sydney Australia, Hong Kong and Canton, set up in Exeter 1846, many church works in Devon. Son Clarke Ashworth passed RIBA exams TC 10.5.1893; published Chinese Architecture, 1851; obituary Br 21.3.96;
1852-5 rebuilt Dulverton ch, Som; BoE, except tower; ICBS 1852-6; builder Samuel Shewbrooks RL;
1854 Cemetery, Wellington Rd, Taunton, Som, for St Mary Magdalen & Bishops Hull parishes; RL; consec TC 20.2.56, contractor William Shewbrooks qv;
1854 Parsonage, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som; SRO D/Bbm/116, gabled. Another set of plans in SRO DD/DP/72/2 by William Shewbrooks 1854; house was dated 1855 on vane.
1854-5 Workhouse, Dulverton, Som; now Exmoor House offices Exmoor NP; dated 1855; Samuel Shewbrooks contractor, SAS;
(1859 entrant Manchester Assize Court comp; RHH)
1860-1 rest & adds Cheddon Fitzpaine ch, Som; ICBS; vestry, N aisle, E w; JT14 says restored by Edward Jeboult qv; Jeboult did carving and woodwork according to TC 14.8.61 and C Stagg did masonry;
1866 entrant West of England Dissenters Proprietary School, Taunton, Som; RHH; now Taunton School;
1866-7 rest Wootton Courtenay ch, Som; CB 1867 188; new saddleback top to tower; Gothic chancel fittings, reredos, tiles and rails removed 1943 by Dr FC Eeles D/D/cf/1943/?; SCG 30.3. 1867, chancel tiles by Minton & Hollins, NE window glass of Holy Family; E window glass and 2 chancel S; all glass by Hardman & Son; decorative work by Stansell, work executed by Shewbrooks & Son, stonework by late Charles Stagg, carved work by J Seymour, standards of altar rails by Singer, Frome;
1869-70 rest Heathfield ch, Som; Lynn Pearson, Tile Gazeteer 2005, 302-3; SRO D/P/heath/6/1;
1871 Parsonage, Exton, Som; gabled; SRO Bbm/183; now Exton House
1874 add Rectory, Parson St, Porlock, Som; SRO Bbm/207; hipped-roofed side add for drawing-room, school room and scullery;
1874? Rest All Saints ch, Selworthy, Som; obituary; SAS; church entirely restored 1874 and high roof of nave painted by Sir TD Acland for £1500 (Kelly 1906);
ASM DESIGN CONSULTANTS. In-house architects for ASDA supermarkets
200? Asda Supermarket, Bridgwater, Som; two large curved beams, aluminium cladding; Jenkins & Potter engs; on bus station site; Midas construction contrs;
ASTON & FRY Architects, 21 Friday St Minehead A Ewart Aston and – Fry, Aston & Marsden qv by 1948;
1946 alts Hillbury, Martlet Rd, Minehead for Muller Childrens Homes of Bristol plans SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/821
1948 conv Vicarage, Minehead, Som, to flats; SRO;
ASTON & MARSDEN, Architects. 21 Friday St, Minehead later Ebury House, Blenheim Rd. A Ewart Aston & William Eric Marsden qv, see also Aston & Fry and WE Marsden;
1947 Gable Barn, Parkhouse Rd, Minehead; by WEM; SB
1948-9 alts Old Barn, Church St, Minehead; SRO;
1948 alts to dormer window, No 20 the Parks, Minehead; OD, applic for Mrs Barlow 8.11.48;
1949 extension Sunday schoolroom, Millbridge Evangelical B chapel, Parkhouse Rd, Minehead SRO; and alts to vestry 1954;
194? Two bungalows, Suntrap & Triangles, The Parks Minehead; by WEM; SB
1949 House and garage, Porlock Weir, Som, for ST Gamlin; SRO
1949 Detached ho, Worthy Lane, Porlock Weir, Som for AD Gibbons; SRO
1950 alts Glen Lodge, Hawkcombe, Porlock for Mrs Collings add bedrm and bathrm; plans SRO
1951 alts house and shop, Porlock Weir, Som, for V Manby, plans SRO
1952 detached ho, Spring Gardens, Minehead; SRO
1952 Village Hall, Winsford, Som; SR D/r/dul/24/1/215; by AEA
1952 Oreland, The Parks, Minehead; bldr Burgess & Sons; for Edward Stevenson formerly of Bratton Court; by WEM, SB;
1952 adds The Studio, Porlock, Som for Mrs Luxmore; SRO;
1953-5 semi-det houses Whitworth Rd, Minehead, SRO
1954 Marion Gunn wing, Broadlands old peoples home, Ponsford Rd, Minehead; SROD/R/wil/24/1/178;
1954 reception office, Dunster Beach holiday park, Som; single-storey weatherboarded; SRO
1954-6 New street and houses, Staunton Rd, Minehead; SRO
1955 Lectern and reopen S door, Timberscombe ch, Som; also tower reps and other reps into 1960s;
1955-62 reps Crowcombe ch, Som; reject by ICBS; by WEM;
1956 rear add Swansea Farm, Withiel Florey, Som; by A&M for BA Hbhouse; D/r/dul/24/1/234; rear gable to farmhouse;
1956 reps Stogumber ch, Som; SRO; also reps 1964 by WEM
1956 reps West Quantoxhead ch, Som; ICBS; by WEM SRO cf/1956/ 2/5
1956 reps Porlock ch, Som; faculty SRO;
ASTON, A EWART Architect, Minehead, see Aston & Fry and Aston & Marsden.
1952 Village Hall, Winsford, Som; SR D/r/dul/24/1/215;
ASTON, EDWARD JOHN. Architect and surveyor, No 8 Spring Gardens, London; 1845-1917; SAS;
1875-6 School and house, Cutcombe, Som; SRO DD/BR/ely/17/5; W Harrison, builder.
ATCHLEY, EDWARD GODFREY CUTHBERT FREDERIC Bristol, Surgeon, stained glass designer, 1869-1945, known as Cuthbert Atchley, member of Alcuin Club, author of articles on liturgy;
1930 Lychgate, Dinder ch, Som; AFtext
(1930c Two stained glass windows St Mary ch, Fishponds, Bristol; AFtext)
1934 Altar rail, Milverton ch, Som; Little Guide to Milverton & Fitzhead;
c1935 several stained glass windows, Watchet ch, Som;
ATKINS see WS Atkins
ATKINS & WALTERS 25 King Sq, Bristol. Established 1975. Later Atkins Walters & Webster later AWW later AWW Design; Alan Atkins, David Walters, John Webster; Tim forster since 2016;
1980-2 renov Nos. 2-3 Upper Borough Walls, Bath; MF;
(1996 University Gate, Park Row, Bristol, for engineering faculty; AFtext; AW&W;
1999 supermarket, London Rd, Bath, AFtext; AWW
(2001-2 remodelled Courage Brewery, Victoria St, Bristol as offices)
(2004 Hamilton Court flats, Bristol; ISG Pearce contrs)
2005 Clark’s Distribution Centre, Westway, Street, Som; ISG Pearce contrs; £20m; roof had longest rolled aluminium sheets then used in Europe; AWW
(2005-8 reclad Bristol & West Building, Broad Quay, Bristol as hotel; AWW
(2006-8 Merchants Academy Hartcliffe Bristol; AWWD)
(2008-10 Melksham Oak Community School, Melksham, Wilts; Cowlin Construction; £32.6m;
(2010 Community Hospital, Hengrove Pk, Bristol; AWWD)
2008-11 sports and arts complex, Hayesfield School, Bath; £10m Chris Mitchell project director;
2010-11 rebuild All Saints Primary School, Weston, Bath; website; Ian Jenkins proj director; £3.5m;
(2011-23 Imperial Tobacco HQ, Bristol)
(2015 The Courtroom student flats, The Centre, Bristol)
2016 The Depot student flats, Brougham Hayes Lower Bristol Rd, Bath; website;
2016 Ten West, University of Bath, Calverton Down, Bath
2018 proposed Selworthy School Taunton; SEN secondary school;
Also: Bristol Business Park, Coldharbour Lane; Trinity Quay, Avon St, Bristol; Redcliff Village flats Bristol;
ATKINS SHEPPARD FIDLER & ASSOCIATES. Sheppard Fidler was a Hampshire architect whose practice needed funds so he went into partnership with WS Atkins qv UK & world-wide engineers, based in the SE. Atkins paid the salaries of what became their architectural arm; inf John Winstone;
1987-9 The Podium centre, Northgate, Bath; MF;
ATKINS WALTERS & WEBSTER 25 King St, Bristol see Atkins & Walters
ATKINS, W. S. Bristol. Engineers and contractors founded by Sir William Atkins, later Atkins Global, engineers, planners, architects.
1987-9 The Podium centre, Northgate, Bath; by Atkins Sheppard Fidler & Associates qv; MF;
(2000 Footbridge, Avon St to Temple Quay, Bristol; AFtext
2005 Independent Treatment Centres for UK Specialist Hospitals (UKSH) at Shepton Mallet, Som;
2009 Independent treatment centres for UKSH at Emerson Green, Bristol, and Devizes Wilts; Biggs contractors website;
(20?? Airbus UK offices, Bristol; ISG Pearce contrs)
2009 Design for cable-stayed footbridge, Firepool, Taunton, Som; des by engineers at Atkins Global, Sharjah, UAE: Gajanan Wagle, team leader, Santosh K. Singh Senior des engineer;
ATKINSON, ROBERT 1883-1952. Born Wigton, Cumb, brought up in Nottingham, articled james Harris, Nottingham, then JW Dyson, Newcastle, London, 1905 with Belcher & Joass, then worked for CE Mallows, and RF Atkinson, illustrated TH Mawson garden design books. Practice from c1908, partnership 1912 with GL Anderson +1917, then practice with WF Benslyn designing cinemas; Designed Barber Institute Birmingam, 1935-9; All Hallows ch Twickenham; interiors Daily Express building 1931-2; Eros Cinema Shaftesbury Ave; Cannon Royal Cinema, Charing Cross Rd; Canadian War memorial, Cliveden, Bucks; Regent Cinema, Brighton; Gresham Hotel Dublin; Wallington TH; Croydon ‘B’ Power Station; Charles Reilly Representative British Architects; Paul Spencer-Longhurst (ed.), Robert Atkinson, 1989.
1916 Report into the Bath, Som, Municipal Improvement Scheme; AA 1916; WWinA 1926; Bath Improvement Scheme commissioned 1915, exh RA 1916, R Pakes Bath U MPhil thesis 2015; designed a sunken forum adjacent Abbey and Baths with giant neoclassical rotunda concert hall, library etc stretching S from Abbey;
1922 assessor competition for war memorial buildings, Taunton School, won by EV Harris qv; SAS;
1928 alts Cathanger Manor, Fivehead, Som; rest and adds including porch and garage; Architecture Illustrated, Nov 1932; Spencer-Longhurst 49.
19?? alterations to Cricket Court, Cricket St Thomas ?for Lord Beaverbrook; SAS, before 1940; Spencer-Longhurst 45 and 61; probably with son JR Atkinson;
ATWELL, JOHN C. Surveyor. Bath
1885 rest South Stoke ch, Bath; SRO;
ATWOOD, THOMAS WARR Architect, plumber, glazier, Surveyor to City estates, Bath + 1775 following accident, buried at Weston. Thomas Baldwin qv was his clerk and successor. Tomb by Baldwin in Weston churchyard, Bath.
1755-62 ?Bladud Buildings, Bath; attr BoE N; by TWA or Thomas Jelly, MF;
1768-75 The Paragon, Bath; MF; twenty-one houses;
1772-3 New Prison, Grove St, Bath; MF, orig commissioned from Robert Adam qv by William Pulteney; converted to housing 1971;
1775 plans Guildhall, Bath, Som; Thomas Baldwin may have made the plans; guildhall blt to new plans by Baldwin after TWA killed; AFtext;
ATYEO, WILLIAM. Stonemason, Bow St, Langport. in 1840, 1852-3 and 1883 dirs; a group of three houses, Blake House, Arlington House and the Silver Workshop, on Bow St appear to have been blt by him, Arlington House marked ‘Atyeo Builder & Stonemason’;
AUST, DAVID Builder Bath,
1831 built Hood Monument, Butleigh, Som; des HE Goodridge, plinth is signed ‘Aust, builder, Bath’;
1834 Limpley Stoke Viaduct, Monkton Combe Som/ Limpley Stoke Wilts; possibly designed by GP Manners; SNB, BoE Wilts;
(1842 Builder Dilton Court, Dilton Marsh, Wilts, plans by GP Manners & J Peniston; WBR, plans with owner)
AUSTIN, H. Bristol
(1849 Schoolhouse, Redland, Bristol; ABO 1849 280
(1849 WM soup-house, Portwall Lane, Redcliffe, Bristol; ABO 1849 318;
AUSTIN, RUPERT CLAUDE Architect, 37 Old Queen St, Westminster.
1905-6 rest Langford Manor, Fivehead, Som, for Mrs Matterson; DoE; Br 26.8.06;
1906 White House, Drayton, Som; ill Archiseek site;
1908 Dymboro House, Midsomer Norton, Som; AFtext; for Dr Arthur Bulleid, the archaeologist excavator of Glastonbury lake village etc.
1908-9 rest Stocklinch Magdalen ch, Som; PSANHS 1996 135-47; completed restoration started by AH Powell qv after Powell resigned; plans SRO cf/1908/289 by Austin, rebuilt gallery reusing C18 front, adapted box-pews;
AUSTIN, THOMAS. Bristol; in partnership in 1850 with RH Shout qv of Yeovil who designed ‘many schools, parsonages etc in Somerset’ according to APSD and RJ Withers qv previously of Sherborne, partnership very brief.
(1850-2 Parsonage, Dilton Marsh, Wilts; plans, spec and receipts WRO signed by Thomas Austin. But Austin, Shout & Withers named on front of spec; house is dated 1850 and is as shown in plans; ABO 1850 118 says by RJ Withers;
(c1855 Houses, Wellington Park, Clifton, Bristol; GJL;
(1855 attributed Burlington Villas, Burlington Rd, Redland, Bristol; GJL;
AVON COUNTY COUNCIL ARCHITECTS see Chris Bocci.
AWDRY, GRAHAM C. Architect, born 1858, articled Foster & Wood 1872-6, in practice Warminster 1880-3, Westminster 1883-1905, but joined Foster & Wood in Bristol before 1900 acc to GJL, firm became FW&A qv by 1905. In Wilts did Beanacre ch 1885-6, won competitions for Malmesbury Cemetery buildings; almshouses Devizes and Chippenham Cottage Hospital (opened 1899 or 1906 acc to GJL), WBR; president BSA 1912-13; Diocesan Surveyor for Bristol Archdeaconry 1915-18, Architect and surveyor to De La Warr estate Bexhill, Sx, 1892-7; office 35 Park St Bristol WwinA 1926;
(1908 St Francis parish room, Ashton Gate, Bristol; GJL;.
(1909 house for Duke of Hamilton, Studland, Dorset, GJL;
(1915 The Holmes, Parry’s Lane, Sneyd Pk, Bristol; GJL;
AWW architects, Bristol see Atkins & Walters;
AXFORD & SMITH Builders, Bath,
1926 rebuilt Crowe Hall, Widcombe Hill, Bath after fire, new W front; MF;
1932 South Lodge, Sion Hill, Bath; ? for Ernest Cook;
1934-6 rebuilt Nos. 1-2 Sion Hill Place, Bath for Ernest Cook; MF; added early C18 façade of 24-5 High St, Chippenham, Wilts, on the side, the Chippenham front reputedly moved from Bowden Hill, Wilts in mid C18.
AXFORD, JOSEPH Bath, stonemason.
1767-73 Axford’s Buildings, Bath; MF;
AXFORD, MICHAEL Michael Axford Architects
1990-1 Bank House, Sheepway, Portbury, Som for self; AFtext;
1997 adds Sunway, Dial Hill, Clevedon, Som; moderne ho of 1934 AFtext;
AYRTON, MAXWELL
(1930 Leweston Manor, Dorset; RA 1937 exh)
B2 ARCHITECTS see Benjamin & Beauchamp
BABB, WILLIAM EDWARD Surveyor, 1871-1918, surveyor to Dulverton RDC 1897-1913, then joint surveyor with WE Groves 1913-18.
BABBAGE, JAMES. Woodford Cottage, Nettlecombe Som. Surveyor. John Babbage (c1754-1833) and son James (1800-90) were successive agents to the Trevelyan estate, Nettlecombe. It is suggested that the Babbages built most of the cottages in Woodford, Nettlecombe, one pair dated 1824 (possibly designed by R Carver qv who worked for estate), the terrace row dated 1852 and 1865, the U-plan group and Woodford House c1860s, this presumably the agent’s house; James Babbage was at Woodford Cottage 1839; SAS;
1823 letter of 1823 to Mr Babbage from Trevelyan SRO DD/WO/18/2/26; 1834 letter re repairs Nettlecombe Court DD/WO/ 56/4/66;
1847 adds Treborough parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/99; crude mullion & transom;
1858 Beverton House, Brendon Hill, Som for Trevelyan estate, leased 1858 to Morgan Morgans qv engineer to Mineral Railway. By 1861 Morgans had moved to Sea View House, Brendon Hill, newly-built for him. Beverton House is now Tone Farm, Huish Champflower parish;
1858-70 builder alts Nettlecombe ch, Som; architect CE Giles qv; DoE; letters re restoration 1864 DD/WO/55/11/10;
(1864 letters re building villa at Seaton Devon; possibly involved in development of Seaton for the Trevelyans as by 1870s a director of Seaton & Beer Tramway Co; SAS; DD/WO/55/11/10;)
1877 letters re rebuilding toll-house at Fair Cross, Nettlecombe, DD/WO/ 55/11/10;
1877 letters re Temperance Lodge, Roadwater, Som, DD/WO/55/11/10;
BACON, CLARENCE. Architect, FRIBA. Borough Architect Taunton c1948-57. See Taunton Borough Council.
BADDELEY, EDWARD. Architect, London, 1835-95, elder brother of the Rev JJ Baddeley, vicar of Meare, in practice J&E Baddeley, SAS;
1869-71 rest Meare ch, Som; E Giblett Jr of Meare contractor; ch guide;
(1878 vicarage, Eastbury, Lambourn, Berk, J&EB, SAS)
BADHAM, - Bath. Involved with building of Draycot House, Draycot Cerne, Wilts, letter to John 2nd Earl Tylney 5.7.1751 WSHC 2943B/2/80 We have had such terrible weather these last 10 days that my building has been much retarded. But however I am got to my Upper Windows, and hope if this week proves fair to be ready to put on my roof, wch now stands fram’d in my Garden. I was oblig’d to be from home 4 days ye week before last at Salisbury races, but Mr Badham came over & attended my workmen for me all the time & we had but little Company, but lived very Jovially. Inf Tim Couzens;
BADMAN, - Builder Clevedon
187? first two houses in Woodland Rd, Clevedon; Lilly The builders of Clevedon, 2000, 9, road orig Copsevale;
BAGGALLAY & BRISTOWE, architects.
1893 entrant Bath Pump Room extension comp; RHH; ill Br 20.10.94;
BAGSTER, HENRY WILLIAM Architect, surveyor, London 1817-83, in partnership with Joseph Supino Ancona (A&B) when they restored Stone ch Bucks 1842-4; SAS;
1857 vicarage, Otterford, Som, DD/CC/E/1350;
BAILEY, ARTHUR London. +1979. Partner of WH Ansell from 1934 (A&B), Ansell died 1959. AB restored several London churches after bombing, Austin Friars 1950, St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1961-2, St George in the East 1964. 3rd prize Liverpool RC Cathedral; adds Sheffield Cathedral 1964-6; ASG 89;
1971 Monument to E Vincent Harris +1971, Chaffcombe churchyard, Som; ASG 207;
BAILEY, CHARLES. Home Farm, Nynehead, Som. Land surveyor and agent to Sanford family. Charles Bailey Sr +1855 aged 88, HC. Son Charles 1796-1858, assistant to his father, took over in 1820, lived in cottage at Heywood Farm, freelance surveyor, 1824 surveyed new road Barnstaple to Eggesford Bridge, Devon, 1827 work for Blathwayt estate at Porlock, Som, married 1828, negotiated for Nynehead estate with Grand Western Canal and Bristol & Exeter Railway in 1830s, made map of Wiveliscombe in 1834, did tithe map for Runnington, gave evidence to parliament on agricultural improvements and review of tithe system. Wrote pamphlet on commuting tithes 1836. Became wealthy and moved to 5 Stratford Place, London, 1838, and bought Lee Farm, near Lynton, Devon, 1841, which he rebuilt for himself as Lee Abbey up to 1850. Died 2.12.58, buried Kensal Green. Son Charles Frederick Bailey continued surveyor firm in London and owned Lee Abbey, Devon; The Book of Nynehead 58-9;
1833 Sir John Popham Almshouses, Mantle St, Wellington, Som; PRO C 108/322; HC; now RC church; which Charles Bailey?
BAILEY, E. NORMAN. Firm was E. Norman Bailey & Partners
1962 Northwick House, Old Orchard St, Bath; SNB 146;
BAILEY, GEORGE Architect, 1792-1860, pupil of Soane from 1806 and assistant until Soane died in 1837, first curator of Soane Museum from 1837, founding Hon Sec of RIBA; HC, no buildings mentioned; possibly WG Bailey (see below) but those intials unknown to Survey of London;
1842-3 ?Baptist church, Holyrood St, Chard, Som; by WG Bailey a London friend of John Brown promoter of new B chapel; MJ Bonnington, Chard Baptists, 1992 114; unsigned plans for Gothic chapel 1837, building committee 1841, FS 1.3.42 contract price £2020; unsigned plans in Roman and Norman styles too; Mr Bonnington thinks he may have had name of architect from a newspaper account; SAS plumps for George Bailey
BAILEY, W.G. See George Bailey.
BAILEY, ZACHARY Architect. Bath. Not in HC.
(1783-4 Heath House, Purdown, Bristol; John Hensley builder; SNB 381)
BAILLIE SCOTT, MACKAY HUGH Architect. cf Biography.
c1920 garden alterations St Catherine’s Court, St Catherine’s, Som; for Richard Strutt; HGS 226-8; The Studio, winter 1926, 55; SNB;
BAINES, GEORGE London. George Baines & Partners; the firm founded by the chapel architect George Baines 1852-1934, later G&RP Baines with son, Reginald Palmer Baines d 1962, and until 1970 as George Baines & Syborn with Victor J Syborn (GB&S name perhaps as early as 1958 acc to DSA); GB&S designed department stores for Debenhams or regional stores under Debenhams, in Oxford Street London (work 1969-75), Guildford and Exeter; for George Baines' chapel practice see website George Baines Architect, and Chapels Soc Newsletter 57, September 2014;
1938? W.H. Chapman Department Store, North St, Taunton, Som; plaque Architects Geo. Baines & Son, Westminster, Builders W. Potter & Sons, Taunton, with no date. J Gould says same firm did the department store in Exeter, ?Body’s. Chris Webster: middle four bays were built in 1938 and enlarged each side in 1963-4 perhaps by same firm, in matching style; it was not taken over by Debenhams until 1971, proposed for demolition 2020;
BAINES, Rev. JAMES Bath. RC priest, nephew of Bishop Baines, did works incl possibly the mansion front steps for Bishop Baines at Prior Park, Bath, 1834, and also the Ball Court or Old Gymnasium c1836-8; MF;
BAKER, A.J.
18?? National & Industrial Schools, Chantry, Som DD/EDS/5205; SAS;
BAKER, BENJAMIN. Not known other than reference in Pevsner BoE, possibly an error.
c1834 Royal Clarence Hotel, Bridgwater, Som, BoE S says about same date as Market Hall (1826-7) which it dates erroneously to 1834, B Baker not known in HC; RL2 says c1843, town trail says 1825, is it marked on 1832 map?
BAKER, Sir BENJAMIN Engineer born Keyford, Frome 1840 died 1907; designed Forth Railway Bridge 1883-90; also Avonmouth Docks, Bristol;
BAKER, Sir HERBERT. 1862-1946. Articled to uncle Arthur H Baker of Kensington and Bangor; 1886 entered office of George & Peto, met Lutyens there, 1891 went out to South Africa and was there to 1913, then joined Lutyens on New Delhi, in London from c1925. Designed Church House, Westminster.
1939 Attrib Memorial shelter, Church St/High St, West Coker, Som in memory of Sir Matthew Nathan; DoE list; seems quite wrong shelter dull and built probably in 1952.
BAKER, JAMES VICTOR. Broadway, Som. Builder. 1895-1987 (1894-1987 SAS). Firm continued under son, folded. Lived at Knights, Broadway. Various pieces in Broadway church given by Baker made in his workshop.
1933 builder Village Hall, Shepton Beauchamp, Som;
1970-2 builder rest of Rowlands, Ilton, Som for Peter Speke; Raymond Erith qv architect;
1995 rest Rowlands Mill, Ilton for Peter Speke; Philip Hughes architect;
BAKER, ORLANDO Architect, surveyor, Swindon, 1834-1912, born Brimscombe, Glos (Aylsham, Norf, acc to SAS) in Stroud, Glos, 1861, Highworth, Wilts, 1871, in partnership with James Hinton (1842-1907) (B&H) until1875; PM chapel, Swindon 1875-6 by B&H, WM chapel Wroughton Wilts 1878; see Wilts index; emigrated to Hobart, Tasmania, 1890, draughtsman in Public Works Dept 1897-1911 but de facto government architect, designed Custom House there, retired 1911;
1888 WM chapel, Chilcompton, Som; SAS; Kelly 1906;
BAKER-GREEN, CHARLES see JB Green.
BAKER-KING, CHARLES R. see CRB King.
BALDWIN, THOMAS City Architect Bath from 1775 in succession TW Atwood, witness in case of John Butler indicted for arson against RC priest John Brewer in anti-popery riots BC 31.8.1780; dismissed 1793. Bankrupt BC 12.9.93, certificated BC 20.3.94; Office 7 Walcot Terrace 1803-13; proposed publication of Designs in Architecture BC 25.6.1789;
1775-8 Guildhall, Bath, possibly plans prepared by him for TW Atwood; sale of Old Town Hall, Bath apply T Baldwin BC 13.3.77
c1775 tomb of Thomas Atwood +1775, Weston chyd, Bath,
1778 Northumberland Buildings, Bath; third house to be sold BC 30.3.1780
c1780 attr Crystal Palace Inn, Abbey Green, Bath; attr MF;
178? No 47 Milsom St, Bath; MF;
17?? Vestibule, No 1 Belmont, Bath; MF late C18, terrace of 1768-73;
1781-3 Somersetshire Buildings, Milsom St, Bath;
1783-4 Cross Bath, Bath St, Bath, Som;
1786 two plots on E side Walcot St and four plots on N side borough Walls; plans for building on with TB;
1786 sale new built house W side Russell St, Bath, apply TB, BC 9.2.86
(l786-8 Hafod, Cwmystwyth, Cd, for Thomas Johnes; FS 1786; E Inglis-Jones, Peacocks in Paradise 94-5; JE Smith, A tour to Hafod, 1810; ill in Samuel Meyrick hist of Cards;
1788-91 Colonnades, Abbey Churchyard, Bath;
1787 Mr Baldwin now employed on plans for improving the Lower Town, Bath BC 29.11.1787;
1788-92 Bathwick St, N side, Bath, Som;
1788 inscription on Private Baths, Bath in Latin translate TB architect 1788 L Coward mayor, BC15.5.1788;
1788 laid out Pulteney estate, Bathwick, Bath; Argyle St 1788-9, Laura Place 1788-9 FS of Laura Place and beginning of new town BC 3.4.88, Henrietta St 1788-9, Johnstone St 1794; 1794-1801 and c1805; Great Pulteney St, tender for building arches and pavement in front of ten houses Great Pulteney St BC 5.4.92; No 20 unfinished at bankruptcy 1794; No 26 lease 1791; Daniel St 1792;
1788-9 Argyle Chapel, Argyle St, Bath, alts 1804, refronted by HE Goodridge 1821
1789 building leases to let on three and a half acres late kitchen garden and part of pleasure grounds of Hon Charles Hamilton deceased, N side of Cottles Lane Bath; apply TB; BC 3.12.89; sale of house, gardens etc of Hon C Hamilton on Lansdown BC 15.4.90
1789 adv for two plots on E side Walcot St, Bath BC 13.8.89
1790 rebuilding Stall St, Bath, sale of 420' building land on W side Stall St BC 1.4.90; BC 13.4.91 thirteen plots between Stall St and Cross Bath ie Bath St;
1790-5 Grand Pump Room, Bath, completed by J Palmer without intended detached portico;opposition to the proposed buildings and sale of land in Cross Bath St routed BC 17,3.91
1790-5 Laura Chapel, Henrietta St, Bath, dem c1920; T BC 15.7.90 for building chapel and house on SE end of Henrietta St; T BC 5.4.92 for building a chapel in New Town, Bathwick;
c1790 Mews, 19 Royal Crescent, Bath; MF;
1790-1 Alts Cheap St, Bath; under 1789 Bath Improvement Act; widened and refronted, Nos 15-19 remain;BC 14.7.91;
1790 drew Roman altar found under Kings Bath, Bath BC 23.9.90
c1790 attrib alts Mendip House/ Welshmill House, Frome, Som; SNB 518; for Robert Meares, dyer; SAS;
1791 design for Northampton St area Bath for Pulteney estate, but built by J Pinch Sr qv;
1791ff Union Street, Bath; proposed BC 7.7.91; advert plot of ground for six houses on E side of intended Union St, Bath, also two plots on E side Burton St BC 7.3.93; mostly built 1805-10?;
1791 Bath St, Bath; under 1789 Bath Improvement Act; FS BC 31.3.91; thirteen plots offered BC 21.2.91 between Stall St and Cross Bath;
179? Bloomfield House, Bloomfield Rd, Bath; attr AFtext;
1792 alts Pulteney Bridge, Bath, Som;
1792 attrib Langham House, Rode Hill, Som; SNB;
1792ff Nos. 35-7 Daniel St, Bath, Som;
1792-6 E side Sydney Place, Bath, Som;
1794 des Sydney Hotel and Sydney Gardens, Bath; but built to altered designs by CH Masters qv 1796-7; exedra to hotel by TB 1795;
179? Pulteney Arms, Sutton St, Bathwick, Bath, Som;
1802 attr Weston Vicarage, near Bath, Som; AFtext;
1805-10 Union St, Bath; under 1789 Act;
(1806-8 TH, Devizes, Wilts; WBR)
180? Union Passage, Bath, Som; under 1789 Act
(1807 Rebuilt Hafod, Cwmystwyth, Cd, after fire, for Thomas Johnes; E Inglis-Jones, Peacocks in Paradise, 208;
1807 submitted first plans for layout of King Square, Bridgwater, Som; SAS; Dunning, Bridgwater History & Guide 1992;
(1811 chapel, Somerset Hospital, Froxfield, Wilts; WBR2)
(c1816 Rainscombe House, Oare, Wilts; accounts WRO, WBR)
c1816 attrib Parish’s House, Timsbury, Som; HGS 174, for Captain Parish RN; attrib C Hussey in CL 7.7.1944;
BALE, CHARLES Builder, Dulverton 1906 dir;
BALL & POPE Architects, Weston s Mare, 1931 dir. see TB Ball
BALL, GIDEON 15 York St, Bath. Surveyor & valuer.
1871 outbuildings, Dunkerton parsonage, Som; SRO Bbbm/186;
BALL, THEOPHILUS BRADFORD. Architect, Weston super Mare. 1875-1955, ARIBA, WWinA 1926; RL. Not in 1906 Kelly; partner with Frank Kennerell Pope 1888-1958 ARIBA as Ball & Pope (B&P) architects and surveyors;
1900 Fire Station, Weston s Mare, Som;
1900 extension Marine Parade, Weston s Mare, Som;
1901 Covered pool, Knightstone Island, Weston s Mare, Som;
1913 Abattoirs, Weston s Mare, Som, WwinA 1926;
1919-20 52 houses for Axbridge RDC; B&P;
1920 Conversion to flats, The Glen, Langport Rd, Weston s Mare; SRO; TBB;
1922 annexe Gardenhurst School, Burnham on Sea, Som, B&P;
1922 Nos 9-10 Regent St, Weston s Mare, Som; B&P
1923 Nos 40-42 Regent St, Weston s Mare, Som; B&P
1922 War Memorial, Worle, Som WWinA, B&P; by T Ball, SAS;
1924-5 rest tower Bleadon ch, Som; AF text; B&P;
1930 rest chancel, Uphill old ch, Som; D/D/cf/1930/97; B&P;
1932 Toolshed, rear No 7 Langport Rd, Weston s Mare; B&P; D/B/wsm/24/1
1933 House, Bridgwater Road, Uphill, Som; D/B/wsm/24/1/5196
BALSTON, MICHAEL. Architect, landscape architect. RIBA; Established in Wiltshire 1983, Long Barn, Patney, Wilts, with Marie-Louise Agius formed Balston Agius.
1991-2 remodelled Aislaby (Cucklington House), Cucklington, Som, former rectory, with veranda, octagonal conservatory, terraced gardens, underground swimmingpool, landscape with lake, and formal garden in kitchen gardens; inf owner; HGS 255-6
(c1999 Bristol Harbourside landscaping and sculpture.)
BAMPFYLDE, COPLESTONE WARRE 1720-91, amateur architect and garden designer, of Hestercombe, Som; DNB; SANHS 18 1872 163-6 and 85 1939 97; HC; son of John Bampfylde MP for Exeter and Devon, and Mary (?Margaret, SAS) heiress of Sir Francis Warre of Hestercombe; Amateur painter exhibited at RA, designed landscape at Hestercombe; HGS 80ff, inherited 1750, some designs may be by Richard Phelps qv, queried by P White; Guidebook gives 1750-86 for garden. Married 1755 Mary Knight cousin of R Payne Knight; friend of Henry Hoare II and Sir Charles Kemeys-Tynte
1750-86 Garden features Hestercombe, Som, include:
Mausoleum, mid 1750s, but a sketch by Richard Phelps SRO DD\L/1/22/7A is very similar but P White says a grotto at Stowe by Kent also similar;
Gothic Alcove at the top of valley, first recorded 1761, taken down 1887, recreated 2000, using ‘known Bampfylde designs in the Gothic taste’, guidebook 7; HGS 83; Witch House recorded 1761, HGS 83, evocation of Druid’s Temple at Halswell and Thomas Wright’s Hermit’s Cell, Badminton, C20 reconstruction on site based on photograph;
Octagon Summerhouse (C20 reconstruction on orig foundations);
Chinese Seat (C20 reconstruction);
Great Cascade built post 1762 (reinstated C20) with connecting leat;
Rustic Seat;
Box Pond cascade rebuilt 1998;
Doric Temple, mid 1770s reblt 1996, HC, known from photographs, column shafts reused;
Friendship urn to Sir Chas Kemeys-Tynte and H Hoare 1786, now in stables, on on site is C20 replica, based on Mrs Coade design;
(1765 the Cascade, Stourhead, Wilts;
1770-2 Taunton MH, The Parade, Taunton, Som; HC; built as market house with cruciform single-storey markets each side, markets dem 1930 and new wings added by HSW Stone (CH Reilly consultant) also parapet altered to overall ashlar pediment.
17?? Designs for windows, Dunster Castle, pre-1780; SAS, DD/L/1/22/7;
(17?? Unex des for mansion at Wardour, Wilts; Palladian; Wilts RO;
1782 involved with design of Hospital, South Rd, Taunton, by Stowey & Jones qqv, letters in DD/S/WH Box 55;
1786 Monument to parents, Kingston St Mary ch, by Thomas King of Bath
Also probably alterations to house at Hestercombe, possibly refacing in diorite, probably the centre bay, painted dec (gone) and possibly fireplace in NW room;
Also plasterwork at St Mary ch, Bridgwater acc to P white;
Also drew title cartouche for Day & Masters Map of county of Somerset, 1782; etched views of Hammet St, Taunton c1788 and Taunton Castle in Toulmin, History of the town of Taunton, 1791,
BANKART, GEORGE PERCY Plasterer and lead-worker, 1866-1929, one of best Arts and Crafts workers, part of Bromsgrove Guild 1899-1907 then in London; born Leicester articled Isaac Barradale architect, 1883, taught Leicester School of Art from 1897, did plasterwork in Somerset at Chapel Cleeve Manor, Old Cleeve, 1912-14, and Bowling Green House, Milborne Port 1914. Attributed plaster at Barrow Court, Galhampton, 1910-12 and at Webbington House, Compton Bishop, Som, 1908, house by EJ May qv;
BANKART, HUGH
1951 St Bartholomew ch, Lyncombe, Bath, Som;
BANKS, THOMAS LEWIS London. 1842-1920 Born Cockermouth, Cumberland, articled JG Stapledon 1860, practice in London and Whitehaven 1871, won competition for Raikes Hall Park, Blackpool, Lancs, 1871, specialist on chapels, designed both C and WM chapels Whitehaven, 1884-6 partnership with CH Townsend; FRIBA 1885; obit Br 4.6.20; RIBAJ 1920 391;
1872-3 C chapel, Oakhill, Som, for J Spencer of Oakhill Brewery; RL;
1874 Pondsmead House, Oakhill, Som, for F Spencer of Oakhill Brewery; RL; SNB;
1876 C chapel, The Boulevard, Weston s Mare, Som; bombed, dem;
1877-8 C chapel, Princes St, Yeovil, Som; RL; C Stell; named on FS; Frederick Cox builder, FS 8.10.77, opening 2.10.78. Arcades inserted 1923 as roof collapsing; SCG 5.10.78.
BANNERMAN, JULIAN & ISABELLA Garden designers
200? Garden Honeywick House, Hadspen, Som; HGS 271;
BARANOWSKI, CHRIS. RIBA. Higher Dairy House, Allowenshay, Som. 2009.
(2004-7 rest Nos 35-9 West St, Rochford, Essex; AHF newsletter;
BARKER & CROSS. Architects, 9 West St, Weston s Mare; Kelly 1889; EH Lingen Barker and AWS Cross qqv;
1888 Easton vicarage, Som; Arch 30.3.88;
1889 rest Stanton Drew ch, Som; D/D/cf/1889/4;
BARKER, BENJAMIN Painter, Bath, designed Oakwood, Bathwick Hill, Bath for self c1814.
BARKER, EDWIN HENRY LINGEN. Architect, 1838-1917. Born Lancashire, practiced briefly with brother Anthony Rowland Barker (born 1842), practice in Hereford from 1866 and Tenby, Oswestry in 1884, Weston s Mare in 1888 (1882??) as Lingen Barker & Cross (LB&C) with Alfred William Stephens Cross qv, and perhaps with an office in Station Rd, Taunton. Prolific church restorer in Pembs, designed St Stephen ch, Cinderford, Glos 1888-96; rest Stoke Gifford ch, Glos, 1894-7, Kingswood ch, Glos, 1898-1900; 1899 1st prize Willesden School, London; 1899 Selected Kilburn School, London; later EHLB & Sons; LB, Son & Ellis restored Coalpit Heath ch, Glos 1907;
(1878-9 rest Codford St Mary ch, Wilts; A 3.8.78)
1881 rest Monkton Combe ch, Bath, Som; SRO plans N aisle; ICBS 1880-2; 1886 acc to SNB;
1887 restored Market Cross, Cheddar, Som along lines of report by William Burges qv of 1858-9, BN 53 1887 970; SAS, LB&C;
1887-8 Vicarage, Easton, Som by LB&C; Archiseek from Arch 30.3.88
1889 rest Stanton Drew ch, Som, LB&C; SRO cf/1889/4; 1881 by AWS Cross, SAS;
1890 part rest East Brent ch, Som; Br 1890a 292; roof reps, with R Boughton qv, SRO D/D/cf/1890/11;
1895 Board Schools, Nunney, Som T Br 27.10.94;
1896 School, Elm rebuilt; SAS; originally of 1823 C/CA/School plans; ?Great Elm;
1898 Trudoxhill ch, Som; mission church to Nunney, closed 1983, altar in Nunney ch; AF notes;
(1901-2 N aisle St Mary ch, Fishponds, Bristol; EHLB & Sons; SNB 365;
BARLOW, WILLIAM HENRY Railway Engineer, London, 1812-1902, engineer to Birmingham & Manchester Railway 1839-42, Midland Counties Railway 1842ff, consultant to Midland Railway, designed roof St Pancras Station, London, from 1874 WHB & Son; retired 1896;
(1859 completed Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, with John Hawkshaw;
1874 Bath Road and Charlton railway viaducts, Shepton Mallet, Som; SAS; from Biddle, Britain's Historic Railway Buildings, 2003, 170;
BARNES CANON ARCHITECTS, Westwood Ho, 13 Haines Hill, Taunton, 2009. Designed village halls at Langford Budville and Staplegrove, Som, and at Membury and Broad Clyst, Dorset; Pritex Factory, Wellington, Som; Warehouse for Debenhams; village housing at Huish Episcopi, Hawkchurch, Wiveliscombe, Som; barn conversions Churchingford and Harnham; ext to holford house in striped brick; hospital Ottery St Mary, Devon; operating theatre Heavitree Hospital Exeter, Devon; Irnham Lodge Surgery, Minehead; .
BARNES, E. W. Architect, FRIBA
1881-2 rest Clapton in Gordano ch, Som; SNB
(1883 Schools, Barton Hill, Bristol; T: BN 29.6.83)
c1885-7 Failand ch, Som; SNB;
BARNES, HENRY Architect, civil engineer, surveyor, Dorchester, Dorset, won prize for designs for cottages from Hertford Agric Soc, WG 30.10.1868; bankrupt WG 23.4.69;
BARNES, ROGER Architect, The Reading Rooms, Witham Friary, Som; Roger Barnes Architects Ltd; previously worked for Niall Phillips and Nash Partnership qqv;
20?? restored Reading Room, Witham Friary, Som, as office;
200? house for Michael Eavis, Pilton, Som; website;
20?? Bathwick Place, Bathwick Hill, Bath, residential development in form of a stuccoed early Victorian villa;
20?? Raby Villa, Bath, repair and conservation of derelict canalside buildings;
20?? conversion of attic, Leigh Court, Abbots Leigh, Som, to offices;
(2013 Church Hayes, Lea, Wilts large house in C17 style retaining part of original;
BARNETT, ERIC County Planning Officer, Somerset
1987 Enhancement Market Place and repair Market Cross, Somerton, Som; CTA commendation 1988;
BARNEY BRISTOW ARCHITECTS
20?? swimming-pool house, Charlton Musgrove, Som; £543K; neo-classical;
BARNSLEY, ARTHUR ERNEST Architect, furniture designer, 1863-1926, articled JD Sedding 1886-9, practice in Birmingham, then in Cotswolds, 1900-03 with Ernest Gimson, ASG; SAS;
1911 restored Priest's House, Muchelney, Som with Norman Jewson qv; fro SPAB; N Mander Norman Jeswson architect, 2011;
BARRAN, MARIUS Architect London. RIBA. Practice 1982 after work with GLC and three years with Green, Lloyd & Adams. Did kitchens for Nigella Lawson, roof extension for Martin Amis, loft for George Melly, snooker room for Roald Dahl, writing room for Margaret Drabble/ Michael Holroyd; set up office in Fore Street, Dulverton, Som, 1998.
200? Alts Lower Shirehill Farm, near Bath, Som; connecting walkway;
200? New house and equine hospital, Roadwater, Som; for Tom Gliddon;
2007 rest Weacombe House, West Quantoxhead, Som, for Christopher Courage;
2007ff repairs Gothelney Manor, Charlinch, Som, for Richard & Victoria Price;
BARRATINI, JAMES F. Architect, The Studio, Winscombe.
1994 Cranmore Station, West Cranmore, Som; made from dismantled Goods Station from Wells, Som, and Lodge Hill Station, near Westbury sub Mendip; Patrick Byrne, Dinder, bldr;
BARRON, ARTHUR DOUGLAS. 51 Irnham Rd, Minehead. Engineer, surveyor 1884-1971, born Isle of Man, articled to Borough Engineer, Douglas, IoM, became Borough Engineer there himself 1915; Architect, Surveyor and Engineer to Minehead UDC from 1920;
BARROW, GEORGE. Architect to South Somerset District Council
1993 add to former Yeovil RDC offices, 91 Preston Rd, Yeovil, Som; now University Centre Yeovil; inf Adron Duckworth;
BARRY, Sir CHARLES 1795-1860. Architect. London. In practice c1824 on return from Italian voyage. 1822-5 Stand ch, Prestwich; 1823 Campfield ch, Lancs; 1824-8 Brighton St Peter; 1824-35 Manchester Institution; 1829-32 Travellers Club London; 1833-7 Edward VI School Birmingham; 1834-42 Trentham Hall Staffs; 1834-57 alts Bowood, Wilts; 1835 Royal Coll of Surgeons, London; 1835-67 Houses of Parliament, London; 1835-9 alts Kingston Lacy, Dorset, for WJ Bankes; 1835-9 Manchester Athenaeum; 1837-9 Manchester U chapel; 1837-41, Reform Club, London; 1838-43 alts Lancaster House, London; 1841 Pentonville Prison façade, London; 1842 alts Highclere Castle Hants; 1843-5 Hurstpierpoint ch, Sx; 1844-50 alts Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland; 1845 Treasury, Whitehall; 1847-57 Bridgewater House London; 1849-54 Shrubland Park Suff; 1850-1 Cliveden, Bucks; 1854-5 adds Canford Manor, Dorset, for Guest of Dowlais; 1859-63 Halifax TH. RIBA Gold Medal 1850 Father of Charles Barry Jr 1823-1900, and Edward M. Barry 1830-80 who continued father’s practice.
1832 reredos Wrington ch, Som; BoE N; badly executed, Br 1850 64; elegant SNB, carver John White;
(1834-57 Golden Gates, Bowood, Wilts; WBR, also tower on the stable block behind the chapel 1840, rebuilt by Barry 1860)
(1843-5 Obelisk, Cherhill Down, Wilts, built for Bowood estate;
BARRY, EDWARD MIDDLETON 1830-80 Son of Sir Charles Barry, articled TH Wyatt, continued father's practice after 1860 completing Houses of Parliament; worked with older brother Charles Barry Jr 1823-1900
(1872 glazed roof, The Exchange, Corn St, Bristol; Gomme; 1870-2 SNB, sculpture by EW Wynn; replaced badly 1949;
18?? redecorated double drawing-room, Crowcombe Court, Som; obit; c1870, SAS; and new entrance steps;
BARRY, THOMAS DENVILLE Architect, Taunton, 1815/16-1905, son of David Barry, born Ireland, articled H Prosser in Ireland, married 1842 in Westbury on Trym, Bristol, office in Taunton, then moved to The Wirral for partnership in Liverpool with William Raffles Brown (1822-67) (Barry & Brown) dissolved 1849, practice on own 1850, HF Price qv a pupil, partnership James Murray (1831-63) in early 1850s, specialist in cemetery design (St Helens, Atherton, Toxteth Park etc) ; also of Leamington Spa 1859, City Surveyor Norwich in early 1860s, designed S front Guildhall, 1861 and Corn Exchange 1863, engineer to Leamington Board of Health by 1868; Thomas D Barry & Son of Liverpool 1872; TD Barry & Sons c1873-95, one son was David Barry another Charles Garret Barry; died Toxteth Park, Liverpool 1905; Architects of Greater Manchester website; SAS;
1844 Chapel of ease, Tangier, Taunton, plans by TDB of Taunton, Dec style Br 16.11.44; ?not built.
(1848 U chapel, Hope St Liverpool, Barry & Brown;
(1851 1st prize workhouse, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TDB of Liverpool CEAJ 4.10.51;
(1855 1st prize Toxteth Cemetery, Liverpool CEAJ 18.4.55)
(1855-6 Holy Trinity ch, Tulse Hill, London)
BARTER, ROBERT. Builder, Milborne Port.
1819 Paid £231 by Lord Anglesey presumably for house-building to counter Lord Darlington’s vote-buying houses. McKay 138.
BARTLEET, S. T. see Stone & Partners.
BARTLETT (EDWIN ROBERT) & SONS. Builders, 69 Hendford, Yeovil; 1906 dir; ER Bartlett 1831-1907 son of Robert Bartlett carpenter born 1806; by 1851 family was in West Coker, connected with London Bartletts who built Bakerloo line, letter in SRO. Son Francis Robert Bartlett born 1868 joined and Charles Harwood 1820-79 was a partner c1869;
1863-4 Builder rest West Coker ch, Som; Robert Bartlett; The Book of West Coker 2008; £1563, JM Allen qv architect; Br 1864 852
1869-70 Builders WM chapel, Vicarage St, Yeovil, Som; Bartlett, Sons & Harwood of W Coker & Yeovil; architect A Lauder qv;
1896-7 Builders St John’s Church Rooms, Church St, Yeovil, Som; E Vining architect; plaque inside;
BARTLETT (F. R.) LTD. Builders, Yeovil. See Edwin Robert Bartlett. Francis Robert Bartlett born 1868, offices at Abbey Manor, Preston Plucknett to which the firm made additions. Now Abbey Manor Group, Timmis family.
1920? Compton Cottage and Bassett Cottage, East Coker, Som; Coker Court estate cottages; A Shepherd, East Coker, 42-3;
1935 reps WM chapel, Vicarage St, Yeovil, Som, after fire; centenary history 1970 28;
1967-73 contractors Summerlands Hospital, Preston Rd, Yeovil, Som; WG 5.1.73, Shirley-Smith, Gibson & Rigler architecs;
1974-5 builders Yeovil Police Station, Hosey Lane, Yeovil, Som; WG 20.12.74; Som County Architects;
BARTLETT, JOHN Builder Wincanton
1816-28 involved with alts South Brewham ch, Som, but retired ill-health; plans ? by ET Percy qv; ICBS;
BARTLETT, PERCY JAMES. Architect 1882-1943, born Christchurch, worked for WH Watkins of Bristol qv designing cinemas, joined Architects Department Boots Chemists, Nottingham, c1930, SAS;
1930 Alts No 4 The Parade, Minehead, Som for Boots; D/U/M/ 22/1/711;
BARTLETT, ROBERT West Coker Carpenter, builder, born 1806, father of Edwin R Bartlett qv, firm by 1868 Bartlett Sons & Harwood of West Coker & Yeovil. See ER Bartlett & Sons and FR Bartlett Ltd.
1863-4 Contractor rebuild West Coker ch, Som, JM Allen architect; Br 1864 852
BARTON WILLMORE PARTNERSHIP
1991 Hanover Court, Dulverton, housing for frail elderly, HDA 1991;
BARTON, FRANK JAMES Architect ARIBA, of Kelston, Batheaston in WwinA 1926;
BARTON, VINCENT A. M. Architect, with Ralph Nicholls qv as Nicholls & Barton, Bridgwater
1956 Vicarage, Woolavington, Som; VCH 8;
1956-8 reps Stocklinch Magdalen ch, Som; SANHS 139 135-49; removed boarded tympanum, rest nave roof;
1958-64 reps Bishop’s Hull ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1960/3/25; repairs W gable 1961/12/8;
1962 alts Kittisford ch, Som; removal of screen and choir pews; SRO faculty;
1962-4 St Joseph RC School, Park Ave, Bridgwater, Som; £60,631;
BASEVI, GEORGE 1794-1845. Pupil of Soane, set up 1820 in London, designed Belgrave Sq 1825ff; Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 1836-45; Conservative Club with Sydney Smirke 1843-4; killed by accident at Ely cathedral; son Captain James Palladio Basevi RE (1832-71) was Deputy-Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, widow returned to Bath, +1919 buried Smallcombe Cemetery, Bath
1827 Dinder parsonage, Som; SNB; TBC; HC says unexecuted des for Dr R Jenkyns, Master of Balliol College, ill CL 20.10.1977 1104 fig 2; designs in SRO 1827 are by CR Wainwright qv, RL says 1827 work by GB assisted by CRW Sr; design for additions 1846 by Jesse Gane qv in SRO;
BASSETT-SMITH, W.
(1884-5 aisles Christ Church, Clifton Bristol)
(1893-4 St Bartholomew ch, Sommerville Rd, Bristol; SNB)
BASTARD, BENJAMIN c1698-1772 Mason, Sherborne, 5th son of Thomas Bastard qv of Blandford Forum +1720, did not practice with brothers Thomas, John & William but apprenticed to William Townesend qv in Oxford. Established at Sherborne by 1720 when he probably built house in St Swithin St for HS Portman. Son Thomas c1730-72 died same year as Benjamin, another John Bastard (1722-78) was nephew of Benjamin and mason and architect in London, worked on Stoneleigh Abbey, Warw, 1764; HC;
(1720 ?house, St Swithin St, Sherborne, Dorset, for HS Portman now Digby School, by him or another family member, HC)
1745 repaired S aisle Queen Camel ch, and unspecified works 1760; SAS
1749 Mon to Peter Davis, cloisters, Wells Cathedral, Som; RL; signed; HC; Peter Davis restored Godney church in 1737 (plaque in church), since dem;
(1753-4 front, Shire Hall, Dorchester, Dorset; dem; HC;
(1758 stables, Sherborne Castle, Dorset; HC;
1765 raised tower, West Coker ch, Som, Nathan 411-12 vestry minute 6.9.64 for rebuilding the tower £207; dated 1765 on E battlement; HC; BB subscribed to recasting bells by T Bilbie of Cullompton, 1770, Nathan 412-13;
BASTARD, JOHN Blandford Forum. 1687-1770. One of sons of Thomas Bastard + 1720, worked with brothers Thomas +1731, and William +1766. Another brother was Benjamin qv c1698-1772. Brothers John and William rebuilt Blandford after 1731 fire, including TH 1734, Greyhound Inn 1734-5, church 1735-9; HC; John Bastard & Co sign a monument +1724 in Gillingham ch, Dorset; another John Bastard 1722-78 was nephew of Benjamin Bastard and was mason and architect in London, worked on Stoneleigh Abbey, Warw, 1764; HC;.
1727 work at Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som; RL; not in HC; SC says work was done for Henry Portman who bought house 1727 but died 1727-8, probably lost in later alterations by R Carver qv 1827-8; VCH 6; SAS by John Bastard, PRO C107/126 and VCH 6 296;
(c1727-58 interiors Lulworth Castle, Dorset; HC)
1732-3 carving etc Hazlegrove House, Sparkford, Som; J&WB; RL; HC, for CH Mildmay, CL 18.5.1929 and 18.1.1930 p 99; bill of 1733 from JB only for £153/18/4d for work in 'thldersmeae' hall, best parlour etc in 1732-3 includes: bed chamber chimney piece; brass locks for that story; wainscot of Great Parlour £32/18/4d; wainscot of passage & steps; Norway oak floor; carving all ye room £31/1/7d; mahogany doors;
(1742ff rebuilt Crichel House, Dorset, after fire; JB with Francis Cartwright qv mason; HC;)
1745 repairs S aisle Queen Camel ch, Som; by ‘Bastard’; VCH; SAS says by Benjamin Bastard, also unspecified work in 1760;
(1746-9 House, Market St, Poole, Dorset, now School of Art; HC; by J&WB;
1748 attrib alts to Shanks House, Cucklington, som; by J&WB, SAS; but cf also Nathaniel Ireson; remodelling and E side addition;
1754 ?involved with work at Halswell House, Goathurst, for Sir C Kemeys-Tynte; ?W front rebuilt by Francis Cartwright qv, ?design possibly by J&WB;
1760 unspecified work Queen Camel ch, Som; by ‘Bastard’; VCH
BASTARD, THOMAS Blandford Forum. Thomas Bastard Sr, joiner, +1720 was father of John 1687-1770 qv & William qv 1689-1766 and Thomas II +1731, Benjamin qv (5th son) c1698-1772, and Joseph (6th son) +1783. John and William were partners who rebuilt Blandford after 1731 fire. Neither John nor William had children. Another Thomas c1730-72 was son of Benjamin. Another two Thomas Bastards 1720-71 and 1724-91 are also known, as TB Sr and TB Jr. Thomas Bastard Sr did nothing of note but Thomas Bastard Jr was builder and possibly designer at Crichel House, Dorset, 1771-2. HC. Joseph Bastard practiced in Basingstoke.
A different Thomas Bastard bought Charlton House, Charlton Musgrove, Som, and rebuilt it in 1805, R Bush Somerset 62;
(1716 woodwork, Charlton Marshall ch, Dorset, attr TB Sr by HC
(1716 parsonage Spettisbury, Dorset; attrib TB Sr by HC)
BASTARD, WILLIAM Blandford Forum. 1689-1766, son of Thomas Bastard +1720, worked with brother John 1687-1770, J&WB; HC;
1732 carving etc Hazlegrove House, Sparkford, Som; J&WB; RL; HC; for Carew Mildmay; RP Lankester 1958 history says bill is from John Bastard only.
BATEMAN, - Architect, married BC 7.8.1794 to Miss Shewring of Westgate St, Bath;
BATEMAN, RICHARD LA TROBE. Artist, Batcombe.
2006 Cocklemoor Bridge, Langport, Som; Mark Lovell of Devizes engineer; RG Spillers of Chard contrs; 13 tonnes;
20?? footbridge, Tellisford Mill, Som for A & R Battersby;
BATEMAN, W. HERBERT Architect, Argyle St, Bath, 1931 dir; LRIBA;
BATH CITY COUNCIL Architects Department. City Architects Major CE Davis qv c1865-1900; Dr Howard Stutchbury to c1975; Prof Roy Worskett c1975;
1960 Lampards Buildings, Bath; SNB;
1973 St Michael’s Arch, Abbey Green, Bath; SNB; part of Marks & Spencer;
BATH CONSERVATION ARCHITECTS 30 Brock St Bath formed 2017 by Harry Whittaker and Sarah Lockwood, both formerly with Chris Dyson qv; Harry Whittaker (HW) was in practice near Oswestry 2004-8, then set up Bath office of Chris Dyson Architects;
(2004 rest Bryngwilla Lodge, Brynkinallt Hall, near Oswestry, Salop; HW;
(2004 new Lodge, Llanymaen near Oswestry, HW; also drawings made for new entrance front to main house based on C17 drawing, completed by client in 2015)
(2012-15 rebuilt No 4 St Margaret Steps, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, HW for self; House & Garden July 2018;
2017 rest No 6 Johnstone St, Bath to single family use;
20?? Alts No 1 Sion Hill Place and Summerhill Bath to separate and convert No 1 to flats, leaving Summerhill, the part added by Ernest Cook in the 1930s in school use for Kingswood School prep school;
2017 rest and extension Somerfoss, Oakhill, Som, 1970s house by Tim & Bob Organ qv;
2018 repairs No 30 Brock St, Bath, Som;
20?? rest 11 Duke St, Bath, Som;
(2019-20 repairs Druce's Hill House, Church St, Bradford on Avon;
(2020 proposed restoration walled garden, Rushmore, Tollard Royal; and new holiday chalets;
2020 Teals farm-shop and cafe, North Cadbury, Som, off A303;
BATH, FREDERICK Sandown House, Churchfields, Salisbury, Wilts. 1847-1919; at Market Sq Salisbury 1875; Crown Chambers Bridge St 1880 to 1915; list of works in Contemporary Biographies 1906 includes County Hall, Fisherton Schools, Milford Manor, New Sarum House, and Bloom’s premises, all Salisbury.
(1877 Detached villa, Wilton Rd, Salisbury, Wilts for G Read T: BN 25.5.77)
(1880-1 refronted John Hall’s House, Salisbury; WBR;
(1880 adds Angel Hotel, Fisherton St, Salisbury T Br 14.2.80)
(1880 Four cottages and dwelling house, North St, Wilton, Wilts T Br 7.2.80)
(1880 Memorial hall, Fisherton St, Salisbury, Wilts; in memory of John Maundrel; WBR2; called Maundrel Hall;
1883 Adds Somerleaze, Murty Hill, Frome, Som, Br 1883 235, SAS;
(1888 Palace Theatre, Salisbury; WBR, dem;
(188? bandstand, layout etc, Victoria Park, Salisbury; WBR2;
(1??? Wilts & Dorset Bank, High St Calne, Wilts;
(1917 rest Fisherton Anger ch, Wilts. WRO; ??? Fisherton anger ch demolished in mid C19 and replaced by St Paul ch, Salisbury by TH Wyatt;
BATHE, EDWIN Architect and surveyor, Fern Villa, Weston s Mare; Kelly 1889 dir;
BATTERHAM MATTHEWS DESIGN Architects, Bath. George Batterham, Nick Matthews (BM); later Batterham Smith (BS) with Ben Smith;
2000 Primary School, Station Rd, Portishead, Som; SNB; John St Leger and GB;
200? Widcombe Junior School, Bath John St Leger and GB;
(2008 The Green Valley, new house, Owlpen, Glos;
(2009 Arts centre, Rowdeford, Wilts for Wilts CC; conv of coach-house; also special autistic school (unit?);
2012 Pavilion, Kingswood School, Bath; enlarged cricket pavilion, BS;
(2012 Cranham Lodge, Glos RIBA SW Regional Award 2013;
2013 boarding house, Kingswood School, Bath; GB and Anja Haubold; finalist LABC Building Excellence Award 2015;
2014 No 62 Thomas St, Wells, Som, for S & S Loveday, Mendip Building Excellence Award 2015;
(2014 library and admin block, Bishop Road Primary School, Bristol; Bristol Civic Soc award 2015)
201? Drum House Stoberry Park near Wells, Som;
2015 Laurel Barn, Mells, Som; Mendip Building Excellence Award 2016; Chris Ball and GB;
2020 plans for house behind No 14 Chamberlain St, Wells for Paddy & Judith O'Hagan; by GB; Mendip Planning; unex;
Website includes house Winslade Down; house The Vines; Hackpen house, Broad Hinton, Wilts; house Field Farm ?Cotswolds; house Washmere's Farm, Glos; new building Air Balloon Hill School, Bristol; conversion of barn, Hackwood Grange; Redfield Educate Together primary school, Bristol; Wicklea Academy junior school, Bristol?; house The Old Vineyard; additions St Bernardette RC Secondary School; house Prima Vista; badminton court Ashton Park School, Bristol; library Cotham School, Bristol; activity hall, Hartcliffe, Bristol; dram studios Cotham School Bristol;
BATTERSBY, ROBERT Architect, see Architecton;
2013 conversion ground floor of MH Castle Cary to meeting room;
(2017 new wing, Museum, Lyme Regis, Dorset)
BAYLISS, FRANK C. Architect 1862-1947, born Derby, in Street, Som, by 1901, c1905 formed shopfitting department for WH Smith stationers, retired 1938;
1928 No 44 High St, Weston s Mare, Som; for WH Smith; SAS;
also ? WH Smith branches in Bath, Wellington etc;
BAYLY, ZACHARY, Bath, of clothier family from Shepton Mallet or possibly Westbury, related to Jamaica plantation owner Zachary Bayly +1769; Zachary Bailey of Bath may have designed Heath House, Purdown, Bristol, in 1783-4, SNB 381; Zachary Bayly is one of several eminent Bath persons who countersign designs for the N side of Cheap St, Bath, in 1790. Probably same as the ZB of Widcombe, Bath, who subscribed to Collinson, 1791; British Library has fine drawing by Grimm of house of Zachary Baily at Widcombe, 1791, showing a large 3st 3w house with centre pediment and 3st lower wings each with a full-height centre bow, and ZB is noted as the grandson of Joseph Baily butcher of Bath;
will of Zachary Bayly of Weston (Bath?) 1798 asks to be buried in chancel of Shepton Mallet with late wife; will proved 1807, mentions three unmarried daughters;
BBA ARCHITECTS, Henrietta Mews, Bath. Est 1992. Matthew Bollen; Sally Hewins;
(1999 Pooles Wharf, Hotwells, Bristol; Patrick Bollen proj archt; SNB;
2000-1 conv St Swithin’s Schools, Walcot St, Bath, Som, to housing; new neo-Georgian Nos 130-8 Walcot St; MF;
2000-2 Converted The Tramsheds, Walcot, Bath, to alternative use;
(2007 Allington Way & Little England housing, Chippenham, Wilts; ISG Pearce contrs;
2010 dev opposite 38 Butts Hill, Frome, Som; Mendip awards 2011;
20?? The Orangery care home, Bath, Som, converted from Edwardian pub;
20?? ext to Acheson & Acheson premises, Bath;
20?? offices Pill Road, Rooksbridge, Som, converted farm buildings;
(20?? Meridian Business Park, Trowbridge, Wilts;
(20?? County Way flats, Trowbridge, Wilts;
20?? music block Beechen Cliff School, Bath;
20?? classroom block King Edwards School, Bath;
20?? Bath Cats & Dogs Home, Bath;
(20?? Beversbrooks Sports Centre, Calne, Wilts;
20?? conv former Post Office, Northgate St, Bath;
20?? 47 houses in grounds Gatchell House, Trull, Som;
20?? conversion of Mendip Hospital (former County Asylum) Wells, Som, to 130 houses and flats;
(20?? conv Abbey Mill, Church St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, to 48 retirement flats;
(20?? mountain bike centre, Afan Argoed Country Park, Glyncorrwg, Wales;
20?? three houses off Edgehill Road, Clevedon, Som; C20index;
BDP see Building Design Partnership
BEADON, WILLIAM c1803-64, surgeon, inventor, Otterhead House and The Crescent Taunton; according to SAS possibly designed 1838-9 Public Meeting Rooms, Bath Place, Taunton, also Otterhead House and grounds after 1841; co-ordinated restoration of Otterhead ch 1860-1 by Thomas Hargeaves qv;
BEARD, JAMES BARON. Langport, builder, architect, c. 1793-1841 or 1842, buried Somerton. Presumably brother of John Baron Beard qv (1791-1858) as in TC ?.3.1829 they together solicit attention as architects, surveyors & engineers with particular expertise in heating and ventilation; Somerset Dir 1830, Pigot 1839 and Bragg 1840.Connected with Beard’s Yard, Bow St, Langport, where there was a foundry, called Down’s Foundry by SIAS as owned by Richard Down qv as early as 1809; HC has Beard family: Mr Beard of Somerton, James Baron Beard of Langport and John Baron Beard of Taunton, suggests Somerton & Langport Beards may be different, perhaps Mr Beard is Joseph Beard of Kingsdon.
1836 Kingsdon Rectory, Som; RL; JBB of Langport, HC; SRO D/Bbm/66; burnt and dem c1924 photo in church;
1838 Limington Rectory, Som; RL; HC; SRO D/Bbm, 70; JBB of Langport, plans not seen, new ashlar fronted house with pillared side porch.
BEARD, JOHN BARON Architect, Taunton, 1791-1858 married Marian Goldsworthy in Taunton 1828, when described as 'architect, of Bath' in GM; in TC ?.3.1829 James and John Baron Beard together solicit attention as architects, surveyors & engineers with particular expertise in heating and ventilation; applied to be County Surveyor in 1830 when practising from Upper High St, Taunton, in 1840 J Baron Beard architect surveyor and engineer of East St Taunton recommended himself as auditor to the Guardians of the Poor for Western Somerset TC 3.6.40; still in practice 1850, but not in 1852 dir, died in London 1858 aged 67; SAS.
1831-2 alts Ashcott ch, Som; 1831-9 ICBS; removed aisles, rebuilt N wall further out, blt 3-decker pulpit using C17 bits, replaced E gallery with one on chancel N side, RL; 1833 HC; plan 1831 in ch guide shows W and N galleries and private pew in first floor of porch. Mentions raised belfry. Reopened TC 8.9.32.
BEARD, JOSEPH Kingsdon, near Somerton, 1781-1864; SAS.; architect in Somerton by 1809 according to a relative's will, but by 1811 Joseph Beard was called architect in Bath when connected to the development of the Palk estate, Torquay; Surveyor to Fabric Wells Cathedral 1812-15, presumably the Mr Beard of Somerton fl 1813-21 applied to be Somerset County Surveyor 1818, in Bath by 1830 (Pigots Dir); RL; HC;
1810 Almshouses, Ilchester, Som; RL; Mr Beard, VCH from SRO D/B/il/6 pp 266 and 269 of almshouse account book; SAS;
(1811? connected with development of Palk estate, Torquay, Devon, BoE; laid out for Sir Robert Palk after Harbour Act of 1803, Joseph Beard architect of Bath the Palk estate architect designed first terrace with Jacob Harvey builder, Higher Terrace (now The Terrace) 1811, unclear whether involved further; Torquay Harbour CA Appraisal 2004
1813 Messrs Beard & Owen (Evan Owen qv), two experienced surveyors examined old parsonage, North Cadbury, Som, SRO D/D/Bbm/35, but new house was by Thomas Ellis qv;
1813-14 Town Hall, Glastonbury. Som; Dunning, Glastonbury 79; corporation asked Mr Beard of Somerton for plans in Jan 1813, first meeting in new TH December 1814; HC says design 1813 by Mr Beard of Somerton built 1818; SAS says opened 1817 but not finished until c1823;
1815 report on Stogursey ch, Som; ‘Stokecourcy Church A copy of the reports of Mr Joseph Beard and Mr Robert Anstice on the state of Stokecourcy Church upon surveys respectively made and taken by them in November 1814 and April 1815’, JB’s report report dated 24.2.15 and dated from Somerton recommended taking down tower and spire and erect new tower on N side; Robert Anstice qv also reported and agreed with JB;
1821 nave and chancel rebuilt, Northover ch, Ilchester, Som; by James Baron Beard HC, unlikely; VCH 3 and church guide just say Mr Beard; SAS;
1821 rebuilt Sock Dennis ch, Som; nave and chancel rebuilt, porch dem; remains now outbuilding at farmhouse; RL; ?no outbuilding was never a church, includes some bits including a moulded Perp door.
182? Rebuilt Sock Dennis Farmhouse, Som; SAS from DD/WY Box 84 ?same as Wyndham's Sock farmhouse, Tintinhull, 1820s VCH 3 233 from undated spec SRO DD/WY box 84; In Sock Dennis parish, called Sock House 1657, Sock Manor 1968, ?OS Stonecroft Manor or Wyndham’s Sock.
BEARDSWORTH GALLANAUGH & PARTNERS, see R Gallannaugh;
BEAUCHAMP, JOHN Land surveyor, Wells, 1799-1856,
1826 surveyed line of Glastonbury Canal; SAS; built 1827-33, John Rennie engineer qv;
BEAUCHAMP, JOHN Architect, Wedmore. Worked for Caroe & Partners, left 2008, just as Martock job began, joined Pat Benjamin in B2 (qv) or Benjamin & Beauchamp.
(1993ff rest The Merchants House, High St, Marlborough, Wilts, for Trust, with Jerry Sampson Building Archaeologist;
2008-9 rest Market House, Martock, Som, as community council offices; Marcus Chantrey exec archt; inf F Dowding;
BECKETT Sir EDWARD Bt Sir Edward Beckett 5th Bt, lawyer, was Edward Beckett Denison but on death of father and inheritance of baronetcy in 1874 gave up Denison. In 1886 made Baron Grimthorpe. 1816-1905. Lawyer and serial interferer in architecture, also horologist involved with design of mechanism of Big Ben, 1851. Designed W front of St Albans Cathedral and two churches in St albands, another in Leeds;
1878 font, West Huntspill ch, Som; Harvey Pridham The Ancient church fonts of Somerset 29; designed and presented to church which had been burnt out;
BECKINSALE & PARTNERS;
1979 Trinity Ct housing, Nailsea, Som; HDA 1979;
BEECH TYLDESLEY ARCHITECTS Old Deanery Court, Cathedral Green, Wells BA5 2UQ 2009. See GC Beech.
BEECH, GEOFFREY CLARENCE. Old Deanery Court, Wells. Architect, trained Liverpool, set up practice 1948 when appointed Diocesan Surveyor, partner with Alan Tyldesley (B&T), later Beech Tyldesley & Partners (BT&P). Dan Olive worked for them designing parsonages, later ordained as CofE vicar; Alan Howles joined 1987; Mark Taylor principal c2010;
1950-2 Parsonage, Walton, Som; VCH;
1952 Rectory, Exford, Som; D/r/dul/24/1/216, GCB;
1955-7 reps Combe Florey ch, Som; ICBS; GCB
1955-7 repairs Ashbrittle ch, Som; ICBS;
1955-6 repairs Catcott ch, Som; chancel roof rest; cf/1955/9/2 also repairs to tower 1964;
1957 Chapel, Abbey House, Glastonbury, Som; H&F; Wells Journal 4.10.57; conversion of dining-room in house;
1957 part demolition St Mary Magdalene Almshouses, Magdalene St, Glastonbuty, Som; plans at almshouses; one of two ranges demolished;
1957-65 alts fittings Blagdon ch, Som; SNB
(1961 St Alban ch, Prenton, Birkenhead, Ches; H&F)
(1961-2 QM, Heswall, Cheshire, with Dewi Prys Thomas; H&F;
1961-3 reps Donyatt ch, Som; B&Ptnrs; ICBS
1961-3 reps Biddisham ch, Som; ICBS;
1962 reps Chilton Cantelo ch; SRO D/D/cf/1962/7/15;
1962 floor reps Furnham ch, Chard, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1962/7/9; also heating 1956;
1962 reps Stoke sub Hamdon ch, Som; D/D/cf/1962/8/6;
1962-4 reps Axbridge ch, Som; ICBS;
1963 Vicarage, Carhampton, Som; VCH;
1963-6 reps West Pennard ch, Som; ICBS;
1963-6 reps West Bradley ch, Som; ICBS;
1964-5 repsWest Bagborough ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
1964-5 reps Donyatt ch, Som; ICBS; B&Ptnrs;
1966 Vicarage, Ashbrittle, Som by D Olive of B&T
1966-7 reps Meare ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
1966-8 reps Combe Hay ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
1966-8 reps Moorlinch ch, Som; ICBS; GCB;
1967-8 repairs Brompton Regis ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
1967-8 reps Haselbury Plunknett ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
1967-9 reps St Benedict ch, Glastonbury; ICBS; B&T
1968 reps Chilton Trinity ch, Som; ICBS; B&T
1968 reps tower Maperton ch, Som, D/D/cf/1968/11/17;
1969-70 enl Church room, Christ Church, Clevedon, Som; SNB
1972-3 reps Lydeard St Lawrence ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
1972-3 reps Priston ch, Som; B&T; ICBS;
1973-6 reps Lopen ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
197? St John & St Francis Primary School, Westonzoyland Rd, Bridgwater, Som; extended by BT several times since; website
1974-5 reps St John ch, Glastonbury; ICBS; B&T;
1974-7 reps Christon ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
1977-8 reps Moorlinch ch, Som; ICBS; B&T;
1977 Community Room, St Michaels Home, Axbridge, Som; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; B&T; SNB;
1979-80 repairs Axbridge ch, Som;BT&P;
1983 added pitched roofs to Canons Houses, Wells, Som; houses originally by Potter & Hare 1967-9; SNB;
198? Salvation Army, Vestry Rd, Street, Som; by B&T acc to J Gould;
1988-91 alts Old Deanery, Wells, Som; GCB with Alan Thomas;
1990? Prop ‘chapter house’ NE of St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; Robert Chambers architect?; rejected; RL;
1993 Glastonbury Abbey Visitor Centre & Museum. Som; website; ?begun with shop in 1989;
1998 The Old Glass House YMCA day centre, Wells, Som; website; RIBA town & country award 1998
1998-9 Infants school addn, Primary School, South Petherton, Som; website; commended RIBA countryside design awards 1999;
2002-6 adds Blue School, Milton Lane, Wells, Som; SNB; £1.7m. website seven labs, canteen, ext to main hall, new main entrance;
2002-3 Dormitory adds, Downside School, Som; website; RIBA Town & country award 2003; other work for Downside School inc refurb cricket pavilion;
20?? Ringing floor Charlton Adam ch, Som; inf G Pilkington e-mail re Middlezoy where similar is proposed; website;
2011 conversion, Ingsdon Farm, Bodden, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
2012 prop toilet and ringing floor, Middlezoy ch, Som; inf G Pilkington chwarden;
2012 reps Pawlett ch, Som; Mark Taylor architect; lime render exterior;
201? reps & tower screen, Martock ch, Som, guide book, screen made by RJ Dean of Pucklington;
2012 House by Cleveland Bridge, St Johns Rd, Bath, Som; orig design by CO3 Architects approved 2006; website;
2012 Barkham block, Blue School, Wells; Melhuish & Saunders bldrs;
Website includes: ext and alts Draycott & Rodney Primary School, Som; Dining-hall, Wells Cathedral School, The Cedars, Wells, Som also works over 40 years inc conversion of stables to classrooms, ; Enmore Park Golf Club clubhouse, Enmore, Som; church hall, St Mary RC ch, Glastonbury, Som; church and community hall, Locking Castle, Weston s Mare, Som; conversion of outbuildings for Mendip Quarry study centre, Stoke St Michael, Som; alts Curry Rivel ch, Som inc reopening N door, rearranging N aisle and repairs to churchyard Schoolroom; addn Oakhill ch, Som; repairs Downside Abbey church and monastery, Som; new porch to house at Hemington, Som; rear addition and garden room to II* farmhouse, Castle Cary, Som; conversion of wagon-shed to studio, Castle Cary, Som; rear addition and conservatory to house (?Courtfield), Norton sub Hamdon, Som; conversion outbuildings Stoney Stratton, Som; refurb Carfax Hotel, Gt Pulteney St, Bath, Som; repairs Ebsley Fm barn, Spaxton, Som; alts Old Deanery Wells with Alan Thomas architect inc new staircase and first floor adds; firm did int alts for many Natwest Bank branches in Somerset in 1980s-1990s, also alts to St Michael’s Home, Cheddar, Som;
Diana Crighton says font at Theale ch is good 1950s by GCB. Also St John Primary School, Bridgwater, and council housing Leg of Mutton Rd, Glastonbury, both by Alan Tyldesley;
BEGG, NIGEL W. H. High St, Castle Cary RIBA. Co-author Converting old buildings into new homes, 2004. Adds to traditional houses at Lower Hadspen, South Brewham, and Coleford, Som; conv or alts barns Wellington and North Cadbury, Som; conv outbuildings to three houses Wellington, Som. Won RIBA regional award for timber-clad house, Long Barton, E Devon.
1994 Caryford Hall, Ansford, Som; VCH;
200? adds to former school, Milton Clevedon, Som;
2009 adds South Cary House, Castle Cary, Som; board; to geriatric home;
2011 alts Wellands, East Town, Pilton, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
2011 House for Sally Strachey, Godney, Som;
BEIGEL, FLORIAN. Architecture Research Unit of London Metropolitan University 0207 133 4457. working with Florian Beigel Architects have done the Half Moon Theatre London, Bishopsfield regeneration of courtyard unit of Harlow New Town; Lichterfelde Sud landscape Berlin; Paju Book City, Seoul (indust estate for book publishers) inc Positive Thinking building; florian Beigel and Philip Christou
2010 prop Garden House, Hadspen House, Pitcombe, Som; for Niall Hobhouse BD 23.4.10; not built;
BELCHER, JOHN 1841-1913 Major Edwardian architect.
(1886 alts South Marston ch, Wilts; WBR
1894-5 Cottage Hospital, St Thomas St, Wells, Som; BoE N;
(1898-1918 Tapeley Park, Westerleigh, Devon; BoE)
BELL, CHARLES London FRIBA, 1846-99, born Grantham, assistant John Giles in London until own practice 1870, designed numerous WM chapels;
(1875 Hampstead Cemetery, London; A 9.10.75;
(1876 Holme Hill School, Grimsby, Lincs;
1886 Florida House, Greenway Rd, Castle Cary, Som; Br 24.7.86, Messrs Francis & Sons, Castle Cary, builders, Corsham stone with dressings of Ham Hill, hollow external walls backed up with brick and local stone, in course of erection; 1877 for JS Donne of Higher Flax Mills DoE, mantelpiece & recess ill Br 19.5.88 by Reid & Co; later St John’s RC Priory. WG 6.5.87; BN 6.3.91; builder Edward Oram Francis, SAS;
BELLAMY, FRANKLIN JOSEPH Architect 18 High St, Yeovil, Kelly 1906; Franklyn Joseph Bellamy LRIBA offices in London & Yeovil WWinA 1926;
BELLAMY, THOMAS Charlotte St, Bedford Sq, London; 1798-1876 acc to DSA; a founder of RIBA, proposed GG Scott as FRIBA in 1849 with TH Wyatt; designed Emmanuel ch, Camberwell, 1842;
(1845-9 adds Corsham Court, Wilts; FJ Ladd Architects at Corsham Ct)
(1857 5th prize Foreign Office competition;
1857 Parsonage, Chilton Cantelo, Som; SRO Bbm/127; Italianate; TC 17.6.57 tenders £3489 Mansfield & Son;
(1866 Kings College Hospital, London; staircase ill. archiseek)
BELOE, ARTHUR J. Architect, Brompton, London, 1816-c1858
1841 add Litton parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/88; survey of previous by Clement York builder of Chilcompton;1840 SAS;
BENJAMIN & BEAUCHAMP Architects, Wedmore, also B2 Architects; The Borough Studios, Wedmore, Som. Pat Benjamin & John Beauchamp. Also Marcus Chantrey, John Green. John Beauchamp worked for Caroe & Partners, has been cathedral architect to St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, since 2002, and to Longleat House, Wilts, and to the Kildare Club, Dublin, from 2008;
Work includes: St Johns Primary School, Bath, Som; adds and alts RC Primary School, Wincanton, Som; St Bonaventure Primary School, Bristol; adds Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, Glos; St Mary’s Primary School, Bradley Stoke, Glos; Widcombe Junior School, Bath; St Alphege’s RC church hall, Oldfield Park, Bath; reps Bitton ch, Glos; roof replacement Cheddon Fitzpaine ch, Som; alt St Cuthbert ch, Wells, Som, glass screen to Trinity chapel;
2007-12 ext repairs Holy Trinity ch, Blackford, Wedmore, Som;
2007ff reps St John ch Yeovil, Som;
(2008 reps Colehill ch, Dorset)
2008 prop reordering, Holy Trinity ch, Frome, Som;
2009 reps Clutton ch, Som;
2009 rest Market House, Martock, Som, as community office;
2011-14 rest Durslade Farm, Bruton, Som, in partnership with Paris architects Laplace & Co qv for Hauser & Wirth art gallery, opened 15.7.14; AR September 2014;
2012 alts Old Vicarage, Glastonbury, Som; board;
(2012 plan for St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol; access etc)
(2017 restored cupola Blandford Forum ch Dorset)
2017 receiled nave Nunney ch, Som; plaster poijnted vault;
BENNET, WILLIAM, Beckington. Engineer. Possibly came from Lancs, noted first in 1792 doing surveys for canals there, employed by Robert Whitworth qv; back in Lancs 1821-5, SAS;
1794-6 engineer Ivelchester & Langport Navigation, Som, abortive attempt to make Parrett navigable to Ilchester; CH Masters was surveyor; but cf Body & Gallop, Parrett Navigation, 2002, 10, a ‘local man’ Josiah Easton qv is named as involved.
1795-1806 engineer Somerset Coal Canal, from Paulton, Som to Kennet & Avon at Limpley Stoke; dismissed 1806;
1796-1800 engineer Dorset & Somerset Canal; initial survey by Robert Whitworth, proposed WB instead in 1793, WB did survey 1795, eventually began with 8-mile branch to Frome through Coleford and Vobster, Som; Murtry Aqueduct, Great Elm, Som; Coleford Aqueduct, Som; very early boat lifts designed by ironfounder James Fussell qv of Mells patented 1798; first lift at Barrow Hill, Bath Chronicle 16.10.1800; abandoned incomplete 1802-3; never joined the Kennet & Avon;
1808 involved with plan for inclined plane from stone quarries to Kennet & Avon at Bathampton, Som; wikipedia;
1808 River Axe drainage scheme, Som, with Robert Anstice; wikipedia;
1825 Report with Thomas Tredgold on using proposed route of Dorset & Somerset Canal for a railway; wikipedia;
BENNETT DIUGIEWICZ & DATE
1998 add Bathwick Grange, Bath; MF;
BENNETT, EDWARD Mason. Wellington.
17?? Rebuilt Church House, Nynehead, Som; SRO DD/SF/16/15/8 contract undated;
BENNETT, GEORGE. Builder, Yeovil. Somerset Dir 1830, died before 1844 as Thomas Stent took over practice of late George Bennett SM 17.2.1844;
1835 W gallery, Maperton ch, Som, SAS from church guide;
1838-9 Savings Bank, 7 High St, Yeovil, Som; opened Jan 1839 ‘three storeys high, mostly in the Grecian style with balcony, portico and balustrades’; Mr Churchouse qv builder; report in WFP Jan 39 acc to LC Hayward, From Portreeve to Mayor, 1987, 57; but SDTJ 10.1.39 says Messrs Bennett & Churchouse architects and builders;
1840 add parsonage, Sutton Bingham, Som; hipped 2st 3-bay; SRO plans D/D/Bbm/78;
BENNETT, HENRY M. Bristol & London
(1901-2 WM chapel, Fishponds Rd, Bristol; SNB
(1904-7 St Anne’s ch, St Anne’s, Bristol; SNB;
1908-9 reps Brislington ch, Som; rej by ICBS; ?unex;
BENNETT, JOHN Wiltshire gentleman designed Pyt House, Newtown, Wilts, for self c1805 and this was copied at Leigh House, Abbotsleigh, Som, 1814-17 for PJ Miles, by Thomas Hopper executant architect; SNB;
BENNETT, ROBERT CHRISTIE Architect, Weymouth, 1831-93. Born Tonbridge, in Weymouth by 1861, of Melcombe Regis when effects liquidated WG 28.11.1873; built numerous C chapels;
(1861 Gloucester St C chapel, Weymouth, Dorset; CYB 1862 Norman £3200; BoE)
(1861-2 ?Hope C chapel, Trinity St, Weymouth, Dorset; BoE; but by Haggett & Pocklington of Sherborne, CYB 1862;
1863 C chapel, South Petherton, Som, opened WG 3.10.63; now David Hall;
1865-6 C chapel, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; Gothic; C Stell; CYB 1867 361, £1975/17/3d, schoolroom and classrooms beneath, apse ended. Also Manse, chapel enlarged 1875, builder Alfred Reynolds qv, Milborne Port, SAS
(1870 Chapel, Abbotsbury, Dorset; CStell
(1870 Castle P chapel, Castle St, Shrewsbury, Salop; BoE 554; Norman.)
(1874 new building adj I chapel, Chesil, Dorset; WG 25.12.74;
(1880-1 Chapel, Upwey, Dorset; CStell)
(1881 chancel, Warmwell ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1897 pulpit, ?chapel, Weymouth, Dorset; WG 20.10.97, rostrum pulpit;
BENNETT (T. O.) & SON. Land agents, Bruton, Som. Thomas Oatley Bennet 1801-78, agent to Stuckeys Bank, Bruton from 1826, SAS. Thomas Oatley Bennett Jr succeeded him as manager of Stuckeys Bank 1878-83, AJ Pictor associated. Firm did numerous maps including Tithe Maps; SAS;
1875 alts TH, High St, Bruton, Som, altered from market hall to an infants school and house; T: WFP 12.3.75, plans at office of TOB&Son, TOB Jr was Hon Sec of school board;
BENNETT, Sir THOMAS PENBERTHY. 1887-1980. Worked for Office of Works from 1911. Firm of TP Bennett founded 1921, son took over in 1967. Numerous London office buildings, houses at Bath, Bristol, & Mangotsfield acc to WwinA 1926 also Alltwen and Pontardawe. Firm grew to major later C20 office-building practice.
1972 Office building, 20 Manvers St, Bath; MF; TPB&Son;
BENNETT, THOMAS
1771 attrib Saltford House, Saltford, Som for himself; SNB;
BENNETT, WILLIAM Frome Canal engineer see William Bennet
BENNETT, WILLIAM Builder, Portishead
1851 rebuilt Portishead parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/107; mullion ws and turret; minor works 1852 SRO D/D/Bbm/112 no plans;
(1856 Pulpit, St Mary ch Redcliffe, Bristol; ? not the same person; SNB;
1860 pulpit, All Saints ch, Clevedon, Som and also carved capitals, CE Giles architect; inf Julia Elton;
1879 adds, E end and S aisle, Portishead ch, Som; probably William Bennett plans signed just WB; SRO D/D/cf/1879/2; SNB;
BENNETTS ASSOCIATES London & Edinburgh, formed 1987 by Rab & Denise Bennetts. Office buildings in London.
1999 Wessex Water offices, North Road, Bath; MF; opened July 2000, £21.5m;
(1999-2005 Jubilee Library, Brighton, Sx)
(2005-10 remodelled Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford on Avon)
BENSLYN, WILLIAM THOMAS Architect, 1885-1947, FRIBA ARCA, assistant and partner of Robert Atkinson qv, chief architect to Gaumont Cinemas, later schools architect Birmingham;WwinA 1926;
1932 Gaumont Palace Cinema, Corporation St, Taunton, Som; SC notes; opened 11.7.32; relief sculpture signed NA Trent; exhibited RA 1937, elevations, plans and photographs; TC 6.7.32, 13.7.32; sculpture by Newbury Abbot Trent; Archibald D. Dawney & Sons Ltd builders; SAS;
BENSON C. & C. B. 11 Hendford,Yeovil 1889 dir. See Charles Benson.
BENSON, CHARLES Architect Yeovil 1827-1911, born Norton sub Hamdon, lived in Martock, father of Charles Bernard Benson 1857-1929 who began independent practice in Hastings before joining father in Yeovil. AEBTD 1868 lists turret for town clock and Trinity Church School, Yeovil. Charles & Charles Bernard Benson (C&CBB), architects, 11 Hendford, Yeovil, Kelly 1906; WG 4.1.1952 ‘a Yeoviltonian looks back’ names two architects: Mr Benson ‘seemed to prefer the simpler forms of Georgian and Early Victorian design and I was a great admirer of his work, much of which no doubt remains today. Mr Joseph N Johnston preferred the more florid style of the Late Victorians and chose as a rule red brick and carved Ham stone for his materials’. RL says CB architect of Yeovil & Martock. 1889 dir also has Charles Benson at North St, Martock, Som; CB Benson opened offices at Sherborne, Dorchester (1922). AR Powys qv was a pupil; SAS;
1860 Parsonage, Mudford, Som; SRO D/Bbm/137 ; brick, hipped;
1862 Infant & Sunday Schools, South St, Yeovil, Som; Br 1862 190; CB; dem; Gothic; ill L Brookes, Book of Yeovil, 115; for Holy Trinity church.
1864 Clock tower, Yeovil TH, Som; removed 1887 as unsafe; CB; 1868 RL;
18?? Alts Odcombe School, Som; replacement of 1831 teacher’s house with add classroom, window matching original two and door moved from central to new bay; plans undated SRO; extended again 1887;
1870 National School, Chilthorne Domwe, Som D/D/EDS/5777; SAS;
1874-8 rest Northover ch, Ilchester, Som; SAS; SCG 9.11.78; builders Bartlett & Son, Yeovil with Staple & Sons, Stoke sub Hamdon; ICBS;
1875 adds West Coker parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/211; CB; now Lanes Hotel
1875-6 National School, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; undated plans SRO DD/EDS/2424, date in VCH; extended 1900-1; BoE;
1875 National School, Preston Plucknett, Som; SAS; D/D/EDS/6180
1876 School, West Lydford, Som D/D/EDS/6078;
1878 alts National School, Wookey, som DD/EDS/1535;
1878 National School, Lopen, Som C/CA/School plans; SAS;
18?? National School, Bower Hinton, Martock, Som D/D/EDS/6095; SAS;
18?? alts National School, Odcombe, built 1831 altered, extended 1887 DD/EDS/6127;
1885 WM chapel, Seavington St Mary, Som; WG 12.12.84 plans presented and approved;
1885 WM chapel Long Load, Som; Mr Benson architect, James Walter of South Petherton builder; WG 3.4.85
1888 Conservative Club, Princes St, Yeovil FS TC 22.8.88, Mr Andrews contractor;1888-9 SAS;
1889? Grove Dene, 38 Preston Rd, Yeovil by CBB for himself, initials CB and EB; SAS; carved in wood at side of building;
1891 organ chamber, Castle Cary ch; SRO D/D/cf/1891/3 by ‘GCB Denson of Yeovil’ prob C&CBB;
1891 Stuckeys Bank, High St, Castle Cary, Som; RBS archives; signature looks like G Benson, probably CB; now Natwest.
1891 infants' classroom, B chapel, Yeovil, Som; SAS; John Andrews of Thornford builder;
1892 work in West Coker, Som, ?something enlarged and renovated by Mr Benson, G Kiraber, builder; WG 11.3.92;
1892 Stuckeys Bank, 15 High St, Bruton, Som; RBS archives; now HSBC; C&CBB;
1892 Attrib adds to West Coker House, Som, for Lt-Col Berkeley.
1892 Braggchurch, Hendford Hill, Yeovil, Som; for J Vincent; C&CBB; L Brooke collection Yeovil library;
1894 attributed Masonic Hall, Yeovil, Som; Exeter & Plymouth Gazette 17.5.94, opened E&PG 29.11.94, no architect named; ?? could be by JH Johnson
1894 new road and sewer, Preston Grove estate, Yeovil T Br 14.7.94; C&CBB for Vincent & Paynter £556;
1895 Liberal Club, Middle St, Yeovil, Som, CBB, inf DM ?from CHAC plans.
1897 reps Brympton d’Evercy ch, Som; to roof, bell-tower; C&CBB; SRO D/D/cf/1897/8;
1898 organ chamber, Ansford ch, Som Br 75 1898 414; C&CBB;
1900 remodelled MH as Victoria Hall, Crewkerne, Som; VCH 4 23; altered and extended 1911 acc to SAS;
1901-2 Post Office, Middle St, Yeovil, Som; C&CBB; Br 27.9.02; altered; British Postal Museum, Post 74/139;
1902 vestry, Ash ch, Som; D/D/cf/1902/31; lean-to N chancel; C&CBB
1903-4 Maincombe, Crewkerne, Som for ?AH Hussey; VCH 4 17; mostly dem c1948;
1906 ?Trinity church school, Yeovil, Som; attr RL; ?error for 1862 school or possibly adds to it; dem;
19?? minor alts National School, Ash, Som to playground and minor works; DD/EDS/6390; SAS;
1908 adds C chapel, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; SAS; rooms to rear and gallery;
(1909-10 Digby Memorial Church Hall, Sherborne, Dorset, CBB; OSS;
(1917 War Memorial Bradford Abbas, Dorset; SAS)
1919-20 tower, Ash ch, Som; Mr Benson, builders Messrs England; Somerset HER;
1920 minor add Inglewood, Hendford Hill, Yeovil, Som; C&CBB, plans signed B Benson MSA, pantry and larder; Yeovil Library L Brooke collection;
BENSON, CHARLES BERNARD. Yeovil, see Charles & CB Benson.
BENSON, HUGH CECIL. Architect, Bedford Square London. 1883-1915 Educated Eton, practice from before 1908 when he designed Charlton ch near Andover, Hants. Killed 1915 as Lieutenant in Rifle Brigade. SAS;
1915 Vicarage, Bishops Lydeard, Som; cf DJ Hinton, Bps Lydeard & cothelstone p 117; plans SRO D/D/Bbm
BENTLEY, JOHN FRANCIS 1839-1902. Pupil Henry Clutton by 1858, in practice 1862, converted to Catholicism, leading RC architect, career culminated w Westminter Cathedral 1895-1903. Biography: Winifride de l’Hopital, Westminster Cathedral and its architect (WH). Designed stained glass, made for him by Lavers & Westlake until c1884 when they fell out, then used his own team, John Stacey cartoons to 1887, then George Daniels, John Sears glass-painter. Biography by Peter Howell.
1867-8 Convent of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Park St, Taunton, Som; closed 1929: iron screen went to Caldey Abbey, Pembs; stained glass window 3-lt remains; rood screen and organ to Weston s Mare; altar and rerdos of alabaster and serpentine w painted figs by Westlake went to St Joseph RC, Forest Rd, Fishponds, Bristol; cf letter Mother Mary Margaret, prioress, 1952, via Peter Howell; Built 1871 according to RL as addition to Paul’s House of c1800; date-stone 1871; allegedly built with stone from St James ch tower, but brown stone whereas St James tower rebuilt purple. Now Mitre House offices;
1874 E window stained glass, Shepton Beauchamp ch, Som; for Rev V Stuckey Coles in mem Rev James Coles, made by Lavers & Westlake; WH532-3 gives date as 1870: JFB introduced by Rev A Barff, vicar of North Moreton (for which JFB designed glass); Crucifixion with angels. JFB also did glass for Rev Stuckey Coles’s uncle WG Coles at Winterbourn Down, Glos, and for Rev EN Coles at Battlesden, 1879, E w.
1877 S aisle E window Langford Budville, Som, for Gen John de Havilland, York Herald, in mem of father John + 1852 inventor of radiating prisons ; WH 535, Jesus risen w St John and BVM;
(c1883 Cemetery Chapel Upper Draycot, Draycot Cerne, Wilts; opened 1883; WBR;
1888 plans enlargement Havilland Hall, Som for General John de Havilland, probably not done, General d H was dead by 1887 and no such house exists, possibly intended for Langford Budville parish whence the Havilands originated at Gundenham Manor;
Peter Howell: Mrs de l'Hopital says B 'appears to have planned, at the request of General John de Havilland, a new entrance, staircase, windows and stables in 1883'. She doesn't know if the work was done: she says B's diary for 1887 mentions the commission, but the entry is crossed out and 'In memoriam' is written over it, because 'the poor old soldier' was dead.
1888-93 three windows, S aisle Shepton Beauchamp ch, Som, for Rev Stuckey Coles. WH 545-6: fourth window is earlier by late Philip Westlake, Rev Arthur Lethbridge pleaded for a little more colour, and JFB said ‘I am going to have no colour in any windows at Westminster’, Wwindow Baptism 1888, S windows Cana 1893 and Adoration of Magi 1898 richer in colour with martyrdom of Ugandan Christians;
BERESFORD-SMITH, FREDERICK WILLIAM Bath. Later FWBS & Partners. Called Frank W. acc to MF - firm was successor to that of Mowbray Green & Hollier and Frank W. Beresford-Smith aquired practice in 1947. Firm was Carpenter & Beresford-Smith in 1951 when continued Mowbray Green & Hollier work on Abbey Church House (Hetling House), Bath; MF;
1950-1 Southdown WM, Bath, Som; Aftext;
1951 work on Abbey House, Hetling Ct, Bath; by Carpenter & Beresford Smith; begun by Mowbray Green & Hollier; MF;
c1955 No 30 High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Som; C20index;
1955-6 Moravian Chapel, Weston, Bath; SNB
1956 House at Bath for himself; SC notes; Br 25.1.57 177
1956 reps Stoke sub Hamdon ch, nave roof; SRO D/D/cf/1956/9/18;
1957-8 St Barnabas Ch, Southdown, Bath; AFtext;
1957-64 reps Clandown ch, Som; ICBS;
1959 St Francis ch, Keynsham, Som; H&F; SNB
1960 Four Winds, Cleveland Wk, Bath; C20index/ 1964 House Plans;
1961 House, North Rd, Bath, Som; ill in 1963-4 Bungalow plans;
1966 alts St Mark ch, Lyncombe, Bath; ICBS;
1966 add church hall, St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; MF;
1972 YMCA hostel, Broad St, Bath; SNB, FWBS&P
2000 Nos. 9-10 Bathwick St, Bath; C20index;
2001 Nos 9-10 Daniel St, Bath, replica facades; MF; FWBS&P
BERNARD, C.A. See WL Bernard
BERNARD, WILLIAM LARKINS Bristol. 1843-1922; had early practice in 1873-4 in Sunderland with William Isaac Chambers (1847-1924). Chambers went to Cambridge, Edinburgh and then Dublin in 1879; WLB moved to Bristol where his practice was as school architect, arbitrator, building and quantity surveyor, Contemporary Biographies. Architect to Bristol School Board 1888. In 1906 in partnership with son CA Bernard. DSA has Charles Edward Davis apprenticed 1863-8, assistant 1869, presumably the other way round WLB pupil of CED in Bath; DSA; DIA;
(1885 School, Redland Hill, Bristol; SNB
(1885 St Georges Mission Room, St Georges Rd, Bristol; GJL;
(1888 Waynflete, Durdham Down, Bristol;
(1897-8 Mens Club, Westbury on Trym, Bristol; SNB;
(1898 1st prize Westbury on Trym School, Bristol; RHH;
(1898 Eagle Insurance, 31 Baldwin St, Bristol; GJL;
BERNEY, KEITH & LOIS,
1996-8 The Mooorings, Sydney Wharf, Bath; MF; retirement complex;
BERRY, OWEN WILLIAM Surveyor, 1893-1963 Surveyor to Wells RDC 1919-36; SAS;
BERRY, PHILIP ROWLAND, Architect London. 1878-1952, son of Thomas Darby Berry, London estate agent 1838-1906, son-in-law of Robert Sewers 1806-73 of Townsend House, Curry Rivel. SAS
1907 Robert Sewers Hall, Curry Rivel, Som; plaque; H Pittard & Son builders; C/CA/School plans;
BERRY, THOMAS Army Divisional Surveyor. Major HC Seddon RE was head of War Office design branch at the time of the new divisional barracks of c1875-9 instituted by the Cardwell reforms which redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local support;
1879-81 The Keep, Jellalabad Barracks, Mount St, Taunton, Som, with Major Crozier RE; RL2 63; for the 13th Light Infantry, later Somerset Light Infantry, one of series of barracks built around Britain as Localisation Depots under the Cardwell army reforms, cf Bury St Edmunds; Le Marchant Barracks Devizes for 38th Brigade, WT 19.10.1878, by Major HC Seddon RE acc to DoE; Dorchester 1876-7 possibly by Major AC Seddon RE (BoE Dorset); Reading; Norton Barracks, Worcester 1874-7 for 29th District; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/323 has plan of proposed entrance in relation to Mount St 1876 signed by Major Henry Locock RE and letter 12.6.76 to effect that plans will be sent with Lt JR Chard RE from Exeter DO of Engineers; Devizes and Worcester are different in detail to Taunton and Dorchester even more so having round towers; the keep was the secure armoury, store-house, guard-house and lock-up; presumably designed with the keep was a long barrack block demolished, an officers’ mess (now TA HQ) and two short barrack ranges in The mount, now Jellalabad Court flats;
BERTRAM, T. H. Engineer, chief assistant of IK Brunel. MICE; National Archives has letter of 1846 from TH Bertram, chief assistant to Brunel, to S Clarke enclosing sketches of railway cottages at Didcot RAIL/1014/36/10; in charge of works from Paddington Station office until retired 1860; Bryce Mc Master was articled to TH Bertram 1848 before joining Brunel in 1852 (DSA); Arthur James qv worked under Bertram from Paddington office from 1854 (Grace's Guide); Henry Wakefield worked under THB 1855. Bertram became chief engineer of LNWR, ???when ?error;
BERTRAM, WILLIAM 5 Gay St Bath. William Bertram & Fell; William Bertram ARIBA and John Mosse ARIBA 1970 then with Peter Fell FRICS (WB&F). Ted Brewster. Willie Bertram autobiography The Architect's Tale, 2009; Latterly firm is Watson, Bertram & Fell qv with Mark Watson principal designer WB&F, at 6 Old King St, Bath; WB moved to Timsbury, Som;
1970-1 Alts inc bay window and outbuildings with cottage, Ivythorn Manor, Street, Som; SC; by WB, information Robert Boscawen MP owner;
1979 Restored 15-16 Royal Crescent, Bath as the Royal Crescent Hotel, for John Tham; B&F; also works 1983-98: rebuilt mews buildings to Nos 13-18 Royal Crescent for hotel including Dower House 1985-6, and rear of Nos 17-18 as health spa 1998 B&F with Ted Brewster;
1981 Swimming pool, Bathwick Hill House, Bath; MF; including remnant of C19 gazebo;
(1982 Angmering Park, Sx for 14th Baroness Herries; JM Robinson Latest Country Houses, 1984)
1982-4 renovated Chandos House, Bath; MF; WB;
1985-8 The Dower House, rear of 15-16 Royal Crescent, Bath for Royal Crescent Hotel; B&F
1987 Barcote House, Lansdown Grove, Bath; B&F; Aftext;
1987-8 Shopfront, 9 George St, Bath; B&F;
1990 consultant to Queen Square House, Charlotte St, Bath, by Nicholas Magniac;
1991-4 room in tower, Long Ashton ch, Som; SNB;
(1993 restored Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon, Wilts for Paul Weiland, plans WBR/WSHC;
1996 Cavendish Lodge, Cavendish Rd, Bath; WB&F;
1996-7 alts Royal Crescent Hotel Bath with Rupert Lord interior design;
1998 alts mews rear of 17-18 Royal Crescent, as spa to Royal Crescent Hotel; with Ted Brewster; MF;
(2001 rest Parnham House, Dorset for Michael Treichl CL 14.7.05; WB&F
2006-9 rest Southill House, West Cranmore, Som; for Stephen & Louise Ellis; inf owners; Peter Fell architect.
2007-9 rebuilt The Pavilion, Redlynch, Som for – Bulmer; ?WB&F
2010 rest The Aviaries, Redlynch, Son WB&F;
20?? rest and new circular entrance hall, The Orangery, Bath; Donovan Construction website; WBF;
(20?? refurbished Polebridge, Sutton Veny, Wilts; country house, Donovan Construction website;
2019 War Memorial, Timsbury, Som; ?refurbished;
WBF website includes
(alts to barn Bradford on Avon Wilts;
(alts to Grade 2 watermill near Malmesbury with reused cruck frame from France;
new Arts & Crafts style house Wellow, Som, with pyramid-roofed turret in the angle
(new house in Glos;
new house in garden of a Bath hotel;
Duchy of Cornwall almshouses, Newton St Loe, Som; row of four single-storey;
farmhouse near Bath, Som;
new house, Bath, big classical villa with first floor bow on a huge ground floor/ basement terrace;
restoration of Grade 2 listed town house, Bath Som, from flats to single house;
Eight in Bath, added storey to house near Ralph Allen Town House, Bath for boutique hotel;
adds to Old Rectory, Som; including orangery;
Week Farm Manor, Combe Hay, Som recreation of a burnt-out Georgian three-storey farmhouse
restored Grade 2 farmhouse S of Bath, Som;
restored country house near Bath, Som; large classical villa that had burnt in 1926
(restored Grade 2 house near Marlborough, Wilts;
adds Grade 1 house in Bath used by Q Charlotte in 1817 including new circular single-storey entrance hall;
adds thatched cottage in Som;
(conversion Grade 2 barn Cirencester, Glos;
courtyard barns conversion and adds, Som;
(restored Cliveden, Bucks, as hotel;
rest Royal Crescent Hotel, Bath, Som
(Sloane Club, London;
add to 1930s house Lansdown, Bath;
(restored Grade 2 house in Wilts;
(restored Grade 2 house in Oxon;
Manor Court Cottage, Wellow, Som conversion of two cottages into single house;
cottage extension, Claverton, Som pyramid-roofed dining-room, Gothic porch;
outbuilding, Wellow, Som, for use as a cookery studio; WBF;
new swimming-pool house, East Harptree, Som
Also designed two pavilions and a tree-house, Highgrove, Glos for Prince of Wales; Cotswold Life 31.1.2010;
Redesigned Blenheim family plot, Bladon churchyard, Oxon, 1998; Cotswold Life 31.1.2010;
BESWICK, ROBERT JAMES Architect, 10 Victoria Rd, Swindon. Died 1930. Articled to WH Read, in practice from c1874-1925, later RJB&Son with son Alfred E Beswick (fl 19089-64) c1925ff then with his son Robert E E Beswick +1966, merged with Edwards & Webster of Chippenham in 1965 to become Wyvern Design Group qv; WBR; WBR2;
(1897 Central Club, Swindon, Wilts; WBR2;
(1957-8 Good Shepherd ch, Bishop Rd, Bristol; SNB; RJB&Son)
(1957-8 St Andrew ch, Raleigh Ave, Swindon, Wilts; RJB&Son)
1959-60 St Peter ch, Alexandra Rd, Clevedon, Som; RJB&Son; same design as Bristol;
BETHELL, WILLIAM WOOD London. Pupil of GE Street; GJL 430;
(c1879 The Holme/ Claverton, Stoke Pk Rd, Stoke Bishop, Bristol; BN 36 90-2; Crick Victorian Bristol 56; SNB
(1885-7 St Agnes ch, Newfoundland rd, Bristol; GJL; SNB)
(1892-3 St Andrew ch Avonmouth, Bristol; FS, £6590, G Downs clk of wks, Br 3.12.92;
BETTSCOMB, EDWARD
1636 Grammar School, Abbey St, Crewkerne, Som; Rev RC Bartlett, History of Crewkerne School, 1899; paid £8 as architect, carpenter and mason, one old window from prev school reused over S door;
BEVAN, BENJAMIN. Engineer.
1819 proposed completion Grand Western Canal from Lowdwells, Devon, to Taunton; abandoned; H Harris The Grand Western Canal;
BEVAN, JOHN Senior Architect, 4 Unity St, Bristol, c1843-1904, SAS; designed numerous suburban churches in Bristol after 1870. Son John Bevan Jr qv 1867-1950 continued practice. GJL 431; William Henry Bevan another son was also architect, 1865-1948, practised in Cardiff 1892, London until 1902, then government architect, Johannesburg to 1905-6, government architect Jamaica 1909, private practice Toronto 1911-12; returned to England 1912;
1871-2 First School, Cheddar, Som; SNB; British School, DD/EDS/5750; SAS;
(1871 St Nathaniel ch, Redland Rd, Bristol; Gomme;
1875 1st prize Taunton Cemetery; St James Cemetery, Staplegrove Road, Taunton, RHH; built 1876-7, Br 1875 1023, Br 1876 275; lodge survives, two chapels dem;
(1877-9 moved St Werburgh ch, Bristol, from Corn St to Mina Rd; Gomme;
(1882 1st prize St Paul ch Swindon Wilts; chancel only 1883, rest of church by EB Ferrey 1881, DWG 19.4.83; WBR, demolished)
(1882-9 St Saviour ch, Chandos Rd, Bristol; SNB
(1884-6 vicarage, St Paul ch, Swindon, Wilts; WBR2; ?dem)
1886 St Francis ch, Ashton Gate, Bristol T foundations Br 30.1.86; T Br 1.5.86; ill Br 25.12.86;
(1892 chancel St Paul ch, Bedminster, Bristol; dem; GJL;
(1894 St Bartholomew ch, St Andrews Park, Bristol; GJL;
(1894 E wall St Paul ch, Portland St, Bristol; GJL;
(1899 adds St Michael ch, Gloucester Rd, Bristol; Gomme;
BEVAN, JOHN Junior Architect, Liverpool Chambers, Corn St, Bristol. 1867-1950 John Bevan Jr continued father John Bevan (c1843-1904) practice GJL 431. William Bevan (1865-1945) who practised in Cardiff, London, South Africa, Jamaica and Toronto was his older brother;
1903 Bungalow, Ashwick, Dulverton, Som for Herbert Mardon of Ashwick House. Wooden with half-timber on panels of ‘wire-wove’; D/R/dul/24/1/15;
(1912 St Brendan’s College, 9-10 Berkley Sq, Bristol; JBJr; GJL;
(1921-6 Bedminster RC ch, Bristol; JB Jr; AFtext; 1930 H&F)
1929 Corpus Christi RC ch, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB; 1930 H&F;
BEVAN-JONES J. F.
1937-51 rest Pulteney Bridge, Bath; drawings 1937 completed 1951; MF; SNB;
1963 N side Bath St, Bath, rebuilt as council offices; MF;
BEWLAY, ERNEST C. Architect, of Peacock & Bewlay designed or altered over 100 banks incl Bristol; WwinA 1926;
BEYNON, JOHN ACE 1859-1948, Coleford, Som. Born Bedminster, mason, then coal-miner, from 1902 joint surveyor to Frome RDC with WW Purnell and JB Holroyd until c1930; SAS;
1903 alts St John's College, Wallbridge, Frome, Som C/CA/School plans, SAS;
1910-27 alts Coleford School, Som; C/CA/School plans; SAS;
BGP GROUP. Roger Gallanaugh qv involved.
1970-2 Somerset Square shopping precinct, Nailsea, Som; designed 1962 by Roger Gallannaugh qv; SNB;
(1978 Wessex Water offices, Passage St, Bristol; SNB;
(1984 Spectrum Building, Newfoundland St, Bristol; SNB
BHP HARWOOD ARCHITECTS Corsham Wilts and Wantage, Berks. Formed 1993 by merger of Harwood Group Practice and BHP. Chris Harwood, Bogdan Nedelkoff, Stephen Johns partners. Chris Harwood ?designed buildings in Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts for Prism.
20?? proposed house, Bailbrook Lane, Bath, som; website; single-storey, green roofs;
BIDDULPH-PINCHARD, CHARLES HENRY. Staple Inn, Holborn, London. 1876-1944. Trained by Charles King of King & Lister, Plymouth. Lived in Beaconsfield, died in Wells. Works listed in Who’s Who in Architecture c1914 inc Compton Castle, Som, and works at Wellington School, Som. REDA 6 illustrates Smalls Down, Sandwich, Kent nd. Des London Clinic Brook St. ?diocesan architect Salisbury. May have come from Somerset family, a Mr Biddulph-Pinchard spoke against Street’s reredos in St Mary Mag ch Taunton, SCH 14.8.1869; WwinA 1926;
(1909-14 rest Great Chalfield Manor and church, Wilts; WwinA 1926, small addition to house and restored chuirch, in succession to H Brakspear qv)
(1909-22 adds Upham House, Aldbourne, Wilts, WBR, adds 1913;
(1911 add Coldbrook, Abergavenny, Monm; WwinA 1926;
19?? Alts Compton Castle, Compton Pauncefoot, Som, new bays on sides and front, alts to most ground floor rooms; WWinA c1914; also work 1923-4 acc to WwinA 1926
1924 Great Hall, Wellington School, Som; WS 172; TC 25.2.25, RJ Spiller contr old boy of school; 1922ff acc to WwinA 1926
1924 Merrifield House, Wells, Som, WwinA 1926 for himself, 1943-4 acc to D Crighton; mini Eliz manor;
1928-31 Chapel, Wellington School, Wellington, Som; RA 1937 exh, perspective of choir and organ-gallery; ?also work at the school pre-1926 in WWinA 1926; WS; planned as war memorial to cost £4500, RG Spiller initially contractor, replaced by J Twyford, contract 22.10.27, FS 20.2.28, to cost over £8000; conctrete roof, cupola planned but never blt; pinnacles carved by FJ Hunt of Henlade; ceiling painting by Alix Holme and Mollie Chubb in tempera; oak panelling etc made at school carved by FJ Hunt; reredos oak 1920 ? made by HM Ward of Taunton; dedic 25.5.31; A&BN 18.12.31; altar of monks park stone; crystal cross gift of architect; organ loft and screen 1931; 1933 Madonna & Cild by Hunt in Portland stone placed over ‘E’ window. Lantern not built and hole in centre has gilded cross des by M Torrens; chapel history by D Horwood;
(1933 London Clinic Devonshire Pl, London; RA 1937 exh;)
1934 Gatepiers, Wellington School, Som, driveway designed with Ernest T Howard qv; gates by Morris Singer; WS 172;
(1934-5 rest Chiseldon ch, Wilts; WBR;
(1937 rest Bratton ch, Wilts; WBR;
BIDLAKE, WILLIAM HENRY. Architect, Birmingham 1861-1938; leading Arts and Crafts architect of Birmingham; articled RW Edis, worked with GF Bodley and RR Anderson before setting up in 1888.
1897-8 Monkshaven, Fountain Lane, Sidcot, Som; for TB Clark; SNB
1906 House at Winscombe, Som; ASG 112; W Shaw Sparrow, The Modern Home;
1914-15 alts St Catherine’s Court, St Catherine's, Som; for Hon Richard Strutt; SNB;
BIGGS, KEN Contractors, High Littleton, founded 1928;
2009 Community shop, Freshford, Som; design and build; Biggs website; £237K; but cf Hetreed Ross;
20?? Offices Claverton Down, Bath for Video South, design and build; £430K;
20?? conversion workhouse, Odd Down, Bath to the flats, The Hexagon; website;
20?? Dickies UK distribution centre, Westfield Ind estate, Midsomer Norton, Som; design and build;
BILES, GEORGE THOMAS Taunton builder
1871 Three houses and site for further six, Portland St, Taunton; SRO DD/DP/68/4;
BILLINGSLEY, JOHN Ashwick Grove, Ashwick. 1747-1811. Agriculturalist, brewer (Oakhill brewery) founder of Bath & West Society. His General View of the Agriculture of Somerset 1795 includes information on building farm buildings, lime-kilns, roads, cottages; involved with enclosure of Mendip, and with promotion of canals inc Somerset Coal Canal.
BINDING, T.C. Builder, Clevedon. Thomas Charles Binding, carrier, 54 Kenn Rd, 1906;
1889-92 terraces Ken Rd, Clevedon; Lilly;
BINDON, - Architect Bristol, Pope & Bindon, see R.S. Pope
BIRCH, EUGENIUS Engineer, London, 1818-84 initially in practice with brother John Brannis Birch 1813-64; noted designer of seaside piers, fourteen in all.
1864-7 Birnbeck Pier, Weston s Mare, Som;
1865-71 Engineer to Devon & Somerset Railway, Norton Fitzwarren to Wiveliscombe section; wikipedia; Richard Hassard qv was engineer for Wiveliscombe to Barnstaple section opened 1873; JC Reed contractor; stations at Milverton and Wiveliscombe; SCG 15.9.66; SAS;
1870-1 Egford Hill Waterworks, Frome, Som; SAS;
BIRCH, JOHN Architect, London, author of book of cottage designs Country Architecture 1874 or 1878, including works for RP Long of Rood Ashton and Marquess of Ailesbury of Tottenham House, awarded medal 1868 by RSA for designs inc ?Camp Farm, Chippenham; WBR2; cottages for Ailesbury estate at Great Bedwyn, also cottages at Clench, Pewsey, and Curney Ho, Pewsey, Wilts, WBR; WG 30.12.1870 refers to cottages by J Bird of London for Ailesbury and Long estates; DWG 16.6.70;
(1882 rest Everleigh House, Wilts; TC 22/11/82; Br 45 1883 452 reblt after fire;
BIRD & PIPPARD Builders, Yeovil. George Bird 1848-1918 and Alfred William Pippard 1859-1909, Later Pippard & Perry with Dorcas Perry born 1855; SAS.
1892 Bible Classroom, WM chapel, Yeovil, Som, £326; ?at Vicarage St chapel or London Rd mission erected 1889 £270;
1898-9 alts B chapel, South St, Yeovil, Som, enlargement including new organ; to their own design; L Brooke Baptists in Yeovil 2002 41; SAS says design of PJ Newby-Vincent qv;
1905 Nos 106-8 Hendford Hill, Yeovil, Som, rebuild and enlargement for Mrs B Davis of Davis’s Nursery; plans L Brooke colln, Yeovil library;
1905-6 builders Western Gazette offices, Middle St, Yeovil by Oatley & Lawrence qv architects, carvings by Gilbert Seale, dem; Brooke, Book of Yeovil,
1911-12 builders Schools, B chapel, South St, Yeovil, Som; PJ Newby-Vincent & E Findlay-Smith qv architects; L Brooke Baptists in Yeovil, 2002, 62; Newnam Memorial Hall, dem. SAS;
1913 advert in Yeovil Town Guide for sale, first class villas, detached and semi-det, also villa sites;
1921 adds 103 Middle St, Yeovil, Som for E Vincent, plans CHAC 1169, entrance passage to furniture store; Newby-Vincent & Findlay-Smith architects acc to SAS;
1926-8 builders Municipal Buildings, Yeovil, Som; Petter & Warren architects WG 23.7.26; SAS;
BIRD, PETER Architect, Wells. 1947-2010. Senior partner Caroe & Partners qv. Obit Times 4.2.2011. Cathedral architect to Wells from 1986, Exeter 1990, Winchester, and St Davids. Worked for Nat Trust and Bath City before setting up on own in Somerset then recruited to Caroe & Partners to oversee Wells Cathedral W front restoration. Work for Landmark Trust inc Gurney Manor, Cannington, Som; Woodspring Priory, Som; Kingswear Castle, Woodsford Castle and Elton House, Bath, Som; virtually rebuilt Robin Hood’s Hut, Halswell House, Goathurst, Som. Work for NT in Som incls Dunster Castle and Montacute; private work at Brympton D’Evercy, Som, and repairs Hassage Manor, Faulkland, Som, 1982-3; designed new cloisters St David’s Cathedral, Pembs;
BIRD, WILLIAM FREDERICK. The Island, Midsomer Norton. Civil Engineer & architect; 1865-1919, MSA; architect at Heath Villa, Radstock Heath, Kelly 1889; Surveyor & engineer to Midsomer Norton UDC 1894-c1905; born Camerton, or Timsbury 1852 acc to biog note in report by A Foyle on restoration of Town Hall, Midsomer Norton, 2015; a Wesleyan Methodist designed WM schools Midsomer Norton, Clutton, Englishcombe, and High Littleton, SAS;
1882 work at Summerleaze, Murty Hill, Mells/Frome, RL; Br 8.7.82 designed by the late CE Giles walls of mountain limestone, snail-creep random-work, Beer dressings, Ruabon roof tiles, Maw & Co floor tiles, stained glass by E Horwood of Frome; the conservatory, entrance and stables designed by WF Bird son of the cotractor;
1892 ?school, Radstock, Som; WG 27.5.92, admirably ventilated on the Tobin principle;
1896-7 school, WM chapel, High Littleton; AF report;
1897 reseat Christ Church, Downside, Stratton on the Fosse, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1897/10;
1898 renov WM chapel, High Littleton, som; AF report;
1902 Board School, Clutton, Som; SNB;
1902-3 alts TH, Midsomer Norton to convert to council chamber; A Foyle report for restoration by Donald Insall;
1905 reservoir near Downside; AF report;
(1907-8 Methodist Central Hall, Swindon, Wilts; dem 1985; M Child, Swindon Book Companion 77;
1900? Wesleyan School, Midsomer Norton, £3629; now Primary School; school website;
19?? repaired school, Englishcombe, Som; AF report;
1909-11 alts Hemington School, Som; SAS;
1915 Council school and teachers house, Coleford, Som Tenders Sir WF Bird, WG 19.2.15;
BIRMINGHAM, CHRISTOPHER Holnicote Cottage, Selworthy, 1844-1933 agent to Holnicote estate, 1906 dir; son of Robert Birmingham 1808-66 qv and succeeded him after 1866 as agent. At Buddle Hill, Selworthy 1871, then Holnicote Cottage, then Nutscale, Parks Lane, minehead; SAS;
1905 Cottage, Winsford, Som for Holnicote estate; D/R/dul/24/1/27, by churchyard gate, badly drawn plan;
1906 Farmhouse at Bradley, Winsford, Som for Holnicote estate; near old house, D/R/dul/24/1/36; plan only, three-bay; ?at Great Bradley;
1907 Two cottages, Exton, Som for Holnicote estate, by road from Week to Bridgetown; plain with end porches D/R/dul/24/1/40;
1911 attributed Nutscale, Parks Lane, Minehead for himself; OD plan 401; later called Greendown, Grove Lodge, The Grove, Randall House, adds and garage 1939,
BIRMINGHAM, JOHN. Selworthy. 1793-1879, born Boad Clyst, Devon, a relation of Robert Birmingham 1808-66 the Holnicote estate agent qv;
1828-9 attributed, cottages, Selworthy Green, Selworthy, Som; attributed, and suggested as deigned with Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 1787-1871; reputedly influenced by Blaise Hamlet, Bristol; SAS;
189- signs drainage plan for Holnicote House, Selworthy, Som; NT archives; impossible for this John B, possibly error for Christopher Birmingham;
BIRMINGHAM, ROBERT. Selworthy. Agent to Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 10th Bt on the Holnicote estate, Selworthy. 1808-66. son of John Birmingham of Broadclyst Devon 1773-1850 and presumably a relation of John Birmingham qv 1793-1879. Robert Birmingham may have done much estate improvement, perhaps farmhouse and barn at East Lynch, Selworthy, estate cottages such as Nos 57-8, alterations Nos 54-6 Buddle Hill, Stratford Cottage, Holnicote Cottage, Selworthy Farmhouse; father of Robert M Birmingham 1839-68 and Christopher Birmingham (1844-1933), of Holnicote Cottage, who was also agent.
1844 Rectory, Luccombe, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/ 91; Tudor style; now Manor House;
1859-61 rebuilt Holnicote House, Selworthy, after previous house destroyed by fire in 1851, for Sir Thomas Dyke Acland +1871 who may have been involved in the design; Haw, Book of Luccombe & Selworthy; thatched until a fire in 1941, now tiled. Extended 1873 and 1899 (Kelly 1906);
BISHOP, HUGH PHILIP Engineer 1893-1986 Borough engineer, Bridgwater, 1927-9. AMICE.
1928 Quantock Road Cemetery, Bridgwater, Som, inc Gothic chapel; HW Pollard builder; named on plaque; FS 16.3.28;
BISS, J. & E. J. C. Weston S Mare
1913 House, Langport Rd, Weston s Mare, Som for C Ayres; SRO D/D/wsm/24/1/2017
BIZLEY, GRAHAM see Prewett Bizley Architects
BLACKAMORE, JOSEPH. Drew estate plan of Earnshill, Hambridge, Som, 1774, inc drawing of orangery. HGS 113-4. ?same as Mr Blackmore architect and surveyor of Bath who died 1793 BC 2.5.93
BLACKBURN, DAVID Chartered building surveyor. David Blackburn & Partners.
1986 Bungalow in Sedgemoor District, Somerset, for Frankie Howerd; BD 21.3.86; where?
BLACKER, F. & SONS Monumental masons, Clutton;
1921 War Memorial, Chilcompton, Som; EH list;
BLACKING, WILLIAM HENRY RANDOLL Salisbury 1889-1958, known as Randoll Blacking, pupil of JN Comper, partnership in Guildford with Christopher Webb 1919-26, moved to Salisbury 1930, repaired numerous churches in Wilts, listed in WBR; Robert Potter qv was pupil and then partner after 1945 continuing practice after 1955; SAS;
(1926 Christ Church, Litton, Derbys; H&F)
1930 rest Bicknoller ch, Som; SC notes says 1920s; ?the very nice furnishings of 1930, pulpit, organ, organ screens (W and S sides of NE chapel), stalls, rails;
1930 rest Lynch chapel, West Lynch, Som; E window by C Webb; Huish of Porlock bldr; panelling made up of box pews from Selworthy and organ-gallery contains balustrading from Selworthy ch;
(1930 Ch of Resurrection, Drayton, Portsmouth, Hants; H&F; East Cosham)
(1931 font and cover, St Albans Abbey, Herts; RA 1937 exh)
1931-3 reredos and chancel alts, Porlock ch, Som; rearrange choir seating, new reredos and triptych, oak rails and new side chapel oak communion table; reredos with painted figures by Mowbray & Co, triptych above painted by Christopher Webb; contractors WJ Cooksley and W Huish of Porlock; SRO faculty D/D/cf/1930/71; spire repairs 1933; tower screen and font cover, 1939, SAS; did WHRB also design similar font cover at Selworthy?;
1932 tower screen, Norton Fitzwarren ch, Som; church guide, SAS;
(1933 reps Wilton ch, Wilts; WBR)
1933 reps spire Porlock ch, Som; ICBS; Times 8.3.33; RL: see also 1931-3;
1934 tower screen, pews etc Backwell ch, Som; AFtext;
(1934 St Augustine, Bexhill, Sx; H&F)
1934 Silver-bronze cross, Wookey ch, Som; to EA Alexander +1915, stolen 1991; ch guide;
(1934-5 rest chapel, St John Almshouses, Sherborne, dorset; WG 29.3.35;
1936 repairs Dunster ch, Som to clock, tower louvres, cleaning screen, ; SAS;
1936 beautiful altar rail with gates and figures in high relief to be made in bronze under Mr RB, ?where; TC 10.6.36, ?Taunton;
1936-7 E end, Alcombe ch, Som modifying plans of 1925 by Sansom & Colthurst; CH Sansom designed original church and built nave in 1902-3, SAS; BoE;
1937 choir vestry screen, Carhampton ch, Som, D/D/cf/1937/37; SAS;
1938 Chancel screen, Bruton ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1938/119; NADFAS says Harold S Rogers qv also involved;
(1938 English altar, Holy Trinity ch, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; also refurb Kingston chapel; further work in 1958; Kingston Chapel later stripped out, now vestry:
1938 rest Wellington ch, Som; pews reduced, poppyheads sawn off, Lady Chapel created in S chancel aisle, previously housing organ and Popham tomb; report 1937 recommended dismantling clergy seat and desk of 1728 by Robert Culverwell, joiner, which ?reused Jacobean bedposts and make them into lecterns for S chapel and sanctuary; lengthened choir stalls of 1903 and new high altar (since removed); black and white marble floor from chancel moved to Lady Chapel; Lady Chapel piscina; organ moved to tower, new organ case designed but not built for forty years; removed much of stained glass;
1938 reps Withycombe ch, Som; prop replastering and woodworm treatment; rejected by ICBS;
1939 Tower screen and font-cover, Porlock ch, Som; D/D/cf/1939/21 WHRB of 21 The Close, Salisbury; Huish & Son and Cooksley & Son contrs;
(1938 St Edward ch, Chandlers Ford, Hants; H&F)
(1938 St Alban ch Eastfield, Northampton; H&F)
1940-2 reps Queen Camel ch, Som; ICBS;
(1947 unex plan to rest All Saints ch, Clifton, Bristol after bombing, rebuilt by Robert Potter to modern design;)
1949 font cover, All Saints ch, Weston s Mare, Som; BoE N;
1950 lectern, ? ch, TC 29.7.50;
1950-1 rest font cover, St Cuthbert ch, Wells, Som; SNB
(1952 ciborium, All Saints ch, Clifton, Som; SNB
1953-4 reps Elworthy ch, Som; ICBS;
1956 E window Selworthy ch, Som; stained glass NE window of St Dunstan; SRO D/D/cf/1956/8/14; archt WHRB not necessarily des of glass;
1956 reps Crewkerne ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1956/3/4 also insertion stained glass chancel S;
1956 reps Hewish ch, nr Crewkerne, Som; faculty SRO/cf/1956/10/20
1957 font cover, Wellington ch, Som, mentioned BoE S; RL; ch guide; also S porch doors;
1958-61 reps Poyntington ch, Som; ICBS; supervised by Charles W Pike of Dorchester after WHRB died;
19?? Woodwork, chancel, North Petherton ch, Som; RL 2 46; ?most of woodwork is of 1909-12 restoration by CR Baker-King;
19?? ?Font cover, High Ham ch, Som; RL; error by FE Howard qv;
Attrib font covers Selworthy and Porlock, also reredos Wootton Courtenay, painted similar to Porlock;
BLACKMORE, - Clevedon, carpenter
c1825-30 Hillwood Ho, Hill Rd, Clevedon; on plot sold by Hollyman & Newton; Lilly
BLACKMORE, JAMES Land Surveyor, Taunton, from c1774, then in Churchstanton; SAS; prepared estate plan of Earnshill, Hambridge including drawing of an orangery 1774; also plans of Earl Poulett estates in Lopen and Pendomer 1774-5; another James Blackmore made tithe maps 1840-50 including Lopen and Churchstanton.
BLACKMORE, SAMUEL Carpenter, Hatch Beauchamp. 1800-86.
1839-40 Carved bench-ends in Hatch Beauchamp church, copying medieval originals, paid 1839-40 for repewing part of church and setting up the oak seats, one pew dated 1867.
1854-5 carpenter, Manse, B chapel, Hatch Beauchamp, Som; history by W Wingfield 1970; masonry by John Rowsell of Bickenhall; £254/19/9½d;
1868 woodwork, Hatch Beauchamp, Som; WG 17.4.68;
BLAKE, MARTIN Architect, 4 Miles's Buildings, Bath. Martin Blake Associates, MBA. Nick Tomlinson qv worked for firm.
20?? refurb Shires Yard, Milsom St, Bath, som;
20?? refurb retail shop, Hot Bath St, Bath for Thermae Bath Ltd;
20?? Moon & Sixpence restaurant, Bath, Som;
20?? House, Richmond la, Bath; refurb or new Georgian-style small stone house;
20?? refurb of listed house, Cotswolds, and barn conversion;
20?? refurb Old Vicarage, Lansdown, Bath;
(20?? conv of former County court, Swansea, Glam
(20?? rerurb C16 farmhouse, Wilts;
20?? oak-framed garden-room addition, Bath;
(20?? rest of gde II* country house, Wales, ?Plas Llansteffan, Carms)
BLAKEMORE, WILLIAM;
1827-32 rebuilt Sampford Arundel ch SAS; rebuilt 1867 BoE;
BLISS, JOHN Taunton. Signs Jno Bliss arch on photos of pulpit 1867 in St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; SRO cf/1867/1, why?
BLOGG, WILLIAM London 1767-1815, son of Norwich bricklayer, trained RA schools, Soane 1791, Wyatt 1793. Exhibited at RA 1797-8 inc design for E front of new street at Brighton 1797, design for cottages, Trewithen, Cornwall 1798. Bankrupt 1802, returned to Norwich 1803; HC.
1797 Design for improving the front of Heatherton House, exh RA 1797, may be for Heatherton Park, Bradford on Tone, Som, or for Heatherden House, Hurst Green, Sx; HC. Heatherton Park was built c1770 for Sir Thomas Gunston (about 80 years ago - Burke’s Seats 1852 1 14 - much enlarged and improved for present owner), altered after 1828 for William Adair owner from 1807, so probably unexecuted plan, or not this house;
BLOMFIELD, ARTHUR CONRAN Architect, 1863-1935. Son of Sir AW Blomfield 1829-99, cousin of Sir Reginald Blomfield. Worked for Edward VII at Sandringham, architect to Bank of England (Bank Buildings Lothbury) and Grocers Co. Barclays Banks at Pall Mall E and Fleet St. Friars House, New Bond St. Law Union & Rock Ass, Chancery Lane; Christ's Hospital offices Great Tower St. Designed country houses Hollingdon House, Berks, Stansted Park, Havant, Sx, 1900. Did Great School at Oundle School, school chapel at Epsom. Churches at Acton, Ealing, Southwall(?), Forest Row. Obit list Times 23.11.35. Lychgate, Shanklin, I.o.W Br 1.6.01;
1901-4 ?alts Holbrook House, Wincanton, Som, for J Angerstein, generally attrib to Reginald Blomfield but R Legg, Book of Wincanton, quotes unnamed source saying work was by Sir Arthur Blomfield, impossible as by then dead, and suggests either son CWB or ACB;
BLOMFIELD, Sir ARTHUR WILLIAM. Architect, 1829-99, son of Bishop Blomfield of London, pupil of PC Hardwick, in practice from 1856, VP RIBA 1886, knighted 1889, RIBA Gold Medal 1891, Thomas Hardy was in his office 1862-7. Numerous churches: St Luke Torquay 1861; All Saints Windsor 1863-4; Upton on Severn 1878-9; Selwyn College Cambridge 1882-9; St Andrew Great Malvern 1885; Royal College of Music Kensington 1890-4; Malvern College chapel 1897-9. Cathedral architect Canterbury, Chichester, Hereford, Lincoln, Peterborough, Salisbury, Diocesan Architect, Winchester. Sons Charles James Blomfield 1862-1932 and Arthur Conran Blomfield 1863-1935 both worked with him as Sir AWB & Sons from 1890.
(1861 rest Lacock ch, Wilts; WBR; Wilts Indep 12.12.61 new pulpit, desk, iron lectern, transept roofs, N transept window, font, vestry screened off in S transept; B Mullings of Devizes builder;)
1862 rest Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; Br 1862 624; ICBS 1861-2; scraped walls and ceilings, restored aisle roofs, 4-lt E window by Wailes, Maw tiles in chancel, pews, contractor Dendle of Barnstaple, Ham stonework by Charles Trask qv, glazing by Coleman, Crewkerne. Reopened TC 20.8.62, W window by Wailes, seven windows glazed with cathedral glass by Mr Toleman of Crewkerne; brass work in front of altar by Messrs Hunt & Son, Cockspur St, London; painting done by vicar Rev GJ Blomfield with Charles Trask; reredos by Heaton & Butler painted by Rev Blomfield; SAS attributes iron screen see below 1880, by Shrivell & Co, London, painted and gilded by Stansells of Taunton on Ham stone base by Trask, and pulpit 1890 in memory of Rev Blomfield;
1865 Chilton Cantelo ch, Som; BoE S; GR; SRO DD/cf/1865/4; 1860-5 SAS; rebuilt except tower for Rev CO Goodford of Chilton Cantelo House, provost of Eton. 1865-7 Possible that AWB also involved in adds to Chilton Cantelo House and estate, lodge dated 1866, and estate cottages dated 1865 by Lower Farm in village. Cottages also at Hinton, a pair at Mudford and some at Mudford Sock dated 1867.
(1865 rest Grittleton ch, Wilts; for Sir John Neeld Bt, reopened DWG 5.10.65; 1865-6 WBR)
1870-1 nave & chancel St John ch, Bathwick, Bath; ICBS; add to CE Giles ch of 1860-2; 1869 SRO; also 1879 baptistery addition by AWB; 1869-71 MF, added octagonal upper stage and spire to tower, and new nave & chancel also arcade to original ch; ill interior 1872 Archiseek site; BN 19.5.71 and 26.5.71,
1870-6 rest Odcombe ch, Som; SRO; 1870-6 ICBS; extension W, transepts, vestry, chancel & reps;
1873-5 chapel, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Som; glass by Wooldridge for Powell’s; by R Blomfield HGS 201, error; SNB
(1876 reredos, St George ch, Brandon Hill, Bristol; SNB;
1879 baptistery St John ch, Bathwick, Bath; SRO cf/1879/1; see also 1870-1;
1880 Screen, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som in memory A Horton, wrought iron; stone base made by Charles Trask, ironwork by Shrivell & Co, London, gilded and painted by Stansells of Taunton; inf Penny Cudmore, The Nortonian 2; TC 2.2.81; an enquiry made in 1880-1 re repairs at church was by JM Allen not AWB, ?unex.
1881 rest South Petherton ch, Som; SRO; rest chancel 1882, RL, and S porch 1890; SRO plans for raising pitch of chancel roof;
1881 proposed rebuild tower Henstridge ch, Som; SRO cf/1881/5, unex;
(1882ff rest Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts; appointed WG 10. 11.82; great progress on tower and spire,WG 20.11.96; £15,000 required for tower & spire, WG 28.2.96; WG 13.8.97;
(1887-9 rebuilt Warminster ch, Wilts, reopened DWG 28.2.89;
1890 rest S porch, South Petherton ch, Som; RL;
1890 attrib pulpit, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som in mem Rev GJ Blomfield;
1890-1 restored Ston Easton ch, Som; SNB; SRO cf/1890/7;
(189? Reps St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol; SNB
(1892 rest Westbury ch Wilts AWB&Sons; WBR;
1893-4 rest Wraxall ch, Som; SNB; SRO cf/1892/8;
1897 repairs Cranmore Tower, East Cranmore, Som; repairs to foundations for Sir RH Paget Bt, J&U Wilcox qv builders; de Viggiani Two Estates, 91-3; Blomfield report dated 2.7.96;
(1905 rest Fosbury ch, Wilts, AWB&Sons; WBR;
c1911 rest Publow ch, Som; SNB; ? AWB&Sons;
BLOMFIELD, CHARLES JAMES 1862-1932. son of Sir Arthur Blomfield, brother of AC Blomfield + 1935, articled to father, architect to Southwark Cathedral, rest St Cross Winchester and St Mary Redcliffe Bristol. Adds to public schools inc Eton, Wellington, Malvern, Aldenham, and St Edmund Canterbury. Surveyor Eyre estate London. Obit RIBAJ 24.12.32 p 143; ASG; St Matthew ch Croydon prob also St Giles Colchester and The Minories (inf Karen Evans).
1901-4 ?alts Holbrook House, Wincanton, Som, for J Angerstein, generally attrib to Reginald B but R Legg quotes unnamed source saying work was by Sir Arthur B, impossible as by then dead, and suggests either CWB or ACB;
BLOMFIELD, SIR REGINALD 1856-1942 Architect, London. cf his Memoirs 1932; Biography by R Fellows; ASG 113-6. Son of Rev GJ Blomfield vicar of Aldington Kent (and later Norton sub Hamdon) and Isabella d of Rev CJ Blomfield Bishop of London, nephew and pupil of Sir Arthur Blomfield qv, in practice 1883. Brother Maj-Gen CJ Blomfield of Frampton Court, Glos. Wrote Formal Gardens in England, 1892; History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1897; History of French Architecture, 1911 & 1921; Memoirs of an Architect 1932; Modernismus (against modernism) 19?? PRIBA 1912-14, Royal Gold Medal 1913. Knighted 1919 for work on war memorials; Menin Gate at Ypres, 1927, designed the Cross of Sacrifice used in many war cemeteries (also examples at Bishops Hull, Bishops Lydeard, Old Cleeve, Mark, Som. RA 1914; lived at 51 Frognal Hampstead and Point Hill, Rye, Sx. Son Austin 1892-1968 was architect. Reilly, Representative British Architects;
1892? Attrib N garden, Montacute, Som; HGS 200-1; RB visited in 1889 (sketchbooks); a sketch by RS Balfour shows central feature done; ?slim evidence.
1901-4 ?remodelled Holbrook House, Wincanton, Som; attr VCH 7 173; John Angerstein bought estate 1901, work completed 1904, R Legg, Book of Wincanton, 2005, 101-4 says that RBs son Arthur (?Austin) said in 1946 that work was probably by Sir AW Blomfield qv but AWB died 1899, his sons Charles James B 1862-1932 or Arthur Conran B +1935 could be the ones. Whichever Blomfield formalised S front, raising nearest lawn and burying outer wall of basement, Tudor mullion window blocked in basement, also useless are ‘the great doors at the SW corner of what are now the cellars, these merely open into a shoot (chute?) beside the hardcore of the present main car-park. They were orig the side doors to the under-region of the house but changes to the S front which had been the side with entrance drive and hall meant that they had to be covered to avoid cluttering the revamped reception zone. Blomfield liked house to rise from terraced lawn, so cedar trunk buried now 8ft. RB moved entrance to longer W side, opposite the new W porch he made steps to a gateway of wrought iron flanked by yews going nowhere (?other side of main road)
(1902-26 Sherborne School for Girls, Dorset; ASG; BoE)
(1909-23 adds Sherborne School, Dorset; ASG; Carrington Bldng, Carrington rd 1909-10 Gatehouse and adj range 1913-23, ?chapel add 1922, BoE)
1911-16 alts Sydney Hotel, Bath for William Holburne art collection; SNB
1923 War Memorial, Victoria Park, Bath; Cross of Sacrifice design; SNB
BLORE, EDWARD London. 1787-1879. HC. Born Derby, topographical artist first, friend of Sir Walter Scott helped with design for Abbotsford 1816ff. Began practice in 1820s, numerous Tudor style country houses and plain Gothic churches. 1824-7 Corehouse, Lanarks; 1826-36 Canford Manor Dorset; 1827-49 surveyor Westminster Abbey; 1828-31 Goodrich Court Herefs for Sir SR Meyrick; 1829-30 N wing Clarendon Press Oxford; 1829-48 alts Lambeth Palace; 1831-2 Pitt Press Cambridge; 1832-7 completed Buckingham Palace; 1833-4 adds Vale Royal Ches; 1837 Combermere Abbey, Ches; 1838-44 Merevale Hall Warw; 1840-5 Worsley Hall Lancs; 1844-8 work at Marlborough College Wilts; 1846-7 Buckingham Palace front range; retired 1849.
182? work at Bishops Palace, Wells; SAS; not in SNB; ?central porch, since dem;
c1828 Designs for new house, Butleigh House, Som; unex; SC; not in HC; RIBAD SC 108/3 28/30. VCH. Old house was burnt after 1837 and new house built as Butleigh Court 1845-51 by JC Buckler qv;
1828-30 N chapel, Butleigh ch, Som; RL; on site of Symcox chapel of 1608; RIBAD SC 108/3 22, 25-7;
1830 unex designs for choir, Wells Cathedral; SAS;
(1831 St Mary Magdalen Hospital, Wilton, Wilts; WBR;)
(1829-32 TH, Warminster, Wilts; WBR; specification 1829 Longleat archive)
183? Screen, Bath Abbey, Som; erected by GP Manners qv; dem;
(1838 Literary Institute, Market Place, Warminster, Wilts; WBR2; possibly designed 1830 and built 1836-8
(1844ff Marlborough College, Wilts; buildings including first chapel, A House, B House, dining hall; WBR; DWG 27.6.44; chapel opened Wilts Indep 5.10.48;
(1848 Chapel, Marlborough College, Wilts, opened Wilts Indep 5.10.48; EE style;
BOARD, JOHN Bridgwater, brick-maker and cement pioneer. 1802-61. Firm began making cement in 1844, son in law William Henry Hine Ackerman, continued fire, William Ackerman, grandson joined in 1871 and marketed ‘Portland’ cement.
1851-4 Castle House, Queen St, Bridgwater; pioneer concrete house originally Portland Castle, SAS; Somerset Follies; said to have been built for William Ackerman, designer unknown. Decorative elements in Tudor style of cast concrete inc window frames, concrete staircase, tie-bars for reinforcing, brick gr fl, mass concrete at first floor; EH listing; SIAS 65 1994;
BOCCI, CHRIS. Avon County Council Architects Department
1987-9 Magistrates Courts, North Parade Rd, Bath; Forsyth; addition to La Sainte Union Convent;
BODLEY & GARNER see GF Bodley
BODLEY, GEORGE FREDERICK, London, l827-1907 Pupil GG Scott 1846 assistant until 1852 when began practice. Outstanding late Victorian church architect. cf David Verey in Fawcett ed, Seven Victorian Architects, 1976; partner 1869-97 w Thomas Garner b1839 (B&G) ended when Garner became RC, Garner was pupil of Scott 1856, cf Thomas Garner. Michael Hall, editor Apollo magazine Michael@ working on Bodley; S aisle Bussage ch Glos 1852-3; practice continued by Cecil Hare qv.
(1883-6 Chapel, Marlborough College, Wilts; B&G; BN 3.12.86 ill; ill Br 16.12.86 windows by Clayton & Bell and Morris & Co, stone carving by McCulloch, figures by Farmer & Brindley, woodcarving by Wilmut of Bristol, decorations by Powell of lincoln; builders Stephens & Baslow; £30,000;
1888 proposed High altar and triptych, Wells Cathedral, SAS;
1889-90 chancel, Wellow ch, Som; SRO cf/1889/7; 1890 BoE;
1891 alts Camerton ch, Som; SRO cf/1891/19; chancel & S aisle 1891 by TG BoE N;
1891 inspected work on Wambrook ch, by Robinson & gordon; ICBS;
1892-3 Peasedown St John ch, Som; BoE N; B&G;
(1893-9 North block, Marlborough College, Wilts; WBR, B&G;
1898-1902 All Saints ch, Weston s Mare, Som; BoE N; the design for sedilia submitted in 1908 cf/1908/- is marked copy of design by GF Bodley;
(1901-2 Chapel, House of Charity, Redcath Rd, Bristol; Gomme; SNB;
(1903-4 St Aidan ch, Nag’s Head Hill, Bristol; Gomme; SNB)
(1905 adds, House of Charity, Redcatch Rd, Bristol; SNB, E wing l. of porch)
(1906 narthex All Saints ch, Clifton, Bristol; SNB)
1907 monument to Thomas Garner, Downside Abbey, completed by FA Walters; SNB; central Crucifixion panel by Bodley;
1908-9 memorial chapel, House of Charity, Redcatch Rd, Knowle, Bristol; by Bodley & Hare
BOMPAS, EDWARD GWINNETT architect, Bristol, 1831-1915, emigrated to South Africa 1888 and died there; SAS;.
1870 remodelled parsonage, Weare, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/179; recast in Gothic;
BOND & ANDERSON see FB Bond and WE Anderson.
BOND, CHARLES Barrington. Builder. 1813-94, son of Thomas Bond +1868, stoemason. P Pearce, Seventeen cum Sunday, 1993, says that he built Barrington School c. 1840 and Puckington School, since rebuilt. Puckington School 1862 still there, Barrington School 1848 according to Kelly. Also built Barrington WM chapel, 1859 (PP 96-7), also Prospect Cottage, now North’s Land, Barrington, house of 1831 (PP 103); photo in 1871 (PP 151), son of Thomas Bond, mason; m Susan Brister (b1807) in 1843. Papers in SRO A/AEP/7/1/2 relate to his Methodism, book of sermon subjects preached at Barrington 1854-74. Book of specifications probably 1870s in SRO A/AEP/7/1/12
1848 School, Barrington, P&P c1840, 1848 Kelly;
1859 WM chapel, Barrington, Som; P&P;
1877 House in Chard, Som; SRO A/AEP/7/1/12
1878 alts Puckington rectory, Som; SRO A/AEP/7/1/12
187? Puckington school and teacher’s house, Som, nd; A/AEP/7/1/12
187? Cider house, barn and cow stall, Burrow Hill Farm, Kingsbury Episcopi, Som A/AEP/7/1/12;
187? Gig-house, Puckington, Som; nd; A/AEP/7/1/12
BOND, FREDERICK BLIGH Bristol. 1864-1945, 3rd son Rev FH Bond d1897, headmaster of Marlborough Grammar School to 1875, then moved to Bath, articled 1881 to CF Hansom and JA Hansom, family moved to Weston s Mare 1884, FBB went to London articled AW Blomfield 1885-6, 1886 (1887 SAS) partner with CF Hansom, Bristol, they worked for British School Board. After d of CFH in 1888 on own, but sharing work with AM Dunn & Edward Hansom, 1896-9 partner with WB Gingell; 1909-14 succeeded E Buckle as Honorary Architect to the Diocesan Societies of Bath & Wells according to Sarah Whittingham and SAS, but appointed 1897 acc to RL and ASG; Hon Architect Wells Cathedral c1902-10, RL2; Excavated Glastonbury Abbey, sacked controversially; GJL; Wrote ‘Rood Screens and Rood Lofts’ with Rev DB Cann 1909; An architectural handbook to Glastonbury Abbey, 3rd ed 1920; The Gate of Remembrance, with account of discovery of the Edgar and Loretto chapels at Glastonbury; The Hill of Vision, a forecast of Great War and of the social and political reconstruction to follow; . At end of his life lived at Ty Nant, Brithdir, Mer, buried at Llanelltyd, Mer. Obit Br 16.3.45, TC 17.3.45; will TC 5.1.46. WH Watkins qv was pupil. Practice from 1911-14 in Glastonbury with William Ellery Anderson, as Bligh Bond & Anderson, dissolved acrimoniously, FBB bankrupted, moved office to Cardiff. Practice c1920 with Thomas Falconer & Harold Baker of Amberley, Glos, as Bligh Bond Falconer & Baker. Finished by 1926 address given as Abbots Leigh Glastonbury and London WwinA 1926;
List of Works from Sarah Whittingham mostly from T Hopkinson-Ball biograghy. Dates not in bold mean adds to Sarah list.
(1876-89 Ashton Gate Board School, North St and Greenway Bush Lane, Bedminster, Bristol; by Charles Hansom, later parts with Bond
187? Screen, Baltonsborough ch, Som; before 1880, VCH; 1880 SAS;
(1882 Kenton ch, Devon: restoration of 15th-century pulpit
1882 adds Highbridge ch, S aisle, chancel aisle and S porch; plansrejected by ICBS; SAS
1887 Chapel, Bath College, Bath, Som, with Charles Hansom; Hopkinson-Ball;
(1887 Monkey and Snake Houses, Zoological Gardens, Clifton, Bristol: (with Charles Hansom) (Hopkinson-Ball)
(1888 Refreshment Room, Zoological Gardens, Bristol: (with Charles Hansom) (Hopkinson-Ball)
1888 chancel and nuns’ choir, Carmelite Convent Church, Wells, Som: (with Charles Hansom) (Hopkinson-Ball) now RC church of SS Joseph & Teresa;
(1888 House, Headley, near Liphook, Hants. For Philip Henry Delamotte (Hopkinson-Ball)
(1888 Easton Road Board School, Bristol (with Charles Hansom); Hopkinson-Ball; Gomme;
(c.1888 Ashton Gate Board School, Luckwell Road, Bedminster, Bristol (with Edward Hansom); Gomme; 1876-89 by CFH, completed by FBB, SNB;
(1889 Clifton College, Bristol: tower continuation of CF Hansom design after CFH died 1888;
(1889 Rood screen, Lew Trenchard ch, Devon;
(1889-91 restoration of rood screen and rood loft, Staverton ch, Devon;
(1891 Treworgan, Mawnan Smith, Cornwall. For Charles Cole (Hopkinson-Ball)
(189? Hurlditch Court, Lamerton, nr Tavistock, Devon: rebuilding (Hopkinson-Ball)
189? The Dene, Alcombe, near Minehead, Somerset (Hopkinson-Ball),1891 SAS
(1892 adds University College, University Road: Medical School, Bristol (now Department of Geography); Gomme; Br 29.10.92 G Humphreys contr; Medical Schools ill Br 30.1.97; SNB: Engineering and Medical School adds of 1893-1904 by Edward Hansom & FBB;
(c.1892 Barleyfields Board School, Horton St, St Philip’s, Bristol; Gomme;
1893 entr Bath Pump Room ext comp, Bath, Som; RHH;
(1895 caretaker's house, Ashton Gate Schools, Bristol T Br 3.11.94;
(c.1895 Queen Ann Road, Board School, Barton Hill, Bristol; Gomme; 1895 SNB;
(1895 Duke of Bedford’s Grammar School [Alexander School], Plymouth Road, Tavistock, Devon;
1896 remodelled Chilcompton ch, Somerset, ICBS, add chancel aisles & Ew; 1897 RL and SNB; SRO d/d/cf 1896/8 enlarged chancel arch; see also 1911;
1897 ?remodelled Chilcompton school, Som; ASG; school erected 1876 rebuilt 1905 acc to Kelly 1906; SAS;
(1897 Girls School, St Georges, Bristol, and alts to infants school Summerhill; C: BJ 17.11.97;
(1898 Music Room, Clifton College, Bristol; 1896 Gomme;
(1898 Greenbank Elementary School, Greenbank Road, Eastville, Bristol. Dem; Gomme; ill Br 30.1.97
(1898 St George Higher Grade and Technical School, Russell Town Avenue, Moorfields, Bristol; BN 7.7.93; Gomme; 1894-5 SNB; ill Br 30.1.97;
(1899 Board Schools, Plummers Hill, Bristol; SNB 370;
1899-1900 chancel restored, Crewkerne ch, and further work to 1914; SAS;
(1900 Engineering School, University College, University Road, Bristol: (with Edward Hansom); Gomme; SNB has Medical School and Engineering adds 1893-1904; Medical Schools ill Br 30.1.97;
(c.1900 Nine shops, Avonmouth Road, Avonmouth, Bristol. Possibly by Bond, ?same as Nos 30-39 Davis St, Avonmouth, 1902, Gomme;
(c.1900 Estate Office for King’s Weston, Shirehampton, Bristol; Demolished; BJ 1905 ASG;
(c.1900 Knowle Board School, School Road, Totterdown, Bristol. Possibly Hansom & Bond
(1901-04 alts to lodges and new lodges, King’s Weston, Bristol; Gate lodge and nearby estate buildings c1901-2, SNB;
(1901-07 Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital, Lodge Road, Kingswood, Glos (with W H Watkins); ASG; Gomme; 1903-7 SNB;
(1902 Nos 30-39 Davis St, Avonmouth; Gomme;
(1904 Public hall and library, Station Road, Shirehampton, Bristol; Gomme; 1903-4 SNB
(1904 Shops and houses, (incl 19-29) Station Road, Shirehampton, Bristol; Gomme; Nos 24-30 SNB
(1904 The Waylands, High St, Shirehampton, Bristol; Gomme; SNB
(1904 Westward House, High St, Shirehampton, Bristol, dem c1975, Gomme;
(1904 Church of St Petrock, Lydford, Devon: screen
(1904-05 add University College, University Road: lecture room block. Albert Fry Memorial extension to N wing, including Albert Fry Tower; Gomme; SNB
(1904-05 Houses and shops, Avonmouth Road, Avonmouth;
(c.1905 Board School, Horley Road, Baptist Mills. Now St Werburghs Community Centre. Due to be demolished (2005)
(c.1905 Nos 23-33 North View, Westbury Park, Bristol. Possibly by Bond, Gomme;
1905-08 repairs Weston-in-Gordano ch, Som;
1905-12 adds Ascension ch, South Twerton, Bath, Som: transepts, chancel (1911 SNB). Also 1919 parclose screen and war memorial tablet, and 1921 rood screen and pulpit (Hopkinson-Ball);
1905 Rood-screen, Radstock, Som; SRO d/d/cf/1905
1906 alts N chapel, Yatton ch, Som; screen; AFtext;
(1906-07 Park House, No 1 St Andrews Road, Avonmouth, Bristol)
(1907 Miles Arms Hotel, Avonmouth Road, Avonmouth, Bristol; SNB)
(1907-08 Houses, Avonmouth Road, Avonmouth, Bristol);
1908-22 Director of Excavations at Glastonbury Abbey, Som; 1907-21 RL; sacked by SANHS cf Hopkinson-Ball;foundations of SW tower and Edgar Chapel discovered 1908,
1909 consulted on alts to Portland Chapel, Bath, for parish of Walcot; BC 29.7.09
(1909 Church of St George, Hanham Abbots, Glos: restoration; ASG
(1909 St John the Baptist, Cirencester, Glos: north choir organ
1909-10 Chilton Priory, Chilton Polden, Som; originally a museum of c1836 possibly by William Halliday qv for William Stradling, large new house added adjacent for Major Francis Kennedy by FBB. 1918 additions for John and Katherine Maltwood (Hopkinson-Ball)
(1909-14 Architect to Malvern Priory Church, Worcs;
(1910 Screen, Moreton-in-Marsh ch, Glos; ASG;
1911 renovated Chiselborough ch, Som; (Hopkinson-Ball); altered one tower arch to Norman; 1911-12;
1911 renovated East Pennard ch, Som (Hopkinson-Ball)
1911 rest Highbridge ch, Som (Hopkinson-Ball) with W Ellery Anderson; 1914 RL; internal alterations to John Norton church? Also removal of spire and top of tower.
1911 Church of St Bartholomew, West Lyncombe, Bath: (with William Ellery Anderson) (Hopkinson-Ball); but AF text says ch 1936-8 by AJ Taylor & AC Fare;
1911 Chancel, Church of Ascension, Claude Avenue, Bath, Som; church 1906-7 by E Buckle; AF text; cf 1905-12;
1911 N transept and vestry, Trull ch, Som; plans SRO D/D/cf/1911/4??;
1911 alts Buckland St Mary ch, Som; form chapel S of chancel; design for panelling; SRO d/d/cf/1911
1911 E window tracery, Chesterblade ch, Som; B&A; church guide;
1911 reredos Ilminster ch, Som (Hopkinson-Ball); stone Gothic with tiers of figures;
1912 rest Sutton Montis ch, Som, but tower was rebuilt by E Buckle 1904-5; RL; SRO D/D/cf/1912/45, panelled nave roof and pews; B&A; 1912-13 SAS;
191? Refurnished Crewkerne ch, Som; RL, before 1914; VCH 4 32 n 71 from SRO D/P/crew/23/10; cf 1921;
(1912 Church of St Aidan, Small Heath, Birmingham: rood and screens and re-siting of C15th font from St Stephen, Bristol; ASG;
1912 rebuilt nave N wall, Nynehead ch, Som with two new windows; 1965 guide by RL Thorne says late C19 by FBB, Tony Lock says 1912;
1912-13 Stowell ch, Som: rebuilding apart from W tower (Hopkinson-Ball); 1913 RL; ICBS 1912-14 by B&A; by FBB according to VCH, SRO D/D/cf/1912/47; WG 13.6.13 ‘general style of the new work follows as closely as possible the type of the Somerset church of the simpler order’. E w 1915 by Alice Erskine; replaced church of 1834;
1913 oak reredos Angersleigh ch, Som; SRO cf/1913/1; with E window by Kempe & Co, reredos later altered;
1913 rest screen Brompton Ralph ch, Som; plans in church; reconstructed a screen from fragments of original removed to Hartrow Manor by Rev W Sweet-Escott in 1880-2 rest of church; plans show a panelled loft not executed;
1913 Bench-ends, Burrington ch, Som; SNB;
1913 move font and pulpit, Charlton Mackrell ch, Som; B&A; SRO cf/1913/18;
1913 SE chapel screen, St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; SRO cf/1913/33; B&A; FBB made plans for matching NE chapel screen and new organ 1914, not done, but NE screen, a WW1 memorial of 1931 by Herbert Read, is similar to SE screen; organ case 1926, S transept oak screen 1927, SAS;
1913-14 rebuild Emborough ch, Som; B&A; ICBS rejected; SRO cf/1913/29;
1913-14 rest Kilve Ch, Som; ?by W Ellery Anderson of B&A; ICBS;
1913-15 reps Long Load ch, Som; B&A; ICBS; SRO D/D/cf/1914/42 rebld part of E wall and S porch, replace roof tiles with lighter ones;
1914 reredos, St Thomas à Becket ch, Widcombe, Bath; MF;
1914 restored NE chapel, Curry Rivel ch, Som; SRO cf/1914/23 new ceiling and moved monuments;
1915 alts chancel, Wiveliscombe ch, Som; new rose window, reredos, panelling, stained glass by Alice Erskine; Wiveliscombe 2005 72; dedicated 29.7.15 in memory Lt Ralph Hancock DSO; plans 1915, SRO D/D/cf/1915/50; PSANHS 1937 54-7;
1915 Lychgate, Wookey ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/57;
1916 Reredos, Holy Trinity ch, Taunton, stone carved Herbert Read;
1916-17 rest Blackford ch, near Compton Pauncefoot, Som, new screen;
(1917 Church of St John the Baptist, Coln St Aldwyns, Gloucestershire: refurnished chancel as a memorial to the first Earl of St Aldwyn and screen
1917 reredos, North Curry ch, Som; screen acc to Hopkinson-Ball, error as no screen; Kelly 1931 says reredos, 1916, to Captain Charles Barrett is by FBB; made by Boulton & Sons, Cheltenham; church guide; DoE says chancel work 1920-30s panelling, fine carved rails, reredos by FBB; panelling was added in phases behind stalls and side walls as war-memorial. Extended E on both sides 1931 in memory Rev A Kirke and altar rails added (Kelly 1935). Linenfold each side of reredos plainer of uncertain date.
1917 Screen, Fairfield ch, Som; ?where; (Hopkinson-Ball); ?Stringston
1917 War memorial, Ilminster, Som; Calvary Cross in Portland stone; Herbert Read sculptor;
1917 War Memorial cross, Halse, Som, plain cross in churchyard; D/D/cf/1917/25; also bronze plaque on S end of screen inside church to Neville Montgomery; inf Tony Nicholson;
1918 additions Chilton Priory, Chilton Polden, Som, for John and Katherine Maltwood (Hopkinson-Ball) cf 1909-10; these may have included garden design
1919-20 rest Lady Chapel, Martock ch, Som, new screen and altar; ch guide; cross candlesticks and vases by Omar Ramsden qv;
1919 Cover, Chalice Well, Glastonbury, Som; Thank offering for peace;
(1919 Rood, St Martin ch, St Martins Rd, Bristol; SNB;
1919 War memorial, High St, Glastonbury, Som; Celtic cross outside St John ch, design based on ?Saxon work excavated by FBB at the Abbey;
1919 proposed War Memorial, East Brent, Som; SAS; present war memorial with four stiffly carved servicemen was made by AR Emery of Burnham on Sea, 1921; SAS;
1919 proposed War Memorial cross, for St Mary Magdalene, Taunton; TC 5.3.19; 32 ft high;
1919 War Memorial cross, Kingston St Mary, SAS;
1919 Parclose screen and war memorial tablet, Ascension ch, South Twerton, Bath, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1919/148. Aso 1921 Rood screen and pulpit (Hopkinson-Ball)
1919-21 reps Thornfalcon ch, Som; ICBS, Bond, Falconer & Baker; no faculty. Tower repairs, SAS;
1919-20 Martock ch, Lady Chapel rest new screen, altar, cross, candlesticks, vases, and processional cross by Omar Ramsden; SAS; church guide;
1920 rest screen and enlarged, Stockland Bristol ch, Som; RL; VCH;
1921 Rood screen & pulpit, Ascension ch, South Twerton, Bath; Hopkinson-Ball; SRO D/D/cf/1921/70 by FBB with Thomas Falconer & Harold Baker of Amberley, Glos; signed FBB stamped Falconer & Baker;
(1920-21 War memorial, Nailsworth, Glos; Celtic cross. FBB with Thomas Falconer and Harold Baker
(1920-21 War Memorial, Warminster Wilts; Celtic cross by FBB with Thomas Falconer and Harold Baker; plans WRO not clear who designed it, but local book says Thomas Falconer; carved by Egerton Strong of Warminster;
1921 War memorial tablet, Crewkerne ch, Som; ch guide;
1921 War Mem cross, Crewkerne churchyard, Som; ch guide;
1921 Screen, Butcombe ch, Som; D/D/cf/1921/11; reusing pieces of old screen cornice enrichments, old traceried heads, some lower tracery, one upright?; FBB of Bond, Falconer & Baker;
(1923 Market Cross, War Memorial, Crediton, Devon
(1925 Bitterley ch, Shropshire: rest of rood screen (Hopkinson-Ball)
(1925 Ext to house in New Forest, ?Hants, for Theresa Hardcastle (Hopkinson-Ball)
1926 organ casing, St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; NW corner; notice stuck on;
1929 S transept screen, St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; out of found bits;
Also Screen, All Saints ch, Clifton, Bristol; dem; nd ASG;
BONEY, WILLIAM HENRY Architect, Highgate, London, 1863-1944, also woollen merchant acc to 1901 and 1911 censuses, SAS; In partnership with Charles Henry Wainwright designed screen at Little Stanmore ch, Mx, 1900, and Methodist church, Highgate, London 1905;
1911-12 adds Yarlington House, Som; VCH; for H Wright Rogers +1922; plans SRO DD/WRh/13;
BONFIELD, JOHN Ironfounder, Crawley, in Yarty valley, Devon, near Chard. Made iron mileposts for Chard Turnpike Trust; 1784-1867 SAS, father John Bonfield Jun qv +1868;
18?? toll-houses or gates, Blackdown, Dorset and Tytherleigh, Devon, near Chard; inf Roger Carter;
Also built bridge over Axe at Tytherleigh, Devon/Dorset border.
BONFIELD, JOHN Jun, wheelwright, and carpenter Chardstock, +1868, son of John Bonfield Sen qv +1867; SAS;
1838 toll-gates, Snowdon Hill, Chard, Som, Q/Rup/89, 95 and 100; SAS;
BOON BROWN ARCHITECTS, Motivo, Alvington, Yeovil. Clive Brown, Richard Boon establ 1986, Justin Paterson joined 1996 and Craig Jones. List of works from website Email Justin@
1988-9 Refurb Town House, Union St, Yeovil, Som, as Town Council offices; former police station 1849.
1991 Avalon House, East Coker, Som; large trad house, extended twice since;
1996-7 Yeovil Foyer, South St, Yeovil, Som, home for homeless young people in former Holy Trinity church, plus the two extensions;
1997-8 Holy Trinity ch & community centre, Lysander Road, Yeovil, Som;
1998 Caryford Leisure Centre, Ansford, Som; behind Ansford Secondary School; Dean & Dyball contrs; DJP consulting engineers;
(2000 Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis, Dorset; modernist flats; Countryside Design Award 2001; RIBA Wessex award 2003)
2005? Herb Garden, Great St, Norton sub Hamdon, Som; modernist house in walled garden of Manor House, brick and glass flat roof; job architect Justin Paterson;
(2005-6 adds Westfield Technology College, Weymouth, Dorset;)
2008 Woolhams Place, Watchet, Som; block flats, timber clad,
2008 Park 5, Park St, Yeovil, Som; housing and offices corner site;
2009 prop conv Tonedale Mill, Som, to 225 dwellings plus museum etc; for Hydon Ltd; unex;
2009 conv Brooklands, Huish Episcopi, Som, to flats; board;
2009 Flats at Wellington, Som, nr Relyon bed factory;
2010 Flats, Wordsworth Drive, Taunton, Som; 64 flats; also another 64 in planning? Inf Justin Paterson;
2010 Development at 42 Northload St, Glastonbury, Som; Mendip awards 2011;
2010 Offices on school site Watchet, Som, cedar-clad; inf Justin Paterson
2010 Toller View, Over Stratton, Som; private house; board;
2010 Development adjoining John Burns Cotts, Pilton, Som; Mendip awards 2011;
2011-12 exec architects, The Glove Factory, Yeovil, Som; design by EHSA qv;
2011-12 alts Coombe Brook, Launder St, Glastonbury, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
2011 Chislett House development, Northload St, Glastonbury, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
2011 Maple Terrace, George St, Glastonbury, Som; Mendip awards 2012;
2012 Highbridge House, Ditcheat, Som neo-Geo for Paul Nicholls Mendip Award 2013;
2013-14 refronted Haynes Motor Museum, Sparkford, Som; RICS award 2015;
From website with no date:
200?ff Extensive works for Agusta Westland, Yeovil, Som, inc office with factory behind, 3-st with curved wing roofs over centre and ends; test transmission facility, customer training centre etc; also proposed Wandsworth Heliport, London;
200? Merry Moles, East Coker, Som; modernist house by Clive Brown for himself; now called Waterlands, Frank Lloyd Wright influence.
200? Accident & Emergency dept, Yeovil District Hospital, Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Som;
200? Queensway Day Hospital, Yeovil, Som; ?attached to Yeovil District Hospital. 1995 tile panels as entrance signs and with countryside images by Rosie Smith (Lynn Pearson) Main hospital (?) five tile panels 1996 by Rosie Smith, winning designs from childrens art competition. Also reception area childrens unit has tiles of flying pigs 1998 and adjacent roof garden more tiling with views of Yeovil.
(200? Conv stables, Leweston School, Dorset;)
200? Swimming-pool, Combe Cross, Horsington, Som, for Mr & Mrs Champ;
(200? Brazz Restaurant, Millenium Centre, Cardiff, Glam)
(200? Adds Sherborne Preparatory School, Sherborne, Dorset)
200? Addn Heathfield Community School, West Monkton, Som, for Somerset CC; fourteen classroom addn; curved with cylindrical entrance atrium; Dean & Dyball contrs; design & build contract; B&B later designed a science block, Rok contrs;
(200? Loders School, Dorset, executed des by Morgan Carey Architects)
(200? Technology Centre, Highcliffe School, Christchurch, Dorset
(200? Adds Buckland Newton School, Dorset)
(200? Adds Somerfield School, Christchurch, Dorset)
200? Yeovil Ski Centre, Yeovil, Som;
200? Yeovil Golf Club, Yeovil, Som;
200? Housing, Watercombe Lane, Yeovil: trad style;
200? housing, Sherborne House Gardens, Sherborne, Dorset; trad;
200? Houses, Snowdon Collar Works site, Chard, Som; 25 trad houses;
(200? Housing, Army Air Corps School, Middle Wallop, Hants; trad)
200? Bazzleways estate, Station Rd, Milborne Port, Som, 12 trad houses around existing C19 villa Bazzleways House;
(200? Addison Close, Gillingham, Dorset;
200? Offices for Regional Health Authority, where?;
200? Call-centre, Screwfix, Yeovil; also Distribution Warehouse; large curved roof warehouse;
200? Regency Group office HQ, where?;
200? Surestart Childrens Centre, for Somerset CC, Hillside, Taunton.
200? JP Motors, workshops & offices, where? timber-clad.
200? PC world, retail store, ?Lysander Rd, Yeovil;
200? B&Q retail store, ?Lysander Rd, Yeovil;
200? Edmonsons Electrical Wholesalers, where?
200? Adds Lanes Hotel, West Coker, Som; former rectory;
(200? Janeva Court, Burraton, Cornwall, retirement home for Methodist HA;
200? Immacolata House, Curry Rivel, Som; old peoples’ home; trad;
200? Hall for testing landing gear, Airbus, where?; large curved-roof building; commissioned by Dean & Dyball;
200? headquarters, South Somerset Homes, Yeovil; new build;
200? Adds Hermitage House, large neo-Geo house of 1992; extensions, swimming pool etc; ?where;
(200? Conversion of glove factory for Raglan HA; conv of 1920s factory plus two new houses, ?where;
(200? Toyota Car Showroom ?where)
(200? Fish-processing warehouse, CT Samway & Son, where?
(200? Bluechip Software house. Where?
(200? Turnspeed Precision Engineering Factory, where?
(200? Conifers Primary School, Dorset)
200? Refurb Coker Court, East Coker, Som; ?alts for Joe Coles;
200? Annex conversion, Merriott Manor, Som;
200? Conv of barn, Sutton Bingham Manor, Som;
(200? Imprs Wynford Eagle Manor, ?where;
200? Imps and refurb Over Stratton, Som;
200? Swimming pool in barn, Stratton House, where?;
(200? Conv & refurb Holy Tree Farm, where?;
(200? Roberts Court, Sherborne, Dorset, conv of former military stable to houses, with new housing)
200? Teaching block, drama & maths dept, Frome Community College, Frome, Som; Prometheus building;
20?? Hillside Childrens Centre, Taunton; sure-start
(200? York House, Coldharbour Business Parkk, Sherborne, Dorset;
200? Motivo, Alvington, Preston Plucknett, Som; office block including firm’s own offices.
200? Silverline Tools, Lufton 2000 estate, Yeovil, Som;
200? Watercombe Park trading estate, Yeovil for Abbey Manor;
200? Richmond Place, Yeovil, Som; block of 16 dwellings; modern
200? Conversion, Vincent’s car showroom, Court Ash, Yeovil, Som, to offices for Battens, solicitors; inf SSDC;
200? Marley Mead, Easton, Som; trad house;
200? Broadsword Park, Ilchester, Som; trad style housing for military;
201? Probiotics International factory, Lopen, Som;
201? Large extensions Phoenix House, Hinton St George, Som, inc swimming-pool in timber-framed bldng;
201? New traditional style house, East Coker, Som;
200? New modern style house East Coker, Som; ?Waterfalls West coker;
20?? Fontana Care Home, Martock, Som;
20?? The Farmyard accommodation, nr Yeovil, Som;
201? Ruskin Close and Victoria Gate housing, Taunton, Som for Knightstone HA;
2010-1 Holyoake St sheltered housing, Wellington, Som for Magna HA;
201? Bishopbrook House, Wells, Som; offices on Cathedral Park site;
201? refurbished Maltravers House, Yeovil; 1960s office block;
201? La Fontana Care Home, martock, Som;
20?? proposed conversion Tonedale Mill, Wellington, to housing;
201? The Cowshed holiday apartments, Longcroft Farm, nr Yeovil, Som;
(201? Phase 2, Brewery Square, Dorchester, Dorset inc Odeon and Premier Inn;
(201? Conifers Primary School, Weymouth, Dorset; with Buro Happold;
BOSTON, E. T. Elm View, Arundell Rd, Weston s Mare; Kelly dir 1889; advert WSMG 26.11.87 'architect and surveyor. 19 years with the most eminent architects in the city of London. Patentee of the 'Boston' miner's perfect electric safety hand lamp …'.
1885 Eastwood Manor, East Harptree, Som; SNB; Archiseek site says ill BN 14.1.85, by EN Boston of Hallatrows, Bristol; tenders Br 10.7.1875 p 632 house for CA Kemble of Harptree Court; by ETB, octagonal tower omitted SNB;
BOTTERILL, AUSTIN BARUGH Architect, Bristol. Born 1877 articled Crisp & Oatley, 1895; worked with Oatley & Lawrence 1903-6;
(1920-3 Public housing at Fishponds, Knowle, and St Johns Lane Bedminster, Bristol; WwinA 1926;
BOUGHTON, R.
1890 rest roof East Brent ch, Som, w EH Lingen Barker qv; SRO cf/1890/11;
BOUTCHER, JOHN Carpenter, builder, Taunton. George Pollard Sen 1767-1838 was apprenticed to him; SAS;
BOUVIER (ALAIN) ASSOCIATES
1989 Bath Spa Hotel, Bath; MF; conversion of Vellore, later Bath College, North Road; SNB;
BOWDEN, ERNEST EDWARD, Architect 1876-1961, pupil CS Adye & Son Bradford on Avon 1895-7, then with Ernest Newton to 1900, then assistant to Gerald Horsley, AM Poynter and EJ May successively, all London. Own practice 1904, London. SAS;
1927-9 reps Batcombe ch, Som; ICBS;
1934 reps West Pennard ch, Som; ICBS; roof repairs.
1936 Repairs Tithe Barn, West Bradley, Som; ?for SPAB, financed by Roger Clarkof Street, barn given to NT.
BOWEN, JOHN 1785-1854. Friarn Place, Bridgwater. Son of Edward Bowen, Bridgwater shipwright, from Glamorgan, apprenticed to hardware manufacturer, worked for contractor supplying lighthouse equipment to Trinity House, erected temporary light on Farne Islands 1807-8. Employed by Trinity House as engineer in charge of lighthouses in India from 1808, supervised transport of iron bridge to Lucknow 1815 made by Butterley ironworks to design of John Rennie qv. Returned Bridgwater 1815 as engineer to Bridgwater Turnpike Trust, founded a short-lived local newspaper Bridgwater Alfred 1831-3, which he edited but gave up after being beaten up in 1832 riot. ; biographical paper by William Baker in SANHS, published 1854. May have designed own house, Friarn Place. Later on became steward to Boconnoc estate, Cornwall, buried St John's Bridgwater, SAS;
1826-7 Bridgwater MH, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Som; VCH 6 217; Margaret Allen, John Bowen of Bridgwater, typescript SRO 1971; Thomas Hutchings qv builder;
BOWER, STEPHEN ERNEST DYKES Architect, church specialist; 1903-94; practice 1931, surveyor to Westminster Abbey 1951-73; did baldacchino at St pauls 1958; rebuilt Great Yarmouth ch 1961 after war damage; biog by Anthony Symondson;
1953-4 reps Shepton Mallet ch, Som; SNB;
1961-2 reordered St John Baptst ch, Weston s Mare; SNB;
1961-3 colouring vault, Wells Cathedral, som, SNB;
BOWRING & HAWKINS Post Office Chambers, High St, Glastonbury and at Street, surveyors, auctioneers, valuations, inventories etc.; Kelly 1906; cf Alves & Hawkins;
BOWRING, ROBERT. 1863-1913. Auctioneer, estate agent, valuer, surveyor, timber valuer, 25 Market Place, Wells and Polsham House, Coxley; Kelly 1906;
1891 WM chapel, Coxley, Som; WG 14.8.91;
1892 WM chapel, Wookey Hole, Som, WG 18.3.92;
1892 WM chapel, Downside, Som; WG 6.5.92;
BOYCE, GEORGE. 1751-1838, no relation of pre-Raphaelite painter George Price Boyce 1826-97 who was briefly an architect, working with Wyatt & Brandon 1847-8; he was son of George J Boyce London wine merchant and pawnbroker, cf Sue Bradbury ed The Boyce Papers; ;
c1794-1824 Named in accounts for rebuilding Barton Grange, Corfe, Som, for Josepha Newton c1794-1824, heiress, married Clifton Wheat +1807 then Sir Frederick Cooper +1840, she died 1848. Mostly demolished 1931. Accounts in SHC, SAS;
BOYCE, GIDEON A. Architect, surveyor, Tiverton. Married Mary Coppock, SM 28.11.1831;
(1836-9 RC church, Tiverton, Devon; BoE, also school and presbytery)
(1854-6 supervised St Paul ch, West Exe, Tiverton; design by Manners & Gill qv; BoE; FS TC 10.5.54
(1857 Cemetery, Cullompton, Devon; BN 1857 245; attributed to E Ashworth qv in BoE, Boyce may have been executant architect)
BOYD, KENNETH
1982 Shopfront, Nos. 16-17 Old Bond St, Bath; MF;
BOYES REES Architects, Cardiff, established in early 1990s as successors to HDW of Newport bought out by Jane Boyes, Glyn Rees and Gary Loo; much work for Post Office, Holiday Inn;
201? sports hall, Wellsway Secondary School, Bath;
201? All Saints Primary School, Bath; website;
201? adds Primary School, Midsomer Norton, Som and refurb of Victorian school; website;
BOYLE, CHARLES. 1729-59. Eldest son of 5th Earl of Orrery. Became Viscount Dungarvan after father became 5th Earl of Cork in 1753. Married Susanna Hoare 1753. Died 1759 aged 30. Not in HC.
1750-2 alts Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som; attr SC notes; windows changed to sashes, balustrades replaced parapets, roof rebuilt as a mansard, new staircase; the building work appears to have been done by James Scott (qv) but ‘the plans were approved of or designed’ by Charles ‘whose genius is very much inclined towards architecture’ Letters of his step-mother Margaret Countess of Orrery quoted in McGarvie, Book of Marston Bigot, 102;
BOYLE, ELEANOR VERE Artist, wife of Hon Rev RC Boyle vicar of Marston Bigot, married 23.9.1845, d of Alexander Gordon of Ellon Aberdeens; illustrated Child’s Play 1852 nursery rhymes, her first book; then Children’s Summer with prose and poems by Marston children, the curate Rev Call and Mary Boyle; illustrated some twenty books as EVB, inc Beauty & the Best and The Story without an end, praised by Ruskin, her last The Peacock’s Pleasaunce in 1908; cf B Peppin Fantasy; she is supposed to have designed some or all of the stained glass windows in Marston bigot church made by Thomas Willement;
1852 Eleanor’s Well, Lower Marston, Marston bigot; Gothic well outside former school; McGarvie Book of Marston Bigot, 125;
1871 Boyle Memorial Cross, Frome, Som; carved by J Chapman, Frome;
BOYLE, RICHARD 3rd Earl of Burlington, 4th Earl of Cork 1694-1753.
(172? House for William Pulteney, ill in W Kent, Designs of Inigo Jones 2 1727 12 as House with an arcade, HC)
1751 attr alts to Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som; but these are likely to have been by his cousin Charles Boyle qv;
BRACEBRIDGE, EDWARD LEDGER Architect, 136 High St, Poplar, London, 1815-92;
(1838-40 Blackdown ch, Dorset; SAS)
1839-44 rebuilt Chiselborough ch, Som exc chancel and tower; ICBS; 1842 BoE S;
(1865 St Paul ch, Dock St, Tower Hamlets, London)
(1865 proposed Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, London, unex)
(1865 rebuilt 29 Soho Sq, London for Hospital for Women; EH)
(1871 National Schools, North St, Poplar; London Met Archives)
BRADDELL, THOMAS ARTHUR DARCY Architect, London born 1884, son of Sir Thomas Braddell chief justice of Malay States, known as Darcy Braddell, pupil of Ernest George, in practice from 1908, partner with Humphrey Deane DB&D from 1937;
19?? small country house at Burnham on Sea, Som; WWinA 1926;
BRADFORD (W.) & SONS, London. Architects, brewery specialists. William Bradford 1844-1919 established specialist brewery architectural practice 1879; SAS;
1901 Maltings, Priory Ave, Taunton for Hanbury & Co Canon St brewery; Mary Miles, Perfectly Pure, 82; four floors, 2 kilns, 2nd fl malt store, top fl barley store; contractors AJ Spiller qv, £4000, advert by Spiller reproduced in Chipchase & Cole The Taunton Book 14;
BRADLEY, KEITH see Feilden Clegg Design
BRAIN, DAVID Bath. Architect, Brain & Stollar (B&S), David Brain Partnership (DBP). David Brain retired, Robert Lucas & Craig Underdown partners 2001
1971 rest No 2 Abbey Green, Bath, for Bath Preservation Trust; MF;
1974-6 rest Nos 5-10 Kingsmead Sq, Bath; B&S; MF;
1976 rest General Wade’s House, Abbey Churchyard, Bath, for Landmark Trust; B&S; MF;
(1987 Chantry Ct housing for elderly, Tetbury, Glos; HDA 1987)
1987-91 rest Assembly Rooms, Bath; DBP; MF;
1989-93 reps Barrow court, Barrow gurney, Som; AFtext;
1996 adds Bath Priory Hotel, Weston, Bath; DBP; MF;
2001-2 Combe Royal Crescent, Bath, neo-Regency; MF; DBP
(2001-3 adds Whatley Manor Hotel, Easton Grey, Malmesbury, Wilts)
2005-7 New house, Bathwick Hill, Bath, Som; by Craig Underdown, neo-modern movement;
2010 proposed Hotel, Green Park, Bath, Som; neo-Georgian terrace;
20?? Spring Gardens Restaurant, Laura Pl, Bath, to ?1980s design by DB;
201? Rest Bushfurlong Farm, Isle Brewers, Som; for Ian Sandford;
2010 Area J2, Commerce Park, Frome, Som; Mendip awards 2011; Unit D1 for Primavera Ltd Briggs contactors website;
BRAKSPEAR, Sir HAROLD Pickwick Manor, Corsham, Wilts, 1870-1934, youngest son of WH Brakspear qv, in practice first at his father's house, The Priory, Corsham, 1895-1927, built Bean Close, Corsham for self 1904, then bought Pickwick Manor, Corsham, after marriage to Lilian Somers in 1920. Knighted 19?? for restoration of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, 1920-30. Restored Malmesbury Abbey, Wilts, Sherborne Castle, Dorset, Brownston House, Devizes, Wilts; obit WG 23.11.34; W&DCB 1906: of Bean Close, Corsham, restored Nuneaton Abbey, Warws; Lacock Abbey Wilts; Jaggards, Corsham, Wilts; Prinknash Park Glos, new houses Greenways, Chippenham, Wilts, rest churches in Bath & Wells and Bristol dioceses; Board Schools Corsham, Wilts; half-brother Sidney Brakspear of Corsham designed a row of three houses in Bath Rd, Bradford on Avon, 1899, plans WRO, but mostly worked with Harold; son Oswald Somers Brakspear +1999; grandson Thomas Brakspear, Pickwick Manor, continues practice; a large archive of plans deposited with WSHC, Chippenham, Wilts;
(1894 Board Schools, Corsham, Wilts; WBR2)
(1896 alts Cleeve House, Seend, Wilts; WBR; also alts to Cleeve Cottages 1900 WBR2; also drawing room overmantel, staircase panelling and dining rm fittings 1901; also N front and SW part 1907)
(1896 1st prize St Thomas ch, Exeter, Devon; RHH)
(1896-7 Emmanuel ch, Exeter, Devon, competition 1896 RHH; BoE; tower not built)
(1897 Mayo drinking fountain, Corsham, Wilts; T: BJ 15.9.97)
(1899 rest Malmesbury Abbey, Wilts)
(1901 Greenways, Malmesbury Rd, Chippenham, Wilts WBR2; dem;
(1901-2 alts to barn The Hall, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts; converted barn into coach-house, added stables and lodge behind; PM Slocombe, The Hall, 2012)
(1902-3 rebuilt chancel, Lacock ch, Wilts; WBR)
(c1903 rest Bewley Court, Lacock, Wilts, for GL Plamer, and c1920 for Lt col Reginald Cooper, plans WRO;
(1904 Bean Close, 124 Priory St, Corsham, Wilts, for self; dated on stained glass; WBR;
1904-5 chancel, Christ Church ch, Frome, Som; SNB; completing works to the E end of the church started by William Brown qv. A permanent roof, level with the nave, was put over the sacristy, sham vaulting and arches flanking the chancel arch removed, 1918, builder Charles Barnes; HB added Lady Chapel E of the N transept, 1929; Gill, The Story of Christ Church Frome;
(1905-12 rest Great Chalfield Manor, Wilts; WBR)
(1907 Coters, Rowden Hill, Chippenham; WBR)
(1911 reredos, St Paul ch, Chippenham, Wilts; WBR)
(1912-13 ?Gastard ch, Wilts; Tony Nicholson: The architect for Gastard Church in 1912 appears to have been Mr Ware (Edmund Warre qv). But in 1912, Mr Brakspear was paid £24 for a plan. I haven’t bothered to pursue the question of whether Ware followed Brakspear’s plan or produced his own. The builder was Long.
(1914 restored Tithe Barn, Barton Farm, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR)
(1919 adds Rudloe Manor, Box, Wilts for Capt Daniell, unex plans WRO G3/760/478
(1920-5 rest Hazelbury Manor, Box, Wilts; WBR; plans WRO G3/760/497 1920 and revised 1921)
(1920-30 rest St George's Chapel, Windsor)
(1925 Courtlands, Lacock, Wilts for Sir Seymour Howard; WBR2;
1926-7 rest Cothay Manor, Som for Lt Col R Cooper; SC notes; rebuilt gate tower; not presumably responsible for 1938 staircase and N wing for Sir Francis Cook as died in 1934;
1927 examined ruins of Manor House, Vallis, Frome; SAS;
(1927 restored Blind-house, Town Bridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts, for Sir Charles Hobhouse; I Slocombe The bridges of BoA, 2012;
(1927 Hill House, Little Somerford, Wilts; WBR)
1929ff alts Bath Abbey, Som; four statues on E wall 1929-39 carved by F Brooke Hitch from des by AG Walker; bronze wall cross, altar and gate;
1930 fittings Prior Birde’s chantry, Bath Abbey, Som; MF;
1929 Lady Chapel, N transept, Christ Church, Frome, Som; SNB;
1930-1 alts Rooks House, Horsington, Som; plans WRO 2512/1 – 140/5, SAS;
BRAKSPEAR, OSWALD SOMERS Pickwick Manor, Corsham, Wilts, son of Sir Harold Brakspear qv. 1912-99; much church work in Bristol diocese; large collection of papers 1938-74 in WSHC, Chippenham, 2512; list of works from 1929 to 1996 in WBR2; one of his first jobs in 1930s was to Georgianise the water-tower at Lucknam Park, Colerne, Wilts (personal comment)
(1945-7 Lyon House war memorial, Sherborne School, Dorset; OSS; with Rowland de Winton Aldridge (1906-97) and addition of WW2 names to war memorial in ante-chapel of school chapel 1947;
1952-3 reps Charlton Adam ch, Som; ICBS;
(1955ff Medlycott Building (history department) 1955, extension of Big School Room, 1956-7, Lower Library 1959-61, The Slype restoration 1967-77, Bow House The Parade restoration 1971-4, Sherborne School, Dorset; BoE, some with R de W Aldridge; OSS;
1955-7 work Crabb House, Tellisford, Som; WRO;
(1959 Vicarage, Wanborough, Wilts; WBR;
(1961 St John ch, Swindon, Wilts; by Harold Brakspear acc to H&F)
1972-5 alts No 10 Dover Place, Bath; WRO;
WRO has correspondence and plans for numerous churches, possibly quinquennials only: Midsomer Norton 1934-73; Bath Abbey 1935-61; Rode 1948-73; Limington 1951-3; Draycott 1951-61; Beckington 1952-70; Woolverton 1954-73; South Brewham 1956-75; Vobster 1957-62; Rode hill 1961-73; Mells 1961-94; Great Elm 1965-85; Whatley 1970-96; Hardington Bampfylde 1972-9; Chantry 1980-97;
BRAKSPEAR, WILLIAM HAYWARD. Architect, c1818-98 born London, articled Charles Barry, practice in Manchester, with Thomas Dickson, as Dickson & Brakspear (D&B), then 13 Adelphi Terrace, London, then returned to Manchester, married in Altrincham 1853. Ashton under Lyne ch 1845-8; moved to Bridgwater for period of building Bridgwater ch, 1849-53; est Bowdon ch, Ches, 1860; rest Wilmslow ch, Ches 1861-5; father of Sir Harold Brakspear qv born 1870, practiced in Corsham, Wilts, an older son Sidney Brakspear born 1861 also of Corsham designed a row of three houses in Bath Rd, Bradford on Avon, 1899; WHB retired to The Priory, Priory St, Corsham, Wilts, buried Corsham churchyard, tomb ?designed by Harold;
1849-54 rest St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som; ICBS; AEBTD; D&B won competition in 1848?; dated 1850 on rainwater heads; rebuilt S aisle and S transept, new nave and chancel roofs, new baptistery and chamber over inside N porch, new arcade between N tr and chapel to W; pews, stalls; moved Corporation Pew to S transept; Gothic frames for Commandments etc on E wall since removed; new octagonal NE vestry (dem 1902); renewing and remodelling the interior including the roofs of nave, transepts and aisles, tracery of the windows and pews, 1849-54, builder John Westlake Wainwright, David Bradfield mason and William Shewbrooks carpenter. William Brakspear acted as his own clerk of works and this...ungentlemanly, unprofessional activity very much annoyed the guardians of professional standards, and his fee of £570 7s. 4d on the outlay of £3,946 very much angered his clients Br 1848, 81, 214, 226 and 250; ICBS; RIBAD; Bridgwater Times and Somerset Standard, 7 June and 20 December, 1849; exhibited at RA, 1853; Ferriday, The Church Restorers, in AR, August 1964, 92; Woolrich, Saint Mary’s Church Bridgwater, how it came to be the way it is today, 2005;
1851 St Mary’s Cemetery, Wembdon Rd, Bridgwater, Som; AEBTD; plan in possession of Dr P Cattermole shows one octagonal chapel, but two were built, both dem;
1852 St Mary’s Vicarage, Wembdon Rd, Bridgwater, Som; AEBTD; SRO D/Bbm/113; brick, m&t windows; WHB of London; possibly never built, not found; SAS says on Durleigh Road;
1853c Mayoral chair for Bridgwater corporation; SAS;
BRANDT POTTER HARE PARTNERSHIP, Salisbury John Brandt, Robert Potter and Richard W Hare. See also Potter & Hare and Kenneth Wiltshire
1973-4 rep West Buckland ch, Som; ICBS; Kenneth Wiltshire b1929 job archt.
BRANSON, HENRY Thornfalcon. Identified as a ‘builder’ on fine early C19 chest tomb at Thornfalcon.
BRANSON, NORMAN Retired theatre architect who designed the Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton with Somerset County Architects in 1977; RL;
BRAUN, MICHAEL Michael Braun & Associates
1984-8 alts Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, Bath, Som, as museum;
BRAY, E. WILLIAM Builder 1 Eva Terrace, Drove Rd, Weston s Mare 1906.
1901 House, Sunnyside estate, Plot 13, Langport Rd, Weston s Mare for FH Hillman; SRO
1906 House, Langport Rd, Weston s Mare, Som for FH Hillman; SRO;
BRAY, FREDERICK .W.J. Architect 1909-77, Surveyor to the Fabric, Wells Cathedral from 1935; SAS
BRENTNALL, RALPH Bristol Continued George Oatley practice qv, designed post-war buildings for Bristol University eg Churchill Hall, Stoke Bishop, 1946-56; repaired war damage to Wills Building 1959-63 and extended it with library.
BRERETON, ROBERT PEARSON Railway engineer. 1818-94, son of Robert John Brereton (1796-1858) engineer. Joined IK Brunel in 1836 worked on GWR, Cheltenham & Great Western Union Rlway 1845, Brunel’s chief assistant 1844-5 until Brunel died in 1859. 1854-9 worked on Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, also assisted by young cousin Robert Maitland Brereton 1836-1911. After Brunel’s death took over Bristol & S Wales Railway, Cornwall Railway and others; nephew Cuthbert Arthur Brereton (1850-1910) was pupil, worked for Sir John Wolfe Barry & Partners, worked on repairing sea wall at Blue Anchor, 1899 and surveyed damaged harbour at Watchet, but his recommendations not taken up; SAS;
1850 Wooden viaduct, Frome, Som; FSYB 3 45-54; dem;
1859-62 West Somerset Railway, from Taunton to Watchet, stations at Norton Fitzwarren (1871), Bishops Lydeard, Crowcombe Heathfield, Stogumber, Williton, Doniford Halt, and Watchet, Initial meetings and plans by Brunel 1856, Act 1857, engineer George Furness of London acc to wikipedia; extended to Minehead in 1872-4, extension stations at Washford, Blue Anchor, Dunster, and Minehead probably not designed by Brereton;
BRETT, BOYD & BOSANQUET Architects see Lionel Brett
BRETT, LIONEL GORDON BALIOL 4th Viscount Esher from 1963, 1913-2004, architect; brief partner with Clough Williams-Ellis, with Kenneth Boyd in 1949 for Hatfield new town, Brett, Boyd & Bosanquet (BB&B), later Brett & Pollen (B&P); distinguished as planner;
1948-9 minor alts Hadspen House, Som, for Bratton School; papers at house, inf R Dunning, Clough Williams-Ellis qv previously involved;
c1956-8 adds Downside School, Som, inc theatre, gym, and two school houses; BB&B; SNB;
1966 Library, Downside Abbey, Som; Francis Pollen; SNB;
1970 Guest wing,Downside Abbey,Som; SNB; B&P;
BRETTINGHAM, MATTHEW 1699-1769 . His account book 1747-64 mentions £50 for ‘drawings and attending Lord Poulett’s business at Hinton and in Town’, ie possible work for 2nd Earl Poulett at Hinton House, Hinton St George, Som. HC. VCH 4 42-3: possibly did additions ‘that connected the detached blocks to the house and lesser buildings to their east which formed on the N a kitchen court and on the S a stable court’. Also possibly work inside remodelling first floor of early C17 range and creation of new main staircase in former open court E of medieval hall; nothing specific; Colin Winn, The Pouletts of Hinton St George, 1995, 127.
BREWER, SMITH & BREWER The Lions, West Quay, Bridgwater. Branch of Bournemouth practice. Took over a practice opened in Langport 1966 moved Bridgwater 1980. Offices also London SW20 and Dubai. Successor to famous early C20 Smith & Brewer partnership AD Smith 1866-1933 and CC Brewer 1871-1918 started 1895, des Mary Ward Centre, London 1896, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 1910, Heals store, Tottenham Ct Rd 1916; Smith continued in practice until 1933; Ken Smith in Bridgwater c1980
1978 Fitzroy House, Bath; HDA 1978;
1990ff Blackbrook Park offices, Taunton, Som; phase 1 complete 2000, phase 2 began 2001, for Somerfield Developments; Builder & Engineer Aug 2003; includes NHS SW Region offices;
200? Berkely Centre office block, Hinkley Point B nuclear power station, Som, inc refurb of old canteen, labs, gatehouse etc for Magnox Electric
200? Clarks Shopping Village, Street, Som, discount shopping partly based in old Clarks factory buildings;
200? SW regional control centre for fire service, Blackbrook Park, Taunton, Som; never occupied due to change in government policy;
200? Foundation House, Wellsprings, Taunton, Som, for NHS foundation Trust;
200? rest Lyngford House, Taunton, Som for National Health Trust;
BREWER, JOHN Mason 1788-1870; SAS;
1828 repairs Landacre Bridge, Withypool, Som; SAS;
BREWER, ROBERT Mason;
1725 rebuilt S porch, Brushford ch with John Sulley; SAS;
BREWSTER, E.T. Architect; ??
2008 drawing-room, Rectory, Combe Hay, Som ; Biggs contractor website; £717K; neo-Georgian single-storey addition;
BRICE, JOHN Builder
1872 alts Heatherton Grange (former Black Lion), Bradford on Tone, Som, for AW Adair; DD/DP/72/3; statement of costs;
BRIDGEMAN, NORMAN GEORGE Architect, Torquay, Devon FRIBA born 1869; ?related to WG Bridgman of Torquay qv fl 1912-13;
(1912 business premises, Swindon, Wilts; WwinA 1926);
1914 holiday house, Weston s Mare, Som; WwinA 1926;
BRIDGEMAN, ROBERT Sculptor, Quonians Lane, Lichfield, Staffs, 1844-1918, by 1877 working as stonemason on Lichfield cathedral; set up firm 1879, presented 1910 statue of Edward VII to Lichfield; retired c1911, before 1912 firm was Robert Bridgeman & Son with Joseph Bridgeman, then Bridgeman & Sons to 1968 then Linford-Bridgeman to 2011; O Keyte, centenary history 1878-1978;
1892 font, St Andrew ch, Rowbarton, Taunton; wrongly said to be 1912 by Messrs Bridgeman in SSW; designed by him or by architect E Buckle qv? TC 19.7.93 does not mention maker;
BRIDGES, JAMES Architect, The Backs, Bristol; practice 1757-63; HC; possibly came from America; left Bristol in 1763;
(1757-68 Bristol Bridge; designs 1757; pamphlet won him commission, sale of materials of houses on old bridge BC 18.6.61; begun 1762 completed 1768, exec by Thomas Paty qv; T: BC 18.2.62;
(1758-61 reblt St Werburgh ch, Bristol
(c1759 Royal Fort, Bristol for T Tyndall HC;
(1760 rebuilt St Nicholas ch Bristol work began 1762 completed 1769 by Thomas Paty qv)
1762 named in advert for sale of goods of Isaac Cabell, apothecary, Bath, bankrupt?; creditors enquire of Mr Glazby Bath or Mr Bridges, architect Bristol;
BRIDGMAN, H. H. Architect, London. ?of Bridgman & Bridgman cf WG Bridgman. Selected to stand as Liberal candidate for Taunton; WG 1.7.1892;
BRIDGMAN, W. G. Torquay ?related to NG Bridgeman of Torquay;
(1912 adds Henbury Court, Bristol;
(1913 Royal Colonial Inst, Whiteladies Rd, Clifton, Bristol; des 1913 opened 1921, by Bridgman & Bridgman; SNB;
BRIGDEN, EDWARD Bristol. Employed in 1820s to superintend bldng of Smirke's churches at Chatham and Bristol, in Bristol dirs 1825-34 (HC), then surveyor to Dowlais Iron Co, Glam. First treasurer of the S Wales Institute of Engineers 1857. But an Edward Brigden advertises as intending to practice as architect, civil engineer and surveyor in Chippenham Wilts, Devizes & Wilts Gazette 22.9.1842;
(1824 Dr Whites Hospital Temple St, Bristol; dem; HC;
1822-7 nave, Easton in Gordano ch, Som; Gomme; 1827 HC; dem 1871, replaced by new nave by E Christian SNB; ICBS plans 1818-21 are by Jones & Willcox and John Gardiner qqv;
(1858 Penydarren ch, Glam; Orrin Victorian churches in Glamorgan, 134; Br 29.5.58; Cardiff & Merthyr Guardian 22.5.58; £900; contr John Gabe Merthyr. Brigden submitted two des, cheaper one chosen; enl 1904 by EM Bruce Vaughan;
(1868-9 alts St David ch, Merthyr Tydfil, Glam; Orrin 104; £700; Cardiff & Merthyr Guardian 30.1.69; chancel enl, organ chamber).
BRILL, ADAM 90 The Butts, Frome. Managing director AB Architectural Design est 2006; Adam Brill previously worked for NVB ?not as architect;
2006 rest Ivy Farm, West Yatton, Wilts;
2008 repairs Old Rectory, Marston Bigot, Som;
2008 conv outbuildings, Brookover Farm, where?; livery stables etc;
2009 new house, Spring Rd, Frome, Som;
2009 'eco-homes, Innox Hill, Frome, Som;
2011 int alts Morecambe House, axbridge, Som;
(2012 won comp for housing estate and community centre, Plaistow, Essex, for Peabody Trust;
(2011-12 rest Avonview House, Trowbidge, Wilts website;
2012 New buildings, The Lighthouse, The Grange, Tytherington, Som; Melhuish & Saunders bldrs, Design & Build contract, for hall, swimming-pool and treatment block in three linked boarded bldngs;
BRIMBLE LEA & PARTNERS Architects, Gillingham, Dorset, est 1985. John Lea, architect.
20?? Equestrian stud in Som; HHP builders of Wincanton; trad style stable court with arched entry;
(1992 Visitor centre, Stourhead, Wilts; half-hipped barn/stable type; BD Dec 1993;
BRINDLEY, JAMES Canal engineer 1716-72. lived at Leek, Staffs. Bridgewater Canal opened 1761.
1769 commissioned to report on canal from Taunton to Exeter, JB sent Robert Whitworth to do survey; proposed route from Topsham, Cullompton, Tiverton, Wellington, Taunton; unex; H Harris The Grand Western Canal; BDRP 5;
BRINKWORTH, ROBERT E. Chippenham. Architect, FSI
1899 2nd pr School of Science & Art, Frome, Som BN 22.9.99;
(1906 Secondary School, Devizes ill Archiseek;
BRISCOE, BARRIE Architect, Penzance; trained in US, worked with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; moved to Cornwall in 1974, died 2010;
2003 House, Combe Ave, Portishead, Som; adjacent No 43; North Somerset planning 03/P/3196/RM;
BRISTOL TEAM PRACTICE see also APG
1988 Shires Yard development, Broad St, Bath; MF;
BRISTOW, IAN
198? Redec Pump Room, Bath, Som; SNB;
BRITTAIN HADLEY ROSE PARTNERSHIP Taunton and Wellington, surveyors and architects. ?offshoot of Brittain Hadley surveyors, Voysey House, Barley Mow Passage, Chiswick, London; - Rose had children at Wellington School WS 173;
1991 extra floor, Office, Wellington School, Som; proj archt Mary Ewing; WS 173;
BRITTON, JAMES CAPEL Prospect Villa, Saltford, Som, architect; 1889 Kelly dir;
BROAD, JOHN Brickmaker, Bridgwater, see William Savage Akerman;
BROCK, WILLIAM Temple Meads Steam Joinery works, Bristol. Contractor
1863 contractor rest of Stogursey ch, Som; John Norton archt; ch guide;
1870 built stations, Yatton, Cheddar & Wells branch, B&E Railway, 'Cheddar Valley Line' from Wells to Yatton, Francis Fox engineer; WJ 7.8.69; J&W Pickering contractors, stations built by Brock of Bristol; SAS; opened to Cheddar 1869, Cheddar Station opened 10.5.70; ?built goods sheds at Tucker St, Wells, and at Cheddar; Biddle 2003 171; stations Wells Tucker St (built earlier for East Somerset Railway), Wookey, Lodge Hill, Draycott, Cheddar (survives), Axbridge (survives), Winscombe (dem exc platforms), Sandford & Backwell (survives), Congresbury (dem exc platforms);
BRODIE, CHARLES HENRY Architect, FRIBA 15 Bishopsgate, London. Born 1859, 1860-1943, SAS; surveyor to National Provincial Bank for 20 years, did branches at Ashton Gate Bristol, Wellington Som and Swindon, Wilts; WWinA 1926
19?? National Provincial Bank, Fore St, Wellington; there by 1913; red brick neo Georgian; now Barclays;
1912 National Provincial Bank, 55 North St, Taunton, Som, ill BN 113 1917 184; gr floor unpolished Cornish granite, Box Ground above; £4200; exhibited RA; channelled rustication, urns; apparently built in 1912 though illustrated in 1917?
(1914 National Provincial Bank, 18 Wood St, Swindon, Wilts; plans WRO)
(c1919-20 attr National Provincial Bank, 86 Bedminster Parade, Bristol)
BROMLEY, ANDREW. Architect Folkestone Kent 1859-c1915, in practice with John Cowell (1855-88) who died young;
1902 add Anchor Hotel, Porlock Weir, Som; plans SRO D/R/dul/24/1/4;
Large extension on left with new smoking-room and sitting-room;
BROOKES, PAUL The Works, Barnes, London. Paul Brookes Architects, founded 1983.
2007 The Observatory, Martlet Rd, Minehead, Som, private ho ill in SL Jan 2012; C20index says by Bryden Wood Ltd;
BROOKS, STEPHEN Architect, Bath. Inf website;
2001 house Beech Ave, Claverton Down, Bath;
2003 dance and drama studio, St Gregory RC School, Bath, 2003 and entrance pavilion 2004;
20?? conversion of Old School, Combe Down, Bath; to house;
(2005 conv of Mounton House, Chepstow, Mon, to apartments inc conv of stables;
(2007 children's centre, Corsham Primary School, wilts; also extension for 4 classrooms 2008;
(2008-9 adds Turleigh House Turleigh, Wilts glazed link to barn;
(2010-11 No. 11A Wine St, Bradford on Avon Wilts for Fiona Hasler; inf Fiona Hasler;
(2011 Pomphrey Hill Sports Pavilion, Mangotsfield, Glos;
2012 Bath Fertility Centre, Peasedown St John, Som;
2014? ext Weston General Hospital, Weston s Mare with Hallett Pollard Hilliar architects;
BROWN & BARROW Architects, 12 Norfolk St, Strand, London. Alexander Burnett Brown 1867-1942 began practice 1893, joined 1895 by Ernest Robert Barrow 1869-1948, partnership to 1930; EA Pearce b1870 worked for them 1889-96; RIBA directory;
(1898 House at Weybridge, Surrey, for G Sturt; ill BN 16.12.98;
1908 Aldersmead, Alcombe, Minehead, Som, for Hartley Stanley Esq; owned in 1920s by 2nd Earl of Cromer, gardens laid out 1923 for Lady Cromer; inf OD; similar house added to the W in 1920s for Lord Cromer;
BROWN & HOLE Builders, Dunster;
1876 School, Timberscombe, Som; D/P/timb/18/7/1;
BROWN BROS. Builders, Frome see F & G Brown;
BROWN, CHARLES Architect 1 Chamberlain St Wells; 1842-1912, Surveyor to Wells City Council 1884-1912; Kelly 1889; Kelly 1906; SAS;
1884 attrib two S ranges, Bricke's Almshouses, St Cuthbert St, Wells; SNB;
c1887-8 rebuilt Llewellyn's Almshouses, Priest's Row, Wells, Som; SNB; SAS 1887-8;
1887 rebuilt British School The Hayes, Cheddar, Som; WG 30.9.87; school 1872 by John Bevan Sr qv;
1905-7 alts TH, Wells, Som; added secondary staircases; SNB;
BROWN, DUNCAN THOMAS GEORGE Surveyor, 1880-1953, Surveyor to Shepton Mallet UDC 1927 onward; SAS;
BROWN, F. Architect Frome, possibly Frederick P Brown +1891;
(1892 Reading room, Corsley Heath, Wilts by F Brown architect, FH Porter Warminster builder; I Slocombe, Wilts Village Reading Rooms does not name architect; Wilts Times 13.1.94
BROWN, F. & G. Frome Builders. Frederick Parfitt Brown 1825-91 and William George Brown 1827-1911 sons of William Brown qv of Willow Vale Frome 1795-1861; Messrs Brown at same period may be William Brown & Son qv; F&G Brown . were known as Brown Bros, bankrupt 1882. Frederick P Brown qv retired to Selwood House, Somerton. W G Brown practised as architect and surveyor, briefly with son Henry George Brown (1857-1916) who emigrated to South Africa in 1880; SAS; see also WG Brown;
1861-6 builders rest St John ch, Frome, CE Giles architect; SAS;
1862 alts Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, Som, WJ Stent qv architect; SAS; rearranged interior, floor raised, repewed, schoolroom and vestry remodelled and new classrooms added; SAS; FT 12.3.62;
1863 builders, curate's residence, Gaer Hill, Som; SAS from WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911
1863 builders, St Mary's school and vicarage, Frome SAS from WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911
1865 E window, Witham Friary ch, Som; stonework by Messrs Brown, stained glass by Horwood Bros in memory Rev CGR Festing; FT15.11.65; WG 24.11.65; BC 16.11.65;
1866 estimate re damage Woodlands ch, Som caused by falling tree Longleat 14/3 27/0 6/4/1866; but cf payment to F&G Brown qv;
(1862-4 builders rest Lyneham ch, Wilts; W Butterfield architect; DWG 21.4.64 reopened;
1865 E window, Witham Friary ch, Som; stonework by Messrs Brown, stained glass by Horwood Bros in memory Rev CGR Festing; Frome Times15.11.65; WG 24.11.65; could be William Brown & Sons;
1866 repairs Woodlands ch, Som; Longleat 14/3 2/12 29/9/59 accounts 1859-68, repair damage caused by falling tree;
1866c Toll house, Murty crossroads, Frome; SAS from WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911
1867 villa, Chantry, Som; D/D/SVN/6/6, unidentified; SAS;
1867-8 work Christ Church, Christchurch Street West, Frome, replacement of pews with new seating, enlargement of the chancel, and new choir seats, 1868 reseating SNB, ICBS; ?by WG Brown;
1870-1 builders chancel and vestry, Woodlands ch, Som; architect CE Giles qv; spec and agreement Longleat 14/3 27/0 01/4/1869; WG 8.4.70;
1872 minor works Workhouse, Frome, SAS;
1872 Alts and cottage, Whatley parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/192;
1872-3 builders rest Beckington ch, Som; JP St Aubyn architect; Br 12.7.73;
1873-4 building work, Orchardleigh estate, Som, also 1876, 1878, SAS from WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911
1875-6 builders rest Witham Friary ch, Som; William White architect, SAS from WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911
1875-80 Wallbridge Mills, Frome and 1882, tucking shop and offices 1886-7; SAS from WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911
1876 rest Tellisford, Som, oran chamber, lectern, heating, DD/SVN/2/15; SAS from WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911
1877 builders nave, Carmelite church, Chamberlain St, Wells; CF Hansom architect; Brown Bros builders A 19.178; RC ch of St Joseph & St Teresa;
1877-8 repairs Mells ch, Som, DD/SVN/2/15, drawings by HG Brown; SAS
1878 builders, repairs B chapel, Beckington, som by W & WH Hardick architects; pews replaced; FT 3.7.78;
1880-1 builders nave and aisles East Woodlands ch, Som; JL Pearson architect possibly to 1869 plans by CE Giles; Longleat letter book 14/3 33/0 16/1/1877 has letters 1879-81 including re repairs to spire; 14/3 27/0 1/1/1870 has corresp 1879-81, plans, agreement 1879; Messrs Brown of Frome contractors; Br 1880 39 340; named as F&GB in Longleat 14/3 27/0 1/1/1870: correspondence, agreement, spec and plans 1879-81;
Also alts Marston Bigot ch, Som; SAS from WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911, access to ringing loft in W loft, new stair, removal of organ from N tr to priest's vestry, N transept fitted as Boyle pew;
BROWN, FREDERICK PARFITT. Builder Frome, 1825-91 see F&G Brown, builders, bankrupt 1882, retired to Selwood House, Somerton; obituary SS 14.4.91; SAS has following under Frederick Brown, mainly from obituary of his brother WG Brown qv in SS 14.7.1911; ?mostly by WG Brown;
1886-7 Christ Church, Christchurch Street West, Frome, repairs, reseating, installed new heating apparatus, and two new windows in S aisle given by Harry Hems, ICBS; SCH D/D/Cf/1896/4; Gill,The Story of Christ Church Frome, n.d., 19 and 21
1887 St John, Frome, renovation of the Bennett Memorial in the churchyard for William Venn Gough, 1887, added a plinth as a memorial to the cross the Revd. Bennett had brought from St Barnabas, Pimlico, London, WG 16.9.87; BN 25.11.87, ill; obit SS 14.4.91
1889 All Saints, Rodden, reroofing the nave and entrance porch with F.J. Seward and John Vallis, obit;
1889-90 Lindenfels, Robins Lane, Frome, SS 24.7.11;
1889-90 Holly Bank, Christchurch Street, Frome, SS 24.7.11;
1890-5 Norton Villa, Christchurch Street, Frome, 1890-95 SS 24.7.11;
1890-5 St Martin’s and Waverly, Park Road, Frome, SS 24.7.11
(1892 Reading room, Corsley Heath, Wilts by F Brown architect, FH Porter Warminster builder; I Slocombe, Wilts Village Reading Rooms does not name architect; Wilts Times 13.1.94
BROWN, HAROLD Borough Surveyor Weston s Mare;
1923-7 Winter Gardens, Weston s Mare, Som with TH Mawson; SNB;
1927 adds TH, Weston s Mare, Som, with Fry, Paterson & Jones qv; SNB;
BROWN, HENRY GEORGE, Architect Frome son of William George Brown qv worked briefly in family firm F&G Brown qv before emigrating to S Africa in 1880 and starting practice in Grahamstown SAS;
1877-8 repairs Mells ch, Som, DD/SVN/2/15, by F&G Brown, drawings by HG Brown; SAS;
BROWN, JOHN Norwich. Surveyor of Norwich Cathedral. 1805-76; Born Yarmouth, trained with William Brown in Ipswich, started in London, moved to Norwich, County Surveyor Norfolk 1836; took John Colson 1820-95 into partnership c1842-5 in London; Colson then practiced from Winchester;
(1835-6 St Michael ch, Stamford, Lincs; HC;
(1839 Shire Hall, Swaffham, Norfolk; HC;
1841-6 St John ch, Blake Place, Eastover, Bridgwater, Som; BoE S; ICBS 1843-4; ?with John Colson; FS June 1841, consecr 17.8.1846; RL: not completed to JB design as spire on top of tower proposed thought too heavy; paid for by Rev Moore Capes vicar of Shipton Moyne, who went over to Rome 1846.
Attrib, vicarage, Blake Place, Bridgwater 1845, dem 1988; SAS;
BROWN, LANCELOT Landscape architect; ‘Capability’ Brown; 1716-83; born and started in Northumberland moved south 1739. Head gardener at Stowe 1741 met William Kent. Set up on own 1749. Architect Croome Court 1751-2 and numerous works thereafter often exec by Henry Holland Sr, and worked with Henry Holland Jr from 1771, who m Brown’s daughter 1773. cf D Stroud, Capability Brown, 1975.
(1760-6 alts Corsham Court, Wilts; bath-house 1761;
1761-5 landscape, Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Som; SNB; HGS 141-2 for Joseph Langton; letter of 29.3.61 referes to S Leadbetter qv as architect and ‘ground about it, laid out by Mr Browne’;
1763 Alts Prior Park landscape, Bath for Ralph Allen, removed cascade from lakes; MF; HGS 99; paid £60 for plans, accnt not settled until Allen’s death in 1764;
1765 Column, Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Som; BoE S; for William Pitt; CL 10.9.1987; finished by 1767, Philip Pear of Curry Rivel builder, RL2 63; Follies J 7 2007 41-55; John Ford of Bath mason; garden buildings at Burton Pynsent unlikely to be by Brown, Pitt paid Brown’s surveyor £10 in 1774 probably for minor work??? Column design altered by W Pitt substituting urn for statue of Gratitude. HGS 108, suggests that William Pitt the elder was designing as praised for his architectural skill in 1755 by brother in law Earl Temple, and in 1749 called him ‘master of the lakemaker and the lake’ implying involved with lake at Stowe;
1767-8 laid out park at Kelston Park, Som, for Sir Caesar Hawkins; HGS 126; LB visited in 1767 and was paid £500;
(1768 unex alts Charlton Park, Wilts; WBR;)
BROWN, W. B.
1961 Woolworth store, Stall St, Bath; MF;
BROWN, WILLIAM. Builder, Pilly Vale, Frome. Born Somerton, 1795-1861 established building business at 4 Willow (Pilly) Vale, Frome with yard in King Street; Somerset 1830 dir. Older son James Brown 1817-86 by first marriage was carpenter, two sons by second marriage were Frederick Parfitt Brown 1825-91 and William George Brown 1827-1911 builders. Firm William Brown & Sons qv, after William's death firm was Messrs Brown, Brown Bros, or F&G Brown was bankrupt 1882, then WG Brown practised as architect, briefly with son Henry George Brown 1857-1916 who emigrated to S Africa in 1880 and practised in Grahamstown;
1828 Fire House, Christchurch St West, Frome, Som; SAS; Frome St John archives;
1835 Vicarage, Buckland Dinham, Som, inf David Brown; SAS; SNB says later C17 farmhouse updated in Tudor Gothic 1836-9
1835 estimate for building School, Woodlands, Som; Longleat Archives 14/3 2/12 11/4/1808; estimate and spec 32/0 2/6/1835 by WB of Pilley Hill Frome in accordance with plans by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville qv;
1836-9 builder, vicarage, Marston Bigot, Som, Edward Davis architect; SAS;
1836-9 builder, Holy Trinity ch, Frome by H.E. Goodridge qv; SAS;
1837-8 builder Workhouse, Weymouth Rd, Frome plans by S Kempthorne qv; SAS;
1837 Nos 16-17 Bath St, Frome adapted for Board of Guardians; SAS;
1840 house, Vicarage St, Frome, SAS, inf David Brown;
1842 repair roof School, East Woodlands, Som; Longleat 14/3/ 32/0 30/9/1842 instruction from steward Robert Robertson; payment also for repairs at church and school to James George 1841-2 2/0 8/12/1841;
1843-6 assisted GG Scott at Chantry ch, Som; SNB; probably William Brown
(1844 builder Dilton Marsh ch, Wilts; TH Wyatt architect; DWG 3.10.44 consec;
1845-53 repairs to School and Church, East Woodlands, Som, Longleat 14/3/ 2/12 14/1/1840; including replacing stone tiles on school with slates 1845, repairs to church roof 1848, and minor repairs school 1853;
1846 rest S chapel roof, Mells ch, Som; WG Brown, SNB, error for William Brown
(1847 builder, Kingston Deverill ch, Wilts; Manners & Gill architects; DWG 2.9.47 consecrated, Mr Brown of Frome;
1848 repairs church roof, Woodlands ch, Som; 1848-53 SAS, carpentry works 1860; Longleat archives;
1848-50 refurnished Berkley ch, Som, removed side galleries, enclosed pews, reseating, altar, rails, desk, pulpit; SAS;
1849-51 builder, rest Norton St Philip ch, GG Scott architect; SAS; 1847-50 SNB; Daily News 17.9.50;
1853 toilets, East Woodlands school, Som; plans Longleat 14/3 32/10 9/6/1853;
1853-4 rest Tellisford ch, Som; SAS; chancel arch 1854 SNB;
1855 builder St John's infant school, Frome Thomas Cundy architect WJ 13.10.55; SAS;
1855-6 repairs St John ch, Frome, SAS; church archives;
BROWN (WILLIAM) & SONS, Frome. William Brown qv +1861 and his two sons Frederick Parfitt Brown qv and William George Brown qv; after 1861 firm was F & G Brown qqv, bankrupt 1882; Messrs Brown may be either;
(1856 Tender for building Wiltshire Reformatory, Warminster, Wilts, TH Wyatt architect, not accepted; Browne & Son, Frome, WBR2)
1857-8 contractor alterations Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som; architect CE Davis, ‘Brown, Frome’; £3455; Br 1857 620;
1857-8 contractors Gaer Hill ch, Som, by William Butterfield qv;
1858 restored chancel, Beckington ch, Som, SAS, not in SNB; new tile floor;
1859-60 rest nave Laverton ch, Som, 1859 by WG Brown SNB ?error, by WB&Sons SAS, works inspected by GG Scott; new fittings;
1860 carpentry, East Woodlands ch, Som; inc new oak credence table; Longleat 14/3 2/12 29/9/1858 accounts;
1860 builders Lamb Brewery, Frome, William Hardick qv architect, Warminster; attributed F&G Brown SAS; Longleat archives;
1860 Welshmill Villa, Frome, SAS; attributed WG Brown obituary SS 24.7.1911
1860 alts and adds Chalcot House, Frome from WG Brown obit SS 24.7.1911; ?Chalcot House, Dilton Marsh, Wilts; SAS
1860 Critchill Gate toll-house, Nunney, Som; attrib WG Brown in his obituary SS 24.7.1911
1861 Cottles Oak toll house, Frome, Som; attrib WG Brown in his obituary SS 24.7.1911
1861 alts Gloucester Farmhouse, Lullington, Som, for W Duckworth, by WB & Sons, SNB; attrib WG Brown in his obituary SS 24.7.1911
BROWN, WILLIAM GEORGE Architect & surveyor, Frome, 1827-1911; 7 Weymouth Rd Frome Kelly 1889; St Martins, Park Road, Frome; Kelly 1906; son of William Brown +1861 qv, with brother Frederick Parfitt Brown (1825-91) in William Brown & Sons, then F & G Brown qv, bankrupt 1882, then WG Brown on own as architect, briefly with son Henry George Brown 1857-1916 who emigrated to South Africa in 1880 and practised in Grahamstown; WG Brown known as George Brown? Obituary SS 24.7.11; SAS; works from 1861-82 perhaps by F&G Brown qv unless WGB did all the design side;
1867-8 work Christ Church, Christchurch Street West, Frome, replacement of pews with new seating, enlargement of the chancel, and new choir seats, 1868 reseating SNB, ICBS; stone pulpit, 1883; new vestries, transepts, and the extension of the church westwards, 1896-97, builder Charles Barnes of Frome, ICBS; D/D/cf/1896/4; obit; Gill,The Story of Christ Church Frome, n.d., 19 and 21
1867 farmhouse, Chantry, possibly unexecuted, Frome Museum archives]
1868-70 alts and adds, Critchell Lodge, Frome, obit;
1878-80 builder rest Mells ch, Som Henry Woodyer architect, BC 2.12.80
1880-1 new frontage, Frome Building Society, Frome, obit;
1883 stone pulpit, Christ Church, Frome; SAS;
1883 new assembly hall, Bridge Barton, Frome,obit;
1884 tower repairs, Nunney ch repairs and reroofing, FT 5.3.84
1884-5 cottages, Standerwick Court, Som new cottages, etc., obit;
1885 alts No. 51 Keyford, Frome, new entrance and dining room, obit.
1886 Nos 53-5 Catherine Street, Frome, three dwelling houses and shops, tender Br 1.5.86; for Henry Beaven £930; obit;
1886 alts Keyford House, Frome, obit;
1886-7 adds Holy Trinity School (built 1840), Trinity Street, Frome, extended, Br 1.5.86 tender, new boys' school and classrooms £622; SNB 510;
1887-8 alts Keyford Asylum, Frome, and restoration of chapel, 1892, obit;
1887 ff adds Christ Church Schools, Frome, classroom, cloakrooms, and other additions, SNB 519; obit
1887 adds Singers Art Metal Works, Frome, new casting room and modelling shop; obit;
1889 All Saints, Rodden, restored, builders Frederick Brown with FJ Seward and John Vallis; SMJ 8.3.89
1891 alts Holy Trinity ch, Trinity Street, Frome, new seating, removal of side gallery, new heating, general restoration and decoration, D/D/Cf/1891/2
1892 conversion, Old Savings Bank,The Bridge, Frome, obit;
1892 correspondence with JL Pearson re obtaining copies of plans and spec for Woodlands ch, Som work done by Pearson in 1880-1 Longleat 14/3 27/0 1/1/1870;
1899 adds Station Maltings, Frome, also 1904; DD/SVN/1/37
1893 alts and adds Berkley House, Berkley, obit;
1893 two semi-detached houses, Weymouth Rd, Frome; obit
1894 WM chapel, West Woodlands, Som; obit;
1894 alts St John’s College, Portway, Frome, alterations, obit;
1895ff alts Workhouse, Weymouth Road, Frome, alterations, obit;
1895-6 alts Mansford and Baily’s Wine, Bath Street, Frome, alterations and additions, obit;
1896-7 adds Christ Church, Frome, new vestries, transepts, and extension westwards, builder Charles Barnes of Frome, ICBS; D/D/cf/1896/4; obit; 1897 alts S transept and chancel, D/D/cf 1896/4; unex; AFtext;
1896-7 Great Western Railway Hotel, Frome, obit;
1897-9 Rook Lane Chapel, Bath Street, Frome, alterations and additions; obit;
1898-9 North Hill, Frome, alterations to surgery, obit;
1898 Northcote, Frome, alterations, 1898 [obit]
1899 Henry Baily & Sons, Station Maltings, Frome, extensions and renovation, 1899 [information from David Brown]
1899-1900 adds Christ Church Schools, Frome, Som; SNB;
1902-4 alts Frome United Brewery, Badcox Street, Frome, alterations and enlargement, 1902-4, dem. 1958; obit; Miles, Perfectly Pure 29 illust.]
1902-4 alts Lamb Brewery, Christchurch Street East/Bath Street, Frome, new malthouse and alterations, 1902-4, closed 1957; obit; Miles, Perfectly Pure, 32-5 ill;
1904 adds Station Road Maltings, Frome, also 1899; SAS;
BROWNE & GILL Architects Bath. Kelly 1889; Thomas Browne 1839-98 and Wallace Gill, continued practice of John Elkington Gill +1874, first as Gill & Browne qv G&B 1874-9 qv then B&G 1879-99 when joined by Wallace Gill, acc to MF, then Gill & Morris 1899-1903 then Wallace Gill qv 1903-9. SAS says Gill & Browne partnership 1866-74, then Thomas Browne on own 1874-9, then Browne & Gill 1879-99 with Wallace Gill;
1879 alts St Michael chapel, St John’s Hospital, Bath; MF;
1880 adds La Sainte Union Convent, Pulteney Rd, Bath; MF;
1881 shopfront 17 Northgate St, Bath; MF; 1880-1 SNB;
1881 attr Ashwick vicarage, Som; AF 1st text;
1882 Nos 12-16 Sydney Buildings, Bath; AFtext;
1882 Evans & Owen store, Bartletts St, Bath; MF,
1885 adds St Stephens Vicarage, Richmond Rd, Bath; MF, orig Richmond Lodge c1814;
1885 adds Evans & Owen store, Bath; MF, ext to rear
1885 alts Barton House, Old King St, Bath; MF; for Jolly’s store;
1885 adds St John’s Vicarage, St John’s Rd Bath; MF; Brompton House, late C18, altered 1873 by JE Gill; SNB;
1886 organ chamber, Charlcombe ch, Som; SRO cf/1886/2;
1887-8 Boating pavilions, Rockcliffe Rd, Bath; MF;
1887-9 Terrace, Grove St, Bath; MF;
1889 alts St Michael ch, Northgate, Bath, removed galleries; MF; 1899 SNB;
1890 Top floor W wing, United Hospital, Beau St, Bath; MF;
1892 alts Evans & Owen store, Bartlett St, Bath, rebuilt front; MF;
1892 rebuilt 9-11 Union St, Bath as part of Colmers store; MF; 1891-2 AFtext;
1894 Christchurch Infants School, Julian Rd, Bath; MF;
1894 entrance, Northfield House, Richmond Rd, Bath; MF
1897-8 Chapel, United Hospital Bath; MF; 2nd chapel, original one 1849 by M&G altered 1864 probably by JE Gill; SNB says 1864 work by Wallace Gill, error;
1899 Crown Inn, Bathwick St, Bath; MF; looks like Wallace Gill
1899-1901 St Swithin Schools, Walcot St, Bath, looks like Wallace Gill;
Also organ chamber St Saviour ch, Larkhall, Bath, SRO folio 15 18??;
BROWNE & SON, builders Frome. ?error for William Brown & Sons
(1856 Tender for building Wiltshire Reformatory, Warminster, Wilts, TH Wyatt architect, not accepted; Browne & Son, Frome, WBR2)
BROWNE, THOMAS Bath 1839-98, partner of JE Gill +1874 as Gill & Browne (qv) 1874-9 and then with Gill’s son Wallace Gill as Browne & Gill (qv) 1879-99; MF; SAS says G&B 1866-74, then TB on own 1874-9;
1875 alts Vicarage, Rodney Stoke, Som D/D/Bbm/217
1876 alts Vicarage, Draycott, Som D/D/Bbm/214
1877 adds Ammerdown House, Kilmersdon, attrib. with additions including entrance porch, smoking room and extention of service wing, SNB 79-80
1876-81 Ashwick ch, som, rebuilt, B&G; D/D/Cf/1876/2; SNB 80 and may also have designed the Vicarage, 1881; 1876, Kelly 1906 c£3500 for Misses Gane & Davis of Oakhill; G&B, AF text;
1877 attrib adds Ammerdown Park, Som; attributed Manners & Gill in AF text, probably TB;
1878 chantry chapel, Wellow ch, Som rebuilt; SC notes; by TB, SNB;
BRUFORD, ROBERT Builder
1878 alts Nerrols Farm, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som with JH Warre; DD/DP/72/3;
BRUFORD, THOMAS Architect, surveyor. Milton, nr Weston s Mare
1845-8 alts & gallery Holy Trinity ch, Nailsea, Som; ICBS;
1856 Kingston Seymour parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/125; gabled; incs bits of old manor which burnt;
BRUGES TOZER. Bristol Est 1973 by James Bruges and Howard Tozer; James Bruges retired 1993, replaced by Nigel Honer. Practice moved to Beckington, Som in 1998. Article on return of colour in buildings in RIBAJ 92 Oct 1985 5-7 illustrates Trinity Place housing, Bristol; Maternity Clinic Southmead Hospital, Bristol; Soundwell Technical College; development in Taunton with octagonal turret anf cupola; & industrial unit for COSIRA, Wincanton, Som (not found). Also Old Malthouse and Duckpond Barn both in West Wilts; Lincoln St apartments, Swindon, Wilts; Threshold Centre, E Dorset; Plaza 21, Swindon, Wilts;
(1973 Unigate offices, Manvers St, Trowbridge, Wilts; their first work acc to RIBAJ Oct 1985)
(1974-9 Knightstone House, Portland St, Bristol; SNB)
(1979 self-built steel shed Baltic Wharf Bristol for David Abels boatyard; RIBAJ Oct 1985;
(1980 Orlebar Gardens, Bristol; HDA 1980)
(1985 Trinity Place housing, Bristol; HDA 1985)
1985? industrial unit, Wincanton, Som, for CoSIRA; ill RIBAJ Oct 85)
1985? development in Taunton, Som, coloured brick with arched windows and octag turret with cupola; ill RIBAJ Oct 1985 5-7;
19?? Safeway supermarket, Riverside, Taunton, Som; inf RL; now Morrison
(200? Snuff Court housing scheme and restoration, Devizes, Wilts;)
(200? Old Town Square, Swindon, Wilts; housing and restoration:
2000-1 conversion Wallbridge Mills, Frome, Som; RIBA Stansell award 2001; 2005-7 SNB;
1993-5 Avon & Somerset Police HQ, Portishead Down, Som; SNB;
(1996 Ecohome, Cumberland Basin, Bristol)
2010 prop Tea-gardens apartments, Combe Down, Bath, Som;
(2012-14 adds Church Farmhouse, Wingfield, Wilts; by Nigel Honer of BT; inf owner;
BRUNEL, ISAMBARD KINGDOM Engineer. 1806-59, son of French-born engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel +1849. Joined father's practice in 1823, appointed engineer to GWR 1833, also engineer to Bristol & Exeter Railway, resigned in 1844 over conflict of interest with GWR. Sir Daniel Gooch 1816-99 was locomotive superintendent GWR 1837-64 and may have designed buildings at Swindon with IKB; engineer to Bristol Docks, designed docks at Monkwearmouth 1831, Sunderland, Plymouth and Milford Haven, SAS;.
(1827ff Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol; 1836 GJL, completed 1864; wn competition 1829, appointed 1836, SAS;
1834-41 Engineer Great Western Railway, London to Bristol. Bristol Temple Meads Station and offices1839ff, also bridge over Avon 1839; Swindon Station 1841-2 and railway village 1843ff, railway workshops 1843ff; Chippenham Station 1841 and viaduct and Western Villas; Box Tunnel 1837-41; Bristol-Bath opened 31.8.40, Bath-London 1841. Bath has two bridges, castellated retaining wall and 20-arch viaduct under Jacobean station formerly with an overall roof ill JC Bourne lithograph 1846. Station built under - Frere qv c1840; there was also a goods station and engine shed; also retaining wall and bridge Sydney Gardens. Skew Bridge over Avon 1840 timber, dem; Twerton viaduct, Twerton Station, Twerton tunnel. Also Keynsham Station.
(1837 Royal Western Hotel, Bristol, with RS Pope qv; GJL)
1836-44 Engineer Bristol & Exeter Railway, Act 19.5.36. Work started 1837, line to Bridgwater opened 1.6.41, to Taunton May 1843, to Exeter May 1844. Most of work done by William Gravatt qv; stations Bristol Temple Meads, Bridgwater, Taunton, Exeter; Brunel resigned 1844 succeeded by Charles Hutton Gregory qv as engineer to B&E; 1838 Edwin Down architect involved as contractor for 6 ¾ m piece from Burnham to Bridgwater; Brunel engineer, John England assistant engineer; contractors included George Hennett, SAS;
1838-41 Somerset Bridge over Parrett, near Bridgwater, FS 30.7.39, single arch of Blue Lias, failed, replaced 1843 in timber; BLJ 20ff; contract Somerset Bridge 1838 awarded to – Bromhead, FS 30.7.39, stone from Langport, completed 1841, centring not removed until 1843 as arch rise only 12’ twice as flat as Maidenhead; replacement 1843 with laminated timbers lasted until 1904, BDRP 21-3; Bridgwater Station 1841-2; road bridge at Lyng; Outwood Bridge Durston, 1841-2 (1843 SAS); stuccoed single-storey (alts 1882 to platform and forecourt canopies); Taunton Station 1842 opened 1.7.41, had two stations on one side ?both or only up single storey 1-3-3-3-1 bays, up has gone, dem 1867, down remains with 2-st centre ill with Brunel type canopy replaced in 1867-8 when station given overall roof (dem) by Brock & Co Bristol SCG 22.1.68; Maggs Taunton Steam; also GWR district engineer's office, Taunton; Nynehead Bridge and lodge, 1843,
1839 consulted by Parrett Navigation Co (see William Garratt) over West Mooor reclamation; D/RA/3/3/5/1; SAS;
(1840 Bristol Temple Meads Station T BC 19.3.40 for building the engine house;
(1844-9 Entrance lock and swivel bridge, Cumberland Basin, Bristol)
1845-6 unbuilt Exeter to Yeovil railway SRO Q/RUP/189 and 213; with branch to Chard and to Bridport.
1845-53 Yeovil branch of Bristol & Exeter Railway. Act 31.7.45. Francis Fox qv engineer; from Durston on B&E, stations at Langport, Martock, to terminus at Hendford near Yeovil (dem). Minor halts at Durston, Athelney, Thorney etc; Langport was Tudor with flat canopies later called Langport West, Martock & Hendford similar (all dem); broad bridges over line near Montacute. 1847-9 built between Yeovil & Martock, Messrs Rigby contractors, work suspended to April 1852. Tenders 1.5.52 went to Hutchinson & Ritson qv £86K for 13m to Durston WFP 8.6.52 work in progress. BLJ 20ff; Tenders for four stations WFP 1.3.53, plans at ‘Office of the Engineer, in Temple Meads, Bristol’. Typical GWR single storey stations with flat canopies. Hendford ill BLJ 26-7. Report 23.11.53 by Lt Tyler RE mentions 5 under bridges, 18 over bridges, 10 of them timber. Viaducts over Tone and Parrett, Tone centre span 40’ on skew, Parrett 50’ on skew, carried on 3 beams 8’ apart the 2 exterior beams trussed and connected with wrought iron rods and cast iron shoes and centre supported by wrought iron tension rods attached to ends of 8” planking which forms floor of bridge. Opened 1.10.53, connecting rails laid ?1855 to Wilts Somerset & Weymouth at Yeovil Pen Mill to transport materials, report 24.9.56 by Fox to put into full use, £700, open 2.2.1857. Railway hotels at Durston & Martock.
1846 proposed branch Martock to Crewkerne via Stoke sub Hamdon, Chiselborough, West Chinnock, Merriott and Haselbury, Act 16.7.46 (unex).
1848 proposed branch Durston to Castle-Cary (unex).
1846 proposed Exeter line from Yeovil with branch to Bridport, unex; SRO Q/RUP/189 and 213, SAS;
1845-56 engineer, Wilts Somerset & Weymouth Railway, supported by GWR. 1st meeting 9.7.44, Wilts & Somerset Railway Brunel plans from Thingley Junction near Corsham, Wilts, to Salisbury with branches to Devizes, Bradford on Avon and mineral branch to Radstock, Som. Cost £650K. 1844 proposals to extend line from Frome to Yeovil to connect with B&E, then to continue to Weymouth, also prop ext Radstock to Timsbury and to GWR at Twerton, and to ext Bradford on Avon branch to Bathampton. Act 30.6.45; authorised broad-gauge. Meeting 1.8.45 IKB appointed engineer, with RJ Ward qv resident engineer for Thingley to Salisbury, also branches to Frome and Radstock. John Peniston qv resident engineer for Frome to Weymouth.1846 work begun between Westbury & Dorchester and various other sections. First part from Bristol main line at Thingley Junction to Westbury opened 5.9.48. Work then stopped, abandoned works at Castle Cary, Weymouth and Evershot. Westbury-Frome section opened 7.10.50. Frome Station designed in Brunel office by Thomas R Hannaford qv, built by Barnes & Turner; Frome Goods Shed by C Hellamn; Westbury-Warminster open Sept 1851. Contractors included Wythes & Tredwell, Dodson & Munday. WS&W company taken over by GWR 1851. Progress slow so locals started Frome Yeovil & Weymouth Railway to take over, Act 30.6.52, with Hutchinson contractor, this failed & GWR took over. New contract works Frome-Yeovil let Feb 1853. Oct 1853 advert WFP tenders Sparkford Hill to Longford Lane, Yeovil, Som, (awarded to Ritson), and Maiden Newton-Dorchester, and contract for Yeovil Station given Messrs Eassie (?Pen Mill station). Line opened to Yeovil 1.9.56, advert WFP. Fully Feb 1857, stations Witham, Bruton, Castle Cary, Sparkford, Marston Magna, Yeovil station buildings incomplete at inspection 9.8.56, opened to traffic 1.9.56. Line to Weymouth open WFP 20.1.57, contractors Ritson, also Hill, Richardson & Cooper (Holywell contract). Mention of Mr Ward engineer. Goods branch Frome-Radstock opened 14.11.54. Warminster-Salisbury open 30.6.56. Maiden Newton-Bridport 11.11.57. 1858-9 line doubled Yeovil-Evershot. Fire at Yeovil Pen Mill Station 18.4.59 whole offices on up side destroyed, Pullmans Weekly News 19.4.59, thereafter only one (up) platform used.
1846-57 WS&W branch from GWR line at Bathampton, Som, through Bradford on Avon to Trowbridge, Wilts, begun 1847 but company failed. Bradford on Avon Station built 1848 looks like Brunel design, Tudor. Work stopped, resumed when GWR bought company but announced that Bradford branch would be abandoned. Legal action 1853, appeal by GWR Nov 1853, forced GWR to reopen scheme, different alignment W of Bradford. Goods Station at Bradford (dem), Trowbridge Station & Goods Station 1848, also Melksham Station apparently built by plans of J Geddes and I Nolloth, draughtsmen for IKB (article in Wilts Times), dem c1970, design looks like Bradford on Avon; Bathampton Station built 1856; standard gauge 1874, track to Bathampton doubled 1885; timber viaduct over Avon at Bradford rebuilt as steel bridge 1878;
(1849 ?Station, Box, Wilts; George Myers was contractor; P Spencer-Silver, Pugin's Builder 1993, 209, from Judith Myers' scrapbook;
1854 plans to complete Wilts Somerset & Weymouth Railway and connection to Berks & Hants via Salisbury put to Parliament,
1855 involved with East Somerset Railway, branch line from WS&D at Witham Friary to Wells; IKB was a director in 1855; Witham to Shepton Mallet opened 9.11.58, extended to Wells 1862. Wainwright & Heard qv surveyors to company, RJ Ward qv resident engineer, Rowland Brotherhood of Chippenham contractor; station at Cranmore survives, next to HQ of East Somerset Railway revived steam line; Wells Station built by George Beaven; Railway Times 11.4.57 and 25.8.58, SAS; goods shed of 1862 from Wells partly re-erected at Cranmore as HQ 1993;
(1856 Station, Fisherton Street, Salisbury, Wilts; BoE; WBR; closed 1932; GWR branch from Warminster opened 30.6.56 originally planned by WS&W; station had an overall roof and single storey front to terminus. Remains, without roof, N of tracks opposite present Salisbury Station;
1856 Station, Bathampton, Som for finally opened branch to Bradford on Avon, opened 2.2.57;
1858 designs for new harbour, Watchet, Som; SAS; unex;
1859-62 West Somerset line from Norton Fitzwarren to Watchet, stations Bishops Lydeard, Crowcombe Heathfield, Stogumber, Williton and Watchet. Initial meetings 1856, Brunel drew up plans before he died. Opened 1862, Norton Fitzwarren station 1871, line ext to Minehead 1872-4; Brunel’s assistant RP Brereton mostly involved, but George Furness of London also named as engineer (maybe contractor);
1859 initial surveys, Devon & somerset Railway, Wiveliscombe to Barnstaple, built by Eugenius birch qv and Richard Hassard, opened 1873; C Maggs, Taunton to Barnstaple line, 2013; SAS;
BRYAN, HENRY DARE Bristol 1868-1909. Born Shrewsbury, but by 1871 family was near Axbridge, started practice in Bristol 1890, by 1901 living at Barton Regis, Glos, died young, practice continued by Silcock & Reay qqv; obit RIBAJ 12.6.09; Br 19.6.09; lived at Weston s Mare after 1898; died at Croome Cottage, Stoke Bishop; CFW Dening was a pupil;
(1891-9 houses, Downleaze, Sneyd Park, Bristol; Gomme;
1894 Queen Anne monument, Wellington Square, Minehead, Som; RL; designed the domed pavilion for the early C18 statue; also other buildings in Minehead, Som, unidentified, referred to in Builder obit, ASG; GJL; dated 1895;
(c1895 adds The Deanery, College Sq, Bristol; ASG; Gomme;
1896 Nos 3-6 Wadham St, Weston s Mare, Som; warehouse and coach house; SNB;
1897 Oaklands, Weston s Mare, Som; BA 25.6.97;
1898 1st pr Blue School, Wells, Som; RHH; blt 1898-1900 RL; ext 1913 SNB;
(1897 Westbury Park WM chapel & school, North View, Bristol; ASG; Gomme;
(1897-8 Council School, Greenmore Rd, Knowle, Bristol; SNB flats since 2001; Gomme; 1899 according to illustration in Br 5.9.1903;
(1897 Stables, Stoke Bishop, Bristol; BA 1897 47-50;
(1898 Music-room, 157 Whiteladies Rd, Bristol, for H Hayman £327 T: BJ 12.1.98)
(1898 offices Weeks & Son, Whiteladies Rd, Bristol, and van-shed; T: BN 12.1.98 £1139;
(1899 Lennards offices, Queens Rd, Bristol; ASG; bombed 1940; Lennards Store 83-100 Queens Rd, GJL;
(c1900 alts Henbury Court, Bristol, dem 1953; GJL;
1900 ?organ chamber and vestry,Wootton Courtenay ch, Som; SRO catalogue; £500 Kelly 1906; ?error, SRO D/D/cf/1900/16 plans new organ chamber & vestry by Edmund Buckle qv, £270.
1901 Clevedon Pumping Station, Som; ill British Architect in Industry; lodge dated 1901; complex complete 1904, SAS;
1901 The White House & Grange Fell, Abbotsleigh Rd, Leigh Woods, Bristol; Gomme; SNB;
(1901 prop St Martin ch, Knowle, Bristol ill Br 1.6.01;
(1902 No 23 Bridge St, Swindon, Wilts; WBR2;
(c1905 Wychbury, St Giles Hill, Winchester, Hants; GJL)
(1904 Mina Road Board School, Bristol;
(1905 Western C College, Bristol; Br 9.9.05; ASG; GJL;
(1907 Merrywood School, Bedminster, Bristol; Gomme;
1907-8 ?involvement with North Town Board Schools, Taunton, perhaps competition entry with FW Roberts qv; SAS;
(1909 alts Royal West of England Academy, Clifton, Bristol; with advice from G Oatley; executed by SS Reay; Gomme; 1911-13 SNB
Also schools at Clevedon, Som, and Exeter, Devon. Comp entry with FW Roberts qv for an elementary school, Taunton, acc to Roberts entry WWinA 1926, unidentified;
BRYANT, ABRAHAM
1838-9 WM chapel, North St, Castle Cary, Som; VCH; FS 26.6.38 opened 23.5.39; Robert Francis +1849 builder, SAS, new pews and rest 1873-4 by EO Francis reopened 3.4.74; vestry 1889 £125/12/0d; organ 1895; repairs 1898-9; Wesley Villa manse 1897; CCV 9 52; Castle Cary & Ansford 2002 105-6: organ 1875, vestry 1889, organ 1895, roof alts 1899; 1914 organ moved to new organ ch behind pulpit, choir stalls, two new vestries £550;
1844 added teachers apartment above 1840 National School, Castle Cary, Som; VCH; 1840 school ?blt by Robert Francis.
BRYDEN WOOD LTD London
2007 The Observatory, Martlet Rd, Minehead, Som; C20index; but cf Paul Brookes;
BRYDON, JOHN McKEAN. Architect, Scot, promoted Anglo-Baroque with Chelsea Town Hall, Chelsea College of Art, Government Buildings Parliament Sq;
1891-6 1st pr Bath Municipal Bldngs comp 1891; Br 61 405, 444, 471, 478-9; Br 62 301; Br 9.1.92 selected design for S addition; adds to Baldwin C18 Guildhall inc wings and dome, S wing for council offices, N wing Technical School; plasterwork inc roundels in Council Chamber by FE Schenck, wood-carving by William Aumonier 1839-1914, armorial glass by Kempe, chandelier by Spence; Brydon at Bath AR July-Dec 1905; work began 1893, S wing complete 1895, N wing 1896; curved corner friezes by GA Lawson; MF; screen to Orange Grove;
1893-7 adds Pump Room, Bath, Som; 1st pr 1893 RHH; Brydon at Bath AR July-Dec 1905; ill ext and int Br 9.6.94, also Br 25.5.95; 1895-7 built, add of domed Kursaal to John Palmer's C18 Pump Room, also colonnade around the Great Bath with eight statues of Emperors by GA Lawson ill Br 9.4.98; exh RA 1894;
1896 Alts Claverton Lodge, Bathwick Hill, Bath; MF; SNB;
1896 alts inc vestibule, Oakwood, Bathwick Hill, Bath; MF; SNB;
1896-7 alts Roman Baths, Bath, ill Br 23.9.97, Jacob Long & sons contrs, JH Smith clk of wks; marble cols for entrance from quarries of Goody, Cripps & Co Bristol, cols inside by Goad of Plymouth; colonnade around Roman Bath with eight statues Roman Emperors by GA Lawson in Hartham Park stone; ill Br 9.4.98;
1897 Kursaal, Roman Baths, Bath
1897-1900 Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, ext to Municipal Buildings; FS Br 23.9.97; statue of Queen by Andrea Lucchesi; ill Br 7.5.98, contrs Jacob Long & Sons;
1898 2nd pr Taunton TH, Som; ill archiseek; 1st pr Samson & Cottam, unex.
BTA Warminster; Barrie Taylor Architects founded 1970;
(2001 dining-hall, Port Regis school, Dorset)
(2002 Farington Music School, Port Regis, Dorset;
(20?? private residence, new built trad, Wilts; where?;
BUCKLE, EDMUND WILLIAM. Architect, 1857-1919, 3 Bedford Row London. Son of Canon George Buckle, vicar of Twerton, later canon of Wells, brother of George Earle Buckle 1854-1935 editor of the Times, biographer of Disraeli and editor of Queen Victoria's letters; Diocesan Architect in succession to JD Sedding, 1891 (TC 17.6.91), or c1886-1907, SAS; Honorary Architect to Wells Cathedral c1893-1902, also Surveyor to the Fabric 1899-1900; RL; frequent accounts of churches by him in PSANHS from annual society tours;
1885 alts Twerton ch, Bath, Som; BoE N has error from GR 1835-6 by E Buckler; SRO 1885/3; SNB 1885-6;
1886-90 rebuilt Archdeacon’s House, Wells, Som; RL, now Music School; c1888-9 SNB; opened TC 28.5.90 old archdeaconry bought by Theological College for restoration by EB with new house for principal cost £6000, Messrs Merrick qv builders; c1888-9 SNB;
1886 vestry, reredos St John ch, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO cf/1886/11; SNB has EB heightened porch c1888;
1888 measured plan Bishops Palace, Wells PSANHS 141 1998 93, SAS;
1888 adds St John ch, Weston, Bath, Som; D/D/cf/1888/4; ?error for St John ch, Weston s Mare, Som, where EB heightened porch c1888, according to SNB;
1889 adds Pill ch, Som; D/D/cf/1889/1;
1890 organ chamber, North Wootton ch, Som; SRO cf/1890/5;
1890-2 New Place, Bossington Lane, Porlock, Som, new house for Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey +1919, Chancellor of Diocese of Bath & Wells also of Exeter & Salisbury, KC, judge; RL; DoE; presumably designed the stables, stable cottage and thatched gatehouse; two-storey NE addition by Michael Waterhouse qv 1922;
1891 rest tower, Drayton ch, Som; SRO cf/1891/13; see also cf/1896/11
1891 rest churchyard cross, North Curry, Som; RL; C15 socket;
1892-3 enlarged St Andrew ch, Rowbarton, Taunton, Som; RL; D/D/ cf/1892/5; added outer S aisle and new chancel encasing church by JH Spencer qv; HJ Spiller qv builder; SAS; TC 19.7.93 estimate £3800 cost £4950 excluding gifts, choir vestry under chancel, new porch across W end, chancel separated from new SE chapel by openings with heavy beams over iron grille, stone pillars for new aisle; alabaster font with angles and carved inscriptions, on pedestal of green Irish marble and step of fossil Derbyshire; marble sanctuary paving, sanctuary steps Devonshire marble; 4-lt window given by Rev Griffin in memory his father Abel/ Noah/ Melchisedech/ Aaron; second S window was given in memory of Rev FJ Smith about 7 years ago, to be enlarged with new glass Old Testament figures; first S window was to Mrs Withington, Mr Withington has paid to have it enlarged for new window Eve/ Sarah/ Manoah's wife;
1893 reredos, Charlinch ch, Som; Kelly 1906 in memory of Lady Taunton with entombment in centre (after Francia) between figs of St Lawrence & St Renaldus painted by Miss ES Nevinson; sold, now private house; gbuilder HJ Spiller, SAS;
1893 rest Doverhay Manor, Porlock, Som, as reading-room for Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey of New Place; C15 small manor-house, now Dovery Museum;
1894 S transept and alts Barton St David ch, Som; ICBS; completion of restoration begun 1873 by TG Jackson; Kelly 1906; S transept rebuilt on old foundations, ?W window; tower restored by EWB 1908;
1894 add to bells, Crewkerne ch, Som; D/D/cf/1894/1;
1894 excavations Wells Cathedral, TC 21.3.94; Mr B, diocesan architect; with Sir WH St John Hope, to E of cloisters, SAS;
1894 report on state of roof, Nunney ch, no action taken until 1958; SAS;
1894-5 rest Luccombe ch, Som; D/D/cf/1895/2; new pews;
1895 vestry/organ ch, Sutton Montis ch, D/D/cf/1895/3; further works 1904-5;
1896 rebuilt chancel Nempnett Thrubwell ch, Som; SRO cf 1896/7;
1896 advice on repairs Glastonbury Abbey ruins BC 2.4.96 to Stanley Austin;
1896 reps roof, Drayton ch, Som; SRO cf 1896/11; see also 1891;
1897 restored Meare ch, all but tower; Kelly 1906; SAS;
1897-8 rebuilt nave and chancel, Stoke Pero ch, Som; for Sir TD Acland; Huish & Cooksley qv builders, reopened 18.10.98; buttresses of dressed stone from Langcombe Quarry, shoulders of Doulting, two new windows
1897 Jubilee Memorial, Queen Square, North Curry, Som; RL, built by Charles Trask qv;
1897 vestry, Twerton ch, Bath, Som; SRO cf 1897/11;
1897 reps Martock ch, Som, after gale of 3.4.97; ICBS;
1898-1901 rest Compton Dundon ch, Som; ICBS; SAS including chancel ceilings, reseating, D/D/cf/1900/5 restore and reseat;
1899 alts East Horrington ch, Som; SRO cf 1899/5;
1899 repairs Shipham ch, Som; SRO cf 1899/9; SNB;
1900 rebuilt tower, Henstridge ch, Som; RL; SRO cf/1899/7; replaced with taller one;
1900 organ-chamber and vestry, Wootton Courtenay ch, Som; D/Dcf/1900/16;
1901 reseating Stoke St Michael ch, Som; SRO cf/1901/27
1901 water-supply, Compton Dundon vicarage, Som; plans with owner; SRO;
1901 alts Porlock ch, Som, including new pulpit; Kelly 1906;
1901-4 chancel, Godney ch, Som; ICBS; removed vestry, added apse, removed gallery, reseated, RL; built 1903-4; ?also pulpit;
1902 vestry, Thornfalcon ch, Som; D/D/cf/1902/46
1902-3 underpin Vicarage, Lambrook St, Glastonbury, Som; DD/Bbm/
1902-4 rest Cudworth ch, Som; ICBS; underpinning, aisle roof; lychgate;
(1903 chancel, Oakford ch, Devon; BoE)
1904-5 rebuilt tower Sutton Montis ch, Som and reps; RL; further restoration inc nave ceiling 1912 by FB Bond;
1906-7 Ascension ch, Oldfield Park, Bath; E end 1911 by FB Bond;
1907 pews Haselbury Plucknett ch; D/D/cf/1907/222; reglaze S windows;
1907-8 repairs tower, Milborne Port ch, Som; Collins & Godfrey, Tewkesbury builders; £495/10/0d; bells rehung; McKay 186;
1909 proposed new church, West Lyncombe, Bath BC 30.9.09;
19?? rest N chantry chapel, Limington, Som, AF notes; SC notes;
BUCKLER, CHARLES ALBAN. Architect, 1824-1905, son of John Chessell Buckler 1793-1894, grandson of John Buckler 1770-1851 qv, worked with father as Buckler & Son; designed RC church Stroud 1857; RC priory Hampstead 1874, rebuilt Arundel Castle 1890-1903.
1845-51 Butleigh Court, Som; for Rev George Neville Grenville, Dean of Windsor and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, to replace house burnt after 1837; B&Son; SC by JC Buckler & CA Buckler; Eastlake appendix 73; derelict after 1952, re-roofed after 1977; ballroom and other adds 1856 by EB Lamb qv were demolished;
1852-3 rest West Pennard ch, Som; ICBS, Buckler & Son;
(1857 RC church, Stroud, Glos, by CB of Oxford, opened BN 1857 942;
BUCKLER, GEORGE 1811-86. Son of John Buckler, brother of John Chessell Buckler of Buckler family of architects;
1852-3 ?rest West Pennard ch, Som, with John Buckler; RL; Buckler & Son, ICBS but John Buckler retired c1830, Buckler & Son more likely to be JC Buckler and CA Buckler;
BUCKLER, JOHN 1770-1851. Born Isle of Wight, bailiff to Magdalen College Oxford c1789-1849, topographical artist, occasional architect. Father of John Chessell Buckler 1793-1894 and George Buckler 1811-86. HC. Designed memorials, gave up practice c1830. Huge collections of topographical drawings, all over Britain, including many of Somerset made for H Smyth Piggott & Bishop of Bath & Wells, in SANHS collection. Commissioned to draw buildings in Wilts for Sir R Colt Hoare, did 700 1803-13; Said to have been articled to CT Critchlow of Southwark (WBR) error for CT Cracklow (HC) with whom he served 7-year pupillage (SAS) and collaborated on speculative developments 1791-4 in Southwark, but JB did the designs. Exhibited at RA 1796-1849; worked with JC Buckler from 1810;
(1812 unex front for Spread Eagle, Stourton, Wilts, for Sir RC Hoare; WBR)
(1824-7 Halkin Castle, Flints; for 2nd Earl Grosvenor; RA 1827; BoW;
1827 summerhouse, Banwell Caves, Banwell, Som; for Bishop Laws ‘after a plan given by Buckler’ SNB; expanded to two-storey cottage ornee in 1833, ?by JCB; Britstol Times & Mirror 5.8.26 mentions a summerhouse ‘tastefully fitted out for the reception of visitors’;
(1826-9 Pool Park, Denbs; for 2nd Lord Bagot; RA 1830; early use of half-timber; Benjamin Gummow may have supervised, also a Mr Ward was involved to whom the 15 yr old John Jones ‘Talhaiarn’ was apprenticed 1825; BoW 263; derelict 2008)
(1827-8 Tower, Theale ch, Berks;
c1829 rest Woodspring Priory church, Som, for JH Smyth-Pigott; SNB;
1829-30 Abbey House, Glastonbury, Som; 1825-30 for John Fry Reeves, banker, exhibited RA 1830; also gateway to Chilkwell St. Builder F Merrick, SAS;
1834 restored piscina and sedilia, chapel, Bishops Palace, Wells, Som, SAS;
BUCKLER, JOHN CHESSELL. Architect l793-1894, son of John Buckler qv
with whom he worked as topographical artist until JB retired c1830. Exhibited RA 1810-44, retired 1860. Brother George (1811-86) was also architect. Son Charles Alban Buckler 1824-l905 may have worked with him as B&Son. CAB designed RC church Stroud 1858; RC priory Hampstead 1874, Arundel Castle 1890-1903.
(1826 Costessy Hall, Norfolk; )
1827 summerhouse, Banwell Caves, Banwell, Som; for Bishop Law; AFtext; or by JB; adds 1833 architect unknown;
(1835 2nd prize Houses of Parliament, London;)
1838 report on state of Dunster Priory ch, Som;
1845-51 Butleigh Court, Som; for Rev George Neville Grenville, Dean of Windsor and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, to replace house burnt after 1837; SC by JC Buckler & CA Buckler; Eastlake appendix 73; derelict after 1952, refoofed after 1977; ballroom and other adds 1856 by EB Lamb qv were demolished;
(1849-51 Library, Magdalen College, Oxford; built as Choristers’ Hall;
1849-51 rest Butleigh ch, Som, correspondence 1849, nave hammer-beam roof, (replaced in 1843-4 ?by Buckler), S transept 1850, N transept, choir stalls 1851, for Rev George Neville Grenville +1854; N aisle 1859 for Ralph Neville Grenville is by EB Lamb qv not Buckler;
1852-3 rest West Pennard ch, Som, with CA Buckler (B&Son); ICBS says JC and George Buckler; 1851-4 SAS;
(1854-6 adds Jesus College, Oxford,
(18?? rest Lincoln Cathedral.
1872 repairs Vicarage, St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Som; adds in half-timber, exec architect J H Spencer qv, builder Henry Davis qv; SRO Bbm/194; signature ?MJC Buckler;
BUCKNALL, BENJAMIN. Architect, Gloucester. l833-95. Translator of Viollet-le-Duc, designed Woodchester Park, near Stroud, key High Victorian Gothic mansion. He had two brothers as architect-builders in Swansea, Alfred and Robert, and himself had office there, moved there possibly. While in Swansea had brief partnership with a Mr Donnelly of Birmingham, but only a RC church in Warws resulted. 1877-8 emigrated to Algiers but wife and daughter remained in Swansea. Built numerous villas in Algiers, died in Algiers. Stephen Bucknall pamphlet. Met Alfred Stansell of Taunton when working on Taunton RC and used him for decorations at Pontargothi, together they visited Pierrefonds; RL;
(c1858ff Woodchester Park, Glos;
(1858-60 Abergavenny RC ch, Mon; BN 1858 96; Br 19.4.60; BoW, for John Baker Gabb; consecrated May 1860)
1858-60 St George RC ch, Billet St, Taunton, Som; consecrated June 1860; RL; similar to Abergavenny but W tower of Somerset type, built 1875, planned spire never built; Presbytery also by Bucknall shown in original lithograph; school 1870 possibly by him, partly demolished; Bucknall sued by Canon Mitchell of St George's Taunton WG 22.6.1866;
(1864 ext St David RC ch, Swansea, Glam; orig by CF Hansom 1847, nave lengthened poss to CFH design, timber dormers added and presbytery all by BB)
(1869-78 Holy Trinity ch, Pontargothi, Cms. Designed as private chapel for the Bath family of Alltyferin; begun 1869 but not completed until after a death in 1878; painted decoration by Alfred Stansell of Taunton;
(1871 new front with tower, RC ch, Monmouth, Mon; BoW 398; Kissack 2003; £530, £39 fee to BB)
BUCKNALL, JOHN FRANCIS Architect, Wells. RIBA. Specialist conservation of historic buildings, worked with Rodney Melville & Partners on Canons Ashby, Hanbury Hall, and Calke Abbey for NT. Worked on Villa Saraceno 1989-94 for Landmark Trust for which was architectural advisor 1989-94; 1994-8 associate with Caroe & Partners Wells; 1998 own practice; designed Gothic organ House of Lords based on Pugin sketch; ante-room Hoare’s Bank London (with Caroe & Partners); work at Selworthy ch;
2003 iron rails chancel arch, Winsham ch, Som; wrought iron made by JWG Blunt; notice in church.
2005-6 repairs, Middlezoy ch, Som; inf G Pilkington churchwarden;
BUCKNALL, WILLIAM Architect, London, born 1851, nephew of Benjamin Bucknall qv, pupil ER Robson, brother-in-law of JN Comper qv with whom he set up partnership B&C 1888-1904;
1896ff stained glass at Downside Abbey, Som, B&C; in lower E cloister 1896, Lady Chapel E window 1896-8, nine windows in Lady Chapel 1899;
1896 altar Trull ch, Som; SAS; B&C;
1902 furnishings, Yeovil ch;
1918 War Memorial East Clevedon, Som, central figure removed to Yeovil ch 1957; SAS;
BUDD & SPIRE, Shepton Mallet and Glastonbury. Henry Charles Budd surveyor of 12 Commercial Rd Shepton Mallet and Joseph Spire, architect, Ivydene, Wells Rd, Glastonbury (Kelly 1906). Architects, land and timber surveyor, estate agent, accountants; surveyors office to Upper Brue Drainage Board, Glastonbury; offices at 27 Peter St, Shepton Mallet and High St Glastonbury; advert Kellys directory 1889 p739. Outline plan of grave spaces in Meare churchyard signed by them in church.
1887 Rebecca Austin almshouses, Magdalene St, Glastonbury TC 23.8.87; to be built by J Austin in mem of wife, by B&S of Shepton Mallet & Glastonbury; presumably designed by Joseph Spire;
1904 alts Ashcombe Hotel, Weston s Mare, Som; by JS; D/B/wsm/ 24/5/9
1904 alts Cardiff Arms, Meadow St, Weston s Mare, Som; by JS; D/B/wsm/ 24/5/13 for Charlton Brewery;
1904 alts Coopers Arms, Carlton St, Weston s Mare, Som; B&S; D/B/wsm/ 24/5/14
1910 alts School, Chewton Mendip, Som; Budd Bros of Shepton Mallet, SAS;
BUDD, HENRY CHARLES 12 Commercial Rd, Shepton Mallet. Land surveyor, auctioneer, Kelly 1906, etc, see Budd & Spire.
BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP, Bristol. Firm founded 1961 by Sir George Grenfell Baines 1908-2003, originally in Preston 1937, Keith Pavey Bristol office at 7 Hill St since 1973.
(2003-6 Fairfield High School, Alfoxton Rd,Bristol; SNB)
(2005-7 Redland Green School, Bristol; SNB)
2006 North Somerset Courts, Worle, Som; SNB;
(200? Great Western Hospital, Swindon, Wilts)
(2006 Bristol Bus Station)
(2008-9 Cardiff Central Library, Glam)
(2010 Southmead Hospital, Bristol)
BUILDING PARTNERSHIP, Bristol
(1966 Methodist Chapel, Guinea Lane, Bristol; Roger Mortimer archt; SNB;
BULL (JOHN) & ASSOCIATES
1970 Trimbridge House, Trim St, Bath; MF;
1971 Conv New Prison, Grove St, Bath, to housing; MF;
BULL (J.) & CO London & Southampton.
1884-5 Pneumatic Malthouse, Princes St, Yeovil, Som, for Button’s Brewery. Ill in H Stopes, Malt & Malting, 1885, Stopes may have designed it (Mary Miles 120-1); £1744; dem for supermarket car park 2004;
BULLOCH, ARCHIBALD Architect, Office of Works, born 1881 Scotland, pupil 1898 of JM Robertson, Dundee, 1902 joined Highways Dept London CC, then with Niven & Wigglesworth, then Office of Works, seconded to Shanghai 1919, returned London 1920, in charge of post offices in SW England and Wales; designed Post Offices at Chepstow c1922; Abertillery, 1925; Aberdare 1925; Ammanford 1925; architect to Air Ministry, designed the large neo-Georgian airfields of the RAF re-organisation of late 1930s; cf British Post Office Buildings website (BPOB)
1927 Post Office, Northgate St, Bath, Som; A&BN 7.12.28; AJ 6.1.26; BC 23.1.26, 21.5.27;
1927 Repeater Station, Taunton for GPO; SAS; BPOB;
(1927 Post Office, Avonmouth, Bristol;WDP 12.8.27;
(c1930 Post Office, Cheap St, Sherborne, Dorset; SAS; OSS;
(1937 RAF Hullavington, Wilts)
BURGES, WILLIAM 1827-81. Architect. London. Biography JMC; Son of Alfred Burges, civil engineer, cf Walker, Burges & Cooper. Articled E Blore 1844, assist MD Wyatt 1849, 1851 w Henry Clutton as assistant then partner: assist on Clutton’s Domestic Architecture of France 1853, worked for him at Salisbury Cathedral 1854-6, Dunstall ch 1851-3, Hatherop ch 1853-5; Ruthin Castle 1851-6; and Breamore House Hants 1855-6. Full partners for Lille Cathedral comp won 1855; ended partnership 1856. 1865 won comp for Cork Cathedral; For 3rd M of Bute also did 1871-2 unex prop for rest of Rothesay Castle; 1878-80 Cumnock ch, Ayrshire; R.P. Pullan, The Architectural Designs of Wm Burges RA, 1883;
1858ff alts Winscombe Hall Winscombe Hill, Som; house begun by William Railton qv 1855, datestones 1855, 1859, 1862, 1871; lodge 1875; SNB,Winscombe Hall begun 1855 for JA Yatman by Railton, 1858 WB engaged to design furniture and interiors, and WB did further work in 1862, 1871 and 1875 inc corner tower in rear court, and loggias flanking garden front. In the dining-room stained-glass panels of four elements with coloured borders are similar to design at Cardiff Castle 1877 and Tower House, c1877-8; John Winstone says ref to Burges work at Winscombe Hall in Mick Aston reports on Winscombe & Sandford 155;
1858-9 report on Market Cross, Cheddar, Som; RL; ?unex, cross restored 1887, SNB;
1860 Font, Draycott ch, Som; SNB, attr on basis of sketch and newspaper report naming R Burgess. For HG Yatman; 1863-4 RL;
1861 Memorial to Lt Charles Turner +1860, son of Rev Turner, Banwell ch, Som; SNB; painted stone tablet;
1863-4 Rest No 22 Vicars Close, Wells, Som; with JH Parker; SNB; ceiling decoration survives; rest Nos. 22 and 28, SAS;
1863 Decoration of vault below the Vicars Hall, Wells, Som; SNB; and decoration of room to W; decoration and fireplace survive, RL2; part of JH Parker qv work on Vicars Close; Parker, Architectural antiquities of the city of Wells, 1866; SAS;
1863-4 attr chancel Winscombe ch, Som, for Rev JA Yatman, RL; error the chancel was rebuilt by John Norton qv 1863-4 and E window stained glass c1873 by WG Saunders, executed by Weekes, ?c1873 date error, SNB attributes glass to Burges 1863;
(1869-73 Knightshayes, Devon, for J Heathcote Amery MP; £14080; Arch 4 1870 6; Arch 28 1882 229 7 297; BN 18 1870 351; Eastlake App 327; Jill Franklin;
BURGESS & OLIVER Architects. – Burgess & CB Oliver of Bath; or Oliver & Burgess.
1891 2nd pr Bath Municipal Buildings, Som; RHH, O&B Bath & London;
1893 entr Bath Pump Room extn comp, Som; RHH; B&O;
BURGESS, JOHN Builder Minehead. J Burgess & Sons, 1 Tregonwell Rd 1906; biog in Minehead Conservation Soc Bulletin 1 2004: 1859-1933, born Porlock, son of John Burgess, shoe-maker, apprenticed as stonemason to William Brown & Co, worked in Bristol, returned in early 1880s and probably worked on buildings by JP St Aubyn including the church restoration. Worked on addition to WM chapel, The Avenue, 1885-6, by Foster & Wood; in partnership 1890s with JH Hurford qv building Nos. 13-17 Parade, then by 1895 set up with sons Sidney & Archie as J Burgess & Sons. Chairman of Minehead UDC for 14 years, initiated Nutscale Reservoir; JP, Methodist.
1893 Foreman, Esplanade Family Hotel, Minehead, completed 1893, for JH Langdon builder, called Hotel Metropole from 1898. Architect ?JP St Aubyn
1895 built Young Mens Inst (Church Institute), Bancks St, Minehead; FW Roberts architect; OD;
1896 built Masonic Hall, Bancks St, Minehead, Som; OD; by FW Roberts;
1896 Houses Glenmore Rd, Minehead for Thos Ponsford developer;
1899 stables, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead OD77;
1899-1910 E side, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead; he bought No 1, Tregonwell House for self and his office; office, yard and stables behind present York House Hotel; two villas by FW Roberts 1899 OD79;
1913 built PO, Parkhouse Rd, Minehead, FCR Palmer qv architect; built it with his own money and rented it to the GPO;
1915 House, Ponsford Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/564, JB&Sons;
195? Parkmead, The Parks, Minehead for – Stevenson former tenant of Bratton Court; OD;
BURGESS, PHILIP Leatherworker, Sea Breeze Cottage, West Porlock in 1910 census, not in 1906 dir. Also Sidney Burgess (son of John Burgess qv) is mentioned in Selworthy church guide as directing the local woodworking class that made roof bosses for N aisle, carve N aisle bench ends and chancel reading desks;
Philip Burgess, labourer, Porlock, 1791-1844, married Grace Lody in 1815, she died 1871, their son Philip baptised Porlock 1832, but also their nephew Philip born 1845, son of William Burgess of West Porlock. A Sydney Burgess was stable-boy at Selworthy Rectory, 1891. Also John Burgess qv of Minehead son of John Burgess shoemaker, of Porlock, had two sons Sidney and Archie +1969, who worked as John Burgess & Sons, builders, in Minehead.
1897 Leather frieze, dining-room, New Place, Porlock, Som; plaque says designed by Anne Baker of Chapel Knap, made by Philip Burgess and John French of West Porlock;
1900 Reredos, Selworthy ch, Som; Arts and Crafts carved oak with embossed leather panels; FSCC leaflet 8; a local carving group under Sidney Burgess is said to have carved some of the N aisle bench ends and two reading desks, 1898; church guide;
BURGESS, SIDNEY See Philip Burgess.
BURGESS, WILLIAM Architect, Exeter, 1786-1847
1811 surveyed Taunton & Somerset Hospital, with John Hawkins, and gave approval, TC 26.12.11; John White & Son architects 1810-12,
(1812-13 St Sidwell ch, Exeter, Devon; dem; HC;
(1818 roof repairs, Convent, former General Hospital, South Rd, Taunton; SAS)
(1820 Royal Public Rooms, Exeter, Devon; HC; APSD sub Exeter; dem;
(1820 Cullompton Vicarage, Devon; HC; Devon RO;
1821 New Market, Fore St, Taunton, Som; handsome neo-Grec, later called Victoria Rooms, described as total mess in BoE S 1958, demolished 1963; Thomas Norman builder; Savage, Hist of Taunton, 1822, 582; SAS;
(1825 Meeth Rectory, Devon; HC; Devon RO;
1825 partly rebuilt nave Ilminster ch, Som; 1824 RL; ICBS 1823-7 galleries, ground plan drawn by J Lawrence; orig asked to reseat but roof so bad he convinced the parish to rebuild, with fewer columns to save money, R Dunning ex par records; removed alternate piers from nave from 5-bay to 3-bay, rebuilt clerestory as 3-bay, new nave roof (replaced 1934), ?raised aisle heights, ?1825 date on W gable; George Pollard qv builder, SAS; galleries removed 1902; plaster ceiling taken down 1933 by Caroe & Passmore;
(18?? Harefield House, Lympstone, Devon; HC; ill in Ackermann Views of Seats 1830 as by ‘Mr Burges’.
182? plan of St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; RL2; used by Ferrey in restoration in 1840s
1827 Rectory, Ashbrittle, Som; owner Charles Doble says accounts largely illegible appear to refer to Burges, £1800;
BURKS GREEN Architects, Sherwood House, Newark, Notts
2005-7 Project Orange factory, Express Park, Bridgwater, Som; ISG Pearce contractors; £54m;
BURNELL, RICHARD WHITE 1845-1921 Surveyor to Yeovil RDC 1894-1922 (SAS). Partnership with Nathaniel Fish from 1906;
BURNET, TAIT & LORNE Architects, London, firm founded by Sir John James Burnet 1857-1938, son of John Burnet 1814-1901. both of Glasgow, firm moved to london, des British Museum King Edward VII wing 1904-14; Joined by Thomas S. Tait and Francis Lorne, after 1905; Burnet had RIBA Gold Medal 1923
(1930-1 West Leaze, Castle St, Aldbourne, Wilts, by Thomas S Tait; Turnor smaller English House; Gould Modern Houses, for Mrs Hugh Dalton; ABN 11.12.31;
1984-90 South Somerset DC offices, Lynx West Industrial Estate, Yeovil, Som; BD; inc council chamber, chief exec office, finance and other depts; Jeremy & Caroline Gould with Sir John Burnet Tait & Partners; two parts 1984-7 £2.4m and 1989-90 £800K;
BURR, G. F. Architect, surveyor, 27 Havelock Rd, Hastings, Sx; Not in Architects and Builders in Sussex index, Builder 17.10.1891 has tenders for work at Uphill, Weston s Mare for Rev AJ Burr;
(1891 designs 3 houses, St Helens Rd, Hastings, Sx, East Sussex RO;
1891 repairs and additions rectory, Uphill, Som for Rev AJ Burr; T Br 17.10.91;
1891 chancel and adds, Uphill ch, Som; SRO cf/1891/15; SNB; t: Br 17.10.91, C Addicott, Weston, contractor, £1430;
BURROUGH & HANNAM Bristol Thomas HB Burrough (THB) and Francis C Hannam (FCH), practice later joined by Julian Francis Hannam (JFH); SNB says Avonmouth ch rebuilt 1955-7 by FL Hannam; Julian Hannam on own firm called Arturus qv
1949 repairs East Brent ch, Som, rej ICBS; by Halle, Burrough & Hannam;
(1949-50 Holy Cross ch, Filwood Pk, Bristol; B&H, H&F)
1950-1 repairs Congresbury ch, Som; FCH but P Hartland Thomas qv also involved; ICBS; see also 1958;
1951-9 repairs Axbridge ch, Som; ICBS; THB;
(1952 Lockleaze Presb chapel, Bristol; B&H, H&F)
(1953 St James ch, Romney Av, Bristol; B&H, SNB;
(1953 House off Malmesbury Rd, Chippenham, Wilts; in 1955 House Plans, conventional, HMGI;
(1956 St Andrew ch, Peterson Sq, Bristol; SNB; B&H 1955-6 H&F;
(1955-8 rebuilt Holy Trinity ch, Hotwell Rd, Bristol after bombing; THB;
1958 reordered chancel, Congresbury ch, Som; SNB; B&H;
1959 Chancel ceiling, Chard ch, Som; B&H; SRO cf/1959/11/19
(1960 Lady chapel, St Peter ch, Henleaze, Bristol; SNB; THB;
(1960-1 St Mary Magdalene ch, Lockleaze, Bristol; B&H, dem; SNB;
1962 fittings, Kewstoke ch, Som; SNB; B&H; 1962 and later;
1964-70 reps Publow ch, Som; ICBS; B&H;
1966-7 reps Priory, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som for NT; VCH 3 241 n65; B&H;
(1966-8 adds City Library, Bristol; B&H;
1969 rest King Johns Hunting Lodge, Axbridge, Som for NT; B&H; SNB;
1978 Conversion Trades House, South St, Wellington, Som, for Wellington School, now called Prices; JFH;
1981 added classrooms in roof, Classroom Block, Wellington School, Som; JFH; WS 172;
1986 Library & Resource Centre, Wellington School ?RIBAJ 93 (8-86), 5-45;
JFH proj archt; forms processional way to chapel; linked by stair tower; CTA commendation. ?called Duke’s Building built 1982, acc to WS 172; JFH was old boy and parent of children at Wellington School WS 173;
1988 Corner Building, Wellington School, Wellington, Som; CTA commendation 1988, JFH partner in charge, Stephen Chapman project architect; Pearce construction, Taunton, contractors; two pavilions linked at corner at S end campus nr Great Hall; 1986 by Julian Hannam acc to WS 172;
BURROUGH, THOMAS H. B. Bristol. see Burrough & Hannam;
BURT, FREDERICK HENRY. Minehead. Architect, 1885-1958, son of JW Burt qv, builder, designed for JW Burt & Sons;
1906 Additional shopfront, Messrs Burton, Park St, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/265;
1919 attr Engadina, Parks Lane, Minehead, for John Newton, builder Burt & Sons OD plan 573; extended 1924 and alts 2004; now called Merton Place, was Merton Private Hotel in 1933;
1923 High Croft, The Parks, Minehead; attrib OD as built by Burt & Sons, for Mrs Stoate, façade in imitation of Broadmeadows by WJ Tamlyn, 1913, two doors down, previously owned by Stoate family;
1926 Winterthur, Whitecross Lane, Minehead, for GB Bennet, alts 1949 by Aston & Marsden qv; later called Holside;
1927 attr Waitoa, The Parks, Minehead, later Glebe House, bldr JW Burt & Son, plan Burt archive; OD;
1928 The New House, The Parks, Minehead, for WH Barnwell, plans in Burt archive; OD; now called Ash Tree House
1929 Min Shan, The Parks, Minehead, later Southdale; for Miss Cardwell, plans Burt archive; OD;
BURT, HAROLD LEOPOLD 1889-1949 Born Chard, family in Bath by 1891, joint surveyor to Frome RDC from 1939 with William Widdicombe; SAS;
BURT, JOHN WORTHY Builder, Minehead, 1852-1918. JW Burt & Sons started in Stoke St Mary in 1890s worked for Rev Portman of Thurlbear. About 1903 transferred to Minehead, John Burt builder, Churr Steep, Minehead 1906. John Worthy Burt +1918, JW Burt & Sons Glenmore Rd 1922. Sons were Arthur John Burt 1878-1942, Edwin Burt 1882-1946 and Frederick Henry Burt qv 1885-1958, architect. Arthur and Edwin continued business to late 1940s; JWB first houses were terrace on N side of Cher (formerly Bampton St) adjoining Lower Paganel Rd, probably the eleven cottages Bampton St 1903 designed by FW Roberts; their workshop at Cher designed by AL Cox qv 1906; alts to Messrs Batchelor premises, The Parade; built houses for WJ Tamlyn, AL Cox and FW Roberts 1904-14 and continued from 1918-45; much work for John Newton, businessman, after 1918, inc many houses in Marshfield Rd and Fownes Rd, Alcombe, also shops and offices in Quirke St and other areas, built Nutscale Reservoir, Exmoor, sewage schemes for Withycombe, Blue Anchor, and Minehead. Also erected public shelters Minehead seafront; built retaining wall along River Exe at Bridgetown, Exton; after Arthur & Edwin died in 1940s business continued by Frederick the 3rd son, with Arthur’s son Arthur George Burt +1956; then John & Faith Burt (retired 1997), in 1983 joined by their son Malcolm Burt, who closed company in 2001; cf J Burt a brief history, 2005 (JB)
1903 terrace on N side of Cher (formerly Bampton St) adjoining Lower Paganel Rd, probably the eleven cottages Bampton St 1903 designed by FW Roberts; JB
1903 built Lower Cleeve, The Parks, Minehead, FW Roberts qv architect; SAS;
1905 builders two ‘three terrace blocks’ Glenmore Rd, Minehead, on W side; JB; SAS FW Roberts qv architect;
1905 builders, house & shop, adjoining Victoria Terrace, Alcombe, Minehead; JB;
1906 builders, stable and workshop, Cher Steep, Minehead, AL Cox qv architect; SAS; ?for JW Burt & sons;
1906 builders stables, Bampton St, Minehead, JWB&Sons, AL Cox qv architect; SAS;
1909c Shops and flats Tregonwell Rd, Minehead, WJ Tamlyn qv architect, other builders involved since 1901 including JB Marley and John Burgess qv, SAS;
1910 builders two houses, New Road, off Tregonwell Rd, Minehead AL Cox qv architect, JWB&Sons, SAS;
1911 builders, house, Queens Road, Minehead AL Cox architect, JWB&Sons; SAS;
1912 builders public shelters, The Esplanade, Minehead, MB Smith qv architect; SAS;
1913 builders Field House and Broadmeadows, The Parks, Minehead; OD; WJ Tamlyn architect;
1914ff built many of detached houses on both sides The Parks, Minehead, the first one was Brook House, 1914, by TH Andrew qv; JB;
1914 builders Brook House, The Parks, Minehead, by TH Andrew qv; JB; Andrew & Hosegood, SAS;
1914 builders, Walcott, Western Lane, Minehead, WJ Tamlyn architect; OD; now Bridgedale Cottage;
1914 builders, terrace of five houses, Parks Lane, Minehead for G Passmore; JB; two more added for J Newton in 1920;
1914 builders Auvernagne, Whitecross Way, Minehead, WJ Tamlyn architect; OD, SAS;
1916 alts Green Haven, Whitegate Rd, Minehead D/U/M/22/1/585 for A Bishop esq;
1919 builders Engadina, Parks Lane, Minehead, for John Newton; architect ?FH Burt qv; OD plan 573; extended 1924 and alts 2004; now called Merton Place, was Merton Private Hotel in 1933;
1919 Thirty-two houses off Alcombe Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/595 for J Newton of Engadina, Minehead;
1920 builders Colinwood House (later Chalford) Minehead, Adrian Donati architect; SAS;
1921 Houses & shops, corner Bampton St/Quirke St, Minehead; for John Newton
1922 Bandstand, seafront, Warren Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/22/1/651; JWB&Sons; for John Newton; 1921-2 WJ Tamlyn qv architect, SAS;
1923 builders High Croft, The Parks, Minehead; attrib to FH Burt, architect, OD, as built by JB&Sons; for Mrs Stoate, façade in imitation of Broadmeadows by WJ Tamlyn, 1913, two doors down, previously owned by Stoate family;
1925 builders, Clouds, Wootton Courtenay; Stone & Francis architects, SAS;
1926 The Parks House, The Parks, Minehead for – Clifford; JB; Roberts & Willman architects, SAS;
1927 builders Waitoa, The Parks, Minehead, later Glebe House, JWB & Son, plan Burt archive; attrib FH Burt architect by OD;
1929 ff development of Parks estate, Minehead, by consortium including A&E Burt; Roberts & Willman architects (SAS), laid out Parkhouse Rd, Lower Park, parts of West Park, and South Park, many sites sold to other developers; first house was Hornerstone, Parkhouse Rd, Minehead for Cyril Newcombe; JB;
1930 builders Cranham Cottage, later Ambridge, The Parks, Minehead, PR Chain & FS Thomas architects; SAS;
1936 B Chapel, Parkhouse Rd, Minehead, for Millbridge Baptist Evangelical mission; D/U/M/ 22/1/759; JB;
1944-6 Housing, The Quarry Close, Alcombe for Minehead UDC; JB; Edwin Gunn architect;
1965-75 Thirty-three houses, The Meadows, Villes Lane, Porlock, Som;
Also built
alts to Messrs Batchelor premises, The Parade, Minehead; JB;
house corner Glenmore Rd and Mart Rd for Arthur John Burt; JB; offices for firm were later added;
houses in Marshfield Road and Fownes Road, Alcombe;
major additions to Coteleigh, North Road, Minehead;
schoolroom addition to Addesleigh, The Esplanade, Minehead;
house, Glenmore Road/Mart Road, Minehead for Arthur John Burt;
Nutscale Reservoir on Exmoor,
sewage schemes at Withycombe, Blue Anchor and Minehead,
retaining wall along the River Exe, Bridgtown, Exton
semi-detached and detached houses, Queens Rd, Minehead, overlooking recreation ground; JB; inc two pairs semi-detached;
built Housing at Periton Way, Hillview Close and Poundfield Rd, Minehead, for Minehead UDC, post 1945;
BURTON, DECIMUS Architect London 1800-81; HC; worked for John Nash; Colosseum 1823-7; Hyde Park Screen 1824-5; Buildings at London Zoo 1826-41; archway Constitution Hill 1827-8; Tunbridge Wells ch 1827-9 and Calverley estate 1828; Athenaeum Club 1827-30; Charing Cross Hospital 1831-4; Fleetwood new town 1836-43 and ch 1840; alts British Embassy Paris 1841-50; Palm House etc Kew Gardens 1845-8; Temperate House Kew 1859-62. WBR has attrib The Croft, Quemerford, Wilts.
1836-7 alts Ven House, Milborne Port, Som for Sir WC Medlycott; alts to N front inc ground floor windows and new front entrance; extensions including dining-room, conservatory to W, and pavilions; builder was Thomas Cubitt, RL; McKay 278-80: 1836-7, dinner for workmen SJ 28.9.37, Mr Fine clerk of works; CL 24.6.1911; Burton's plans at Ven 2010; lime avenue running N from house to main road planted at same time, HGS, SAS, demolished old farmhouse to E of house;
(1841-6 alts Stapleton Palace, Bristol; Gomme; SNB, Stapleton House purchased 1840 as residence for Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol; £12,408;
BURTON, ROBERT Surveyor, Dunmow EsseX, born 1786; made plan of manor of Orchardleigh, Som, 1818-19; JB; SAS;
BURTON, WILF Architect, ARIBA. The Oak House, Lower Godney, Som, BA5 1RZ;
1995 The Oak House, Lower Godney, Som; for himself; timber-framed
1998-2000 Roundhouse, Lower Godney, Som; inf owners; but house is on APG Architecture qv website;
2004 Freedom Cottage, Cumhill, Pilton, Som; trad stone;
2008-9 House for Chris Waelchli on Mendips, Som; Home Building & Renovating magazine; ?above Draycott
(201? Broom Cottage, East Sussex; oak frame by Westwind Oak;
2010 Riverside, nr Bath, Som; oak frame by Westwind; on banks of R Avon;
2012 House at Yatton, Som; very small;
Also tower bird-hide on R Parrett trail, ?at Steart, Som; ?house near Congresbury;
BUSH CONSULTANCY, Bush House, 72 Prince St, Bristol
2006-7 Bath Business Park, Peasedown St John, Som; ISG Pearce contrs;
(20?? Project Synchro 2, Gloucester, Glos; ISG Pearce contrs)
(20?? Refurb of Muller Orphanage, Bristol, for City of Bristol College; ISG Pearce contrs)
BUTCHER (R.) & SON Builders, 39 George St, Warminster. Robert Bendall Butcher & Son. Robert Butcher took over firm from his father in 1840, his son RB Butcher took over 1880 retired 1919, then nephew Frederick W Butcher retired 1958, then son Geoffrey Butcher +2004 with sons Robert and Matthew and daughter Sarah; WBR2
1984-91 rest Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som for JF & A Yeoman; architect not employed?; all done under Geoffrey Butcher acc to M McGarvie;
BUTLER, FRANCIS NEWCOMB Architect, Williton 1860-1904, born Market Bosworth, in Williton by 1901, died young;
1903 plans C chapel, Bancks St, Minehead, Son, unex; OD; SAS;
BUTTERELL, ROBIN D. Architect, Wells.
1973 Locomotive shed, Cranmore Station, West Cranmore, Som; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; for E Somerset Railway;
(1974 add Lyon House, Richmond Rd, Sherborne for Sherborne School, OSS;
BUTTERFIELD, WILLIAM, London (l8l4-l900) In practice from 1840; RIBA Gold Medal 1884. Numerous works in Wilts, WBR; Paul Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971 (PT);
(1842 Highbury C chapel, Bristol; 1841 Gomme; SNB, now Cotham parish ch, adds 1863 by EWGodwin, apse ext 1892-3 by Frank Wills; )
(1844-6 Coalpit Heath ch & vicarage, Glos;
(1846-7 rest Horfield ch, nr Bristol; aisles, SW porch and larger chancel)
(1847-9 rest Ogbourne St Andrew ch, Wilts; WBR;)
(1848 Vicarage, Ogbourne St Andrew, Wilts; WBR;)
1857-8 Gare Hill ch, Som; PT 430; FS 5.10.57 in mem of 8th Earl of Cork & Orrery who left £1200 towards building, Br 1857 613; dedic 24.8.58; £1300, McGarvie Bk of Marson Bigot, 142; closed 1979 now a house and floored inside; stained glass E and two chancel S windows look like A Gibbs work (A Brooks); patterned glass in W lancets; gabled archway at top of track to church;
1857-8 Schoolhouse and two pairs of cottages, Gare Hill, Som; attrib PT 437; McGarvie says school was provided earlier by 8th Lord Cork, Kelly says 1850; Rev Rd Boyle of Marston Bigot provided a house for the curate on top of the hill and neat cottages such as Corner House and Penstone House (McGarvie Book of Marston Bigot, 141-2). Rev Boyle rebuilt the previous church/school of c1832 as a house for the schoolmaster, possibly after a fire. Corner House and Penstone House definitely by WB, and probably each originally a pair of cottages, Corner Ho since extended by one bay to left (photo in McGarvie, Around Frome 97), and both houses are now roughcast; curate was not living in parsonage at 1861 census, so could be 1860s by another hand, but looks like watered down WB, the Old Schoolhouse looks similar and was the house for the schoolmaster, not the school itself, and is allegedly on site of earlier church/school, burnt in 1858.
(1858 Landford ch, Wilts opened WI 14.10.58, - Crook of Dean bldr, £1600;
(1858-60 Cemetery Chapel, Amesbury, Wilts; consec WI 2.2.60, £1000; Edward Andrews of Amesbury contr;
(1858 Schoolroom Letcombe Bassett, Berks WI 16.12.58 opened)
1859 ref to ?church for poverty stricken district, WB architect, Myers bldr; TC 27.4.59;
1860 appointed to restore chancel, St John ch, Frome, Som, by 9th E of Cork & Orrery, when CE Giles (qv) was appointed by vicar Mr Bennett to restore rest; Oxford Arch Soc report 1860, ex inf PHowell; ?nothing done, restoration all done by CE Giles qv after 1865;
(1865-6 rest Heytesbury ch, Wilts; WG 23.3.66, undergoing repair; William Strong bldr SM 14.11.65;
(1867 Highway ch, Wilts consec DWG 12.9.67;
(1869 ?rest Lord Mayor’s Chapel, College Green, Bristol; GJL; not in SNB;
1871-3 rest Cheddar ch, Som; ICBS; 1871-3 SNB, stained glass E window by A Gibbs; PT; stalls, medieval pulpit repainted; Br 24.5.73, £3500, E window by S Gibbs;
(1876 adds Theological College, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR2;
1876-8 St John ch, Clevedon, Som; SNB; PT 1875-8 for Sir Arthur Elton, chalice and cruet 1878 by WB; c£4000; vestries ext and N porch by WB 1883-4; chancel arch removed by CG Hare 1909; pulpit, reredos by WB, glass by Heaton Butler & Bayne; Kelly 1906;
1878 St Michael’s Hospital, Axbridge, Som; for Mrs William Gibbs; convalescent home for tuberculosis patients, managed by sisters from St Peter’s Kilburn. Central chapel flanked by two floors of wards, with two projecting wings, one for the sisters and the other with day-rooms for the patients and kitchens below, owing to the slope of the hill. The latter wing was extended in 1882. Also by Butterfield the Chaplain’s House, c.1878, and Lodge, c.1878, and lectern, 1879, flagon and candlesticks, 1889. PT 137, 142; SNB;
(1878 Coleridge memorial, Ottery St Mary ch, Devon; SCG 21.9.78;
1879-81 School, Wraxall, Som; PT;
1882 ext St Michael’s Hospital, Axbridge, Som; PT;
1880-1 Battleaxes Inn, Wraxall, Som; PT; for Gibbs of Tyntesfield, including inn sign, stables, coach house, and village club house and caretaker’s house;
(1881 Chapel, Salisbury Theological Coll, Wilts; WBR;
1883-4 porch and extended vestries, St John ch, Clevedon, Som; SNB;
Also Iron church at Peasedown St John, Som fitted up by Mr Butterfield; Peach NofB 1876; dem;
Attr East Woodlands ch and rectory, Som, for Duke of Somerset, DoE, error, the church was on Longleat estate and nave was rebuilt by JL Pearson 1880 modifying plans by CE Giles who rebuilt the chancel in 1872; Woodlands rectory is by CE Giles qv;
Attrib The Hermitage, Witham Friary, Som, hunting-lodge c1860 for D of Somerset (DoE), error, not built for D of Somerset and earlier than 1860.;
(Tockenham Rectory, Wilts attrib in sale advert 2004, error by TS Lansdown 1866;
BUTTON, EUSTACE HENRY. EH Button & Partners, Bristol. Eustace Harry Button ARIBA WwinA 1926;
(1956 B chapel, Old King St, Bristol; H&F EH Burton;
(1956-8 reblt St Paul ch, Bedminster, Bristol, after bombing; ICBS;
(1957-8 Counterslip B chapel, Wells Rd, Bristol; SNB)
c1960 Add Monkton Combe School, Som; SNB; neo-C17 style;
(1971-2 Parkway WM chapel, St Pauls, Bristol; SNB:
BUTTRESS, WOLFGANG Sculptor
2006 Silica, Regent St, Weston s Mare, Som; with Conran Architects; SNB;
2010 sculpture, West Somerset Community Hospital, Minehead;
BYRNE, PATRICK J.
(1892 Adds Royal Hotel, Avonmouth, Bristol; SNB)
BYRNE, PETER A.
(1958-9 RC ch, Broadstone, Poole, Dorset; H&F)
(1960 RC ch, Whipton, Exeter, Devon; H&F)
CABLE, WILLIAM
1846-55 reps and reseat Kingsbury Episcopi ch, Som, with Maurice Davis of Langport; RL; named on church board;
CACHEMAILLE-DAY, NUGENT FRANCIS. Leading modernist church architect of 1930s e.g Burnage ch, Nanchester 1931-2; St Saviour Eltham 1932-3, Wythenshawe ch Manchester 1937. From c1931-5 firm was Welch, Cachemaille-Day & Lander with Herbert A Welch qv and Felix J. Lander; after c1935 Cachemaille-Day on own, and Welch & Lander separate, by later 1950s Lander & Stevens with James C Stevens;
(1938 St Martin ch, Barton Hill Rd, Torquay, Devon; H&F)
(1939 St Paul ch, Preston, Torquay, Devon; H&F)
(1939-40 St Barnabas ch, Tuffley, Glos; H&F)
1953 St Peter ch, Westfield, Midsomer Norton, Som; NFCD&Partners; H&F; not in SNB, ?dem;
(1956-7 St Michael ch, North Bemerton, Salisbury, Wilts; H&F; BoE)
CALVERT, C. J.
1909 shopfront, 6 George St, Bath, based on 1908 plan by Spackman & Son; MF;
CAMPBELL, COLEN 1673-1729. Architect, originally lawyer, nephew of Campbell of Cawdor Castle; Palladian pioneer, involved with Vitruvius Britannicus 1 1715, 2 1717, 3 1725, where he published his designs and wrote introduction; Deputy Surveyor to Wm Benson 1718, they proposed dem of houses of Parliament; HC; one possible Somerset attribution is Earnshill, Hambridge, 1728-31 for Francis Eyles MP; no evidence; Howard Stutchbury, Architecture of Colen Campbell, 1967;
(1708-10 possibly inv at Wilbury House, Wilts, by William Benson qv; Vit Brit 1;
(1718 Burlington House, Piccadilly for Lord Burlington
(1719-4 Stourhead, Wilts; Benson was involved as Henry Hoare was his brother in law; built c1720-4, portico not added until 1841; Vit Brit 3 41-3;
CAMPLIN, Rev Dr THOMAS, probably related to Rev Thomas Camplin vicar of Brompton Ralph d1752; born c1716 or 1719 died Bath 1780 BC 24.8.80; deacon 1738, priest 1740, 1742-53 rector St Ebbe's Oxford and Vice Principal St Edmund Hall, DCL 1757, Archdeacon of Bath 1761-8, Prebend of Combe I 1761-3, 1763-6 Prebend of Buckland Dinham, Prebend of Litton 1766-8; Rev Dr Camplin Archdeacon of Bath subscriber to Statutes at Large, 1765; Archdeacon of Taunton 1767-80, vicar of Chard 1778-80; monument Brompton Ralph ch by Thomas King qv, another in Bath Abbey;
not same as Rev Dr Camplin, Prebendary of Bristol, member Bristol slavery Abolition Committee 1788, vicar of St Nicholas and St Leonard's Bristol; another Rev Thomas Camplin +1815 was vicar All Saints Bristol 1790-1815;
(1742-8 Holywell Music Room, Oxford; EH listing, by Rev Thomas Camplin, Archdeacon of Taunton, Vice-Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
1776-8 TH, Market Place, Wells, to be rebuilt by Thomas Paty builder 'after a plan of Rev. Dr Camplin's' Felix Farley's Journal, 17.8.77; HC sub Thomas Paty; atributed to Edmund Lush, SAS;
CANAWAY FLEMING London. Architects. Martin Canaway.
2012 Proposed temporary villages for construction workers, Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station, Som, for EDF; BD 2.3.12; for 1150 on three sites, two in Bridgwater, one at Hinkley;
CANNON, JOHN His diary for 1726 says that he was sent for by Col Peirs to his seat at Bradley House, West Bradley, Som ‘to measure his new building just then finished by workmen got from Wells, who brought with them one Parfet an ingenious artist to measure against me on behalf of the workmen’. He then became Col Peir’s clerk and bailiff; involved with garden ‘and about Canals, waterworks, walk and knots under the direction of one Long, a Dutchman sent to him (Peirs) from Weybridge (Oatlands, seat of Peirs friend 7th earl of Lincoln). Cannon pushed Long into the canal and left Peirs employment as Peirs failed to pay workmen.
CAPE, WILLIAM. Wellington, carpenter and builder +1884. Mantle St 1861 dir, Bowermans Lane 1866 dir; cf Wellington Museum ‘Explore East Wellington’ leaflet a terrace on North St has plaque ‘Memorial stone. This terrace was designed and erected by WC, builder of this town who was distinguished by his energy, integrity and perseverance. Died 2 Apr 1884. This stone was fixed by his employees as a tribute of esteem. Omnia vincit labor.’.
CAPITA ARCHITECTURE see Percy Thomas
CAPLE, J. builder Clevedon
1878 houses N side Coleridge Rd, Clevedon, Som;
1878 Houses and shop, Pacific Ho and Roma House, Alexandra Rd, Clevedon; Lilly The Builders of Clevedon, 2000, from planning files;
1879 Gutenberg House, Alexandra Rd, Clevedon; house/shops;
1880s first houses in Sunnyside Rd, Clevedon;
CAPLON, LEONARD Surveyor, died 1921. Joint Surveyor to Yeovil RDC 1914-21 with Nathaniel Fish; SAS;
CARLISLE, -
1996 Trinity Walk, Frome, housing; HDA 1996;
CARLISLE JESSOP LLP Architects. 23 Union St Wells, Som; - Carlisle & John Jessop
2011 alts Manor House, Priddy, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
CAROE & MARTIN, Wells. See Caroe & Partners. Name of Caroe partnership for period in 1970s before reverting to Caroe & Partners. ADR Caroe, Martin Caroe & David Selby Martin.
CAROE & PARTNERS, Wells. Name of WD Caröe firm from time of ADR Caroe (1904-91), it was Caroe & Passmore from before WD Caröe qv died in 1938, Herbert Passmore (1868-1966) continued with Alban Douglas Rendell Caroe (1904-91) who had joined in 1929, then it was Caroe & Martin (C&M) in 1970s with Martin Caroe 1933-99 and David S Martin, then reverted to C&P, latterly under Peter Bird, then Jonathan Saunders. Firm in charge of St Davids Cathedral in succession to WDC, Peter Bird designed new cloisters 2002-6 and organ case 2000 there.
1949 Tower screen, Curry Mallet ch, Som; faculty SRO not seen;
1951-2 vestry, Tintinhull ch, Som; C&P; ICBS; ADRC;
(1953 Ascension ch, Merton, London C&P; H&F)
1953-4 ?organ-chamber, Bleadon ch, Som; ADRC; SNB;
1952-4 reps Marston Magna ch, Som; C&P, ADRC; ICBS;
1954-5 reps tower, Othery ch, Som; ICBS; C&P;
1954-75 reps Martock ch, Som; ICBS; ADRC church architect 1953-80, guide book; 1954 lead on nave and aisle roofs and clerestory gargoyles, 1955 tower pinnacles; 1958 screen between vestry & chancel made by Sheldon Hamlin of W Sparrow Ltd Martock (?not designed by ADRC); 1961 high altar by ADRC made by J Thompson of Kilburn; 1973-5 nave roof rest £67K;
1955 reredos & altar, Glastonbury St John ch by ADRC; church guide;
1955-6 reps Puriton ch, Som; ADRC; ICBS;
1955-8 reps Limington ch, Som; ICBS; ADRC;
1956 nave roof, Badgworth ch, Som; ADRC; J Scourse & Sons contractors; note in church;
(1956-7 St John ch, Causton St, Westminster; H&F)
1957-8 reps Brent Knoll ch, Som; ICBS;
1959-61 reps Chedzoy ch, Som; ICBS; ADRC;
1959-61 Holy Trinity ch, Greenfield, Bridgwater, Som;
1960 alts Exford ch, Som, to altar and sanctuary steps; SRO faculty ADRC;
(1961 Holy Trinity ch, Farrington Rd, Wolverhampton H&F)
(1961 Jewin Welsh CM chapel, Fann St, London; ADRC;
1961 Side chapel, S choir aisle, St John ch, Yeovil, Som; ADRC; SRO D/D/cf/1961/4/3
1961-2 reps tower, Marston Magna ch, Som; C&P;
1962 reps Croscombe ch, Som; enq only ICBS; C&P;
1962-70 reps Othery ch, Som; ICBS; grant cancelled 1970 as out of time;
1964 rest Holy Cross chapel, St John ch, Yeovil, Som; C&P; SRO D/D/cf/ 1964/10/18;
1965 reps Exford ch, Som; C&P faculty SRO, also 1970;
1965 St Peter ch, Baytree Rd, Milton, Kewstoke, Som; 1964-5; SNB;
1969-70 reps Chedzoy ch, Som; ICBS; ADRC;
1969-70 reps East Brent ch, Som; ICBS;
(1970 Laceby Rd WM chapel, Grimsby, Lincs C&M; H&F)
1970 reps Othery ch, Som; ICBS; see also 1962-70;
1973-5 reps Martock ch, Som, ICBS; C&M; nave roof rep £67,000;
1974-86 rest W front Wells Cathedral, under Martin Caroe;
1982 rest Elton House, No 2 Abbey St, Bath; by Peter Bird; MF;
1982-3 rest Hassage Manor, Faulkland, Som; by Peter Bird; iron gtes 1990s by John Beauchamp; SNB;
1984ff rest Gurney Manor, Cannington, Som; P Bird for Landmark Trust;
(1993ff rest Merchant's House, Marlborough with Jerry Sampson buildings archaeologist, for Trust; inf Michael Gray, Merchants House Trust)
1997-9 restored Robin Hood’s Hut, Halswell, Goathurst, Som for SBPT; Peter Bird architect;
1997-9 restored Temple of Harmony, Halswell, Goathurst, Som for SBPT;
1997-2000 rest Lansdown Tower, Bath; MF;
200? minor alts St Andrew ch, Minehead, Som; inf Diana Crighton;
2002-8 rest The Merchants House, 8 Market Place, Shepton Mallet, Som; Henk Strik and Jonathan Saunders architects; William Stansell Award 2008; SNB;
2003 restored roof to Tithe Barn, Pilton; with Peter McCurdy;
(2005ff? architects to Wilton House, Wiltshire, over 15 years
2007-8 alts St Cuthbert ch, Wells, Som; alts to tower to reopen W entry, W end reordered with two 'pods'; Peter Bird; SNB;
(2008-9 rest St Martin in the Fields ch, London, within overall scheme by Eric Parry Architects; CTA 2010;)
2010 visitor centre, Bishops Palace, Wells, Som; SNB; timber-framed shop and cafe; also conv of stables to toilets and schools room;
201? restored St Michael church, Northgate, Bath, reordered, new W gallery, porch altered;
20?? reconstruction of a ruined garden temple of 1764 near Frome;
(201? restoration Temple of Apollo, Stourhead, Wilts; new domed roof and interior plasterwork;
CAROE & PASSMORE see WDR Caroe
CAROE & ROBINSON
(1935 St Catherine ch Mile Cross, Norwich; H&F)
CAROE, ALBAN DOUGLAS RENDELL. 1904-91 see Caroe & Partners and Caroe & Martin;
CAROE, MARTIN BRAGG 1933-99 see Caroe & Martin and Caroe & Partners;
CARÖE, WILLIAM DOUGLAS. Architect, London. l857-l938. Son of Danish consul in Liverpool, articled Edmund Kirby 1879, pupil JL Pearson 1881 then chief assistant, refaced outside of Westminster Hall, 1881. In practice on own from 1884, Scandinavian church, Liverpool exh RA 1884. From 1885 architect to Ecclesiastical Commissioners under Ewan Christian +1895, then Senior architect 1895-1938. Partnership with Ewan Christian’s cousin JH Christian (+1901) of JH Christian & Purday (who designed Mombasa Cathedral 1904); designed The Paddock, Leopardstown, Ireland, 1885, with Christian & Purday, and Hanover Schools, Mayfair exhibited RA 1889; Stansted Mountfitchet ch Essex 1889-95 Br 23.11.89; 1st prize Willesden Board School 1895; 1st prize St David ch, Exeter, 1897. Herbert Passmore joined as partner 1903; Cathedral architect Saint Davids after JO Scott, extensive works in St Davids diocese; also in charge of cathedrals and abbeys at Canterbury, Durham, Southwell, Brecon, Malvern, Romsey, & Tewkesbury. Firm was Caroe & Passmore (C&P) from 1903 with Herbert Passmore 1868-1966, joined in 1929 by son Alban Douglas Rendell Caroe (1904-91). Died in house in Kyrenia, Cyprus, he had designed. Biography by Jenny Freeman 1990 (JMF); ASG 134-7; RIBAJ 7.3.38;
(1893-5 Colehill ch, Dorset, BoE, ill Br 14.3.1903
(1899 Bishop’s House, Redland Green Rd, Bristol; bombed 1940; dem; ill Br 25.11.99, Stephens & Bastow contrs)
(1900 alts Fordington ch, Dorset, tower top 1900 BoE; prop new nave and chancel ill Br 13.5.01
(1901 St David ch, Exeter, Devon; RA 1937 exh)
(1904 House near Dublin; RA 1937 exh)
(1904-5 rest Stratford-sub-Castle ch, Wilts; WBR)
1904-8 alts St Andrew ch, Clevedon, Som; ICBS; repairs, new nave roof, south transept roof, organ, seating, stalls, reredos and other fittings, and new vestry, commissioned 1904; JMF; SRO D/D/cf/1904/78; SNB tie-beam roof, stalls, reredos carved by N&R Hitch, organ-cases; being restored under WDC of London for c£3000 Kelly 1906 new reredos 1905 given by Miss Woodward;
1905ff rest St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; nave roof 1905, chancel arch piers and alterations 1907, vestries c1910-12; JMF;
(1905 rest St Martin ch, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR)
(1906 new buildings Pembroke Coll, Cambridge; RA 1937 exh)
(1907 rest Laverstock ch, Wilts; WBR)
1908 rest Isle Abbotts ch, Som; SRO cf/1908/273; C&P; rebuilt corner buttresses N aisle, stalls, rails; Cornish & Gaymer builders, SAS; further repairs 1917-19;
1908-9 alts North Perrott ch Som, vestries, reps, fittings; JMF; pulpit 1923;
1908-13 Charterhouse ch, Som; RL; built new, SNB incorrect that converted from miners’ hall of c1890, 1908-13, by Dart & Francis builders, screen c1919, fleche 1923;
1908-17 work Glastonbury Abbey ruins, consolidating Lady Chapel, Galilee and S choir aisle, restoring gatehouse and Abbot's Kitchen, F Merrick & Son builders; JF; SAS;
(1909 rest Farley ch, Wilts; WBR;
1909-10 enl Chillington ch, Som; added S transept, D/D/cf/1909/??; probably also new roofs; SRO plan has no N vestry on 1909 faculty plans; ICBS engraving elevation and plans by C&P; JMF 246; Vile & Son of Puckington builders;
(1911 Stanley ch, Wakefield, Yorks; RA 1937 exh;
(1914 St George ch, Leicester, Leics; RA 1937 exh)
1914-15 vestry, St John ch,Yeovil, Som; NE vestry 1914 JMF;
1915 adds Ashwick ch, Som; RL; SNB ext chancel, S chapel;
(1915-17 Llangammarch Wells ch, Brec; H&F)
1916-21 reps Kingsbury Episcopi ch, Som; ICBS; C&P; JMF has also statue 1923, sanctuary paving and rails 1928 and tower repair 1932;
c1919 ?screen Charterhouse ch, Som; SNB;
1919 ?War memorial cross, West Coker ch, Som; JMF; error cf 1937.
1919 War memorial, Butleigh Som; F Merrick & Sons builder; SAS
1919 window St John ch, Yeovil, Som between N tr and organ chamber; JMF; drawing for arch to organ chamber D/D/cf/1919/173;
1919-20 Panelling and reredos, SE chapel, St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som; D/D/cf/1919/17; drawings dated 1918; reading desk and kneeling rail, opened out bottom of 1902 screen, rest cresting on n parclose screen, marble floor;
1919-21 recreated screen, Combe St Nicholas ch, Som; JMF; two fragments of the screen in the chancel side arches reunited as a five-bay screen across chancel arch. 1923 acc to plaque, craftsman VH Owsley;
(1920 rest Nunton ch, Wilts; WBR
1920-1 rest Swainswick ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1921/65;
1921 repairs East Brent ch?
1921 reps Brent Knoll ch, Som; repairs floor and vaults, SAS;
1921 War Memorial Brent Knoll churchyard, SAS; John Merrick builder;
(1921 St Hilda ch, Hartlepool; H&F)
(1921-4 E end of Lady Chapel, Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; BoE; RG Spiller qv contr; WG 7.11.24; added as a War memorial WG 31.3.22;
1921-2 repairs Charlton Adam ch, Som; ICBS; roof repairs;
1921-2 repairs Rimpton ch, roof repairs ICBS;
1923 pulpit North Perrott ch, Som; JMF;
1921-3 Lychgate, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som; Celtic style; attributed JF see 1931; but parish minuted have note of Mrs Portman approaching JN Comper; SRO faculty does not mention architect;
(1922-3 All Saints ch, Luton, Beds; H&F)
1922-5 repairs Ruishton ch to tower, walls and roof; ICBS;
1922-4 repairs Moorlinch ch, strengthen tower and repairs; ICBS;
1923-8 rebuilt tower, Ilton ch, Som SAS;
1923 Statue in tower niche, Kingsbury Episcopi ch, Som; JMF
1923-5 reps tower, Hillfarrance ch, Som; ICBS;
1924 roof reps and St Ann chapel, Wedmore ch, Som; JMF;
1924 chancel, Midsomer Norton ch, Som; JMF; SNB, also 1935-6
1924-6 St Barnabas ch, Temple Cloud, Cameley ch, Som; JMF; SNB;
1924-6 vicarage, Cameley, Som, by Herbert Passmore of C&P; SC notes;
1925 screens SE chapel, St James ch, Taunton, Som; A Brooks; side chapel re-ordered 1925, two screens shown at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924-5 by WD Caröe, design of W screen based on parts of the original (in the Castle Museum), half the cost met by the Government of India; SC notes;
1925 repairs Mark ch, Som; enquiry ICBS;
1925 rest & vestry, Wookey ch, Som; JMF;
1925-6 tower reps, Othery ch, Som; ICBS; 1925-8 SAS;
1925-7 rest tower West Camel ch, Som; ICBS;
1925-7 organ ch and vestry, Loxton ch, Som; ICBS; JMF; also small organ-case and screen and arched opening to nave, 1926, and lectern, JMF; SNB;
1926 Footbridge, Bishops Palace, Wells, Som; SNB;
1926 ?conversion Walton Windmill, Walton, Som to holiday house for Rev GM Evans vicar of Westonzoyland, who used the architect then restoring the church roof, but WDC did not do the roof until 1932-3 and tower looks as if no architect involved; inf Walton WI, Our Village Heritage, 1971, 43 refers to the ecclesiastical quality of interior woodwork and curious fish-shaped latches;
1927 reconstructed medieval cross, Berrow ch, from fragments found in wall with cross base buried near porch resting on bowl of C13 font; SAS; JF
1927-8 rest nave roof, West Camel ch, Som; ICBS;
1927-31 rest Banwell ch, Som; ICBS;
1928 alts Catcott ch, Som; lowered pulpit and desk, enclosed N side family pew, removed chancel box pews; VCH;
1928 Priest’s House (parsonage), Butleigh, Som; RL; vicarage, Butleigh, early 1920s JMF; 1928 SAS; later Butleigh House;
1928 pulpit, Milverton ch; SAS;
1929 alts Catcott ch, to pulpit, desk and n side of family pew, removed box pews; VCH; SAS;
1928 Sanctuary paving and rails, Kingsbury Episcopi ch, Som; JMF;
1928 reps Middle Chinnock ch, Som; inf in church;
1928-32 reps Ditcheat ch, Som; ICBS; C&P; to roofs, pinnacles, parapets and tower, Blevins, builder; SAS;
1929 rest Thurlbear ch, Som; ICBS; no plan;
1929 village hall, Stogumber, Som; C&P, WH Pollard builder, FS 28.5.29 opened 4.12.29; Stogumber 2000 p119;
1929 Processional cross, Blagdon ch, Som; JMF;
1929-30 rest Treborough ch, Som; JMF; repairs gables, louvres, buttress;
1929-30 reps Compton Dundon ch, Som; enquiry ICBS; 1929-31 RL reps porch & tower; 1929 JMF;
1929-31 War Memorial, North Curry, Som; RL, revised and elaborated design by EW (WE ?) Pennington; JF; SAS; not the cross in Queen Square of 1920;
1929-31 lychgate, North Curry ch, 1930 acc to Kelly 1931 in memory Charles Luard, gift of Mrs Barrett of Moredon; JMF has communion rails, lychgate and external gates; altar rails 1931 also attributed to FB Bond qv who did reredos 1917 and chancel panelling;
1929-31 chancel panelling North Curry ch carved by Maude Berthon (1857-1939), Kirke, A short history, 1931; but cf FB Bond qv who did reredos 1917 and chancel panelling;
1929-31 altar rails, and external gates North Curry ch, JMF has communion rails, lychgate (see above) and external gates but altar rails 1931 also attributed to FB Bond qv who did reredos 1917 and chancel panelling;
1930 rest churchyard cross, Weare, Som; D/D/cf/1930/99; new tabernacle head;
1930 rep Bratton Seymour ch, Som; ICBS; to belfry floor, window arches and stonework, SAS;
(1930 RC church, Chalford, Glos; RC C20 churches survey)
1931-2 Adaptation and reconstruction, Diocesan Registry, Wells, Som; JMF;
(1931 work Mere ch, Wilts with WH Randoll Blacking; WBR
1931-7 alts Banwell ch, Som; SNB, screen rest 1935; JMF;
1931-4 tower repairs Pitney ch, Som; pinnacles rebuilt; JMF 250;
1932 tower reps Cheddon Fitzpaine ch, Som; JMF; JW also notes lychgate (faculty 1931 churchyard cross and a couple of ledger tombs);
1932 tower reps Kingsbury Episcopi ch, Som; JMF;
1932-3 repairs Hemington ch, Som; ICBS; RL;
c1932-3 alts Bishop’s Eye gatehouse, Wells, Som; SNB; and a new bridge across the moat;
1932-3 alts TH, Wells, Som, repairs portico, principal staircase reconstructed; JMF; SNB attributes balcony, rustication, quoins and three oculi;
1932-6 rest Westonzoyland ch, Som, added rood screen; RL; 1933-7 JMF: reps to roofs, rest, new fittings, inc rood-screen, rood-stair, rood, pulpit, organ-case, seating, etc, 1933-7, ‘his contribution here represents a dignified enhancement of a uniquely gracious building’. Screen made by Archie Osborne of Norton sub Hamdon, for contractor Ralph Fry £509/6/0; rood figures carved by Mr Cameron of London £120/12/0d; letter from Rev Evans 5.12.63 says screen begun in 1935 finished before October 1936, faculty for screen and stair-tower 1935; pulpit is horrible ?not by Caroe. Stalls, altar and riddel-posts, cross and candlesticks, altar kneeler, two reading-desks; a considerable amount of old traceried panels incorporated eg in the organ, desks, also Caroe found the C15 S door in a shed on the glebe and repaired it. ?also did doors in S porch; invoices and screen drawings D/P/w.zoy 8/2/2; rood-screen finished TC 10.10.36;
1933-6 tower reps, Withycombe ch, Som; ICBS; C&P; repaired roofs, removed gallery, SAS;
1934 Churchyard cross & lychgate Cheddon Fitzpaine ch, Som; JMF; but cf 1920;
1934 Alts tower, Curry Mallet ch, Som; JMF; WG 9.8.35; 1936-7 ICBS;
(1934 rest Calne ch, Wilts; WBR)
1934 roof Ilminster ch; BoE; ?evidence;
1934 alts screen, Curry Rivel ch, Som; JMF; font cover 1936;
1934 reps Withiel Florey ch, Som; 1930-4 JMF; tower roof; ICBS 1934-5 reopened 13.1.35;
1934-5 rest Pitney ch tower, Som; C&P; ICBS; RL; TC 27.11.35;
1934-6 rest Beercrocombe ch, ICBS; C&P; RL;
1934-6 repairs Woolavington ch, Som, tower, nave roof, details for turret fleche, SAS; Ralph Fry builder; JF; ICBS;
1935 tower reps Wedmore ch, Som; JMF;
1935 alts to screen, Banwell ch, Som; JMF; SNB;
1935-6 alts Midsomer Norton ch, Som; removed galleries and staircases, added SE Lady Chapel; SNB;
(1936 ext Abbey Grange, Sherborne, Dorset C&P, OSS)
1936 reps Curland ch tower, Som; ICBS; C&P; RL;
1936 font cover & altar, Compton Dundon ch, Som; RL; JMF;
1936-7 font cover, Curry Rivel ch, Som; JMF;
1937 tower screen, West Coker ch, Som; JMF; to Rev Cotter; D/D/cf/1937/47 by C&P;
1937 Churchyard cross, West Coker, Som; dedic 25.7.37, Chippenham stone with Virgin Mary sculpture at head and St Martin on shaft, Book of West Coker; to Rev Cotter; JMF says war memorial 1919, error; D/D/cf/1937/47 by C&P;
1937 choir stalls, Midsomer Norton ch, Som; JMF;
1937 chancel furnishings, Pitminster ch, Som; church guide, English altar; ?also rails;
1937 attrib rails, Exford ch, Som; faculty 1937 not seen;
1937-9 reps Croscombe ch, Som; ICBS; after lightning damage; Holy Ghost ch, Crowcombe acc to RL;
1938 lectern, Tintinhull ch, Som; JMF; lighting 1935;
1938-41 rest Babington ch, Som; C&P; ICBS; RL; roof repairs;
1940-2 reps Othery ch, Som; C&P; ICBS;
(19?? Bishop’s Palace, Bristol, dem; ASG;
19?? Reredos North Perrott ch, Som; RL; seems unlikely as reredos is by Westmacott mid C19;
19?? Rest North Cadbury ch, Som; RL; Ralph Fry contr;
1949 Tower screen, Curry Mallet ch, Som; faculty SRO not seen;
1955 reredos & altar, Glastonbury Sy Jon ch by ADRC; church guide;
(1958 studies, Abbey House, Sherborne School, Dorset, C&P, OSS
CARPENTER & INGELOW, Architects, London. Richard Herbert Carpenter 1841-93 was with William Slater +1872 (S&C qv) from 1863 until Slater's death, then joined by Benjamin Ingelow +1925 who had been an assistant, firm continued after 1893 by Ingelow, under same name. WAH Masters of Swindon was articled; RH Carpenter was son for Richard Cromwell Carpenter qv 1812-55, who died suddenly having begun work on Lancing College, Sx, which RHC continued;
1871-9 rest Bruton ch, Som; VCH, N wall and clerestory rebuilt, S vestry extended for organ chamber, additional seats for choir, figures in clerestory niches by Owen Thomas; SRO parish records; Br 20.7.72 S&C; carving missing angels, bosses and panels of roof by Pepper & Son of Brighton; Clarke & Son Bruton contractors; 1871-9 ICBS: RHC signs first set of plans; S&C 2nd; C&I the third (? dates); Thomas Court qv surveyor was clerk of works; PSANHS 1878 33; church history by John Bishton, 2011;
(1875 rest Steeple Langford ch, Wilts; WBR)
(1879 Knoyle House, East Knoyle, Wilts exh RA1879; dem;
1882-4 rest Chilthorne Domer ch, Som; ICBS; rebuild chancel E and N walls; SRO 1882; CB 1882 99;
1883 entry Sexeys School competition, Bruton, Som; Br 44 1883 365; RHH;
(1883 North Wootton ch, Dorset; BoE; by Mr Carpenter WG 26.10.83
(1884 rest tower Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; BoE; Mr Carpenter WG 19.1.83;
1896 rest Poyntington ch, Som; SRO cf 1896/6, C&I; ICBS by Bernard Ingelow, N porch, nave N wall, S aisle W window;
(1889 completion Honolulu Cathedral, USA; ill Br 2.11.89)
(1899 Pulpit, Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; by BI; BoE, carved by James Forsyth;
CARPENTER, DAVID Mason
1745 Paid for pointing steeple, Woodlands ch, Som; Longleat Pennard 2/12 22/8/1745; also paid in same collection of vouchers are John Carpneter 1753, Philip Trollop mason 1754-68, John Wiltshire mason 1773, James Townsend carpenter 1751, Jeremiah Guy carpenter 1754-69, James Denmead carpenter 1773; Joseph Gerrett carpenter 1789;
CARPENTER, J. E. B.
1953-7 Emmanuel ch, Lower Weston, Bath;
CARPENTER, RICHARD CROMWELL Architect Carlton Chambers, London. 1812-55, important contemporary of Pugin, died young. Articled J Blyth, associated with Ecclesiological Society. In partnership with William Slater 1818-72 (WS) as Carpenter & Slater (C&S), Slater continued practice. Carpenter’s son Richard Herbert Carpenter 1841-93 was trained by Slater and joined him (S&C) in 1863, firm continued after 1872 as Carpenter & Ingelow with Benjamin Ingelow. RCC designed Gothic school buildings at Hustpierpoint and Lancing, Sx.
(1838-42 Lonsdale Sq, Islington, London)
(1848-9 Monkton Wyld ch, Dorset; BoE;
(18?? Rectory, Monkton Wyld, Dorset; BoE;
(1849-51 rest nave and transepts, Sherborne Abbey, Dorset: rebuilt E & W crossing piers c1850-5; S transept roof 1850; des organ case ?1855; report SM 8.6.1852 protesting at cessation of works before vaultings and floors attended to.
(1852 Bovey Tracey ch, Devon)
(1852 gateway & porter’s lodge, Sherborne School, Dorset;
(1854 alts Rectory, St John ch, Long St, Devizes, Wilts; WBR2)
(1854-5 rest St Mary ch, Devizes, Wilts; BoE; DWG 11.1.55 under James Randell;
(1855 rest monastic buildings, Sherborne, Dorset, for Sherborne School: Guesten Hall, Abbots Hall converted to chapel;
CARPENTER, RICHARD HERBERT. 1841-93. Son of RC Carpenter +1855 qv, pupil of father’s partner William Slater +1872, joined him in 1863 as Slater & Carpenter qv (S&C); partnership with Benjamin Ingelow (C&I) see Carpenter & Ingelow. Continued father’s work at Lancing College, chapel 1868ff, des Ardingly Coll Sx 1864.
(1869 lectern Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; BoE; made by Potter of London;
1871-2 rest Bruton ch, Som; VCH, N wall and clerestory rebuilt, S vestry extended for organ chmbr, additional seats for choir, figures in clerestory niches by Owen Thomas; SRO parish records; Br 20.7.72 S&C; carving missing angels, bosses and panels of roof by Pepper & Son Brighton; Clarke & Son Bruton contrs; 1871-9 ICBS RHC signs first set; S&C 2nd; C&I the third ? date; Thomas Court surveyor was clerk of works; SWJ 22.6.72; ?work not completed as reopened SWJ 3.11.1877
(1873 Outrington ch, Ches;
(1873 Digby Mortuary Chapel, Sherborne, Dorset; S&C;
(1875 Spring Grove, Kent, for Rev Tabor;
(1875 rest Steeple Langford ch, Wilts; WBR; - Crook, bldr;
(1876 prop Manchester Cathedral;
(1877-9 Big School, Sherborne School, Dorset; BoE;
(1879 Knoyle House, East Knoyle Wilts; RA 1879; dem;
1878 prop fan vault to tower Bruton ch, Som; SANHS 24 1878 33; not ex, present fan vault is plaster;
1882-4 rest Chilthorne Domer ch Som; ICBS; C&I; rebuild chancel E and N walls; SRO 1882; CB 1882 99;
(1883 rebuilding ??Sherborne by Mr Sesly builder under Mr Carpenter, WG 2.2.83
(1884 rest tower Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; BoE; C&I;
(1884 reredos Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, BoE; carving by Forsyth;
CARREK LTD. 1 St Andrew St, Wells. Builders, building conservation, set up by Richard Thompson and Piers Denny, Gilletts Farm, Yarcombe, Devon. Worked on White Tower at Tower of London and Hampton Court for Royal Palaces; repairs Glastonbury Abbey installed new glass bridge; Chain Gate, Wells Cathedral; repaired plaster ceiling Court Room, Fore St, Chard, Som; Muchelney Abbey, Som; Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som, for Sir Benjamin Slade; Langport ch, Som, for CCT, Philip Hughes archt; reps Holt Trinity ch, Blackford, Wedmore, Som; summerhouse at Hatch Ct, Hatch Beauchamp, andrew Stone archt;
1999 rest Robin Hoods Hut, Halswell House, Goathurst, Som; CTA 1999; for Landmark Trust; ?Peter Bird architect;
1999 rest Temple and Mausoleum, Hestercombe, Som; CTA 1999;
(2007 moved Clavell Tower, Kimmeridge, Dorset back from cliff edge for Landmark Trust; RICS award 2009
2006-7 rest roof Whitestaunton Manor Som, for Stuart & Sylvie Moore (Jo Hibbert archt) restored great hall roof; Wood Award 2008;
2006-7 rest Great Bow Wharf, Langport, Som; Malcolm McCall archt, Patrick Stow engineer;
(2008 rest Wilton Castle, Herefs; Stainburn architects;
2008-9 contrs Charlton House, Charlton Mackrell, Som; Architecton architects;
2010ff rest The Chantry, Kilve, Som;
2010 rest barns, Burrow Farm, Stawley, Som;
(2011-12 rest White Tower, Tower of London; RICS award 2012;
CARRUTHERS (GRAHAM) PARTNERSHIP see also GCP Architects.
1991 Water treatment works, Fulwood, Pitminster, Som, for Wessex Water; BD 25.10.91;
CARTER HUGHES PARTNERSHIP Bath later Carter Hughes Davies
1985-6 alts Hay Hill B chapel, Bath; new floor; MF;
1985-7 rest Fountain House, Fountain Bldngs, Bath; MF;
1992-3 enlarged church hall, St Luke ch, Wellsway, Bath; plaque;
20?? cinema addition to house at Bath; Biggs contractors website, neo-Georgian;
CARTER, EDWARD Surveyor to Yeovil RDC 1906-26 and jointly with Field nicholson 1931-7, died 1940; SAS;
CARTER, JOHN Mason, Exeter.
1507-9 adds Croscombe ch, Som; SW treasury and NE vestry; SNB;
CARTER, JOHN. 1748-1817. Antiquary, topographical artist, son of Benjamin Carter, sculptor London. Assistant to Joseph Dixon qv 1766 (1764 SAS), to Henry Holland Sr 1768, and maybe clerk of works to James Wyatt. Did architectural drawings for Builders Magazine 1774-8, mostly Gothic. Drew antiquities for private patrons, for the Soc of Antiquaries, and published numerous collections inc Specimens of Gothic Architecture collected 1824 from prev published work. The ancient architecture of England 1795-1814 reprinted 1845. Composed operas; HC; measured drawings and plans of the Vicar's Close and Liberty, Wells c1784-95;
1774 des for Gothic Mansion in Builders Magazine 1774 was basis for Midford Castle, near Bath, Som, for HD Roebuck c1775; MF; HC; CL 3-10.3.1944;
(1780 screen, Peterborough Cathedral, dem HC)
(1806 ?cottage, Stourhead, Wilts for Sir RC Hoare; HC; this seems unlikely as Gothic alterations to the Rustic Cottage at Stourhead date from 1782 and the Convent from c1765;
(1809ff Lea Castle, Worcs; dem; cf T Mowl, AH 1982)
CARTER, JOHN Budleigh Salterton Devon. Builder
1814 alts Clatworthy parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/39; £578, ref to thatch and tile, no plans;
CARTER, OWEN BROWNE Architect, Winchester 1806-59, HC pupil of William Garbett (1770-1834), architect to Winchester Cathedral, started practice in Winchester 1834 after travel to Egypt 1829-30; topographical artist; Illustrations of the Churches of Wiltshire; Cathedrals of England; GE Street was pupil 1841-4; died in Salisbury Infirmary practically a pauper, SAS;
(1836 Workhouse, Wareham, Dorset with H Hyde; HC)
1843 stained glass E window, Beckington ch, Som, 3 lights with centre of X bearing cross from the celebrated picture at Oxford, side compartments designed by Mr OC are rich and appropriate ornamental work, whole a very able production of the pencil of Mr Lygo, Winchester; SM 18.3.43; SNB has different E window of 1870s;
CARTLIDGE, SIMON Architect, Bishopston, Bristol. Worked for English Heritage.
(2011 rest Tithe Barn, St Mary ch, Shirehampton, Bristol; Shire Apr 2011
2012 rest The Chantry, Kilve, Som; inf Piers Denny;
CARTWRIGHT, FRANCIS. Bryanston. c1695-1758; HC; IR; carver and architect of Blandford Forum acc to WBR2; buried in St Mary ch, Blandford St Mary, Dorset, monument with architect's implements and scroll of Came House design, ill BoE; John Plimmer of Brinson (?Bryanston), Dorset, apprenticed as carver 1736 ?same as or related to John Plimer of Bodmington partner with Nathaniel Ireson on building of Berkley House, Som, 1730-4; connection with Ireson at Redlynch see below; FC died 24.4.58 leaving a newly built house in Blandford and requesting that stone, marble, timber and boards be sold to benefit wife and daughter, IR;
(1732ff work for Henry Hoare II Stourhead, Wilts, paid £510 in 1741-7 including for provision of large carved frame, work in saloon and other labour; IR; employed there 1749-55, SAS;
(1738-41 alts Creech Grange, Dorset; HC; BoE; provided three chimney-pieces IR;)
(1739 prop redecoration including stucco work, Bishops Palace, The Close, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR2; possible work in other houses in The Close RCHME
1742 employed at Redlynch, Som; paid 5/0d for setting up a statue on the terrace and 12/0d for cutting a motto at the temple. W&D 267; more work 1753,
(1742-3 carving Blandford Forum ch, Dorset; IR; HC;
(1743 alts repairs Melbury House, Dorset; W&D 82-3, for Susanna Strangways Horner; Joseph Childs carpenter £8;
(1745 rebuilt Melbury Osmond ch, Dorset for Susanna Strangways Horner; W&D 341; estimate £252/26/8d with further £82/9/1d for tower. Mr Greenaway paid £6/6/0d for gilding and painting altarpiece;
(1746-9 Kings Nympton Park, Devon; BoE; IR
1750-1 work at Farleigh House, Farleigh Hungerford, Som, SAS, paid for work at the quarries and at the house DRO D/FRA/E85; much rebuilt c1806-13;
1753 work at Redlynch, Som: £10/10/0d paid to ‘Mr Ireson in part of Mr Cartwright’s bill’; W&D 267;
1754 alts Halswell House, Goathurst, Som, for Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte; CL 9.2.1989; remodelled E and W fronts, adding canted bays and added screen wall across service yard; work done with Bastard family masons qv; HC; SSCH 69;
(1754-62 Came House, Winterbourne Came, Dorset for John Damer; BoE; house is depicted on FCs mon in Blandford St Mary ch, Dorset.
CARVER, DANIEL Joiner, Bridgwater, 1764-1811, father of Richard Carver qv 1792-1862 and William Carver qv builder 1798-1874;
1807 Parsonage, Woolavington, Som, £733; plans SRO for well designed mansard-roofed 3-bay house;
CARVER, RICHARD Taunton 1792-1862; HC; RL: apparently the second of seven children born to Daniel & Sarah Carver of Bridgwater. Three younger brothers were John Smith Carver 1796-1832, draper of Bridgwater, William Carver qv born 30.6.1798, briefly an architect in Carmarthenshire, and Daniel Carver of Llanelli died c.1841. Daniel's wife, Sarah, was living at Haverfordwest in 1841.Worked for father before becoming pupil of Jeffry Wyatville in 1810, exhibited at RA 1811-12. Had to abandon articles 1812 on death of father, set up in Bridgwater 1813, advert TC March 1813 says that has been perfecting himself in his profession under Mr Jeffry Wyatt. Married Betty Morse in 1818, one daughter Jane born 1822, Betty died 1827. Applied 1818 to succeed Robert Anstice qv as County Surveyor. Listed under carpenters & Joiners in 1822-3 dir, but with '(and architect)' after his name; BC 8.11.27 second marriage to Harriet Gore of Hill House, Wiveliscombe; moved to Taunton 1828 (1829 SAS), becoming County Surveyor, Somerset, 1830 (TC 21.4.30), held post until retired 1857. In 1835 built Lowlands, Trull Rd, Taunton for himself. In 1843 CE Giles then aged 21 bought himself a ten-year partnership for £500 (1844 SAS). In 1848 Giles qv married Carver's daughter Jane (1822-1900), only child of Carver by his first marriage. CEG describes Carver’s practice in his autobiography p142: Carver ‘had in the days of ignorance of all art matters in England done a large business through the opportunity afforded him by his office of contact with the squires of the county’ also says that most houses W of Taunton had been ‘dealt with in some way (by Carver), more or less to their injury’. ‘Greatest difficulties lay with my partner himself, who could not at all understand Art to be otherwise than a fashion of the times changing with Caprice’ p144. Eccl 1844 158 attacked Carver’s church designs; Br 1857 78; Giles bought himself out of the partnership in 1852. buried Wilton churchyard, Taunton, Som, tombstone S of church. Carver was a freemason TC 3.8.1842;
1815 ?work at Fairfield House, Stogursey, Som, for John Acland; VCH 6 based on SRO DD/AH/66/12/3 & 4 ground-floor survey plan of house and kitchen garden and first-floor plan by RC dated Sept 1815, but no evidence of associated alteration.
c1815 Hartrow Manor, Stogumber, Som, rebuilt for Rev Thomas Sweet-Escott, but possibly dates from 1820s; Willett House nearby was part of same estate and rebuilt for General Blommart, related by marriage to Sweet Escott;
1815-16 alts Parsonage, West Quantoxhead, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/40; TBC ill 2st 3w plain house with trellis porch; alteration of existing £400/11/4d; present rectory 1872 by John Norton qv;
1815-16 ?alts Stogursey ch, Som; SAS, rebuilt two piers supporting rood beam, 1815-16, and extensive repairs in the nave, but proposals for a new aisle on the S side were rejected by the Parochial Church Council in 1823-24, Carver superseded Robert Anstice of Bridgwater who had originally been appointed, carpenter Davy, engineer Savary; D/P/Stogs 4/1/3; VCH; Ballard, A History of the Priory Church of St Andrew, Stogursey, 1977, reprinted 1992;
1818-19 Willett House, Elworthy, Som, for Lt Gen Daniel Blommart; VCH 5; SAS; T/PH/bscs/2; presumably also South Lodge;
1818-23 Chapel Cleeve House, Som, for John Halliday, Tudor; VCH 5; much enlarged 1913-14 for GS Lysaght; five-bay house with centre gable is Carver, also SE service wing. Windows were changed in 1913-14 and front door blocked. Ground floor interiors remain. Obelisk finials in grounds may come from Fairfield House, SAS;
1819-21 School, Yarde, Nettlecombe, Som; for Sir John Trevelyan; SRO DD/WO/35/1/21 has RCs account 1821;
1820 ?Theale ch, Wedmore, Som; RL; ICBS says 1828;
1820-1 alts Nettlecombe ch, Som; DD/WO/35/1/21 is RCs account 1821 for repaving chancel in octagons with black Lias squares, three new windows in S aisle of Farleigh Down stone and work to a chancel window;
1820-1 alts Nettlecombe Court, Som, for Sir John Trevelyan; DoE attributes alt of former barn/stables to Nettlecombe Cottage, as S end remodelling for cottage is in Carver style Tudor. DD/WO/35/1/21 has RCs account 1821 for work including Yarde school, the lodge, and Nettlecombe church, nothing at the house, but possible that Carver enlarged the L-plan service range to three storeys;
1821 Lodge, near Chidgley, Nettlecombe, account DD/WO/35/1/21; similar to South Lodge, Willett;
1821 apply to Mr Carver architect, Bridgwater, re tenancy of Broomfield Hall, Broomfield, Som; TC 4.4.21; 'house has just undergone a very thorough and complete repair and painting'; house is said to date from 1803;
1822-3 Blackford ch, Wedmore, Som; ICBS; dated 1823; BoE S; RL ch and also church hall, ?Sunday School across road ?1817-18, NWC, date plaque from Sunday School now in village hall 1832, SAS;
1823-7 TH or Guildhall, High St, Bridgwater, Som; VCH 6; TH, courts and judge’s lodgings 1823ff, RL; FS TC 6.9.24; Maclaughlin Ross report suggests that main frontage was judges’ lodgings, court behind replaced 1865. Four houses to E Nos 34-40 High St were by Carver, No 38-40 built 1824-7, rebuilt 1950, Nos 34-6 surviving;
1823-4 rest Stogursey ch, Som; church guide says survey called for 31.5.23 nave roof to be renewed, then RC asked to report on whole nave; roof est £232, - Davy carpenter, - Savery engineer; additional plans for £400 of work, N and S walls to be taken down and rebuilt, new S window of Bath stone. Carver proposed a new S aisle, rejected; 1824 VCH6;
1824 enlarged Edington Manor, Edington, Som; house history in SRO, built 1791 or c1807 for Rev John Jeremy +1818, enlarged 1824 by RC with F Merrick & Son qv, possibly added 2nd storey to back part; VCH;
1824-7 No 38-40 High St, Bridgwater, Som, House adj TH, dem 1950 for TH extension. Also Nos 34-6 to E, on site of Noah's Ark PH though docs less clear; TH report by Maclaughlin Ross;
1825-8 Theale ch, Som; SAS; ICBS;
1826 enlarged nave, Bishops Hull ch, Som; ICBS 1825-7; RL; George Herniman builder, SAS;
1826-7 Herd's Hill, Langport, Som, for R Bagehot; house history by J Seaton and B Winetrobe, photo before alterations; house altered after 1881; now Hurd's Hill; Walter Bagehot as a new-born was reputedly present at the foundation laying;
1826-8 alts Langport Arms, Langport, Som; ?inc the porch; SRO D/B/la/104; M Davis Jr qv builder; extensive file of bills and letters 1826-8 re rebuilding of coach-house to W with dining-room above, new stables SW; payments etc. Unsigned designs for columned porch ?not by Carver; letter from Edwin Downe qv re ironwork; agreement by John Harvey to erect portico 1828; also letters from Davis re minor adds and repairs 1836-8, RC possibly not involved;
1827-8 alts Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som, for General Sir John Slade 1st Bt; SC, bills SRO DD/SL/38/1-2 inc George Perry for fine plasterwork £152/19/0d; John Gaylor builder paid £84/17/11d 1828ff; Richard Down qv iron-founder £11/19/5d for six cast-iron elliptical arches; James Stockman, stonemason; Carver, then of Bridgwater, was paid £5.5.0 for survey and plan 1827-8, then £150 4/1/1829; added dining-room on N end and altered exterior of late C18 N addition to match and also porch; painting at house shows mullion-and-transom windows where now are casements and French windows; Carver designed new main staircase; Charles & Richard Barfoot of Blandford St Mary supplied trees for estate in 1823, James Veitch supplied trees for park in 1839; DoE; later alts, finial dated 1868;
1827 Sutton Mallet ch, Som; exc tower; ICBS; 1826-9 SAS; guidebook by M Mc Dermott, 1826 Carver recommended demolition except tower, William Stagg, carpenter, contractor for £360, but payment in 1832-3 £72/10/0d for ‘plan for building and adding to the tower’ may mean that tower was only finished that year.
1827-9 Wiveliscombe ch, Som; ICBS; signs W gallery; estimate £4185; FS 6.6.27; consecrated SM 26.10.29; TC 22 & 29. 4.29; carpenter – White, SAS; Wiveliscombe 2005 71; chancel alts 1872 Giles & Gane; chancel alts 1915 FB Bond;
1828 alts Taunton & Somerset Hospital, East Reach, Taunton; SAS enlarged, alts and repairs including overhanging roof, matching 2-storey wings, and pillared porch 1828, TC 29.10.28, also 1841 additional E and W wings TC 27.1.41 (1839-43 SAS) George Herniman contractor, and alts 1859-60
1828 Original Infants School, Mary St, Taunton: RC designed or worked on it, RL; dem exc for gateway; TC 26.3.28
1828 added vestry, Wedmore ch, Som, also a ringing room, SAS; John Wheeler, builder, vestry dem 1880-1;
1828-9 supervised house, No. 26 Abbey St, Chard, Som, for master of Free Grammar School, design by John Patch qv, George Pollard qv builder, SAS, VCH;
1828-9 Chard Arms Hotel, Fore St, Chard, Som SAS; TC 25.6.28, 11.11.29;
1828-31 Holy Trinity ch, Wellington, Som; dem 1966; SAS, TC 13.4.31;
1829-33 Knowle Hall, Bawdrip, Som; 1825 RL; VCH 6 187 says Benjamin Greenhill of Puriton Manor and Downend bought estate in 1830-1; stained glass here or at Puriton Manor by Thomas Willement; family suggest that Cossington Manor c1835 nearby for Mrs Broderip, Greenhill’s sister is probably also by Carver; Greenhill was in trouble ?marital before house was complete, lived abroad until c1861; built folly castle on hill in 1870, since dem; Blue Lias Tudor; SAS, TC 26.8.25, DD/X/LA 11;
1830ff alts and adds HM Prison Cornhill, Shepton Mallet, alterations and additions including entrance gatehouse, keeper's house and a chapel, 1830, builder George Herniman, Taunton; 1843-44, builder James Stockham, and 1848 builders Fudge & Gould, closed in 2013 TC 7.7.30, 22.2.43, 12.4.48; Q/AGS/2/4; EH list; built as a House of Correction in the early C17, became the County Gaol in 1884, replacing Taunton; SAS;
1830 West Somerset Savings Bank, 1 Upper High St, Taunton; RL; TC 15.9.30; alteration of former Full Moon Inn; 'the taste of some parts of the building may be questioned … SM 10.1.31; SAS says built as Somerset & Wilts Savings Bank; J Booker, Temples of Mammon 1990;
1831-5 National School, Sand St, Milverton, Som; 1835 HC;
1831 Holy Trinity ch, Mantle St, Wellington, Som; dem; GM 1840 2 307;
1831-3 alts Hatch Beauchamp ch, Som; ICBS; S aisle, vestry, repairs;1831-5 SAS; 1834 ICBS;
1832 parsonage, Minehead Som; ill TBC; now No 19 Downhill, Minehead, SAS;
1832 plan of Castle Green, Taunton, showing possible acquisitions; SAS;
1832-3 proposed alterations, Taunton Castle for Assize Courts unex; C Webster, Taunton Castle, 2016;
1833 B chapel, South St, Wellington, Som; and Sunday School; chapel history; altered inside since; W Honeyball, builder, SAS;
1833 alts North Curry ch, Som; Olivey North Curry 1901; new pewing, alts and repairs; new pulpit made out of woodwork of Lillesdon pew; Thomas Trump lowest tender £360;
1833? alts Woodlands, Ruishton, Som for Mrs Lock; DoE; remodelling of house of c1810, Tudor.
1833 Cutcombe parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/60; TBC ill plan; 1832-3 SAS; JW Wainwright qv of Shepton Mallet signs plans, but correspondence makes clear RC was designer; £1020;
1833 Hawkers Bridge, Wincanton, Som; VCH 211 single arch with flood holes; dem 1973; new bridge 1979; ref to a bridge ?where TC 27.3.33; John Sone qv of Yarcombe, Devon, builder; SAS;
1833-4 alterations East Gate, Taunton Castle, in relation to new butchers' market Taunton; DD/CPHS/45; see also Richard Laver;
1833-4 New Market, Taunton SAS; about to open TC 19.3.34; dem; George Pollard builder; dem:
1833-4 alts Milverton ch, Som; SAS TC 20.11.33;
1834 Cocks Bridge, Ashwell, near Ilminster, Som; built by R Mears; DoE list sub Whitelackington: segmental arch of 10m span; Bentley & Murless, Somerset roads, 1985; SAS builder Robert Mear;
1834 Twinney Bridge, Ashwell, near Ilminster, Som; built by R Mears with Cocks Bridge for £375; Bentley & Murless, Somerset Roads, 1985; segmental arch of 3m. Robert Mear builder, SAS;
1834 Tone Bridge, Taunton; RL, FS 29.5.1834, TC 4.6.34, centre arch erected at expense of Bridgwater & Taunton Canal Co, Thomas D Maddicks qv engineer; replaced 1895;
1834-5 TH, Fore St, Chard, Som; Corporation Minute book; classical;
1834-9 alts North Petherton ch, Som; RL; what did he do?
1835 Lowlands, 13 Trull Road, Taunton, Som, for himself, family there until moved to Mountswood, Haines Hill, Taunton; RL; leased 1849 by Carver to Mrs Ainslie widow DD\DP/5; 1831 SAS;
1835? attrib Cossington Manor, Som for Edmund Broderop; BoE; Mrs Broderop was sister of Mrs Greenhill of Knowle Hall;
1835ff alts St Audries, West Quantoxhead, Som, for Sir Peregrine Fuller-Palmer-Acland who bought estate in 1835; VCH 5; 1835 RL; cf also 1824; design undated for ceiling and lantern of stair hall signed by RC, DS suggests 1840 date for Tudor-style staircase, possibly also NE dining-room addition and alts to S front including conservatory (since removed); much enlarged by John Norton qv 1870-2;
1835-7 alts Shepton Mallet ch, Som, with CR Wainwright Sr surveyor; RL 2 42; rebuilt aisles, enlarged and altered; SNB;
1835-6 Market House, Wells, Som; CEAJ 1839 426; 1835 RL and SNB;
1836 unex plans for TH, Yeovil, Som; SAS;
1836-7 Register Office, Middle St, Taunton; RL; stucco Tudor, now Somerset House;TC 22.3.37; SAS, George & Robert Herniman, builders;
1836-7 Register Office, North St, Wellington, Som; RL; small Gothic;
1836-7 Workhouse, North St, Wellington, Som; RL; .uk, 1836-7 Hanniball (Honeyball?) & Bradwell builders; dem; plan ill Bush etc, The Book of Wellington; T for the Registry Office at the Union TC 1.2.37;
1836-8 alts St James ch, Taunton; ICBS, enlarged S aisle, rebuilding except porch where he rebuilt parvise with rose window, added galleries N & S, N gallery stair; probably also outside railings and gateways, SAS;
1836-8 Burrowbridge ch, Som; ICBS plan; consec TC 12.9.38; alts 1888 JH Spencer qv; VCH; Robert Mear drew up specifications, SAS; also the vicarage;
1836 vicarage, Burrowbridge, Som; RL; VCH 6 63;
1837 alts Wilton ch, Som; ICBS; LSYH94, rebuilt chancel and E end nave, RL; also tower 1853; opened TC 10.1.38 pulpit in centre;
1837 plans Harvey’s Almshouses, Chard, Som; see 1841-2;
1837 Registry Office, record room, and dwelling for clerk to the Union, Taunton, ?at workhouse; T: TC 15.3.37;
1837 Staplegrove Elm, Staplegrove near Taunton, SAS; now Nuffield Hospital;
1837-8 ref to older architecture strictly adhered to in new building by RC; TC 10.1.38;
1837-8 Workhouse, Trinity Rd, Taunton, Som; standard design by Sampson Kempthorne; later Trinity Hospital, mostly dem, only admin block left dated 1837; HC addendum 2000 says by R Carver, presumably executant architect;
1838-9 repairs St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, in delapidated state, report referred to SCG 20.4.39 re Church Rate meeting; £2000 required, 1839 tenders for repairs nave roof, stone of windows parapets pinnacles SCG 29.6.39
1838 East Horrington ch, Som; ICBS; SNB; 1837-8 SAS;
1838 parsonage, East Brent, Som; D/D/Bbm/71; TBC ill, Tudor; RL; ?also the school 1841;
1838 parsonage Monksilver, Som; D/D/Bbm/72; gabled stucco
1838-9 attributed alts Orchard Wyndham, Williton, Som for 4th E of Egremont; CL 28.3.1985 819, £3779; work may have been by James Knowles qv;
1838-40 Coxley ch, Wells, Som; ICBS sub Wells; 1839-40 SAS; tile pavements 1884 by Craven Dunhill, AF notes; pulpit and benches 1903; petition to Ch Comms 5.4.38; opened 23.6.40, £1190, church leaflet;
1838-9 Burtle ch, Som; ICBS; RL; and possibly the school, SAS;
1838-9 enlarged Burnham on Sea ch, Som; N aisle with gallery; ICBS;
1839 vicarage, Westonzoyland, Som; SRO Bbm/73; TBC classical; RL; stuccoed, hipped, three-bay house; now Sedgmoor House;
(1839 parsonage, Silverton, Devon; Devon RO; BoE;
1839 National School, Pitminster, Som; and 1855; SAS; builder Richard Bicknell DD/EDS/1820;
1839ff rest St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton; Tenders for repairs and rest of stonework of windows, parapets and pinnacles, substantial repair of timber of nave roof, and glazing; SCG 22.6.39;
1839-40 Holy Trinity ch, Taunton Road, Bridgwater, Som; dem 1958; GM 1840 2 307; ICBS 1834-41; font in Holy Trinity Taunton; ?some bits in new Holy Trinity, Hamp; engraving by Buckler 1840 in Dunning, Bridgwater,76; TC 22.3.37, 19.6.39; consecrated TC 17.6.40; builder Thomas Hutchings;SAS;
1839-42 Holy Trinity ch, Trinity Rd, Taunton, Som; RL; excavation begun TC 19.6.39, consec 18.6.42, £7000, TC 26.3.42, TC 22.6.42, font of Painswick stone carved stone from design JM Derick qv; communion table of unusual size, stone chimney-piece of vestry also carved by Long; church history says paid for by Rev F.J. Smith who also paid for the schools, but Smith not mentioned in newspaper account?; JW Wainwright qv builder, SAS;
c1840 ?vicarage, Lyng, Som; HC from VCH 6 63; error for parsonage at Burrowbridge 1836;
1840 enlarged Bulland Lodge, Chipstable, Som DD/CPL 8; VCH; c1840 adds VCH 5 27, DD/Cpc/8 & 70;
1840 parsonage, Pitminster, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/80; large, bargeboarded;
(1840-1 Cheddington ch, Dorset; HC; ICBS;)
1840-1 alts Cannington ch, Som; VCH 6; 1841 RL; mostly to fittings, removed in 1885 by Edwin Down & Son qv; Carver cut up the screen to make parclose screens, Down reassembled it, Carver’s central pulpit and seating have gone; builder James Stockham of Bridgwater; Eccl 1 1845 292;
1840 enlarged Over Stowey ch, Som; HC from Church Commissioners church building records File 21744 pt 8; SRO D/D/Va; VCH, ‘the S porch and N vestry may then have been added and new windows inserted in S wall’; all looks much later, CE Giles rest chancel 1857, Samson & Cottam added bay to chancel 1902, Cottam & Sansom added two nave S one-light windows 1908;
1840-6 alts TH, Wells, Som; and jail behind 1853 SCH 14.1.54;
1841 alts Taunton & Somerset Hospital, East Reach, Taunton; RL; also 1828; were these the two wings?
1841-2 TH & MH, Wiveliscombe, Som; RL; Wiveliscombe 2005 31, FS 8.9.41 laid by Sir G Adams of Bickington House, TC 15.9.41; opened TC 3.8.42; paid for by Lord Ashburton; assembly room upstairs and magistrates court, sold by Lord Ashburton in 1894, portico removed in 1930s and wings spoilt; 1840-1 SAS;
1841-2 alts Somerset County Prison, Shuttern, Taunton, also called Wilton Gaol, large additions, also 1856-7; George Herniman builder, SAS; now County Police; TC 30.6.41; TC 11.8.41; SCH 8.1.53, WFP 1.1.57; alts 1856-7;
1841-2 Harvey’s Almshouses, High St, Chard, Som; Tony Prior, Harveys, 2009 17ff; plans made by RC 1837 adopted 1840; Simeon Symes builder estimate £1350; new plans in SRO for 16 flats in 2 buildings, completion delayed to 1842, £1741 paid Symes, £84/19/9d to RC;
1841-3 Easton ch, Som; SNB neo-Norman; 1841-4 SAS:
1842 alts enlarging Belmont, Belmont Drive, Taunton, Som; TC 7.9.42 for JE Marshall; neo-Grec house of 1820s: erected within last 15 years by an experienced architect sale advert SCG 25.5.1839 with description of all rooms; but reputedly dates from 1823;
1842 addition, Sunday School, Minehead ch; SAS;
1842 unex plans Corfe ch, Som; church rebuilt 1846 by B Ferrey qv; SAS;
1842-5 reps St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; with B Ferrey; Rev James Cottle, Some account of the church of St Mary Magd, 1845; estimate £1615/5/3d for stonework windows etc, roofing, stone floors, plastering, wall repairs outside; p6 says that B Ferrey qv was entrusted with portion of repairs undertaken by the vicar Rev J Cottle who agreed to repew, build W gallery, put in heating, stone Communion screen and put in stained glass E window for c£3000; 1843-5 by C&G SAS quoting lead plaques from church sold November 2018 marked Carver & Giles architects, 1845; Carver did repairs inc to original tower; ?Ferrey designed pulpit now in Temple WM chapel, font with tall spired cover, tower screen with organ-gallery, tower screen made by Messrs Wood of Henrietta St, London, organ in two halves made by Ling, organ-builder, Taunton,
1843 plans for substantial adds and alts Hadspen House, Pitcombe; unex; SAS from Robert Dunning;
1843-44 adds Prison, Shepton Mallet, Som, see also 1830 and 1848; RL
1843-4 alts Stoke St Gregory ch, Som; RL; reseating, cf Jerry Samson report on bench ends; reopened TC 3.7.44;
1843-7 supervising architect County Lunatic Asylum, East Horrington, near Wells, Som; design by Scott & Moffatt; RL2 34; by C&G a1844-7, SAS, TC 28.10.46, TC 27.10.47; chapel 1870 by Parr & Strong qv; adds by GT Hine qv1901; John Winstone suggests mortuary chapel may be by RC;
1844 work at Monty’s Court, Norton Fitzwarren, Som; RC probably designed house DoE c1840, SSW, for General Sir John Slade Bt (1762-1859); RC had worked for Slade at Maunsel Court, St Michael Church, Som in 1827-8 and is known to have been working at Monty’s Court in 1844; stables dated 1838. Tudor style house built because Slade’s 2nd wife disliked Maunsel, inf Sir Benj Slade; 1828-9 SAS ?error; also work in 1836, stables 1838 and alts 1844-5; DD/SLM Box 1;
1844 alts Minehead ch, Som; E 1844 133; SAS;
1844? Holy Trinity Schools, Taunton; dem; c1844 SAS;
1845-6 Haines Hill, Trull Rd, Taunton, Som; RL; suburban development of thirteen houses by Carver, five pairs Nos. 7-25 (odd) and three singles: No. 20 Sherford Lodge, No. 18 Windsor Lodge and No 16 Woodville; mostly stucco bargeboarded Tudor or Italianate, only No. 16 is brick. Also adjoining, on Trull Rd, Mountwood, 1852, and Haines Hill Terrace 1857; Dunning LSYH 104: nine houses and 2 plots mentioned 1845, three complete Jan 1846, twelve rated Oct 1846, 11 occupied Jan 1847. Sale of lands at HH by Harriet Carver to John Woolfrey Jr 1864 SRO DD/DP/72/3; sale of land at Haines Hill 1864 by Harriet Carver to John Woolfrey Jr DD/DP/73/3; Woodville to let apply R Carver TC 21.3.1860;
1845 Almshouses, Magdalene Lane, Taunton, Som; C&G; Tender TC 27.8.45; TC 3.6.46, partly dem; plans in JT p31 but ?misidentified as being 1867; SAS, William Shewbrooks builder,
1845 refurnish St Paul ch, Easton, Som; Eccl 4 1845 292; ?church of 1841-3 by RC;
1845-7 repairs Combe Florey ch, Som, C&G; SAS, new roof, D/P/cofl/4/1/1;
1846 vicarage, Isle Brewer, Som; D/D/Bbm/96; mullion & transom windows, gables, for Rev Joseph Wolff. ?did RC do the school 1852. C&G, SAS;
1846 unex plan rebuild Wambrook ch, Som; ICBS engraving; C&G;
(1846-7 alts Hemyock ch, Devon; C&G; ICBS; BoE Devon; Giles' autobiography lists as one of his;
1846-8 School, North Curry, Som; C&G; plans A Dix North Curry 2006, 162;
` 1847 unex plan for Taunton drainage, water supply and street lighting with Ralph Ham; C&G; SAS; JT 62;
1847-54 design for Rowbarton ch, Taunton, Som; eventually abandoned, built later by JH Spencer qv; RL; cf also WB Gingel; C&G, SAS;
1847 rest Charlton Mackrell ch, Som, C&G, rebuilt porch, restored windows, vestry, chancel rebuilt; N vestry added 1861 by CEG; SAS;
1848 adds Shepton Mallet Prison, Som, also 1830 and 1843-4; RL;
1848 Husrtbow Bridge, Martock, Som; DoE list, George Pearce mason, cast-iron arches by Edward Murch of Bridgewater; cf DJ Greenfield, the County Bridge Papers in SIAS 2 1977 27-30; PS 97, outer ribs only remain since 1975; C&G, SAS;
1848 attr Tone Bridge, Creech St Michael, Som; widened with cast-iron by Edward Murch, as at Hurstbow Bridge, Martock, PS 97-8; Creech Old Bridge, Creech St Michael, widened on both sides, original bridge dating from 1700, Edward Murch supplied the ironwork, SAS; Chipchase, Around Taunton, 1993, 71; South West Regional Institution of Civil Engineers, Bridges Along the River Tone, leaflet; C&G, SAS;
1849 school, West Hatch, Som; Eccl 1849 355; C&G, SAS;
1849-50 adds Wellington ch, Som; C&G; ICBS; HC; 1847-51 SAS enlarged E end new chancel, N aisle; Eccl 1849 37;PSANHS 1851 30;
(1849-51 Holy Trinity ch, Beaminster, Dorset; HC; RCHM West Dorset 21; Giles in autobiography claims this as one of his;
1849-51 rebuilt Nether Stowey ch, Som, except tower; C&G; RL; plaque in church, William Shewbrooks builder; Giles in autobiography lists this as one of his;
1851 repairs Gaw Bridge, Kingsbury Episcopi, SAS;
1852 plans for alts SANHS museum, Market Buildings, The Parade, Taunton, C&G; SCH 31.1.52, SAS;
1852 Mountwood, Trull Rd, Taunton, Som for self; corner Haines Hill; RL;
1853 rebuilt tower, Wilton ch, Taunton, Som; 1852 acc to LSYH 94;
1853 report on Bridgwater ch tower and spire, SAS;
185? examined tower St Mary Magdalen ch, Taunton; repairs begun 1854 by CEG abandoned for complete rebuild under Scott and Ferrey qqv 1858-62; RL;
1853-4 proposed Assize Courts, Taunton, Som; planned two-building scheme in brick, abandoned for WB Moffatt prize-winning single-building scheme which RC supervised 1855-8; RL;
1856 identified site for County Polcie HQ, Bridgwater, but HQ was built at Glastonbury by Wainwright & Heard qqv; SAS;
1856-7 alts Somerset County Prison, Taunton, also 1841-2; RL; letters of 1853 re Wilton prison are in SRO DD/DN 363 between F Dickinson & R Meade-King refer to RC and plans being referred to Colonel Jebb, Inspector of Prisons;
1856-7 Pitney Parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/124; RL; medieval rectory abandoned 1827 as unfit; plans show one window with Muchelney style C15 window tracery as now on back of Carver building ?reused or copied; vicar Rev LS Dudman unsuccessfully claimed he had been libelled by Shewbrooks, the builder, both parties had published in the newspapers, but when an intemperate letter consigning Mr Carver to hell was produced the case was dismissed and vicar advised to be more temperate Wilts Indep 8.4.58;
1857 repairs Market House, The Parade, Taunton, Som; SAS;
1857-8 Haines Hill Terrace, 39-47 Trull Rd, Taunton; RL;
1858 Cow Bridge, Glastonbury, Som; SAS;
Attributed:
1815? attrib adds Hartrow Manor, Elworthy, Som, for Rev Thomas Sweet-Escott; attrib SSW; stucco five by four bays with deep eaves; Rev Thomas Sweet married the Escott heiress c1811; C16-C17 house had large Gothic great hall and service additions allegedly made in 1817, and new stuccoed house added after that, ?after a fire; but possibly all built earlier, c1815, contemporary with Willett House, Elworthy;
181? attrib conservatory, St Audries,West Quantoxhead, Som; DS says marked on a plan of 1817; mentioned in 1828 sale catalogue; Tudor style; orangery probably for Christina Balch +1824, HGS 153; also possibly the adjacent shell grotto; Carver probably worked on house then; he did further work on house after 1835 sale to Sir Peregrine Fuller-Palmer-Acland Bt.
1820s work for Trevelyan estate, Nettlecombe; RC worked on Nettlecombe Court, estate building work done by John and James Babbacombe qqv agents for the estate, possibly under RC; including a lodge, Woodadvent Farmhouse, alts Chidgley Farmhouse, Chidgley, Old Cleeve, (attrib DoE) Tudor-style refronting; cottages at Woodford, one pair dated 1824;
1832 attributed schoolroom, Blackford near Wedmore, Sunday School opposite church, 1817-18 SSW, but SAS says date plaque 1832 now inside or in village hall; RC designed church in 1823;
1830c attrib No 71 High Street, Wellington, c1830, SSW
1832-3 attrib TH, High St, Wellington, Som; SAS;
1833 attrib alts Sampford Brett ch, Som; SAS; 1835 SSW, for 4th E of Egremont;
1834-8 attrib S front Chilliswood, Trull, Som for Capt James Vibart RN; c1835 SSW, 1838 SAS;
1835c attrib Cossington Manor, Cossington, for Edmund Broderib, brother-in-law of B Greenhill of Knowle Hall;
1837 attrib rebuild of Leigh Court, Angersleigh, Som, after a fire;
1837 attrib Register Office Langport, Som,
1838c attrib Monty’s Court, Norton Fitzwarren, Som; DoE; 1840s SSW; for General Sir John Slade Bt (1762-1859); Carver had worked for Slade at Maunsel Court, St Michael Church, Som in 1827-8 and is known to have been working at Monty’s Court in 1844; stables dated 1838. Tudor style house built because Slade’s 2nd wife disliked Maunsel, inf Sir Benj Slade; 1828-9 SAS; also work in 1836, stables 1838 and alts 1844-5; DD/SLM Box 1;
1838c attrib Elworthy Rectory, Som
1838-9 attributed alts Orchard Wyndham, Williton, Som for 4th E of Egremont; CL 28.3.1985 819, £3779; work may have been by James Knowles qv;
1840c attrib Fons George House, Wilton, Taunton, Som;
1840c attrib Manor Farm, Wiveliscombe for Ashburton estate;
1840c attrib Ilex House, West Fitzhead, for Lord Ashburton’s agent;
1841 attrib School, East Brent, Som;
184? attrib Nos. 70-72 Wellington Rd, Taunton;
184? attrib school, Shapwick, 1840s;
184? attrib Chargot House, Luxborough, Tudor style remodelling of 1820s house;
184? attrib Puriton Manor, Puriton, with stables and the triple-arched entrance gateway incorporating the Greenhill family coat of arms and possibly some earlier material, probably after 1842; SAS
1848 attrib Tremlett House, Greenham, Som, for TE Clarke, now Greenham Hall;
1850c attrib remodelling Musgrave Manor, Galmington, Taunton; SSW;
1856-7 attrib Police Station, Upper High St, Taunton; dem 1963; SAS;
No 53 Trull Rd, Taunton;
attrib Waterslade, South Rd, Taunton;
attrib The Elms & Ashleigh, Chip Lane, Taunton; RL;
attrib alts Capton House, near Stogumber, Tudor-style;
CARVER, WILLIAM, Wenallt, Llanfihangel Abercywyn, Carms; 1798-1874, brother of architect Richard Carver of Taunton (1792-1862) qv, resident with Richard Carver in Taunton in 1841 census, but advertised as architect 1827 in Carmarthenshire and settled as gentleman, inf T Lloyd; may have designed his own house, Wenallt.
(1830-4 Unex plans Llanfihangel Abercywyn ch, Cms; ICBS 1263 L Box 4)
CASA ARCHITECTS Bath Brewery, Tollbridge Rd, Bath. CaSA, Ian Walker, previously in Edinburgh, then with Hetreed Ross qv in Bath; and Adam Dennes;
Website shows
(2003 conversion of Mansfield Place Catholic Apostolic ch, Edinburgh to offices 2003;
2012 new house Beacon Edge, Bath RIBA award 2013;
(2012 Priors Dean, Hants, large additions to thatched cottage;
2012 Jasmine cottage, Bath, Som, restructuring of bungalow;
(2013 North Farm Cherington, Glos, country house Regency shape but glass centre;
2016 Carisbrooke, Bathampton, Som, new modern house;
29?? The Cedars, Bathford, Som new house, boarded, modern;
20?? Lansdown Cottage, Bath, Som, new house in garden of old house;
20?? Golf Course Road, Bath, Som remodelling 1960 house in modern;
(20?? adds to a Regency house, Curdridge, Hants;
20?? add to house Junction Rd, Bath, Som;
20?? conv Manor Barn, Wellow, Som;
20?? renovation of C17-C18 Farm House, Wellow, Som;
20?? conversion basement Freshford Brewery, Som, to flat;
20?? new house Lansdown Rd Bath for Mr & Mrs Kennedy;
20?? new house site of All Saints church, Lansdown, Bath;
(20?? proposed 6 houses below Tanyfron, Llandysul, Cered for Mike Scutt; 20?? Pump Cottage, Bath; library wing St Andrew's primary school, Bath; 20?? Crewkerne Active Lifestyle Centre, Som, addition to existing pool;
20?? alts Primary School, Wellow, Som;
(20?? several buildings for Lantern Community, Hants;
20?? The Gateway Centre, Bath;
CASE, JOHN Architect, Engineer London
1769 repaired High Bridge, Highbridge, Som; advert in BC 17.8.69 proposes that flooding could be prevented by adding two more arches for £200 and calls meeting at High Bridge Inn;
CASSELDEN, JOHN
2000 Millennium Hall, Chew Magna, Som; SNB;
CASSON & CONDER Sir Hugh Casson qv & Neville Conder. Sir HC was archit adviser to Bath City architect Dr Stutchbury in 1960s; MF says advised on des of Harvey Building, High St, 1964-6; Sports Centre Pulteney Fields 1972;
1968-72 Pulteney Weir, Bath; MF; by NC; SC notes say weir by Conder with F Greenhalgh.
CASSON, Sir HUGH see Casson & Conder. Architectural adviser to Bath City Council in 1960s blamed eg for clearance of Holloway area. Architectural adviser to Salisbury, Wilts;
1964-6 Harvey Building, High St, Bath, Som; with North & Partners; SNB;
CATLING, CHARLOTTE SKENE see Skene Catling De la Pena.
CAVE – Architect
1798 Free Church, Bath opened BC 15.11.1798, on land of Lord Rivers, Rev Daubeny designed and gave the handsome altar, Rev Sibley rector of parish gave great bell; ?proprietary chapel
CAVE, WALTER FREDERICK 1863-1939 born Clifton son of Sir Charles Cave Bt of Bristol banking family and mother was daughter of JA Symonds. Articled AW Blomfield, set up 1889, surveyor to Gunter estate Brompton; numerous country houses; ASG;
c1895 School, Flax Bourton, Som; SNB;
(1897 Prescott’s Bank, Bedminster, Bristol; RA 1898;)
1896-7 Walled garden, Tyntesfield, Som; HGS 179, 201, for Anthony Gibbs, inc loggia, garden offices, bothy, and possibly Orangery; and other work SNB;
c1900 attr Nos 121-3 Farleigh Rd, Backwell, Som; SNB;
(1912 Burberry’s, Haymarket, London; ASG)
SNB attribs plinths added to Weston s Mare war memorial 1945, but Cave was dead.
CAVENAGH, H. E. B.
1951-3 Railway Station, Portishead, Som; BoE N;
CHAFFEY, THOMAS c1703-68. Identifies himself as ‘master mason to His Majesty first in Port Anthony, Jamaica, and afterwards in Portsmouth Dockyard’ on monument he erected to his parents +1728 and +1737 in Stoke sub Hamdon ch, Som.
CHAMBERLAIN, A.J.
1976 The Street, Chew Stoke, Som; HDA 1976;
CHAMBERS, ROBERT J. Minehead. Assistant to Geoffrey Beech. Quinquennial architect for Martock ch, Som (guide book).
2004-6 rest Isle Abbots ch, Som; Historic Churches special report BCD article by Sally Strachey; tower statues: Strachey & Strachey conservation; Hebe Sampson sculpture conservator; Jerry Sampson archaeologist;
2013 proposed alts, Stogumber ch, Som; glass doors; plans in church;
CHAMBERS, Sir WILLIAM. Architect, 1723-96, began practice 1755 after career in Swedish East India Co and study in Paris. HC
(1757-9 Triumphal arch, Wilton House, Wilts; on top of hill to the S, brought down to forecourt c1800 by J Wyatt; 'the first work in stone I executed in England'; HC;
(1757-9 Casina, Wilton House, Wilts; HC;
(1757-9 rock bridge, Wilton House, Wilts; HC; dem;HC
(1757-9 interior library, Wilton House, Wilts; remodelling of W range inc library, 17762, RCHM; WBR; dem;
1766-70 ?adds Coker Court, East Coker, Som; BoE; family tradition, but accounts show that house was by Joseph Dixon qv, cf HC; ?Dixon built it to a sketch by Chambers? Built about year 1760 to designs by Chambers acc to John Batten, Hist & topographical collections relating to the early history of parts of S Somerset, 1894, 159 and CL 2.1.1909;
(1771-6 Milton Abbey, Dorset; for Lord Milton, and model village c1774-80)
(1772 Chinese Temple, Amesbury Abbey, Wilts, perhaps embellishment of existing building of c1746; HC;
(1772-4 Tennis court, Wilton House, Wilts; dem; HC;
CHAMPION, WILLIAM SCOTT Architect, Cookham, Berks, and London, 1846-1922, born Henley, in partnership with Frederick Rogers until early 1870s. Was at 48 Guildford St, London in 1870, acc to ICBS plans for Knowle Hill (Hurley) ch, Berks;
(1876 alts Bishopstrow ch, Wilts; WBR2; builders Wall & Hooke;
(1876 rest chancel St Peter in the East ch Oxford; BN 19.5.76
(1877 St Peter ch, Regent Square, London BN 19.10.77)
1878 ?rest North Petherton ch, Som; plan ICBS; but final plan 1883 is signed by J H Spencer qv; ICBS; proposed new nave roof, restoration of aisle roofs, reseating nave, new choir stalls, c£3000 to be carried out in stages to start with raising sanctuary floor, Wall & Hook qv builders, BN 2.8.78 with interior ill; ill in CB 1883 39 is also by WSC according to SAS, but work was done by JH Spencer 1883-4;
CHANIN & THOMAS, estate Agents, Minehead. Set up in Wellington 1914, stopped by war, then Minehead 1919, at No 8 The Parade 2013, continued until 2017, SAS; Percy Ray Chanin 1888-1925 and Frederick Stanley Thomas 1891-1945
1930 Cranham Cottage (now Ambridge) The Parks, Minehead; JW Burt & Sons builders; OD; for CW Tyler;
1931 Huntspill, The Parks, Minehead, for ED Tuckett, Burgess & Sons builders; OD;
CHANT, JOSEPH. Hendford, Yeovil. Carpenter & joiner, 1850 and 1852-3 dirs.
1856 builder Wilts & Dorset Bank, The Borough, Yeovil, Som; LC Hayward From Portreeve to Mayor, 1987, 57.
CHANTRY, T. Architect Grove St, Bath 1792 advert for plot on Lansdown Rd Bath apply T Chantry architect, Cheapside , New town;
1793 tender for building a Horse bath with five-stall stable and a house, ?Stall St, Bath ?also T for removing 800 yds of earth from a site in Stall St; BC 25.2.93;
CHAPLIN, ABRAHAM. Taunton Builder
1785-8 Assisted Samuel Heal qv on Kingweston House, Som, for William Dickinson; plans possibly by H Holland qv; inf Mary Siraut;
CHAPMAN TAYLOR Architects founded 1959 by Bob Chapman +2017, John Taylor and Jane Durham, designed New Scotland Yard; Eldon Sq Newcastle 1977;
(1997-2000 Bristol & West Building, Temple Quay, Bristol;
(2005-8 Cabot Circus shopping centre, Bristol; design 2003;
2006-10 Southgate shopping centre, Bath; designed 1996, replacing 1969-72 centre by Owen Luder Partnership; SNB, neo-Georgian;
CHAPMAN, HERBERT TURLAY. Engineer, 1870-1938, born Halifax, Somerset County Surveyor 1908-14; RL2; SIAS 98 says concrete bridges were designed by his assistant EJ Stead qv 1909-14; SAS; .
CHAPMAN, JOSEPH Sr, sculptor, mason, Frome, 1784-1853. Joseph Chapman & Son sculptors fl 1805-63, Joseph Chapman Sr of Frome fl 1784-1853, Joseph Chapman Jr 1818-1900 practised also as an architect; Signs tablets in Som eg John Parsons 1806 and John Smith 1829, both Midsomer Norton; Edward Crabb +1810 and Ann Crabb +1816 at Tellisford;
1814 builder stone screen, Frome ch, Som, Jeffry Wyatt architect; SAS;
18?? attrib Lodge, Mells Park, Mells, Som, SNB, early C19 Gothic;
CHAPMAN, JOSEPH Jr Architect, Frome son of Joseph Chapman Sr qv (1784-1853)
Joseph Chapman Jr 1818-1900 practiced into 1880s; Cuzner’s Handbook to Frome 1866-7 calls him ‘architect, architectural and monumental sculptor’ with masonry works in Portway, where he is extolled for visiting cemeteries in Europe & America to keep up with taste and mentions an (unid) Purbeck and mosaic design in Westminster Abbey, a memorial cross in the Dissenters Cemetery, Frome, the Stancomb(e) tomb, Trowbridge Cemetery, Wilts (EE design), Nonconformist Memorial at Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, and monument at Ambleside, Cumb (probably to Capt Lutwedge). Deacon of Zion Chapel, Whittox Lane, Frome, temperance advocate. Mr Chapman, architect and builder of Frome spoke at Temperance meeting at Malmesbury WI 13.11.1856 having walked there from Chippenham where he had been preparing plans; Joseph Jr had a son Ernest BH Chapman (1851-1900); buildings by IR Chapman & Sons are recorded in 1840s in Wilts, presumably Chapman & Son, as Joseph Jr was only son;
Not apparently connected with J Wallis Chapman of London who designed Baptist chapels in late C19:
(1843 Hill Deverill ch, Wilts; BoE from GR, C&Sons)
(1844 Parsonage, Imber, Wilts; WBR, C&Sons)
(1845 National School, Maiden Bradley, Wilts; WBR;)
1846 ?Bunn pillar, Christchurch St West, Frome, or possibly by James Davis qv; SAS;
1853 memorial to John Chapman Sr, Dissenters' Cemetery, Vallis Way, Frome; SAS;
1854 British School, Milk St, Frome, Som DD/EDS/ 3501;
1859 work on Treborough ch, Som, for Sir J Trevelyan; account and letter DD/WO/54/11/64 & 65; may be another JC; bill for sills, ends, rails, seats and backs £38/12/0d; letter says he was in Bristol yesterday … ; SAS;
1863 rebuilt King Ina’s Palace, South Petherton, Som; ‘utterly destroyed’ a magnificent and untouched example of a C15 manor-house till Mr Chapman got possession of it and, having pulled most of the house down, rebuilt it in cockney Gothic’, Gunnis 97 from anonymous letter 3.10.63 to The Builder signed FSA, letter in support 10.10.63 from Philip Masey qv architect. House was rebuilt for E Estcourt Gale + 1874 aged 36, and SRO has photocopy of letter from him to The Builder pointing out the Philip Masey’s letter might be prompted by sour grapes as he had been recommended to Gale but J Chapman had got the job instead. JC letter 17.10.63 challenging anonymous ‘FSA’ to reveal himself, answered by one from ‘Another ‘FSA’’ pointing out that Chapman not an architect but ‘marble-mason and tombstone-maker’ Br 24.10.63; libel action against Mr Wyman, editor of The Builder, SCG 6.8.64, defendant withdrew all allegations;
1866, 1870 and 1876 Selwood Printing Works, Frome, Som for Butler & Tanner; SNB;
1867 No 44 Portway, Frome, Som, house for himself; SAS;
1871 ?carved Boyle Cross, Market Place, Frome, Som; but SNB says design by Eleanor Vere Boyle qv; SAS says designed in collaboration with her; TrAMS 1982;
1873 Temperance Hall, Frome, Som; SAS; dem 1964;
(c1879 Fishponds United Free Methodist, Bristol; Gomme;
1882 enlargement of schoolroom and erection new classrooms, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, Som; WG 15.9.82 JC honorary architect, J Ashley builder;
1888 refaced Zion C chapel, Whittox Lane, Frome, Som; JC Jr, SNB, suggested as designer of Sunday School 1875 and of arched screen to Catherine Hill 1893.
Also Memorial cross to Captain Marrish, Great Elm ch; SAS;
CHAPPEL, GEORGE Builder, died 1851.
1828 Vicarage, Othery, Som; SRO D/Bbm/56 plans; VCH brick-fronted, £420; extended 1832 with new drawing room also stables etc; refronted 1855 by John Norton
CHARLEWOOD, HENRY CLEMENT Architect, Newcastle partner Hicks & Charlewood, FRIBA born 1857 retired to Waverley, Mount Nebo, Taunton; WWinA 1926;
CHECKLEY, EDWARD Architect;
2018 restored Norton House, Georgian wing of Manor House, Norton sub Hamdon, for self;
CHEDBURN DUDLEY Architects Bath. George Chedburn founded Chedburn Design 1996 with Angela Dudley, Bath Brewery, Toll Bridge Rd, Bath, later Chedburn Ltd, Limpley Mill, Limpley Stoke, Wilts.
c1998 alts Gatcombe Court, Flax Bourton, Som; SNB;
1999-2000 alts Barton St David ch, Som, reordered S transept;
1999-2004 reps East Brent ch, Som; website;
???? alts East Pennard ch, Som; reopened after closed for 2 yrs for rotted floors
2000 alts Midsomer Norton ch, Som; vestry, toilets
2000 reordered Street ch, Som; AF notes; Church Building 89 2004 57-9; seats removed; new etched glass doors;
2000-4 add Beckington Primary School, Som;
2000-4 rest Manor house, Farmborough, Som; SNB;
2000-5 alt Norton St Philip ch, Som; internal vestry and meeting rm; SNB;
2002 conv Carnarvon Arms Hotel, Brushford, Som into flats;
2003 toilet add Somerton ch, Som; inf Adron Duckworth S Som DC; more reordering proposed 2011;
2003-4 reordered Holy Trinity ch, Nailsea, Som; SNB;
(2004 reps Wootton Basset TH, Wilts;)
2004 parapet repairs St Saviour ch, Larkhall, Bath;
2004-6 ext stonework repairs St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som;
2007 repairs Bristol Grammar School;
2011 prop reorder St Benedict ch, Glastonbury, Som; Angela Dudley project architect; unex.
2014 reordered Blagdon ch, Som
Also rest Frome Museum, Som; rest Hampton Court Castle, Herefs and garden structures; rest Kingcott Fmho, Flax Bourton, Som; report Newark Park, Glos, for NT with programme of repairs; rest lantern over stair Claverton House, Som, for American Museum; reps Berkley ch, Som; scheme for rest of Piercefield mansion, Chepstow, Mon; rest and stair-tower Farmborough Manor, Som; reordering Nailsea ch, Som; barn conversions Shaplands Farm, Cold Ashton, Glos; rest and adds Millards Hill House, Batcombe, Som; adds Field Farm, Biddestone, Wilts; reorder St Swithin ch, Walcot, Bath; rest Old Manor, Puddletown, Dorset; conservation Radstock town centre, Som; rest of cottage, Green St, Avebury, Wilts for NT; churchyard ramp and alts Sutton Montis ch, Som; repairs to court buildings all around England for Court Service inc to Royal Courts of Justice, London; maintenance plan for Hartham Park Wilts, maintenance plan Heywood House, Wilts for NT;
CHEDGEY, THOMAS. Mason or Thomas Chidgey;
1713-14 addition to Quay, Minehead, Som for Daniel Dennell who had designed wooden extension to be clad in stone, DD abandoned work, completed by TC under Joseph Alloway; Book of minehead 37.
1716 repaired Quay, Minehead, Som after storm damage; Book of Minehead 37;
1720 Rebuilt head of pier, Watchet, Som; £280; pier built 1708-10 by William Row qv; WH Norman, Tales of Watchet Harbour;
1728 Lengthened and repaired slip, Blue Anchor, Watchet, Som; WH Norman, Tales of Watchet Harbour;
CHEDZOY, HENRY Builder. Henry Chedzoy & Son; death of E Chedzoy, builder, Bridgwater, in BN 5.9.1884; HC & Sons, SAS;
1876 adds school, Chedzoy, Som, £645/5/0d; school of 1842; J Weeks, Chedzoy 160; HC&Son;
1879-80 builders Albert St, Shools, Bridgwater; John Parker architect; C&Son; tender A 12.10.78;
CHIBBETT, JAMES. Builder High St, Williton, 1825-90. 1872 dir. Chibbett & Sons, cabinet-makers, upholsterers, builders, painters, plasterers, 1906 dir; Henry John Chibbett 1850-1927 and Walter Chibbett 1854-1927 were sons;
1883-5 builder WM chapel, Williton, Som; architect R Curwen qv; JC&Sons or Landon & Chibbett builders; SRO D/N/wsc/2/3/3 FS 13.8.83 £2750; included manse and school.
1904 builders Bartholomew Thomas almshouses, Woolston, Bicknoller, Som; TH Andrew qv architect;
1922 House, Tower Hill, Williton for EH Morris; JC&Sons; dull roughcast hipped; backs onto Union Quarry; D/R/Wil/24/1/24;
1925-8 ?builders Great Hillcroft, Bicknoller, Som; architect C Holden qv;
1932 pair of houses, Catwell, Williton, Som plans by HJ Chibbett; D/R/wil/24/1/71;
1938 Fire Station, Williton; SAS; dem 1993;
CHIDGEY, THOMAS see Thomas Chedgey
CHILDS, CHARLES WILFRED, letter-cutter, mason, Yeovil. 1892-1964, son of George Childs (1859-1948) of Appleby & Childs (A&C), monumental masons, Yeovil. Firm continued into C21; JW & H Childs were builders at Kingston Works, Yeovil, in 1920s.
1921 War Memorial, The Borough, Yeovil, Som; made by A&C, Wilfred Childs is described as 'architect'; SAS, Osborn, A-Z of Yeovil's History, online;
1925-6 builders, roof repairs Kingsdon ch, Som, WF Dickinson qv architect; SAS; A&C
CHISLET & PITTARD Masons Somerton, William Chislet and John Pittard.
1787 Addition vicarage, Somerton, Som, for Rev John Chafies £300, paper with names found under floor boards.
CHIVERS, W.E. Builder Devizes Wilts. William Edward Chivers carpenter and joiner 1855-1916 set up in 1884, then WE Chivers & Sons, major contractors for schools in Wilts and Hants, to War Office and to Midland Bank
CHRISTIAN, EWAN 1814-95 London. Articled M Habershon, then with William Railton qv and John Brown qv of Norwich. Set up practice in 1842. Restored churches all over England and Wales, appointed Surveyor of buildings St Davids diocese 1886 NLW SD/Misc/1; Architect to Ecclesiastical Commissioners from 1850, architect to Charity Commission 1887; PRIBA 1884-6, RIBA Gold Medal 1887. WD Caroe qv was assistant architect to Commissioners in 1880s and succeeded him. Practice continued by nephew Joseph Henry Christian qv and assistant CH Purday qv. 1858-60 Rochester, St Peter; 1869-72 Leicester, St Mark; 1876-9 Cheltenham St Matthew; 1890-5 National Portrait Gallery, London; relation lives at Martock.
(1857 adds Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol; SNB)
(1860 rebuilt Semington ch, Wilts; WBR; WI 20.12.60 reopened, Mr Gain of Trowbridge contr, new spirelet, chancel rebuilt longer and different, rest restored; E and W windows by Lavers & Barraud; £1000;
1860-1 vicarage, Pitcombe, Som; VCH; SRO D/P/pitc 3/4/1;
1862 rest chancel, Ashill ch, Som; ch guide: ‘Their (Eccl Commissioners) architect, Mr EC, from the London firm of Caroe & Passmore worked in conjunction with the local Diocesan architect, Mr Jerboult’ new deal roof, floor, altar step, priest’s door S, and new deal seats using old oak bench ends.’ Horrible confusion, Jeboult qv was contractor, EC architect, and C&P were involved in 1930s. Coping and cross on E gable of 1862.
1862 ?restored chancel, Timberscombe ch, som; SAS;
(1862 rest chancel Westbury ch, Wilts; WBR; T for chancel WI 17.10.61;
(1862-4 rest Market Lavington ch Wilts; WBR;
(1864 rest Cricklade ch, Wilts £3450 DWG 29.12.64;
(1865 Manor House, Market Lavington, Wilts; WBR; large mansion for E Pleydell-Boverie MP;)
1866 parsonage, Pilton, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/152; large with mullion and transom windows, replacing a Georgian vicarage;
1866 consulted over rest of Somerton ch, Som; WG 9.2.66;
1866-7 rest West Camel ch, Som; ICBS; Br 1867 266; S porch, chancel arch, chancel roof; plans rest of chancel in SRO DD/Bbm/147 1866; Wellspring of Dorchester builder; WG 20.4.66;
1867 vicarage, Compton Dundon, Som; new house; inf owner, plans copied from Wells Diocesan Registry, not in SRO; ?also rear add 1873: D/D/bbm/195 has loan document, no details; ref to new ?church SCG 9.3.67, Wellspring & Son of Dorchester builders, and TC 13.3.67 £1100; ?rest of West Camel see 1866-7;
(1867 rest Piddlehinton ch, Dorset, new N aisle; BoE; commenced WG 8.2.67, Mr Gregory, Dorchester, contr;)
1867 attr parsonage, North Wootton, Som; sim to Compton Dundon and Pilton;
1869-72 rest Wookey ch, Som; ch history by J Hasler & B Luker; report Dec 1869, c£1700; Knowles of Cheddar contractor; report 1867 acc to SAS;
1870-1 rest Portbury ch, Som; SNB; new chancel, nave roofs and prob rest aisles and porch c1875; to be restored TC 11.5.70 c£2000; rest nave and chancel, chancel restored by EC for £700, nave £1300 BN 1871b 374; JW King, Clifton, builder;
(1870 rest tower, Winterborne Monkton ch, Dorset; BoE)
1871 rest chancel Pilton ch, Som (rest restored by AE Gough of London); Br 29 1871 432; £2300, roof rebuilt, about half aisle roof is new, replica of original, new pulpit and font carved by Herley of Wells; lectern supplied by Hart & Peard, London; new altar; galleries removed, pine pews; S entrance arch restored to the Norman style; N door is EE and also nave arcade they have been similarly treated; stained glass one window given by R Clerk of Westholme House and several others in various parts of the church all by Horwood of Frome;
1870-3 Easton in Gordano ch, Som except tower; ICBS; SRO D/D/cf/1870/7; 1871-3 SNB;
1872 rest chancel Bicknoller ch, Som; Br 29.6.72, nave rest by JD Sedding; cost c£1400; contractor Henry Davis Taunton; roofs, floors, font, altar, benches w old bench-ends, gallery removed, tower not yet done; plans SRO by JDS;
(1873 Highlands, Nailsworth, Glos for Mrs Frith; Br 2.8.73;
1873 tablet, Winsham ch, Som, made by Harry Hems; WG 12.9.73; c£150; reredos according to SSW;
1873 parsonage, Publow, Som; SRO Bbm/203; new house gothic;
1874 parsonage, Ilton, Som; SRO Bbm/209; new, gabled, Gothic porch.
1874 parsonage, Martock, Som; SRO Bbm/210, new, gabled brick, but parsonage built is in Ham stone;
1875-82 rest Burnham on Sea ch, Som; SRO cf/1877/10A; chancel rest 1875-6 w new E window for Ecclesiastical Commissioners; reseat and rest nave 1877-9, and refit N aisle 1882; £1818/15/7d; builders probably F Merrick & Son qv; SAS;
(1878 rest Bourton ch, Dorset; BoE)
1878-80 alts Churchill ch, Som; ICBS; 1879-80 SNB;
1878-95 alts St Cuthbert ch, Wells; ICBS; further grant 1893 for repairs to nave and aisle roofs, N aisle walls and windows, and nave clerestory rejected; SAS;
1879 rest chancel, ?Ashill ch, Som; WG 5.12.79 ?error for Winsham, Ashill rest 1862;
1880 rest The Old House, Parsonage Lane, Milverton, Som, as vicarage; new SW service wing, re-windowed C17-C18 NE rear range; SRO plans DD/Bbm/243
(1880 chancel, Piddletrenthide ch, Dorset; BoE; WG 5.11.80, Mr Wellspring Jr bldr;.
(1881 minor alts Deanery, 62 The Close, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR; ?dem in rebuild of the 1960s)
(1881 parsonage, St Edmund ch, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR; now Kelsey House;
1882 parsonage, St Benedict ch, Glastonbury, Som;
1884-5 chancel roof reps Martock ch, Som; reps other roofs, 13 nave windows to restore, new vestry; plans rejected ICBS; 1883-4 acc to church guide; reopened TC 22.4.85, new pulpit by E Christian carved by C Trask qv, M Davis of Langport qv builder, £1000,
c1889-90 restored Chain Gate, Wells, Som; SNB;
CHURCH, GUY. Architect, Long Acre, London. Robert John Guy Church 1880-1954, pupil A Beresford Pite until 1908, FRIBA 1914, worked for government, Chief Assistant under Sir Henry Tanner at 12 Regent St, and post WW1. Private work included a large amount of domestic work: Surrey houses; stabling; flats, showroom and offices in Westminster; sometime master at the AA; architectural editor for Ideal Home. Co-author 'What about a house again', 1947, drawings and plans of houses, written with Peggy Church and Leonard E Last. A copy of What about another house then, at the RIBA.
1921 House, Ash Lane, Wells, Som; Arts and Crafts, by GC acc to owners, inf Diana Crighton; No 27 Milton Lane acc to SAS;
CHURCHOUSE, THOMAS. Surveyor, Yeovil, 1776-1846. In Universal British Dir 1794-7 as joiner. Not in later directories. Partner with his brother William Churchouse qv builder 1784-1860, William is in dirs 1830-53.
1791-4 work at East Coker ch, Som, after crossing tower had been dem; 1791 removed bells from old crossing tower; 1791-2 new roof where old tower stood, paid £10/10/0d 25/11/91 and £8/10/0d 1792; 1792 paid £3/13/0d for repairing pews; 1793 paid 7/0d for repairing the coat of arms; paid £10/11/10d timber for new bell-cage and £4/0/7d for timber, labour end roof N aisle; £1/12/3d for labour ‘about the cornice’; chuchwardens accnts in Chronicle 5 2 1991; but not responsible for new church tower 1791, this by Henry Linscombe qv, built by Joseph Radford qv;
1813 West Coker parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/34; no plans;
1818 St John's Sunday Schools, Vicarage St, Yeovil, Som; L Brooke Book of Yeovil 112; built by William Thomas £375, later Plymouth Brethren, later British school. Replaced 1854 by St Johns Schoolrooms Church St.
1824 adds Hardington Mandeville ch, Som; ICBS;
1828 plan galleried S aisle West Coker ch, Som; ICBS, with William Wadman qv; SAS says enlargement with gallery 1828-35;
1835 Parsonage, East Coker, Som; TBC; 1835 SRO D/D/Bbm/?; 1834-5 SAS;
1838-9 builder Savings Bank, 7 High St, Yeovil, Som; Bennett & Churchouse, architect & builder; LC Hayward, From Portreeve to Mayor, 1987, 57; later Lennards shop, with DB in pediment, looks later than 1838. By William Churchouse with George Bennett qv architect; SDTJ 10.1.39;
CHURCHOUSE, WILLIAM. Builder, Yeovil, 1784-1860 in partnership with brother Thomas Churchouse qv 1776-1846; at The Borough, Yeovil, in Somerset Dir 1830, at Silver St, Hunts Dir 1850; carpenter joiner Peter St 1852-3 dir.
1838-9 builder Savings Bank, 7 High St, Yeovil, Som; designed by George Bennett qv, built by Churchouse, LC Hayward, From Portreeve to Mayor, 1987, 57; later Lennards shop, with DB in pediment, looks later than 1838.
CLARK, Rev ANGUS Bath Amateur architect.
1888-9 St Paul’s Church Hall, Monmouth St, Bath; MF; built by J Long & Sons;
CLARK, BANCROFT. Street, born 1902, son of Roger Clark of C&J Clark of Street.Director in 1928, and from 1934 in charge of the Building Department and also Street Estates Ltd. Influenced style of firm’s buildings although actually designs were by Jack Stock qv of the building dept. SCR says Bancroft worked with Stock on pensioners’ housing Southleaze Orchard, 1934, encouraged Godfrey Samuel of Tecton to design for Southleaze Orchard, but rejected the concrete flat-roofed designs as too expensive. Encouraged Godfrey Samuel to design 1-27 Grange Ave 1935-6, but thereafter used Jack Stock in Grange Ave, Clark very much involved in the designs. In 1936 Clark was entrusted with open-air pool in mem of his aunt Alice. This was Greenbank Open-air pool, 1937. employed AJ Taylor of Bath but in the end International modern design was by Clark with Jack Stock, Karl Hinde as engineer. Clark commissioned and influenced the More Light Building at the factory 1933, chose modernist lettering and the name (Goethe’s last words) inf SCR/ Caroline Gould
CLARK, JAMES ADAMS. 23 Broad St, Bristol, architect 1821-80; AEBTD 1868, pupil RS Pope, fl 1849-76; Gomme lists a great deal of housing 1860-74; he was the Clark of Pope, Bindon & Clark qv fl 1849-58; in Godwin & Clark briefly fl 1861; with ST Welch in 1862, with Hans Price qv 1863;
(1858 2nd prize Bristol workhouse, JA Clarke BN 1858 27;
(1860 Camden Terrace, Clifton Vale, Bristol; Gomme;
(1861 many houses, Lower Ashley Rd, Bristol; Gomme)
(1861 exec St Philip & St Jacob School, Queen St, Bristol; by EW Godwin; SNB;
(1861-2 exec Nos 10-11 Rockleaze, Bristol; design by EW Godwin qv; SNB)
(1862 Vicarage, St Andrews ch, St Andrews Rd, Montpelier, Bristol by SB Gabriel & JA Clark; SNB;
(1865 freehold building land for sale facing Picton St, Bristol, apply JAC WDP 23.6.65;
(1870 Nos. 26-9 Victoria Sq, Clifton, Bristol; Gomme; SNB says SE side probably by JAC 1869-70;
(1871 St Barnabas National Schools, Ashley Rd, Bristol, Gomme;
1872 Parsonage, Kingston St Mary, Som; new, polychrome; SRO Bbm/188;
(1874 Houses, Albany Rd, Montpelier, Bristol; Gomme;
(18?? Corner building College Green/ Unity St, Bristol; dem; Gomme;
CLARK, JOHN AUBREY. Street. 1826-90. Architect & Surveyor. Eldest son of Cyrus Clark of C&J Clark, shoe-manufacturers, first cousin of WS Clark. Signs c1858 plan and elevation of existing cottage on site of British School, Street, Som, SRO DD/EDS/ 5215.
1877 surveyor, repairs Bowlingreen Mill, Street, Som, for WS Clark; McGarvie, Bowlingreen Mill, p27; contrs Henry Hawkins qv, Glastonbury, for new boiler house, drying-room and chimney, and F Huish & Sons qv, Street, for repairs to existing;
CLARK, R. G. Bognor. No such architect known in Bognor acc to Richard Morrice and Nick Antram revising Sussex BoE.
1838 ?National School, North St, Wincanton, Som; inf AS Brooks, but he cannot remember where from; unsigned undated plans in SRO DD/EDS for layout of schoolrooms.
CLARK, W. H.
1874 Hope Free Methodist Chapel, Chew Magna, Som; SNB;
CLARK, WILLIAM M Builder.
1779 Lock-up, Bailey Hill, Castle Cary, Som; £23;
CLARK, WILLIAM TIERNEY Engineer. 1783-1852 Born Bristol, poor, apprenticed to millwright there, then at Coalbrookdale until 1808 then with John Rennie, London. Engineer to West Middlesex Waterworks 1811; Thames & Medway Canal; Hammersmith Suspension Bridge 1824-7; completed Marlow Suspension Bridge begun 1829 by J Millington; Shoreham suspension bridge; cast-iron bridges at Bath and Windsor; Gravesend Pier 1834-5; Chain Bridge, Budapest, 1839-49 with Adam Clark £622,000; design suspension bridge over Neva St Petersburg, 1845; obit Proc ICE;
1835-6 North Parade Bridge, Bath; iron span replaced in stone 1936-7 by FR Sisson qv; SNB; ?also designed the two Jacobean style lodges, attributed without evidence to Edward Davis qv.
CLARKE RENNER Architects, London.
1990-2 Housing scheme, Warren Rd, Minehead, Som; 298 units on seafront before Butlins, for Rank Organisation; BD 2.2.90
CLARKE, GEORGE ROW. Architect 1829-1908, 27 Great James St, Bedford Row, London, in Upton on Severn from early 1860s;
1870 rear add Shipham parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/178; rear add to deep-eaved villa;
1870 Glebe Cottages, Writhlington, Som; pair of cottages; SRO DD/Bbm/176;
CLARKE, JAMES. Architect. Bruton, died c1832. SRO has notebook of 1832 with inventory of workshop of James Clarke, deceased, of Bruton, apparently a carpenter, SRO DD/BT/ 27/9; James may have died c. 1832 but no Clarkes in 1830 dir. William clarke +1810, John Clarke fl 1844, William Clarke 1811-99, and William Clarke 1842-1936 were presumably related.
1811 alts Milton Clevedon ch, Som; advised renewal of roofs and ceilings; JR Guy, Milton Clevedon church, 1982, 18, from Milton Church Book 1790-1876, estimate £130. New buttresses, roofs and ceilings, £201/19/7½d; James Clarke paid £131/9/0d, Thomas Rease mason paid £8/5/5d; mostly removed in 1868 restoration by EB Lamb qv;
CLARKE, JOHN. High St, Bruton. Architect, builder, in 1844 dir, not in 1830 dir. SRO has notebook of 1832 with inventory of workshop of James Clarke, deceased, of Bruton, apparently a carpenter, DD/BT/27/9, perhaps father.
1845-6 ?Marksdanes, Bruton, Som, owners say house was built for himself by a builder called Clark who also built headmaster’s house at King’s School, Bruton.
18?? ?Headmaster's house, King's School, Bruton; see Marksdanes 1845-6;
1863 contractor rest Charlton Horethorne ch, Som; architect William Slater; Br 5.12.63;
CLARKE, JOSEPH Architect. London. FSA, 1819-88, diocesan architect Rochester, St Albans and Canterbury, published book of school designs 1852.
(1851-2 Hockerill Teacher Training College, Herts 1851-2;
(1852-3 St Matthias Teacher Training College, Fishponds, Bristol; with John Norton qv; SNB)
(1852 Culham Teacher Training College, Oxon)
1855-6 rebuilt Cothelstone Manor, Som, for EJ Esdaile of Cothelstone House, not for self but for tenants, intended that tenants Messrs Stuckey & Steed would pay £500 and Esdaile £200 but cost eventually £2000; Clarke ‘sketch for Cothelstone Farm House now restoring for EJ Esdaile Esq’ undated, ill in OQ 29; DJ Hinton, Bishops Lydeard Revisited, gives Clarke as architect, also says job architect for farm-buildings (?only) was Wainwright; SAS, moved archway from across the road to in front of house and rebuilt it with two smaller arches;
CLARKE, P.J.
(1937-40 Hosegood Mill, Avonmouth, Bristol; SNB)
CLARKE, PHILIP. Builder and plasterer, Wellington. Landlord of Swan Inn, then from 1797 landlord of Green Dragon, calls himself 'builder and plaisterer' in advertisement dated 5.8.97, ill Allen & Bush, Book of Wellington, 72;
CLARKE, WILLIAM. Bruton. Died 1810 Not same as WC in 1852-3 dir, see below, but presumably related to James fl 1811 +c1832, John fl 1844 and William 1811-99. Could he be responsible for the tower of 1790 at Milton Clevedon, Som? ?the same as the William Clark qv who built the lock-up in Castle Cary, 1779;
(1797 Parsonage, Fovant, Wilts; WBR, W Clarke of Bruton)
1803-9 Surveyor of fabric, Wells Cathedral, Som; RL2 68;
CLARKE, WILLIAM. High St, Bruton, architect, builder, 1811-99; in 1852-3 dir, presumably related to John Clarke in 1844 dir; by c1871 firm was William Clarke & Son builders, in 1906 dir, with William Clarke qv 1842-1936.
1863 South Brewham Schools, Som; undated plans SRO EDS/1; WC;
1869 adds Vicarage, Milton Clevedon, Som; single-storey drawing room add on W and altered windows to provide new entry, removed porch, SRO D/D/Bbm/165; WC; church guide says new front range added for Rev S Selwyn to house called ‘lately rebuilt’ by Phelps 1839, and SRO has plans 1854 by EB Lamb for rear adds, new porch and window alts.
1871 ??? WG 4.8.71, may refer to work at Shepton Montague;
1871 Parsonage, North Barrow, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/187; gabled; WC;
1871-2 contractors rest Bruton ch, Som; RH Carpenter architect; C&Son; ICBS;
(1872 School, Kilmington, now Wilts by 'Messrs Clerk', VCH draft text;)
1897 WM hall, High St, Bruton, Som; now Red Cross Hall; C&Son;
CLARKE, WILLIAM. Bruton. 1842-1936, of William Clarke & Son, builders & auctioneers, Kelly 1906. Had yard in Quaperlake St. Phyllis Couzens refers to unpublished memoirs ‘Bruton in my early days’ (Couzens 94). Presumably son of Willaim Clarke 1811-99, and related to John Clarke qv fl 1844 and James fl 1811.
CLASP Building system founded 1957 by Min of Education to speed delivery of schools by using high proportion of prefabricated elements (Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme) Lightweight steel frames, flat-roofed until 1984, then pitched roofs, since 1990s curved sheeted roofs; Scape System Build Ltd keeps database of all CLASP buildings, some 3500 to 2012, types identified from Mark 2 (1957) to Mark 6b (2005); St Pauls School London (Poweel & Moya), schools in Derbys, Yorks; York University; SCOLA was Second Consortium of Local Authorities, also a steel-frame method to 600 mm grid; Somerset joined neither but used Method system;
CLEWETT, JOHN. Wincanton. Mason died 1786. Clewett’s Yard later Carringtons Lane was site of C19 Temperance Coffee House; Clewatt family of stone-carvers acc to PB47; a monument at Horningsham Wilts of 1727 may be signed Clewett Fecit. John Clewett was parish overseer 1736, churchwarden 1740, named in 1746 poor rate, and in 1774 named as 'void this year' for window tax; GS; Charles Clewett 1751-1811 was parish overseer 1790, signs c1798 memorial at Penselwood; also Samuel Clewett 1771-1848 qv; William Clewett at No 2 Carrington's Lane 1894.
1735 S aisle Wincanton ch, Som; R Legg, Book of Wincanton, 2005, 23;
1738 top stage tower, Horsington ch, Som; VCH 130;
CLEWETT, SAMUEL. Wincanton. Builder, 1771-1848. Samuel Clewitt Mason, High St, 1840 dir, not in 1830 dir.
1799 builder C chapel, Mill St, Wincanton, Som; PB129. £837/3/6d; land bought 25.3.99;
CLIFTON, EDWARD N. Architect worked with William Tite qv for more than twenty years before Tite's death in 1873 acc to Tite obit Br 3.5.73
1860 Stations on Yeovil to Exeter Railway by Tite in conjunction with ENC; Br 3.5.73;
CLOTHIER, SAMUEL THOMPSON Leigholt, Street. 1857-1933, married to Esther daughter of WS Clark; stone merchant; clerk to Street UDC, 1888-1933, not trained as architect, worked closely with brother-in-law, Roger Clark, head of Clark’s building department. McGarvie GHS and BS145; SCR; Clothier family were owners of the tannery at Middle Leigh.
1901-3 ?involved with Cemetery, Cemetery Lane, Street, Som; plaque on chapel names James Pursey qv as surveyor and STC as clerk;
1910 adds Whitenights, 53 Overleigh, Street, Som; house of Roger Clark formerly Little Overleigh, a farmhouse rebuilt 1878. Large addition in gabled vernacular style, roughcast with a brick two-storey bay;
1911-12 Merriman Rd, Street, Som; houses for Street UDC first municipal housing scheme in Somerset; GHS40; ?also Nos 35-57 Brooks Rd, similar;
1913 Barn Close, Street, Som; two terraces lining road to Grange Barn; GHS49 blt by Street Tenants Assoc, for factory workers;
1913 Strode School, Leigh Road, Street, Som; orig private secondary school, taken over 1920 by Somerset CC and moved to Elmhurst, then became Day Continuation School, enlarged 1925 by STC and remained so until 1962, then Health Centre. GHS25;
1920 Maxime Cinema, Leigh Rd, Street, Som; GHS24;
1920-1 Merriman Gardens, Street, Som, semi-detached houses, part of dev of 52 parlour-type houses by Street UDC; GHS39;
1923 House, Holford, Som for C Read, D/R/wil/24/1/38; N of Combe House Hotel, L-plan with roof swept over porch in angle;
1924 Library, Leigh Rd, Street, Som; GHS20;
1925 alts Strode School, Leigh Rd, Street, Som; BS 145; plans SCR pl 46 for ‘Domestic Subjects Centre’ two large classrooms at right angles and a teachers house;
1925-6 Jubilee Road, Street, Som; 23 houses for Street UDC; GHS37; red brick;
1927-8 terraces and semi-detached houses, Ivythorn Rd, Street, Som for Street UDC; 30 parlour-type houses also six in Gaston Close; GHS20; red brick;
1928 Hindhayes Infants School, Street, Som; GHS28; plans SCR pl 48-9
1929 adds Bear Inn, High St, Street, Som; GHS15; but plans for the large rear addition in Clark archive are unsigned and undated; James Pursey builder, SAS;
1929 adds Elmhurst, Elmhurst Lane, Street, Som for Grammar School; new hall and link corridor; GHS;
193? ?Two pavilions on lawn in front of Library, Street, Som; attributed by Caroline Gould tentatively; built after 1930 before 1936 (old photos)
CLUTTON, HENRY London 1819-93 Leading High Victorian architect, pupil of Edward Blore, friend and then partner of William Burges with whom he won Lille cathedral competition 1856. They restored Chapter House Salisbury Cathedral 1856. Worked for Duke of Bedford. Design for Westminster Cathedral never built, designed churches: Dunstall, Staffs 1852-3; Hatherop, Glos 1854-5; Steppingley, Beds 1859-60; Notting Hill RC London 1859-60; Moorhouse, Notts 1860; Tavistock, Devon 1865-6; Woburn, Beds 1865-8; Woburn Sands, Beds 1868; Ditton RC Ches 1876-9; Restored Steeple Ashton ch Wilts 1853; retired 1881;
Country houses:
(1848 Frankleigh House, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR
(1853 chancel & pulpit, Steeple Ashton ch, Wilts WBR)
(c1854 adds Grittleton House, Wilts;
(1856 Hatherop Castle, Glos;
(1856 Balcombe Place, Sx;
(1858-62 Minley Manor, Hants;
1857-68 Quantock Lodge, Aley, Over Stowey, Som; for Henry Labouchere MP later Lord Taunton, Liberal politician with banking connections; £40000; Eastlake App 148; SRO DD/X/DD acc C/2152; stable quadrangle with coachman’s house disguised as dovecote ill McCann, two ranges dem; also the Gatehouse 1857 over main drive, possibly also The Gables, a lodge 1½ m. E, at entry to main drive; also Pepperhill Farmhouse, 1859, with attached dairy; TC 14.3.60 says plans for stables etc by HC just published in The Builder;
1859 rebuilt Pepperhill Farm, Over Stowey, Som for Lord Taunton; SC notes; octagonal dairy added;
(1862 clock tower, Cliveden, Bucks;
(1865-7 St Mary Magdalene ch, Tavistock, Devon; BoE)
(1880-1 Cemetery chapel, Tavistock, Davon; BN 21 and 28.5.80; BoE 1881
CMS BATH LTD, Corsham, Wilts. Founded by Paul Coleman, Joel Smith RIBA senior architect. Web-site shows much housing eg Cheddar, Som, 67 affordable houses for Guinness Trust; but CMS not always design architects. Refurb and adds to day-centre, Shepton Mallet, Som; care homes, some private houses and conversions eg Church Farm, Yatton Keynell, Wilts; chapel at Corsham, Wilts, converted to restaurant;
(2003 addn former practising school, St Matthias Coll, Fishponds, Bristol; SNB;
2007-9 exec archts Icon housing, Street, Som, for Crest Nicholson developers, orig design by Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios qv; 78 houses;
(20?? Doctor's surgery, Calne, Wilts; Donovan Construction SW contrs; £400.000
(20?? Pharmacy, Corsham, Wilts; Donovan Construction website
COAN, - Architect consulted re repairs to almshouses, Glastonbury, Som, inc to bell-turret at men's almshouses; TC 12.2.1868; are these the Magdalene almshouses?
COBBE, WILLIAM Engineer. Of famous Dublin family descended from Charles Cobbe Archbishop of Dublin 1743-65, family seat at Newbridge Co. Dublin. WC trained to be army officer, left that and trained as engineer, worked with William Gravatt qv on Bristol & Exeter Railway 1840-2, while so doing was converted to the Agapemonite Church founded by the Rev Henry Prince, curate of Charlinch. Inf J. Schwieso, The East Gate, Spaxton. Died 1911, buried at Agapemone, Spaxton.
1840-1 worked on Great Bow Bridge, Langport, Som with William Gravatt;
Cf email from J Schwieso, from Cobbe’s letters to parents in Ireland. ‘Actual ‘authorship’ of the bridge wasn’t identified but, as he was still working for Gravatt then, Cobbe is probably just the clerk in charge and the bridge is Gravatt's’: 11 March 1840. To go to Langport on 25th and the work will take 8 months. Will get at least 2-3 guineas a week. Notes that his indenture (?) with Gravatt ends 1st of May. 14th September 1840 An accident with a gig requiring the application of 1 dozen Langport leeches “notorious bloodsuckers”. 18th September 1840 Still working on the bridge, mentions it being 3 arches in all. Still in Langport January 1841.’
1845-6 Agapemonite chapel and adjoining house, Four Forks, Spaxton, Som, for Rev George Thomas; VCH; C Stell; TrAMS 1989 article on Joseph Morris of Reading by H Godwin Arnold; called Trinity Free Church at New Charlinch; Josh Schwieso says that Cobbe paid for the chapel.
COBURN, F.S. Surveyor to Langport RDC 1923-33, died 1933; SAS;
COCK, JOHN Sr, surveyor, South Molton, Devon, 1795-1881. ?related to Walter Brown Cock (1806-74) who built tower and spire at Great Torrington ch, Devon, 1828, and Great Torrington Market House 1842;
1830 No 4 The Parks Minehead, builder Mr Cocks; Acland papers Devon RO; OD; for Mr Short;
1830 attrib No 10 The Parks, Minehead
1831-2 attrib B chapel, Parks Rd, Minehead, Som; but builder may have been called Cocks as at No 4 The Parks, OD; also presumably the attached manse; 1831 no architect SSW;
1838 attrib No 8 The Parks, Minehead;
COCK, JOHN Jr Builder, South Molton, Devon, 1831-94; SAS;
1876 adds Oare parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/216; new cross-wing, ugly rendered exterior;
1877 rest Hawkridge ch, Som, new fittings, S windows, rebuilt tower stair-turret, walled up W door, new W window; D/D/cf/1877/7;
COCKERELL, CHARLES ROBERT London. 1788-1863, leading Victorian architect, first RIBA Gold Medallist 1848, President RIBA 1860. Designed Cambridge Univ library 1836-42; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1842-5; Bank of England branches 1844-9 at Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester; completed St George's Hall, Liverpool 1847-56; published Iconography of the W front of Wells Cathedral, 1851;
(1821-3 Literary & Philosophical Inst, Park St, Bristol; SNB)
(1823 mon to Mrs Harford Battersbury, Henbury ch, Bristol and addition for husband +1852;
(1829-30 Holy Trinity ch, Hotwells, Bristol; SNB
(1832-3 Add Blaise Castle House, Henbury, Bristol; SNB;
(1842 alts and enlargements Burton Hill House, Malmesbury, Wilts for J Cockerell, his brother; burnt down completely WI 19.3.46 and rebuilt ?by CRC;
(1846-7 Bank of England, Bristol; SNB)
COCKERELL, SAMUEL PEPYS Architect, London, 1754-1827; HC; son of John Cockerell of Bishop's Hull, Som; pupil of Robert Taylor, father of CR Cockerell qv;
COCKS, - ?same as John Cock Sr qv of South Molton or WB Cock of Great Torrington, Devon, 1842;
1831-2 B chapel, The Parks, Minehead, Som; OD; and also Manse Nos 2-4 The Parks;
1831 No 4 The Parks, Minehead, builder Mr Cocks; Acland papers Devon RO; OD; for Mr Short;
Possibly also No 8 The Parks 1838 for James Thristle, and No 10 The Parks 1830,
COFFIN JONES & RODEN see JHF Coffin
COFFIN, JAMES HENRY FORD Architect, Weston super Mare of Coffin, Jones & Roden
1976-7 reps Lympsham ch, Som; ICBS;
1981 St Mark ch, Queensway, Worle, Som; CJ&R
1988-9 gallery, Worle ch, Som; SNB; CJ&R;
COGSWELL, WILLIAM GERALD ST JOHN Architect, London, born 1870. Acc to WwinA 1926 designed a boarding school at Weston s Mare, Som;
COLBOURNE, LITTLE & GOODSON. Error in BoES for Little & Goodson qv
COLE, ALAN CROZIER, Bath. See under Crozier Cole;
COLE, ERIC Architect, Cirencester; see Wilts index;
COLE, JOHN KINGWELL Architect, London, family from Wellington. 1860-1928 articled NS Joseph & G Pearson, commenced practice 1883, partnership with Edward Mansergh, surveyor, dissolved 1896; at 17 Hart St London WC; designed palace near Simla for Maharaja of Patiala; also Warehousemen, Clerks & Drapers Schools, Purley, Sy; adds Brandon Hall, Suffolk including wings, cloister, gymnasium; Woodford Hospital Essex, 1902, with Kenneth Wood; churches, chapels, schools country houses, business premises etc;
1913 extension, ?ballroom, Hotel Metropole, Minehead; OD494;
1915 Rossclere, Beacon Rd, Minehead, for Edgar S Reed Esq SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/567; large house with hipped roofs and tile-hung first floor, leaded windows;
1918 Lounge, The Avenue Hotel, Minehead, Som D/U/M/ 22/1/590; now Winsor Nursing Home on S side;
COLEMAN, JAMES Carpenter Bath
1764-70 inv with building N side New King St, Bath; SNB;
COLERIDGE, JOHN DUKE. Architect 10 Davies St, London W1; 1879-1934, pupil of Walter Cave and Lutyens, worked with FS Chesterton on flats and houses in Hornton St Kensington 1904-6;
c1910 rest Gournay Ct, West Harptree, Som; SNB; for Prince John son of George V, never used;
COLES & WEBB, Architects The Mount, Frome, 1931 dir
COLES, - builder Clevedon. Joseph Coles plasterer 1906 dir.
1897ff most of houses Marson Rd, Clevedon, Som; Lilly;
COLES (ALAN) ASSOCIATES. Stoke Hill Barn, Stoke St Mary, Som, 2009.
COLES, H.T. Engineer, waterworks manager to Taunton Corporation
1891-4 engineer and clerk of works, Leigh Hill storage reservoir, Blagdon near Pitminster, Som, James Taylor and FW Roberts qv consulting engineers; TC 28.2.94, Bond & Hitchcock of Taunton contractors; Taunton Water Co first storage reservoir at Fulwood 1857, second one there 1870, town council bought out company in 1877, Blagdon Reservoir built 1879 by Edward Easton, then new supply found at Forches Corner 1880 and JH Smith instructed to plan new works and tunnel;
COLES, WILLIAM Goathurst;
1876 National School, Goathurst, Som DD/EDS/6649; SAS;
COLLCUTT, THOMAS EDWARD. 1840-1924. Born Oxford, assist to GE Street, in London from c1872. RIBA Gold Medal 1902, PRIBA 1906-8; Firm was Collcutt & Hamp with Stanley Hamp. Wakefield TH 1877; Savoy Hotel 1889; 45-7 Ludgate Hill 1890; Wigmore Hall 1890; Wraysbury Hall Berks 1892; The Croft Totteridge 1895; Lloyds Register 1900; inv w conversion of The Dome, Brighton, to concert hall; adds Mill Hill School; house Sunningdale for G Wills; Wadia memorial Brookwood Cemetery; Wye Agric College Kent; ?rest Elsfield ch Oxon in mem of his wife, he paid for the restoration; Haileywood, house at Shiplake, Oxon; inf PR Gilfillan Colcutt’s grandson. List of works by Stanley Hamp in RIBAJ. Richard Haslam mentions Thames House in Queen St, John Lewis store; firm continued as Collcutt & Hamp
(1873 des Conservative Club, Manchester;
(1873 des for Blackburn Library, Lancs; w – Woodzell)
(1875 No 33 Nicholas Lane, London; A 21.8.75;
(1887-93 Imperial Institute, Exhibition Rd, London; dem exc tower;
(1889 Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus, London;
(1895 The Croft, Totteridge, Middlesex;
1904-6 rest Stavordale Priory, Charlton Musgrove, Som, new floor in nave, tracery in nave windows, and add N wing with staircase behind Jesus chapel; RL; for Frederick G Sage owner of well-known firm of shopfitters, based in Peterborough, diversified into fighter aircraft 1915; R Haslam CL 7.5.1992; RD Reid in CL 4.7.63; CL 23.3.40; Somerset Mag Feb 1994; House & Garden April 1990;
COLLIBEAR, JAMES Ashcott
1803 Vicarage, Moorlinch, Som; RL2 63; plans SRO D/Bbm/21
COLLIER READING ARCHITECTS, 66 High St, Glastonbury. Successor to Douglas Smith qv practice, later DSP Collier Reading Ltd. Steve Reading RIBA joined Douglas Smith in 2003;
200? changing-room block, Strode College, Street;
200? residential for Millfield School, Street, Som
200? Residential for Edgar Homes, Som;
200? Residential for R Tincknell & Sons, Som;
200? community centre, Chilcompton, Som;
200? private swimming-pool Midsomer Norton, Som.
200? Refurb inc barns into four houses, Charlton Mackrell, Som;
200? exts and renovations Millfield School, Street, Som;
2008 conversion of Pitt Farm, East Harptree, Som, to home and studios etc; award 2009;
200? rest of listed farmhouse, Emborough, Som;
200? refurb Old Inn, Holton, Som ;
200? Tincknell & Sons HQ, Cathedral View, Wells, Som;
200? conversion of former RC Priory, Wincanton, to flats;
200? five neo-Georgian houses near The Priory, Tout Hill, Wincanton, Som;
200? renov of The Priory, St Mary St, Bridgwater, as flats; and ?the housing development around gardens to S;
(20?? Alts Dove Inn, Corton, Wilts;)
20?? Factory and office, Bridgwater, Som;
20?? warehouse for Delacamp, Shepton Mallet, Som;
2010 new house, Lippets Way, Catcott, Som; 2011 award;
2010 ext Myrtle Farm, Moorlinch, Som; 2011 award;
2010 alts The Olde Fm, Chapel Allerton, Som;
2011 Adds Edgarley House, Glastonbury, Som for Millfield Prep School; Mendip DC award 2012; for staff accommodation; DSP Collier;
2010-11 large hotel at Wookey Hole, Som, with witches-hat turrets;
2011 Garden-room, Banwell, Som;
2011 Garden-room, Stone Allerton, Chapel Allerton, Som
2011 St Josephs Mews, Northload St, Glastonbury, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012; DSP Collier
2011 renov and ext Chestnut Hill Farmhouse, Axbridge, Som; award 2011
2012 New house, Guildhall Lane (corner Pilcorn St), Wedmore, Som; trad mullioned; named on board;
2012 Deputy headmaster's house, Millfield School, Street, Som; on Somerton Road entrance.
COLLINGWOOD, ARTHUR 1870-1937. Surveyor to Street UDC 1894-1900; SAS;
COLLINS, HENRY ALBERT Architect, 1879-1935, in Office of Works designed post offices across S England,
19?? Post Office, Market Place, Frome, Som; SAS from BPOA no date;
COLLINS, MAURICE mason
1799 paid for work at Lottisham House, Som; Longleat 14/3 2/12 25/3/1773;
COLLINS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER 1871-1915. Surveyor to Bridgwater RDC 1902-15; SAS;
COLMAN, STUART Architect, 5 Unity St, Bristol, 1848-1941, born Llandaff, Glam, trained Southampton School of Art, married 1876 in Brixton, London, in Bristol c1873 onwards, possibly moved to London c1886, in South Africa by 1911, died Johannesburg; wikipedia; GJL;
(1873 1st prize,U ch, High Pavement, Nottingham; built 1876; SAS; now a pub; interior ill ?BN;
(1874 Board Schools, St Philips, Bristol WDP 13.8.74;
(1874 Lecture Theatre, Bristol Museum, University Rd, Bristol; GJL; SNB;
(1875 House, Clifton Park Rd, Bristol, for Mrs Norris; now Clifton High School, SNB; illustrated ?BN;
1875 Board School, Burnham on Sea, Som; Br 1875 174; but Kelly has Board School on Esplanade built 1855-6, enlarged with infants school 1879, and again 1892, since demolished;
(1876 house, Stoke Bishop, Glos ill BN 14.7.76;
(1876 Mina Road Board School, Bristol; Gomme; WDP 7.5.78;
(1876 WM chapel, Shirehampton, Bristol, wikipedia;
(1877 1st prize Plummers Hill School, Bristol; RHH;
(1877 1st prize David Thomas Memorial C chapel, Bishopston, Bristol; RHH; Br 35 435; BM 30.3.81; SNB 1877 David Thomas Memorial chapel, Belmont Rd, closed 1981, demolished except spire 1987, for housing association flats by Stride Treglown qv; archiseek; SNB; also possibly the nearby terrace on North Rd, Bristol, attributed SNB;
(1878 C chapel, Sneyd Park, Bristol; BM 9.7.78; dem; wikipedia
(1878 adds, Ashton Gate Schools, Bedminster, Bristol, £598 A 24.8.78;
(1878 board Schools, Crews Hole, Bristol A 24.8.78 £729;
(1879 entrant University College, Bristol comp; RHH;
(1880 1st prize Merchant Venturers School, Bristol; unex; GJL;
1880 Whitehall School, St Georges, Bristol BM 29.6.80;
(1886 Castle Schools, Bristol; T Br 16.1.86 by SC of Chancery Lane, London;
COLSON, JAMES HENRY. Greenhill, Sherborne. Architect, surveyor, valuer. Pupil of Henry Meane, architect and county surveyor, Devizes, AEBTD 1868, WBR2; had office at Princes St, Yeovil (Mr Woodman's) advert WG 29.6.1866; In 1862 was advertising from The Green, Calne, Wilts DWG22.2.62; valuer approved by Inclosure commissioners, AEBTD
(1866-7 Parsonage, Sandford Orcas, Dorset; SRO DD/Bbm/150; gabled Gothic with triangular oriel; WG 27.12.67; AEBTD:
COLTHURST, WILLIAM BUNTER Stonecrop, Wembdon Hill, Bridgwater. Architect, 1873-1954 son of GE Colthurst timber merchant, Taunton, articled Samson & Cottam, Taunton, worked for firm after CH Samson retired 1906 and AB Cottam died 1911, HO Samson continued firm with WBC as Samson & Colthurst qv.
1900-1 drawings Ruishton ch, Som, incl roof & E w; A/CMY/519
1901 measured drawings Muchelney Abbey, Som; A/CMY/446;
1904 drawing panelling Steyning Farm, Stogursey, Som; CMY/524;
1906 drawings door-hood Castle House, Taunton, Som, & New St, Painswick, Glos; CMY/428;
(1907 drawings Collings Hospital, Nottingham, Notts; CMY/439
19?? Stonecrop, Wembdon Hill, Bridgwater, for self; DG 6;
1912 Monument Wembdon Rd cemetery, Bridgwater to James Cook town clerk; DG;
Miscellaneous designs of various premises by various architects and drawing of Barrington Court, Som by Colthurst and also one by F Roberts for market stalls SRO A/CMY/551
According to WWinA 1926 WBC designed:
lodge, cottages, farmhouse, farm buildings, laundry and alts at Norton Manor, Norton Fitzwarren;
schools at Highbridge, Burnham, Wellington & Langport;
banks at Bridgwater, Taunton, Wiveliscombe, Tiverton, Bideford, South Petherton etc;
Bridgwater Hospital;
adds Taunton Hospital;
Palace Theatre Bridgwater;
village clubs and halls at Bradford on Tone, Chedzoy and Burnham;
war memorials at Staplegrove, Bishops Lydeard and Norton Fitzwarren;
WM Sunday schools at Bridgwater;
Somerset Farm Institute at Cannington;
many of these are works by Samson & Colthurst qv;
COMPER, Sir JOHN NINIAN. 228 Knights Hill London SW17. 1864-1960 Architect, stained glass designer, born Aberdeen, worked for CE Kempe, articled 1883-7 Bodley & Garner, partnership 1888-1904 with William Bucknall, his brother-in-law from 1890 (B&C); succeeded by nephew Arthur Bucknall, ASG 148-50; Anthony Symondson, Sir Ninian Comper, RIBA 1988 (AS). Practice continued by son JBS Comper (1891-1979).
1894 ff work Downside Abbey, Som; ASG; stained glass also decoration, paving and screens; stained glass lower E cloisters 1896; E window Lady Chapel 1896-8; nine Lady Chapel windows 1899-27, window at entrance to crypt 1912, three windows Sacred Heart Chapel 1914;
fittings: Lady Chapel stone screen and English altar 1896-1900; altar frontal 1905, reredos 1913; statue at entrance Lady Chapel 1915, proposed panelling and seats; gates; Chapel of St Sebastian fittings 1917-31, tomb and reredos and design of stall ends; statue St Benedict 1919; proposed choir stalls, choir decoration, and altars and screens in the upper chapels 1919-26; Lady Chapel gates ; hangings etc for upper chapels and carvings for ends of choir stalls 1926-31; E window 1934-6; ASG; SAS;
1896 altar, Trull ch; B&C; SAS;
1913ff rest West Bagborough ch; SAS; work 1913-14, E window faculty 1921, SRO D/D/cf/1921/79; and work 1922-41; 1922 screen at W end carved by local class at rectory led by Miss Ethel Lance; figure of Risen Christ with canopy 1922-6, rood beam and rood, organ-gallery oak screen, font cover, altar dorsal and curtains, brass and gravestone to Canon Briscoe 1940; chalice and ciborium 1941; SAS; magnificent Comper interior – Alan Rome; Anthony Symondson says there was work in 1913-14;
(1914 stained glass St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, S tr S; SNB;
1916-47 fittings and glass, All Saints ch, Clevedon, Som; AS; three chancel ws 1916-17 one N wall 1916 two S wall 1916 and 1917; two baptistery ws 1918; N wall window 1918 SS Stephen & Alban; rood screen 1919; W window rose 1920, two pairs of W windows, 1923; four heraldic ws in porch 1923; NW window and N aisle windows 1923, reredos 1923, N transept N window 1924 Tree of Jesse; Virgin & Child statue 1947;
1919 E window glass, Cothelstone ch;
1920 consulted over lychgate, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som; acc to PCC minutes Mrs Portman was to secure design from Comper; lychgate built 1921-3 ?to design by WD Caroe qv;
1919-21 war memorial churchyard cross, Tintinhull, Som; BoE S;
1919-22 war memorial, churchyard, Milborne Port ch, and plaque inside church; SAS;
1920? War Memorial Calvary, East Clevedon, Som; SNB;
(192? War Memorial, St Peter ch churchyard, Devizes, Wilts WBR)
1921 Reredos, All Saints, Clevedon, Som; D/D/cf/1921/17;
1922 nave S stained glass, Kingston St Mary, Som; SAS; not in SSW;
(1923 refitted S tr chapel, St Mary Magdalen ch, Mariner’s Drive, Bristol; SNB)
1923 processional cross, St Mary Magdalen ch, Taunton, som SAS;
1923 stained glass Witham Friary ch, Som; four S windows;
1923 alts rood screen, St John ch, Bathwick, Bath; SNB, ?also alts baptistery;
1923ff decoration Bishops Lydeard, Som; 1919-38 SAS; 1925 according to village history by DJ Hinton as a war memorial promoted by Lethbridge family of Sandhill Park; chancel decoration and E window glass 1923-4, hanging baldacchino, English altar, painting of E window reveal, war memorial board (painted) given by Sir Denis Boles; also celure over medieval rood screen; ?added colour to medieval screen and C17 pulpit; added SE stained glass window 1938; added rood figures to screen 1948; previous E window of c1854 to Rev F Warre sent to Cheddon Fitzpaine;
1923-5 tower screen, Exford, Som; SAS; plain panelled, not in SSW;
1924 N aisle window glass, Selworthy, Som SSW; 1923-5 SAS;
1924 chancel N stained glass window, Penselwood ch, Som; SSA; 1921-4 SAS;
1925 S aisle E window glass, Croscombe ch, Som; SNB;
(1928 Welsh National War Memorial, Cathays Park, Cardiff)
1929 refitted chapel of St Sebastian, Downside Abbey, Som inc reredos, screen;
1929-30 Wells Cathedral Mothers’ Union Banner; AS;
1934-5 furnishing St Stephen Chapel, Wells Cathedral, altar with iron posts, screen, 1934-5, altar frontal, crozier 1937; SAS;
1934 stained glass SE window, Bishops Lydeard ch, Som; memorial to Lady Beatrice Boles;
c1935 Screen S side NE chapel, Wells Cathedral, Som; RL; St Stephen’s Chapel, furnishing and decoration 1934-5, AS;
1936 E window glass, Downside Abbey, Som; SNB;
1948 Rood figures, Bishops Lydeard ch, Som;
(1951 wall paintings, chapel Marlborough College, Wilts;WBR2;
1953 E window, Old Cleeve ch, Som; RL;
1920s stained glass windows, S side, Witham Friary ch, Som; RL;
CONDER, HUGH NEVILLE Architect, London, partner of Sir Hugh Casson in Casson & Conder; Neville Conder 1922-2003; joined Casson c1949, 1952 Arts Faculty buildings, Cambridge Univ; Elephant Pavilion London Zoo 1963; 1978-84 Ismaili Centre, Cromwell Rd, London;
1968-72 Pulteney Weir, Bath; des with F Greenhalgh, SC notes; MF;
(1975 Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, Wilts)
1994-5 Meyer Theatre, Millfield School, Street, Som, but design altered in execution by NVB qv brought in by contractors Ernest Ireland inf J Gould: Neville Conder of Casson Conder was the RIBA judge for the (Millfield School) Library Competition in 1977 and became their advisory planner thereafter. It was his daft idea to suppress the main drive to Millfield House itself and thus make the avenue and Lodge quite irrelevant. Neville designed the Theatre but it was some sort of design & build contract and was detailed by Nugent Vallis Brierley (NVB) from Frome. Neville really hated the result (we were there with him on the opening day).
CONYBEARE, HENRY Engineer, 1823-c1884, born Brislington, son of Rev WD Conybeare, Dean of Llandaff 1845-57. Worked on railways in India in 1840s, designed Afghan Memorial ch, Colaba, India, 1845, completed 1868, designed Bombay water supply 1855, returned to England 1856, based in Londn, did railways in Co Cork, worked with Alexander Sutherland on Brecon & Merthyr Rlwy 1860-3 and others in Wales; 1866 Cefn Coed Viduct, Merthyr Tydfil, Glam, for Brecon & Merthyr; 1865-7 Pont Briwet, Penrhyndeudraeth, Mer, for Aberystwyth & Welsh Coast Railway; des Itchen Stoke ch, Hants, for his brother; gave up practice 1870, emigrated to Venezuela 1878, died in Caracas c1884.
1860 Proposed Chard & Taunton Railway, Som; Q/RUP/273d; scheme taken over by Bristol & Exeter Railway and built 1864-6
COOK & HANCORN see Samuel Hancorn Jr
COOK, GEORGE Surveyor Williton RDC 1894-1911, jointly with Walter Hyett 1894-1901; SAS;
COOK, HUMPHREY Humphrey Cook Associates.
1990 Proposed warehouse and offices, Glastonbury, Som; BD 19.2.90; 2 storey offices in front, whole scheme capable of subdivision in two;
COOK, WILLIAM Bridgwater surveyor. 1856-1932, son of William Cook carpenter of West St.;
1881 minor alts Bridgwater vicarage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/248; chimney inserted in stable; which vicarage?
COOKE, CHARLES Architect, Westcliffe on Sea Kent, 1852-1915 acc to SAS, so dead by 1922.
1922 concert stand, sea-front, Minehead, Som; SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/652 for Wallace Hunt;
COOKSLEY, J Builder, Porlock see Huish & Cooksley
COOMBES, RICHARD, Stonemason, builder, Frome;
17220-3 Bluecoat School and almshouses, Frome; c1720-4 SNB; largely completed by 1723, figures of boy and girl carved by William Langley 1724 (cf IR), Blue School SAS;
COOMBES, CYRUS Engineer, Tisbury, Wilts. c1886 engineer to Somerset Drainage Commission formed 1877, ‘his remoteness and responsibilities to other clients .. proved detrimental’, Miles SIAS 7 28-9. 1891 failed repair of Aller Bank breach. Resigned 1892.
COOMBES, WILLIAM Builder, Ilminster. Firm funded 1871 by Walter J Coombes still going 2010 as W. Coombes & Sons, Station Rd, Ilminster, under Tim Combes.
1905 Woodwork shop, Grammar School, Wharf Lane, Ilminster; £146;
1905 Newlands Terrace, Station Rd, Ilmister, Som, built for self and 8 children; Images of Past, Heritage of the Isle Trust book 4 1995; by Walter Coombs;
1927 Gym and classroom, Boys Grammar School, Wharf lane, Ilminster; concrete blocks made by Wharf Lane Co; Coombes & Son; £4581; Grammar school history; now Greenflyte Primary School.
2012-13 bldrs renov Castle House, Taunton Castle, Som for SBPT; R Battersby qv architect;
COOPER, NIGEL. Cooper & Co Architects, Etsome Dairy Fm, Somerton (2012). Nigel Cooper RIBA;
COOPER, WILLIAM REGINALD ROYDON. Architect, Glenthorne Ho, Princes St, Yeovil, 1931 dir, ARIBA. Worked for Petter & Warren qv, firm was PW&C after war, later Roydon Cooper Associates qv.
1931 Upper storey, Vincents Car showroom, Princes St and Court Ash, Yeovil, Som; letter CHAC 2105;
1932 Nobles Nap House, Combe Nap Lane, Yeovil, Som; for himself; SC notes; No 76 C20 index PW&RC
193? No 28 Swallowcliffe Gardens, Yeovil, Som; SC notes; 1930s C20index
1933-4 Nos. 78, 80, 82 & one other, Combe Knap Lane, Yeovil, Som, by WRRC, greatly altered. SC notes. Jack Sweet says formerly flat-roofed; Nos 78-82 (even) by PW&RC C20 index;
1947-8 reps WM chapel, Vicarage St, Yeovil, Som after bomb damage PW&C; centenary history 1970; windows by Hubert Blanchard of Exeter, furnishings by Raymond Bros, Yeovil, opened 2.12.48
1948-50 reps North Barrow ch, Som; ICBS; PW&C; ICBS;
1950-1 reps Middle Chinnock ch, Som; WRRC & S Lawson; ICBS;
1950-2 reps East Chinnock ch, Som; WRRC & S Lawson; ICBS;
Attr 193? No 175 Ilchester Rd, Yeovil, Som, flat roofed altered.
CORBETT, SIMON Architect, Winscombe;
20?? Mid Levels, Axbridge, Som house for self;
20?? Two houses, Ladye Bay, Clevedon; flat-roofed; C20 index;
20?? remodelled Orchard House, S of Taundon, 1980s house given 2-storey oak framed addition;
20?? add Coombe Barn, Sidcot, Som;
20?? refurb Manistee, Tickenham, Som a 1960s boarded flat-roofed house;
20?? The Glass House, Axbridge, Som; rendered, hipped roof to front projection;
20?? ext to the Boathouse, Clevedon; add to modern house
20?? Pine Combe, Rowberrow, Som; pitched roof, stone and glass;
20?? Lantau, Winscombe for himself, rendered,
CORFIELD, CHARLES COX Architect and surveyor, Taunton, 1815-95. Announces has opened office 57 High St, Taunton, TC 5.3.1845 after fifteen years with Richard Carver qv; intention to combine business with that of auctioneer TC 7.2.1849; architect and surveyor to Taunton Local Board of Health for seven years 1851-8, unsuccessful applicant for County Surveyor, 1857, resigned TC 8.12.1858; died at Alton, Hants, SAS;
1856 Portico, London Hotel, East St, Taunton, proposed TC 12.3.56;
CORNELIUS, ALFRED JAMES. Architect Truro, Cornwall, 1879-1964. Continued practice of Sylvanus Trevail from 1903-64.
1902 Two villas, Summerland Ave, Minehead; OD153; D/U/M/22/1/160, for Mr Cornelius of Teignmouth,
1903 Villas, Summerland Ave, Minehead; OD167; for Mr Cornelius of Teignmouth; D/U/M/22/1/174
1904 Seven terraced houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead, for Mr Cornelius; D/U/M/ 22/1/208; OD200;
(1905 No 1-2 Cathedral Lane, Truro, Cornwall; listed)
1905 Villas, Summerland Ave, Minehead for J Cornelius; D/U/M/ 22/1/237; two semi-det pairs with two-storey bay windows and half-timber gables;
(1908 No 7 Quay St Truro, Cornwall; listed)
CORNICK, JOHN Bridport, Dorset. Born 1808, Cornick & Son Architects & Surveyors1844; brother Richard Cornick born 1814 was also an architect, at same address 1861 census; SAS;
1844 Chiselborough parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/bbm/92; spec by C&Son, also refers to JC; plans for hipped stuccoed 3-bay house not built, the house there now Vic Tudor perhaps change of plan as rector died 1844;
CORNISH, ROBERT STRIBLING Architect, Exeter 1788-1871, son of Robert Cornish architect (1760-1844), JM Allen and Edward Ashworth qqv were both pupils in office of Cornish & Sons; GG Scott called him 'a thoroughly practical man', HC;
1854 consulted over tower, St Mary Magdalen ch, Taunton; SAS; along with GP Manners and GG Scott;
CORRICK, JAMES Goathurst. Architect, born 1787,
1806 Parsonage, Holford, Som; plain 2st 3w house added to an older range; older range swept away and 1806 house enveloped in additions 1833 by Richard Down; SRO D/D/Bbm/25a;
1813-17 Tolland parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/33; £396/17/6d; very crude drawing of 2st 3w house.
COTTAM & SAMSON see AB Cottam
COTTAM, ARTHUR BASIL. Bridgwater. 1861-1911. See also Samson & Cottam. Called Basil Cottam, born London, lived Watford, articled to John Robinson of Middle Scotland Yard, London, 1877-80, worked for him 1881, in Herts to 1885. Came to Bridgwater to work with Evan R Down qv of Down & Son, Bridgwater, possibly took over practice when ER Down abandoned architecture about 1885 or very shortly after. At St Johns Cottage, Eastover, Bridgwater, adjacent Down House offices 1894. When this was sold, offices moved to 56 High St, c1900. Built house for self Bramblecroft, Durleigh Rd. Joint practice with CH Samson of Taunton from c1885 as S&C of Taunton qv, the office in Bridgwater run by ABC, who remained there. CHS retired to Rugby in 1906 and firm became briefly 1906-8 Cottam & Samson C&S with Harold Samson (son of CHS) before Cottam retired in 1908, then continued as Samson & Colthurst qv; DG; RL; ABC succeeded CHS as diocesan surveyor 1903-11; architect to Somerset Agricultural Association from 1892; (WG 1.4.92); office drawings in SRO A/CMY/-; plaque in St Mary ch Bridgwater; obit BM 8.3.11;
Work for Edwin Down & Son:
1885 Cornhill, Bridgwater, shop premises and new warehouse for Nicholls, A/ CMY/58
1885 seats and pulpit, WM Chapel, North Petherton, details of seats and pulpit, A/CMY/538
1885 alterations and new houses, New Road (Northfield?), Bridgwater, A/CMY/19
1885 alterations shop front, Hooper’s, High Street, Bridgwater, and 1892 A/CMY/53
1885 shop and warehouse, Manchip & Sons, Bridgwater, A/CMY/60
1885 new shops and houses, Cattle Market, Bridgwater, A/CMY/39
1885 alts and adds Fore Street, Bridgwater, for - Vinten, A/CMY/118 1887 office for Edwin Down and shop front,Eastover, Bridgwater, A/CMY/206 and 208 1887
1887 alts Edington ch, including pews and windows, A/CMY/510
1887 drainage, East Terrace, Huntspill A/CMY/531, ED&Son and AB Cottam
1887 warehouse for FC Foster, Monmouth Street, Bridgwater, 1887; also plans and elevations by ABC, 1889, A/CMY/23
1887 alterations to shop for Rich, Eastover, Bridgwater A/CMY/93 1887 Bridgwater Gas Light Company, Old Taunton Road, Bridgwater, A/ CMY/47
1887 Cemetery Chapel, Lodge, gates and drainage, Bristol Road, Bridgwater, A/CMY/55
1887 Cemetery Chapel, possibly in St John’s Cemetery, Bridgwater, 1887, dem A/CMY/469
Buildings by Cottam when with CH Sansom see also Sansom & Cottam;
1887 alts, Brushford ch, Som; A/CMY/477; bundle of drawings; DG; rest 1887-9 £864 tower restored also gallery removed, tower arch opened, porch reps, C15 benches repaired, Kelly 06; ?by CH Sansom;
1888 Bridgwater Dairy Supply Co; Som; A/CMY/30; corner Dampiet St and Blake St; not built until c1900; report on No 3 Blake St;
1888 Two houses, Poplar estate, Burnham on Sea, Som; A/CMY/525; for HW Pollard builders;
1888 alts two houses, Westfields, Bridgwater, Som, for Mr Hickman; CMY/115; William Hickman 2 Fairview Villas 1906, Hickman & Son chemists 50 Eastover;
1889 alts, Westfields, Bridgwater, for Mr Hagon; CMY/44; CE Hagon solicitor 6 King Sq in 1906, Charles Clarkabad Hagon, Durleigh Rd, 1906;
1889 Warehouse, Monmouth St, Bridgwater, for FC Foster; also drawings 1887 by E Down & Son; CMY/23;
1890 alts 10 King Sq, Bridgwater for Mr Trevor; CMY/46; Edward Trevor solicitor Queen St, Mrs John Trevor 1 King Sq 1906;
1890 drainage, Servants Training Home, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/119;
1891 Houses, Washington Terrace, Victoria Rd, Bridgwater; A/CMY/198 also CMY/74 and 88; SAS;
1891 premises, Eastover, Bridgwater, for William Bouchier; CMY/169; Bouchier Bros house furnishers at 40 St Mary St 1906;
1891 Cottage Hospital, Edington, Som; RL; erected as memorial to Capt J Fownes Luttrell, Kelly 06; HJ Spiller qv builder, VCH;
1891 Vicarage, Northmoor Green, Moorland, Som; RL; A/CMY/461;
1891 alts shop Fore St, Bridgwater, for JM Davis; A/CMY/52; JM Davis cabinet makers 27 Fore St 1906;
1891 Science Laboratory, Art & Technical College, 3 Blake St, Bridgwater; A/ CMY/158
1892 Refreshment Rooms, coffee room, High St, Bridgwater, for H Curry; A/ CMY/21; Henry Curry temperance hotel 21 High St in 1906; Nos. 23 and 27 adjacent to Church Passage;
18?? County Territorial Hall, Taunton, Som; RL; ?depot Middle St,
1890-1 Parish room, St John’s ch, Bridgwater, Som; opened 28.7.91 on site of vicarage stable; History of St John’s parish;
1892 premises for EH Hooper, 27 High St, Bridgwater; CMY 53; DG; EH Hooper draper at 9 & 21-3 High St 1906;
1892? premises 23 High St, Bridgwater; drawing published in Bridgwater town trail;
1892 Station house and two cottages for T Mullins, Durston and Lyng, Som; A/CMY/400; ?at Durston Junction station
1892 warehouse, West Quay, Bridgwater, for A Peace; A/CMY/200; Alfred Peace removals 15-16 West Quay 1906;
1892 reading room, Bridgwater Club, King Square, Bridgwater; CMY/126
1892 villa, Old Taunton Rd, Bridgwater, for Mrs Spender; A/CMY/177;
1892 alts, Brymore House, Cannington, Som, for Henry Pleydell-Bouverie; CMY 534; new storey on service range and Gothic bay window; J Willis contractor; drawings witnessed by E Godfrey Page qv; DG 14 says 1892-6 and dwellings on the estate; cottages on estate 1900 and 1901 (see below); also DD/BR/ely/20/13 tracings of plans;
1892-5 oil mills, Bridgwater, Som, for Croad & Brown; CMY/127; at the Docks 1906;
1892-3 buildings for Somerset Agricultural Association, at showground, Frome, Som; Mr Cottam surveyor; £455, T Br 3.12.92
1893 stables coach-houses for Cab & Posting Co, Clare St/ Pricketts Lane, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/16;
1893 plans of manor and estate, Haygrove, Bridgwater, Som, and plan of Durleigh Rd and drainage; CMY/109; inc proposed cricket field;
1893 alts Queens Head, Holloway St, Minehead, Som; CMY/ 507; doubling size with matching bay window to left and raising the eaves;
1893 survey plan, MH, Bridgwater, Som CMY 14;
1893 brickworks, Wylds Rd, Bridgwater, for WS Acreman: Kiln, Bath brick drying shed, landing stage, pump house at Dunball; CMY 209;
1893 survey former Georges Hotel, George St/ St Mary St, Bridgwater; A/ CMY 94.
1894 alts Otterhampton ch, Som; RL; A/CMY/517; chancel rest £180 and nave £230, Kelly 06;
1894 Schools, East Huntspill, Som; obit; dated 1894;
1894 Fox Fowler Bank, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Som; RL; later Lloyds 1906, refronted in bland modern c1970; CMY/220 and CMY/2;
1894 Four cottages, Washington Terrace, Bridgwater, Som; for Mr Stockham; CMY/88; cf 1891;
1894 new road (Cranleigh Gardens), Bridgwater, Som, for H Pollard; CMY 1894; DG 13: new road between St John St & Salmon Pde; ABC des houses on N side 1896;
1894 drainage Dr Morgan’s school, Bridgwater; three drawings 1894-1914 later ones by Samson & Colthurst;
1895 Science school & lecture room, Grammar School, The Hill, Langport, Som; CMY 490 also woodworking room;
1895 Bakehouse adjacent Castle House, Queen St, Bridgwater for Mr Hamlin; CMY/59
(1895 Council chamber, fire brigade station & caretakers house, Gillingham, Dorset; CMY/511)
1895-6 Bridgwater Collar Factory & laundry, Dampiet St, Bridgwater, Som; RL; CMY/5; DG 13;
1895 27 houses, Rosebery Ave estate, Bath Rd, Bridgwater, Som; CMY 102;
1896 Pair of houses Wembdon Rd, Bridgwater for W Hellard; CMY 51; gabled pair w arched window over door and square gr fl bay;
1896 proposed imps to porch, Brymore, Cannington, Som; DD/BR/ely/20/14
1896 Foundry Works, Salmon Parade, Bridgwater, Som for W & F Wills; CMY/161; W&F Wills engineers & ironfounders Salmon Pde Kelly 1906; DG 13;
1896 Three houses, Washington Terr, Bridgwater; CMY 74;
1896 bonded store and malthouse, Bristol Rd, Bridgwater, for Starkey Knight & Ford brewers etc; CMY 11.
1896 Junior Schools, Eastover Board School, Cornborough Place, Bridgwater, Som; RL; CMY/150; DG 13;
1896 houses, Cranleigh Gardens, Bridgwater, Som; RL; CMY/84; on N side DG 13;
1896 Villas & workshop for A Green, Cranleigh Gardens, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/ 45;
1896 coalshed, Bird in Hand Inn, Bristol Rd, Bridgwater; CMY 49;
1896 Vicarage, Henton, Som; RL; CMY/405 for Rev GW Spicer;
1896 rear adds, house, King Sq, Bridgwater; CMY/36;
1896 classrom & cloakrm, North Newton school, Som; CMY 516; school 1877, enl 1884 & 1896, Kelly;
1896 six villas, Oxford St, Burnham on Sea; CMY 509; for Chedzey Bros
189? Bramblecroft, Durleigh Road, Bridgwater, Som; for self; RL;
1896-7 West Huntspill School, Som; RL; CMY 532; Board School, Huntspill, Som, Br 22.1.98 for E & W Huntspill parishes and S Highbridge, ABC archt, HW Pollard builder; dated 1897; Book of West Huntspill 2001; also East Huntspill Schools 1894;
1897 Shirt factory, Bailey St, Bridgwater, Som for HJ van Trump; CMY 194; Tone Vale Mfring Co, Bailey St, Kelly 1906; RL; DG 13-14 dem 1996;
189? Shirt & Collar Factory for Tone Vale Clothing Co, St Augustine St, Taunton, Som; RL; DG 14 also for Henry van Trump similar to factory in Bailey St Bridgwater;
1897 Houses, Taunton Rd, Bridgwater, for Bryer & Son; CMY 213; RL; DG 13; Charles Bryer Jr builder 34 Friarn St 1906; between Taunton Rd and Old Taunton Rd plain with square bay ws and seg head upper ws;
1897 Eight houses, Camden Rd, Bridgwater, Som for Mr Thorner; CMY 110; S&C did housing scheme and roads North End Camden Rd 1898 CMY 89 for Wm Stilling probably William Stiling of Stiling & Ker auctioneers land agents 1906;
1897 adds The Brewery, Northgate St, Bridgwater; CMY 116; Starkey Knight & Ford Ltd Northgate Rd 1906;
1897 Landing-stage, Dunwear, Bridgwater, Som, for Somerset Trading Co; CMY558; manufacturers of bricks, tiles, cements etc brickworks Old Taunton Rd etc;
1897 Farm buildings, Wembdon, Som for H Sheppard; CMY 415; Francis Shepherd, Model Fm, Wembdon in Kelly 1906;
1897 reseat Holy Trinity ch, Chilton Trinity, Som; SRO cf 1897/14;
1898 store workshop, Monmouth St, Bridgwater, for Pollard, builders; CMY 216; HW Pollard bldr 22 Monmouth St Kelly 1906;
1898 houses N side, Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, Som; ill row of three DG 13;
1899 Lodge, East Croft, Bridgwater, for Wm Brooke; CMY 149;
1899 Mansion House Inn, High St, Bridgwater; CMY 26;
1900 Cottages, Brymore estate, Cannington, Som; A/CMY/454; see also 1901
1901 alts to cellars, Highbridge, Som, for Mr Burnett; CMY/ 533; John Burnett & Co wine & spirit merchants;
1901 Pedestal, Admiral Blake statue, Bridgwater, Som; CMY 136; DG 13;
1901 Cottages, Brymore estate, Cannington, Som; plan A/CMY/408 and also A/CMY/416; also plans DD/BR/ely/20/15;
1904 adds Northmoor Green School, Moorland, Som; also adds 1894 by S&C; CMY 549; orig school 1857 by Knowles;
1904-9 Science classroom, Dr Morgans Grammar School, Mount St, Bridgwater, Som; ill DG 14; RL; ABC and S&C; CMY 131; also improved drainage 1894 and alts to Headmaster’s house, DG 13;
1905 Bishop Fox School, Taunton, Som by ABC TC 29.3.05;
1905-7 Village Hall, Cannington, Som; obit; ?C&S
1??? Premises, Co-operative Movement, ?Bridgwater, Som; RL; DG 14 suggests also designed Co-op premises elsewhere in Somerset,
1906-8 Mission church/ church hall, Waterrow, Chipstable, Som; £350; ABC, bldr Gamblin of Stawley;
1907 School buildings, Yeovil, Som; RL; ?adds to Yeovil County School, Kingston, Yeovil, Som; dem;
1907 Entry, Somerset County Offices, Taunton, comp DG 14; CMY/426
1907-8 rest Church House, Crowcombe, Som; guide leaflet; VCH;
1908 school buildings, Somerset Bridge, nr Bridgwater, Som; RL;
190? School buildings, Frome, Som; RL;
190? School buildings, Burnham on Sea, Som; RL; ?school on Esplanade, dem;
1908 Church hall, Chipstable, Som; RL;
1908 alts Over Stowey ch, Som; cf/1908/283, two additional 1-lt windows on nave S; C&S; plans dated 1907;
1911 Technical Institute, Technical St, Burnham, Som; obit;
1911-12 Masonic Lodge, King Square, Bridgwater, Som, by Brother B Cottam opened 11.7.12 £1427/0/11d, A Green contr, acc to Freemasonry in Somerset; but CMY/190 has five drawings 1911 and CMY/108 20 drawings also 1911 all by Samson & Colthurst;
Also: Houses Provident Place, Bridgwater, Som; RL; DG 13;
Brian Murless list in Bulletin 96 of SIAS; DG 14: designed retail premises for Co-op; cabinet factory Bridgwater owned by Mr van Trump; collar factory Dampiet St; alts Brymore House Cannington and houses on the estate 1892-6 for Mr Bouverie; Shirt & Collar factory St Augustine St, Taunton for Tone Vale clothing Co similar to Bailey St Bridgwater factory; also designs for cast-iron columns for shirt & collar factories are in archive of W&F Wills Foundry;
Obituary lists also Baptist school buildings Bridgwater; Bridgwater & District Steam Laundry; schools at Westonzoyland, Ashcott, Chard; architect to Bridgwater School Board, did Eastover Junior Mixed School; architect to Somerset Agric Assn laid out their showground each year; architect to Bridgwater Hospital des recently erected womens and childrens ward;
COTTERELL & SPACKMAN see Cottrell & Spackman
COTTERELL & THORPE Bristol. Albert Player Cotterell AMICE qv & WH Thorpe FRIBA.
(1900-2 Southmead Workhouse, Bristol; )
COTTERELL, A. B. Engineer
19?? House and pumping station, Yatton, Som; in list of works by Gleed Bros, builders;
COTTERELL, ALBERT PLAYER ISAAC. Architect, engineer, Bristol. 1861-1951, engineer for Horfield Local Board sewage Br 30.6.1894; MICE; Quaker;
1887 sanatorium, Sidcot School, Som; T Br 15.1.87; £822;
(1900-2 Southmead Workhouse, Bristol; by Cotterell & Thorpe qqv)
(1904-5 No 13 Queen Sq, Bristol; warehouse; SNB;
(1905-6 No 36 King St, Bristol; flour warehouse;
(1908 No 27 Downs Park West, Bristol; SNB;
(1908-9 QM, Horfield, Bristol; survey of QM houses 2017;
COTTERELL, J. FRANCIS Bath. Architect. Frank Cotterell, Quaker, patronised by C & J Clark, manufacturers of Street, who were cousins. Possibly related to TS Cotterell, owner of stone quarries at Combe Down, for whom CFA Voysey designed Lodge Style, Combe Down, Bath. In 1906 Kelly only Cotterell Bros, paper hanging warehouse, Bridge St, Bath; but SAS says that it was Jacob Henry Cottrell qv of Cottrell & Spackman qqv Bath who was the Quaker architect;
1850 Quaker Meeting House, Street, Som; GHS7; £1200 on site of previous Quaker meeting-house; but said to be by Jacob Henry Cottrell, SAS
1858 Elmhurst House, Street, Som, for Cyrus Clark; GHS52; sold to Somerset County Council 1920 as Grammar School, hall added by ST Clothier qv 1929; but by Cottrell & Spackman qv, SAS;
1870 Leigh Holt, Street, Som; GHS63, built for JW Columbus Clothier father of ST Clothier qv; but by Cottrell & Spackman qv , SAS;
COTTERELL, JACOB HENRY Bath, land surveyor & valuer,see Jacob Henry Cottrell; advert DWG 16.9.1852;
COTTLE, JOSEPH ?builder Clevedon
c1845 Apsley House, The Beach, Clevedon; built by JC; Lilly;
COTTRELL & SPACKMAN Land surveyors, Bath. Jacob Henry Cottrell 1816-1903 aka as JH Cotterell; son of Henry Fowler Cottrell surveyor of Westbury on Trym, Bristol, and, after 1817, Bath, 1828 engineer to Avon & Gloucestershire Railway; worked for Bath Turnpike Trust and Kennet & Avon Canal co, settled in Macauley Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, 1841, and formed land surveyor practice with Thomas Cooper; SAS; JHC was a Quaker, Temperance advocate, his father became partner in Cottrell & Cooper, 1845. Father and son built two large houses on Prior Park Road, The Summer House, for HFC, 1849 and Bewdley Villa, 1850 for JHC; Jacob Henry Cotterell (sic) Bath, land surveyor & valuer, advert DWG 16.9.1852; HFC retired c1852 and firm became Cottrell & Spackman with Henry Charles Spackman (1832-1904). They made survey maps of Bath 1852-4 and 1875, and Northleigh estate, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, and developed Manor House estate, Limpley Stoke, Wilts, from c1862; firm was continued into C20 by Spackman's son Charles Chantrey Spackman (1861-1908), of Spackman & Pole, land agents & surveyors, Kelly 1906; SAS;
1850 Friends Meeting House, High Street, Street, 1850, builder Samuel Petvin McGarvie, Guide to Historic Street, 1986, 13; McGarvie, The Story of Street, 1987, 49, 92 photos, 128; Stell for the RCHM, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 1991, 193, SAS: but see John Francis Cotterell;
1856 Elmhurst House, Street, built as a home for Cyrus Clark, 1856, now Hyndhurst School, SAS; McGarvie, 1986, 25 and 131 photo; but see J Francis Cotterell
1859 rebuilt Bellots Alsmhouses, Beau St, Bath; MF, Cotterell & Spackman;
1870 Leigh Holt House, Street, SAS, McGarvie, 1986, 31; McGarvie, 1987, 55 photo, but see J Francis Cotterell;
COTTRELL, BENJAMIN THOMAS Carpenter, Dulverton 1906 dir;
1904 House, Bridge St, Dulverton D/R/dul/24/1/23; plain
1905 House, Addlemead, Dulverton for FM Lock; D/Rdul/24/1;
COTTRELL, HENRY FOWLER surveyor, Bath. Originally in Westbury on Trym, Bristol, moved to Bath after 1817, 1828 engineer to Avon & Gloucestershire Railway; worked for Bath Turnpike Trust and Kennet & Avon Canal co, settled in Macauley Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, 1841, and formed land surveyor practice with Thomas Cooper; SAS; father of Jacob Henry Cottrell (1816-1903) who became partner in Cottrell & Cooper, 1845. Father and son built two large houses on Prior Park Road, The Summer House, for HFC, 1849 and Bewdley Villa, 1850 for JHC; HFC retired c1852 and firm became Cottrell & Spackman qqv with Henry Charles Spackman (1832-1904)
COTTRELL, JACOB HENRY see Cottrell & Spackman; Jacob Henery Cotterell Bath, land surveyor & valuer, advert DWG 16.9.1852;
COTTRELL, SIDNEY JOHN Stonemason, 1882-1966, born Ashbrittle son of Charles Cottrell +1850, in Wellington by 1911;
1906-8 repairs Wellington Monument, nr Wellington, Som; PSANHS 2017;
COTTRELL, WILLIAM. Mason
1862-6 Rebuilt Ashbrittle ch, Som, for Rev CP Quicke, church in 1862 the tower in 1866; inf from Charles Doble;
COUNSELL, WILLIAM Builder, Mark. A Mr Counsel, builder, of Southwick, Mark, Som, recorded 1768 altering rooms in his house at Southwick to make WM chapel. This was William Counsell, grandfather of William Counsell stonemason, aged 57 in 1851 and in dirs to 1875. Other members of family were Samuel Counsell stonemason at East Mark 1851 aged 28, in dirs to 1906; Edward Counsell builder, carpenter at Burnham Moor Cott, Mark, in 1861 dir; Pam Slocombe, Mark, pp311ff;
c1805 Mark House, Mark, Som, for self; William Counsell of Mark House recorded 1813 when daughter Mary m William Moon stonemason;
COURT, Rev. LEWIS HENRY. 1870-1960, BC and UM minister, born Kings Brompton, Somerset, author, poet and historian of the BC and UM causes, retired 1934, his papers in U of Manchester library, said on U of Manchester website to have designed at least five churches; SAS;
1907 Methodist chapel (?WM), Roadwater, Som; gave his architectural services, as an old Roadwater boy, Hine & Co of Dunster builders opened 10.7.07
COURT, THOMAS Surveyor
1871-9 Clerk of works rest Bruton ch, Som; Slater & Carpenter; ICBS;
COUSINS THOMAS ROSE Surveyors Trowbridge Wilts
2010 Conversion, Singer Factory, Frome, Som; Mendip awards 2011;
COUSINS, WILLIAM HENRY 1887-1939, Surveyor to Bridgwater RDC 1924-30, his older brother Walter Cousins 1884-1963 was Surveyor to Street UDC 1914-18; SAS
1925 architect, Bridgwater RDC housing scheme TC 15.7.1925;
COX BROS, Builders, 27 Lower Stone St, Maidstone, Kent, Albert E Palmar, ?director.
1930 New farmhouse, Stowey Farm, Timberscombe, Som for F Beadle; plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/60; five-bay long front, brick cavity wall;
COX, A. Architect died The Vicarage, Stogumber, Som, TC 17.10.1945;
COX, A. D. ref to as architect of new building in Yeovil, WG 31.1.1873
COX, ARTHUR LINCOLN Architect 10 Glenmore Rd, Minehead; Kelly 1906; 1870-1912, came from Cannington, a RC, he painted the apse ceiling of Minehead RC church, 1896 (church guide); died young;
1901 House and stables, Perriton, Minehead, Som, for Capt JK Ridler; D/U/M/22/1/100; JK Ridler at Cuzco, Periton Rd, 1906, but house is dated JKR 1906;
1901 Adds No 15 Bampton St, Minehead, for RK Ridler; D/U/M/22/1/113 kitchen, offices, bedroom and bathroom;
1901? RC School, Selbourne Place, Minehead, for Soeurs Fideles de Jesus; D/U/M/22/1/115; OD109;
1901 House, Martlet Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/124; OD119; now St Michaels Rd; detached house for Walter Williams; possibly Penrhyn, possibly Marston Lodge; ALC designed stabling for Penrhyn adjoining Shute Farm backing onto Martlet Rd 1902 D/U/M/22/1/139; OD says ALC designed Marston Lodge 1901 and Beaconwood 1902 for Williams;
1902 House adjoining Shute Farm, Martlet Rd, Minehead (now St Michaels Rd) attic plan only D/U/M/22/1/138, for Walter Williams; probably Marston Lodge
1902 Shop window, Summerland Rd, Minehead for W Holly; D/U/M/ 22/1/145, OD138; and 22/1/146 proposed alts shop and dwelling for W Holly, OD139;
1902 workshop, The Mews, near Summerland Ave, Minehead for George Tudball D/U/M/22/1/156; OD149; GTudball bootmaker Summerland Ave 1906;
1902 Detached house, North Hill, Minehead, for Walter Williams; D/U/M/22/1/154; OD147; probably Beaconwood; addition Beaconwood 1904 D/U/M/ 22/1/221;
1902 House, North Hill, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/161; for Walter Williams; attics North Hill OD154; ?also Beaconwood
1903 House, North Hill, Minehead, Som, for Walter Williams, with servants hall, billiard-room and attic; D/U/M/22/1/164; attic etc North Hill OD157; ?also Beaconwood;
1903 Office, No 8 The Avenue, Minehead for F Dewick; D/U/M/ 22/1/176; OD168; JF Dewick estate agent at 15 The Avenue 1906; cf also 1908;
1903 Four terraced houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/184 for JH Hurford bldr; OD176;
1904 Stable, North Hill, Minehead, for AG Cook; D/U/M/ 22/1/197; OD190; AG Cook at Elgin Tower 1906, house built c1887 for JC Kennedy;
1904 Four houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/211; for JH Hurford bldr; OD203;
1904 Schools, WM chapel, The Avenue, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/22/1/212, reduced scheme by Foster & Wood qv; but OD204 says Wesleyan Schools entirely by ALC;
1904 addn Beaconwood, Minehead, for W Williams, D/U/M/ 22/1/221; OD214;
1905 House and stable, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/232, for T Bail Esq, Ball not in 1906 dir; OD224; corner Alcombe Rd & New road, no elevs, plan with two canted bays and porch front, chimney and canted bay on left side; ?White Lodge, corner Townsend Rd and Whitegate Rd;
1905 Semi-detached houses & stables, Irnham Rd, Minehead, for T Webber, D/U/M/ 22/1/252; plan, no elevations; four canted bays, outer gables; OD234 house and stable, Irnham Rd for J Webber;
1905 fourteen cottages, Pit Park estate, Minehead, probably on Dugdale St; for Passmore & Derrick bldrs; D/U/M/ 22/1/236; OD228; on new street off Bampton Rd, ground floor bay windows;
1906 Stable & workshop, Churr Steep, Minehead, Som for JW Burt qv builder D/U/M/ 22/1/259; street is now Cher;
1906 Stable, Bampton St, Minehead for JW Burt qv builder; OD241;
1906 Semi-det pair, Irnham Rd, Minehead for E Slade builder; D/U/M/ 22/1/269; OD251;
1906 office behind Summerland Ave, Minehead for T Webber D/U/M/ 22/1/274; OD256;
1907 Houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/340, plan proposed attics; for J Hurford builder; OD324;
1907 shed, Summerland Ave, Minehead for JH Hurford; OD295
1907 Alts St Louis Convent, Selbourne Place, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/279; raising two-storey end piece to 3-storey with laundry in top floor over childrens' dormitory; utilitarian; convent built 1903-10 acc to RC church guide, the original building purchased in 1898, opened in 4.8.1900. Convent had Rev Mother and sixteen sisters, a home for some 60 orphan girls who when aged 14 worked in laundry in grounds, own chapel, convent farm; the right gable with third-floor chapel remains to gether with range to left, but there was a second gable and a further range to left all dem; AL Cox added the big convent addition with top floor chapel in 1910;
1908 Cleeve Cottage, Parks Lane, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/283 detached house for J Hurford builder; OD271;
1908 Harefield, Parks Lane, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/313 detached house for EM Dawson Thomas; OD301; addn 1927 by Stone & Francis; later Amberley House, later Laurence House; next door to E of Cleeve Cottage
1908 plan of office and ext, No 8 The Avenue Minehead, house extension for A Staddon D/U/M/ 22/1/292; OD280 says office at No 5 The Avenue; cf also 1903;
1908 Premises, Friday St, Minehead, for BW Bagley; D/U/M/ 22/1/335; OD314;
1909 Shopfront, Friday St, Minehead for BW Bagley D/U/M/ 22/1/249; OD329; BW Bagley & Son, hatters, 8 Park St 1906;
1909 alts Syndal, The Parks, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/301, for EB Wood Esq; EB Wood No 10 The Parks 1906; OD289
1909 Detached house, Alcombe Rd, Minehead for F Elliot; D/U/M/ 22/1/304; OD293 for Mr Ellicot;
1909 pair of houses, Bancks St, Minehead, for J Hurford bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/333; one down from Irnham Rd corner, ?present Courtyard site, canted bays; OD313 villa Bancks St, OD328 semi-det houses;
1909 semi-det houses Bancks St, Minehead, for J Hurford; D/U/M/ 22/1/344; ?Nos. 17-19; OD313 villa Bancks St; OD328 semi-det houses;
1909 alts Beach Hotel, Esplanade, Minehead; OD296;
1910 Stables, Friday St, Minehead for J Hurford builder; D/U/M/ 22/1/355; OD335;
1910 Two houses, New Rd, Minehead for JW Burt; D/U/M/ 22/1/362, off Tregonwell Rd; OD342;
1910 Semi-det pair, Irnham Rd, Minehead for E Slade D/U/M/ 22/1/391; OD372 inc Belair
1910 Two houses, Minehead for Mr Hurford OD380 inc Rosemount
1910 Office, No 8 The Avenue, Minehead for Mr Surridge D/U/M/ 22/1/369, OD349;
1910-11 ext Convent of St Louis, Selbourne Place, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/373; OD353; large addition for convent with ground-floor reception rooms, library, linen rm, first floor bedrooms, second floor chapel, sacristy and bedrooms; also external staircase to first-floor 1911, D/U/M/ 22/1/418 OD397; ext to St Louis Convent opened July 1911, this is the main part with chapel on second floor; AJC Scoles probably designed orig convent in 1899;
1910 Detached house, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead, for C Taylor Esq; D/U/M/ 22/1/401 OD381a;
1910 Nos 62-64 Summerland Av Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/380, attic plans; OD361;
1911 Two semi-det houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead for CTudball; D/U/M/ 22/1/373a; OD354; also plan of attics for C Tudball, D/U/M/ 22/1/407 OD386 1911; C Tudball apartments Exeter House, Summerland Ave 1906;
1911 Detached house Alcombe Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/374 for JH Hurford bldr; OD355; ?corner Warden Rd, next road down after Irnham Rd,
1911 Eight terraced houses, Irnham Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/376 for E Slade bldr;OD357
1911 Detached house near Western Lane, Minehead for Hon Esther Pomeroy 1835-1923; D/U/M/ 22/1/410 OD389; Carbery, Western Lane, acc to OD;
1911 Detached house, Queens Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/417, for Burt & Sons; houses Queens Rd OD396;
1911 Detached houses, Irnham Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/419 for C Passmore bldr; Milnthorpe, Compton & Pearlee acc to OD398;
1911 Two detached hos, Alexandra Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/420, for T Webber; OD399;
1911 Stable ext behind Irnham Rd for T Webber D/U/M/ 22/1/422, OD406
1911 Two semi-det hos, Alexandra Rd, Minehead for TWebber D/U/M/ 22/1/423, OD407;
1911 alts Carlton Hotel, Blenheim Rd, Minehead; OD392; dem;
1911 Detached house Alcombe Rd Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/430 for JH Hurford bldr;OD414;
1911 Villa, Higher Town Minehead for A Staddon; block plan OD415;
1911-12 Houses, Pemswell Lane Minehead for AStaddon D/U/M/ 22/1/432 OD405;
1912 Offices, The Mews, Summerland, Minehead for T Webber D/U/M/ 22/1/437; shed, Summerland Mews for J Webber OD419;
1912 Pair semi-det houses Summerland Av Minehead for CTudball D/U/M/ 22/1/441; OD423
1912 Detached house, Alcombe Rd, Minehead for Miss B Kay D/U/M/ 22/1/452; OD434;
COX, FREDERICK Yeovil, builder, 1826-87, son of John Cox of Yeovil, builder; prominent Freemason, SAS.
1866 minor alts to outbuildings, parsonage, Norton sub Hamdon, Som; SRO Bbm/145;
1871-2 builder Cottage Hospital, Yeovil, J Johnson qv architect; SAS;
1877 builder C chapel Princes St, Yeovil, TL Banks qv architect; SAS;
1877-8 builder new farmhouse, Tythe Farm North Cadbury, Som; Henry Hall qv architect, £1760, Cox, Yeovil; infants' school added 1879;
(1885 contractor reps Ryme Intrinseca ch, Dorset; ?FW Hunt, 27 Upper Baker St, London architect; WG 14.8.85, £300; Fred Cox;
1885 builder, Corporation Baths, Huish, Yeovil J Johnson qv architect; SAS;
COX, GEORGE Stonemason, Keinton Mandeville, born 1841, George Cox & Sons, monumental masons Kelly 1906; Austin George Cox 1870-1938 was his son.
1921 War memorial, Somerton, Som; by George Cox & Son to standard War Office design of standing soldier;
COX, GEORGE HENRY Architect, builder Birmingham +1921;
1887 1st prize schools, Milverton; SAS; Br 1887 147; RHH; more probably Milverton, Warws where school was built in 1887;
COX, HARRY EBENEZER. Builder. Keinton Mandeville, born 1873 son of James Cox born 1846; builder and contractor; Kelly 1906. Also in Kelly 1906: George Cox & Sons monumental masons; James Cox quarry owner and stone merchant;
1903 alts Keinton Mandeville ch, Som; plans by HEC SRO cf/1903/59; ICBS 1904; removed N arcade receiled whole space in boards, the work inspected by Mr Merrick, experienced in church work.
COX, J. Stonemason
1922 war memorial, Henstridge, Som; SAS;
COX, JAMES E. 1825-1914, SAS;
1851-3 rest Rowberrow ch, Som; SNB;
COX, J. RAMSAY Architect
1901-2 Lyndhurst, Weston s Mare, Som; ill Br 11.1.1902; half-timbered
COX, JOHN Montacute 1847-1914.
1870-1 Clerk of works, rest Montacute ch, Som; architect Henry Hall qv; WG 2.6.71, ‘indefatigable in his supervision of the work, and in carrying out an important part of the restoration ..’
COX, JOHN. Builder, Middle St, Yeovil. Somerset Dir 1830.
COX, THOMAS, Manor Farm, Lympsham, 1823-1903 steward to Prebendary JH Stephenson qv of Manor House Lympsham and builder for most of Stephenson’s estate buildings, the designs said to be by Stephenson.
1845 made pulpit, Lympsham ch, Som; signed by him;
1863 Manor Farmhouse, Lympsham, Som; his own house; now Holm Farmhouse;
1865 Grange Cottages, Lympsham, Som
1866 Old Rectory Farm, Lympsham, Som; refaced early C18 house;
1867 Manor Cottage, Lympsham, Som;
1868 Hope Farm, Lympsham, Som;
1869 Millfield Cottages, Lympsham, Som;
1869 South Farmhouse, Lympsham, Som;
1872 Sycamore House, Lympsham, Som;
1873 The Lodge, Lympsham, Som;
1873-5 Manor Hall and School, Lympsham, Som; opened 5.7.75; stained glass by Joseph Bell; heraldry painted by Benjamin Cox (brother);
c1874 Manor Lodge, Lympsham, Som;
1881 North Farmhouse, Lympsham, Som;
1888 School House, Lympsham, Som;
1895 addn to School, Lympsham, Som;
COX, VICTOR S. Monumental mason,
1920 Curzon Cinema, Old Church Rd, Clevedon, Som; SC notes; built by V Cox prob des by him, SNB;
COX, W. J. P.
1962 tower screens, Stogumber ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1962/3/3, pine wood screens to enclose area under tower;
COX, WILLIAM COLLARD Land surveyor, Wiveliscombe, 1790-1842, called surveyor in 1821 dir, and architect, surveyor & cartographer in 1834; produced numerous tithe maps; died at Sampford Brett;son also William Collard Cox 1818-c1895 was also land surveyor; SAS;
CRANE, GEORGE PERCEVAL Architect, Paddington, ?with GWR
1935 add to platform refreshment room, Taunton Station, TC 7.12.35, refreshment room built earlier that year already too small;
CREASE, WILLIAM HENRY Architect and estate agent, reference re new Town Hall TC 12.10.81; moved to 59 Alma St Taunton TC 9.11.1881, at 2 Hammet St, Taunton, TC 16.4.1884; at 3 Bath Place, Taunton, Kelly 1889;
1880 cottages, Lees, Cheddon Fitzpaine, S&J Pleass builders with Edwin Gardiner; DD/DP/72/3; SAS;
1887 alts and adds house, Cheddon Rd, Taunton for R Woodman T Br 26.2.87, £210 AJ Spiller contr;
1887 alts White Hart, East Reach, Taunton T Br 19.3.87 £210;
CREEKE, CHRISTOPHER CRABBE, Architect Bournemouth, 1820-86; surveyor and Inspector of nuisances to Bournemouth town council; WBR; .
(1856-7 Blandford Workhouse, Dorset; ;)
(1859 Chippenham Workhouse, Wilts; WBR)
(1869 Tisbury workhouse, Wilts; WBR)
CREWE, BERTIE Architect, London, 1860-1937, William Robert Crewe;
1910 Bath elecric Theatre, Westgate St, Bath, reconstructed 1920 by AJ Taylor qv as Beau Nash Picture Theatre, opened 16.12.20; enlarged 1929; cinema treasures website;
CRIBB, ISAAC Surveyor to Minehead Urban District Council dismissed 1899; born 1873, emigrated to Brisbane, Australia by 1911, SAS;
1895 Building, Frog St, Minehead, for JH Hurford builder; OD4
1896 Seventeen houses Summerland Ave, Minehead, C Passmore builder; OD8;
1896 Seventeen houses, Summerland Av, Minehead for T Ponsford; D/U/M/22/1/8; by J Cribb (sic)
1896 Stables rear of Blenheim Rd, Minehead for TK Ridler; OD14
1897 Window, Holloway St, Minehead for Mr Passmore; OD20
1899 Weighbridge, Quay St, Minehead for JK Ridler; OD63
1899 Proposed MH, The Parade, Minehead, Som; not built, new design commissioned from successor JH Woolston Smith, not built, and competition 1900 advertised won by WJ Tamlyn qv.
1899? Stable at Friday St, Minehead for Mr Ferris; Hurford bldr; OD68a;
CRIBB, J. Surveyor, Minehead. Probably error for Isaac Cribb
1896 Seventeen houses, Summerland Av, Minehead for T Ponsford; D/U/M/22/1/8;
CRICKMAY, GEORGE RACKSTROW. Weymouth 1830-1907. Articled to his father George H Crickmay, 1846, Crickmay & Son established 1858, in Weymouth; 1869 bought practice of John Hicks qv and Thomas Hardy qv continued to finish projects for a year; son George Lay Crickmay 1858-1921 articled 1872; 1881 practice George Crickmay & Sons also with son Harry William Crickmay (C&Sons), office in London 1890; ASG; HW Crickmay was in partnership with CE Ponting in 1925 (DSAS); GRC was surveyor to Dorset Archdeaconry, FRIBA 1884; practice continued by GL Crickmay FRIBA 1888, joined by sons Colin ARIBA 1928 and Hugh ARIBA 1931, both FRIBA 1946, still C&Sons with offices in 1960s in Yeovil and Dorchester; Crickmay Partnership 1972 when Colin retires; Hugh retires 1977; Weymouth office closed 1978, Yeovil office closed 1993; 1999 joined with John Stark of dorchester as John Stark & Crickmay (JS&C).
(1862 entr Exeter City Prison comp, Devon; RHH)
(1869-70 reblt Turnworth ch, Dorset after J Hicks died in 1868, BoE; WG 29.4.70, Augustine Green of Blandford builder;
(1869-70 West Lulworth ch, Dorset WG 13.5.70, orig designs by J Hicks BoE)
(1870 N aisle Buckhorn Weston ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1875 nave, Alton Pancras ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1875 Purbeck House, Swanage, Dorset; BoE)
1875-80 rest Cucklington ch, Som; D/D/cf/1875/11; SAS, replaced single arch to S chapel with triptych, pierced wall between N chapel and chancel, moved organ there from a W gallery, and reset chancel screen in the N aisle; choir stalls carved by Caroline Phelips, rector’s sister, to designs by GRC; D/p/Cuck/2/1/5;
(1880 Brewery, Dorchester, Dorset; BoE
1881 Crewkerne United Brewery, North St, Crewkerne, Som; built by Mr Green; Mary Miles, Perfectly Pure, 24.
(1882 Beer Hackett ch, Dorset; BoE)
1884ff alts Grammar School, Crewkerne, Som; SAS, added the gymnasium, 1884, and the swimming baths, 1888, and may have altered the old school premises in Abbey Street (SAS); new Grammar School 1876-80 by Giles & Gough qv;
(1884 rebuilt part of S range, St Nicholas Hospital, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR; as new accommodation for Master;
(1885 rest St Martin ch, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR;
(1887 Holy Trinity ch, Weymouth, Dorset; BoE)
(1886-7 alts Church House, Crane St, Salisbury, Wilts; BN 10.9.86 by C&Son; 1887 WBR;
(1890 rear additions South Canonry, The Close, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR;
(1894 Weymouth College Chapel, Dorset; ASG; C&Sons
(1896 Bear Inn, High St, Marlborough, Wilts; BoE; C&Sons;
(1897 Holmwood, near Wimborne, Dorset Br 23.9.97; C&Sons
(1898 Lytchett Heath ch, Dorset, ASG; C&Sons
(1898 Lytchett Heath schools, Dorset, ASG; C&Sons
(1899 Badger PH, Blandford Forum, Dorset; C&Sons; ASG;
(1901 adds Broadwey ch, Dorset; C&Son; BoE)
(1902 Six Bells PH, Kings Rd, Chelsea, London; C&Sons; ASG
(1903-4 New Zealand House, 415 Strand, London; ASG; C&Sons
(1903-4 156-8 Regent St, London; ASG; C&Sons
(1914-17 Easton ch, Portland, Dorset; H&F)
Also Maltings, Oakhill Brewery, Oakhill; SAS n.d.
CRISP & OATLEY see Henry Crisp and George Oatley
CRISP, HENRY Bristol. Architect, 1826-96, son of Baptist minister, Rev. TS Crisp, articled Foster & Sons by 1845, partnership with EW Godwin 1864-71 G&C, with HCM Hirst in 1880s, from 1888-96 with George Oatley as C&O;
(1850 British School, St George’s, Bristol; Gomme;
(1853 Hebron chapel, Bedminster, Bristol; Gomme;
(1854 Kingswood WM chapel, Bristol; attr SNB)
(1855 Stonehouse ch, Devon, Br 1855 34, E w by Wailes)
1856 alts St Cuthbert ch, Wells, Som; SRO cf/1856/1; repewing;
(1856-7 B chapel, Ther Borough, Downton, Wilts)
(1857 Westbury Girl’s School, Bristol; GJL;
(1863 alts to house and lodge, Henbury Hill, Bristol for Rev J Heyworth; drawings Bristol University Special Collections;
1866 competition entry Taunton School, Taunton G&C; RHH;
(1866 addition Royal Infirmary, Bristol; SNB ward wing at SW;
(1867 Tyndale B chapel, Whiteladies Rd, Bristol;
(1869 Cherry Orchards, Canford Lane, Bristol; G&C; drawing Bristol Univ Special Collections;
(1871 enl offices, Bristol Wagon Works co, Berkeley St, Bristol; Bristol Univ Special Collections;
(1872 Oakleigh, Dunkirk Hill, Devizes, Wilts for Dr Merrick L Burrows; brick Gothic villa, drawings Bristol University Special Collections;
(1873 Shop, High St/ Bridge St, Bristol for W Hathway; drawings Bristol University Special Collections;
1873 addition Bristol Wagon Works Co, Victoria St, Bristol; ?two extra bays to existing building?
(1875 addition, St Mark's school, Easton, Bristol; drawings Bristol University Special Collections;
(1876 attr Redland Grove WM church, Fernbank Rd, Bristol; SNB)
(1876 alts Horfield ch, Bristol and prob vestry 1887;
1877 vicarage, Leighland, Som; SAS; S Whittingham, Sir George Oatley;
(1879-80 Horfield Schools, Bristol; SNB
(1883 No 28 Clare St, Bristol for George White; SNB;
(1883 No 60 Redcliff St Bristol; tobacco factory by HC & HCM Hirst; SNB;
(1886 alts Western Wagon Works & Property Co, Counterslip, Bristol; Bristol Univ special collections; ground floor alts to warehouse of 1859;
(1887 wards and nurses home Bristol General Hospital; drawings drawings Bristol University Special Collections;
(1891-3 chancel etc Holy Trinity ch, Horfield, Bristol C&O; SNB;
(1886-90 Bristol Lunatic Asylum, Stapleton, Bristol; C&O;
(1888-91 proposed transepts, crossing tower and chancel, Horfield ch, Glos; C&O; drawings Bristol University Special Collections;
(1889 proposed adds, C chapel, Clifton Down, Bristol; lecture hall and classroom; C&O;
(1896 School of Science & Art, 1-2 Whiteladies Rd, Bristol; GJL;
(1897 Factory buildings for JS Fry & sons, Christmas St, Bristol; C&O:)
CROCKER, JAMES Architect, Exeter, 1850-1922
1881 ?BC chapel, Keinton Mandeville, Som; WG 20.5.81;
(1883-5 rest Cheriton Fitzpaine ch, Devon)
CROCKER, JOHN Surveyor, printer, Frome, 1774-1831 son of Abraham Crocker (1742-1821) surveyor, printer and master of Bluecoat School; Abraham Crocker did map of Somerset for Collinson 1791; another son was Philip Crocker qv 1780-1840 steward to the Hoare estate, Stourhead, Wilts; another Edmund was called surveyor and land agent to the D of Bedford; SAS; Abraham Crocker was author of Elements of land surveying, 1817, reprinted at least five times in C19;
1812 named in papers re parsonage, Marston Bigot, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/32
1816c plans for crescent of public buildings with Literary Institute for Golden Knoll (Christchurch St West) Frome; unex; SAS;
c1818-26 Added W bays, Nunney ch, Som, with GA Underwood qv; SNB;
CROCKER, PHILIP, Frome. 1780-1840. Surveyor, draughtsman, worked for Ordnance Survey 1805-12, then c1807 began making maps and drawing up archaeology for Sir Richard Colt Hoare leading to him becoming c. 1809 steward to Stourhead estate Wiltshire c1810-40, succeeded by son John Butler Crocker 1819-58 then aged 20; inf Dudley Dodd; son of Abraham Cocker (1742-1821) Master of Bluecoat School, Frome from 1783 to 1815, set up printing press there before 1797, author of Elements of land surveying, 1817, reprinted at least five times in C19, and who drew sheet map for Collinson's history of Somerset, 1791; Abraham had other sons John qv +1831 who worked for him on press, James +1820 bookseller in Cheap St, Frome and Edmund who also worked for Ordnance Survey on 1st Series Wiltshire; PC was present with Rev John Skinner and Colt Hoare at excavation of Stoney Littleton long barrow in 1816;
(1818 Rectory, Stourton, Wilts; plans WRO D1/11/37; built 1819-20)
CROSS, ALFRED WILLIAM STEPHENS. Architect, 1858-1932. Practice in Weston s Mare from 1882, and office in Taunton, as Lingen Barker & Cross with EH Lingen Barker qv (SAS); 1885 moved to Hastings; 1889 went to London to work with Henry Spalding (S&C), specialists in baths & wash-houses, until 1899; later with son Kenneth Cross (1890-1968) as AWS & KMB Cross cf bronze shop front at Cambridge ill in Modern Architectural Details;
1881 ?work Stanton Drew ch, Som; SAS; see 1889 by LB&C, D/D/cf/1889/4;
1885, Vicarage, Easton in Gordano, Som; SC notes; ASG; ?1882; not in SRO;
1887 Glendale, Princes Rd, Clevedon, Som; ASG; SC notes;
1887 restored Market Cross, Cheddar, Som on lines suggested in report by William Burges qv 1858-9; SAS;
1889 alts Stanton Drew ch, Som; 1881 ASG; with EH Lingen Barker qv, SRO cf/1889/4;
(1899 Free Library, Gosport, Hants ill Br 16.9.99)
(1906 rebuilt Merchant Venturers College, Unity St, Bristol; SNB;
(1907 Davies Memorial Chemistry Labs, Aberystwyth University, Cds;)
CROSS, HELEN R. Architect, 1 New St, Wells, 1931 dir;
CROSSLEY, JOHN SYDNEY, Barrow upon Soar, Leics, engineer, 1812-79, articled Edward Staveley, engineer to Leicester Navigation Co, succeeded him 1832; 1832-3 surveyed Leicester-Swannington Railway under WA Provis; worked on various Midland railway projects under Charles Liddell, Chief Engineer to Midland Railway 1858-75, oversaw some 225 miles of new line, supervised Settle-Carlisle line, opened 1876. Grace's Guide;
1868-9 engineer, train shed, Green Park Station, Bath, Som; front building by JH Sanders qv;
CROSSMAN, LOUISE. Louise Crossman Architects, The Potato Store, Court Place Farm, Withycombe TA24 6QB 2009. Established 1989, office in Exeter 2008.
1988-9 converted Redstone Barn, ?, Som; conversion of half-hipped barn with modern curved-fronted addition;
199? Rest Cutcombe ch, Som; inf P Quinn;
1996 rest Exton ch, Som;
199? rest Church House, Crowcombe, Som; medieval church-house previously rest by Samson & Cottam qv;
2001-5 Addn Moorland Hall, Wheddon Cross, Som; notes in hall; hall of 1934-5;
2002-10 rest Croydon House, Timberscombe, Som; SC notes; for Dr John & Pippa Prideaux, design mostly by them, with help from George Saumarez-Smith qv,
2003 rest Sawmill, Simonsbath, Som, for Exmoor Nat Pk; highly commended SBPT awards 2004;
200? rest Spring Grove, Milverton, Som; Late Georgian country house;
2008-12 Rest Willett House, Elworthy, Som; inc new pool to NE, remodelling of rear courtyard with garden design by Annie Lennox-Boyd; for Mr & Mrs Smith;
2009 rest Court Hall, Monksilver, West Som; adds each end; best domestic extension award Somerset West LABC awards 2010;
2009? Court Place Cottages, Withycombe, Som; near Court Place Farm, for Crown Estate, pair of cotts with boarded front wall, rendered end and rear elevs;
(2011 housing for West Devon Homes at Drewsteignton and Sticklepath, Devon)
(2011 Cathedral Green improvements, Exeter, Devon, with Robert Myers landscape architect)
2011-12 new factory building, Singer Instruments, Roadwater, Som;
2012 alts Regal Cinema, The Avenue, Minehead; alts to foyer, lift shaft on outside to cinema in former upper gallery;
Also: Sure Start nursery, adj primary school, Dulverton, Som; adds Binham Grange, Washford, Som; restored a country house and White Barn, conv of outbuildings, ?where, Som; repair and pool, The Lodge, Quantock Hills, where?, Som; addition to The School House, ?Som; The Lakes, elliptical modern lakeside house, where?; renov North Woolley Farm, Devon, for NT; Stable House conv of Georgian stables of country house, Som; repairs Bishops Palace, Exeter, Devon, for cathedral archives; add to bungalow in Quantocks, Som; bus-shelter, Wheddon Cross, Som; new house, Mavora, Dunster, Som; Premier Court flats and houses, where?; Woodside Centre childrens centre; sawtooth cottages by churchyard, where?; shooting-lodge Exmoor Nat Park, new build; house in Minehead behind The Parks;
CROWE, Dame SYLVIA Landscape architect. Landscape Design Trust, Monograph 2 1995 21-46.
1958 unex garden scheme, Barford Park, Som, for Michael Stancomb; HGS 239; Roy Cheek of Cannington involved in final scheme, CL 25.8.2010 36, gives 1957 date; Stancomb daughter suggests more ideas than full scheme by Crowe;
1976-9 Landscape, Wimbleball Reservoir, Som; Rofe Lapworth & Kennard consulting engineers;
CROZIER, Major -.
1879-81 The Keep, Jellalabad Barracks, Taunton, Som, with Thomas Berry, Army Divisional Surveyor, qv; RL2 63; presumably also officers’ mess and barrack blocks. Plan of approaches D/D/ta/24/1/323 sent from Exeter Divisional Office 1876 under Major Henry Locock RE with letter suggests he was involved, also Lt JR Chard RE. Barracks were one of several built around England at time cf. Devizes, Brecon.
CROZIER-COLE, ALAN Bath Continued James Wilson practice at 1 Belmont, Bath, following on from Rolfe & Peto qv, Rolfe & Crozier-Cole (R&CC) with William B Rolfe, then on own; he gave the office drawings to RIBAD. RIBAD has fifty folders of work for St John's Hospital Bath 1947-78
1939 alts and adds Old Ship Inn, James StSouth, Bath; file RIBAD;
1939 house, Croford, near Wiveliscombe, Som; folder RIBAD;
1947-8 alts Donnybrook hotel, 2-3 Russell St, Bath; file RIBAD;
1947 house, Rush Hill, Bath; folder RIBAD;
1948 calf-house, Manor Farm, Chilcompton; photo RIBAD; also milking parlour 1950;
1948 Selworthy Cott, Bloomfield Rd, Bath, two flats; photos RIBAD;
1949 restored 35 St James Sq Bath, photos RIBAD;
1948-54 work Charlcombe Manor, Som; photos and plans RIBAD;conversion to three flats;
1949-50 house Stonehouse La, Combe Down, Bath folder RIBAD
1949-51 Ivy Cottage, Inglestone, nr Bath folder RIBAD;
1950-71 rebuild 5 Mount Beacon, Bath folder RIBAD
1951 Little Gables, Charlcombe La, Bath; photos RIBAD;
1951 bungalow, Broadmoor La, Upper Weston, Bath; folder RIBAD
1951 bungalow 5 Sion Hill, Bath, photo RIBAD and folder 1949-59;
1951 chemist's shop 125 High St, Weston nr Bath; photo RIBAD and file 1949-51;
1951-6 rest Royal Baths, Bath; file RIBAD;
1952 High View, Charlcombe La, Bath; photos RIBAD;
1953 Nos 1-6 Fairfield Pk, Chalcombe Way, Bath; bungalows; photos RIBAD;
1953 eight shops and flats, Mount Rd, Southdown, Bath; file RIBAD;
1953-6 rebuilt Chapel Court, Bath; MF; plans 1949-69 RIBAD demolition and rebuilding of No 3 and restoration of No 6; for St john's hospital Trustees;
1955 reconstructed North Parade House, Bath former Bath Police club; photos RIBAD;
1955-6 Cadena Cafe, 25 Upper borough Walls, Bath; conversion; photos and file RIBAD;
1955-68 work St Matthew ch, Widcombe, Bath; folder RIBAD;
1956 Chatsworth, Bloomfield Rd, Bath; photos RIBAD;
1956 Hitchcock's bungalow, Gloucester Rd, Bath; photos RIBAD;
1957 Foxhill ch, Combe Down, Bath, Som; RIBAD folder 1955-8 church hall at Hawthorn Grove, Foxhill;
1957-8 Hillside, Widcombe Hill, Bath; folder RIBAD;
1958 house, Richmond Rd, Bath; folder RIBAD;
1959-60 flat, Ashton ho, Park Gardens, Bath; folder RIBAD;
1960 Priest’s desk and stall, Wilton ch, Taunton, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1960/2/4; R&CC;
1960-71 alts coach-house, Combe Royal, Bathwick Hill, Bath, conversion to house; file RIBAD;
1960-3 alts Eagle House School, Bathford, Som; folder RIBAD
1962-71 rebuilt 10 Hetling Court, St John's Hospital, Bath; RIBAD
1963 flats 19 The Grove, Bath; folder RIBAD;
1963 alts and adds Bath High School for girls, Bath; folder RIBAD;
1963-4 work at Camerton Court, Camerton, Som; folder RIBAD;
1963-78 Chandos Buildings Bath for St Johns Hospital; RIBAD; later called Rosenberg House
1963-7 alts and adds Avonside School, Bath; folder RIBAD;
1964-71 Dolphin Cottage, Bathofrd, Som; folder RIBAD;
1965-9 rebuilt S side Chapel Court, Bath; MF; 1969-72 phase 2 RIBAD;
1966-7 work Glastonbury Abbey; folder RIBAD;
1966-8 restored chapel, St John's Hospital, Bath; RIBAD
1969-76 three flats, Rosewell Ho, Kingsmead Sq, Bath for St John hospital; RIBAD;
c1970 restored Beau Nash's first house, Sawclose, Bath; photos RIBAD;
1971-3 rest facade 5-6 Bath St, Bath; file RIBAD;
1971-4 sword-rest, Chapel, St John's hospital, Bath; RIBAD;
1972 Bethel B chapel, Grove St, Bath; MF; RIBAD folder 1970-6;
1972 ?restored 1-9 Lamb Pl, Bath; photos RIBAD;
1973-4 house and flats, Bath Nurseries, Weston Rd, Bath; RIBAD
1974 shopfront 1-4 Bridge St, Bath; file RIBAD;
1976-7 restored royal arms, 5 old Bond St, Bath; RIBAD;
1976-8 conv of flats 12 Johnstone St Bath; RIBAD folder;
CRUMP, THOMAS GOLDSWORTHY, Taunton, 1867-1940; Surveyor Taunton RDC 1894-1923, SAS;
1885-6 silver medal for his architectural drawings of the proposed building for Mary Street Schools, St Mary Street, Taunton, at the Art, Science and Industrial Exhibition in 1885, presumably by Crump rather than his father also Thomas Goldsworthy Crump (1836-1901), artist and drawing teacher, SCG 17.10.85; did he design the school?
CUBITT, JOSEPH engineer, 1811-72, son of Sir William Cubitt qv;
1864-72 engineer with Robert May to the Brean Down Harbour Co., Som; works were abandoned after a storm in 1872; DD/Wy/box 175; Weston, Worle and Somerset Mercury, 6 March 2007, drawing of the proposed harbour; SAS;
CUBITT, THOMAS 1788-1855 Builder, architect, London. Built much of Pimlico, des Osborne House with Prince Albert. Biography by Hermione Hobhouse. The firm was taken over by Holland & Hannen qv in 1876.
1835-6 builder adds Ven House, Milborne Port, Som; architect Decimus Burton, RL; Burton’s plans at house: added two pavilions, removed staircase to create new S room centre each floor. Orangery. Not mentioned in HH biography. SAS, SJ 28.9.37;
CUBITT, Sir WILLIAM engineer, London, 1785-1861. Knighted 1851 for role in building Crystal Palace. Engineer to SE Railway, 1836, associated with Cardiff and Middlesbrough Docks, and canals. Worked with son Joseph Cubitt 1811-72 qv; SAS;
1834-42 ?consultant, inclined planes on Chard Canal, Som; Sydney Hall qv engineer; possibly responsible for overseeing building of the Canal after James Green was dismissed until 1841, with Hall as resident engineer, SAS; Hadfield, The Canals of SW England, 1967, 67; SIAS Journal 90, 2 and 3, 2002;
1841 consulted over silting of Bridgwater Dock, Som, BDRP24;
CULLEN, JOHN HENRY Engineer 1817-99, employed by Frederic Knight of Simonsbath to survey proposed Exmoor Railway from Simonsbath to Porlock Weir for export of iron ore. Railway survey c1857, work begun, but abandoned after 1860 and Cullen left; RA Bruton, Simonsbath, 49.
CULVERHOUSE, P.E. Architect with GWR, Bristol.
(1904 Goods shed, Canon’s Marsh, Bristol with William Armstrong engineer to GWR; SNB;
(1930-5 adds Bristol Temple Meads Station, five platforms, platform buildings clad in ceramic;
CULVERWELL, ROBERT Joiner Wellington
1728 Pulpit and desk, Wellington ch, Som; desk dismantled 1938; ch guide;
Both made up of old woodwork;
CULVERWELL, WILLIAM Builder Bath
1813 involved with No 1 Cavendish Cres, Bath; also William Broom, builder; SRO 0358/11/5;
CUNDY, THOMAS Architect, London. Thomas Cundy II 1790-1867, who took over practice of father Thomas Cundy I (1765-1825) or his son Thomas Cundy III 1821-95 who joined office in late 1840s, SAS;
1855 Infant School for St John's National School, Frome; on site of former Grammar School, WJ 13.10.55; SAS;
CURL LA TOURELLE Architects, 80 Lamble St, London NW5.
2006 St Georges VA Primary School, Weston s Mare, Som; ISG Pearce contrs;
CURREY, HENRY Architect, London 1820-1900 pupil of Decimus Burton, designed for Duke of Devonshire: baths, Buxton, 1852, and much at Eastbourne inc Eastbourne College and St Peter ch; also St Thomas Hospital, London, 1868-71;
1854 house for Mr Banister, Weston s Mare, Som; TC 30.8.54 mentions corner of Finch Lane: 'next to this, westward is a stone-fronted house for Mr Banister for whom Mr HC is the architect';
CURTIS CRYER PARTNERSHIP Bristol and Bradford on Avon, Wilts, David Cryer and Maturtis, established c1990;
(20??ff adds Ridings High School, Winterbourne, Glos Bristol, for 6th form; Donovan Construction website,
(20?? adds Sir Bernard Lovell School, Oldland common, Glos, near Bristol, new entrance, admin & arts block, technology extension, kitchen alts, post-16 centre, learning hub, sports centre,
(20?? adds Monkton Farleigh School, Wilts; Donovan Construction contrs;
(20?? Park Meadow housing, Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; 23 houses, Donovan Construction contractors; Courtside Terrace, Barton Close and Midland Close;
(200? houses, Watleys End Rd, Frampton Cottrell, Glos ; single-storey,brick;
(200? works at Manor House, Frenchay, Bristol including Beck House, conversion of stables for learning disability
(20?? comercial units, Green Farm, Quedgeley, Glos)
(201? The Railings, 5a Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; own office and new house;
201? Pepperpot Playgroup building, Bathford, Som; website;
(201? converted coach house, Morton Grange, Thornbury, Glos; website)
CURTIS-GREEN, WILLIAM see Green, William Curtis
CURWEN, ROBERT, MRIBA. 103-4 Palace Chambers, Westminster & 34 South John St, Liverpool. C1849-1915, died aged 66; Pupil of CO Ellison and then GG Scott; ARIBA 1879. Designed The Leys WM School Cambridge 1875ff; same as Robert Curwen Jr, 11 Bells Buildings, Liverpool 1881. Designed mostly for Wesleyans.
(1877 WM chapel, Thornbury, Glos)
(1877-8 WM chapel, Redland Rd, Bristol, SNB, now Christ Church)
1882 entrant WM chapel comp, Clevedon, Som; RHH, won by Herbert Jones qv;
1882-5 WM chapel, Tower Hill, Williton, Som; Gothic, £2750 with school and manse, Langdon & Chibbett, Williton, builders; accounts SRO D/N/wsc/2/3/3;
(1882-5 Children’s Hospital, St Michaels Hill, Bristol, SNB)
(1884 WM chapel, Church Rd, Barton Hill, Bristol; SNB359 now Hindu)
(1885-6 WM chapel, Malmesbury, Wilts, now part of TH complex)
1887 Victoria WM chapel, Keynsham Som; SNB
1890-1 WM chapel, Combe St Nicholas, Som; WG 9.10.90 opened 19.3.91; Fowler & Stickland of Combe St Nicholas builders; centenary history leaflet; £600; schoolroom added 1896 FS 10.9.96, £550, architect not named; 1891 flint and stone by Mr R Curwen ARIBA of London, attached schoolroom with four class-rooms and gallery and a large transeptal room opened in 1897 .. can all be thrown into one by the removal of screens, Kelly 1906;
1894-5 WM chapel, Fore St, Chard, Som; BoE S; brick Gothic; Kelly 1906; FS TC 30.5.94 built as school/ chapel with intention of building chapel later; Lye & Sons of Crewkerne contractors, Mr Ashford, Chard, clerk of works;
1896 WM chapel, Cricket St Thomas, Som; centenary history leaflet; £600;
1901-2 WM chapel, Fortescue Rd, Radstock, Som; SNB;
CUTHILL, ALEXANDER MUSTARD. Dunster. Building bailiff to GF Luttrell, 1906 dir., 1862-1951; son George Alexander Cuthill 1903-87; SAS;
1897 house, Higher Town, Minehead for GF Luttrell; OD29
1898 WC back of shop, Friday St, Minehead for Mr Rawle OD31 and 32a;
1906 New street, Alcombe Rd, minehead for GF Luttrell
1906 plan Irnham Rd, Minehead showing sewer OD243
1922 Laid out land E of Ponsford Rd, Minehead for building; D/U/M/ 22/1/648;
CUTHILL, GEORGE ALEXANDER. Dunster 1903-87; SAS;
1922 Bungalow, Washford, Som for Mr Burnett, behind houses opp station; plans SRO D/U/wil/24/1/18;
DAKERS, WILLIAM SYDIE Bristol 1882-1958. Was assistant to Edmund Buckle qv 1903; practice in London, 1910, moved to Bath with Admiralty in WW2 and later had practice in Bristol area; WS 173;
1907 Development plan, Wellington School, Som; WS57;
1912 added two-storey bays to dining-hall/dormitory block, Wellington School, Som, since removed; WS57;
DALE, THOMAS LAWRENCE. Architect, West St, Somerton, Som; Kelly 1906; 1884-1959; known as Lawrence Dale, pupil of CE Ponting qv 1901-4, assistant to Edmund Buckle qv 1904-6, ARIBA 1907; practice in London before 1914, then Banbury, then Oxford, at Oxford WWinA 1926, Oxford Diocesan Architect;
(1911 Horn Park, Beaminster, Dorset; AA 1912, T Lawrence Dale; BoE;
(1931 St Francis RC ch, Cowley, Oxford; wikipedia)
(1935 St Alban ch, Oxford; H&F)
(1935 rebuilt Hook Manor, Semley, Wilts; DoE)
(1956-7 St Michael ch, Marston Rd, Oxford; H&F)
DALLEY SMITH ARCHITECTURE. Meadow Farm, Bathampton. Firm est 1990 by Stephen P Dalley Smith.
DAMPIER, EDWARD JOHN Architect, Colchester, born 1851. Diocesan surveyor St Albans.
1888 alts Ashcott ch, Som; from 1880 RL; SRO cf/1888/13; church guide says galleries removed, organ chamber built, font moved to tower, and pews re-arranged; ?also new ceilings, chancel windows
DANCE, GEORGE Sr Architect 1695-1768, son of Giles Dance, mason, partner with father as sculptors. 1735 clerk of works to City of London, des Mansion House 1739-42 and much else in City; HC.
(1740 asked to submit designs for Exchange, Bristol; SNB)
DANCE, GEORGE Jr. London 1741-1825 fifth son of George Dance Sr. Trained in Italy 1758-64, clerk of works to City of London 1768, founder member of RA 1768, Soane was his pupil. Designed Newgate Prison. Biog by Dorothy Stroud;
(c1790 work at Bowood, Wilts, WBR, a gallery; minor alts c1795 HC, dem)
1802-5 Façade, Theatre Royal, Bath, exec John Palmer; SNB; 1804-5 HC elevation and interior of auditorium;
DANIEL, PERCY Civil engineer, 28 Highdale Rd, Clevedon, 1906 directory
DARBY, HILL & PARTNERS
1969-70 reps Charlton Adam ch, Som; ICBS;
DARBY, NICHOLAS HENRY N. Architect, of Leete & Darby, Weston s Mare; architect to Langport RDC 1946;
1934-5 Sunway, 33 Dial Hill Rd, Clevedon, Som; SC notes; SNB for Victor Cox;
c1936 Nos 17-27 (odd), 22-26 (even), 33, 35 Neva Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; SC notes; SNB
c1936 Nos 39-48 Station Rd, Weston s Mare, Som. SC notes; SNB;
1938 Littlemead, Walton Rd, Clevedon, Som; SNB; for Doris Hatt; MHB says 1932 designed by Doris Hatt herself; Doris Hatt painter, feminist, Communist, lived here with Margery Mack Smith;
DAUKES, SAMUEL WHITFIELD Architect Gloucester then London after c1848. 1811-80. Partner with James Hamilton (D&H), James Medland was chief assistant.
1834-8 Quaker School, Sidcot, Som; SNB, design 1834, built 1838, also possibly Rose Cottages;
DAVIES & TEW, Chesterfield.
1858 Batheaston Primary School, Som; AFtext;
DAVIES, C. G.
1997 Pavilion, Victoria Park, Bath; MF;
DAVIES, MORGAN H. Architect. Norwood, London. 1832-99, SAS;
1879-80 B chapel, South St, Montacute, Som; named on FS laid 19.6.79; WH Osborn history 1824-1974: schoolroom FS 31.3.75 opened 10.5.76, chapel FS 3.7.79, opened 27.5.80, Mr Morgan Davies architect presided over the evening meeting, member of B ch in Norwood, gave the circular rose window with Munich glass; contrs Drayton & Williams of Montacute and S Guppy of West Coker;
DAVIS, A.P. Architect and surveyor, 6 Cumnock Terr, Castle Cary; Kelly 1889; previously of Taunton, AP Davis architect Taunton, liquidation of effects WG 19.6.1874;
DAVIS, CHARLES Bath. ?relation of Charles Winter Davis 1795-1872;
1807 Parsonage, Dunkerton, Som, with Henry Sweet, mason, of Widcombe, Bath; SRO D/D/Bbm/26; £650 upwards; no plans;
DAVIS, CHARLES EDWARD Architect, Bath, 1827-1902, son of Charles Winter Davis (1795-1872) qv, architect, Bath, and nephew of Edward Davis qv (1802-52), though according to WI 17.4.1862 CED was son of Edward Davis; ?articled to his father CWD (SAS), started practice c1849 'thirteeen years ago according to WI 17.4.1862 when he was appointed City Surveyor (in succession to GP Manners, SAS) later called City Architect, in post until 1900, with huge effect on fabric of the city; Hon Sec of Bath School of Art 33 Paragon, 1866 advert BC 6.9.66; at 55 Great Pulteney St, AESD 1868; from 1869 oversaw excavation and reconstruction of Roman Baths; MH Baillie Scott was articled 1886-9; was criticised for underhand manoeuvres to gain prize for Bath Guildhall extensions in 1891-3; resigned c1900; at 17 Bathwick Hill 1898-1902. cf Barry Cunliffe in BH 1 1986; known as Major Davis from his commission in the Militia (Bath Volunteer Rifles, then Worcestershire Militia); author of local books and pamphlets, including the Ancient Landmarks of Bath, 1864 and The Mineral Baths of Bath, 1883. DSA has a Charles Edward Davis apprenticed to WL Bernard qv 1863-8, assistant 1869, which must be wrong, perhaps WL Bernard was a pupil of CED;
1852-6 unex plans alts Castle Cary ch, Som; ICBS has 3 sets plans 1st by GG Scott qv, 2nd by CED, final ones, as used, by B Ferrey qv;
1855 1st prize Weston s Mare Cemetery, Som; RHH;
1854 National School, Kilmersdon, Som; SAS, DD/EDS/5137;
(1855 Trowbridge Cemetery, Wilts; WBR; two chapels and lodge;
(1855 School & house, Studley, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR)
1855 entry Keynsham Schools, Som, competition; RHH;
1856-7 Police Station, Christchurch St West, Frome, Som; SNB; 1856-8 SAS;
1857ff alts Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som; RL; T: BN 1857 319 alts and adds; contractor Brown of Frome, cost £3455 BN 1857 620; for 9th Earl of Cork & Orrery, new entrance hall 1857-8, dated 1858; further adds including ‘offices and stables totally rebuilt’ between 1858 and 1864, reconstruction of W wing 1868-9 including new rear corridor, billiard-room, ballroom and possible alteration of Samuel Wyatt library, and seven bedrooms above; conservatory 1872 perhaps by Davis; McGarvie Book of Marston Bigot 142-3;
1857 School, Marston Bigot, Som, for Rev R. Boyle, in memory 8th E of Cork; McGarvie, Book of Marston Bigot, 142;
1857 rest Newton St Loe ch, Som; Peach NofB; SNB;
(1858 Parsonage, Bromham, Wilts; WBR; dem)
1858-9 attrib rest Freshford ch, Som; SNB; Davis designed rectory 1860;
1858-9 alts Bathampton ch, Som; lychgate, chantry ch ws, new chancel, chancel arch, recess by porch for effigies, new E w; AF text says by AS Goodridge;
1859 ref to church restoration TC 2.11.59
1859-60 rebuilt Dunkerton ch, Som, exc tower & arcade; Peach NoB 76; 1859 SRO; 1859, after fire, SNB;
1860 parsonage, Freshford, Som; SRO D/D/bbm/135; m&t windows, gaunt; 1859 SNB;
(1860 Healey ch, near Hexham, Northumberland; BoE)
1860 Ladymead Fountain, Walcot St, Bath; MF;
1860 rebuilt Stanton Prior ch, Som; SNB;
1860-1 alts St Thomas ch, Widcombe, Bath; MF;
1861 1st prize Lyncombe & Widcombe Cemetery, Bath; RHH; Br 17 719, 798; Lower Bristol Road; first burial Wilts Indep 5.1.261; 1862 Peach; built 1862;
1861 St James Cemetery, Lower Bristol Road, Bath; AFtext; double chapels and lodge;
(1860-1 MH, Market St, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR; for William Stancomb II, Lord of Manor; TC 8.8.60; DWG 16.8.60; KH Rogers, The Stancomb Family, 2001; to begin, Davis of Frome carpentry, William Long of Bradford masonry, Davis & Son ironwork DWG 2.8.60; demolished except facde c1974;
(1861 pulpit Holy Trinity ch, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR;
1863 1st pr Militia Stores, Bath, Som, but commission given to CJ Phipps qv; TC 26.8.63; for 2nd Somerset Militia;
1864 Shakespeare Memorial, Victoria Park, Bath; SNB;
1865 Magistrates Court, Orange Grove, Bath; MF;
1865 1st prize Bathforum House & Baths, Bath; RHH; Br 23 26, 99, 299;
1866-70 St Peter ch, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath; now the church hall, but originally temporary church, replaced by Davis 1876-80; SNB;
1868-9 rebuilt W wing, Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som, for 9th E of Cork & Orrery; McGarvie, Marston House, 2005, 21; McGarvie, Book of Marston Bigot, says work began on wing in 1866; three large reception rooms on gr floor incl ballroom 42’ x 32’, billiard-room and library in Louis XV style, and seven bedrooms and a smoking-room above; in 1869 the laundry on W end was replaced by new building outside park on W side of lane, ?by Davis, and in 1872 a giant conservatory was built on original site ?by Davis; library may still be Samuel Wyatt’s qv;
1869 adds parsonage, Combe Hay, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/167;
(1869 Blounts Court, Potterne, Wilts for William Stancomb II of Trowbridge; KH Rogers, The Stancomb Family, 2001; Rogers says that Davis also designed Springfield, Hilperton Rd, Trowbridge, Stancomb's previous house in 1840, but too early for CED;
1869- 71 adds St John ch, Upper Bristol Rd, Bath; 1869 SNB, but SRO D/D/cf/1871/2; chancel, S porch and transept;
(1869-70 add of meeting-hall, Manor House, Limpley Stoke, Wilts for Reformatory for Girls established there in 1861, Wilts Indep 31.3.70
1870 Hay Hill House, Hay Hill, Bath; MF;
187? reredos, St Matthew, Widcombe, Bath; Peach Notabilia 1876; MF;
1870 side elevation No 2 Gay St, Bath; SNB;
1871 rebuilt N side, John St, Bath; MF;
1872 rest Langridge ch, Som; SNB, rebuilt chancel;
1872 ?orangery, Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som;
(1873? work at Monkton Farleigh Manor, Wilts, for Sir Charles Hobhouse owner from 1873; obit;
1873-4 rest Rode ch, Som; SRO; SNB including vestry, organ-chamber, fan-vault in tower, W window tracery; also lychgate;
1875 attic Nos 6-8 Portland Place, Bath; MF;
1876-80 St Peter ch, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath; SNB; also church hall blt by Davis in 1866-70 as temporary church;
1877-8 chapel of ease, Barrow, near Charlton Musgrove, Som; now St John ch, Charlton Musgrove; SCG 10.8.78; WG 9.8.78; Mitchell of Wincanton and Long of Bath contractors;
1877-8 Cemetery, Keynsham, Som; SNB; two chapels joined by arch w spirelet;
1878-9 Excavation, Kings Baths, Bath;
1879 alts Jolly’s 11-13 Milsom St, Bath; MF;
1880-1 Excavation Roman Great Bath, Bath; SNB;
1882 adds Clevedon Court, Som, after fire; SNB, wing rebuilt, additions mainly dem 1960;
1883 alts St Saviour ch, Larkhall, Bath; SRO cf/1883/8; chancel 1882, MF, reredos by Sedding carved by H Hems, organ by Sweetland, Gothic font and pulpit;
1883 Nos 94-106 Walcot St, Bath; MF;
1885 adds Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som; SC, also a winter garden; SNB main staircase, winter garden, Museum Room;
1885-8 alts Cross Bath, Bath; MF;
188? New Royal Bath, Bath St, Bath; dem;
1887 King’s and Queen’s Baths, Bath; MF; on site of 1576 Queen’s Bath; added as corner block to Baldwin’s S colonnade, ?same as Douche & Massage Baths, 1889; dem 1971 and replaced by Baldwin replica by ?Gerrard Taylor;
1887-8 Bath City Laundry, York St, adapted from nonconformist chapel, ?which denomination; MF; Attached by bridge to Queens Baths, tall chimney;
c1887 Bandstand, Victoria Park, Bath; MF
1888 alts Barton House, Old King St, Bath; MF;
1888 rest North Stoke ch, Som; SNB;
1888 small addition Pump Room, Bath; apse overlooking bath; MF;
1889 Douche & Massage baths, Bath; SNB; addition to Kings & Queens Baths, mostly replaced 1971-2
1891 entrant Bath Municipal Buildings comp; RHH; won by JM Brydon;
1893 2nd prize Bath Pump Room additions; RHH; won by JM Brydon;
1895 Nos 9-10 High St, Bath; MF;
1895 shopfronts, Nos 20-22 Cheap St, Bath; MF;
1895-7 alts 1-7 Orange Grove, Bath; MF; BC 11.6.96 £1793 Long & Sons builders;
1895-7 Colonnade, Parade Gardens, Bath; SNB but also says 1890-5;
1897 Abbey Wine Vaults, No 21 Cheap St, Bath; MF;
1899-1901 Empire Hotel, Orange Grove, Bath;
Also ?Woodlands, Calne, Wilts; dem;
DAVIS, CHARLES WINTER Architect, Bath, 1795-1872 son of Charles Davis Jr, painter, and Lydia Winter, (married 1790), grandson of Charles Davis Sr 1745-1801, painter, Bath; brother of Edward Davis qv (1802-52) and father of Charles Edward Davis (1827-1902), called architect in BH 7 article on Edward Davis, no known work;
DAVIS, EDWARD, Bath. Architect, 1802-52, son of Charles Davis artist, Bath, pupil of John Soane 1824-6; HC; returned to Bath, set up in 3 Westgate Buildings, applied to be Somerset County Surveyor 1829; lived at Granville House, Entry Hill, Bath 1835-41, house designed by him; bankrupt TC 9.3.1842 SM 7.3.42 BM 22.4.43; died 30.4.52 at Bath, GM 1852 1 637. Charles Edward Davis qv was called his son in WI 17.4.1862 but was apparently his nephew, son of his brother Charles Winter Davis 1795-1872, also an architect according to SAS; ED won 1st prize in Birmingham Dahlia Show WI 26.9.1839; Michael Forsyth, BH 7 2006;
182? attribted alts and porch 24 New King St, Bath, M Forsyth, Bath History 7; ?No 24 Great Stanhope St;
1828 villas, Entry Hill, Bath, exhibited RA 1828; 1829-36 MF: seventeen planned, five built: speculation by Richard Else, solicitor; Entry Hill Villa complete 1829, was purchased by Charles Winter Davis qv brother of ED 1836; Newfield Villa first occupied 1831; Granville House complete by 1835 also owned Charles Davis but occupied by ED, wife and daughter, 1835-41, it incorporates arms from Grenville memorial Lansdown which ED restored; Entry Hill House occupied by 1836, The Briars occupied by 1836; BH 7 .
1829-30 laid out Victoria Park, Bath; design approved 29.10.29; opened 28.10.30; ED designed entrance gates Victoria Gate and Rivers Gate 1830 and Park Farmhouse 1831; SM 2.11.29; GP Manners qv had made a design in 1827; plan by ED form New Bath Guide ill in BH 7, 113;
1830 design for Toll-house, Bailbrook, Bath; BH 7, 109, ill 111;
183? Octagonal Temple, Sydney Gardens, Bath; Original Bath Guide;
1832 design for a villa intended to be built near Bath exh RA 1832;
1833 rest Prior Birde’s chantry, Bath Abbey, Bath, Som; published engravings of it 1834 from drawings by Stephen Burchall 1806-c1843 another pupil of Soane; ;
1833 alts Oakwood (orig Smallcombe Grove), Bathwick Hill, Bath for Thomas Emmerson; MF; new wing to Smallcombe Villa built for Benjamin Barker, painter, sometime after 1814; BH 7 116; also article on Oakwood by M Forsyth, in Schmidt, Keller, Jaeger, Burman (eds), Looking Forward; the Country House in Contemporary Research Conservation, 2001, tu-cottbus.de/lookingforwards/ pdf/12forsyth.pdf, HGS 162-3 suggests ED designed garden;
1834ff attrib lodges, Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som for 8th E of Cork & Orrery: Church Lodge 1834, Weighbridge Lodge, and Marston Lodge. Church Lodge was thatched, mullioned, Weighbridge Lodge is 2-storey with round-arched lights to mullion ws; Marston Lodge is hipped square single-storey mid-C19;
c1835 gardener’s lodge, Sydney Gardens, Bath; MF;
c1835 rest Grenville Monument, Lansdown, Bath; SNB; plaque from there reset on Davis's house, Granville House, Entry Hill, Bath, completed 1835;
1835 to let Blagdon Court, Som, apply ED TC 28.2.35;
c1836 attributed Albury House, Wrington, Som; for John James, solicitor; BH 7; c1846 SNB;
1836-8 Rectory, Marston Bigot, Som; 1836-9, similar to Oakwood, ill in MF article on Oakwood (above); for Hon & Rev RC Boyle, HC; M McGarvie TrAMS 1982 101-2; FS May 1836, completed 1839, plaque commemorating building was found at The Priory, Great Milton, Oxon in 1988; original perspective ill in McGarvie, History of Marston Bigot, 2008, 119, and Book of Marston Bigot plate V; drawings in album in possession of GH Boyle in 1987; BH 7, 120;
1837 ?rest Bratton Seymour ch, Som; nave roof, nave N wall; RL; Kelly 06 says rebuilt 1830; DoE says 1837 Mr Davies architect, William Matthews builder, inf from churchwardens accounts in M Whitfield, In praise of Bratton St Maur, 1974; VCH says nave roof rebuilt at lower pitch, and N wall of nave built by Mr Davis, probably Edward Davis, this seems unlikely, could just as well be Maurice Davis of Langport or James Davis of Frome qqv;
1838 Twerton House, Twerton, Som, for Charles Wilkins, RA 1838; ?rebuilt after fire in 1844 for Carr family, known as Wood house; BH 7; dem 1965;
1838 Barcombe House, Paignton, Devon for NH Nugent; RA 1838; dem 1989, BH 7;
1840 unex plans Sunday and infants' school, Christ Church, Frome; SAS;
1844-5 chancel and rest Marston Bigot ch, Som; RL; for Hon & Rev RC Boyle, HC; date inside 23.11.1843 refers to wedding for Rev Boyle and EV Gordon (the illustrator EVB);
(1846 1st pr Llandeilo Ch, Carms; Br 4 1846 329; unex, job given to GG Scott;
1846 improved plans drawn by John Crocker qv for crescent of public buildings on Golden Knoll, Christchurch Road, Frome; SAS; unex;
restored Lansdown Monument, Lansdown, Bath; before 1835 as Greville plaque from there built into Granville House, Entry Hill complete 1835;
attrib No 13 Abbey Churchyard, Bath, c1830 MF;
DAVIS, HENRY Builder, monumental mason. Taunton, 1811-92. AEBTD 1868: worked on St Johns ch, Taunton (GG Scott 1863), rebuilding tower St Mary Mag Taunton (1858-62 B Ferrey & GG Scott), West of England Dissenters College (1867-70 J. James); Buckland St Mary ch (1853-63 B Ferrey), ‘several residences at Taunton, in the Gothic style, introducing polychromy with the aid of coloured stones and other materials’. Presumably the H Davis who signs memorials eg in Langport ch. Henry Davies who ?designed Hestercombe, Cheddon Fitzpaine, is probably an error for H Davis. In Taunton houses by Davis in Billet St (which?), Cyprus Park, Haines Hill (which ones?), and Billetfield inc Nos 11-13 now Wessex Lodge 1868 for himself where he lived until death. Houses in Park St including Cannfield House.
1850-7 attrib carved corbels, Othery ch rest, John Norton architect; SSW;
1853-63 builder Buckland St Mary ch, Som; RL; by B Ferrey; gave font;
1854 builder Bathealton ch, Som; by CE Giles; carved font;
1856 builder Curland ch, Som, by B Ferrey; RL ;
1856 builder Cannfield House, Park St, Taunton; CE Giles architect; perspective JT 35; carved work; Henry Davis presumably the builder for adjoining terraces in Park St incl No 16-20, stone fronted; mortgage Cannsfield House & adjoining houses H Davis 1886 SRO DD/DP/68/4;
1856 woodwork, West Quantoxhead ch, Som; architect John Norton; DS 71, by Davis of Taunton: benches, pulpit, reading-desk, reredos and stalls; Br 8.11.56;
1857 builder, school, West Quantoxhead, som; by John Norton qv; SAS;
1857 font, Staplegrove ch, Som; ch guide; SCG 22.8.57 presented by HD, native of Staplegrove; ?also credence table;
1858-62 builder, tower, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som, GG Scott & B Ferrey architects; sureties re rebuilding SRO DD/DP/72/2; FS 1858. Carved figures by RL Boulton of Cheltenham; SAS;
1858-63 builder St John ch, Park St, Taunton; GG Scott architect; TC 10.11.58;
1860 Chapel and school, Greenham, Stawley, Som; TC 18.7.60, HD architect and builder; RL; looks like CE Giles design; St Peter chapel-of-ease built on land given by TE Clarke of Tremlett Hall (Kelly 1906), in Ashbrittle parish until 1884;
1860 Ann Fenwick tomb, Ilton ch, Som; Br29.9.60, ‘Caen stone mon to the vicar’s sister-in-law executed by Mr H Davis’ possibly designed by JM Allen qv architect of church restoration.
1860-1 builder West Hatch ch, Som; architect B Ferrey;
1861-2 builder Dowlish Wake ch, Som; RL; architect B Ferrey;
1864 builder S aisle and vestry Stoke St Mary ch, possibly by CE Giles architect; SAS;
1865c builder, vicarage, Langford Budville, John Hayward architect qv; SAS;
1866-7 builder Central School, Taunton, Som; by B Ferrey; RL; JT 76;
1867-70 builder Independent College (Taunton School) Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; architect Joseph James qv; JT75; TC 12.6.67;
1867 builder Nynehead vicarage, Som; John Hayward architect; Wellington Weekly News 20.6.67, Book of Nynehead 148;
1868 Wessex Lodge, Billet St, Taunton for himself;
1870 builder rest Wilton ch, Taunton; JH Spencer architect; TC 9.11.70;
1870 asked to prepare plans to adapt Grammar School, Ilminster, Som for boys and girls, refused, Maurice Davis asked; Hist of Ilminster Girls Grammar School;
1870 unsuccessful tender for WM chapel, Watchet, Som; £2250, lowest tender £1540 by J Pearse Jr, Minehead accepted; R Williams architect qv;
1870-2 builder adds St Audries, West Quantoxhead, Som for Sir A Acland-Hood; architect John Norton; The Architect 21.9.72; DS16;
1872 builder rest Bicknoller ch, Som; E Christian architect, for chancel JD Sedding for nave; Br 29.6.72;
1872 repairs St Mary Magd Parsonage, Taunton, Som; adds in half-timber to des by JC Buckler, exec J H Spencer; SRO Bbm/194;
1873-8 builder alts Hestercombe, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som for Viscount Portman; remodelled by Charles Baker Green and then by Henry Hall qqv; guide book; SCG 18.8.77; SAS;
1876 rear add Crowcombe parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/222; HD surveyor & builder;
1881 unsuccessful tender rest North Curry ch, Som; Olivey, North Curry, 1901;
DAVIS, JAMES King St, Frome, 1791-1854. Builder 1830 Somerset Dir. Firm was James Davis & Son by 1860;
c1820-2 builder The Chantry, Chantry, Som; SAS; John Pinch Sr architect;
1837 ?alts Bratton Seymour ch, Som; recorded as Mr Davies in churchwardens accounts, acc to MW Whitfield, Bratton St Maur; could be Maurice Davis of Langport;
(1838 plans Longmore Farm, Gillingham, Dorset; SAS)
1845-6 Vicarage, Castle Cary, Som; D/D/Bbm/95; gabled;
1846 ?Bunn Pillar, Christchurch St West, Frome; or possibly by Joseph Chapman qv; SAS;
1846 ?builder, school, Pitcombe, Som, by F Penrose qv, builder Mr Davis, could by Maurice Davis; Hadspen papers;
1848 affidavit on state of repair church and school, East Woodlands, Som; Longleat 14/3 11/6 20/7/1848;
1850 B chapel, South Parade, Frome, Som; AFtext;
1851 National School, Plox, Bruton, Som; SRO DD/EDS/Bruton; Gothic
1852 alts vicarage Binegar, Som; D/D/Bbm/108; alts windows and doors;
1854 Pulpit & desk, Milborne Port ch, Som ‘purchased from Mr D of Frome at a cost not exceeding £70; McKay 181;
1856-8 builder parsonage, East Woodlands, Som; architect CE Giles; Longleat 14/3 2/12 29/9/1852; payments to CE Giles architect, JD builder and James Halliday carver for carving corbel and motto; 14/3 27.5/0 27/5/1855 agreement to build and spec; letter 1858 re new gate and pathway; payments 1860 to James Davis carpenter for repairs to church and parsonage 14/3 2/12 29/9/1858; letter to HP Jones Longleat steward re payment from Davis & Son 1860 27.5/0 19/3/1860; letter re missing parsonage plans 27.5/0 30/1/1861; letters re bad drains 13/0 10/2/1862;
(1857 unsuccessful tender, Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wilts; William Hill architect; WI 27.2.57)
DAVIS, MAURICE Jr Architect, Langport, 1812-c1882. In Somerset Directory 1830 and Bragg’s 1840 dir as architect; 1848 dir as architect & surveyor; 1852-3 Slater’s dir as carpenter. Had general builder business in Bow St until c1881-2 continued by his foreman Henry Pittard from 16.10.1882 (advert Kelly). Maurice Davis Sr is also in Somerset Dir 1830 as carpenter & builder, Langport, also a Charles Davis;
1826-8 alts Langport Arms, Langport, Som; R Carver architect; SRO D/B/la/104, extensive file of bills and letters 1826-8 re rebuilding of coach-house to W with dining-room above, new stables SW; payments etc. Unsigned designs for columned porch ?not by Carver; letter from Edwin Downe re ironwork; agreement by John Harvey to erect portico 1828; letters from Davis re repairs 1836-8;
1833 built Reading Room adjacent Town Hall, Langport, Som; £315; letter in file re Langport Arms;
1835-8 alts Langport Arms, Langport, Som; spec for 6-horse stable adjoining lower coach-house SRO file; Davis involved 1826-38, much to designs by R Carver;
1837 ?alts Bratton Seymour ch, Som; recorded as Mr Davies in churchwardens accounts, MW Whitfield, Bratton St Maur; could be James Davis of Frome;
1837-8 built Wincanton Workhouse, Som, to design by George Wilkinson qv; dem; RL; R Legge, Book of Wincanton, 2005, 47; FS 29.3.37, £3550; GS108,
1837 Sparkford Parsonage, Som; ill TBC; SRO D/D/Bbm/?; Tudor; RL;
1839 Hinton St George parsonage, Som; ill TBC; RL; SRO; sash windows raised pilaster strips and horiz band;
1841 South Petherton vicarage; Som; SRO D/D/bbm/83; large sash windows, deep eaves;
1841 gallery, Seavington St Mary ch, Som; plans rejected ICBS; ?plan looks like Seavington St Michael where there is a gallery;
1841 Charlton Horethorne parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/bbm/85, 3-bay, pyramid-roof;
1843 South Petherton MH, Som; RL;
1844 Stuckeys Bank, 2-4 Hendford, Yeovil, Som; dem; FS 8.6.44, L Brooke colln Yeovil library;
1844 Three Choughs Hotel, Hendford, Yeovil, SM 22.6.44; carpenter Mr Stent of Yeovil, Thomas Harwood mason;
1846 reps tower, Huish Episcopi ch, Som; DM Ross, Langport & its ch, 1911.
1846-55 reps and reseat Kingsbury Episcopi ch, Som, with William Cable; RL; not in ICBS; SAS: William Cable architect, carpenter – Durk, ICBS;
1847 2nd prize TH, Yeovil, Som; RHH; Morris Davis;
1850 ?Shepton House, Shepton Beauchamp, Som, for Rev James Coles on marriage to Eliza Stuckey; attrib as similar to Sparkford parsonage.
1851 adds Merriott parsonage, Som; ill TCB, SRO D/D/Bbm/109; sash windows, deep eaves
1851 contractor, Tatworth ch, Som; Charles Pinch qv architect; ICBS;
1853 Puckington parsonage, Som; plans D/P/puc./3/4/1; also 1853 details for unidentified house DD/FO/10/2 are for Puckington;
1854-6 rest Drayton ch, Som; gallery, S wall, porch, vestry plan 1855; ICBS; RL has rebuilt St Catherine’s ch Draycot 1854-6 and also extensive repairs St Catherine’s ch Langport 1855 presumably Drayton ch intended for both;
1855 work ?, 'now being put into good order' by MD architect, TC 1.8.55; ?Drayton ch;
1855 builder MH, Castle Cary, Som; by FC Penrose; RL;
1859 schoolroom, South Petherton Som; RL; ?present infants school. Extension to Boys Charity School of 1828, SAS;
1859 builder St Thomas Schools, Wells, Som; SS Teulon qv architect; TC 2.2.59, £1565;
1860-1 builder, rest Barrington ch, Som; by JM Allen; RL;
1860-1 builder rest Merriott ch, Som; B Ferrey architect; TC 4.9.61, reopened;
1861-3 National School, Shepton Mallet; SAS; DD/EDS/5352;
1865-6 builder Midleney Place, Drayton, Som, architect JP St Aubyn; £5750, for EB Cely-Trevilian, White Lias from site; Charles Fry clerk of works; trouble over contract letter from architects ‘Davis is the most unaccountable builder I have had to do with and I regret you did not eject him from the house 12 months ago .. I have written and spoken to Mr Davis until I am tired … you must act upon your agreement. I have noticed the condition of the hall floor – I fear your oak was not sufficiently seasoned’; completed 1870 £6013. Mounter 78-9;
1866 reps Barrington ch, Som, after dry-rot found; vestry minutes, in P Pearce 17 cum Sunday 1993 115;
1866 alts South Petherton Schoolroom, Som; insert mullion ws in school of 1828, blocked centre window; an account for building girls school £650 in SRO D/P/pet.s/ 18/8/1-3 may relate;
1866 alts Hambridge parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/151 minor alts and ?a cottage; but attic storey added 1866 according to biog of Rev Chas Marson.
1870 plans to adapt Ilminster Grammar School, Som for girls and boys, after Henry Davis refused job, £850; not done; Hist of Ilminster girls grammar school;
1872 refronted Winsham parsonage, Som; D/D/Bbm/193;
1870 stable, parsonage, Merriott, Som; D/D/Bbm/177; single-storey;
1872-3 builder Good Shepherd ch, East St, Chard, Som; M Davis contractor; Br 19.4.73 296 Free church mission church opened on site near station road, no architect named; cost of Rev CS Grueber of Hambridge, local stone and Ham dressings, oriel w at W end, 105’ x 27’, flint and brick side walls with plan for transepts in future if needed. E and W walls intended to remain as now; £1500; church is Furnham parish church; ch cost £2500 Kelly 1906; opened 22.2.73 acc to Pulman Book of the Axe, 1875 474, ‘at present in unfinished state’.
1874 National School, Fivehead DD/EDS/5851; SAS;
1876-7 builder, Board School, Langport, Henry Hall architect; Br 1877 70; SAS;
DAVIS, SYDNEY WILLIAM. Architect to Trust House Hotels
1931 alts Beach Hotel, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/729
DAWBER, Sir EDWARD GUY. 1861-1938. Known as Guy Dawber. Born King’s Lynn, with TN Deane, Dublin, to 1882, then George & Peto. Started 1890 at Bourton on the Hill, Glos, then London 1891. PRIBA 1925-7; Gold Medal 1928; knighted 1936; ASG160ff. Entry in Charles Reilly, Representative British Architects of the Present Day; partner Albert Robert Fox prepared list of works when Dawber died, acc to Laurie Kinney
(1899 White House, Moreton in Marsh, Glos; AA 1899)
(1903 Nether Swell Manor, Glos; remodelled 1909; AA 1909 1 22-9; Br 15.8.03; Br 15.5.09; Br 9.5.19; CL 26.11.10;
(1905 Coldicote, Moreton in Marsh, Glos, L Weaver Small Country Houses of today, nd, 38; BN 13.1.05; AA 1904 2 50; AR 26 1909 197;
(1907 Conkwell Grange, Winsley, Wilts; REDA 1 10 7981; AA 1907 I 23; Jill Franklin plan p231; for James Thornton, RA 1937 exh)
(1907-9 Wiveton Hall, Norfolk)
(1909 Tuesley Court, Godalming, Sy; AA 1909 1 54)
(1910-12 Hamptworth Lodge, Redlynch, Wilts; WBR; Br 16.5.13; BN 13.6.13; Mussellwhite & Son of Basingstoke builders)
(1911 Burdocks, Glos; REDA28; Br 7.7.11; BN 23.6.11;
1913 alts Burnworthy House, Somerset, inf Laurie Kinney from AR Fox list;
1914-25 Bowling Green House, Milborne Port, Som; begun 1914 completed 1925 RL; CL27.11.26; for Hon. Kathleen & Rachel de Montmorency, sisters; plasterwork by EP (presumably George P) Bankart, heraldic carving over door by Joseph Armitage, coats of arms in windows drawn & painted by Mabel Esplin; T Press Somerset Country Houses; VCH 7 140; REDA 23; AA 1914 1 pp 26-7 and plan p28 ‘The Bowling Green’, contractors H Pittard & Son Langport & Bristol, leaded lights John Pye, Britannia Works, Moreton in Marsh; 1914 on service wing rainwater head; Kathleen +1927
(1919 Cottages, Nether Swell Manor, Glos RA 1937 exh)
1923-4 Stowell Hill, Stowell, Som; REDA 75; Br 29.4.27; VCH; CL 22.1.27; for - McCreery. The architect disowned the iron gates and vases on the gate-piers the client added to the entrance front; Clive Aslet, The Last Country Houses, Yale (1982), 329 (erroneously says for Lord Vestey); ill C Reilly, Representative British Architects of the Present Day, no text; Kelly 1927 Mrs McCreery; VCH says G Jekyll advised on gardens; also Lanning Roper in 1969; owned 2009 by – Martin of Matrix; 1922 acc to RA 1937 exh;.
1924 Eyewell House, Camel Hill, nr Queen Camel, Som; REDA 76; BN 126 1924; now owned by RNAS Yeovilton; House at Queen Camel, RA 1937 exh;
(1926 Ashley Chase, Dorset, for Sir David Milne-Watson of Gas, Light & Coke Co; Br 11.1.29; 1925 RA 1937 exh)
DAWNUS, Swansea contractors, engineers also design-and-build;
2007-8 Skills Centre, Minehead College;
2008-9 West country Feeds, Langford Meads Taunton;
2009-10 Somerset Heritage Centre, Langford Meads, Taunton;
2013-14 rebuilt Royal Pier hotel, Clevedon, Som;
DAWSON, NELSON ETHELRED Metal-worker, painter, jeweller, London. 1859-1941, married to Edith Robinson 1893;
1903 Lectern, St Michael ch, Minehead, Som; inf ABrooks;
DAY, GEORGE Builder, High St, Wincanton. 1830 and 1840 dirs. George Day builder and draper High St, 1840 dir; 1787-1858 born Wincanton, trained as plasterer and tiler, worked on Beckford’s Fonthill came back to Wincanton and kept drapery in High St until 1844, returned to old trade and did ceilings at Mr John Gibbs, Mr Chichester's, the B chapel, and elsewhere, set up the B chapel 1829 of which he was the first minister unpaid for 16 years; GS; between 1829 and 1857, VCH 229. GS also says that Day was deacon in B congregation from 1814, involved in a secession 1826, ordained their minister 1830, served until went blind and resigned 1857; lived 4 South St, Wincanton where he installed a plaster ceiling, SAS;
1832-3 ?Baptist Chapel, Mill St, Wincanton, Som; GS says he did plaster ceiling; FS 26.4.32, opened 20.6.33, GS;
DAY, IVOR Architect, Bristol. Ivor Day & O'Brien; Ivor Day, O'Brien & Stephens; later Ivor Day Partnership; O'Brien was of O'Brien, Morris & McCullough who designed Filton RC ch, Bristol 1959-60; specialists RC
(1964-5 RC ch, Downend Bristol RC C20 churches survey)
(1965-6 RC ch, Patchway, Bristol RC C20 churches survey)
1967 RC church, Church St, Wiveliscombe, Som; Wiveliscombe, 2005, 78; S Pearce & Sons bldrs;
(1967-8 RC ch, Brockworth, Glos RC C20 churches survey)
(1967-8 Holy Family RC ch, Park North, Swindon, Wilts; H&F; 1967-9 RC C20 churches survey;)
(1969-71 add Holy Rood RC, Swindon Wilts; RC C20 churches survey
(1974 RC ch, Thanet Rd, Bexley, Kent; H&F)
1979 int alts RC ch, Kenynsham, Som; SNB;
1981 RC ch, Yate, Glos; RC C20 churches survey;
c2004-8 alts Belmont House, Wraxall, Som; theatre in courtyard; SNB;
DAY, JOSEPH Architect, Lambrook House, Glastonbury, c1838-1923; Kelly 1889. Architect to Meare School Board WG 12.3.75 Mr Day the Borough Surveyor of Glastonbury was appointed architect for new schools at Godney and Meare;
1875 Schools, Godney, Som; T: WFP 14.5.75;
1876 Girls School, Meare School, Som;
1876 Board School, West Bradley, (at Parbrook), Som; plans C/CA/1/307;
1879 stables, Edgarley Lodge, Glastonbury, Som, for Porch family of Edgarley House; copies of plans in Millfield Prep School archive; small plain L-plan building;
1882 building?, Glastonbury, Som; Merrick & Son builders, Mr Day architect; WG 8.12.82;
1886 ext waterworks, Glastonbury, JD town surveyor; T Br 3.4.86;
1902-3c National School, Keinton Mandeville, Som; DD/EDS/5992, SAS;
DAY, SAMUEL Builder & carpenter, Benedict St, Glastonbury,1875 dir;
DEACON, CHARLES
1906 add vestry, St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; MF; on S side now church hall;
1906-10 alts St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; panelled chancel, baptistery 1906-10; font in alabaster;
DEAN, P. Weymouth. P Dean Associates, architectural services.
2010 Cyder Barn retirement home, West Pennard, Som; Mendip awards 2011;
DEAN, PTOLEMY Architect, born 1968; surveyor to Westminster Abbey; authority on Sir John Soane;
20?? Dining room, Hadspen House, Som; inf Niall Hobhouse;
DE BRANDT, JOYCE & PARTNERS
1987-90 Brendon Court, Bath University, Som; MF; student housing
1993-4 Glaxo laboratories, Bath University; (annex to Five West); SNB;
1994-7 Pharmacy & Pharmacology Bldng (Seven) Bath University
1999-2001 Chemical Engineering Bldng (Nine West) Bath University;
DE FONTANALS, VALERIE Architect
2011 conversion, Hobbles Farm, Evercreech, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
DE RIDDER, E. Architect and surveyor, Taunton, advertises lessons in architectural drawing and iconography, TC 30.9.1835;
DEERING, MATTHEW
(20?? student accommodation, Park Row, Bristol; conversion of nightclub and five-storey addition; Biggs contractors website;
DEERING, SAMUEL Architect, surveyor, 33 Barrington St, Tiverton, Devon, 1851-1931, FIAS; ran family building firm of JJ Deering with his brother William, bankrupt 1900;
1902 BC chapel, Dulverton, Som; round arched
(1915 renovated Methodist Chapel, Tiverton Devon; SAS)
DELLA VALLE ARCHITECTS Shepton Mallet
2014 proposed adds Rectory, Keinton Mandeville;
DENING, CHARLES ironfounder, Chard, 1806-80; SAS; In 1842 he joined in partnership with John Wightman in the iron foundry business he had established fourteen years earlier in an existing smithy, off Holywood Street, Chard. When John Wightman retired in 1867, and the partnership was dissolved, the firm became C. Dening and Company. In 1880 one of Charles Dening’s four sons, Samuel Henry Dening (1837-1919), took over the business, and it was then known as Dening & Company. The following year he oversaw a move to new premises at the Crimchard, acquiring the former rope and twine works, together with Crimchard House. By 1887 the workforce had increased to fifty-seven, new workshops and a foundry had been built. Samuel’s son Henry also joined the family business, having completed his studies at the London Polytechnic. By 1900 Henry Dening was running the firm assisted by a former college friend, William George Warren. When Henry died in 1906, Bert Dening with his brothers took over the business under the watchful eye of their grandfather, Samuel Dening. After Samuel died in 1919 Bert became managing director, and by 1933, the workforce numbered one hundred and thirty, and the firm’s reputation both at home and abroad was high. Bert and his brother William retired in 1937, thereby bringing to an end the direct Dening family involvement in the foundry. The business went into liquidation in 1951 and the buildings at Crimchard were dem. in 1986. Firm made cast iron grave markers and crosses, installed across Somerset, the West Country and as far a field as Scotland, 1876-1904 and gas lamp posts for Ilminster [foundry marks]
1842 attrib churchyard gates, Chard, Som; SSW;
1846 overshot wheel, Corn Mill, Combe Sydenham, Exmoor National Park, HER MSO11604;
1870c two pairs gatepiers with gates and iron railings, Buttle’s, Hatch Beauchamp, foundry mark
1881 iron railings, John Wightman grave, Chard, SAS; foundry mark; 1899 boundary post, Dowlish Ford, Dowlish Wake, foundry mark;
18?? railings, gatepiers, gates and archway, Grey Lodge, Hatch Beauchamp, foundry mark on gates;
18?? iron gates, cemetery, Winsham, foundry mark;
DENING, CHARLES FREDERICK WILLIAM 1876-1952 Gaunt House, Orchard St, Bristol. Born Chard, Som, grandson of Charles Dening qv, ironfounder, and son of Frederick Dening engineer, born 1841, articled HD Bryan 1896, and assistant, 1902 practice with Ernest George Rodway (R&D) until 1918, won competition St Alban ch, Coldharbour Rd, Bristol, in 1904. On own 1918, mainly domestic work. Failing health in 1930a, died at house he had bult for himself in 1924 The Spinney, Stoke Bishop, Glos; Wrote The C18 architecture of Bristol, 1923; ASG; SAS; GJL; at The Hut, High St, Portishead, Som, Kelly 1906;
(1902ff resident architect Bristol Central Library; Adams & Holden; ASG
(1904-6 nave St Alban ch, Coldharbour Rd, Bristol; R&D won competition, nave and aisles 1907-9 SNB; begun 1908 GJL; chancel 1915
(1908-11 council Schools, Alexandra Pk, Bristol; R&D, SNB)
(1908ff houses, Downs Park estate, Bristol, R&D, SNB
(1915 chancel St Alban ch, Coldharbour Rd, Bristol; GJL; 1913-15 by R&D, SNB; tower never completed;
(1919ff planning and housing Sea Mills garden suburb, Bristol;
(1919 planning and housing Knowle Park Bristol
(1919-20 Wigwam in garden of Red Lodge, Bristol; SNB
1920 War Memorial cenotaph, Shepton Mallet, Som; SNB; WWinA 1926;
192? War Memorial, Portishead; WWinA 1926;
192? War Memorial, Portbury, Som; WWinA 1926;
192? Rodney Stoke Inn, Wells Rd, Rodney Stoke; Som; WwinA 1926;
1925 Unex additions to Chapel Cleeve House, Old Cleeve, Som; for GS Lysaght; plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/56 for NW addition of billiard room and study under bedrooms, in matching style to 1913-14 house; signed CRWD;
(1930-1 Swimming-baths, Dean Lane, Bristol SNB;
(1931 St Christopher ch, Arnos Vale, Bristol; Hampstead Rd, Knowle, GJL; H&F; 1930-1 SNB)
(1935 Central Health Clinic. Passage St, Bristol; SNB;
(1935 office block, Colston Ave, Bristol; SNB, Portland stone
(1937 Swimming-baths, Whitefield Rd, Bristol; SNB; closed
(1938 St Barnabas ch, Daventry Rd, Knowle, Bristol; H&F; GJL; 1937-8 SNB, nave dem
(1938 Elephant House, Bristol Zoo;
WWinA 1926 also lists
houses at Abbots Leigh, Som;
bungalows and houses in Somerset and Glos;
DENISON, G. C. B. Yeovil. Not in Kelly 1906. Probably mistake for C & CB Benson qv.
1891 organ chamber, All Saints ch, Castle Cary, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1891/3;
DENNELL, DANIEL Hansworth, Staffs. Engineer involved with waterworks on river Severn. In 1704 was of Cannington, Som;
1704-5 Addition to pier Minehead Harbour, Som; Book of Minehead 36; to cost £2509, cost £2000; contract with DD of Cannington; took six or seven years to build wooden ext to old quay and in 1713 new contract to case it in stone for £700, DD then 'left and ran away from the work';
1709 Dunball Clyce, near Puriton, Som; N&Q 37 161.
DENNING MALE POLISANO Architects, Farnborough, Hants.
1994-5 Sports Training Village, University of Bath; MF; including 50m pool, tennis courts etc
DENNIS, H.H. Westbury sub Mendip. Dennis & Son builders, grocers, drapers & smiths in 1906 dir.
1925-6 Vestry, Wookey ch, Som; ch guide;
DENNY, Sir ANTHONY CONINGHAM DE WALTHAM 8th Baronet. Architect, Muchelney, MCSD, 1925-2013, former partner with Verity & Beverly architects Tetbury, Glos, successors to Thomas Verity +1892, London firm founded 1871. FT Verity 1864-1937 ARIBA 1889 joined father, continued as theatre architect in London, with Sam Beverly from 1930. Beverly had been in office since 1922, died 1959. AD, son-in-law of Beverly, joined 1959 continued with Michael Hitchman until MH retired 1978, AD retired 2001, died 2013. Lived at Daneway, Glos, then Priest's House, Muchelney, Som, before moving to Almonry Cottage, Muchelney. Son Piers Denny 9th Bt set up restoration firm Carrek Ltd qv, did much important conservation work inc at Tower of London and gatehouse Cirencester parish church; did hall roof at Whitestaunton Manor, Som, (Jo Hibbert/ Jonathan Rhind architects). Son Tom Denny stained glass designer, did windows at Gloucester Cathedral;
2006-7 add Almonry Cottage, Muchelney, Som for self; SBPT award 2008;
DERICK, JOHN MACDUFF Architect, born Co. Sligo, born c1805-6, pupil of Soane, practice in Oxford and London, founder of OAHS in 1839, first pr for cathedral, St Johns, Newfoundland, 1843, emigrated to New York in 1858, died there 1859 or 1861; Gothic Revivalist notable for St Saviour ch, Leeds 1839-43, St James, Rusholme Manchester 1843; P Mottram in Ecclesiology Today 2004;
1842 Font, Holy Trinity ch, Trinity St, Taunton, Som; ICBS; church of 1839-42 by Richard Carver qv, consecrated TC 22.6.42, font of Painswick stone carved stone by Robert Long of Taunton from design by J M Derick; there are two fonts in Holy Trinity, ?the eroded one is the earlier one, brought in from outside. GM May 1842;
DERRICK, GEORGE A. Architect, 15 College St, Burnham on Sea 1931 dir;
DE RIDDER, E. Architect and surveyor, Taunton. Advert TC 30.3. 1835 will give lessons in architectural drawing;
DESIGN & PLANNING ASSOCIATES
1974-6 Chew Park Centre, Keynsham, Som; proj archt Peter Ashby; 'horrible' SNB;
1983 rest Great Stanhope St, Bath, Som; C20index;
DESIGNSCAPE ARCHITECTS Bath and Bristol founded 2005 by Chris Mackenzie qv, formerly with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios; partners Spencer Back, Alex Sykes;
(1990 Nind Mill House, Glos; competition victory;
2002-7 Squash House, Lansdown, Bath; within walls of former squash club;
2004 The Sun House, Claverton Down, Bath by Chris Mackenzie for self;
2006 Peart House, Norton St Philip, Som;
2007-8 addn Courtfield, Norton sub Hamdon, Som; kitchen addn and alts;
2008 proposed housing, Tazewell, Street, Som, for C&J Clark; ?unex;
2008-9 Hill Farm Dairy, Stawley, Som; cheese-making plant;
2009 Twinneys, Charlcombe La, Bath; by Chris Mackenzie; C20index; also artists studio behind for Val Hepplewhite;
2009-10 adds The Fosse, Batheaston, Som; also new houses just below;
(2009-10 Cedar House, Westbury Park, Bristol)
2011 alts Villa Rosa, Widcombe, Bath, Som;
2011 conversion and adds to former nursing home The Avenue, Minehead, Som; PP 2011, ?unex;
2011 adds cottage, Church Lane, Freshford, Som; to C19 Tudor style cottage;
(2011 garden room, Kingsbury Croft, Marlborough, Wilts;
2012 garden room, Innox Lodge, Som;
2012 alts, Calderwood, Bathwick, Bath, to a house of 1965;
(2012 art gallery and studio, Stroud, Glos for Damien Hirst;
2012 proposed refurb Green Park Station, Bath, Som;
(2012 Whimbrels Edge, Thurlestone, Devon; proposed house)
(2012 adds Windrush, Kemble, Glos)
(2012 Science Studios etc for Damien Hirst, Stroud, Glos, and Formaldehyde Studio)
2012 add old Gospel Hall, Claverton Down, Bath;
(2012 add to C20 bungalow Dane Rise, Winsley, Wilts;
2013 Chilliswood, Freshford, Som;
2013 conversion outbuilding, Priestbarrow, Priston, Som;
2013 prop terrace of 3 houses, Old Coal Yard, Stoke St Gregory, Som;
(2013 alts Hardy House, Box, Wilts;)
2013 adds Calderwood, Bathwick; house of 1965;
2013 add house Bloomfield Ave Bath;
2014 rest Horseshoe House, Sydney Buildings, Bath;
2015 conv of cowshed, Priestbarrow, Priston, Som;
2015 new ho Bannerdown, Batheaston,
DEVEREUX ARCHITECTS, 200 Upper Richmond Rd, London, also Birmingham, and international: Ireland, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore etc; Nic Allen RIBA, director with firm since 1986; Darius Umrigar RIBA; Mark Carter RIBA;des London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine new courtyards; Queen Mary's Hospital London adds 2007; Gdansk and Lublin airports; Royal London hospital 2012;
(2002-6 Fromeside Secure Unit, Blackberry Hill,Bristol;
(2003 Liskeard Community Hospital, Cornwall;
2004-5 West Mendip Hospital, Glastonbury, Som; web-site; Rok Build, Exeter, contrs;
(2008 Peninsula Dental School, Devonport, Devon)
(2010 Peninsula Dental School, Truro, Cornwall)
(2011 Childrens Centre, Salisbury District Hospital,Wilts; refurb;
DEVEY, GEORGE Architect. 1820-86. Biography: Jill Allibone, George Devey, 1991 (JA); later Devey & Williams with James Williams. NMR has album incl Somerset items DEV01
1860-4 Cottages, etc., Orchardleigh estate, Lullington, Som for William Duckworth: Cottages on Lullington Green 1860, Corner Cottages and Pump Cottages 1861, Keeper’s Cottage, 1864, Thomas Ashton builder. JA 63-4, 154; SNB probably also the canopied pump
1863 Park Farm, Lullington, NE of the village, builder Thomas Ashton; JA; SNB;
1866-7 Parsonage & stables, Lullington, Som, for Revd WA Duckworth. JA 63-4, 154; SNB now Lullington House;
(1884-5 adds Melbury House, Dorset, for Earl of Ilchester)
DEWAR, W. E. Builder Minehead
1923 built Tregonia, Whitecross Lane, Minehead for James Miller-Marshall 1858-1935, artist, OD; later Mickleden, Pavings, and Amarna;
DE WILSTAR, JOHN JACOB. Bristol, architect, surveyor, garden designer, frequently employed by corporation. Possibly the Norwegian Devolster sent over to Lismore, Ireland, by Lord Burlington 1720s. Made estate map of Halswell, Goathurst, Som, 1756, for Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte (not mentioned HC). Tynte’s diary mentions ‘Mr de Wilstar here to measure the land’ 30.7.56, and ‘walked in wood with de Wilstar and Miss Buncombe’ 8.8.56; Survey map by de Wilstar of 1744 of Stockland Bristol SRO DD\DHR/1 with rectory lands at Over Stowey for Bristol corporation;
(1723 des for remodel Heppington House, Nackington, Kent; HC;)
(1740 des for Exchange, Bristol;)
1756 Druids Temple, Mill Wood, Halswell House, Goathurst, Som for Sir Chas Kemeys Tynte; HGS 74-5, quoting memorandum of 1781 by Escott, the agent to estate, in SRO DD/S/WH/269; dem; octagonal thatched bark-clad seat;
DICKIN, ALBERT WILLIAM Bristol
1950-1 reps Felton ch, Som; ICBS;
1954 reps Felton ch, Som; ICBS ref;
DICKINSON, BARNARD Engineer, Severn House, Coalbrookdale Ironworks, son-in-law of Abraham Darby III, married his daughter in 1821; assistant engineer, Summit Tunnel on Manchester & Leeds Railway 1838-41;
1816 Proposed iron bridge over Tone, Nynehead Court, Nynehead, Som for William Sanford; the Book of Nynehead, 54; single arch, unex. Present triple-arch stone bridge by Thomas Lee Jr qv dated 1817;
DICKINSON, Captain WILLIAM FRANCIS Architect. 40 Cambridge St London SW. 1877-1964, son of William Dickinson +1914 of Kingweston House. Articled to AJ Bolton, then with S Gambier Parry qv before setting up in London, inherited Kingweston estate 1914; Captain in WW1; FRIBA, WWinA 1926; moved office to Kingweston, 1932, OBE; buried Kingweston. Obituary WG 21.2.64; sketch book, 1950, contains illustrations of buildings at Kingweston, including the Dower House, Kingweston House, All Saints Church, Middle Farm and the Old Stables, also sea front at Minehead with the Bay Hotel, Glastonbury town, Abbey and War Memorial, Wells Cathedral and Bishops Palace and Butleigh church, SAS, DD/DN/12/16
1909 Tablet to FH Dickinson, Kingweston ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1909;
1920 War Memorial, North Cadbury churchyard; SAS; obituary;
1920c War Memorial, Templecombe; SAS; obituary;
1920 War Memorial, Village Rd, Hatch Beauchamp, Som; SAS; obituary;
1921 measured drawings, Dovecote, Kingweston; McCann;
1925-6 repairs roofs, Kingsdon ch, Som; ICBS; Appleby & Childs builders; obit;
1929-30 War Memorial for Charlton Adam and Charlton Mackrell, Som; unveiled 28.6.30; corner Ilchester Road and Collins Lane; obit; Langport Leveller 15.2.2015;
1929-32 reps West Lydford ch, Som; ICBS; report 1926, plaque in porch gives 1928-33 for work;
1935 report on tower Weston Bampfylde ch, Som; SAS;
?did he design the new Kingsdon parsonage 1920s?
DICKSON & BRAKSPEAR see WH Brakspear;
DILKE, JAMES builder Copse Rd, Clevedon
189? houses Treefield Rd, Clevedon for Col. Keen; Lilly;
DINSLEY, WILLIAM HUGILL Architect, Chorley, Lancs. 1856-1920, born Newport Pagnell, son of Rev James Dinsley, UM minister in Cornwall from 1860; Architects of Greater Manchester website. Designed mainly for UM church, cf Trinity UM chapel, Pudsey, Lancs 1899-1900;
(1896 UM chapel, Milford St, Salisbury, Wilts; BoE)
(1903 Memorial Chapel, White's Hill, St George, Bristol; FS Br 27.6.03; ?same as 1906-7 Bryants Hill church;
1906-7 Beechen Cliff UM chapel, Shakespeare Ave, Bath, Som; SNB
(1906-7 UM chapel, Bryant's Hill, Bristol; Wesley Memorial Methodist ch, Bryants Hill, St George, Bristol SNB 369; free Perp
1910-11 UM chapel, Monmouth St, Bridgwater, Som; BM 5.4.11, by the late WHD of Chorley (but he was not dead); Westbury & Jarman, Bridgwater, contractors;
DIXON HILL & CO Architects, 52 Union St, Oldham, Lancs. Frederick William Dixon (1854-1935) set up firm in 1890. Partners Thomas J Hill FRIBA, Gordon Kenworthy FRIBA Frank A Meadows LRIBA,
1932 Bungalow, Wootton Courtenay, Som, for J Stansfield, 300 yds N of Dunkery Hotel; Gordon Kenworthy signs as architect;
DIXON, JOSEPH London. 1732-87. Mason and surveyor, with yard in Pimlico, worked with his brother Richard Dixon, carpenter. Together they worked for Henry Holland, R&J Adam. Both bankrupt 1778.
(1760-9 builder Blackfriars Bridge, London; HC; design R Mylne)
1766-70 adds Coker Court, East Coker, Som; SC notes; HC, for William Helyar; SRO DD/WHh Add 16; attrib to William Chambers, BoE, from family memory also John Batten, Hist & topographical collections relating … 1894, 159, built ‘about the year 1760’ from designs of the celebrated architect Sir William Chambers;
(1770 Bridge over Exe, Exeter, Devon, destroyed by flood 1775; HC;
(1775-7 St Mary ch, Battersea, London; des by JD blt by J&RD; HC)
DIXON, Captain JOSEPH P. Architect 1869-1950, Central Chambers, 25 St Peter St, Tiverton, Devon, later Dixon & Prichard with Victor HS Prichard ARIBA
1936 Memorial hall to King George V, ?, TC 19.12.36, Jones of Sampford Peverell builder;
1936 Housing development at Green Meadows etc, Watchet, Som; for HV Geen Williams, SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/756;
1946 internal alts Edgcott House, Exford, Som; D/r/dul/24/1/209;
1956 alts Chapel Cottage, Exford, Som D/r/dul/24/1/235; by Prichard, enlarged front windows, nasty rear windows;
DIXON-SPAIN, Lt-Col JOHN EDWARD Architect, London. 1879-1955 Entry in WWinA 1926 lists domestic work in Somerset; served as a 'monuments man' in WW2 under General Eisenhower also involved with creation of underground storage tunnels under RAF Rudloe Manor, Box, Wilts; designed cinemas in Streatham and Regent St London, and RC church in Farnham, Sy; Qasr-el-Aini hospital, Cairo, 1921 competition won with C Nicholas; partnership Nicholas & Dixon-Spain;
DKA, The Malthouse, 17-20 Sydney Buildings, Bath. Founded as David Kent Architects 1993 by David Kent with Jay Gidman, later joined by Simon Lawrence, later DK Architects, later DKA;
2000 Classroom block, Millfield Prep School, Edgarley House, Glastonbury, Som; inf archivist;
2000-1 Dining-Hall, Millfield School, Street, Som; David Kent architect; water-sculpture Cornucopia by William Pye, 2001;
2002-5 inv with West Mendip Community Hospital, Glastonbury; Devereux qv lead architects;
2004-5 St Mark's Centre, Bridgwater College; or ?by Smith Gamblin qv;
2005-6 Music School, Millfield School, Street, Som; David Kent architect;
2006-8 Frome Community Hospital, Bath Rd, Frome, Som; SNB; Jon Allman partner in charge;
2007-8 Health & Fitness Centre, Bridgwater College; Adrian Abbs architect; or ? by Smith Gamblin;
20?? visitor centre, Somerset Coal Canal, Monkton Combe, Som; Jon Allman;
(2008 South Gloucestershire DC HQ, Yate, Glos)
(2008-9 Manor Fields Primary School, Salisbury, Wilts; £3.1m;)
2009-11 South Petherton Community Hospital, Som; 24-bed; third hospital for Somerset NHS;
2009 Chelston Gardens geriatric Hospital, Wellington, Som;
2009-10 Energy Skills Centre, Bridgwater College, Som; Jill Murphy architectural assistant; also Heath
200? adds to Westwood House, Kingswood School, Bath; David Kent;
2010-11 Minehead Community Hospital, Som; Adrian Abbs lead architect;
2010 Clevedon Community Hospital, Som; Join Allman partner in charge; also development proposals for old hospital site;
20?? children's centre, Alcombe, Minehead; also development proposals for 23 affordable houses on adjacent site; Adrian Abbs architect;
(2010-11 Ashley Down Primary School, Bristol)
(2012 Sea Mills School, Bristol)
20?? addn Fosseway School, Radstock; teaching block Andy Batty architect;
20?? Writhlington School, Som; secondary school John Fifield architect; developed the design?;
2012-13 Sports hall, Wellsway School, Keynsham, Som; Cowlin construction; ?not lead architects;
20?? visitor centre, seafront, Minehead; Adrain Abbs architect;
2012-14 Community Hospital, Bower Lane, Bridgwater, Som; £36m; Sir Robert Macalpine contrs; David Kent partner in charge;
2015 Mendip Free School, B&W showground, nr Shepton Mallet, Som; Andy Batty associate in charge;
20?? Archive store, UK Hydrographic Office, Taunton, Som; David kent;
201? St Keyna primary school, Keynsham; design & build; Fabien Coupat architect;
201? ext Castle House nursing home, Keinton Mandeville, Som
201? building in grounds Chelston Park nursing home, Wellington, Som for dementia care;
2015 Steel fixing training centre, Cannington College, Som; for Hinkley Point project; Alex Bell associate in charge;
20?? executive architects, Thornbank Gardens student housing, Bath;
201? regeneration proposals, The Esplanade, Watchet, Som; Adrian Abbs;
201? Bridgwater College Academy masterplan uniting three schools; Andy Batty in charge;
201? housing scheme, Somerton town centre, West St and Pesters Lane;
201? housing in grounds, Clevedon Hall, Clevedon, Som; Alex Bell architect; also proposed new hotel;
DKSG Ltd Architects
20?? add Norton Hill School, Midsomer Norton Som; Biggs contractors website; extension for IT facilities;
DLA ARCHITECTS, Milton Keynes. Orig David Lock Associates founded 1998. Offices Wakefield, Manchester, London. ?Not same as DLA Architecture
2010 Four hundred houses, Bridgwater, Som, for Hallam Land; website.
DLA ARCHITECTURE, Wakefield, Manchester, London.
2002 Yeo Leisure Centre, Old Station Rd, Yeovil, Som; inf Adron Duckworth SSDC;
2010-12 Morrison's Regional Distribution Centre, Bridgwater, Som; nr Bawdrip, 800,000 sq ft, coloured in green panels to suggest woven willow; £95m, serving 63 stores;
2013 Morrison's Warehouse, Bristol Rd, Bridgwater, Som; board outside;
DOBBIE (C. H.) & PARTNERS Engineers. Wrote report on River Parrett flood relief 1961 and 1963, on which scheme for Southern Levels based; River Sowy relief channel, pumping stations at Langport Westover, Pibsbury (Huish Episcopi) & Midelney (Drayton), replacement of Dunball Clyse; Williams 250-2;
DONALDSON, JAMES c1756-1843 Architect Bloomsbury Square, London, orig from Williamshaw, Ayrshire. Pupil Thomas Leverton, clerk to Robert Mylne 1782. father of architects James Donaldson Jr + 1806 and Thomas Leverton Donaldson 1795-1885, PRIBA.
1816 Clutton Rectory, Som; D/D/Bbm 45; Donaldson drawing 1816 for small house with triple casements and thatched service wing, could be drawing of existing house. In with designs by William Penvold qv for addition of drawing room 1816 £612;
DONATI, ADRIAN WILLIAM 1876-1956. Architect, Minehead, father of Edward Donati, worked for Dyke Acland Holnicote estate, lived at Holnicote, Taunton 1923.
1916 rebuilt Cloutsham Farm, Luccombe, Som, after fire; plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/9, for Holnicote estate;
1919 Engine-house, Parkhouse Fm, Minehead for Holnicote estate; OD603;
1920 Chalford, Minehead; builders JW Burt & Sons; OD; ?formerly called Colinwood House; ill ML Wainwright, Minehead & its residential attractions, The Monthly Periodical 1931,
1921 rebuilt Woodcock’s Ley Farm, Luccombe, Som for Holnicote estate; D/R/wil/24/1/15; new first floor;
1923 House, Bossington Lane, Porlock, Som, for Mrs Olive Collinson-Morley of Stowleys, Doverhay; D/R/wil/24/1/43 stuccoed hipped bland, three roof hips and sq porch on E, 5-bay W front with ground floor hoodmoulds and curved bay; also garage/ stable to NE; 1921, SAS;
1923 Tregonia, Whitecross Lane, Minehead; OD; later called Arama; for James Miller-Marshall, artist; SAS;
1928 Overdale, The Parks, Minehead, now Amberley; illustrated in Martin L Wainwright, Minehead & its residential attractions, The Monthly Periodical 1931, OD;
1934 ?Pantiles, The Parks, Minehead for Arthur Cox; Burgess & Son builders; OD;
1937 alts office space 5-7 Friday St, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/770 for Minehead Electric Supply co;
SB also includes Armana Whitecross Lane 1923 for James Miller-Marshall, builder WE Dewar; Amberley The Parks 1928 and Pantiles, 1934, builders Burgess; not clear if all are by AWD;
DONATI, EDWARD Architect, 1909-85 FRIBA. 13 The Parade 1948 later No 1 Bancks St, Minehead. son of Adrian Donati architect in Minehead; studied at RWA school of architecture Bristol 1929-33 part-time; ARIBA 1935, his father and head of school at Bristol sponsored his associateship, FRIBA 1955. Adrian Donati was architect at same address, and daughter was also architect: she says that ED did works for Butlins at Minehead; work on Clark Factory, Street, Som; bandstand at Blenheim Gardens, Minehead; inf DC, and more from RIBA files: ‘no dates for any of these but based on the above and date for the house I imagine most of this is post war? His daughter wrote to tell me that he did the bandstand in Blenheim Gardens - late 1950s I feel, and was the architect for Butlins; the latest work is I think 90s’; plaque in Selworthy ch to Donati family mentions Marcus killed in WW2, Edward, Ronald, Reginald and Adrian who all served. Donati & Partners by 1957
Work pre 1955 on RIBA nomination papers:
Work for the War Office: Territorial Army centres at Minehead, Taunton, Clevedon, Wellington, and Weston-super-Mare. Married quarters at Keynsham, Taunton, and Weston.
Council housing in Wiltshire and for Watchet RDC;
Quarters (for nurses I believe), Flax Bourton, Som;
Shop and showroom,Williton, Som;
Alts and adds holiday camp, West Quantoxhead (E Quantoxhead in the papers), Som;
Alts Lloyds Bank, Watchet, Som; ?branch in Swain Street;
1945 ref to ?houses ?Stogursey, TC 22.9.45;
1946 alts School, Skilgate, Som to village hall; D/r/dul/24/1/206;
1946 alts Stable cottages, Pixton Prk, Dulverton, Som; add of bathrooms; for Hon Mary Herbert; D/r/dul/24/1/207;
1946 int alts Barle Cottage, Dulverton, Som; D/r/dul/24/1/203
1946? rebuilt Gordon Lodge, formerly Ravenscourt, Hopcott Rd, Minehead after 1944 fire; inf Chris Durham owner of Callen's Edge, part of complex; orig house was by Barry Parker of Parker & Unwin; undated plans signed by ED for Alfred H May, done before 1950 when Callens Edge sold to HJ Barnes
1947 alts Washford Hotel, Som; inf Dcrighton;
1948 work at Stogursey, Som; TC6.3.48, slow progress on site reported to Williton RDC;
1948 conv Gordon Lodge, Hopcott Rd, Minehead to flats; SRO
1949 outpatients dept, Minehead Hospital, Som, by Donati & Torrens of 31 Bridge St Taunton; D/U/M/ 22/1/834
1949 house, Bossington Lane, Porlock, Som for AHSydney; D/DC/w.som/ 24/162/Box1/W278;
1952 Touchdown, No. 8 Whitegate Rd, Minehead, Som, for himself, post outside marked Edward Donati FRIBA; inf Diana Crighton;
1954 work at Clarks Shoes factory, E of Pnsford Rd, minehead; plan of spirit store/ factory site SRO /847; 1957 ext to Vennlands factory Ponsford Rd D&Partners SRO /874;
1957-9 Cherry Trees, Hopcott Rd, Minehead corner Periton Rd; SRO 873;
1960 West Winds, The Parks, Minehead; OD;
1970 rest Timberscombe ch, Som; SRO faculty cf/1970/1/12
Also pair of cottages Aller Cottage/?, Bratton, near Minehead, Som, for Bratton Court estate, inf Roland Lytton;
DORNEY (?), DICK
19?? Headmaster’s house, Millfield School, Som; the bungalow in Keen’s Elm Rd, before the present one of c1997?; inf J Gould;
DOUGLASS, WILLIAM TREGARTHEN. London, Engineer. 1857-1913. MICE. Born Solva, Pembs, son of JN Douglass, engineer to Trinity House; WTD also worked on lighthouses, engineeer to the Irish Lights, designed some 38, reported on lighthouses of India and Burma, 1899, consultant engineer to three Australian governments; as engineer to RNLI, designed numerous lifeboat houses notably corrugated-iron hoop-topped type cf Tenby and St Davids, both Pmbs; drowned 1913;
(1895 Lifeboat house, Tenby, Pmbs; at South Beach; Tenby & County News 18.12.95;
1901 Lifeboat house, Quay St, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/22/1/112, for RNLI; OD106;
1902-3 Rebuilt Watchet Harbour, Som, after storm of 28.12.1900; HB Smith resident engineer; CH Walker contractor; £16183/3/5d, concrete blocks capped in masonry, 1902-5 SAS; 1862 cast-iron lighthouse by Hennet, Spink & Else re-erected; WH Norman, Tales of Watchet Harbour;
(1903 Lifeboat house, New Quay, Cds; T: Cambrian News 9.1.03)
(1904 Lifeboat house, Tenby, Pmbs, at Castle Hill; Tenby & County News 15.6.04 corrugated iron;
(1907 Ferryside lifeboat house, Cms; Welshman 29.11.07)
(1909 Moelfre lifeboat house, Ang; R Haslam inf;)
(1911 St Davids lifeboat house, Pmbs; at St Justinians; corrugated iron;
(1911 Beaumaris lifeboat house, Fryars Weir, Ang; Br 6.1.11
DOWN, EDWIN Down House, Eastover, Bridgwater and Weston s Mare. 1806-80. Son of Richard Down qv, born Sherborne, worked with his father as Down & Son 1833 (RD&S), Edwin Down architect and surveyor Eastover 1844 dir (ED); moved to Weston s Mare in 1860s and early 1870s, at 1 Southborne Terrace, Weston s Mare 1861, DG; around 1876 firm became Edwin Down & Son (ED&S) with Evan Roberts Down qv (ED&S) (1850-1924), continued under that name after Edwin Down died in 1880 but Evan Down gave up architecture in 1880s and office run by A Basil Cottam qv who joined 1885 (also joined with CH Sansom qv c1885??), drawings under firm's name continue into 1890s presumably by Cottam; Eastover office was called Down House. Robert Down born 1832 was a nephew;
1833 alts Holford Rectory, Som; RD&S; TBC;
1834 alts Edington ch, Som; ICBS; RD&S, SAS; addition N aisle and galler; church was rebuilt in 1878-9 by ED&S qv;
1837 B chapel, St Mary St, Bridgwater, Som; VCH 6 236; HC; alts 1902; photo DG 2; classic Ionic; enlarged 1857-8 by R Down, ?Robert Down, new schools and house BN 1858 200;
1837 Workhouse, Northgate, Bridgwater, Som; executed standard design by Sampson Kempthorne qv; RL; SRO A\CMY/135 30 drawings 1837-72; demolished except for hospital block also by Down, see 1847;
1838 involved with Bristol & Exeter Railway, 6 ¾ m piece from Burnham to Bridgwater; Brunel engineer, John England assistant; contract bridge over river at Huntworth 1838 awarded to – Bromhead; BDRP 21;
1839-41 contractor, Great Bow Bridge, Langport, Som; A/CQN/1-2, documents signed by both Down and William Gravatt engineer qv, but Down specification makes clear that he was working to plans provided bt Gravatt;
1843 B chapel, College St, Burnham on Sea, Som; A/CMY/555; DG;
1845 Nos 1-2 Provident Place, Bridgwater, Som; RL; DG two houses A/CMY /3a and b;
1847 entrant competition for TH, Yeovil, Som; SAS;
1847 Workhouse hospital, Northgate, Bridgwater, Som; Br 31.7.47; new hospital & vagrant ward Br 25.9.47 457, Mr Down, Mr Wainwright bldr, £1635; the only part of workhouse to remain;
1849 Hamp Farmhouse, Bridgwater, Som; SRO A/CMY/107; DG; for Mr Thompson;
1849 Bridge at Bawdrip, Som CMY/552; DG; dem;
1850ff Bridgwater Gas Works, Som; CMY/9 10 plans 1850, 1853, 1865, 1883; Edward Murch contractor; DG; dem;
1851 House, Hamp, Bridgwater, Som, for SW Browne; 15 drawings for large hipped roof asymmetrical villa with stables; SRO A/CMY/114; DG;
1854 alts Assize Courts, Bridgwater, Som; DG A/CMY/154;
1855ff shops, Bridgwater, Som, for Mr Whitby, 16 drawings 1855-70; CMY/6; John Whitby & Sons booksellers, newsagents 1906 at 10 Cornhill & 8 George St, piano dealers at 1 Cornhill; No. 10 was Italianate 3-st palazzo burnt with No 11 and rebuilt 1870 as 4 storey palazzo similar to Nos 8-9.
1858 ?enlarged B chapel, Bridgwater, Som; BN 1858 200, new schools and house, by R Down of Bridgwater, presumably Robert Down qv, put possibly error for Edwin Down;
1862-4 C chapel, Fore St, Bridgwater, Som; RL; DG; SRO A.CMY/113, seven drawings; Gothic; dem 1964, photo interior Bridgwater, Images of England, 1998, 70; arcades on iron cols w galleries; opened SCG 24.9.64 Mr Down of Weston s Mare, executed by Shewbrooks & Son, Taunton, sculpture by Herly of Taunton; £4500;
1862 misc plans for churches, plans for a gallery witnessed by W & S Shrobrooks (Shewbrooks q.v.), possibly for Bridgwater C chapel; A/CMY/554; DG;
1864 WM chapel, Highbridge, Som; SCG 16.7.64, building will be in Gothic style;
1866 House for HG Strangways, ?Ashcott, Som; SRO CMY/546; design for a three-bay house with optional hipped projection in right bay; marked in pencil, ‘cottage at Ashcott’. HG Strangways of Down House (Shapwick Manor), Shapwick;
1867 Malthouse, Worle Brewery, Som; SRO A/CMY/451 4 drawings
1867-8 work on ?chapel, Bridgwater, Som; WG 7.2.68, £700-£800, £500 contract J Browne of Hamp;
1868-9 MH and TH, Princess St, Burnham, Som; SRO A/CMY/520 market and hall; DG; dated 1869 reconstructed by Sedgemoor DC 1998 as The Princess public hall; WG 9.7.69 Mr Down of Weston s Mare architect, H Hawkins qv Glastonbury builder;
1869 fencing Williton Bank, Williton, Som; SRO A/CMY/535
1869 Stables for Capt Hickley RN, Ashcott Hill, Ashcott, Som; A/CMY/406; at Etonhurst, Ashcott, which Down may therefore have designed c. 1865;
1869 refronted C chapel, North Petherton, Som; Morris’s Dir 1872 £700, also handsome platform pulpit, communion or table pew,
1872 Opinion of Mr Down of Weston s Mare, architect, sought over churchyard at Burnham, Som, WG 27.12.1872;
1875 stables Spaxton Rectory, Som; SRO A/CMY/422
1875 Eastdon, The Hill, Langport, Som: ‘Office & house for W Hill’, 6 drawings SRO A/CMY/401; DG; William Hill lived at Eastdon.
1876 Workshops for Messrs Thomson Bros, Pricketts Lane, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Som; SRO A/CMY/12, 2 drawings; DG; Thompson Bros were ironmongers at 4-5 Cornhill 1906
1876 BC chapel, Polden St, Bridgwater, Som; A/CMY/148; ED, DG; ?ED&S;
1876 Alts, adds for H&G Knight, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/96; 1 drawing; DG;
1876 alts Elmhurst, Street, Som; ED&S; CMY/512; DG; 7 drawings; Elmhurst belonged to one of the Clarks, later became secondary school;
1877 ?House, Cliff Rd, North Petherton, Som, for Mr Williams; 1 drawing by Samson & Cottam, DG; A/CMY/484 ?error on date or by Edwin Down
1877 toilets and alts West Charlton (Charlton Mackrell) School, Som; ED&S; DG; SRO A/CMY/431; adds to school of 1853 by CE Giles.
1877? Board School, Huntspill, Som; Chedzoy & Son builders; £350; ED&S; BM 24.4.78; says services held in newly erected schools while church was being restored by Price & Wooler; ?the schools by the church, not the West Huntspill Board School of 1897 by AB Cottam; Book of West Huntspill, 2001;
1878 alts premises Eastover, Bridgwater, Som, for Working Men's Club; CMY/153; ED, DG;
1878 work at Cannington, Som; SCG 25.5.78; D&Son;
1878 St John's Cemetery, Bristol Rd, Bridgwater; D&Son; SCG 20.7.78; consecrated SCG 17.8.78 lodge, gates, two chapels; D&Son; James H Kitch builder; see also 1887 A/CMY/55 and 469;
1878 vicarage, Holy Trinity ch, Taunton Rd, Bridgwater, Som; ED&S; RL; CMY/153 23 drawings; 1880 acc to Kellys Dir; red brick Gothic;
1878-9 rebuilt Edington ch, Som; SRO; ED&S; FS 2.5.78, opened 20.5.79; Fred Merrick & Sons of Glastonbury builders;
1879 House, West St, Bridgwater, Som, for Mr Plowman; CMY/133; ED&S
1879 alts Three Crowns Inn, St Mary St, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/197; ED&S
1879 ground plan former Sealey’s Bank (former Wilts & Dorset Bank), Fore St, Bridgwater, Som; ED&S; CMY/32; between Fore St Clothing Co and Soper prems; probably 14 Cornhill;
1879-83 alts George Hotel, George St, Bridgwater, Som; 8 drawings SRO A/CMY/7; ED&S; DG;
1880-3 Fox Bros Fowler & Co Bank, Hammet St, Taunton; ED&S; later Lloyds, dem and rebuilt 1958; RL; CMY/404 bundle also for bank at Wellington;
1880 Oakfield, Wembdon, Som; bundle of drawings for details; CMY 473; ED;
1880 alts Warehouses, Monmouth St, Bridgwater for Starkey, Knight & Ford; CMY 34; DG; ED&S; HW Pollard contractor; SK&F brewers Northgate Rd 1906;
1881 Shop, Eastover, Bridgwater, Som, for Mr Humphreys; CMY/38; Edwin Humphreys hairdresser at 4 Eastover 1906;
1881-2 alts Rectory, North Petherton, Som; T: BM 27.7.81; ED&S;
1881 chapel at Bridgwater, Som; T: BM 17.8.81; where?
1883 drainage, Sydenham Terrace, Bridgwater; ED&S; CMY/33
1883 alts premises Eastover, Bridgwater, Som for Mr Babbage; ED&S and Samson & Cottam; CMY 92; Edwin Babbage drapers 58-60 Eastover 1906; cf also 1885;
1884 Semi-detached villas, Church St, Eastover, Bridgwater, Som, for Henry Chant, CMY/162; ED&S;
1884 adds to shop, High St, Bridgwater, for Mr Trump; CMY/29; ED&S;
1884 stables, Heathfield Fm, North Petherton, Som; CMY/433; ED&S;
1884-5 rest Cannington ch, Som; ICBS; ED&S; SRO cf/1885/5: CB 1884 105; SRO A/CMY/423 1884 13 drawings; DG; reconstructed screen, reseated, new n vestry, organ moved to N chapel; reopened TC 28.10.85 Evan Down was the architect and design was from his plans;
1884-5 Shop & warehouse, High St/ Little St Mary St, Bridgwater, Som; ED&S; CMY/123; DG;
1885 details of doorways, Ashcott, Som, for Capt Hinckley; ED of Weston s Mare; A/CMY/464;
1885-96 houses, alts and shops, New Rd, Bridgwater, Som; 7 drawings ED; CMY/19
1885 alts WM chapel, North Petherton, Som; ED&Son; detail seats and pulpit; A/CMY/538;
1885 Shopfront, Eastover, Bridgwater for Mr Babbage; ED; CMY/98; Edwin Babbage & Son drapers 58-60 Eastover in 1906; cf also 1883
1885 Shops and houses, Cattle Market, Bridgwater; ED; CMY/39;
1885 Shop and warehouse, Manchip & Sons, Bridgwater, Som; Ed; CMY/60; Manchip & Sons, cabinet makers at 48 High St and 50 Clare St, with stores at 42-4 Edward St and 84 Wellington Rd, 1906;
1885 alts, shop, Fore St, Bridgwater, Som, for Mr Vinten; CMY 118; ED; Vinten & Co tobacconists 14 Fore St in 1906;
1885 alts shopfront 25 High St, Bridgwater, for EH Hooper; CMY 53 also drawings by AB Cottam 1892 for new premises adj No 27; EH Hooper draper at 9 & 21-3 High St 1906; EH Hooper at 25 High St has fine shopfront with glazed fascia and gilt lettering, plans are for extending shopwindow around E side wall;
1885-7 Shop and warehouse, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Som, for Edgar Nicholls; ED&S; CMY/ 58; Nicholls & Co drapers 8-9 Cornhill in 1906; 8-9 Cornhill is large Italianate palazzo of c1858;
1886 ext to sewer, Bridgwater, ED; CMY/27;
188? Shopfront, own offices, Eastover, Bridgwater; ED&Son; CMY/208; also 1887 heating and panelling CMY/206;
1887 alts Edington ch, Som; pews and windows; A/CMY/510; ED&Son;
1887 Drainage, East Terrace, Huntspill, Som; ED&Son and AB Cottam; CMY/531
1887 warehouse, Monmmouth St, Bridgwater for FC Foster; ED&Son; also plan & elevs 1889 by AB Cottam; CMY/23;
1887 alts shop, Eastover, Bridgwater, for Mr Rich; ED&Son;
1887 design for cemetery chapel; A/CMY/469; is this for St John’s Cemetery, Bridgwater; but cf 1878;
1887 St John’s Cemetery, Bristol Rd, Bridgwater, Som; chapel, lodge, gates, drainage; ED&S; A/CMY/55; lodge survives; but cf 1878;
1887 Gas Light Co, Old Taunton Rd, Bridgwater; ED&S; A/CMY/47;
1894 Market House Inn and cottage, Frog St, Minehead, Som; ED; A/CMY 508
DOWN (EDWIN) & SON see Edwin Down and Evan Robert Down
DOWN, EVAN ROBERT Architect, 1850-1924, born Bridgwater son of Edwin Down qv, joined his father c1876 as Edwin Down & Son, see under Edwin Down, father died 1880, practice ED&S 1883-7 then drawings under AB Cottam. Joined by AB Cottam qv before 1885. In 1886 dir architect & surveyor, Wembdon, Som. By 1891 living at Gillingham, Dorset, no longer in parctice; RL; DG;
1884-6 rest Cannington ch, Som; ICBS; ED&S; SRO 1885: CB 1884 105; int alts and fittings RL; surely this by Cottam, too good for Down;
1887 Cemetery, Bristol Rd, Bridgwater, Som; RL; cf also Edwin Down; lodge survives, no chapel;
DOWN, RICHARD Eastover, Bridgwater. 1778-1848, architect and surveyor also iron-founder. Born Sherborne 1778; iron-founder as early as 1809 when RD ironfounder of Sherborne mortgagee for purchase of foundry, Langport, Som, in Beard’s Yard off Bow St, earlier than identification of yard with James Baron Beard qv. His Langport partnership with a Mr White was dissolved in 1813. Moved foundry to Bridgwater in early 1820s, the Eastover Foundry adjoined his office; DG; sold foundry in 1829 to Browne Watson & Murch; Architect and surveyor Bridgwater in 1830 dir. Down & Son by 1833 (D&S) with Edwin Down (1806-80) qv. living at Down Villa, Wembdon, 1841, died 1848;
1814 widened bridge, Long Load Som; Q/A 144; SIAS 42 1986, 4; SAS
1824 Name on oldest cast-iron bridge in county, Mark, Som; RL; DG;
1828 supplied cast-iron beams to Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som; R Carver architect; DD/SL/38/1-2
1832 Doddington Rectory, Som; Som RO D/D/Bbm 59;
1832-3 alts Holford Rectory, Som; Som RO D/D/Bbm 61; TBC; RD&S on plans but corresp from RD; a small three-bay house of 1806 by James Corrick was given a W cross-wing and rear adds, deep-eaved hipped roofs. E elevation not as in Down plans;
1833-4 enlarged Edington ch, added N aisle and gallery D/P/ed 2/1/3, 4/1/1 and 6/4/1; ICBS RD & Son; SAS;
DOWN, ROBERT Bridgwater Born 1832, nephew of Edwin Down qv;listed in 1851 census as architect's clerk;
1855-6 gallery, Dr Morgan’s Schoolroom, Mount St, Bridgwater, Som; very minor, corner gallery to match one in opp corner, DD/EDS 2612, dated 5.12.55;
1858 school and house, B chapel, Bridgwater, Som; BN 1858 200, R Down of Bridgwater;
DOWTON & HURST
1982 refurb Theatre Royal, Bath, new fly tower; MF;
DOYNE, WILLIAM. Engineer, born Carlow, Ireland, 1823-77, employed by Thomas Brown of Ebbw Vale Co on improving Western Valleys Railway, Wales. Worked on railways in India, Ceylon, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, died in Australis; SAS;
1853 Surveyed line of West Somerset Mineral Railway from Brendon Hills to Watchet, Som. Dismissed 1853 and replaced by Rice Hopkins qv who oversaw initial work 1856-7, died 1857, Combe Row incline and subsequent work under Morgan Morgans.
DRAKE & PIZEY, Bristol. See R M Drake.
DRAKE, RICHARD MILVERTON Architect, Bristol 1851-1929. In 1882 based at Clevedon, Som, and said to be in practice five years; GJL; early C20 in practice in Bristol with John Martin Pizey (1860-1914) (D&P).
1885-6 organ chamber Christ Church, Nailsea, Som; rej ICBS; RMD of Bristol; SNB;
(1889 Factory for Fry, Broadmead, Bristol, dem; GJL;
1889 St John's School, Old Church Rd, Clevedon; with H Dare Bryan qv; SNB;
(1891-3 Offices, St Vincents Works, Silverthorne Lane, St Philips, Bristol; AFBristol 35, 268; SNB for Lysaght's Galvanised Iron Works, factory c1860 by ?Thomas Lysaght qv;
(1894 alts 41-3 College Green, Bristol for Jolly & Son T Br 14.7.94;
(1895 alts Capital & Counties Bank, Clare St, Bristol; AF 127; 1897 Gomme; SNB enl building of 1883 by F Mew; ill Br 30.1.97)
(1897 Queen's Theatre, Swindon, Wilts; D&P; WBR; dem 1959, Mackintosh & Sell, Curtains!!!, 1982)
(1898 No 1 Alma Vale, Clifton, Bristol; Gomme)
(1899 Edwards Van Garage, No 1 Alma Vale Rd, Bristol; by D&P; SNB;
(1900 Horfield B chapel, Gloucester Rd, Bristol; Gomme; 1900-1 SNB)
(1902 Nos 7-11 Gloucester Rd, Bristol; Gomme;
(c1903 Tyndall & Co, Princess Victoria St, Clifton, Bristol; ?incomplete; Gomme;
(1904 stables, Stanley Villa, Coldharbour Rd, Bristol; Gomme
(1905 Stuckeys Bank, 106 Whiteladies Rd, Redland, Bristol; D&P; BN 10.11.05; 1903 GJL; 1903-6 AFBristol 238)
c1906 tower Naislea Court, Som removed c1910-13; SNB;
(1908 Vestries, Christ Church, Broad St, Bristol; AFBristol 95; D&P;
(1906 Druidcote, Druid Stoke Ave, Bristol, Gomme; Druid Stoke Avenue developed from c1905 by RMD
(1908 Druidstone, Druid Stoke Ave, Bristol; Gomme;
1908 St Michaels Church Hall, Pen Mill, Yeovil, Som; Kelly 1935, inf Jack Sweet; D&P;
(1910 Druids Garth, Druid Stoke Ave, Bristol; SNB;
Also Bank Chambers, Baldwin St, Bristol (D&P);
Opera House, Staplegrove Ave/Chip lane, Taunton, Som (D&P) inf David Martyn and SAS;
DRAPER (RICHARD) & SONS Builders & contractors, Hermitage St, Crewkerne; 1906 dir;
DREDGE, JAMES Senior Engineer Bath, lived at Gothic Cottage, Sion Hill, Bath. 1794-1863; A brewer originally, patented design for suspension bridges, patented 1836, actually double cantilever bridges, but several failed; married Ann Vine, sons James qv and William both engineers, James was very prominent in london as editor of Engineering;an advert in 1843 mentions his 89m bridge over R Leven, Scotland; see Don Mc Quillan in Proc of ICE, 1994, 102, 34-42;
1836 Victoria Bridge, Bath, Som; suspension bridge unusual in rods are angled. Dredge patented des but had series of failures.
1845 Birnbeck Pier, Weston s Mare, Som; wikipedia sub J Dredge Jr; proposed but not built; DWG 1.3.1849;
(1845 Stowell Park Bridge over Kennet & Avon Canal, Wilcot, Wilts, for Col Wroughton of Wilcot, private suspension bridge;
(1852-4 Caerhowel Bridge, Mont; collapsed and reblt in different form by T Penson Jr; CR Anthony in Mont Collns;
(1854 Bridge of Oich, Aberchalder, Scotland;)
Also two suspension bridges to the Ness Islands, Loch Ness, Scotland, since replaced;
DREDGE, JAMES Junior Engineer, born Bath, younger son of James Dredge Sr. 1840-1906, well-known as editor of Engineering, served on numerous London committees. Worked on Metropolitan Railway, London, 1862 for J Fowler; another James Dredge 1848-76, born London, articled to his father to 1864-72, 1868 won competition for Taylors Bridge over Surrey Canal at Peckham, also did Globe Bridge over canal; did viaducts on Bardonecchia-Susa stretch of Mont Cenis Railway, Italy, 1871; 1873 asstnt engineer to Great Southern Railway of India, took ill, died in England;
DREW, JOHN Builder Bristol, not in HC.
(1808ff completed Windsor Terrace, Clifton, Bristol, begun 1790 possibly by John Eveleigh qv of Bath, bankrupt 1793, resumed in cheaper style 1808; AF)
(1809-14 The Paragon, Clifton, Bristol, completed by Stephen Hunt; SNB)
DREW, RICHARD WILLIAM, Architect, Queen Anne’s Gate, London. Born 1833, 1834-1903, SAS; married William Butterfield’s niece Anne Starey, pupil of Butterfield, designed like him; cf P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971; designed Shaw ch, Lancs, 1870-1; Parkham ch near Bideford Devon, 1876;
1873 vicarage, Shepton Beauchamp, Som; ill BN 16.10.74, Archiseek website; Gothic; dated on vane; for Rev Vincent Stuckey Coles and community of priests, with own chapel;
DREW, Sir THOMAS Architect, Dublin. 1838-1910. 1887-91 Ulster Bank, College Gn, Dublin; 1899-1902 Graduates Memorial Building Trinity Coll, Dublin;
1868 benches, Winford ch, Som; SNB;
1880 Cadbury House, Som; not found; engraving ill Archiseek from BN; probably for site near Winford;
DRURY & GUNDRY architects, NHM Drury, Surveyor of Exeter Cathedral, & – Grundry, also Drury Gundry & Dyer (DG&D)
1956 reps Oare ch, Som; SRO DD/cf/1956/11/12, also 1964 by DG&D;
1960 Candelabra, Culbone ch, Som; D/D/cf/1960/9/1; Drury & Grundy;
1966 rest Churchyard cross, Culbone, Som; by NHM Drury; D/D/cf/ 1966/3/3;
DRURY, MICHAEL see St Anne's Gate Architects.
DRURY, N.H.M. See Drury & Grundry;
DSP COLLIER see Collier Reading
DUDDEN, - builder, Clevedon
189? Nos 1-3 Highdale Ave, Clevedon, Som; Lilly;
DUNN –
1834 ?Big Schoolroom, King’s School, Bruton, Som; Mary Siraut thought she had seen ref to name Dunn;
DUNN & HANSOM. Architects, Newcastle, and London. Archibald Matthias Dunn, (1832-1917), architect, Newcastle from 1854, in partnership from 1871 with Edward Joseph Hansom (1842-1900), son of Joseph A Hansom qv. Both EJ Hansom and Dunn had trained with CF Hansom in Bristol. Dunn retired to Bournemouth in 1897. Firm was nothing to do with Dunn & Watson.
1872-95 Downside Abbey ch, Som; SNB; 1872 plan for abbey church and monastery and also additions to existing school; monastic W range 1873-6 also Petre cloister and refectory; built E end of Abbey church, including lady chapel, transept, base of tower; N transept consecrated 1882, Lady Chapel & E end 1888; other radiating chapels 1888-90; monastery birds eye view published 1879, BN 30.5.79 and 13.6.79; and interior of church 1881; resigned 1895 due to ill-health of EJH;
1879-81 Our Lady RC, Julian Rd, Bath; SNB; MF;
DUNN & WATSON later Dunn, Watson & Curtis Green. William Newton Dunn Architect, 1859-1934, assistant to Scottish architects William Flockhart and James MacLaren; with partner Robert Watson (D&W) continued MacLaren’s practice after 1890. In 1900 William Curtis Green qv joined (DW&CG); retired to Kenya 1919 died 1934. Specialist in concrete, designed 1891-2 Fortingall Inn, Perths 1891; 1893 Streatham Cemetery chapels etc; 1903 baptistery St Mary, Balham; 1902 St Johns Inst, Walworth D&W; 1905 Scottish Prov Inst Lombard St D&W; obit RIBAJ 24.2.34; ASG 170-1.
1913-14 Old Bank, High St, Bath; DW&CG; MF;
(1918ff Bulwark housing scheme, Chepstow, Mon; Br 22.11.18, 3.1.19, 10.1.19. Arch 13.6.19 D&CG; BoW DW&CG Hardwick Village c1915-19; The Bulwark was 1918-19 by Henry Farmer with HA Tipping)
DUNTHORN, DANIEL ROBERT Builder & contractor, Norbins Rd, Glastonbury. 1867-1942. Kelly 1906 says built High Level Reservoir Glastonbury; Fire Station (1901) Glastonbury; Low Level Reservoir, Street, Som;
1920-1 14 council houses, Park Rd and Park Close, Street, Som; GHS;
DURBIN, ELIHU Builder, Clevedon,
1825? No 1 Highdale Rd, Clevedon, the first house on the Hill, erected before 1826 possibly as early as 1824; Lilly, The builders of Clevedon, 200;
DURSTON, F. Weston s Mare. Signs plans in SRO D/D/wsm/24/2/ 1880s not certain if an architect.
DYER, CHARLES Bristol 1794-1848; HC; son of Bristol surgeon, artic William Brooks of London, prac also in London; Gomme;
(1827 Blue Maids Asylum, Ashley Hill, Bristol; GJL;
(1829-31 St Paul ch, Bedminster, Bristol; GJL; AFtext)
(1830 Litfield House, Clifton, Bristol; GJL)
(1831 Camp House, Clifton Down, Bristol;
(1833 Parsonage, Aldbourne, Wilts; WBR; HC; additions to house now Court House; new SW block and alts to old;
(1836 lodge, Battlefields House, Lansdown, Bath;
(1839-41 Victoria Rooms, Clifton, Bristol, HC;
(1841 Old Jewry Chambers, London; GJL; HC, CEAJ 5 333;
(1841-4 Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol; HC; about to be erected, £10K in hand, WI 2.2.43, George Stransbridge builder;
(1842 Villa at Clifton, Bristol for Thomas Wentle; exh RA)
(1845-8 Wick ch, Glos, completed by Butterfield 1849-50; HC)
(1848 St Mark ch, Easton, Bristol; completed by SB Gabriel;
DYER, (JAMES) & SONS
1920 War Memorial, Curry Rivel, Som; SAS;
DYKES BOWER, STEPHEN see under Bower
DYMOND, CHARLES WILLIAM FSA architect, 3 Forefield Place, Bath; Kelly 1889;
DYMOND, GEORGE Bristol, architect c1797-1835, died aged 38 at Castle Green, Bristol; Quaker; obit AM 3 1836 48; HC;
(1827-9 additions Council House, Corn St, Bristol, with RS Pope qv; SNB; addition of Court of Justice and offices to Smirke's Council House; 1827-8 HC;
1828 Laid out Portishead, Som, for Bristol Corporation; SNB; Royal Hotel 1829-30; Adelaide Terrace c1830-5;
(c1833-5 attributed, cottage attached Quakers Friars, Bristol; SNB;
(1835 Higher Market, Exeter, Devon; completed by Charles Fowler; AM 3 1836 12-30; HC;
DYSON, CHRIS Architect, with Terry Farrell, Chris Dyson Architects established London 2003 with Michael Wilford, office in Spitalfields; Bath office set up ? By Harry Whittaker partner 2012-17, Sarah Lockwood from 201-17, then they formed Bath Conservation Architects qv;
EASTERBROOK, RICHARD Builder, Clevedon. Reference to premises in the Village, 1862;
18?? houses Railway View, Clevedon; now Melbourne Terrace, joined to a later pair by Thomas Hartree; Lilly, Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
EASTON & AMOS Engineers see James Easton; partnership before 1836 with CE Amos; the company supplied a steam engine for the inclined plane at Wellisford on the Grand Western Canal, 1838, probably supplied pumping engines for Westonzoyland, 1824, Chedzoy, Northmoor, Southlake, East Saltmoor, Allermoor, amongst others. James Easton retired in 1866. SAS.
1857? Fulbrook Reservoir near Pitminster, Som, and Old Tunnel for Taunton Water Co; history of water supply in TC 28.2.1894 says company founded 1857; second reservoir 1870; by Edward Easton (1799-1898), SAS;
EASTON, ABEL Engineer, 1807-48, son of Josiah Easton qv; appointed engineer in 1830 to Othery, Middlezoy and Westonzoyland Drainage Board, SAS;
EASTON, EDWARD Engineer, 9 Delahay St, London; son of Josiah Easton qv; 1799-1898, SAS;
1857? Fulbrook Reservoir near Pitminster, Som, and Old Tunnel for Taunton Water Co; history of water supply in TC 28.2.1894 says by Easton & Amos qv, company founded 1857; second reservoir 1879; both by Edward Easton, SAS;
1879 Blagdon Reservoir, near Pitminster, Som for Taunton town water supply; TC 28.2.94; tender for compensating reservoir, Leigh hill, Arch 8.3.79;
EASTON, JAMES Bradford on Tone Engineer. 1796-1871. Son of Josiah Easton qv, obit BN 1871b 300? came to London 1822 with patent he had bought from Montgolfier for hydraulic rams; 1825 engaged with NG Rennie on survey of London & Northern Railway, G Stephenson engineer, but came to nothing, turned to mechanical engineering and set up works in 1827. Became a Commissioner of Woods & Forests, ran family company Easton & Co making hydraulic rams. Involved with Houses of Parliament, Antwerp water supply, Seville water supply (Ashbrittle Millennium Book 83-4).
James Easton went to London 1822 and set up engineering firm in Southwark in 1827 in partnership with – Leahy, then in 1836 partnership with CE Amos. JE bought rights to manufacture hydraulic ram from firm founded 1774 by John Whitehurst of Bristol, improved device, and Easton & Co supplied them all over country. Easton & Amos supplied all the pumping engines except two for the drainage boards in Somerset, James’s brother John being a Commissioner for Othery Middlezoy & Westonzoyland under 1830 Act. Amos adapted JG Appold’s 1850 centrifugal pump and patented in 1857 the Easton & Amos Drainage Machine. 1864 firm joined by Wm Anderson and moved to new works at Erith, Kent, and became Easton & Anderson. Supplied new pumps for new Allermoor and Stanmoor pumping stations, and replaced machinery at Westonzoyland (1861), Chedzoy (1864), Stanmoor (1864), Curry Moor (1865), possibly East Saltmoor (1866); Northmoor (1867-8), Southlake (1869) , Allermoor (1869); JE retired 1866; commemorated in 1967 stained glass window in Bradford church along with Hugh Easton +1965, the stained glass designer, a descendant.
1831 prob supplied engine Westonzoyland Pumping station, Som; SIAS 7 18-19; removed 1869 for present Easton & Amos
1838. Provided steam engine for inclined plane at Wellisford on Grand Western Canal.
EASTON, JOHN Taunton Surveyor, Engineer, son of Josiah Easton qv. 1788-1860 according to family memorial in Bradford on Tone ch. Appointed commissioner under 1830 Act of Draining, flooding and improving .. low lands .. within the parishes of Othery, Middlezoy and Westonzoyland’.
1810-11 Carried out survey of Bristol& Taunton Canal scheme 1810 for John Rennie; proposed linking canal from Huntworth to Bridgwater;
1813-17 Knapp Bridge, near North Curry, Som; SAS;
1822 proposed Bridgwater harbour improvements including canal from Combwich; SAS;
1824 proposed floating harbour, Bridgwater, Som; following Josiah Easton plans 1811 and Rennie 1814; £85,875; designed with Henry Jessop, SAS;
1829 completed survey with James Green qv for extension of Great Western Canal to join Bridgwater & Taunton Canal; SAS;
1836 Proposal extension Bridgwater & Taunton Canal from Huntworth to docks at Bridgwater; two plans; BDRP 14; bill 1837 but final scheme was by TD Maddicks qv;
EASTON, JOSIAH Hele, Bradford on Tone. 1761-1848. Engineer, land surveyor. A map of Blagroves’s Farm, Oake, in SRO DD/SF/5/1/4 is signed J Easton 1809. Son Josiah 1790-1848 may be confused with him, John (1788-1860) was engineer, son James (1796-1871), of Easton & Amos, provided steam engines for inclined plane on Grand Western Canal at Wellisford 1838, and steam pumps for Levels drainage. Easton family memorial in Bradford church lists twelve children of Josiah Easton of Hele 1761-1848 including sons Josiah 1790-1848, Abel 1807-48, John 1788-1860, James 1796-1871, George 1794-1875, Edward 1799-1898. Stained glass artist Hugh Easton +1965 was a descendant of James.
1793 Surveyed line of canal from Bristol Channel to English Channel;
1793 Surveyed line of canal from Taunton to Uphill
1795 River Parrett improvements in navigation, various proposals as engineer to Ilchester & Langport Navigation; unex;
1800 Report on drainage of River Axe valley; MW 142; SRO SRB/AD4; supplementary report by – Sutcliffe of Leeds pointed out defects; Act obtained 1802 with William Jessop qv engineer, work done 1803-10;
1811 Suggested floating harbour, Bridgwater, Som, signed J Easton; BDRP 8; ship canal to Combwich by-passing dammed off Parrett river; another plan by John Rennie similar 1814, another by John Easton qv 1824;
1814 report on outfall of River Parrett, with Robet Anstice; SAS;
1814 survey for road improvements, Bishops Hull; SAS;
1814 report on Runnington parsonage, Som; plans for work by James Parsons qv; SRO DD/Bbm/
1822-7 surveyor, Bridgwater & Taunton Canal; James Hollinsworth eng; ?John Easton;
1823 Report on Kings Sedgemoor Drain; MW 219;
1829 Author Plan for rendering navigable the Kings Sedgemoor and other drains to make a navigation from Dunball to Yeovil; MW 219; reports 1823 and 1829,SAS
1841 proposal for draining Levels between Polden Hills and Langport; TC 19.5.41;
EASTON, WILLIAM Engineer, born 1822, relation of Josiah Easton presumably; involved with forming Chedzoy draining district, appointed surveyor to Drainage Board, also in 1864 Assessor, Expenditor & Surveyor to Currymoor Drainage Board (Richard Easton was clerk).
1855 supervised alts Langford Bridge, Norton Fitzwarren, Som; TC 2.5.55,
1856 proposed alternative route for West somerset Railway; SAS;
1864-5 Currymoor Pumping station, Stoke St Gregory, Som; Miles SIAS 7 24; dem; £6120, 45 hp machinery cost of £2480 included; problems with subsidence, rebuilt 1883, dem 1954 for new station;
1866-7 Chedzoy Pumping station, Som; Miles, SIAS 7 23; £4300;
EATON, ROBERT Plasterer, Stogursey, married Grace Waterman (+1621) in 1602, leased cottage c1614. J.& J. Penoyre, Decorative Plasterwork, 41-3; known to have been working at Combe Florey in September 1599 when John Frauncis wrote to John Trevelyan of Nettlecombe Ct enquiring if - Bartlett had finished there as he was required to make the 'chemley' before Robart Yeaton the plester man' could work. So did plaster in Combe Florey, 1599, but problem is that plaster overmantel in Gatehouse there is dated 1593, so this may refer to work in the house (dem); documented as having worked at the chapel, Chantmarle, Dorset, 1612-15 (dem); attrib overmantel Holcombe Court, Devon as similar to Gatehouse and also Walronds, Cullompton, Devon, 1605, Weare Gifford Hall Devon (1599), overmantel from Melplash Ct, Dorset, 1604, now at Mapperton Dorset; Somerset work Poundisford Lodge, 1590, West Coker Manor House, three chamber overmantels at Montacute;
ECCLES & MCINTOSH see TE Eccles;
ECCLES, THOMAS EDGAR Architect, Liverpool, 1865-1946, see Woolfall & Eccles; after death of Woolfall in 1919 partnership Eccles & McIntosh 1919-46 with David Gordon Macintosh 1873-1956, architects to the Midland Bank; SAS;
1924 Midland Bank, Wellington, Som; SAS; HBC archive;
EDEN, FREDERICK CHARLES 1864-1944 3 Staple Inn, Holborn, London. Pupil of Butterfield, 1886, Bodley & Garner, 1889, set up practice 1890, architectural work mostly church furnishings cf Blisland, Cornwall. Also outstanding designer of stained glass; ASG;
(1912 rest Fisherton Delamere ch, Wilts; WBR;
(1912 screen, Codford St Peter ch, Wilts; WBR;
(1919 rest Longbridge Deverill ch, Wilts; WBR;
1920-33 parclose screens, Downside Abbey in three N aisle chapels; SNB;
1922-3 vaulted sacristy, All Saints ch, Clifton, Bristol, SNB;
1925 S aisle and lady chapel, All Saints ch, Weston s Mare, Som; H&F; SNB; ch by Bodley 1898-1902; S chapel screen, 1926, stained glass 1924-33;
1927 window, S aisle, All Saints ch, Clevedon, Som; SNB;
(1928 alts All Saints ch, Clifton, Bristol; H&F, ?error for 1922)
1930 E window glass, Tintinhull ch, Som;
EDINGER, PHILIP. Surveyor, 1847-1906, in Frome by 1891, Surveyor to Frome UDC 1894-1905; Kelly 1906 has Mrs PE at 27 Brooklyn Villas, Butts Hill, Frome.
1891 Freemasons Hall, Frome, Som, by Bro Philip Edinger; Hodder & Son, Frome, contractors; Freemasonry in Somerset;
EDKINS, WILLIAM. Scene-painter at Theatre Royal, Bristol, of a family of scene painters. He was employed in 1822-3 designing new gallery in the Lord Mayor’s Chapel, Bristol, and supervising the sculptor Thomas Clarke. Clarke apparently restored an ‘original altar screen’ under Edkins supervision. The tower screen at Low Ham, Som, is a screen ejected 1889 in Pearson’s rest of the chapel. The font at Muchelney, Som, ejected at the same time is probably by Clarke and possibly by Edkins. Inf Andy Foyle; Bristol City Museum catalogue of architectural fragments re Whitson tomb, 1822 by Edkins & Clarke. Clarke 1764-1829 is buried in the Lord Mayor’s chapel, Gunnis 103;
EDNEY, JOHN ?from Bristol;
(1712 contract to build Queen Anne's Walk, Barnstaple, Devon; inf R Hewlings; built as Exchange, possibly by William Talman, BoE;
EDNEY, JOSEPH Carpenter.
1750 involved with Stables, Halswell House, Goathurst, Som; bill for ‘putting up a roller to pull the lead up for the new gatehouse’ and for ‘rending of nineteen hundred lasts for tilers and plasterers for new gatehouse and stable; Goathurst Millennium Book 73;
EDNEY, WILLIAM Blacksmith Bristol, +1725; business continued by his brother Simon; JS Gardiner English Ironwork of C17 and C18; Andy Foyle e-mail: Edneys of Bristol - I don't know much, sorry. There doesn't seem to be much about them, e.g. Bristol Archives - but maybe the online catalogue doesn't have their names, in which case, lots of digging. There was a John Edney buried in Bedminster in 1726 (and a daughter Mary buried a year later) but no indication he was a smith. Ancestry searches turned up lots of Edneys in West Wilts and South Glouestershire, including 17th and 18th century John Edneys many of them entered in the parish registers as "alias Hooper" suggesting they were blacksmiths. Corsham and Luckington (near Malmesbury) seem to occur lots. e.g. the screen grab here of John and Steven Edney alias Hooper who both died in January 1654; I wonder if the William and Simon who became well known for their Bristol work actually came from a little way west (east?), explaining the scarcity of Bristol records. More research needed.
(1702 sword-rest from Temple ch Bristol now in Lord Mayor's Chapel; SNB:
(1710 chancel screen, St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol by William for £110,
(1710? sword-rest, gates from St Nicholas ch now at St Stephen ch, Bristol; SNB;
(1719-21 gates, Merchant's Hall, Marsh St, Bristol, dem; perhaps by Simon:
1725 altar-rail, Bath Abbey, given by General Wade, now in the St Alphege Chapel, Bath Abbey; SNB; by WE
(1726 screen gates from Temple church Bristol now in Lord Mayor's Chapel but ?monogram WE; SNB;
(17?? work at Dyrham, Glos, by Simon;
(17?? attr gates, Tredegar Park, Mon; JS Gardner English Ironwork;
(1734 gates and overthrow at Tewkesbury Abbey, Glos, ?by Simon for Lord Gage;
possible attributions in JS Gardner: Gates at Maxstoke Castle; gates Scraptoft Hall, Leics; Quenby Hall, Leics; gates to Canons, Middlesex now at Durdans, Surrey; gates Shobdon Court, Herefs;
EDWARDS ASSOCIATES Architectural services, Kilmersdon, Som;
1995 Third prize, Glastonbury Library competition, Som; BD 13.1.95, first prize to ADP qv;
EDWARDS MORRIS ASSOCIATES London
1994 refurb Bridgwater Station, Som; HW Pollard & Sons contrs; BD 3.11.95; Railway Heritage Trust Annual Report 1994-5 20;
EDWARDS, CHARLES FREDERICK Architect Axminster and Exeter, 1837-99
1861c National School, Dulverton with Edward Williams of Tiverton; SAS;
(1862 reblt Kilmington ch, Devon; CFE of Axminster; BoE)
(1865-6 exec archt, Calverley Lodge, Seaton, Devon, to design by Benjamin Woodward; BoE)
1867 Upton ch, Som; TC 19.6.67; ICBS;
(1867-73 Sidford ch, Devon; BoE)
(1868 rebuilt Dunkeswell ch, Devon; BoE)
(1869-9 rest Northleigh ch, Devon; BoE)
1870 Vicarage, Tatworth, Som; DD/Bbm/174; CFE of Exeter
(1870-1 nave, Luppitt ch, Devon; BoE)
(1874-6 rest Farway ch, Devon; BoE)
(1880-1 chancel, Luppitt ch, Devon; BoE)
EDWARDS, C. HUTCHINSON Architect, Bristol. Not in GJL; C Hutchinson Edwards of London won competitions 1855-60 including Salisbury Cemetery, Wilts, 1855; Harwich Cemetery, Suff Br 1855 34; Ashford Cemetery BN 1858 71; and 1896 2nd pr Kings Norton Cemetery, Birmingham; RHH;
EDWARDS, DAVID Taunton. 1878-1952. Born Cardiganshire, Borough Surveyor Taunton 1906-19, AMICE. Kelly 1906 Greenway Road, Taunton.
1911 rear addition Library, Corporation St, Taunton, Som; opening leaflet SHC; 1909-11, SAS;
EDWARDS, EDWARD HENRY Architect, Clare St, Bristol, 1845-1919, Pupil of JD Sedding, active c1879-99; GJL;
(1879 comp entry University College, Bristol; GJL
(1879-81 chapel, Pauper Lunatic Asylum Bristol; SNB)
(1880 St Raphael House of Charity, Cumberland Rd, Bristol; dem; GJL
(1884 unex plan completion All Saints ch, Pembroke Rd, Clifton; with school and parish room; church by GE Street;
1885 organ chamber and vestry, Holy Trinity ch, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO cf/1885/6; SNB;
(1886 All Saints almshouse, Rupert St, Bristol; dem; GJL)
1886 vestry, Kelston ch, Som; SRO cf/1886/15;
(1886 St Michael ch, Windmill Hill, Bristol, burnt and rebuilt by CFW Dening qv 1926; SNB
1888-9 Chilton Polden ch, Som; ICBS; almost entirely rebuilt £2000; D/D/ cf/1888/10; pulpit recently installed designed by EH Edwards made by Brock & Co of Bristol TC 6.5.1891, also brass communion rail by Gardiner & Sons, Bristol; designed with JP Seddon qv according to SAS;
(1889 County Fire Office, 15 Clare St, Bristol; GJL; SNB;
(1894 alts Assembly Rooms, The Mall, Clifton, Bristol; GJL)
(1898 Tramway Depot, Brislington, Bristol; GJL;
EDWARDS, JOHN RALPH Bristol FRIBA. 1891-1972. Born Cardiff 1891, articled Latrobe & Weston, Bristol, assistant to Oatley & Lawrence c1911 (SAS) on Bristol University buildings, employed 1914 by Sir Ernest George qv; married Grace Shepherd of Knowle Hall, Bawdrip; Captain in Royal Artillery 1916-18; 1919 returned to O&L, became FRIBA; 1919 architect for Somerset CC smallholdings; 1920 employed by Sir Harold Brakspear on St George’s Chapel Windsor restoration; own practice 1927; 1938-43 Hon Treasurer then President BSA; retired 1968; list of works prepared by John Winstone RIBA SCA, IHBC, from material from JRE’s daughter and JRE job book in the possession of Mary Maggs RIBA, principal of John Keeling Maggs, successor practice of JRE. NB: ‘Details of work relating to J Ralph Edwards MBE FRSA RWA FRIBA were provided with assistance from MA Maggs RIBA AABC and under copyright of the John Keeling Maggs Architects archive’.
Many of works listed are alts and adds rather than new buildings.
19?? won prize for Paradise Roadhouse, Bridgwater Road, Bristol; dem;
(1932 275 Hotwell Road, Bristol for Bristol City council;also bakery for HT Taylor, dem;
1933 House, Wraxall Som for Mrs Titcombe;
1933 work at Street Som, possibly for Christian Science Society;
1934 land for Village club, Wraxall, Som, for Miss MJ Child;
1936 house, Burrington, Som, for Mrs EM Harding;
1937 nursery first floor, court Essington, Midford, Som; for EH Atchley; and new archway on W elevation;work on stables 1945 for ? Lurpin;
1937 cottages proposed, Weston Rd, Cleeve, Som for Mr Randall;
1937 work for C&J Clark at Street, Som;
1937 extension Paradise Cafe, Wrington, Som for Ronald Loach;
1937 Orchard Cottage, East Harptree, Som, for Lt Col HW Kettlewell;
1937 No 2 Lipgate place, Portishead, som for Raymond Hale;
(1938 Petherton Road School, Bristol BS14 Br 29.5.42;
1938 Daubeny estate, Stanton Drew, Som;
1938 work Bear Hotel, Street, Som;
1938 work The Grange, Chew Magna, for Dr FW Terrel Hughes;
(1938 Russell's. Colston St, Bristol now Friary House;
1938 Joseph Burton shop, Glastonbury, som;
1938 two (?) bungalows, Green Ore crossroads, near Wells, Som;
(1939 Foich Lodge, Ullapool, Scotland for Lady Fowler;
(1939 Claradel, Little Stoke, Stoke Gifford, Glos For ?Lady GD Caines;
1942 work National Nautical School, Portishead, Som;
1942 work Clevedon Hall, Clevedon, Som for St Brandon School also at Oaklands and Green Beach, and Wickham House, Clevedon
1942 work Willcocks Ltd, Clevedon, Som;
1942 work Stone Cottage, Failand, Som for Maurice Perkins;
1942 work Winford Cottage, Winford, Som
1942 work for Mrs CE Cowlin, Nailsea, Som;
1942 work Woodlands, Wrington, Som;
1942 work Blagdon Court, Som;
1942 work Leigh Warren, Abbotsleigh, Som for Evitt Armstrong;
1942 work Cleeve ch, Som;
(1945 work TH, Trowbridge, Wilts)
1945 work St Benedict ch, Glastonbury, Som;
1945 work Northside, Leigh Woods, Bristol;
1945 work Chewton Place Chewton, Som;
(1945 work Home Farm, Minety, Wilts for – Duncan;
1945 work Magdalene Chapel, Holloway, Bath;
1945 work Britannic Assurance, 39a Oxford St, Weston s Mare, Som
(1945 work Maunditts Park Farm, Little Somerford, Wilts for PR Marsh)
1945 work Frome parish ch, Frome Som;
1945 work No 340 Bath Rd, Keynsham, Som for Rev & Mrs Key;
1945 work Broomfield Hall, Som for Lord Wharton of Halswell House;
1945 War Memorial Keynsham church, Som;
1945 work houses, Leigh Woods, Bristol inc Lake House, Oakleigh, Evergreen Cottage; more work Lake House 1952;
1945 work Butcombe Court, Som;
1945 work Rectory, Chew Stoke, Som
1945 work Cherry Tree Farm, Churchill, Som for TD Corpe (?)
1945 work Court Farm, Backwell, Som for Verdon Smith;
1945 work The Cottage, Parish's house, Timsbury, Som for Major BG Cayzer
1945 work stables, Battleaxes Inn, Wraxall, Som;
1945 work Brockley church, Som
1945 work The Lodge, 53 Park Rd, Keysham, Som for Lt Col Baker;
1946 War Memorial Frome parish church, Som;
1946 converted No 11 Castle St, Bridgwater, Som to Arts Centre, first funded by Arts Council;
1946 alts Leigh Woods ch, Bristol, war memorial; lighting;
1949 repairs Brockley ch, Som temporary roof and gutter repairs;
1950 list of war memorials: Keysham, Saltford, Frome, Som and Dyrham, Glos;
1950-9 work The Manor, Queen Charlton, Som;
1952 work Victoria Jubilee Homes, Langford, Som;
1952 work Longmead, Barton Rd, Winscombe, Som for Mrs Collingford;
1952 work vicarage, Leigh Woods, Bristol;
1952 survey All Saints ch, Clevedon, Som;
(1952 choir stalls, Clifton college chapel, Bristol)
(1956 toll-houses, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
(1956-9 proposed work S and E wings Avebury Manor, Wilts for Sir Francis Knowles;
(1957 design Christ the Servant ch, Stockwood, Bristol, built 1963-4 and completed 1969 by JEK Maggs, SNB)
(1959-61 Lawrence Weston ch, Bristol; FS 1961; 1961 SNB;
1960 memorial, Abbotsleigh ch, Som to Sir John Inskip;
EDWARDS, S. Builder, Shepton Mallet;
1874-5 Council School, Ditcheat, Som; C/CA/School plans;
EDWARDS, SOLOMON Mason
1825 alts B chapel, Hatch Beauchamp, Som; £54; interior work for £40 including galleries, and pulpit £40 by John Roe carpenter; WM Wigfield, chapel history, 1970;
EGMONT, JOHN PERCEVAL 2nd Earl of. 1711-70, inherited Irish peerage 1748, Baron Lovel & Holland in English peerage 1762. MP for Dingle in Irish Parliament 1731-49, MP for Westminster 1741-7, for Weobley 1747-54, for Bridgwater 1754-62, Postmaster-General 1762-3, first Lord of Admiralty 1763-6, resigned in disagreement with Pitt. Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was his 7th son.
1751-7 Enmore Castle, Enmore, Som, to his own designs; mostly dem after sale in 1833; VCH 6 38-9 ills NE view and basement and first floor plans. John Perceval bought the estate from Edward Baynton after 1742 (SC notes) before 1751 (VCH); built 1751-7 (SC and Tim Mowl in AH 1990 102-19); views in Watt’s Seats of the Nobility, 1779, pl 54; Neale’s Seats 2nd ser vol 4 1828; engraving in VCH of 1783 from Watts; plans in VCH from J Edmondson Baronagium Genealogicum 1764-84; Henry Wilkins carpenter, - Jordan, mason, all supervised by John Gooding, bailiff;
EKINS, L. G. Architect to Co-operativeSoc
(1926 Co-op, Winchester St, Salisbury, Wilts; by EJ Elkins, WBR;
1932-4 CWS building, Westgate St, Bath; SNB; plans 1932 ill in Robin Pake thesis 2015 Bath U, opened 14.4.34,
ELGAR, FREDERICK S. Architect, 1898-1964, architect to Lloyds Bank based at Lloyds Bank, Salisbury, Wilts.
(1922 Lloyds Bank, High Street, Melksham, Wilts; inf Lloyds archive, by FE Elgar)
(1923 plans Lloyds Bank, Malmesbury by Salisbury Building Inspector given to Mr Waller for approval; Lloyds archive 2.9616 16.2.23;
(1923 Lloyds Bank, Lymington, Hants; appointed Lloyds archive 2.9582 9.2.23)
1929 alts Lloyds Bank, No 19 The Parade, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/704; built in 1896 by JP St Aubyn, Devon & Cornwall Bank 1896-1908;
ELLIS & BUNTING, Architects, 3 Newhall St, Birmingham. Henry Alexander Ratcliffe Ellis qv, surveyor of dilapidations of the Bath & Wells diocese 1926-40 and Alfred Henry Bunting 1881-1955. Andy Foster: Ellis and Bunting (Alec R Ellis and AH Bunting) appear in Kelly's between 1926 and 1932 (inclusive) at 3 Newhall Street. Before 1926 it was Hipkiss, Stephens & Ellis, successors to Hipkiss & Stephens, who were a competent middling firm of architects of 1900-ish onwards; I'll mention a couple of their houses in Moseley. After 1932 E&B disappear. I've never found a building by them in Birmingham. Is your one any good?
1938 adds Ivythorn Manor, Street, Som; photos of plans are at house, in possession Robert Boscawen MP; ?but firm disappears in 1932; for Edmund Page 1887-1970, HS 1947, chairman of Diocesan Board of Finance, Bath & Wells;
ELLIS & CLARKE
(1929 Northcliffe House, The Quay, Bristol; newspaper offices; SNB)
ELLIS & TORRENS see M Torrens
ELLIS, HENRY ALEXANDER RATCLIFFE, Architect, Birmingham, c1876-1951, partner of Charles Edge of Birmingham c. 1900, then with Hipkiss & Stephens before forming partnership with AH Bunting as Ellis & Bunting qv; appointed Surveyor of Dilapidations, Bath & Wells diocese, 1926, held post until 1940 with office in Taunton, while Bunting kept the Birmingham office, assisted in Taunton by Stafford Mole (1900-39). Retired 1940, died in Taunton.
1929 Rectory, Corton Denham, Som; VCH; SRO DD/PMN (C/1110) and D/P/co.d 9/1/1; now Preston House. Brick and stone, hipped with mullion ws.
1938 adds Ivythorn Manor, Street, Som for Edmund Page; photos of plans were at house signed Ellis & Bunting, in possession Robert Boscawen MP; Edmund Page 1887-1970, HS 1947, was chairman of Diocesan Board of Finance, Bath & Wells;
ELLIS, THOMAS Carpenter, Sherborne, Dorset. HC. 1780-1829, SAS, probably son of Thomas Ellis +1794;
1813-14 parsonage, North Cadbury, Som; D/D/Bbm/35 plans and spec, £1565, TE builder of Sherborne;
1819 reps tower, Milborne Port ch, Som; John & Gideon Hyde builders; £90; McKay 177 from churchwardens' accounts, TE bill for inspection & specification for repairs etc £2/10/0d;
1819-20 galleries, St John ch, Yeovil, Som; ICBS; removed.
1824 Sparkford ch, Som; ICBS; 1824-36 SAS, rebuilt except tower;
1826 N aisle, Milborne Port ch, Som; ‘Messrs Ellis and AG Goodridge’; VCH 154 n67; ICBS has Goodridge only; McKay 175; dem; Anthony Gregory Goodridge qv
ELSE & LAFFAN. Richard Charles Else & George B Laffan, Bridgwater.
1883 Town Bridge, Bridgwater, Som; iron; RC Else qv was consulting engineer, GB Laffan qv borough engineer drew the plans; George Moss of Liverpool contractor; opened Oct 1883; BDRP 30-3; £3214;
ELSE, RICHARD CHARLES. Engineer 1823-1904, Bitton House, Bridgwater. Born 1823 Bath, died 1904 Clifton. Partner in Hennet, Spink & Else, Bridgwater firm of George Hennet +1857 qv and Daniel Spink, engineers and ironfounders, but the Hennet here being George's son, Follett Charles Hennet. RCE left the firm (in 1865, SAS) before it went out of business but remained in Bridgwater, where he was a prominent Freemason and mayor in 1896, arbitrating 1896 brick-workers strike; sold Bitton House to the Corporation in 1898 for £2000 to make Blake Gardens and moved to Bristol.
1883 Town Bridge, Bridgwater, Som; Else was consulting engineer but the plans were prepared by Geroge Laffan qv, Town Surveyor. George Moss of Liverpool was the contractor for what was a composite construction of Westwood & Bailey's corrugated road plates, wrought-iron work by Messrs Brettell of Worcester and castings by Messrs Butt of Gloucester. Brian Murless, Bridgwater Docks & the River Parrett, 1983, 30, 33. Cast-iron by Thomas Gregory of Coalbrookdale, SAS;
ELSTON, HARRY builder, Clevedon
1888 Swallowcliffe and Strathmore, Coleridge Rd, Clevedon; Lilly;
ELTON, Sir EDWARD Clevedon Court, Som
1898 Clock tower, Clevedon, Som; SNB; paid for by him, decorated with Eltonware ceramics;
1901 ?designed small addition to S transept, All Saints, Clevedon, Som; unsigned plans SRO D/D/cf/1901/21; he designed the Crucifixion on E wall, 1906, SNB;
EMBLETON, NEIL see ESHA Architects.
EMERY, ARTHUR RUSCOMBE Monumental mason, Burnham on Sea, 1881-1969; made war memorials at Builth Wells, Radnorshire; West Huntspill 1920, East Brent 1921 (design by FB Bond qv), Catcott 1921, Broadway, Brean, all Som; SAS;
ENGLAND, Messrs. Builders Yeovil
1919-20 built tower, Ash ch, Som; des by CB Benson qv;
1935 remodelled Dower House, Tintinhull, Som for Charles Pullen farmer, owner who probably had hand in design; inf owner Peter Lockhart Smith; woodwork from Frampton Court, Dorset, inc panelling and twisted balusters reused on service stair, two large stone farmyard columns from Tintinhull carved in neo-Romanesque, 3 pieces of ?Indian naturalistic wood carving, a C16 double-ogee beam with rosette stops, fireplaces carved with mottoes and one w foliage trail decoration, also courtyard arch with pediment brought from Yeovil provenance unknown;
1950s ?moved Butler memorial obelisk from Martock to Dillington House, Som;
ENGLISH OAK BUILDINGS Claverton, Som. Timber-frame builders, est 1999,est by Rory Millar and Mark Hulford;
2010 contrs adds Phoenix House, ?Hinton St George, Som; huge ten-bay oak frame over swimming-pool; architects not named; website;
(201? Oak House, ?, Wilts; ext to house; website;
2012 House at Holly Tree Fm, Chesterblade, Som; board;
Also adds to house Bradford on Avon Wilts; oak-framed house at Wells, Som; oak-framed swimming-pool Hinton St George, Som; work at Birdcombe Ct, Som, with Tonic Architecture qv; Broadoak, new oak frame with SIPS ?in Som, community space over storage;
ERITH, RAYMOND CHARLES Leading later C20 traditionalist architect, 1904-73, Quinlan Terry worked for him from 1962, became partner, and continued partnership after 1973. Biography by Lucy Archer 1985.
1969 Unex des for new house at Jordans, Ashill, Som for Peter Speke?; SC notes; abandoned and Rowlands restored instead;
1970-2 rest Rowland’s, Ashill, Som, for Peter Speke, to replace Jordans; SC notes; Lucy Archer 204; Quinlan Terry was ‘the boy’ on this; contr JV Baker qv; new roof with hipped dormers, restored collapsed parlour framed ceiling, new staircase behind parlour with Georgian turned balusters turned by ex-policeman in Broadway; new windows in S end; inf Peter Speke;
ERRIDGE, A. F.
1951 Screen, Lopen ch, Som; SRO D/D/lop 6/3/1; VCH 4 170;
ERRINGTON, JOHN EDWARD Railway engineer 1806-62, engineer to LSWR from 1849 in succession to Joseph Locke qv.
1855 LSWR Dorchester to Axminster extension SRO Q/RUP/222, seems to be for Yeovil to Exeter by JE Errington;
1856-60 Engineer Yeovil & Exeter Railway; BLJ 51; William Robert Galbraith resident engineer, William Tite qv architect, stations at Yeovil Junction, Sutton Bingham, Crewkerne, Chard Road. William Taylor of Manchester, contractor, SAS;
1863 Chard branch line, connecting Chard with the Yeovil to Exeter main line at Chard Junction, with William Robert Galbraith, opened 1863, contractor James Taylor, SAS;
ESHA ARCHITECTS 36 King St, Bristol. Formed 2004 by three architects Neil Embleton, Peterjohn Smyth & Willie Harbinson formerly in Percy Thomas Partnership qv Bristol office where they designed houses for West Somerset Housing Association (WSHA); email from Neil Embleton neil.embleton@eshaarchitects.co.uk
Projects inc 223 house village for NT at Rhostyllen; Synthetic Chemistry labs Bristol Univ; conversion of barracks HMS Drake Plymouth; new town in Devon;
1987-8 Eight houses, Vicarage Court, Timberscombe, Som; Peterjohn Smyth proj archt; inf N Embleton; hipped dormers;
1988-9 Six houses, The Beeches, Cutcombe, Wheddon Cross, Som; proj archt Neil Embleton;
1992 Three houses for elderly, Stoney St, Luccombe, Som; CTA 1992; PTP, Willie Harbinson proj archt; email from Neil Embleton; single storey, L-plan;
2009-11 The Glove Factory, Summerhouse Terr, Yeovil, Som; Mixed use urban block for ZeroC inc old glove factory on Old Station Way; ? Boon Brown executant architects;
201? Proposed development of houses around former Station, Chard, Som;
201? Proposed development around Victorian pump-house, Firepool, Taunton on former marshalling yards;
ESTRIDGE, A.W. Engineer, Trowbridge, Wilts
1878 sewerage, Dulverton, Som; A 12.1.78;
ETHEREDGE, ALFRED. Surveyor, born 1826, Town Surveyor of Yeovil 1849. Son of Henry Etheredge (1786-1855), auctioneer, manager of Wilts & Dorset Bank, and part-time surveyor 1830-49. LC Hayward, 64-5
EVANS, AARON Bath. Aaron Evans Associates, later Aaron Evans Architects.
198? restored Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, Bath; MF; for Bath Preservation Trust;
1987 restored St Ann’s Place, New King St, Bath; MF;
(1990 Town centre redevelopment, Calne, Wilts; BD 26.1.90, with ARC developers, chosen in competition; 37 shops offices and homes, new WM church and ext to library; library built under separate contract c2012
1990-1 Four houses facsimile, Widcombe Parade, Bath; MF; offices behind replica C18 facades;
1991 Seven Dials development, Saw Close, Bath; MF; SNB;
199? converted stables, Kelston Park, Kelston, Som, to offices, mid 1990s; SNB;
(1993 St Katharine's Quay housing, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; HDA 1993)
1996-9 alts brewery, Westgate St/ Parsonage Lane, Bath, as part of larger dev; MF; brewery built 1810;
1997 converted Widcombe Church Room, Bath to theatre; SNB;
1997-8 housing, Harts La, Hallatrow, Som for Countryside Properties; HDA 1998
2000-1 Black Swan Arts Centre, Frome, Som; SNB;
2001 housing for Duchy of Cornwall, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; landscaping Nicholas Pearson; traditional style;
20?? Renault-Volvo showrooms, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath, Som, lightweight steel frame, tension structure; also from BD unknown date,
2003-4 Hygate student housing, Bath;
(2005 Police station, Polebarn St, Trowbridge, Wilts)
2008 library, Oldfield School, Bath also labs and performing arts building;
2012-13 refurbished Blue Coat School, Bath;
2011-12 converted Mill Barn, Manor Farm, Welton, nr Bath;
(2012 Library, Calne, Wilts)
Also
conversion of Walcot church hall to Natural Theatre Co studios, Bath and youth studio in the roof;
refurbished Dukes Hotel, Bath;
(commercial building Chipping Sodbury, Glos, for Hanson);
restoration Kelston Park, Kelston, Som;
Odeon multiplex, Bath;
Renault car showroom Bath;
Riverside Court, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath ?or Grove St, Bath;
Weston lock development, Fieldings Rd, Bath;
refurbished former Duck Son & Pinker site, Pulteney Bridge, Bath;
(dev Home Farm, Upper Wraxall, Wilts;
(2011ff restored Rudloe Manor and site for MoD, Box Wilts;
rest of The Corridor, Bath;
(development plan for Widham Fm, Purton, Wilts;
MAPA building City of Bath College;
school hall, primary school, Combe Down, Som;
Alexander House flats Bath;
six luxury houses Bannerdown, Bath;
new house Little End, ?where;
housing Locksbrook Rd Bath;
housing Newton Rd Bath;
student housing, Avon St, Bath;
Also from Norton & Sons Construction website: 36 houses, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; Harts Lane housing Hallatrow, Som;
EVANS, GEORGE Wimborne. County Surveyor Dorset after 1842 following his father William Evans qv; c1800-73; HC;
(1857 Hyde vicarage, near Fordingbridge, Hants; T: BN 1857 671)
EVANS, THOMAS Architect, Wimborne c1784-1874, probably a son of William Evans qv.
(1820-1 unex alts Ettington Hall, Warws; HC, drawings also signed by William Evans qv)
(1824 alts Crichel House, Dorset, HC)
EVANS, WILLIAM Wimborne. c1764-1842. County Surveyor Dorset 1824-42.
Succeeded as County Surveyor by son George Evans c1800-73; HC;
(1809 Gaunt’s House, Wimborne, Dorset; HC;
(1819-21 Quedgeley House, Glos; HC; dem)
(1825-8 Sturminster Newton ch, Dorset; HC;
(1827 to let modern built family mansion 3 miles S of Gloucester, apply wm Evans architect,
EVELEIGH, JOHN Bath. Builder architect, possibly apprentice to James Paine in 1756. Had yard and wharf at Eveleigh House, Grove St, Bath, dem. Advert 1791 says that he has moved from no 3 Laura Place to new yard at Cheapside, New Town, Bankrupt 1793 and left Bath.
17?? ?Nos 39-40 St James Parade, Bath; attrib MF but photo gives date c1768 surely too early;
1786 Portland Place, Bath; MF; SNB;
1786-93 Bailbrook House, London Rd, Bath for Dr Skeet, contract 1786, plans 1789, begun 1791, incomplete 1793, sold 1802 to Valentine Jones; HC; designed 1789 begun 1791, SNB;
c1787-8 Camden Crescent, Bath; MF; unfinished; for John Morgan; c1788 HC;
(c1788 Row of ten houses, Trowbridge, Wilts, for Mr Wilkins;
(1788 New town in America for – Lewis;
(1788 plans for three developments, Clifton, Bristol, HC; probably the two terraces on The Mall, St Vincent’s Parade and Windsor Terrace;
17?? Sion Row, Camden Road, Bath; for John Jelly;
1789 House at Englishcombe, Som for Matthew Brickdale; HC;
1789 Summer Hill Place, Bath; HC, for Caleb Hillier Parry; ? The terrace of a late C18 house burnt 1912, SMNB;
179? some houses Upper Camden Place, Bath, abandoned and Nos 1-2 and 6-7 completed 1815; SNB
1790 Beaufort Buildings, London Rd, Bath; for Gunning & Tanner; HC;
1790 Somerset Place, Bath; MF; abandoned, completed c1820
(1790 attributed Windsor Terrace, Clifton, Bristol, begun 1790, two centre houses complete c1792, abandoned 1793, completed 1808 by John Drew; attrib SNB
1790-1 Eveleigh House, Grove St, Bath his own workshops advert that he has moved there BC 14.4.91
1791 advert lease of 'modern freestone-fronted house in principal street of a town 12 m from Bath BC 14.4.91; no evidence that JE designed it;
1791 Grosvenor Place, Bath, development on Grosvenor Gardens site, 143 houses planned, abandoned on JE’s bankruptcy; FS BC 30.6.91 first stone of Grosvenor House centrepiece of proposed 143 houses;
1791 St Catherine’s Hermitage, Lansdown, Bath; dem; for P Thicknesse; HC;
1792 Lambridge Place, Bath;
1792 advert for well-finished house in Johnson place New Town, Bath (ie Great Pulteney St) also three or four houses in Cheapside (Grove St) BC 5.4.92
1793 advert BC 28.2.1793 for new built houses apply Mr Eveleigh, Cheapside, New Town (Grove St); inc new built coach house and mews in the new town let for 14 years; several convenient new-built houses in Cheapside; ?all of these by Eveleigh
(1800 Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon; HC;)
EXEDRA ARCHITECTS Kingston upon Thames
(199? conv The Malthouse, Fairlawn Rd, Bristol to flats; SNB;
(2002-4 conv St Saviour ch, Chandos Rd, Bristol to flats; SNB)
(2008 The Dower House, Henbury, Bristol;
(20?? Ecological House, Redland, Bristol)
FALCONER & BAKER Architects Amberley Glos. Thomas Falconer MSA 1879-1934 architect, pupil of Ernest George, worked with AC Martin in London, before partnership in Amberley with Harold Baker surveyor from 1917-28. They formed an association with F Bligh Bond qv of Bristol 1919-24. Thomas Falconer practice continued by Peter Falconer
1920 rest churchyard cross, East Pennard, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1920/60; new tabernacle head based on one at Ditcheat;
19?? Plans for screen, Ascension ch, South Twerton, Bath, in SRO by FB Bond are stamped F&B;
FALCONER, PETER Architect, 1916-2003 Cheltenham in partnership of Ellery Anderson, Roiser & Falconer qv, on own after war; remodelled Highgrove House, Glos for Prince of Wales;
1964 house in kitchen garden, Stanton Drew Court, Som; in 1964-5 Bungalow Plans;
1965 Farmhouse conversion in Som; C20index PF&Ptnrs; ill in 1968 House Plans;
(1965-6 RC ch Stonehouse, Glos; RC C20 churches survey;)
(1966 St Thomas RC ch, Cheltenham, Glos RC C20 churches survey;
FARE, ARTHUR CECIL. Architect, 4-5 Bridge St, Bath, 1931 dir. WWinA 1926; 1876-1958, born Bath, articled Silcock & Reay, noted perspectivist and watercolourist used by the leading architects; not a particularly committed architect, with Frederick Cannon before he joined AJ Taylor qv as Taylor & Fare, firm later joined by Taylor’s children Molly Gerrard & A Rowland Taylor, and by AW Hind, became AJ Taylor & Partners, later Gerrard Taylor & Partners qv. Obituary Br 17.10.58; ASG; drawing of South Wraxall Manor, Wilts Br 13.4.1923; not certain whether the superb perspectives for Bath improvements were all his designs; cf Robin Pake MPhil thesis Tradition and Modernity in Bath 2015 Bath Univ;
1921 War memorial cross, Abbotsleigh ch, Som; SNB;
1924-5 designs connected with 1925 Bath Corporation Act for improvement of riverside area including redevelopment of Broad Quay and Corn St BC 10.1.25, neo-Georgian design for New Westgate St perspective as seen from Kingsmead Sq in Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; only corner of New Southgate St and Broad Quay neo-Geo curved front built;
1935 proposed piazza in front of Assembly Rooms, Bath, open to Milsom Street, BC 26.10.35; part of another improvement scheme, promoted by Cllr Alfred Wills;
1936-8 St Bartholomew ch, King Edward's Rd, Bath; T&F; SNB;
1936-7 Greenbank Swimming Pool, Wilfred Street, Street, 1936-37, changing area and filter room by Jack Stock qv, a portrait roundel of Alice Clark (d. 1934) by Henry Parr; Crighton, Time for Somerset, 2006, 98; SAS; partly designed by Bancroft Clark qv who went to Bath architects who had designed open-air pool at Wookey Hole, Som, but disliked design; engineering by Karl Hinde; SCR 45-6; heated by cooling water from factory generators;
1938 Museum and shop, Wookey Hole, Bath Record Office 0323/22/3; SAS;
1945 design for a monumental neo-Georgian square in front of Bath Spa railway station called New Station Place, 1945 part of Abercrombie plan for Bath, in Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, drawn by Fare, ?designed by him,
FAREY, CYRIL ARTHUR Architect, London 1888-1954; won competition for housing in Bristol 1919-22; WWinA 1926;
FARINGS, W. H. Builder. Or possibly WH Fewing.
1902 Rebuilt tower, Withypool ch, Som; named on plaque on tower buttress; DoE;
FARMER & DARK. Noted architectural practice specialist in industrial buildings, Wylfa nuclear power station, Ang;
1955 Drawing office, Westland Aircraft Co, Westland Rd, Yeovil, Som; BoE S; ?expanded in 1960s in same style with 3-st hollow square front block.
FARMER & BRINDLEY Architectural sculptors, London, prominently used on major Victorian works, William Farmer 1825-79 and William Brindley 1832-1919, Brindley a pupil then a partner by1868; Brindley was 'the best carver I ever met' according to GG Scott; continued to 1929;
(1856 work on Wolland ch, Dorset, GG Scott architect;
1856c corbels and capitals West Quantoxhead ch, Som by John Norton; carved by WF;
1864d monument to Rev John Skipton, Othery ch, signed WF;
1891-2 reredos and other marble work, Camerton ch, Som; Thomas Garner architect; SNB;
1901? marble pavement Chapel of St Isidore, Downside Abbey, Som; SNB;
FARQUHARSON, HORACE COWLEY NESHAM. Architect, London, 1874-1966, articled Gibson & Russell, practice from 1897 did houses around Farnham, Sy, eg Lodge Hill with Norman Evill, exh RA 1902; Donald H McMorran (1904-65) was a pupil 1921-6 and returned to join practice in 1935; ASG; SAS;
1911 Woolston Grange, Woolston, Bicknoller, Som; CL 4.3.11 recreated from a C16-C17 farmhouse; also stables. The Grange, Woolston, Major Anstruther, Kelly 1906; WWinA 1926;
(1912 Sefton Park, Slough, Bucks for Lord Decies; AA 1912)
1912? Hele Manor, Exebridge, Brushford, Som; ASG; RL; c1912 DoE, for Harry Heathcote Amory; Mark Heathcote Amory 2013 says begun pre-war but not finished until after 1918; WWinA 1926;
(19?? Woodyates Manor Dorset; WWinA 1926)
(19?? Pantygoitre, Abergavenny, Mon, WWinA 1926)
FARR, A.E. Engineers AE Farr Ltd of Westbury, Wilts and London; WBR2; 1950-8 engineers for Chew Valley Lake, Som; 1950-6 by AE Farr & Co as reservoir for Bristol, proposed 1933-4, SNB;
FARRELL GRIMSHAW PARTNERSHIP Architects, Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw qv
1971-3 Rotork Controls Factory, Bath; JC20Soc
1975 Herman Miller factory, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath; MF; SNB; plans at V&A; ?design by Nicholas Grimshaw;
FARRELL, T. ?later Farrell & Edmunds (F&E)
(1869 range of warehouses, The Parade, Sherborne, Dorset for Mr Belben; WG 26.2.69;
(1887 Foster's School, House St, Sherborne, Dorset, OSS)
FAULKNER, ANDREW Architect, Andrew Faulkner Associates Ltd, 16 Ty-isha Rd, Tumble, Carms SA14 6HA; worked for Caroe & Partners and Benjamin & Beauchamp; Laura Knight partner;
2017 restored Low Ham ch, Som, for CCT;
2018 restored Dodington ch, Som for CCT; work done by Paul Quinn, Cyril Harris,
FAWCETT, SANDFORD Engineer; Edmund Alderson Sandford Fawcett was chief engineer to Ministry of Heath before founded firm in 1931 with son John Fawcett (1901-62); firm merged later with Wilton & Bell;
1936-8 Reservoir, Durleigh, Som for Bridgwater, to supply water to British Cellophane plant; buildings by RA Watson qv, Borough engineer, Howard Farrow & Co contractors; inf John Willow Wessex Water;
FEILDEN CLEGG BRADLEY STUDIOS see Feilden Clegg Design
FEILDEN CLEGG DESIGN, Bath Brewery, Toll Bridge Rd, Bath. Est 1978 by Richard Feilden and Peter Clegg. Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) with Keith Bradley joined 1987, partner 1995, senior partner 1997. Later Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios or FCB Studios (FCBS). R Feilden + 2005 in accident. bath@ Jonathan Hetreed of Hetreed Ross qv was with Fielden Clegg c1981-97;
(c1975-85 adds Cherry Orchards, Canford Lane, Bristol; SNB; for Steiner residential community;
c1979 Eileen Close housing, Butleigh Rd, Street, Som; inf J Gould, for a housing association. ‘Surprisingly standard neo-vernacular, but tidy.’
1982 Flats, Cleveland Reach, London Rd, Bath
(1986-8 The Ropewalk, Newtown, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; retiremnt flats;
(1987 conv Unitarian chapel, Lewins Mead, Bristol to offices; SNB)
1987 Hedgemead View housing, Bath; HDA 1987; FCD;
(1989 The Ropewalk housing for elderly, Newtown, Bradford on Avon HDA 1989)
1989-92 Bridgemead Residential Home, Henrietta Rd/ St Johns Rd, Bath; FCD; MF; SNB; RIBA award RIBAJ 100 Jan 1993 31;
1991-5 Kingswood School Day Prep School, Sion Hill, Bath; FCD; MF; SNB
1992 refurb Kingsmead Flats, Bath; MF; HDA 1993; FCD;
1994-7 Aqua Centre, Crewkerne, Som; WG 10.3.94; archt Andy Couling WG 18.4.96; ceramic design John Hodgson;
(1994-6 Bengough's House, Crow Lane, Henbury, Bristol; SNB)
1996-7 Upper Lawn, No 22 Darlington Place, Bath; by Keith Bradley of FCD; SNB;
(1996-8 Wiltshire Music Centre, St Laurence School, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; by Gill Smith; H Fassnidge BoA past & present;
(1997 unex plans for Kingston Mills site, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; M Dobson, Bradford Voices, 242; for New Mills partnership; turned down by Millennium Commission; development done by Nash Partnership qv;
(1997 West Downs Village, Winchester HDA 1997)
(1999-2001 The Point, Wapping Wharf, Bristol; FCB; SNB;
2000-2 Centre for Power Transmission (Eight East) Univ of Bath; MF; FCB
2001 University of Bath masterplan; FCB; SNB;
(2002 The Point housing, Bristol; HDA 2002; FCB)
(2002 Century Court housing, Cheltenham, Glos; HDA 2002, FCB)
2002-3 Housing (One West) Univ of Bath; MF;
(2003-5 City Academy, Russell Town Ave, Bristol; FCB; SNB)
(2006 University of Bristol masterplan; FCB; SNB;
2006 University theatre, Bath Spa University, Newton St Loe, Som; SNB; FCB:
2007-11 rest Taunton Castle, Som; FCBS; inc Museum of Somerset with Event Communications for interior design, contract 2007; Geoff Rich partner in charge;
2008 Theatre, Bath Spa University, nr Bath;
2010 alts Theatre Royal, Bath, Som; BD 19.2.10 FCBS
2010 alts Bath Abbey, Bath;
2010 Icon housing dev, Street, Som; overall prize 2010 housing design awards; BD 16.7.10; plan and elevations by FCBS, execution by developers Crest Nicholson and Barrett Homes, CN used CMS of Bath as architects. J Gould: ‘Just recently, housing on West End, Street by Feilden Clegg Bradley (or FCB Studio) for Countryside Homes. First phase completed by Crestwood Nicholson and second phase being done now by Barratt Homes. Low energy housing in brick, timber and stone-filled gabions. Award winning, but not as good as it should be.’ Barratt Homes developed the N half as Houndwood ?to diluted design.
2010-12 restoration The Grange, Street, Som for Clark archives; FCBS; board;
(2011-12 alts Old Fire Station arts centre, Oxford; CTA awards 2012;
2012 Riverside development, Bath, for Crest Nicholson;
2012 rest Castle House, Taunton Castle, Som, for Vivat Trust; ?restoration here was by R Battersby qv of Architecton;
2013-14 Junior School, Royal High School, Bath; refurb of Cranwells, Weston Park and new build in grounds;
FEILDEN FOWLES Architects 8 Royal St, London SE1; Fergus Feilden and Edmund Fowles, est 2009, Feilden is son of Richard Feilden of Feilden Clegg qv;
2012-14 Fitzjames Building, Hazlegrove School, Sparkford, som; RIBA SW Award; Brick Awards 2015 finalist;
2013-14 Rose Building, Ralph Allen School, Bath; website;
2013-4 The Lee Centre, Bath CTA 2015;
2015-17 food production campus for Charlie Bigham, Dulcote Quarry, Wells, Som; BD 5.11.18;
FIELDER, JOHN Builder Bath, involved with St James Square, Bath, built 1790-4 by John Palmer qv architect; Thomas King also among builders; St James Square website hsjs.co.uk;
FELL, PETER see Bertram & Fell
FELLOWES-PRYNNE G.H. see Prynne, GHF.
FELTHAM, JOHN Builder
1835-6 inv with alts Wincanton ch, Som, by William Humble surveyor; ICBS; to extend N aisle with new gallery, all dem 1887.
FELTON, - Surveyor
1791-3 alts to Hinton House, Hinton St George, Som; in 1788 4th Earl succeeded, shortly after central hall demolished with all the wings on S side of courtyard, ground level raised so that floors of first-floor rooms could be sunk partly into basement, central area replaced with an octagonal hall and a picture gallery with saloon to rear, NE wing raised and altered to match N wing of W court. Rainwater head 1791. On other side an E wing blt to balance remaining W wing rainwater heads 1791-2, this with billiard room and riding-school (present S side of stable ct) then other two sides of stable court added, dated 1792-3. c1794 Earl asked John Soane to make improvements, to redesign Saloon and W wing, designs 1797 £163.9.6d but Soane then ousted by Wyatt c1798, final payment 12.7.1798; VCH 4 43; marginal note in Richard Gough (d1809) copy of Collinson’s History of Somerset in Bodleian, ‘the house has been much altered by Felton a surveyor who took down most of ye walls and inside rear part, raised ye ground against ye house and on it built in centre a kind of dome to receive ye pictures, and a gallery’ C Winn, The Pouletts of Hinton, 1995 131;
FERGUSON MANN Architects Bristol. George Ferguson & Philip Mann, later Acanthus Ferguson Mann (AFM). George Ferguson first elected mayor of Bristol;
(1980-2 rest houses, Lodge St, Bristol; SNB;
(1985 conv St George ch, Brandon Hill, Bristol to concert hall)
1988 Girls dormitory, Prior Park School, Bath; MF
(1989 adds Carfax Ct, Durdham Down, Bristol; SNB)
1992-5 rest Prior Park, Bath after fire; MF; stone and plasterwork by St Blaise;
(1993-7 conv St Agnes ch, Newfoundland Rd, Bristol to church and offices; by Philip Mann; SNB;
1995 Theatre & 6th form centre, Prior Park School, Bath; MF;
(1995 dance studios, Bristol Old Vic theatre school, 1-3 Downside Rd, Clifton, Bristol; SNB
1996-7 Priory Day House, Prior Park School, Bath; MF
(c1997 Sail and mast structure, The Centre, Bristol; SNB;
(1998-9 Holy Cross ch, Marshall Walk, Inns Court, Knowle, Bristol; SNB
(c2000 conv Tobacco Factory, North St, Bristol to arts centre; SNB;
(2003 Zero Degrees, Lower Park Row, Bristol; by AFM; SNB)
2004 Affordable housing for nurses, nr Royal United Hospital Bath, Som; proposed 2004; BD 12.11.04;
2005-7 redeveloped Knightstone Baths etc, Knightstone Island, Weston s Mare, Som, as flats with additions;
Also B church, Clevedon, Som; alts Barry TH, Glam;
Also
Norton & Sons builders website: built housing at Bishop Sutton, Som, designed by FM (8 Guinness Trust houses, 6 first-time houses, 10 individually designed, 4 semi-det) and Miles Court, Miles Rd, Clifton, Bristol, and Loxleigh Gardens, Bridgwater, Som (12 hos);
FERGUSON, J. London
1873 ref to ?new house, Bridgwater, Som; 4.7.73;
FERGUSON, PETER Architect
2012 Proposed Jubilee Clock, Seafront, Minehead, Som; The Book of Minehead 2012 edition;
FERMAUD, EDMUND AUGUSTE Architect ARIBA born 1876 designed house(s) at Yeovil, Som, WwinA 1926;
(1910 Public Hall, Dolgellau, Mer; WwinA 1926)
FERREY & SON Architects. Benjamin Ferrey and Benjamin Edward Ferrey fl 1870s until 1880 when BF died. See Benjamin Ferrey and Benjamin Edward Ferrey;
FERREY, BENJAMIN, London. Architect, 1810-80, born Christchurch, Dorset, pupil from c1825 of AC Pugin, boarding in his house and learning with AWN Pugin; sketched and measured Abbey Barn Glastonbury, Bishops Palace and Vicars Close, Wells, with AWN Pugin for vol 2 of Pugin's Examples of Gothic Architecture 1831-4. 1833 with William Wilkins, 1834-8 partnership with TL Walker, another Pugin pupil, in London, some early commissions in Bournemouth (his father was mayor of Christchurch). Toured Europe with AWN Pugin and other pupils in 1830s and with GG Scott 1851; biographer of AWN Pugin (1861), prolific church architect, BC 112-3; Diocesan Architect Bath & Wells 1841-80, Honorary architect Wells Cathedral 1841-8, held jointly with Anthony Salvin qv 1848-56, and single again 1856-80; VP RIBA twice, RIBA Gold Medal 1870. Obituary Br 1880 38. Son Benjamin Edmund Ferrey 1845-1900 articled to BF 1862-7, in his office 1867-9, then improver with GG Scott qv 1869, returned to work with BF in 1870s. Works in 1870s may be by BEF or by BEF with his father as Ferrey & Son (F&S); in 1880 obituary list several things given to BF may be by BEF. BEF often erroneously named as Edmund Benjamin Ferrey, was known as Edmund Ferrey, had office at 15 Spring Gardens, London. RL says Wookey Hole ch 1873-6, Wanstrow ch 1874-7, rest of Huish Episcopi ch 1872-4, Kittisford ch 1872-5, Babcary ch 1876, Rodney Stoke ch 1878-9 all done with BF. Several churches in mid-Wales. NMR has 50 copies of sketches of 1830s and 1840s BB/65/3317-31 and BB7/1292-1340;
(1834 villa estate, Westover, Hants; wikipedia;
(1835 School, Great Bedwyn, Wilts; BoE)
(1836 Rectory, Tarrant Hinton, Dorset; BoE)
(1837-8 Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth, Hants; wikipedia;
c1838 Beryl House, Hawkers Lane, Wells, Som; SNB; Tudor style villa;
(1839-40 Compton Valence ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1839ff County Hospital, Dorchester, Dorset; chosen SWJ 22.3.41)
1842 rest Lady Chapel, Wells Cathedral, Som; Kelly 1906; Lady Chapel and nave restored SAS; sedilia repaired 1843, SNB;
1842-4 repairs St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som, with R Carver qv; HC; Rev J Cottle, Some account of the church of St Mary Magdalene, 1845, 6, says that Ferrey designed those parts paid for by Rev Cottle, the vicar, to cost £3000 including reseating, organ gallery at W end, new stained glass E window, while the churchwardens used R Carver qv for overall repairs; 1842-50 RL; BF designed new pulpit, removed 1867 to Temple WM chapel, Taunton, new font and tall spired cover, organ screen, stalls, altar; TC 11.9.44, screens at W end, stalls, altar;
1842-3 Hambridge ch, Som; ICBS 1842-4 sub Curry Rivel; RL; FS 20.6.42; opened TC 18.2.44 architect G Ferrier Esq builder Maurice Davis qv;
1842 Corfe ch, Som; neo-Norman; ICBS; Ferrey kept the C13 tower, this was demolished by CE Giles qv in 1858 for new W front and NW tower, Ferrey’s N doorway was then reused in new tower. D/P/crf 9/1/1;
(1842 Clyffe House, Tincleton, Dorset; BoE)
(1842-4 East Grafton ch, Wilts; WBR; neo-Norman;
1843 alts Street ch, Som; inc vestry; BS 128: removed plaster ceilings, rearranged pews, tiles by Minton, new S vestry and S porch restored to use; £573, for Rev Lord John Thynne;
1843 chapel, North Petherton, Som, error catalogued as such among Sansom & Cottam drawings A/CMY/ 485 but actually a plan for Moorland church 1843-4;
(1843 Parsonage, Tarrant Hinton, Dorset; TBC;)
(1843 Morpeth ch, Northumberland, neo-Norman)
(1843-5 All Saints ch, Dorchester, Dorset; BoE)
1843-6 Holy Trinity ch, Yeovil, Som; BoE; FS 24.6.43, consec 28.10.46; now Yeovil Forum youth centre;
1843-6 West Lydford ch, Som; opened 14.8.46, date 1844 in porch; rebuilt in 1843 acc to Sir Stephen Glynne ‘an excellent church-like specimen’;
1843-4 Moorland ch, Som; 1843 plan in SRO A/CMY/485 catalogued as Chapel at North Petherton; 1843-52 SAS; 1844 DoE; originally known as Northmoor Green; VCH;
1844 rest St John ch, Frome, Som; chancel and St Andrews chapel, also canopy over Bishop Ken memorial in churchyard, RL; SNB;
(1844 rest chancel St John ch, Devizes, Wilts SWJ 15.7.43 reopened £700;
1844 Parsonage, Midsomer Norton, Som; TBC; SRO D/D/Bbm/93; gabled m&t;
1844 Organ cases, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, each side of W window; opened TC 11.9.44, organ by James Ling; BF also designed screens at W end, altar stalls and benches; see also 1842-4;
1845 rest Wellow ch, Som; SNB;
(1845 rest Chilton Foliat ch, Wilts, also 1865; WBR;)
(1845-6 Melplash ch, Dorset; BoE) Neo Norman;
(1846 Osmington ch, Dorset; BoE)
1846 Market Cross, Glastonbury, Som; 1845-6 RL; TC 14.10.46 for Thomas Porch Porch of Abbey House; SSW
1846 Vobster ch, Som; SNB; now house; SNB;
1846 ?East Lydford ch; SAS; ?error for 1864;
1846-54 rest Bishops Palace, Wells, Som; RL; added upper storey; restored 1846-7 for Bishop Bagot, new porch, buttresses, attic storey; Pevsner said...Ferrey had much to answer for. He added the porch and the silly dormers of the second storey, he evened out the other features, and he created interiors which have neither the charm of the Early Gothic Revival nor the truthfulness of the best of the later c19 Gothicists, BoEN 1958;
(1847-50 St Stephen Rochester Row London;
1847 Henton ch, Som; church guide £1232/3/4d, opened 20.10.47, contractor Knight of Wells, Hembury stone with Doulting dressings; 1844-7 SAS, ICBS; chancel refurbished 1876, WJ 28.12.76;
1847ff ?restored Charlton Mackrell ch, Som, for Archdeacon WTP Brymer +1852; ?in obituary list; but CE Giles claims it as his in list of works, with no date; L Pearson, Tile Gazeteer, 2005, 298;
(1847-8 TH, Dorchester, Dorset; BoE)
1848 rest Othery ch, Som; E 1848 196; 1845-7 SAS; SAS, repairs, reseating and probably added N vestry, 1845-7, replaced as architect by John Norton qv, ICBS; Bristol and West of England Architectural Society report, 1847, 27-36; Eccl 1848, 196; VCH; RL has work 1850-2 by John Norton and 1857 and church guide refers to work in 1861;
1848 prop rest Langford Budville ch, Som, new N aisle; rejected ICBS; N aisle added 1866 by John Hayward qv;
(1848 Plush ch, Dorset, BoE)
(1850-1 Cathedral, St Helena, South Atlantic; Eccl Apr 1850;
1851 attrib school, Buckland St Mary, Som; RL; no evidence but BF designed church in 1853;
1851 ?school, Charlton Mackrell, Som; ?obituary list; error school is of 1853 by CE Giles qv;
1853-5 rebuilt Castle Cary ch, Som; GR; E window O’Connor 1855; ICBS 1852-6 has 3 sets plans, 1st by GG Scott, 2nd by CE Davis, 3rd by BF; 1851-5 RL; faculty 17.3.53; D/P/cas/6/1/2; £3500 church lengthened 15’ new tower and spire, new N chapel, all roofs renewed, galleries made on N & S; new reredos stone, organ remodelled, new pews, gas lights, opened 8.8.55; builder Mr Davis Langport; organ transept added on S 1891; roof lined with stained boards 1895; Castle Cary & Ansford 2002 101-3; spire 129’;
1853-63 Buckland St Mary ch, Som; BoE; for Rev JE Lance; pulpit by Forsyth; E 1856 308; builder Henry Davis qv, RL; reredos by Forsyth 1883; nave apostle statues by Thomas Earp; some carving by local man Gahagen?; font given by Henry Davis with font cover from timbers of old ch; monument to Mrs Lance by Forsyth; roof stencillng by Stansells,
1854 repairs St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som, with CE Giles; RL;
1855-6 Curland ch, Som; BoE; GR; bldr Henry Davis, RL; ?TC 29.8.55 will be in the Perp style;
(1857-8 All Saints ch, Blackheath, London;
1858-62 rebuilt tower of St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som, with George Gilbert Scott; RL; demolition of old tower begun 11 April 1858 by Henry Davis qv, builder. FS laid 3.8.58 by Colonel Tynte of Halswell House; completed and opened 8.9.62; cost inc sculpture £6,217. Stone from Williton given by Sir Alexander Acland Hood, Bt (see also St James), Monkton rag stone was used for the interior. Figures in niches carved by Boulton ‘of Worcester’, RL Boulton of Cheltenham?; TC 4.8.58 report of FS laying;
1858-9 rest Publow ch, Som; ICBS; SNB;
1859-60 rest Kelston ch, Som; SNB;
1859-61 rest Queen Charlton ch, Som; ICBS; widen nave, porch; SNB;
(1860 rest Christchurch Priory, Dorset; work proceding WI 15.11.60;
1860-1 rest Martock ch, Som; RL; ICBS; Br 10.8.61 552, reredos carved by Hudson (no reredos now), E window reopened by removal of classical reredos, W w and arch reopened by moving organ, repairs roofs; 1860-2 SAS;
1860-1 rest Merriott ch, Som; 1859-61 SAS; TC 4.6.61; Bristol Times 14.9.61; stained glass window in chancel, encaustic tiles, and sanctuary steps of marble. Chancel roof of stained pine, semi-octagonal sanctuary, its roof divided into panels by ribs with scarlet and gilt, and handsome bosses. Perp stalls. Perp pulpit of Bath stone with pillars of Devonshire marble, and quatrefoils containing Maltese crosses. Tower sketched by CR Mackintosh in 1895 influenced his Queens Cross ch; ICBS 1859-60 enlarge E, rebuild entire E end including 2 bays nave, reseat; 1862 BoE S; VCH 4 60; reopened TC 4.9.61 Maurice Davis qv builder;
1860-1 rest West Hatch ch, Som; BoE; 1860-2 ICBS; builder H Davis qv; chancel decs by Stansell, one stained glass window by Powell; tower rebuilt faithfully keeping tower arch, walls rebuilt from foundations keeping nave oak roof; new N aisle and NE vestry etc; Br 1861 ?; TC 7.8.61 reopened;
1861-2 rest Dowlish Wake ch, Som; ICBS; CB 1863 75; rebuilt except tower, builder Henry Davis; TC 24.9.62 reopened; attributed school, Dowlish Wake, no date, pre-1880; obituary;
1861-3 rest Keynsham ch, Som; CB 1862-3, new roof ill before and after; SNB, W Sheppard, mason; TC 3.6.63 reopened;
1862 rest St Benedict ch, Glastonbury, Som; new S transept (?refaced SE chapel SAS); seating; ICBS;
1862 alts East Coker ch, Som; churchwardens accounts, proposal 1862 to take down N aisle and inappropriate arches of chancel and transepts (of 1791-3), remodel and refit chancel, redo chancel arch and roofs; work done 1862-3, SSW; E window 1866, tile floor and fittings; E wall tiles 1882;
1862 rest Stoke sub Hamdon ch, Som; BoE; E 1862 304; Br 29.3.62 proposed, clear traces of ornament visible in the chancel arch, to be replaced; SAS chancel arch renovated; ?only the chancel arch;
1863-5 rest Corston ch, Som; ICBS; N aisle, porch, vestry, roofs; SNB;
1864-6 East Lydford ch, Som; RL; new church for Rev JJ Moss in memory of wife; derelict 2009;
1865 vicarage, Fitzhead, Som; obituary n.d.; date SSW;
1865-6 Lufton ch, Som; BoE; GR; new church;
1865-7 consulted on repairs to tower St James ch, Taunton by SK Pollard qv SAS; Ferrey and Scott said to be against dismantling tower, TC 20.12.65; 1866; SCG 5.10.67 and 9.11.67; tower taken down and rebuilt 1871 by JH Spencer qv;
186? school, Oakhill, Som; SNB, 1860s;
1866 ?rest Langford Budville ch, Som; error, restored by John Hayward qv, Ferrey made application for N aisle 1848, unbuilt, ICBS no plans;
1866-7 Central (St Mary’s) Schools, Church Sq, Taunton, Som; RL; builder Henry Davis; JT 76: FS 15.9.66; TC19.9.66; clerk of works John Blizard; fleche since removed;
1867 Pulpit, St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Som; JT 50-51, 56; marble pulpit, controversy over statues, thought too Catholic, not added until 1871; plans D/D/cf/1867/1, D/D/cf/1867/3 are unsigned, photos of pulpit with and without the statues. SCG 9.2.67;
1868 Wickham's Almshouses, Church Lane, Shepton Mallet; RL; AEBTD; SNB;
1868-9 School, Bowlish, Shepton Mallet, Som; SAS; Fudge & Stock builders;
(1869 Huntsham Hall, Devon)
1869 rest Chipstable ch, Som; BoE; GR; RL; reopened TC 22.9.69; plans ICBS signed BF architect; rebuilt except tower;
(1869 unex plans Victoria Cathedral, BC, Canada)
1869-74 restored W front, Wells Cathedral Som; RL; report with GG Scott 1869 and restoration 1869-74, SAS;
1870 rest chancel Limington ch, Som; windows renewed, SAS;
1870-3 rest Enmore ch, Som; BoE; new N aisle, chancel renovated, medieval screen moved to Huish Episcopi and set as tower screen; ICBS, N aisle, vestry, organ chamber; 1872-3 RL;
18?? ?vicarage, Charlton Mackrell, Som, SAS, error, rectory was in The Court;
18?? work Hatch Park, Hatch Beauchamp, pre-1880, obituary; dem;
Ferrey & Son
1871 rest Weston Bampfylde ch, Som letter on file D/D/cf/1871/8 from BEF says design entirely his; removed chancel N wall, rebuilt to form a larger vestry, blocked S chancel door, reopened W window, buttressed the porch, refloored, reseated, 1871-73, D/P/wbam 4/1/2;
1872-5 rest Kittisford ch, Som; over-restored 1875 by BEF, SSW; new porch, roofs, reseating;
1871-3 rest Long Ashton ch, Som; F&S, SNB;
1872-3 rest Huish Episcopi ch, Som; VCH; RL; ICBS; reroof nave, receiled S aisle, add vestry; SRO D/P/h.ep 8/3/3; screen from Enmore brought in 1873; BF with BEF according to RL; WG 18.11.73;
(1873 consultant, rest Temple ch, Bristol; Ponton & Gough architects; E window by Clayton & Bell; Br 26.4.73;
(1873-4 adds St Luke ch, Brislington, Bristol; SNB extended E end;
1873-6 Wookey Hole ch, Som; F&Son RL; nave and base of tower 1873-4, E end 1876-7, SNB, F&S;
1874-5 restored Isle Abbots ch, Som; by BF according to J Sampson; restored 1875 £2000 Kelly no architect; ?F&S, ?CE Giles; tower partly rebuilt;
1874-6 rest Wanstrow ch, Som; F&S with BEF, RL; plans SRO; rebuilt nave and chancel, keeping S tower and SE chapel; 1875-6 SAS John Vallis builder, Br 2.12.76;
1875 rest Vicars Close, Wells, Som; BC 30.9.75;
1876 attributed well-house, Buckland St Mary, Som; dated 1876; atrrib also school of 1851 enlarged 1883??
1876 rest Babcary ch, Som; BoE; Kelly 06: Mr BF of London £1050 nave reroofed and church restored, S aisle added; 1875-6 ICBS F&S;
1877 library wing, vicarage, Kilmersdon, Som; SAS, D/D/Bbm/226; BEF;
(1877-82 restored Stockton House, Stockton, Wilts, major refurbishment and adds; F&S
1877-9 rest S tr Stoke sub Hamdon ch, Som for JW Walter; rejected app ICBS F&S;
1878-9 rest Rodney Stoke ch, Som; F&S, RL, SNB; tender A 9.11.78 BF and EBF; new S chapel, reseating, SAS;
(1879 monument Wells Cathedral to SLI soldiers killed in Zulu wars 1878-9; SAS;
(1879 rest Stockton church, Wilts; WBR; F&S;
(1879 rest Huish church, Wilts; WBR
1879 rest Stratton on the Fosse ch, Som; F&S D/D/cf/1879/3 new vestry; SNB; 1874-81 SAS, new roofs 3 new windows in S wall;
Also obit lists schools Dowlish Wake, schools Charlton Mackrell (but these 1853 by CE Giles qv); work at Hatch Park, Hatch Beauchamp, Som, dem;
FERREY, BENJAMIN EDMUND. Architect, 1845-1900, known as Edmund Ferrey, called Edmund Benjamin Ferrey in many sources. 15 Spring Gardens, London. Son of Benjamin Ferrey, articled to him 1862-7, in his office 2 years, then improver with GG Scott 1869, partner with father 1870. Works 1870-80 may be by his father, cf Benjamin Ferrey 1880 obituary list, or by Ferrey & Son. RL says Wookey Hole ch 1873-6, Wanstrow ch 1874-7, rest of Huish Episcopi ch 1872-4, Kittisford ch 1872-5, Babcary ch 1876, Rodney Stoke ch 1878-9 all done with BF. Several churches in mid-Wales.
1871 rest Weston Bampfylde ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1871/8, letter 4.7.71 from 1 Trinity Place Charing Cross ‘your letter was directed to my father, but no doubt was intended for me as I am the architect employed for the restoration’; removed chancel N wall to form larger vestry, blocked S chancel door, reopened W window, buttressed the porch, refloored, reseated, 1871-73 SAS; D/D/Cf/1871/7 and D/P/w.bam.
1871-3 rest Long Ashton ch, Som; F&S, SNB
1872-5 alts Kittisford ch, Som; ICBS; new porch, nave & S aisle roofs; with BF, RL;
1874-5 ?restored Isle Abbots, Som; rest 1875 £2000 Kelly no architect named; by BF acc to Jerry Sampson; ?F&S; ?CE Giles; SAS, tower partly rebuilt;
1876 rest Babcary ch, Som; BoE; 1875-6 ICBS F&S;
1877 adds Kilmersdon parsonage, Som; library wing in matching style; SRO D/D/bbm/226; BEF;
1877 rest Bishops Sutton ch, Som; SRO cf/1877/8, BEF; SNB;
1877-9 rest S transept, Stoke sub Hamdon ch, Som; F&S; ICBS rejected;
(1877-82 restored Stockton House, Stockton, Wilts alts and adds; F&S;
1878-9 rest Rodney Stoke ch, Som; F&S, RL, SNB;
1878 rest Kilmersdon ch, Som; SNB c1878-81 by BEF, D/D/cf/1878/6
(1879 rest Stockton ch, Wilts; F&S, WBR says BF;
(1879 rest Huish church, Wilts)
1879 rest Stratton on the Fosse ch, Som; SRO cf/1879/3, F&S; vestry; 'Mr EB Ferrey of London' WG 4.6.80;
1880-3 alts Priddy ch, Som; 1880-90 ICBS; SNB; contract exceeds funds, Mr BK Ferrey urges committee … WG 30.6.1882; repairs rebuild nave S wall;
1880-1 rest Flax Bourton ch, Som; D/D/cf/1880/4; dull N aisle, SNB;
1880-1 rest Wedmore ch, Som; Br 1881a 742; RL; reopened TC 8.6.81, EB Ferrey, Merrick & Sons qv builders; SAS sanctuary and chancel level altered, Vestry Room (by Richard Carver qv 1828) removed, W gallery taken down, S doorway repaired, old pews replaced, three-decker pulpit dismantled and canopy discarded, font moved from W end S aisle to S chancel. The roughcast on the exterior from 1825 was removed and whitewash cleaned off the interior walls, ICBS;
1880 interior alts Congresbury ch, Som; SRO cf/1880/3, reseating;
1882 rest Thornfalcon ch, Som; Br 1882b 823; HJ Spiller builder, Br 1882 ii 23;
(1882 Lodge, Stockton House, Wilts ill in Br 1882)
1884-5 rebuilt chancel, St James ch, Taunton; £2200; new side chapel and organ chamber; Kelly 1906; SRO plans are stamped George Webber qv presumably the builder, as also the ICBS plans; but WG 3.10.84 has John Pearse of Minehead builder; consecrated TC 6.1.86, oak litany desk to architect's design;
FFOULKES, WILLIAM REES Surveyor, born Carmarthen, 1890-1953, surveyor to Crewkerne RDC 1935-53; SAS;
FIELDE, LAWRENCE. Architect and builder, Bath advert BC 16.7.1795 has moved to No 2 Argyle Buildings from Laura Place, has been in Bath nine years (i.e. since 1786) and has had 24 years practice in London; bankrupt BC 5.6.1794, bankruptcy certificate BC 18.6.95; died 1798, BC 15.2.98 administrator of late LF to sell new dwelling-house in Great Pulteney St, particulars from J Pinch architect 12 Chatham Row; advert for creditors of LF architect, deceased and Fielde & Williams, builders; BC 14.6.98;
FIGGIS, T. PHILLIPS Architect London
1905 Gilbart-Smith memorial, ?where; structure erected, designed by TPF a prominent London architect; TC 19.7.05; Thomas Gilbart-Smith +1904 is named on tomb in Hampstead cemetery of father Joseph Denham Smith +1887; James W Gilbart-Smith +1927 renamed himself James Denham, knighted 1925;
FINCH, GRAHAM
1992 shopfront, No 6 Princes Bldngs, Bath; MF;
FINDEN, JOHN Architect, London c1782-1849. 41 John St Fitzroy Square c1805-40; exh at RA 1800, HC. Ref in DWG 22.12.1825 not seen, possible bankruptcy as called 'bankrupt architect, surveyor and dealer in London Gazette December 1825; In early 1840s partnership with TH Lewis architect; SAS; Thomas Finden of London c1785-1861 was probably a brother.
(1810 Cottage near church at Finchley, Mx; RA 1810)
1811 designed alts Lower Assembly Rooms, Bath; RA 1811;
(c1815 Melksham Spa, Wilts; WBR; ten houses; BC 23.5.16 sale modern built and comfortable dwelling-house with cottage, near the Melksham spa, very near the stone quarries, apply Mr Finden also to let house nine miles from Bath nr London road through Chippenham)
1820-1 Compton Castle, Compton Pauncefoot, Som; WBR; for J Hubert Hunt; S elevation now building, RA 1821; probably also designed the Sherborne (East) Lodge, Windsor (West) Lodge, Stables, etc. VCH says building began 1825 not complete until 1829;
1825 National School, Bath St, Frome, Som; dem 1973; HC;
(1830 intended Commercial Benevolent College, Barrow Hill Rd, Regents Pk, London;
FINE, -
1836-7 Clerk of works for adds, Ven House, Milborne Port, Som, by Decimus Burton; SJ 28.9.1837, McKay 280;
FINEBERG, PAUL. London
200? Flat, Provender Mill, Higher Backway, Bruton, Som for Victor Burgin and Francette Pacteau; inf owners;
FIRTH, Captain CHARLES PHILLIMORE LEWTON. Compton Durville Manor, Som. 1893-1955. Bought CD estate 1919. DL 1939; Parents buried Coates, Glos.
1926-7 rest Compton Durville Manor, Som, with new N cross-wing with 2nd floor chapel. VCH 4 182 ex inf Hon. Mrs Firth, but Compton Durville history by his widow Lettice does not specifically say that he designed the adds. Oak panelling from ‘the farmhouse’, fireplaces exposed, one moulded square hd fpl head reused as door head in outside wall to road. Chapel dedicated 27.12.27; organ 1928 by Lifford & Co Yeovil. Other works mentioned by Lettice Firth: conversion of barn as community hall 1937; alts to stable 1931 with bellcote from Sandpit mill dorset dated 1828, alts to The Dower House 1934 and 1942 by C Monckton of South Petherton, bldr, inc 2 new rear wings; alts 1950 inc porch w heraldic glass by AK Nicholson, and garden-room cum dovecote; converted outbuildings to four cottages, Manor Cotts. She specifically says that he designed iron entrance gates 1954 made by Scriven, Curry Rivel.
FISH, REGINALD GEORGE 1886-1960, son of Nathaniel Fish 1853-1938 Surveyor to Yeovil RDC 1906-30, SAS;
1935 Beverley, Montacute Rd, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; SC notes; for Mr & Mrs Dyke; Mr & Mrs P Dike acc to MHB. Square flat-roofed house opp Stanchester School.
FISHER, GEORGE BOWBEER Builder, Dulverton. 1827-1917. Firm was GB Fisher & Son in 1906 dir; GBF was involved with building Northmoor Farm, Warmore House, Wreneaton (1889), and adds to Carnarvon Arms Hotel at Brushford; set up electricity in Dulverton; son George Henry Fisher 1879-1946 continued business;
1892 widened Hele Bridge, Dulverton, Som for Somerset CC; DoE list; medieval bridge, repaired 1628 and 1866, widened on S in 1892;
1902-4 built Police Station, Lady St, Dulverton, by WJ Willcox qv with HJ Spiller; SAS; GB&Son
1906 Houses, Brushford, Som; D/R/dul/24/1/34; GBF&Son; row of four, hipped;
1924-6 built chapel Brushford ch, by Edwin Lutyens; SAS; GHF
1927-8 rebuilt Vicarage Bridge, Winsford by Edward Stead qv; plaque;
FISHER, HENRY Mason, Bath
1762 involved with Thomas Jelly in houses in Church St, Abbey Green and Abbey St, Bath, Som; SNB;
1765ff involved with Thomas Jelly and Richard Jones in houses St James Parade, Bath; MF;
FISHER, MARTIN
1967-8 RC ch, Park Rd, Frome, Som; SNB;
FISHER, MONEY High St, Salisbury Builder, 1822 dir; Money Fisher & Son architects, 1830 dir; WBR; son was Frederick Richard Fisher fl 1834-70, cf WBR;
(1810ff completed James Wyatt work at Wilton House, Wilts, after dismissal of Wyatt in 1810;
(1812 Parsonage, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR; but St James rectory was C16-C18, dem 1961-2)
(1814 Parsonage Chilmark, Wilts; WBR)
FLAWS, LESLIE RAYNER. Architect, East Ave, Rodheath Park, Northwich, Ches; AMSA; born 1889;
1923 House, at Doverhay, Porlock, Som, for Mark Smith, hipped with two canted front bays, on S side of New Rd, lane running SW from A39, D/R/wil/24/1/40.
FLETCHER, Sir BANISTER FLIGHT. 1866-1953, son of Sir Banister Fletcher Sr; ASG;
1910? The Dormers, Woodlands Rd, Portishead, Som; ASG; SNB; WWinA 1926;
FLETCHER, DAVID Architect, Bristol
(1938-9 rest St Thomas ch, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR;
FLETCHER, HENRY MARTINEAU. Architect, 1870-1953, 2 Grays Inn Sq London; pupil of Mervyn Macartney, started practice 1897; VP of RIBA 1929-31;
1921 Tablet to Trevilian family, Drayton ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1921;
19?? garden gate, North Perrott Manor, Som, ill in Modern Architectural Details; 'The photograph shows a view across a lawn which is bounded on the farther side by a similar gate and balustrade; beyond this is a walk between clipped yew hedges, at the far end of which stands a lead statue of Mercury on a pedestal of Ham Hill stone. The piers and balustrade to the gateway are also of this material, while the gates themselves are of wrought iron.'.
(1922 House at Bagley Wood near Oxford ill Br 8.12.22)
(1922 War memorial, St John's College, Cambridge; RA 1937 exh) 1926 rest Midelney Manor, Drayton, Som for Trevilian family; HBC report 18.10.1985; (1929-30 Cecil Sharp House, London, English Folk Song Society premises; exh RA 1937 by HM Fletcher and Godfrey Pinkerton;
FLETCHER, WALTER Architect;
(1870 Corn Exchange, Wimborne, Dorset, Mr Froud builder; SWJ 29.1.70;)
FLINT & NEILL Engineers London. Founded by Tony Flint and Tony Neill, 1958. Ian Firth since 1990;
20?? Mendip telecommunications mast, nr Priddy, Som;
2007-11 New Tone Bridge, Taunton, Som; Ian Firth designer; with Moxon Architects, Galliford Try contractors, Mabey Bridge Fabrication; 250-ton span lifted into position 25.3.11;
2011-12 Footbridge, Castle Green, Taunton, Som, with Moxon Architects;
FLITCROFT, HENRY Architect, 1697-1769, son of Jeffry Flitcroft, gardener at Hampton Court, apprenticed 1711-18 to Thomas Morris, joiner, by 1720 employed by Richasrd Boyle, E of Burlington qv; 1726 Clerk of Works, Office of Works, 1758 Comptroller of Works; Surveyor of Works St Paul's Cathedral 1746-56;
(c1720 exec architect, Tottenham Park, Wilts, design by Lord Burlington; WBR;
(1730s Add wings, Amesbury House, Wilts; surveyed estate 1726, possible other works; WBR;
(1744-5 Temple of Ceres, Stourhead, Wilts;
c1745-55 alts Redlynch park, Bruton, Som, dem 1913-24; RL; also erected ornamental entrance arch known as The Towers 1755 for visits of George III; probably designed The Aviaries; cf Joanna Martin Wives & Daughters 86-9 says ‘By the spring of 1746 Henry Fox was writing to his brother about designs for chimney-pieces for the saloon, parlour and eating room which had been supplied by HF, an architect who was particularly popular with Whig patrons. Henry who commented that F had ‘no taste’ had discussed the designs with Charles Hamilton of Painshill, an old friend’. J Martin also comments that work continued in 1750s most directed by N Ireson ‘though HF also seems to have been involved. Inside the house some of the chimney-pieces were altered. Outside, a new lodge with round embattled towers was constructed at the W entrance to the park in 1754-5. Another building described as a ‘venison house’ was built at the same time. Then in 1759 a total of £136.18.6d was spent on bricks for the ‘feasant court’, an aviary for ornamental game birds. A letter from child Lady S Fox to her father 29.4.1752 says ‘I am told the new lodge is not began, the greatest part of the ?rubish of Mrs Wallis’s old house is taken away’. Furnishings 1746-50 from Samuel Severn upholsterer, London. 1747. £10.15.0d paid Holmes, painter, for gilding and cleaning pictures, house ready by 1750. Called ‘a comely dwelling, a new stone house with good rooms and convenient’ by H Walpole 1762.
1754-5 The Towers Lodge, Redlynch, Som; Joanna Martin Wives & daughters, 88; see above, apparently planned before 1752; HGS 115, marked on estate map by Samuel done 1762; .
(1754-6 Pantheon, Stourhead, Wilts; WBR;
1762-72 Alfred’s Tower, Stourhead, South Brewham, Som; RL; conceived 1762, completed 1772; ?design 1765; statue of King Alfred made by a 'lad from Bath' recommended by William Hoare, the painter;
(1765 Temple of the Sun, Stourhead, Wilts; WBR;
FOLLETT, GEORGE Builder, Cucklington, 1811-56, possibly worked as a surveyor with John Savell SAS
1841 Stoke Trister ch, Som; VCH; 1839-41, SAS;
1845 National School, Penselwood, som DD/EDS/6181, final plan drawn by Jesse Gane qv, SAS.
1847 plans Penselwood ch, Som; N&Q 34 92ff re terracotta panels; ICBS 1847-9, final plan drawn by Jesse Gane qv.
FOLLETT, SYDNEY GEORGE 1883-1968 Architect, pupil of Hipplyte Blanc in Edinburgh 1899-1904, joined RR Anderson & Paul, Edinburgh, then draughtsman with Lutyesn 1908, emigrated Argentina 1910. NMR has 40 measured drawings by him pre 1910 of medieval and domestic buildings including some in Somerset; BB7/ 5384-5425.
FOOT, WILLIAM 1828-97
1859 Lippincott, South St, Wellington, Som, bought by headmaster G Corner for Wellington School 1932; WS 173;
FORBES & TATE, London. See JE Forbes
(1925 alts Lloyds Bank, Bayswater, London; Lloyds archive 3.2813 16.1.25)
(1925 Lloyds Bank, South Norwood, London, appointed 26.6.25, Lloyds archive 3.3508;
FORBES, JAMES EDWIN Architect, 1876-1955, LRIBA 1910, FRIBA 1916. Born Scotland, articled GW Browne Edinburgh 1892-6 then assistant to RR Anderson. Studied Edinburgh School of Applied Art. 1899-1901 assistant to EW Mountford London, won Grissell Medal RIBA. Began practice in Birmingham with an uncle Charles -, with John Duncan Tate (1880-1930) as assistant. Tate had been articled to Edward Gabriel. Forbes & Tate set up together in London 1905.
(1907 The Sheiling, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks for self)
1915-25 restored Barrington Court, Som; BoE S; for Col Arthur Lyle +1931 who took lease 1915, work started 10.8.16; CL 7.11.25; much reused woodwork inside bought from Crowther and others; master plan dated 1917 shows formal gardens as exec W of stables, but unex S of and E of house. Entrance court to N; design for front door and some plans SRO; PSANHS 61 1921 and 71 89-92; SRO HB/ABS/123; CL 24.3.28; work on Court only began 1921 with removal of exterior adds, E wing of Long Gallery panelled 1923; W porch removed June 23; new opening for corridor to Strode House Dec 23; 1924 Italian beams in Great Hall with two new ones by Bungay, foreman carpenter, cornice over main stair, old floors removed, main roof covered, old W door filled in, cellars paved, roof finished by march 24 and C19 alts stripped out inside. Strike July-Aug 24; panelling; 1925 floors laid and 3 staircases fixed by Scott Morton’s men; library plastered; stone doorways fixed in library and room above; linenfold Great Hall and sprung floor Mar 25; electric light from Singer in stair-hall; work complete April 25; builders were Allen Bros of Shepton Beauchamp;
1917-23 Strode House, remodelled stables, Barrington Court, Som for Col Arthur Lyle; new N range, interiors including Wren Room from London; plans SRO; BN3.10.25; CL 7.11.25; CL 24.3.28; stables reroofed by Oct 1921, cleared early 1922; foundations new N range April 22; panelling installed 1922-5 Wren Room S, William & Mary Room SW; ‘Ronnie’s little room’, ‘Joan & Barbara’s Room’, W elevation settled 1923, carving by Walker who also did fountain in court 1923 to des by JEF; secondary stair fixed by Scott Morton’s men; ceilings lowered in Wren & Ronnie’s Rms; family moved in Dec 1923.
1919-21 The Farmhouse, Barrington, Som; occupied by Arthur Lyle Oct 21 while work on Barrington Ct continued; servants hall early 1922; now Court Farmhouse;
1919-21 Farm and garden buildings, Barrington Court, Som; BoE S; also two houses Court Farmhouse (orig The Farmhouse) and Beacham’s House (orig Little Barrington, for Captain Beacham the agent), Cottages at head of avenue 1919-21, farm yard and kitchen garden buildings complete 1921, two ranges of buildings farm buildings W and laundry, garage and gardeners E, garage block and E stockyard complete 1922, gardener’s mess-room complete early 1922 and road in front; bull and calf houses E stock shed, piggeries, timber shed, lawn mower shed work Feb 1922; kitchen walled garden gateways, squash court; CL 24.3.1928; garden layout by Gertrude Jekyll 1918; some plans SRO; stone lions came from Beel House;
1921-2 Little Barrington, Barrington, Som; house for Barrington agent opposite The Farmhouse; foundations Sept 1921, roof fixed early 1922, complete May.
Forbes did work for Col Arthur Lyle at Beel House, Amersham, Bucks (inf Del Wiggins NT); the present Barrington reception building was orig built to hold Lyle’s model railway layout from Beel, but became beagle kennels;
1922 Cricket pavilion, Barrington, Som; begun May 22;
1922 Kennels, Barrington, Som begun Sept 22 for model railway from Beel House, used as store until 1925, then kennels; now reception building.
1917ff Gardens, Barrington Court, Som: design by JEF sent to Gertrude Jekyll. JEF 1917 des for 10 acres much curtailed by Lyle. Iron gates tradesmen’s drive June 23; Strode W terrace begun Dec 23; alts walls Lily Gdn Dec 23; 1924 steps at W end N moat and terminations to bridge carved by two of Walker’s men, also waterspouts on S of the pond; brick paths S of Strode, Lily Garden; W gatepiers; Home kennels begun Nov 24 and old wagon-shed and lean-to N of Strode dem; Rose Garden 1925;
1924 Squash Court, Barrington Court, Som; finished Oct 24.
List of works on which ?Forbes & Jekyll collaborated: 1908 Pollard Wood, Fernhurst Sx; 1914 Field House, Chert, West Midlands; 1918 Barrington Court, Som; 1919 Old Parsonage, Gresford, Clwyd; 1919 Pednor House Chesham, Bucks; 1922 Lainston, Winchester, Hants;
FORD, JOHN Sr 1711-67. Master-mason who built the Grammar School, Bath, 1752 (Gunnis) (but by Thomas Jelly acc to MF), buried Colerne, Wilts, where his tomb records his contribution to ‘the erection of the handsome buildings and streets’ of Bath. Father of John Ford Jr (1736-1803) statuary mason. Daughter married Joseph Plura Sr, Italian sculptor in Bath c1749-55 who died 1756; Marble monuments signed John Ford, i.e. by both father and son, are noted by Gunnis from 1746-73 including at Combe Hay 1755, Castle Cary 1758, Bathford 1759, Bathampton 1763, North Stoke 1770, Batcombe 1773 in Somerset, also one in Jamaica cathedral 1772.
1753-5 contractor Grammar School, Broad St, Bath, IR, carving by Joseph Plura Sr; SNB says design by Thomas Jelly qv
1761 Named on lease for building Edgar Buildings, George St, Bath
1764-70 involved at New King St, Bath; MF;
1765 probably built wing Burton Pynsent house, Curry Rivel, Som, for William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, which remains after rest was demolished; RL2 63; Ford builder but Pitt may have designed it himself, SC notes;
1765-7 mason, Burton Pynsent column, Curry Rivel, Som, for William Pitt to design by Capability Brown, cf Follies Journal 7 2007 41-55; Philip Pear of Curry Rivel, builder, SAS;
FORD, JOHN Jr Statuary Mason Bath. 1736-1803. Marble monuments signed John Ford, ie by both father and son are noted by Gunnis from 1746-73 inc at Combe Hay 1755, Castle Cary 1758, Bathford 1759, Bathampton 1763, Charlcombe 1765, Stringston 1766, North Stoke 1770, Ansford 1772, Batcombe 1773 in Somerset, also Ditcheat nd. One in Jamaica cathedral 1772. Buried Colerne, Wilts.
FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS London. Alejandro Zaera Polo b 1963 and Farshid Moussavi b 1965, husband and wife. Projects incl unex Yokohama Pier Terminal 2002, unex BBC music centre White City 2003;
2005 Design for walled garden, Hadspen House, Som, for N Hobhouse; unex;
FORM STRUCTURES Renamed Artist Constructor qv, firm of Tim & Bob Organ qv
1979 Bristol Children’s Help Society holiday camp, Barton, Winscombe, Som; AJ 11.7.79;
FORSYTH & MAULE see WA Forsyth
FORSYTH CHARTERED ARCHITECTS
1992-3 rest Oakwood, Bathwick Hill, Bath, Som; SNB;
FORSYTH, JAMES, sculptor, 1827-1907, born Scotland, worked on many major English commeissions including Witley Court, Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, Chichester Cathedral; St Paul's Cathedral, London;
1848-54 worked on Wells Cathedral for Anthony Salvin; choir stallls and organ case; SNB;
1857 carved font, St Thomas ch, Wells, by SS Teulon; SNB
1860c pulpit, Buckland St Mary ch, Som; SSW;
1865-6 work at Frome ch for CE Giles including reredos, statues, medallions and the Via Crucis outside; SAS;
1867 reredos, St Cuthbert ch, Wells; possibly for CE Giles qv; SNB;
1888 reredos, Buckland St Mary ch; SSW
FORSYTH, JOHN DUDLEY. Stained glass designer, 1874-1926 51 Broadhurst Gardens London NW. Son of James Forsyth, sculptor; JDF was apprenticed to Henry Holiday.
1907 Pulpit, Wilton ch, Taunton, Som also 2-lt window nave S to JM Bastard; SRO cf/1907/246;
1912 Font cover and panelling, St John ch, Taunton, Som; also two stained glass windows;
FORSYTH, WILLIAM ADAM. Architect, FRIBA. 1872-1951 Son of James Forsyth qv, articled Robert Edis, then assistant, then with J McK Brydon qv, partnership with Hugh Patrick Guarin Maule 1873-1940 (F&M) until 1929; architect to Salisbury, Southwark, Blackburn and Rochester Cathedrals, designed the Citadel, The Mall, London for war planning; MF; called architect to the National Trust TC 23.4.1949;
(1919 rest Chilton Foliat ch, Wilts, also wks in 1924 and 1928 by F&M, and 1932-3 by WAF; WBR)
1923-5 reps Otterford ch, Som; ICBS; F&M;
1924-6 Ferens teaching block, Kingswood School, Bath, Som; SNB; science building WWinA 1926;
(1926 ext Blackburn Cathedral, Lancs)
1935 Posnett Library, Kingswood School, Bath; MF;
1930s cathedral architect, Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts; WG 3.6.38;
1949 Adds Ferens block, Kingswood School, Bath; MF, orig bldng 1924-6 by WAF;
1957-9 Teaching block Kingswood School, Bath; MF, by WF&Partners;
FORT, THOMAS +1745 London. Builder and joiner, clerk of works Hampton Court 1714-45 and Newmarket Palace from 1719; son of Alexander Fort + 1706 joiner who remodelled choir of Salisbury Cathedral under Wren 1671-2, attrib Matrons College Salisbury, 1682 (or by Thomas Glover), and was employed by Sir Stephen Fox on Farley Almshouses, Wilts, 1682, and perhaps Farley church 1688-90 and worked on Fox’s houses at Salisbury & Chiswick; HC.
1708-9 Redlynch, Som for Sir Stephen Fox + 1716; undated estimate for new wing DRO box 238; HC: designed new mansion 1708-9, paid £1444/17/0d including for model, DRO boxes 170B, 173C notes of materials, 237/1 abstract of will of Fox. W&D 27-8: Fox bought Redlynch 1672 and little was done until after 2nd marriage 1703 produced sons. New block attached W front of old house. Accounts refer to old being mended 1714-15. New house unfinished 1716 and heir Stephen Fox was aged 12. 1718 payments for cramps ‘to support and strengthen the timber work over the new buildings at Redlynch’. In 1723 Nathaniel Ireson qv paid £29/10/0d to take beams out of chimneys to secure house from fire. Ireson rebuilt house for Stephen Fox, later Lord Ilchester after 1727. W&D
(1717-18 adds Chevening House, Kent for 1st E Stanhope; HC
(1720-3 employed at Canons, Mx, as joiner & surveyor for 1st D of Chandos;
1723 plans for houses, Castle St, Bridgwater, Som; for 1st D of Chandos; HC; possibly built to his designs, Benjamin Holloway qv was local builder employed; see also Edward Shepherd; Collins, James Brydges Duke of Chandos, 1949;
FORTUNE, CHARLES ROBERT City Surveyor, Bath, from 1888. Hankley Villa, Oldfield Park, Bath, 1906 dir.
1901-21 Dolemeads Estate, Bath; MF;
FOSTER & CO. Bristol, Monumental masons fl 1798-1804 (Gunnis) eg George Oakely, Carmarthen +1801; John Kernan +1804 Stanton Drew, Som (signed F&Co); James Foster Sr qv c1748-1823 was pupil of Thomas Paty, made monuments and chimney-pieces according to his advertisement, Dale-Jones & Lloyd attribute four unsigned Carms mons to James Foster with death dates 1806-9, but firm may have been exclusively architectural after James Foster Jr qv joined in 1806 see James Foster & Son.
FOSTER & LATROBE Bristol Joseph Foster, apparently a son of John Foster +1828, 1815-88 was in partnership with brother James (1807-85) as J & J Foster to 1870s, then on his own until 1885 when joined by JH LaTrobe qv. Firm did houses in Cleveland Rd, Marlborough Hill and Gloucester Rd (No. 95); Mission Hall at Broad Plain; Mission Hall, Deanery Rd; Public Hall at Kingsland Rd, St Philip's. Firm was LaTrobe & Weston qv after 1885 acc to GJL, but dates do not match up, presumably after 1888;
(18?? Nos 31-3 Trelawney Pl, Cotham, Bristol; SNB)
FOSTERS & OKELY, Bristol. Architects. Firm was Fosters & Okely from 1819-36 with James Foster Jr, Thomas Foster and William Ignatius Okeley, then after James Jr died 1836, F&O, partnership of Foster & Okely dissolved BM 18.3.1837;
(1824-5 Upper & Lower Arcades, Bristol; F&O; Gunnis says by Foster & Son;
(1827 Shirehampton ch, Bristol; F&O;
(1827-8 entrance gates St John ch, Broad St, Bristol, inc medieval St Johns Conduit; SNB, F&O;
(c1828-33 rest St John ch, Broad St, Bristol; SNB F&O;
(1829 Oldland ch, Glos (F&O);
(1833 Beachley ch Glos F&O;
(1833-40 Caledonia Place and West Mall, Clifton, Bristol; F&O SNB;
(1835 Competition entry Houses of Parliament;
(c1836-41 Terrace, Clifton Vale, Bristol, fifteen houses by F&O; SNB)
(1837 Much Birch ch, Herefs; Thomas Foster of F&O; BoE
FOSTER + PARTNERS. London. Founded as Foster Associates by Norman Foster (b1935) in 1967. RIBA Gold Medal 1983, knighted 1990, Lord Foster 1999. Ken Shuttleworth was partner from 1977-2004. Spencer de Grey head of design 2010, worked for Fosters since 1973.
(1996-7 Winterbrook, Compton Bassett, Wilts, by Ken Shuttleworth for himself; HMGI)
2008-9 CircleBath Hospital, Peasedown St John, Som; for Circle private hospital group. AJ 14.1.10; BD 15.1.10, £21m;
FOSTER & OKELY Architects, Bristol James Foster Jr +1836, Thomas Foster +1849 and William Ignatius Okeley were Fosters & Okeley c1824 to 1836, then Foster & Okeley afrom 18236
(1824-5 Upper and Lower Arcades, Broadmead, Bristol; F&O;
(1827 Shirehampton ch, Bristol; F&O;
(1827-8 entrance gates St John ch, Broad St, Bristol, inc medieval St Johns Conduit; SNB, F&O;
(c1828-33 rest St John ch, Broad St, Bristol; SNB F&O;
(1829-30 Oldland ch, Glos; F&O, BoE);
1831-2 The Priory, Abbotsleigh, Som; F&O; SNB;
(1833 Beachley ch Glos; F&O, BoE;
(1833? Gothic Lodge and small estate of houses, Piercefield, St Arvans, Mon; F&O; Plan Gwent RO D25. E&E 1955)
(1833-40 western ends of Caledonia Place and New Mall, Clifton, Bristol; F&O, SNB; 1840 GJL; c1840-3 W Ison)
(1835 Competition entry Houses of Parliament;GJL;
(c1836-41 Terrace, Clifton Vale, Bristol, fifteen houses; F&O; SNB; 1840, GJL; c1840-3 W Ison)
(1837-9 Grenville WM chapel, Oldfield Pl, Hotwells, Bristol; SNB by TF;
(1837 Much Birch ch Herefs; F&O;
FOSTER & SON Bristol either James Foster & Son or Thomas Foster & Son;
FOSTER & WOOD Architects, Bristol fl 1849-1906. John Foster c1820-1894 (c1820-94, SAS) partner with Joseph Wood (F&W), GJL. John Foster son of Thomas Foster (1793-1849) joined father c1840, as TF&Son c1840-9, Joseph Wood was in firm from at least 1847, firm was F&W 1849-1906, then Foster, Wood & Awdry. AEBTD 1868 offices 6 Park St. Firm worked widely, designed many WM chapels including Lucknow, India. Joseph Foster Wood died 1917 was ? son of Joseph Wood; firms account books contained 170 works; John Foster's brother Rev Francis Wood (1834-98) was vicar of Prendergast, Pembs, in which church is a memorial to John Foster;
(1849-50 Chepstow County Courts, Mon; Mon Merlin 26.5.49; F&W)
1851 Frankfort Hall, Elton Rd, Clevedon, Som; c1850 SNB; for Conrad Finzel of Bristol, sugar refiner;
1851 Chapel, Copse Rd, Clevedon, Som; Lilly;
(1851-3 Athenaeum, Corn St, Bristol 1st prize 1851; AEBTD; 1853 GJL;
(1853 1st prize Clifton Market, Bristol; RHH;
(1855 Arley C chapel, Cotham, Bristol; GJL; CYB 1857 Ital; 1854-5 SNB, paid for buy John Holmes of Arley, Worcs;
(1855 SW range, Victoria Sq, Clifton, Bristol; but SNB says planned 1847 by John Marmont, surveyor, not completed until 1874, and Marmont only designed two of remaining three sides; NE side 1842-5 possibly by C Underwood;
(185? add Arno's Court, Bristol for girls' reformatory; also a chapel, dem, SNB)
(1856-7 North St WM schools, Backfields, St Paul's, Bristol; GJL now registrar's office; WM day-school, Backfields, Bristol, BN 1857 104, contract masons work; 1856, SNB;
(1856 Victoria Buildings, Deanery Rd, Bristol; GJL partly dem, now St George's House;
(1856-7 Moravian chapel, Kingswood, Glos; BoE; GJL; opened BN 1857 388, modified Italian, nave transepts, apse;
1856 C chapel, Hill Rd, Clevedon, Som; CYB 1857; Gothic; 1855-6 SNB; now flats; also addition 1879-80 by F&W;
c1856-7 rest Burrington ch, Som, SNB; new chancel and roofs;
(1856 C chapel, Buckingham, Bucks; CYB 1858;
1857 Wrington School, Som; SNB;
(1855-7 House No. 2, Muller Orphanage, Ashley Hill, Bristol; 2nd stage, house No 1 1847-9 by TF&Son; adds by F&W 1860-2, 1866-8 and 1867-70;
(c1857 attributed Brook Cottages, Gambril La, Falfield, Glos; BoE; Tortworth estate cotts;
(1857ff rebuilt Trinity Hospital South, Old Market St, Bristol; NE section 1857-8, chapel 1867, SE addition 1881-3;
1858 1st prize Yeovil Cemetery, Preston Rd, Yeovil, Som; RHH; two chapels and lodge, but these are apparently by RH Shout qv; CEAJ May 1858; SAS says RH Shout was executant architect only; Br 1858 282, 291 and 361;
(1858 Rectory, Wapley, Glos; BoE; enl by F&W 1865;
1859 rest Wrington ch, Som; SNB;
(1859 Holy Trinity Schools, Ilfracombe, Devon; BoE)
1859 Royal Promenade, The Triangle, Clifton, Bristol; SNB; 1857 GJL and west range 1860, bomb damaged;
1859 ?WM chapel, Midsomer Norton, Som 'in the manner of F&W', SNB;
1859-60 Market Hall, Midsomer Norton, Som; SNB; Br 6.10.60; now Town Hall; TH Smith, brewer ?paid for it;
(1859-61 gates, Stapleton House (Colston's School), Stapleton, Bristol; also alts to lodge and seven-bay room inside and oak panelled hall, SNB;
(1860 Victoria WM chapel, Queens Rd, Bristol; GJL; 1861-3 SNB;
(1860-2 House No 2, Muller Orphanage, Ashley Down Rd, Bristol; SNB;
1861 rest Kenn ch, Som; SNB;
(1861 Archway from Victoria Sq to Boyce's Ave, Clifton, Bristol, GJL;
(1861 Foster’s Almshouses, Colston St, Bristol; adds 1872 and 1880; SNB 1861-83 in three stages,chapel of Three Kings of Cologne refaced 1883
(1861 Colston School, Bristol by Fosters & Wood, Lewis & James of Clifton contrs; Br 16.11.61;
(1862 Temple Colston School, Victoria St, Bristol; dem; By Joseph Wood acc to BN; GJL;
(1863 Baycliff, Ivywell Rd, Sneyd Pk, Bristol; GJL;
(1863 Moravian School, Blackfriars, Bristol; dem c1972; GJL;
(1864 Cotham House, Bristol; GJL;
(1864 WM chapel, Portland St, Bristol; bombed 1940; GJL; hall 1883 by F&W remains;
1864 ?Savings Bank, ?Taunton, Som; 'when completed will be a great improvement to the town; SCG 3.12.64; could this be W of England & S Wales Bank, Fore St, of 1866-7, dem;
(1864-9 Grand Hotel, Broad St, Bristol; SNB; by John Foster acc to BN quoted by GJL;
(1864-73 Colston Hall, Colston St, Bristol;SNB; 1864 GJL;
1864-5 rest Wick St Lawrence ch, Som; SNB;
(1865 adds to rectory, Wapley, Glos and prob also the school; BoE
(1865-6 shopfront, No 30 College Green, Bristol; SNB, GJL;
(c1865 attrib UM Free Chapel, Berkeley Rd, Bristol; SNB)
(1865-7 Christopher Thomas warehouse, Old Bread St, Bristol; GJL; ext c1883 by C James; SNB)
(1867 chapel, Trinity Hospital South, Old Market St, Bristol; NE section 1857-8, chapel 1867, SE addition 1881-3;
1866-7 West of England and S Wales Bank, Fore St, Taunton, Som; dem; SCG 23.2.67;
(186? attrib Northcote House (Badminton School) Cote Lane, Bristol; Jacobethan like Frankfort Hall; SNB;
(1866-9 Westbury on Trym Village Hall, Eastfield Rd, Bristol; for H St Vincent Ames of Cote House; SNB;
(1867-70 House No 5, Muller Orphanage, Ashley Down Rd, Bristol; SNB;
1866-8 House No 4, Muller Orphanage, Ashley Down Rd, Bristol; SNB;
(1866-8 rebuilt Prendergast Ch, Pmbs, exc tower. Plans NLW; erected under ?KW Ladd; ICBS; Foster’s brother Rev Francis Foster 1834-98 was rector and JF gave services free. Plaque in church to JF +1894, Joseph Wood designed reredos in his memory.
(1866-70 WM chapel, Maiden St, Weymouth, Dorset; BoE; Ital Romanesque
(1867-72 Museum & Library, Park St, Bristol by John Foster, with plan by Archibald Ponton; SNB; GJL says built for Philosophical & Literary Inst but Institution became part of Museum in 1871; bombed 1940, restored badly c1953 as university refectory, now Browns cafe;
(1868 No 14 Redcliffe St, Bristol; dem c1970; GJL
(18?? 1868 AEBTD lists Frankfort Hall Clevedon, Som; Royal Promenade (1859 at The Triangle, Clifton); City Hotel Bristol; Counterslip Sugar Refinery Bristol; Manchester Warehouse for Baker, Baker & Co, Bristol;
1868-70 rest High Ham ch, Som; SRO cf/1868/6; ICBS 1868-70; VCH; removed gallery, reseated, pulpit; WG 13.5.70; NE vestry and organ chamber not built, SAS;
(1869 Hall's paintworks, Broadmead Bristol; dem; GJL)
(1869-70 Prendergast rectory (now Penrhiwllan), Haverfordwest, Pmbs; NLW SD/B/?
(1869-73 entrance front and lesser hall, Colston Hall, Bristol; SNB; hall by F&W 1864-7;
1871-2 rest Dinder ch, Som; SNB; D/D/cf/1871/5;
(1871 School, Chapel Knap, Gastard, Wilts; WBR; WSHC 782/36)
(1871-2 E window, Hill ch, Glos; BoE;
(1872 rest Manorowen Ch, Pmbs; PH 20.9.72 F&W)
(1872 Bank of England Chambers, Broad St, Bristol; GJL)
(1872 Nos 1-25 Regent St, Clifton, Bristol; GJL; but see 1883;
(1872 rest Stoke House, Stoke Bishop, Bristol; SNB; GJL)
1873 Burwalls, Bridge Rd, Leigh Woods, Som for Joseph Leech; ext 1894 by FW Wills qv; SNB
1874 repairs alts C chapel, Paul St, Taunton, Som WG 25.12.74; repairs committee has obtained plans from Mr Foster of Bristol ... has been place of worship on site for two hundred years;
(1874-5 WM chapel, Bushy Park, Windmill Hill, Bristol, SNB;
(1874 Gardiner's, All Saints St, Bristol; dem c1968; GJL;
1874-5 Paper Mill, Creech St Michael, Som for A&R Sommerville opened ?April 1875; builder Holbrow of Bristol; SAS, according to Pearson, Vic & Edw British Industrial Architecture, 2016, 136, designed by JF, 'one of the least known members of the Foster dynasty of Bristol architects';
(1875 Bristol Grammar School, University Rd, Bristol; GJL; 1877-9 SNB
1875-6 WM chapel, The Avenue, Minehead; D/N/wsc/4/2/4 building committee minutes; 1874 Thomas Lomas asked to get plans from F&W, Mr Wood requested to prepare plans, cost excessive, architect asked to reduce, Tender Brown & Hole builders £436/5/9d; plans approved by JP St Aubyn qv, Luttrell estate architect; 1875 price revised for shorter chapel; memorial stones laid 1875, 1876 plans for seats, 1876 resolved to erect vestry £152 and defer porch; opened 1876; church guide says committee wanted a church 35' x 25' similar to the Church Schools, Middle St (by JP St Aubyn qv); vestry across end wall erected 1876 for £152; wooden porch added 1877; enlarged by F&W 1885-6;
(1876 Clutterbuck & Griffin warehouse, Chrismas Steps, Bristol; dem; GJL;
(1877 Parsonage, Holt, Wilts; by John Foster, WBR;
1877 Gate Lodge to Ashton Court, Abbotsleigh Rd, Leigh Woods, Som; SNB;
1877 rest nave Langport ch, Som; church guide; removed gallery, blocked N door, tower screen, new tracery, restored N tr roof, added ribs in pitch-pine to form a wagon ceiling under nave roof of 1845, with moulded cornice and carved bosses; pitch-pine aisle roofs after original models; new floors and pitch-pine seats, tower screen, reset battlements on N side, SRO cf/1877/1;
1877 Cleveland, St Michael’s Rd, Minehead, Som; RL; for Thomas Lomas of Bristol Channel Chemical Works, Minehead; Clevelands, SAS;
1877 rest North Cheriton ch, Som; SRO cf/1877/3; plans to rebuild chancel SRO D/D/Bbm/230 1877, John Foster signs document.
1877 Schools, Flax Bouton, Som T: BN 29.6.77)
(1877-8 Skevigg Farmhouse, Magor, Mon; MM 18.5.77)
(1878 Bengough's Almshouse, Horfield Rd, Bristol; GJL
1879-80 alts and porch C chapel, Clevedon, Som, CYB 79, £400; chapel by F&W 1855-6;
1879 Village club, Long Ashton, Som; SNB;
1880-1 WM chapel, Churchill, Som, for Sidney Hill of Langford House; C Stell; SNB says chapel of 1879-80, inc cloister link to schoolroom dated 1879, narthex by Silcock & Reay 1906 also stables; stained glass;
(1881 Budgett's warehouse, Bridewell St, Bristol; dem
(1881-3 SE section, Trinity Hospital South, Old Market St, Bristol; NE section 1857-8, chapel 1867, SE addition 1881-3;
(1883 Chapel of Three Kings of Cologne refaced and basement shops on Christmas Steps, Foster's Almshouses, Colston St, Bristol; SNB)
(c1883 Nos 10-14 Regent St, Clifton, Bristol; SNB; salerooms, Regent St, 1883, and Nos 1-25 1872, GJL)
(1883 WM hall, Portland St, Bristol; SNB; to WM chapel by F&W of 1864, bombed 1940, GJL)
(1884 Quay Head House, Colston Ave, Bristol; SNB; for Bristol Municipal Charities; Q Anne style;
(1884 Prendergast Sunday School, Prendergast, Pmbs;
(1885 St Francis ch, North St, Ashton Gate, Bristol; bombed 1940; GJL
(1885 attrib Hebron Sunday School, Sion Rd, Bedminster, Bristol; SNB;
1885-6 Enlarged WM chapel, The Avenue, Minehead, Som; D/N/wsc/4/2/4; 1884 plans for enlargement with provision for adding a gallery or galleries in future, immediate erection of two vestries; designs accepted but gallery, large & small classrooms be omitted and also omit so much of S arcade as not required to support the chapel roof; lithograph printed 1884 (copy pasted in front of minute book); contract with Mr Pearse signed 1885; Mr Wood named as architect; FS 16.9.85, estimate £1793/17/6d; church guide says that contract 12.6.85, but taken away from Mr Pearce, and estimate from JH Langdon qv £750 to finish chapel accepted, with addition of £109 later for Bath or Ham Hill stone; tender £36/10/0d for gas fittings from EJ Foy; pulpit given by Joseph Wood, the architect; opened 30.6.86; organ aded 1898 £350;
1887-90 attrib Victoria Jubilee Homes, Langford, Churchill, Som; for S Hill of Langford House; SNB;
(1888 Shepherds Hall, David St, Old Market, Bristol; GJL
(1891 No 1 College Fields, Clifton, Bristol; GJL;
1895 WM chapel, Bossington, Selworthy, Som; Hine & Co of Dunster builders, £244/13/0d; FS 12.9.94, opened 15.4.95; Book of Luccombe & Selworthy;
1896-7 WM chapel, Cliff St, Cheddar, Som; SNB;
1897 Victoria Clock Tower, Churchill, Som SNB; gift of Sidney Hill of Langford;
1898-9 WM chapel, Winscombe, Som, gift of Sidney Hill of Langford; SNB;
1899 add WM chapel, Chew Stoke, Som; by John Wood, SNB;
1903 Barn Hey, 73 Long Ashton Rd, Long Ashton, Som; SNB;
(1903 Industrial Schools, Park Row, Bristol; GJL
(1904 Bristol Times & Mirror, St Stephen St, Bristol; GJL; 1902-4 by FW&A, SNB 1902-4;
1904 Schools, WM chapel, The Avenue, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/212, reduced scheme; but OD204 says Wesleyan Schools by AL Cox qv; church guide says opened 1905 no architect named;
(1905 Vicar's school, Oxenhall, Glos; BoE;
FOSTER, WOOD & AWDRY see Foster & Wood, name changed in 1906 acc to GJL when Graham C Awdry qv made partner, but Awdry had been with firm for some time; c1932 became Eustace Button & Partners qv; Awdry was president of BSA 1912-23; Graham Awdry of Westminster born 1858 designed Lowden Mission Hall, Chippenham, Wilts in 1885, Beanacre ch Wilts 1885-6, almshouses in Devizes, cemetery at Malmesbury, and restored Ludgershall ch, Wilts, 1900, WBR;
(1904 Bristol Times & Mirror, St Stephen St, Bristol; GJL; 1902-4 by FW&A, SNB;
1904 Schools, WM chapel, The Avenue, Minehead, Som; by F&W?; D/U/M/ 22/1/212, reduced scheme; but OD204 says Wesleyan Schools by AL Cox qv; church guide says opened 1905 no architect named;
(1906 Hospital, Chippenham, Wilts; paid for by Awdry family; GJL; but WBR says cottage hospital London Rd opened 1899;
(1908 St Francis Parish Rooms, North St, Ashton Gate, Bristol; GJL;
store, Wine St/ Bridge St, Bristol; bombed 1940; GJL;
(1909 House for Duke of Hamilton, Studland, Dorset; GJL)
(1915 The Holmes, Parry's La, Sneyd Pk, Bristol; GJL;
FOSTER, ALFRED 73 Chancery Lane London. Chief Architect Premises Department Barclays Bank. Altered Oxford branch 1921; SAS;
1922 alts Barclays Bank, Yeovil, Som; basement strong room; plans CHAC 1235;
FOSTER, FRANK BURWELL Architect, ARIBA, Ardingley, Grove Park Rd, Weston s Mare, Som WWinA 1926;
FOSTER, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Architect and surveyor, 41 Bedford Row London; born 1859 acc to1881 census when lodger with groom at Halton, Bucks, called architect; by 1896 practice in Leamington Spa; worked with Bristol Grammar School, SAS;
1904 house, Upcott, Winsford, Som; D/R/dul/24/1/21; house for Countess Pappenheim according to letter from FWF but plans labelled as for Mary Wheeler of Gatcombe, Isle of Wight; large, hipped roughcast over stone ground floor and thatched bits, like porch; ugly; site adjacent Mr Tapp’s Farm at Upcott;
(1907ff Speculative building in Norfolk St, now Dunraven St, Mayfair, London; Nos 2-3 1907-8, No 4 Norwich House 1913-14; Nos 5-6 1913-14; Survey of London;
(1911 No 32 Denmark Rd, Gloucester, Glos; BoE)
FOSTER, JAMES Sr. Bristol. c1748-1823; HC; Sculptor, mason, pupil of Thomas Paty began work as architect & statuary, c1800. According to Gunnis fl 1795-1825 and was pupil of William Paty +1800 and took over his yard 1801 (but cf also Henry Wood who bought yard 1801), advertising 'monuments and chimney-pieces in marble with peculiar grace and elegance’. Earliest signed memorial to John Mase at Brislington 1798, also George Oakely, Carmarthen +1801, John Kernan, Stanton Drew +1804 (signed Foster & Co); Gunnis;
Son James Foster Jr qv joined 1806 and died in 1836, practice James Foster & Son was then exclusively architectural from 1806 (except that Dale-Jones & Lloyd in Carms Antiquary attribute four Carms memorials to him 1806-10); at 10 Culver St 1820. Another son Thomas Foster 1793-1849 at whose house James Sr died 1.11.23 aged 75 may have joined c1819, practice was JF & Sons to 1823. After 1823 James Jr and Thomas worked together (J&TF), joined by William Ignatius Okeley before 1827 as Fosters & Okely then Foster & Okely after James Jr died in 1836.
(c1801-3 Work at Bishops Palace, Abergwili, Cms; HC from APSD; Probably first plans drawn up for Bishop Lord George Murray abandoned after Murray’s death 1803, ?revived in 1820s see James Foster Jr below; TL;
(1802-3 porch, St James ch, Whitson St, Bristol; SNB)
1803 attr adds Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som, inc stable court 1803; SC; SNB: stable court; Gothic outer porch, Perp courtyard windows, c1803;
(1812 rebuilt Mangotsfield ch, Glos; BoE
(1819-22 St Andrews ch, Clifton, Bristol dem; SNB;
(1819-21 Kingswood ch, Glos; JF&Sons; BoE
(1820 Stapleton ch, Bristol; JF&Sons; reblt 1856;
(1820-1 St Mary ch, Manor Rd, Fishponds, Bristol; SNB; chancel replaced 1871-3 by JP Seddon;
(1822-c1835 Park Place, Clifton, Bristol; SNB;
(1823 unex designs for Council House, Bristol;
FOSTER, JAMES Jr Bristol +1836, practice with father James Foster Sr +1823 from 1806-23 as JF&Son, and joined by brother Thomas (1793-1849) qv from at least 1819 as JF&Sons. The two brothers continued firm after 1823, joined by William Ignatius Okely before 1824 and firm was Fosters & Okeley to 1836. Continued by Thomas qv as F&O to c1840, Thomas on his own 1840-42, then Thomas Foster & Son. James was one of City Surveyors Bristol 1819-36. GJL suggests that James Jr died in 1831, but this is James Foster statuary, different from James Jr +1836.
(1801-3 Probably designed Bishops Palace Abergwili, Cms, in name of his father; design for Bishop Lord George Murray ?abandoned as Bishop died 1803.
(1818-20 St Luke ch, Brislington, Bristol; ICBS, HC; ?with Thomas James architect;
(1819-22 Kingswood ch, Glos; JF&Sons; HC; ICBS;
(1820-1 Stapleton Ch, Bristol; JF&Sons;
1824-5 Upper & Lower Arcades, Bristol; ?Fs&O; or Foster & Son (Gunnis);
(1827 Shirehampton ch, Bristol; F&O;
(1828-30 ?Mr Foster architect of further alts Abergwili Palace, Cms; CJ 16.7.30, John Foster of London +1828 was contractor. BoW says that the architect for 1825-30 work for Bishop Jenkins unknown, CR Cockerell was consulted in 1821
(1829 Oldland ch, Glos (F&O);
(1833 Beachley ch Glos F&O;
(1835 Competition entry Houses of Parliament;
(1837 Much Birch ch, Herefs; F&O;
FOSTER (JAMES) & SON Architects, Bristol. Fl c1806-19 James Foster Sr qv +1823 and James Foster Jr qv +1836; firm was James Foster & Sons qv after Thomas Foster qv joined c1819;
(1812 rebuilt Mangotsfield ch, Glos; by James Foster BoE
(1819-22 St Andrews ch, Clifton, Bristol bombed 1940, dem 1946-54; 1819 GJL; SNB;
(1818-20 St Luke ch, Brislington, Bristol; ICBS, JF with Thomas James archt;
(1819-22 Kingswood ch, Glos; JF&Sons; BoE;
(1824-5 ?Upper & Lower Arcades, Bristol; probably by James & Thomas Foster; Gunnis says by Foster & Son;
FOSTER (JAMES) & SONS Architects Bristol Fl c1819-23 James Foster Sr +1823, James Foster Jr +1836 and Thomas Foster, firm was F&Son then called F&Sons after Thomas joined c1819, after 1823 became James & Thomas Foster then Fosters & Okely with William Ignatius Okeley;
(1819 N aisle, St Luke ch, Brislington, Bristol by J&TF acc to SNB but ?firm was JF&Sons
(1819-22 Kingswood ch, Glos; JF&Sons, BoE;
(1820-1 Stapleton Ch, Bristol; JF&Sons;
(1824-5 Upper & Lower Arcades, Bristol; Gunnis says by Foster & Son; SNB says by James & Thomas Foster; ?before firm became Fosters & Okely
FOSTER (JAMES & THOMAS) Bristol. Fl 1823-36. James Foster Jr +1836 and Thomas Foster +1849, both sons of James Foster Sr +1823, continued firm of James Foster & Sons from 1823 as James & Thomas Foster, also known as Foster & Co, after 18?? firm was Fosters & Okely with William Ignatius Okely after 1836 Foster & Okely;
(1819 N aisle, St Luke ch, Brislington, Bristol by J&TF acc to SNB but ?by JF&Sons qv
(1824-5 Upper & Lower Arcades, Broadmead, Bristol; Gunnis says by Foster & Son; SNB says by James & Thomas Foster; GJL;
FOSTER, JOHN Contractor. +1828. London. Another son of James Foster Sr qv of Bristol and therefore brother of James +1836 and Thomas +1849; RS discovered that John +1828 had two sons James 1807-85 and Joseph 1815-88 both builders; died in carriage accident in London, called ‘respectable builder’ of Brunswick Square, London. Worked extensively for CR Cockerell qv. Superintended St Davids College Lampeter and was engaged in extensive improvements to the Bishops Palace now being made according to Carmarthen Journal 16.7.28.
(1822-7 builder St Davids College, Lampeter, Cd; (Cockerell);
(1824 builder Derry Ormond, Betws Bledrws, Cd (Cockerell);
(1828-30 Builder, alts Bishops Palace, Abergwili, Cms CJ 16.7.28; ?James Foster Jr of Bristol;
FOSTER JOHN see Foster & Wood. Architect, Bristol. c1820-1894, partner with Joseph Wood. Gomme. Son of Thomas Foster (1793-1849) qv joined father c1840, TF&Son c1840-9, Joseph Wood was in firm from at least 1847, firm was F&W 1849-1906. AEBTD 1868 offices 6 Park St. Firm worked widely, many WM chapels inc Lucknow.
1867-72 Museum & Library, Bristol; with Archibald Ponton qv, JF designed exterior; SNB;
FOSTER, (JOHN) & SON Bath. Builders. Not in 1906 dir but John Foster builder, Back St, and John Foster shopfitter, 36 St James Parade, in ? dir.
1908 Nos 7-8a Green St, Bath; shops; MF;
FOSTER, JOSEPH & JAMES. Bristol. J & J Foster, James (1807-85) and Joseph (1815-88) architects and builders, sons of John Foster +1828 qv; inf Robert Scourfield GJL 433; Joseph Foster was on his own in 1870s and until 1885 when joined by JH LaTrobe (see Foster & LaTrobe). Joseph was chiefly a builder, built YMCA St James's Sq, 1883; warehouses in Temple St, Bristol;
(1846 British School, Frampton Cotterell, Glos; BoE)
(1850 attr British School, Yate, Glos; BoE)
(1861 C chapel, Doynton, Glos; BoE)
(186? Emmanuel School, St Philip's Bristol; GJL;
(186? Russell Town British School, Bristol; GJL;
(1864-73 builders Colston Hall, Bristol; GJL; design by Foster & Wood)
(1877 Cotham WM chapel, Bristol; by Joseph Foster)
FOSTER, NORMAN see Foster + Partners.
FOSTER, THOMAS Bristol 1793-1849 son of James Foster Sr c1748-1823 statuary & architect, brother of John Foster +1828 and James Foster Jr +1836. Freeman of Bristol 1818, TF at 24 Orchard St in 1820, separate address to JF&Son, so presumably on his own but probably worked with them as JF&Sons from 1819; After d of father 1823 was with James Jr as James & Thomas Foster qv 1824, joined soon (by 1827 GJL) by William Ignatius Okely as Fosters & Okeley qv (Fs&O) 1827-36 (or 1831 GJL); then TF or Foster & Okeley (F&O) 1836 (or 1831) to 1842; TF&Son 1842-9 with son John Foster c1820-94, joined by Joseph Wood 1847; firm was Foster & Wood after 1849 qv; Gomme;
(1819-22 Kingswood ch, Glos; JF&Sons; BoE
(1820-1 Stapleton Ch, Bristol; JF&Sons;
(1824-5 Upper and Lower Arcades, Broadmead, Bristol; F&O;
(1827 Shirehampton ch, Bristol; F&O;
(1827-8 entrance gates St John ch, Broad St, Bristol, inc medieval St Johns Conduit; SNB, F&O;
(c1828-33 rest St John ch, Broad St, Bristol; SNB F&O;
(1829-30 Oldland ch, Glos; F&O, BoE);
1831-2 The Priory, Abbotsleigh, Som; F&O; SNB;
(1833 Beachley ch Glos; F&O, BoE;
(1833? Gothic Lodge and small estate of houses, Piercefield, St Arvans, Mon; F&O; Plan Gwent RO D25. E&E 1955)
(1833-40 western ends of Caledonia Place and New Mall, Clifton, Bristol; F&O, SNB; 1840 GJL; c1840-3 W Ison)
(1835 Competition entry Houses of Parliament;GJL;
(c1836-41 Terrace, Clifton Vale, Bristol, fifteen houses; F&O; SNB; 1840, GJL; c1840-3 W Ison)
(1837-9 Grenville WM chapel, Oldfield Place, Hotwells, Bristol; SNB by TF;
(1837 Much Birch ch Herefs; F&O;
(1837 design Hanham ch, Glos, by TF?; built 1840-1 by TF&Son; BoE
(1838-9 Stroudshill ch Glos; TF; FS to be laid in early March of new church at Stroud WI 22.2.38 Mr Foster architect, Hawkins & Co of Bristol tender accepted;, ?same as Whiteshill ch;
(1839-41 Whiteshill ch, Stroud, Glos; TF; Whitehall ch 1839 GJL; FS to be laid of new ch at Stroud WI 22.2.38 Mr Foster architect, Hawkins & Co of Bristol tender accepted;
(1839-5 St Mary ch, Bute St, Cardiff; Orrin 40 1841-3; orig design 1839 had gallery behind altar rejected by JH Good of ICBS; Eccl 1848 254-5; £5724; Glamorgan Gazette 16.12.43; consec CMG 8.11.45; TF; MH Port 172;
(1840-1 Olveston ch, Glos; F&Son; BoE
(1840-1 Hanham ch, Glos; by F&S, designed 1837; BoE; 1842 GJL;
184? attr Clarken Combe Lodge, Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som; SNB F&S
(1841-2 Whitminster ch, Glos; F&Son; BoE;
(1842 Christ Ch, Hanham, Glos; F&Son; BoE
(1842 Minchinhampton ch, Glos; TF; GJL;
(1842 vicarage, Hanham, Glos; BoE; dem; TF;
(1843-7 Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Berkeley Pl, Bristol; F&Son; 1844-7 SNB;
(1844 Red Maids School, Gaunts La, Bristol; F&Son; dem c1960, GJL;
(c1845 attr Nos 2-16 Pembroke Rd, Clifton, Bristol; GJL;
(1847 Muller Orphanage, Ashley Down, Bristol; House No. 1 1847-9 F&S, rest by Foster & Wood, SNB
FOSTER (THOMAS) & SON Bristol fl 1842-9. Thomas Foster qv and John Foster (see Foster & Wood) Firm was Fosters & Okeley qv c1827 to 1836, then Foster & Okeley qv 1831 or 1836-42 then Thomas Foster & Son 1842-9, then Foster & Wood qv after Thomas Foster died 1849.
(1840-1 alts Olveston ch, Glos; BoE)
(1840-1 Christ Ch, Hanham, Glos; F&Son; designed 1837 ?by TF; BoE
184? attr Clarken Combe Lodge, Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som; SNB F&S
(1841-2 Whitminster ch, Glos; TF&Son; BoE
(1842 proposed convex row of houses, Clifton, Bristol between villa of John Robson and open space near the turnpike now being laid out in walks, design Foster & Son, advert BM 8.6.44;
(1842-5 attr Lansdown Place, Clifton, Bristol, GJL; SNB F&Son but possibly by C Underwood whom developers Savery & Clarke frequently used;
(1844-7 Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School, Bristol; TF&Son, SNB;
(c1847 Royal Promenade, Victoria Sq, Bristol; GJL
(1847-9 House No. 1, Muller Orphanage, Ashley Down, Bristol; 1847-9 TF&S, SNB;
FOSTER, TOM
c1978-82 alts Ston Easton Park, Som, as hotel; SNB;
FOSTER-TURNER, J.
1969 tower screen, St James ch, Taunton, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1969/10/16
FOSTERS & OKELEY Bristol. Fl c1824-36 James Foster Jr +1836 (1831 acc to GJL) and Thomas Foster +1849 had been partners from 1823 as J&TF then c1827 joined by William Ignatius Okeley, who had been apprentice to Thomas Foster; when JF Jr died in 1836 firm became Foster & Okeley and Okeley left or died c1841-2 as firm was Foster & Son 1842-9; SNB only uses Foster & Okeley name;
(1824-5 Upper and Lower Arcades, Bristol; F&O;
(1827-8 entrance gates St John ch, Broad St, Bristol, inc medieval St Johns Conduit; SNB, F&O;
(c1828-33 rest St John ch, Broad St, Bristol; SNB F&O;
(1827 Shirehampton ch, Bristol; F&O; dem;
(1829 Oldland ch, Glos; F&O);
1831-2 The Priory, Abbotsleigh, Som; F&O; SNB;
(1833 Beachley ch Glos; F&O;
(1833? Gothic Lodge and small estate of houses, Piercefield, St Arvans, Mon; F&O; Plan Gwent RO D25. E&E 1955)
(1833-40 Caledonia Place and West Mall, Clifton, Bristol; F&O SNB;
FOULKES DESIGN ASSOCIATES. Designed 32 houses on Austin Grange estate, Yeovil, Som, built by Norton & Sons (website);
FOULKES, SIDNEY COLWYN (1884-1971), Colwyn Bay, Denbs. BoW Clwyd 86. Son of Thomas Foulkes, builder qv, practised as SCF then from 1968 Colwyn Foulkes & Partners CF&P. Extensive practice as landscaper for large projects.
1957-8 landscape and minor buildings, Clatworthy dam reservoir, Som, for Taunton Corporation, Holland, all drawings at SRO are by Rofe & Raffety, engineers qv, exc one for a small flat-roofed mess-room and garage by SCF 1958; Hannen & Cubitt contractors; SCF may have designed the Maundown Filtration plant, Wiveliscombe, nearby;
1960-2 landscape, Hawkridge reservoir, Spaxton, Som; SC notes.
FOURACRE, GEORGE Builder, Trull, 1820-90;
1866 Double cottage in Chargot Wood, Luxborough, Som, for AG Lethbridge of Eastbrook House, Trull; SRO DD/DP/72/3; contract 22.5.66
FOWLER & STICKLAND. Combe St Nicholas Builders. Henry Stickland Kelly 1906.
1890-1 builders WM chapel, Combe St Nicholas, Som; R Curwen qv architect; chapel history;
FOWLER, GEORGE. builder or developer? Not in HC.
1834 York Hotel, Marine Hill, Clevedon, Som 'built by GF', SNB; 1834 York Hotel and two houses called Whitsom Lodge and The Lookout in 1827; Lilly;
FOWLER, WILLIAM HENRY Builder 1830-85, SAS
1854-6 National School, Evercreech, Som DD/EDS/1393;
FOWLES, DANIEL. Builder, Bath. One of principal builders in Rivers St area 1770s, acc to SNB;
FOWLES, E.H.
1855 National school, Wanstrow, Som DD/EDS/1914, SAS;
FOX, FRANCIS. Engineer. Abbotsleigh, Som. 1818-1914. born Plymouth, ?connected to Quaker Fox family of Wellington? Began career 1835 in Cornwall articled to architect Edwin O Tregelles, briefly partner, involved with Cornwall Central Railway, 1839-46 before became assistant engineer to IK Brunel worked with Brunel on S Wales Railway; Last Chief Engineer to Bristol & Exeter Railway from 1854.living at Upper Byron Place Bristol, 1861, at Glenside, Long Ashton, Som, 1871; Alpenfels, North Rd, Leigh Woods, Bristol was built for him c1872 possibly to his own design, giant Swiss chalet, there in 1881 and 1891 census, retired to Toquay by 1901 census; Quaker; JG Speller website says that he designed the stations at Taunton, Exeter St Davids, Weston s Mare, Torquay, Teignmouth, and all stations on the Devon & Somerset Railway between Taunton and Barnstaple (open to Wiveliscombe 1871 and to Barnstaple 1873) and all stations on the Exe Valley Line, Devon, between Exeter and Morebath Junction; Not same as Sir Francis Fox engineer 1844-1927 who was son of Sir Charles Fox engineer 1810-74 of the Crystal Palace etc, nor Francis William Fox 1841-1918 engineer, of Atlas Engine Works, Bristol, to 1880, then London.
1845 QM, Wellington, Som; survey of QM houses 2017, by AHP;
1847-53 Resident engineer on Yeovil branch of Bristol & Exeter Railway. Line through Langport, Martock, to terminus at Hendford on outskirts of Yeovil: stations all demolished; Langport and Hendford had flat canopies, Martock was larger; two fine single-arch stone bridges near Brympton D’Evercy survives now spanning A3088. Biddle Britain's Historic Railway Stations, 2003, 68;
1854 engineer to Bristol & Exeter Railway; resigned when B&E taken over by GWR but still did specific works such as Weston s Mare loop;
1859 judge abortive competition for Taunton Independent College, 13 entrants all rejected; PC 48 n1;
18?? Weston super Mare Station, Som; inf David Martyn
1860-1 ?Yeovil Town Station, Yeovil; traditionally attributed to Sir William Tite of LSWR but built as joint station with GWR; attributed by D Martyn who suggests that Yeovil Town Station 1860-1 not by Tite qv who had retired as LSWR architect; and DM says resembled station at Weston s Mare.
(1862-4 Exeter St Davids Station, Devon, for Bristol & Exeter Railway with Henry Lloyd, architect, of Bristol; SAS; 1864 BoE;overall roof; rebuilt 1910-12;
1863-6 engineer GWR Taunton-Chard line; Conybeers civil engineers, Logan & Rennie contractors, Chard & Taunton Railway authorised 1861 to connect to GWR, failed and sold 1863 to B&E. Built 1864-6 from Creech Junction to Chard, opened 11.9.66; SG 25.8.66 to open shortly; SCG 15.9.66 opened, stations at Hatch and Ilminster, tunnel near Hatch; route planned by Brunel qv, Conybeers civil engineers, Logan & Rennie contractors, engineer John Fox of Hatch (?error for Francis Fox); 12 miles partly over Chard Canal as first proposed in Act of 1846 but not done; canal bankrupt in 1853. Chard Joint Station, Victoria Rd is on former canal basin, shared with LSWR who extended their line from Chard Town to new station. Hatch, Ilminster and Chard Stations survive, all red brick typical Brunel-office design, with hipped roof , arched stone windows and deep flat eaves; Fox designed Five Arch Bridge, over Tone at Creech St Michael, 1863, DoE; may have designed the stations, tunnel at Hatch Beauchamp, and rock-faced stone bridges such as remain at Donyatt, at Ash near Thornfalcon, etc. Goods sheds at Hatch Beauchamp and Ilminster may be later; Biddle 2003 169
1868 overall roof, Taunton Station, Som; dem 1931; inf JG Speller website;
1868 Iron lattice bridge over Kingston Road, Taunton, Som; JG Speller website
1869 Sandford Station, Winscombe, Som; DoE;
1870 Yatton, Cheddar & Wells branch, GWR, Cheddar Valley Line ; WJ 7.8.69; J&W Pickering contractors, stations built by Brock qv of Bristol; SAS; Goods kShed, Tucker St, Wells, Som; RL from Biddle 2003 171; stations at Wookey, Cheddar, Axbridge, Banwell; goods sheds at Wells and Cheddar;
1871-3 Stations on Devon and Somerset Railway; inf J Speller website: Milverton (dem); Wiveliscombe; Dulverton 1873 (at Brushford); South Molton Devon;
1871 Retractable bridge over R Parrett, Bridgwater, Som; by Sir FF acc to wikipedia; masonry by Warburton of Bristol, ironwork by Lloyds Foster & Co; Biddle 2003 167
(1871-8 Bristol Temple Meads Station; with Matthew Digby Wyatt architect; SNB, FF designed iron roof; but wikipedia article claims that there is no mention of Wyatt in the minutes and that all the drawings for the station are by Fox;
FOX, JAMES EWART. Yeovil. jamesfoxarchitect@yahoo.co.uk 01935 420831
1971 alts boiler house, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; D/D/cf/1971/6/1
2005-6 alts Manor House, Horsington, Som; balustraded parapets, enlarged W front gr floor C19 addition, stuccoed W and E walls; inf owner; inf James Fox also swimming pool and service courtyard incl kitchen and garage on N.
200? Rest Chilworthy House, nr Taunton for CR Duncan; ?nr Combe St Nicholas;
2010 House behind Old Mill, Moorlands Rd, Merriott, Som; board;
FOX, JOHN Engineer. Hatch, Somerset; mentioned as engineer for B&E Chard Branch but this is by Francis Fox qv;
FRANCIS, EDWARD ORAM. Builder, Castle Cary. CCV 5 148. 1823-1917, son of Robert Francis qv, builder, died 1849; bankrupt 1875, then Edward Francis & Sons;
1861-2 builder Ansford ch, Som; CE Giles architect; SJ 22.8.61;
1869 repairs churchyard cross, Alford, Som, damaged in gale; SAS;
1873-4 alts WM chapel, Castle Cary, CCV 9 52; reopened 3.4.74; new pews;
1876 C chapel, Galhampton, Som; now Galhampton ch, VCH;
1876-8 builders, alts Alford ch, Som; £611; EOF & Sons; CCV 9 29; ?to design of TG Jackson qv;
1887-8 builders Florida House, Castle Cary, Som; C Bell architect; Castle Cary & Ansford 2002 25; EOF & Son; Br 24.786; BN6.3.91;
1891-2 builders Sexey’s School, Bruton, Som; Messrs Francis; G & F Skipper qv architects; BN 22.4.92;
FRANCIS, ERIC CARWARDINE. FRIBA, FSA, RWA; Long Meadow, West Monkton, Som. c1887-1976. Born in Chepstow, son of GC Francis, solicitor, articled to Prothero & Phillott of Cheltenham 1908, then with Guy Dawber qv, then assistant to Blow & Billerey. Set up as architect in Chepstow, patronised by H A Tipping, the architectural historian. Moved to Taunton c1925 to join HSW Stone (see Stone & Francis), set up office in Minehead, kept office in Chepstow; of Chepstow, Taunton & minehead WWinA 1926; des his own house Long Meadow, West Monkton, c1930; Obit RIBAJ 83 1976 165; Stone & Francis had office 2 Park St, Minehead, in 1931 dir; partnership dissolved 1935; then on own with office North St Taunton, and later office in Stansell builders offices on Billet St; married Lady Katherine Annesley in 1926; RL;
c1910 ?laid out garden, Wootton House, Butleigh, Som; RL;
(1911-12 Mounton House, Chepstow, Mon for HA Tipping; CL 1915 208-17; CL 13.12.1979; ? executant architect to H. A. Tipping;)
(191? cottage & hunting stables, Golden Hill, St Arvans, Mon, for Miss Edith Clay; ill Weaver, Country Life Book of Cottages, 1919; also in his Cottages .., 1926, 231-4; for house see 1924)
(1912ff ?ghosted HA Tipping designs for cottages, Penydre, Rhiwbina Garden Village, Cardiff, Glam; BoW;
(1920-1 adds John Lysaght offices, Corporation Rd, Newport, Mon; WWinA 1923)
(1920-2 Housing for Chepstow RDC, Mon, on B4245 and Ifton Rd, Rogiet, Mon; BoW; ?same as 1922-3.
(1921 War Memorial, Beaufort Sq, Chepstow, Mon; CL 9.3.1978, BoW)
(1922 Wyndcliffe Court, St Arvans, Mon; CL 166 1979 2272-3; BoW 520, for Charles Lee Clay; ?designed gardens there; 1922-3 WWinA 1926)
(1922-3 High Glannau, Cwmcarvan, Mon, for HA Tipping, also Glanau Lodge and Glanau Cottages; BoW; CL 8.6.1929; CL 13.12.1979)
(1922-3 rest Chepstow Castle, Mon; WWinA 1923)
(1922-3 adds Pencoed Castle, Llanmartin, Mon; WWinA 1923; BoW, for Lady Rhondda, added separate house adjoining)
(1922-3 Housing for Chepstow RDC, Severn Tunnel Junction, Roggiett, Mon; WW inA 1923; cf 1920-2)
(1923-4 St Arvans Village Hall, Mon; BoW;
(1924 Golden Hill, St Arvans, Mon, cottage for Edith Clay; BoW with hunting stables and groom’s cottage, latter completed 1919.)
(19?? work on St Pierre ch, Mon; obit;
1923 Wootton Lodge, Wooton Courtenay, Som; thatched, plans ‘house at Timberscombe’ at house; for A Fuller; S&F; 1924-5 SAS, D/R/wil/24/1/54;
(1924-5 East Cliff, Tutshill, Tidenham, Glos; ill in REDA 1929 32; BoE; WWinA 1926;
1925 petrol station, The Avenue Minehead, S&F; D/U/M/22/1/673
1925 St Julians, Wootton Courtenay, Som, for C Firbank of Newport; plans at house by S&F, now called Clouds;
19?? The Dutch House, Milverton, Som; RL; Dutch-gabled.
19?? The Orchard, Charlton, Creech St Michael, Som; Dutch-gabled; RL;
1930 Long Meadow, West Monkton, Som, for self; letter GAC Hayman 1963 says completed 1930, as discussed AR Dec 1931; CL 27.4.35, exh RA 1937; RL c1934; now Long Meadow House;
(193? Five Acres, Tutshill, Glos, dower-house to East Cliff cf 1924-5, BoE c1930;
(1935 churchyard gates, Tidenham Chase ch, Glos; BoE;
1935 road layout, vicarial glebe, North Hill Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/750;
1937 No 33 Trull Rd, Taunton, Som; dated 1937; RL;
1940-9 reps St Michael ch, Stawley, Som; ICBS; reps to floors and seating;
19?? No 4 Belmont Drive, Taunton; RL says post WW2;
19?? No 72 Trull Rd, Taunton; RL says post WW2 but looks inter-war, brick late C17 style w stone-tiled roof, tall chimneys;
1952-3 reps Kittisford ch, Som; ICBS; Hill builder;
1953-4 reps All Saints ch, Trull, Som; RL;
1956 reps Thornfalcon ch, Som; ICBS;
1958-60 St Teresa of Lisieux RC ch, Eastwick Rd, Priorswood, Taunton, Som; H&F; new church and fittings;1958-9 RC C20 churches survey;
(1960 stalls, Tutshill ch, Tidenham, Glos; BoE)
1969-70 reps West Monkton ch, Som; ICBS;
FRANCIS, J.H. Architect Southsea, Hants.
1933 plans alts MH Castle Cary, Som, unex; in Castle Cary Museum; plans for enclosing of ground floor;
FRANCIS, MESSRS. London. Frederick John Francis 1818-96 and Horace Francis 1821-94;
(1853-5 Ringwood ch, Hants;)
(1866 Westminster Bank, High St, Oxford;
1867 3rd prize Taunton College School, Som; RHH; among six invited architects, SCG 27.4.67 and 29.6.67; later called King's School
(1879 Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square, London;
FRANCIS, ROBERT Builder, Castle Cary, +1849, father of Edward Oram Francis 1823-1917 qv builder, Castle Cary ;
1838-9 builder, WM chapel, North St, Castle Cary, Som, Abraham Bryant qv architect; SAS; EO Francis made additions to chapel in 1874;
1840 builder National School, Castle Cary, Abraham Bryant architect; SAS;
FRASER, - Engineer
1859-60 ?Engineer Salisbury & Yeovil Railway; L Ruegg The Salisbury & Yeovil Railway, 1878, 65; mentioned only as supplying figures of costs, may have been engineer in charge in 1878; the line was part of LSWR;
FREARS, RUSSELL Bath
1974 Shoe Museum, High St, Street, Som; conversion of Clark factory front building; inf Caroline Gould;
FREDERICK, WILLIAM JOHN BRAY Surveyor to the Fabric, Wells Cathedral, 1935ff.
FREEMAN, FOX & PARTNERS Engineers designed Severn Bridge;
(1962-5 consult engineers Cumberland Basin swing bridge, Bristol; SNB; with Bristol City Engineer;
(1969-74 Avonmouth Bridge, Bristol; for M5 over Avon; SNB
FREEMAN, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Somerleaze, Wookey. Historian, architectural critic. 1823-92. Papers in John Rylands Library, Manchester: cf handlist of papers published in Bulletin of John Rylands Library, 1990, by Peter McNiven. WRW Stephens The Life & Letters of EAF, 2 vols, 1895; wrote History of Architecture 1849; History of the Norman Conquest, 6 vols 1865-79; Regius Professor Modern History Oxford 1888; architectural correspondents included Lord Dunraven, AJ Beresford Hope, JL Petit, Albert Way, Stephen Glynne, and George Gilbert Scott; over 6200 sketches of architecture at JRL incl 415 of Somerset. Ideas of racial superiority: Anglo Saxons over Norman, English over French, Germans over French, Greeks over Turks; extreme re Negro, Indian, Chinese, Jews; letters on ecclesiastical architecture JRL 1/1/1-217 incl William Burges (3), Dunraven (17), Beresford Hope (29) Neale (2), Petit (9); Way (17), Webb (10) T Wright (12) and GG Scott (77). Wrote History and Antiquities of St Davids Cathedral with Basil Jones, involved with Scott’s restoration of the cathedral; occasional letters from FH Dickinson, Walter Bagehot (2), Sir Arthur Elton (36), Glynne (13); unpubl essay on Origin and dev of window tracery in England, 1851; essay on Choice in Architectural Styles, 1892; lived at Sommerleaze, Wookey, a house built in 1794 for Robert Mitchel, which he bought ?when. Owned in 1840s by Maj-Gen Sir John Bathurst. He may have altered it adding the front mullion-and-transom windows and the gatepiers; EAF bought Burcott Mill, Wookey, in 1864 and may have designed the rebuild. It is suggested that he designed a workhouse chapel at Wantage, Berks, but this also attributed to William Butterfield.
FREEMAN, JOHN TREVOR Architect and surveyor, FFAS, Old Sarum, 11 Princes St, Yeovil, 1931 dir;
1929 Minor add, Messrs Vincent, Central Rd, Yeovil, Som; scullery on rear flat roof; plans CHAC 1734
FREEMAN, R. KNILL Architect, Bolton;
1898 design Town Hall, Taunton, ill BN 16.9.98, unsuccessful;
FRENCH, ALEC Bristol. Architect. Founded major Bristol commercial architecture practice, Alec French & Partners (AF&P), Alec French Partnership (AFP), Alec French Architects (AFA);
(1935-7 Flats, Queens Rd, Clifton, Bristol; SNB, red brick block)
(1937 Halifax Building Soc, 1-2 St Augustine's Pde, Bristol; SNB
1944 Conversion to flats, 52 Walliscote Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; by AF French, plans SRO;
1950s Presbytery, St John RC ch, Bath; MF; reblt after bombing
1962 two office blocks filling bomb damage gaps, College Green, Bristol; SNB;
(1971 Froomsgate House, Rupert St, Bristol; 17 storeys; SNB, AF&P;
(1976 Extension County Hall, Trowbridge, Wilts; RIBAJ 86 1979 287-92;
1980-3 reblt W side New Bond St, Bath in replica; MF; Plummer Roddis block; AFP;
1984 Old Market Shopping Centre, Fore St, Taunton, Som; Richard Lee & Charles Gregory, project architects; Clarke Nicholls & Marcel structural engineers; CTA 1984; AFP;
1989-90 King Edward’s Junior School, North Rd, Bath; MF; AFP;
(1992 Bristol dev corp transportable marketing centre; RIBA Regional Award 1993; £325K; )
(1992 Claire Palley Building, Oxford; RIBA Regional award 1993)
1994-6 adds Library, Bath University, Bath; MF, new façade; AFP;
(2001 City Learning Centre, Brislington, Bristol; SNB; AFP
2002-6 Penny Brohn Cancer Centre, Ham Green House, Pill, Som; rest of C18 house and adds; AFP; SNB;
(2010 Offices Aardman Animations, Bristol; AJ 10.6.10 AFA;
2010 refurb Castlewood offices, Clevedon, Som for N Somerset DC;
2012 alts adds TH, Weston s Mare, Som, with new library;
(2013 Springfield Community Campus, Corsham, Wilts)
Also Melksham Oak community school, Melksham, Wilts; Henbury School, Bristol; Abbeywood School Filton Bristol; new buildings for UWE Bristol art faculty, Ashton Court 2007; UWE Education faculty;
FRERE, G.E. Subordinate of IK Brunel who supervised Bath Spa Station 1840; resident engineer on western part of GWR, TEM Marsh qv was his assistant; cf RA Buchanan in Bath History; neither are mentioned in RCHME book on Swindon;
FRIEND, ROBERT
1766-70 Clerk of works, adds to Coker Court, East Coker, Som, for William Helyar; architect Joseph Dixon; R Dunning, Some Somerset Country Houses, 31.
FRIPP, SAMUEL CHARLES Architect, Bristol. Pupil of Thomas Rickman, one of the three city surveyors 1840-72, + c1887. GJL. Brunel's assistant at Temple Meads Station, Bristol, SNB, and worked on Keynsham and Bath stations. Partner with Archibald Ponton 1859-65 (F&P) and with WP Saunders, former assistant, from 1882 to c1887. Reported to have done extensive work in Bristol, London, Bridgwater and Clevedon. Ref in SCG 23.3.1839 to SGF 'architect of this city' being awarded a job; read a paper to British Association visiting St Mary Redcliffe church WDP 23.9.64; bankrupt SCG 31.12.1864, and WG 31.12.64; bankruptcy sale BM 3.6.65;
(1839 proposed monument to Thomas Chatterton, near N porch St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol design by SCF chosen, he had designed monument to Bishop Butler in Cathedral; SCG 23.3.39, Gothic, pentagonal with statue of Bluecoat Boy under spire;
1841 work, Ilminster ch, Som, TC 17.11.41, T Pratten, builder,
(1842 St Peter ch, Bishopsworth, Bristol; 1841-3 ICBS; GJL; SNB; ?same as St Peter ch, Bishport, FS laid TC 17.11.41 T Pratten builder; site given by Sir J Smyth bt;
(1845 planned Victoria St, Bristol, with RS Pope; GJL;SNB;
1845-8 Bishops Sutton ch, Som; ICBS; SNB;
(1846 rest St James ch, Bristol; GJL; SNB built E wall
(1847 entrant Army & Navy Club comp, London; RHH
1847-8 rest Stanton Drew ch, Som; SNB;
1848-9 Compton Dando parsonage, Som; ABO 1849 93; TBC ‘Samuel Tripp’; plans SRO D/D/Bbm/102; Tudor; SNB probably remodelled older house;
1849 chancel & S aisle, Hutton ch, Som; ABO 1849 93; Kelly 1906; 1846-50 alts ICBS; SNB;
1849 Mon to E Strachey, Chew Magna ch, Som; ABO 1849 93; Gothic;
(1850 St John's National School, Durdham Down, Bristol; GJL)
(1850-1 Private asylum, Brislington House, Bristol; AEBTD 1868; Dr Fox's asylum est 1804-6, buildings linked 1836 and all refaced in 1850-1 by SCF; chapel by SCF 1851; ballroom by SCF 1866); ABO 1849 93 says work at asylum by Charles Underwood qv;
(1852 offices Bristol & Exeter Railway, Temple Meads, Bristol;
(1855 Redcliffe National School, Bristol; bombed 1940; GJL
(1855 St Peter ch, Clifton Wood, Bristol, conversion of former WM chapel consec TC 15.8.55; at Jacobs Wells
1855 plans Orchardleigh House, Som for W Duckworth 'rejected with scorn' diary of Rev WA Duckworth; TrAMS 27 1983 132;
(1857 unex des Royal West of England Academy with H Lloyd qv; GJL
(1858 chapel, Bristol Royal Infirmary; SNB)
(1859 entr Manchester Assize Ct comp; F&P; RHH)
(1860-1 Redland Park C chapel, Bristol; GJL; dem; WI 11.10.60 Independent chapel now building opposite St John ch Redland, Mr Fripp architect; BN 14 509 says 1867 by S Hancorn +1868, but Bristol Times & Farley’s Journal 14.9.61 records opening, by F&P; EE Gothic ‘of a type which prevails in Bavaria and the Southern parts of Germany’; £4700; inf AF; AEBTD; by F&P, SNB, bombed;
1861 alts Nailsea ch, Som; added buttresses, new roofs; SNB;
(1862 rest St Stephen ch, Bristol; SNB)
(1866 1-7 Redcliffe St, Bristol dem;
(1866 7-9 Redcliffe St, Bristol; dem; GJL)
(1869 entr Manchester TH comp; RHH)
(1871 Synagogue, Park Row, Bristol; interiors by Hyman H Collins, SNB;
(1875 Grosvenor Hotel, Temple Gate, Bristol; GJL; SNB;
(1879 comp entr Bristol University; GJL;
(1881 Jones & Baker wine stores, Wine St, Bristol; bombed 1940;
FROME, W. Exhibited two drawings at RA 1831; HC
1828 ?tower, Witham Friary ch, Som, ICBS; but McGarvie, Witham Friary, says tower was 1828-9 by Charles Long qv, for £725; dem 1875
FROST, W. S. Architect to Ministry of Public Buildings & Works
1964-5 Kingsmead House, Bath, Som; Social Security office; SNB;
1966-7 Telephone Exchange, Bath, Som; SNB;
FROUD, MAYNARD Architect, 3 St Stephens Chambers, Baldwin St, Bristol
1892-3 adds Bishopsworth Schools, Bristol, Som; T Br 24.12.92;
1896 enlarged Dundry Schools, Som; SNB; enl again 1912; school of 1857-8 by SB Gabriel qv;
FROUDE, WILLIAM Engineer, 1810-79 educated Oxford 1st class mathematics 1832, 1837 joined Brunel, managed last section of Bristol & Exeter line; designed new skew bridge, went on to make great advances in naval architecture;
FRY, JONES & PARTNERS see PG Fry.
FRY PATERSON & JONES see PG Fry
FRY, FRACNIS ALEX architect, Minehead., 1907-73 See Gunn & Fry and Aston & Fry;
FRY, PETER GEORGE Weston s Mare. Partner with – Wilde in Wilde & Fry qv, then on own, then Fry, Paterson & Jones (FPJ) with William Esson Paterson and Harold Jones qv; Fry Jones & Partners (FJP). PG Fry CMG DSO LRIBA WWinA 1926
1911-12 St Paul ch, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB; by PGF WWinA 1926; and fittings to 1921; bombed 1941, rest by Harold Jones of FPJ 1954-7;
1920 Vestry, Christ Church, Clevedon, Som; SRO DD/cf/1920/40;
1926 Conversion 10 Exeter Road, Weston s Mare, Som, to flats; SRO D/B/wsm/ 24/1/3458; FPJ;
1927 ext TH, Weston s Mare, Som; by FPJ; SNB; with Harold Brown, Borough Surveyor;
1935-6 Victoria WM chapel, Station Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB
1945 conv house to shop 12 Langport Rd, Weston s Mare SRO D/B/wsm/24/1/7892; FPJ;
1954-7 rest St Paul ch, Weston s Mare, Som, after bombing; Harold Jones of FPJ; church of 1911-12 by PGFry
1957-8 new church Old Mixon estate, Uphill, Som; ICBS; FPJ;
1965 reps Banwell ch, Som; ICBS; FJP;
WWinA 1926 lists exts to Yatton Hall, Som; Brown Bros cafe, Weston s Mare, Som; golf clubs at Burnham and Weston s Mare; many business premises in Weston s Mare; alts and exts Westminster Bank premises Weston s Mare, Axbridge and Clevedon; alts Barclays Bank Weston s Mare; Clevedon housing scheme; residences at Weston s Mare, Box (Wilts?), Clevedon, Long Ashton and district; secondary schools Weston s Mare and other school work;
FRY, RALPH West End Works, Kingsbury Episcopi. 1883-1969. Master builder much used by WD Caroe eg on the Porth y Twr restoration, St Davids Cathedral, Pem, 1932. Ralph Fry worked on Martock ch battlements; rest of Westonzoyland ch (screen made by Archie Osborne); St Osmund ch, Poole (ES Prior 1913-16); Truro Cathedral; Devon County Police HQ; Wellington ch; West Huntspill ch; North Cadbury ch; Woolavington ch; Blackford ch; St Davids Cathedral; Maperton Manor; Glastonbury Museum High St; Haverfordwest Priory - inf The Nortonian 1.
1932-6 repairs Westonzoyland ch, repaired nave roof and aisles, added fan-vaulted rood screen, rood loft, rood, rebuilt the newel stair, added riddel posts, pulpit, organ case, cross and candle-sticks on the high altar, seating and other fittings, for WD Caroe, screen carved by Archie Osborne of Norton-sub-Hamdon; ICBS; WG 6.3.37; JF; Dunning, Fifty Somerset Churches, 1996, 61-2, SAS
1938 Alts Ballacree, West End, Somerton, Som for CR Williams; made library of barn with reused stone fireplace from Dorset; notes on house by PJ Short, owner.
1960-1 reps Withiel Florey ch, Som; WE Marsden archt; parish history;
1960sff reps Broadway ch, Som inc to churchyard cross; ch guide; nave floor 1969, ?also flooring in 1964 and 1974; S transept ceilings 1978; tower stonework 1982 £7200;
1987-82 contractor reps Pawlett ch tower, Som; Alan Rome archt; ICBS;
FRY, WILLIAM Builder
1878 alts Langaller Farmhouse, Creech St Michael, Som; with George Leach, for Susanna E Pulman; DD/DP/72/3
FUDGE, WILLIAM Builder. Built houses in Milborne Port, Som, c1820 for the Marquess of Anglesey to counteract Lord Darlington’s houses at Newtown, Milborne Port, in East St, Sansomes Hill and Lower Gunville. His father, ?William Fudge Sr, had built similar houses five years before in Upper Gunville. In one half year 1819 Fudge & Sons masons were paid £210/11/1d, George Fudge £289/9/9d; McKay 137-8; reference to court case w WF accounts 5.4.23 and George Fudge being in gaol 1828.
FULLER & GINGELL, St Werburgh Chambers, Bristol. Thomas Fuller Jr (l823-98) of Bath (qv) and William B Gingell (l8l9-99) of Bristol (qv), both pupils of James Wilson of Bath qv. Fuller was expelled or resigned from IBA over Llandovery College contract 1850. He left for USA 1857 (cf Canadian DNB), designed Houses of Parliament, Ottawa, 1859 and State Capitol New York 1867, chief government architect of Canada 1881-98. For Gingell qv. Cf Gomme etc 434-5.
1847 Unitarian schools, Mary St, Taunton, Som; Br 1847 277; dem, visible in a c1865 photo;
(1847 Borough Prison, Plymouth Devon First prize Br 1847 496. Complete Br 1849 233, ABO1849 126. BoE Devon 660)
(1848-50 TH, County Court & Mechanics Institute, Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon; comp Br 1848 262. T: ABO 1849 222. )
(1848 National Lying-in Hospital, Endell St, Covent Garden, London; Br 1848 131)
(1849-50 Llandovery College Cms; comp won by F&G W 9.3.49, Br 10.3.49 ll7, tender ABO 1849 222, Br 3.6.49, CJ 29.6.49. Site given by Lady Llanover Cambrian 7.12.49. FS laid PH 21.12.49, architects F&G who have also contracted for it themselves for £3500. Br l850 9 F&G, collegiate Gothic, local light grey stone and Bath dressings. Scandal over contract, Br l850 32, 4l, 6l. First sketch ‘The Welsh Collegiate Institution’ signed F&G (Llandovery Album, D. Kingerlee, 1985, 13) but ?plans are signed Gingell alone acc to TL. Competition W 9.3.49, won by F&G. Tenders F&G Br 10.3.49, 23.6.49 and CJ 29.6.49. FS laid: F&G, PH 21.12.49. The firm contracted for themselves £3500 according to Br 5.1.50, 19.1.50, 26.1.50 objections from profession lead to Fuller resignation from IBA.
(1849 unex des Normal College, Swansea, Glam; T: CJ 23.3.49; Br l849 28l set aside as too expensive, cheaper scheme by William Richards of Swansea; R Scourfield has engraving;
1850 Seven houses, Portishead, Som; T: ABG 1850 71;
(1850-4 rest Llandingat ch, Llandovery, Carms; CJ 4.10.50; New 5-lt altar w, new arcade, new 3-lt chancel N w, tower gallery. NLW plans. ICBS 4272 gives F&G, but corr and completion certificate signed Gingell. CJ 10.3.54
FULLER, THOMAS Architect, Bath, Toronto, Ottawa. Born 8.3.1823 died 1898 Known as Thomas Fuller Jr., ‘son of Mr Fuller of Bath’, this was Thomas Fuller, carriage maker. Pupil and later partner of James Wilson of Bath, as Wilson & Fuller qv in Bath Directory 1852-4. In 1854 Bath Directory as Thomas Fuller Jr, 13 Vineyards, Bath. Before that, 1848-50, partner with W.B Gingell, also a Wilson pupil as Fuller & Gingell at Werburgh Chambers, Bristol qv. Founder member of Bristol Society of Architects. Furore over Llandovery College contract in Builder 1850 led to Fuller resigning from IBA. Left for Canada about 1857, in partnership with Chilion Jones in Toronto, won Parliament Buildings competition and also 2nd prize for Departmental Buildings and Government House. 1859-67 office in Ottawa. 1867 won New York State Capitol, Albany NY and joined with other winner Augustus Laver. 1867-81 office in Albany. Became chief government architect of Canada 1881 in succession to T.S. Scott, designed some 70 post offices, about 30 in Ontario, 12 in Quebec. Obituary Br 22/10/1898 p 366. F. Boase, Modern English Biography, 1965, 5 372. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Chris Thomas at U of Victoria was working on him also Dorothy Mindenhall
(1845-7 Anglican Cathedral of St John, Antigua, West Indies Br 1845 602. B Clarke, Anglican Cathedrals outside the Brit Isles, pp 79-80) FS 9.10.1845 consec 25.7.48 W. Roue of Bristol clerk of works; BM 29.12.49 William Roe contractor, three E windows stained glass by Willement, other windows plate glass from Dix & Williams of Bristol, pulpit, reading-desk, bishop's throne and stalls of mahogany made in Bristol; organ by Walker of London; font sent from Bristol)
(1848-9 Unex des for Normal College, Swansea, Glam, F&G chosen Wilts Indep 2.11.48 from forty designs; Br l849 28l F&G set aside as too expensive F&G; Robert Scourfield has engraving of design)
(1849-50 Llandovery College (F&G) Br l849 ll7, tender ABO 1849 222. FS laid Br l850 9, Scandal over contract Br l850 32, 4l, 6l. Pencil sketch in Kingerlee, Llandovery Album 1985 is signed F&G, but ?said to be plans at college signed by Gingell.
(1850-4 Rest Llandingat church, Llandovery, Carms. ICBS 4272 says by F&G but correspondence and completion certificate refer to Gingell only. NLW PZ 4454 is plan of church as proposed signed F&G 1850.
1850 Cranwells, Weston Park, Bath, Som, villa for Jerome Murch, mayor, copied from Widcombe Manor W&F – Peach Street Lore of Bath 1891)
1851 Engineering work Bath waterworks, Weston, Bath; RIBA Crozier-Cole
(1852 Design for Cambridge Military Asylum, Kingston, Surrey; RA; W&F)
(1852-4 Assembly Rooms, King St, Carmarthen 1st pr W&F, later attrib to just JW. Façade removed for Lyric Cinema 1935).
(1853-4 WM chapel, Pontypool, Mon; W&F; Br 14.5.53)
(1854 Henllan, Llanddewi Velfrey, Pembs, remodelled for JLGP Lewis by W&F; T Lloyd, Lost Houses of Wales. Dem.
(1854 Town Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; 1855 WBR; with police station and cells; dated 1854; RC church since 1955)
1854 Trinity National Schools, James St West, Bath, 1854 – Notabilia of Bath says by Fuller. Bombed 1942. APSD Bath says by W&F
1855 Alts Christ Church, Montpelier, Bath; Bath Express 24.11.55;
1856 Anglican cemetery chapel, Bathwick Cemetery, Smallcombe Lane, Bath. Bath Express 16.2.56; MF;
(1855-7 Cemetery, Bradford on Avon, Wilts. First prize in competition 1855; RHH; Br 13 65; WBR 1857; with engraving of lodge and two chapels from 1887 guide to Bradford)
1856 Christ Church Cottages, Montpelier, Bath; T BC 3.4.56 for seven cottages near Christ Church, but only one building (Tudor-style resembles a vicarage) was built, a pair Nos 1 and 2 dated 1856; MF attrib wrongly to F&G; Stuart Burroughes says it seems only these two were built and the rest of the ground had a stable and coach-house built on it; Nos 1-2 first recorded as occupied 1861; coach-house and stable were replaced by the infants school, and cottages were occupied by verger and church warden;
1856-7 alts Oakwood, Bathwick Hill, Bath for William Dobson; celebration dinner BC 12.03.57; or ?3.12.57; inf D Mindenhall;
1857 Weston Police Court and lock-up, Upper Bristol Rd, Bath. BE 31.1.57; T: BN 1857 151; Dem.
1857 Stothert & Pitt Engineering Works, Lower Bristol Road, Bath; inf H Torrens; Known as Newark Works; MF;
(1859-66 Canadian Parliament, Ottawa; competition, 1859 centre block won by Fuller & Chilion Jones with E and W blocks awarded to Thomas Stent & Augustus Laver. Ill Br 10.12.59; FS 16.4.60, work halted over cost and plans for main block modified 1863 by Fuller & Charles Baillairgé, occupied 1865, officially opened 6.6.66. Burnt in 1916 and rebuilt to different design by John A Pearson and Jean-Omer Marchand, tower completed 1928; Fuller's library remains;
(1867-8 New York State Capitol, Albany, NY. First prize 1867, joined with other winner Augustus Laver in 2nd competition and won. Begun 1868, job taken over by Eidlit & Richardson 1875)
(18?? City Hall, San Francisco, Ca; dem;
(1882 Post Office, Stratford, Ontario, to design of TS Scott)
(Post Offices at Strathroy, Ont; Lachine, Que; Kitchener; Peterborough; Galt; Hull; Napae; Amherstbur; Smiths Falls; Orangeville; Gananoque)
FURNESS, FREDERICK
1871-4 contractor Minehead Railway, Som, extension of West Somerset Railway with stations at Washford, Blue Anchor, Dunster & Minehead; £37,000; William Buxton later involved as partner; C Clinker West Somerset Railway p7;
FURNESS, GEORGE Engineer, London. 1820-1900, involved with Abingdon Railway 1856, Redditch Railway 1859, public works in Italy including dredging harbours at La Spezia, Livorno, Palermo. Contractor for part of Thames Embankment 1864-70. Public works in Odessa, Russia. Set up brickworks in Willesden, London. Lived at Roundwood House, Willesden.
1859-62 Engineer, West Somerset Railway, Taunton to Watchet; wikipedia; line proposed by Brunel as broad-gauge extension to Bristol & Exeter, Brunel died 1859 and RP Brereton involved for GWR.
FURSLAND, JAMES EDWARD Contractor Bridgwater, 1873-1938; carpenter, 46 Bristol Rd, Bridgwater, 1906 Kelly;
1906 builder Somerset Bridge School, Bridgwater, Som; Sansom & Cottam architect;
1910 built Golf Club Pavilion, Burnham on Sea (advert in Bridgwater dir)
1911-12 builder, Magistrates Court & Police Station, Mount St, Bridgwater, Som; Francis Parr AMICE architect; FS plaque; SC notes; T BM 22.3.11
FUSSELL, JAMES Engineer. +1832. Ironmaster owner of the edge-tool works at Mells, Som; James Fussell of The Chantry, Chantry, Som, owner of the works +1845;
c1799 Balance lock, Dorset & Somerset Canal, near Mells, Som; SNB; patented design in 1798, one was built five more proposed but canal abandoned;
G2 ARCHITECTS Bristol
2002-3 Almshouses and nursing home, St Johns Hospital, Combe Park, Bath; MF; SNB;
20?? Rice Centre, Royal United hospital, Bath; for care of elderly; Biggs contractors website; £1.13m;
Also Rush Hill Surgery Bath; Grosvenor Place Surgery Bath;
GABBUTT, FREDERICK HENRY JAMES. Architect, 1885-1962, Cornhill Chambers, Bridgwater and Burnham; No 4 York Buildings, Bridgwater & Burnham 1931 dir.
19?? Shop premises and fittings, High St, Bridgwater, Som; in list of works by Gleed Bros builders;
1922 Bungalow, Holford, Som for WH Tamlyn; plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/20;
Up from derelict silk factory on E side;
1922 adds Home Farm Blue Anchor, Som for G Lysaght of Chapel Cleeve Manor, pair of cottages with dairy, calf-house, near Cleeve Bay Villa, D/R/wil/ 24/1/22
1922-3 Bungalow, Kilve, Som, for AE Allan; D/R/wil/24/1/42; W of Parsonage Barn, three-sided plan, hipped red tile roofs, roughcast;
1923 alts Parsonage Barn, Kilve, Som for Dudley Giles, conv into single storey hipped house; D/R/wil/24/1/31
1923 Bungalow, Kilve, Som for Dudley Giles, N of Parsonage Barn; D/R/wil/24/1/30; U-plan one wing hipped
1923-8 Lysaght Hall, Old Cleeve, Som; village hall, reading-room and billiard-room etc, drawings SRO D/U/wil/24/1/64 for GS Lysaght of Chapel Cleeve Manor, in same file are drawings by FHJG for additions, 1926 smoke-room and billiard-room, 1927 addition to stage, and 1928 ladies reading-room, cloakroom and kitchen;
1926 Factory, Bristol Rd, Bridgwater, Som; for HF Tottle furniture makers, used materials from old Temple Meads station Bristol; Tottle advert
1928 House, Kilve, Som for HH Pollard of Bridgwater; large hipped with two sprocketted hipped gables N and S garden front loggia under curved balcony; D/R/wil/24/1/58;
1929 and 1934 alts Queens Head Hotel, Holloway St, Minehead; plans SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/705 and 743;
GABRIEL & HIRST Bristol see S B Gabriel
GABRIEL, CHARLES HENRY. Architect, London, called of London and Calne (Wilts) in 1855 and London & Bath in 1857, said to have built Vale Lodge, Weston, Bath for himself and lived there until c1900; apparently no relation of SB Gabriel qv of Bristol.
(1849 rest Fyfield ch, Wilts; WBR, VCH)
(1852-3 Holy Trinity ch, Calne, Wilts consec DWG 24.3.53, Mr Gabriel, this is Holy Trinity church, Quemerford, Calne;
(1854 rest Yatesbury ch, Wilts; WBR; reopened DWG 4.1.55, Mr Gabriel of London, Mr Mullins of Devizes builder;)
(1855 Kington Langley ch, Wilts; BoE; WBR builder Miller of Seagry; consecrated Mr Gabriel of London and Calne, DWG 26.5.55)
(1856-7 Bowden Hill ch, Wilts for Capt Gladstone MP of Bowden Park; FS WI 4.5.56 £1600, Mr Gabriel of London; consecrated WI 30.7.57 stone from Spye Park quarries, £1800, C Gabriel, B Mullings contractor; Minton tiles chancel; all windows patterned stained glass by Warrington; carving by H Earp of London; Mr Gabriel of London & Bath DWG 30.7.57;
1858 Vale Lodge, Weston Park West, Bath; DoE list 2005, built by CHG for himself and his residence until c.1900;
GABRIEL, EDWARD Architect, Bristol +1928 Son of SB Gabriel; ARIBA, at 42 Old Broad St, London WWinA 1926;
(1879 House of Charity, St Raphaels, Bristol;
(1885 Stoke Bishop Parish Hall, Bristol; SNB
(1886 Almshouses, Rupert St, Bristol)
(1890 Fuller's coach factory, St Georges Rd, Bristol; dem c1970; GJL
(1894 E shed, Waterside, Bristol; GJL
(1894 Merrywood Board School, Beauley Rd, Southville, Bristol; SNB; T Br 4.8.94;
(1895 3rd pr Willesden Board School, London; RHH; later 1st)
(1896-8 Edinburgh Chambers, Nos 14-16 Baldwin St, Bristol; SNB; GJL
(1898 Telephone Exchange, Telephone Ave, Bristol; GJL)
(c1900 Berkeley Castle PH, Cheltenham Rd, Bristol; GJL
(1900-1 Cambridge Arms PH, Coldharbour Rd, Redland, Bristol; SNB)
1900-2 Smyth Almshouses, Ashton Court estate, Long Ashton Som; SNB; RA 1904; AA 1904; ASG; 1900 GJL;
(1902 Garricks Head PH, \broad Qauy, Bristol; GJL)
(1903 Langton Court Hotel, St Anne's Bristol; SNB;
1904-6 HMS Formidable naval training school, Portishead, Som; AA 1904; National Nautical School, sponsored by H Fedden, E Gabriel's father-in-law, SNB; conv to flats 1988-92;
(1905 shops, Park Row, Bristol; SNB)
(1904 London & Lancs Ins Co, 42 Corn St, Bristol; sculpture by Gilbert Seale; ASG; SNB;
1905 Village Inn, Ashton, Som, ill from BN on Archiseek site; ?Long Ashton
(1909 adds South Western Bank, Leadenhall St, London; BN 1.1.09)
Attributed cottages in Backwell and Flax Bourton, Som;
GABRIEL, SAMUEL BURLEIGH Bristol. Architect. 1817-65. 1842 living with parents in Richmond Terrace. Built most of commissioners churches in Bristol; father of Edward Gabriel qv. Gomme 434-5. In practice from 1841, with SJ Hicks qv (H&G) to c1850; 1852-6 with JH Hirst (G&H). London practice of Edmeston & Gabriel may have been SBG with James Edmeston 1771-1867.
(1841 St John ch, Apsley Rd, Bristol; H&G;
(1842-3 add Tewkesbury Nat School, Glos;
(1843-5 ?Lexden Terrace, Tenby, Pmbs, for John Rees; John Smith qv bldr. Attrib on basis of cheque £2/9/0d from Rees on 22.9.45 to Gabriel. cf research by Douglas Fraser No 3 Lexden Terrace. cf also attrib of Prize House, Tenby, Pembs, to JH Hirst, 1850)
(1844 St Andrew ch, Montpelier, Bristol; H&G;
(1845 Filton ch, Bristol; H&G;
(1847 St Simon ch, Baptist Mills, Bristol; H&G
(1848-9 Royal Hotel and Royal Terrace, Weston s Mare, Som; G&H; SNB completed 1849;
(1848 completed St Mark ch Easton, Bristol, after death of Dyer
(1848 St Michael ch, Two-mile Hill, Bristol; Gomme; SNB;
(1851 alts Chepstow Parsonage, Mon; NLW LL/Bounty/16; minor, bow window; G&H;
(1852-3 Chepstow Infants & Sunday schools, Mon; MM 27.3.52, 20.5.53; G&H;
(1852 Houses, Tyndalls Park, Bristol; Gomme;
(1852 St Jude ch, Lamb St, Poyntzpool, Bristol; 1849 Gomme;
(1854 St Clement ch, Newfoundland Rd, Bristol; G&H; GJL, dem;
(1854 4th prize W of England & S Wales Bank, Corn St, Bristol; G&H; RHH;
1855-7 Keynsham Schools, Som; comp entry 1855 RHH, G&H; BN 1857 643 by SBG, EE style, school and teacher’s house, Blue Lias and Bath stone, £1200; Temple County Primary School, 1855-7 by SBG, although comp won by H Masters acc to SNB;
(1856 ?Bowden Hill ch, Wilts; WBR; error this is by CH Gabriel qv;
(1856 West Kington ch, Wilts; WBR; DWG 23.10.56; Wilts Indep 23.10.56 three chancel windows by Bell of Bristol, old tower kept, £830;
1857 School, Chew Stoke, Som; T: BN 1857 366, school and master’s house; BN 1857 468 school and library £676 accepted; SNB;
1857 School, Farmborough, Som; T: BN 1857 468 parish school and teacher’s house £710; SNB;
1857 School and master’s house, Dundry, Som; BN 1857 151; SNB 1857-8;
(1857 Chepstow Cemetery, Mon; Br 10.10.57; two chapels & lodge)
(1857 houses Wellington Park and Apsley Rd, Bristol;
1858-9 rest Compton Martin ch, Som; ICBS; new chancel windows; William Henry York builder; rest 1858, SNB;
1858-9 Police Station, courtroom and cells, Keysham, Som; newly completed Gothic Br 13.8.59;
(1860 St Paul's vicarage, Acramans Rd, Bedminster, Bristol, Som; Gomme; SNB;
(1861 St Michael's School, Two-mile Hill, Bristol; but cf 1864;
(1860-1 rest Beechingstoke ch, Wilts; DWG 4.7.61;
1861 rest Dundry ch, Som; 1860-2 ICBS; S aisle; SRO; 1860-1 SNB; reopened Br 2.11.61, new S aisle, rails by Singer of Frome, carving by H Margetson of Bristol, masonry by Stevens of Bristol;
(1861-2 vicarage Winterbourne Down, Glos
(1861-4 reblt Manningford Abbotts ch Wilts; WBR; reopened DWG 4.2.64;
(1863 rest Cherhill ch, Wilts; WBR; reopened DWG 26.11.63;
(1863 Gardiners warehouse, John St, Bristol; Gomme;
(1864 London & Lancs Ass, 42 Corn St, Bristol; dem; replaced by EG;
(1864 chancel St John ch, Apsley rd, Bristol; Gomme;
(1864 St Michael’s school, Two mile Hill, Bristol; Gomme; but cf 1861;
(1864-6 Ashley Ho, Ashley Down Rd, Bristol; for Charles Wathen, later Lord Mayor, SNB)
GALBRAITH, A.W.
1873 Royal Marine Inn, Silver St, Taunton T Br 15.2.73, £317, Yandell bldr;
GALBRAITH, WILLIAM ROBERT Railway engineer, 1829-1914, born Stirling, articled John E Errington +1862, from 1855 employed on LSWR Yeovil to Exeter and Exeter to Exmouth;succeeded Errington as chief engineer LSWR, 1862-1907, Richard Church was pupil then partner; ;
1856-60 resident engineer Yeovil & Exeter Railway 1856-60, under JJ Errington, chief engineer LSWR with William Tite architect BLJ 51ff. 1st sod at Crewkerne 4.12.56 by Countess Poulett. Stations Yeovil Junction, Sutton Bingham, Crewkerne, Chard Road, Axminster, Colyton, Honiton, Feniton, Whimple, Broadclyst, Exeter Queen St. Began at Bradford Abbas Junction with S&Y Rlway. Crewkerne Tunnel nearly complete, Railway Times 7.7.57, first locomotive through 15.5.58, William Taylor, Manchester, contractor.
1862-3 Chard branch railway, connecting Chard with the LSWR Yeovil to Exeter main line at Chard Junction, with John Errington +1862, opened 1863, contractor James Taylor, SAS;
GALE, GEORGE Dunster. Luttrell estate steward until 1782, surveyor of Minehead District since 1767 then surveyor Minehead United Turnpike Trust; SAS; LA Clarke The Minehead United Turnpike Trust, 2002;
1806-10 Parsonage, East Quantoxhead, Som; VCH; now West House; altered and extended 1840; late C19 veranda; DD/L/2/15/84 has vouchers for ?work dated 1799, 1800 and 1802, see also DD/HC 89;
GALLANNAUGH, REGINALD Architect. Gallannaugh & Nicholls (G&N) 41 St Mary St Bridgwater. Roger Gallannaugh qv, son, joined 1964, continued practice to 1990. Ellis, Clarke & Gallannaugh may be connected, they designed Thomson House newspaper office, Havelock St, Cardiff, Glam, 1959-61, dem 2008. firm now EC&G of Tring. Also Beardsmore, Gallannaugh & Partners 1971; Also BWL Gallannaugh architect in Forest Hill, London.
1949 alts Hotel Metropole, Esplanade, Minehead, Som; plans SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/830; G&N;
1960 Rodwell House, Park St, Taunton, Som; AJ suppl 15.8.62; now Bedford house, plaque on building; sculpture outside of Agriculture by Jose Manuel Alberdi ‘the Spaniard who did the bull on the Birmingham bull-ring’; he was a Basque, taught in England, he definitely did a Corten steel sculpture at Nailsea, Som, for Gallannaugh that was disliked and taken back to Spain, inf Roger Gallannaugh
1962-72 Shopping precinct, Nailsea, Som, by BGP Group, Roger Gallannaugh archt, SNB ?error for Reginald G; design 1962, built 1970-2.
GALLANNAUGH, ROGER Plox Cottage, Bruton. ARIBA. Born 1940, son of Reginald Gallannaugh qv, educated King's Bruton, partner in father’s practice 1964- 2000, then on own in Bruton. Designed Courage Brewery & HQ Staines; Spectrum Building; painter; trustee of Hamersley House hospice, for which proposed new building near Shepton Mallet; president BSA, chairman RIBA Wessex region; Also Beardsworth, Gallannaugh & Partners 1971,
1962-72 Shopping precinct, Nailsea, Som, by BGP Group, Roger Gallannaugh architect, SNB, design 1962, built 1970-2, ?error for Reginald G;
1971 Sandringham Court, Weston s Mare by BG&P; HDA 1971;
2005 The Longhouse, Mill on the Brue activity centre, West End, Bruton, Som; inf J Bishton;
2012 The Board House, Mill Lane, Bruton, Som; designs first made by owner Mark Pickthall;
GALLIFORD TRY Contractors. Founded 2000 by merger of Midlands-based Galliford and WS Try of Uxbridge; built M49 junction at Easter Compton, Som, for £24m, access to industrial park 2018-20;
20?? AAVUEST, Yeovilton RNAS Station, Som; Aircraft & Amphibious Vehicle Underwater Escape and Survival Training building; website; £15m; designers not named;
GAMBIER-PARRY, S1DNEY. Architect, 1849-1948, son of Thomas Gambier Parry of Highnam Court, Glos; pupil AW Blomfield, 1878-81, ARIBA 1881; see Wilts index;
1886 Altar, St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; MF;
1896 alts St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; MF; converted sanctuary to Lady Chapel
GANDY, JOSEPH MICHAEL 1771-1843; HC; in Soane’s office, practice from 1801
1818? Doric House, Sion Hill, Bath, for Thos Barker, exh RA 1818 as now building, HC; but SNB says one-storey design was exhib RA 1803 and building probably complete 1805;
GANE, CHARLES & RICHARD. Builders, Trowbridge, Wilts. Gane Brothers (Charles & Richard Gane) built mills in Trowbridge, Wilts, 1860s, and rest Coulston ch, Wilts, 1868; WBR; KR says Castle Factory, Trowbirdge, Wilts, was blt by them, 1828, and design survives ‘from a sketch by Mr Gane’ (KR 124). C&RG surveyors of Trowbridge Wilts built Melksham Workhouse, Semington, Wilts, to des of HE Kendall, 1838. C&RG blt later Trowbridge mills including and Studley Mill after 1856 and Ashton Mills 1860 (KR); Richard Gane of C&RG died 1879 at Trinity Villas, Stallard St, Trowbridge aged 86. WBR2 quotes obit Wilts Times 20.12.1879 which says they built Timbrell Cotts, Trowbridge, as first building, Trinity Church, Trowbridge, 1838 (A Livesay architect), St Stephens Schoolroom, Trowbridge, a mansion for W Fowler (prob Springfield Trowbridge), a mansion for JP Stancomb (prob Hilbury Court Trowbridge); worked on Rood Ashton House 1841; and built Capital & Counties Bank, Trowbridge, 1851; Richard Gane (c1823-77) qv of Giles & Gane qv was a son of one or the other and worked for them after finishing pupilage with CE Giles.
GANE, JESSE Builder. Evercreech 1798-1855, probably son of John Gane qv +1831; architect in 1844 dir; HC; partnership until 1853 with William H Fowles (1818-84) as Gane & Fowles architects, 1852-3 dir; plaques in Evercreech church to John Gane qv +1831 aged 86, son John +1820 aged 32, Elizabeth Boyce wife of Jesse 1802-37, and Jesse +1855 aged 57. James Gane Jr, quarryman, carved pulpit at Chesterblade ch, 1888, and John Gane surveyor is listed in 1906 directory. JM Paget of Cranmore wrote in his diary 28.2.1855 ‘my faithful old builder and co-actor Jesse Gane died. An honest man I believe’, de Viggiani Two Estates 1988 65;
1824-35 N aisle gallery, Evercreech ch, Som; 1834-5 ICBS; RL; HC; plaque in church says that gallery additions in N aisle were made by Gane between 1825 and 1835, and matching S aisle with gallery added in 1843. Gallery does not include NE bay;
1826 N gallery, Chilcompton ch, Som; RL; church rebuilt by JG 1839, SNB;
1828-9 Cranmore Cottage, East Cranmore, Som, built for curate of East Cranmore; contract for new house and lofted stable; de Viggiani, Two Estates, 1988, 52;
1833 adds Parsonage, Lamyatt, Som; TBC, SRO D/D/Bbm/?; RL; HC;
1836 proposed workhouse, Shepton Mallet, Som; .uk; but present workhouse is dated 1848; SNB says an existing building was converted by JG in 1836, with new front wing 1848 by CR Wainwright Sr qv;
1836-7 Workhouse, Temple Cloud, Clutton, Som; SC notes; HC addendum 2000; ; unusual plan, £6690; SNB, Clutton Union Workhouse,now Cambrook Ho;
1838 rebuilt Stoke St Michael ch, Som, except tower; SNB; Stoke Lane ch HC;
1839 Chilcompton ch, Som; 1835-40 ICBS; nave & aisles rebuilt, tower kept RL; 1839 HC, SNB;
1840 School, West Cranmore, Som; M de Viggiani, Two Estates, 1988, 53;
1840-1 Parsonage, East Pennard, Som; TBC, SRO D/D/Bbm/81; HC; mullion and transom windows; £1396, for Rev T Garrett;
1842 attributed School, Batcombe, Som, similar to West Cranmore;
1842-3 N aisle, High Littleton ch, Som; ICBS; plans SRO D/P/lit.h/8/4/1; moved N wall out with Georgian doorway, plaster barrel ceiling; rebuilt 1884
1843-4 reseated Batcombe ch, Som; 1843-5 ICBS; 1844 according to plaque in church, Joseph Taylor builder; Messrs Greenland & Down, masons; pews and gallery in tower since removed;
1843-5 S aisle, Evercreech ch, Som; ICBS; plaque in church says 1843; RL says 1847-8 possibly to design by GG Scott who visited the church; aisle matches N aisle and has gallery to match gallery in N aisle by Gane 1825-35;
1846 enlarged parsonage, Dinder, Som; TBC, SRO D/D/Bbm/98; Tudorised windows adds each end; ?SRO suggests wholly new?; house of 1827-9 by G Basevi qv extended E & W c1847 by Gane with new porch and lengthened windows, SNB;
1845-6 builder East Cranmore ch, Som; TH Wyatt architect; de Viggiani, Two Estates, 1988, 36-7; agreement 14.4.45 to build for £1250; FS 8.5.45, consecrated 18.8.46;
1846 School, Pilton, Som; SRO DD/EDS/1; single schoolroom with porch on gable end;
1847-9 enlarged Penselwood ch, Som; RL; N aisle 1848-9 HC; first plans 1847 by George Follett of Cucklington, final plans N 1849 by JG; N&Q 34 92ff re terracotta panels; ICBS;
1847-8 builder alts Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Som for JM Paget, architect TH Wyatt qv; de Viggiani Two estates 65 mentions ‘the remodelled Hall’;
1852 parsonage, Evercreech, Som; plans SRO D/Bbm/110; rebuilt, gabled, plain, keeping SW corner with canted bay; now Church House;
GANE, JOHN Carpenter and joiner, Evercreech, c1746-1831. Plaque in church to John Gane +1831 aged 86, father presumably of Jesse Gane qv.
1788 Rectory, Batcombe, Som, now Batcombe House; SSAVBRG report on Batcombe houses, p75, quotes JG estimate for ‘the Rev Mr Pools House at Batcomb the parsonage house to be taken Down and Rebuilt’ £336/9/0d;
GANE, JOHN Surveyor, Evercreech. In 1906 dir.
GANE, RICHARD Carpenter
1742 Paid for repairs Withial Farm, East Pennard, Som; Longleat Pennard 2/12 1/1/1722, also payments to William Walker qv 1745, and Robin Hooper 1746;
GANE, RICHARD Architect c1823-77 born Trowbridge, Wilts, son of Richard Gane partner in Charles & Richard Gane qv builders of Trowbridge fl 1828-60, specialists in cloth mills. Richard Gane Sr died in 1879. Pupil of CE Giles qv, then in London, then joined father in building trade in Trowbridge. When Giles was ill Gane bought a partnership with him and for two years operated as Giles & Gane (G&G) qv, before Gane bought Giles out completely c1876. Then according to Giles' autobiography he ‘signally failed not having head for responsibility he became a drunkard and going to Australia died there at Sydney of drink and despair’. Emigrated to Australia 1877 and died on arrival.
(1864 East Kennet ch, Wilts; WBR; consec DWG 21.4.64;
1869 rest chancel Hemington ch, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/162 add vestry;
(1874-5 Abbey Mill, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; BoE; 1874 KR 160 by RG of G&G of Furnival's Inn, London; ill BN 28.5.75 as by RG, Archiseek website)
1875 Unex proposal for enlarging chancel, Midsomer Norton ch, Som; SRO plans 1875 G&G; SNB says not clear how much was done apart from tracery;
(1876 work Storrington ch, Sx, continued work begun by G&G in 1872;
GARBETT, EDWARD WILLIAM. Reading, then Winchester. HC;
(1820-2 Theale ch, Berks; HC)
1833 Consulted over Bath Abbey, Som, rest by GP Manners; Mr Edward Garbett of Winchester designed clock in N transept made 1834; HC; SNB;
GARDINER, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Architect. 6-7 Barton St, Bath; Kelly 1889, 1906.
1887 shopfront No 9 George St, Bath; MF;
1890 Bayer corset factory, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath; ext 1895; SNB;
1892 add Camden Mill, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath; AFtext;
1892 Ye Olde Farm House PH, Lansdown Rd, Bath; MF; SNB;
1895 adds Bayer factory, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath, factory by FWG 1890;
1897 malthouse, Bath Brewery T BC 17.12.96; £4943 J Long & Son contr accepted;
1898 adds Northfield House, Richmond Rd, Bath; MF;
(1898-9 Bayer corset factory, Roman Rd, Easton, Bristol; SNB)
1899 Nos. 124-6 for Ice & Cold Storage Co, Walcot St, Bath; MF; No 146 Walcot St, 1900, SNB;
1900 Harington House, Harington Pl, Bath; MF;
1901 GPO sorting office, Manvers St, Bath; now Bayntun bookshop, converted by Green & Hollier qv in 1938; SNB;
1903 shopfront, Pavilion Music Hall, Saw Close Bath; MF;
1903 front Beaufort Arms PH, 8 Princes St, Bath; MF
1905 Porch 22 Marlborough Buildings, Bath; MF;
1907 Porch 22 Marlborough Buildings, Bath; MF;
GARDINER, JOHN. Surveyor. Probably not John Bull Gardiner 1786-1867 of London, nephew and partner of Robert Chapman +1827, from 1811-27; HC;.
1818-21 proposed rebuild Easton in Gordano ch, Som; plan to rebuild all except tower, ICBS; also in ICBS are different plans for new nave by Jones & Willcox qv; church was rebuilt 1822-7 by E Brigden qv;
(1841 involved with gallery, Chalford ch, Glos, as surveyor, Thomas Foster qv architect; ICBS)
GARLAND, - builder, Clevedon; Frank Garland and George Garland, masons, 138-40 Ken Rd, 1906 dir;
1896-1900 three terraces, Ken Rd, Clevedon; Lilly
GARLAND, FREDERICK. 1863-1934 Clerk of works to Earl Fortescue, Filleigh House, Devon
1905 Bailiffs House, Simonsbath, Som, for Viscount Ebrington; plain villa gabled to left; D/R/dul 24/1/25;
GARLAND, H. J. Architect & Surveyor, 4 Charles St, Bath. 1889 Kelly, not in 1906 Kelly.
1882 add rear 34 Gay St Bath for William Friese-Green photographer; MF;
1898 Nos. 28-30 Charles St, Bath; MF;
GARNER, THOMAS Architect 1839-1906 first pupil of GG Scott, 1856, started practice in Warws 1861, came to London as assistant to GF Bodley, partner of Bodley (B&G) 1869-97, separated over Garner’s conversion to Catholicism. The monument to Garner in Downside Abbey N choir aisle is by Bodley;
1891 inspected Wambrook ch, Som, re new vestry and repairs, ICBS, plans by Robinson & Gordon; no plans in archive;
1891-2 remodelled Camerton ch, Som; SNB;
1901-5 choir, Downside Abbey ch, Som; appointed 1900 after death of Edward Hansom qv; plans for S choir aisle and cloister 1900, fittings of St Isidore chapel 1901 with pavement by Farmer & Brindley, choir, sanctuary, S choir aisle, N chapel of S Sebastian 1901-5; SNB;
GARNHAM WRIGHT ASSOCIATES Shaftesbury. Founded London 1973 by Jack Garnham Wright, associate partner 1980 Mitch Pope qv at Miles Common, Semley, Shaftesbury, Dorset.
2011 reps No 68 Hendford, Yeovil, Som; planning app; Mitch Pope architect;
GARRATT, ROBERT. Builder, Mill St, Wincanton. Also Auctioneer Church St, both in Braggs Dir 1840. Builder 1830 Somerset Dir.
1826 gallery, South Brewham ch, Som; ICBS, involved with Edward Thomas Percy qv architect, of Sherborne 1819-28 and John Bartlett of Wincanton builder who retired due ill-health;
GARRETT, JEREMIAH mason.
1799 repairs tower, Woodlands ch, Som; Longleat 14/3 2/12 31/12/92; a Joseph Gerrett carpenter was paid for repairs 1789 Longleat 14/3 2/12 22/8/1745;
GARTH, SAMUEL Builder Tiverton, Devon
1840 repairs Mill Farm, Brushford, Som for Earl of Carnarvon; estimate Hants RO 15M52/521;
GARTON, Lt-Col JAMES ARCHIBALD 1891-1969. Of Shepton Mallet Anglo-Bavarian brewery family; owned Pylle Manor, Pylle, from 1920, first Master of Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, founded 1933, made decorations for Pylle church, mostly in iron or copper, may have designed additions to Pylle Manor; HS 1937;
GATELEY & PARSONS Architects 108 Colmore Row, Birmingham Arthur Ignatius Gately 1854-1939, Frank B Parsons FRIBA 1860-1939, and son Harold R Parsons FRIBA
1927 House, Wellington Rd, Taunton for Joseph Lucas Ltd; opp end of Park St at junction with Compass Hill, neo-Georgian; D/B/ta/1/66/1266; dem SAS;
1927 House, Mount Nebo, Taunton, large neo-Georgian brick house on W side, corner with Broadlands Lane; for Joseph Lucas Ltd; possibly No 6 Brooklands Lane, SAS;
GAY, GEORGE. Bristol, builder involved in Clifton, Redland etc: Nos 39-45 Cotham Hill, 1843; villas now part of Arts Faculty, Woodland Rd, c1862-72; AFB; Nos 3-5 Woodland Rd 1862, Nos 22-4 Tyndalls Rd, 1852, also pairs in Hampton Rd, GJL;
GAYE, HOWARD Architect, 1849-1925 3A Maida Hill, London, born Ipswich son of Rev C Gaye; watercolourist, made presentation drawings for CFA Voysey qv;
1899 alts Christ Church, Crewkerne, Som; enlarged vestry; D/D/cf/1899/10; dem; SAS says also choir stalls 1900 and reredos by Harry Hems 1902 and 1904; D/D cg 1899/10 D/D/cf/1904/81, ?error for work at Crewkerne parish ch;
1900 Choir stalls, Crewkerne ch, Som; inf A Brooks from Br ???
1902 reredos, Crewkerne ch, Som; carved by Harry Hems, Last Supper in Ham stone; inf A Brooks from Br ???
1903 alts Crewkerne ch, Som, oak fan vault in tower; D/D/cf/1904/81
(1911 adds St Paul ch, Chippenham, Wilts; choir vestry and organ chamber; WBR;)
GCP ARCHITECTS Londonderry Farm, Keynsham Rd, Willsbridge, Bristol. Previously Graham Carruthers Partnership; Jeremy Pilling, Colin Powell, Jonathan Platt; David Martyn worked for them.
1990-2 Ashford Water Treatment Works, Charlinch near Bridgwater, Som;
1991 Fulwood Water Treatment Works, Fulwood, Pitminster, Som, for Wessex Water; BD 25.10.91; Graham Carruthers Partnership; 1991-3 acc to J Gould striped brickwork with arched metal roofs;
19?? addition Maundown Water Treatment Works, Som for Wessex Water; see also Race Cottam.
1993-5 Durleigh Water Treatment Works, Som for Wessex Water
2002-3 refurbishment Fairfield Park Heath Centre, Bath;
2003 housing scheme Eastfield Ave, Weston, Bath for Somer Community Housing;
200? Refurbishment, Bath Leisure Centre, Bath, Som;
200? Refurbishment Portishead Lido, Som;
200? Conversion of outbuilding to house, West Harptree, Som;
200? Community Hall, Peasedown St John, Som;
(2006-9 Verdigris, Jacob St, Bristol; David Martyn archt; SNB;
2011 Nos 1-7 Tynings La, Street, Som; Mendip awards 2012;
Website: work at Writhlington School, Som 1996-2009 inc sports hall, business centre and new entrance; Monkton Combe School, Som; changing-roooms, Gordano School, Portishead, Som; alts Old Mill Hotel, Bath; Gym, fitness centre etc at Chew Valley School, Som; regeneration plan Fullers Earth works, Folly Down, Bath; internal alts Percy Community Centre, Bath; proposed regional sports centre, Yeovil, Som; offices for Halsall construction, Wellow Vale Business Pk, Peasedown St John, Som; housing for Wimpey Homes at Standerwick Orchard, Ilminster, Som, 38 houses, 11 of them thatched;
GEORGE & Peto see Sir Ernest George
GEORGE & YEATES see Sir Ernest George
GEORGE, Sir ERNEST 1839-1922 Architect, articled Samuel Hewitt, Gold Medal RA Schools 1859; 1861 set up with Thomas Vaughan (G&V) in Maddox St then at 11 Argyll St, London (1870), but Vaughan died 1871. Harold Peto qv partner 1876-92 (G&P), more business manager, Peto retired to concentrate on landscape design 1892, then Alfred B Yeates (1867-1944) partner 1893-1919 (G&Y); ASG; knighted 1911; RIBA Gold Medal 1896, PRIBA 1908-10; biography by Hilary Grainger, The architecture of Sir Ernest George, 2011; also HJ Grainger, The architecture of Sir E George and his partners c1860-1922, Leeds Univ PhD 1985 (HG); JN Johnston of Yeovil c1860-1942 was articled for four years, RL;
c1885-7 Glencot Wells, Wookey Hole, Som; SNB completed 1887 for WS Hodgkinson, mill owner, G&P; 1885-7, exhibited RA 1887, SAS; RIBAD; BN 13.5.87;
(1893-4 Motcombe, Shaftesbury, Dorset for Lord Stalbridge; G&Y; JF; ill Br 5.8.99; Parnell & son of Rugby contrs, David Rice clk of wks;
1896-7 adds Shockerwick House, Bathford, Som; adds to wings, new service range, & lodge; also billiard-room addn 1907, G&Y; SNB;
c1897 staff cottages for Glencot, Titlands Lane, Wookey Hole, Som; attributed G&Y, SNB; Brooklands and Glenview Cottage, SAS; also attributed The Croft, terrace c1900-10, SNB;
1900 adds Barley Wood, Wrington, Som; by EG for HH Wills; SNB; alts by Chester Jones, 1933, orig house c1801-2 for Hannah More;
1900-10 ?The Croft, terrace of estate cottages, Wookey Hole, Som; attributed G&Y, SNB;
1902-5 adds Wayford Manor, Som; G&Y; ASG; added N wing for Lawrence Ingham Baker JP, two plans 1902 and one sheet of elevations 28.2.02 at house with Mrs Goffe; CL 29.9.1934 336-41; gardens 1902 by Harold Peto, relation of Mrs Helen Baker;
1905 N aisle Wayford ch, Som; G&Y; SRO D/D/cf/1905/?, not in Hilary Grainger;
1907 billiard-room wing, Shockerwick House, Bathford, Som; SNB; for – Morley;
(1916 adds Alcombe Manor, Ditteridge, Wilts, for C Morley; plans WSHC, also alts to lodge 1917 G3/760/ 244;
(1920 war memorial, Magdalen Coll, Oxford, by AB Yeates; RA 1937 exh)
GEORGE, RICHARD Architect, Wells;
1827 B chapel, Union St, Wells, Som; opened BC 18.10.27,
GERRARD TAYLOR & PARTNERS, Bath. Molly Gerrard nee Molly Taylor daughter of AJ Taylor qv; later Gerrard Taylor Hind (GTH);
1935 Kilowatt House, North Road, Bath, by Molly Taylor for Anthony Greenhill; designs c1936, completed 1938 acc to Robin Pakes thesis Tradition and modernity in Bath between the wars, Bath University MPhil 2015; drawings owned by Bath Pres Trust undated;
1946-7 rest Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Som as teacher training college, opened 1947; SNB;
1950? Gymnasium, dormitories etc, Newton Park College, Newton St, Loe, Som; BoE N; by Molly Gerrard, first buildings for teacher training college est 1947, gymnasium 1950, SNB;
1971-2 add SW corner block Roman Baths, Bath, replacement for CE Davis Douche & Massage Bath of 1887-9; GT&P; MF;
1973-5 Quay House, Broad Quay, Bath; MF;
1975 converted 1-2 Manvers St, Bath to bank, MF; GTH;
1980-2 Alts Barclays Bank, High St, Glastonbury, Som; Barclays archives 710/121 & 1732/238; GTH;
198? Caxton Court, Grove St, Bath, conversion of brewery to flats; MF; GTH;
GIBBERD, Sir FREDERICK ERNEST. Architect. 1908-84, set up in 1930, designed modernist flats, post-war des Harlow New Town 1947ff; consultant to Swindon Corporation; Liverpool RC cathedral 1960-7; Didcot power station 1964-8;
1957-63 City of Bath College, James St West, Bath; MF; 1956 Bath Technical College, wikipedia;
(1960 consultant to Swindon Corporation, Wilts, for expansion of town; Fleming Way Shopping Centre, Swindon, Wilts, des by Shingler Ridsdon with FG as consultant; WBR; plans accepted 1960;
1958-67 Hinkley Point A atomic power station, Som; AJ Jan 1958 64, AJ 3.5.1967 1047;
1967-74 Hinkley Point B nuclear power station, Som;
GIBBS, A. H. London see Valpy & Gibbs.
GIBBS, JAMES 1682-1754. Leading architect of earlier C18, Catholic, pupil of Carlo Fontana, Rome, returned 1709. St Mary le Strand 1714-17; St Martin in the Fields 1722-6; Derby Cathedral 1723-5; New Building Kings College Cambridge 1724-49; Radcliffe Library Oxford 1737-48; HC; biography by Terry Friedman 1984 (TF)
c1716 Witham Park, Witham Friary, Som; Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus 2 1717 pl 91-2 but not given as by Gibbs; BAR British Series 267 1998 57 suggests new house was built in 1717 for Sir Wm Wyndham; but HC says design was for remodelling garden front c1716 and was unexecuted, based on one of c1702 by William Talman qv in Worcester Coll, Oxford, collections; RIBAD catalogue; John Harris, Georgian Country Houses, 1968 pl 9; Ashmolean Lib collection of Gibbs drawings vol 4 22; McGarvie, Witham Friary, 34 says house seems to have been substantially complete by 1717 and was by William Talman qv, Sir Charles Wyndham, Earl of Egremont did not care for the house and it was empty before being sold to Alderman Beckford in 1762, who demolished it and built a new house nearby, by Robert Adam qv incomplete when Beckford died in 1770 and demolished. Remains of the Wyndham house marked on an 1812 map; AH 40 1997 81-98;
(1728-30 designed mon to Sir Edward Seymour +1707, Maiden Bradley, Wilts, made by M Rysbrack and Walter Lee; IR; TF 325; contract with Lee 11.7.28 for £500 marble tomb to draught or design by JG, figures and rest of carving to be by M Rysbrack; £400 paid to Lee 9.10.29, monument erected 1730
(1729 des mon Edward Colston +1721 All Saints ch, Bristol, carved by M Rysbrack with Michael Sidnell; IR;
(17?? Netheravon, House, Wilts, for 3rd Duke of Beaufort; elev at Badminton, but houses was by Francis Smith qv acc to Badminton archives;
(1742? unspecified work at Longleat, Wilts, paid 'to Mr JG Esq., Architect in part of his bill for '42 at Longleat' £21; and another for 'survey work at Longleat and Old Windsor, £21, 12.1.42; TF 325; there had been a fire mentioned in 1722 proposal by Lord Mar for refacing the E front 'in place of that which burnt down'; a visitor in 1738 reported that the eye demanded a a fourth complete front on the N; and unid stonework and carpentry are recorded 1733-4 and 1739; D Burnett, Longleat 1978 103; Gunnis
GIBBS, JOHN architect Oxford born 1827, designed Banbury Cross; author of two books on the Gothic, 1853 and 1855, SAS;
1869? Proposed restoration of churchyard cross, Nynehead, Som; DD/SF/5/1/4 overwritten ‘all wrong could never be like this’; unex, C15 base remains unrestored;
GIBBS, VERNON Architect, Bath, later Sladesbrook, Bradford on Avon. Vernon Gibbs & Partners;
(1982 rest Pippet Buildings, Market St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; for BoA Preservation Trust; CTA 1984;
(1987 plan restoration of Church St, Calne, Wilts; BD 13.2.87;
(1996 Garden Ground, Sladesbrook, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; rightmove website 2014: house for self?, 'Frank Lloyd Wright inspired'
GIBSON RIGLER DESIGN PARTNERSHIP see HA Derek Gibson
GIBSON, H. A. DEREK Bridgwater. Author of ‘A Somerset Architects’ Practice in the C19 & C20’, 2007 (DG). see also Smith:Gamblin. Born 1927, trained Welsh School of Architecture, worked with Sir Percy Thomas & Son 1951, with Bridgwater Borough, joined Steer & Shirley-Smith of Taunton 1955, partner 1962, firm then Steer, Shirley-Smith & Gibson, 1967 Shirley-Smith & Gibson, 1970 Shirley-Smith, Gibson & Rigler; 1986 Gibson Rigler Design Partnership; Taunton office closed 1989. W John Rigler born 1938 joined S & S-S as assistant 1961 left to complete training 1965-8, partner 1970. Moved office to 26 Angel Crescent, Bridgwater1987.
DG 22ff:
alts and adds Library, Bridgwater College;
Derek Gibson wing, Bridgwater College design by John Rigler;
Management and Media Studies add Bridgwater College;
two laboratories Strode College, Street;
minor alterations Royal Ordnance, Puriton, Som;
Bowling-alley, Victoria Sports & Social Club, Street, Som;
alts Spring Farm, Moorlinch, Som, for winery;
office block West Quay, Bridgwater ill DG 23;
also church work: added toilets Wedmore ch and North Curry ch;
renovated Bridgwater MH 2006;
scheme to convert Franciscan Convent, South St, Taunton, to flats;
GILES & GANE, Taunton and London. CE Giles qv in partnership c1872-6 with Richard Gane qv (1839-77) of Trowbridge who then emigrated to Australia and died soon after arrival. RL says partnership began 1868;
1869 rest chancel Hemington ch, Som; by Richard GaneSRO D/D/Bbm/162 add vestry;
1871-2 rest Wookey ch, Som; rest complete Br 4.5.72 p 352; report Dec 1869 by E Christian said chancel wagon-roof worn out, chancel walls later C13, also font, chapel EC16, nave and aisle roofs good C15; recommended new roofs copies of old as they once were, ie open to ridges. Contractor Knowles of Cheddar/ Wrington, c£1700;
1872 alts Wiveliscombe ch, Som; SRO cf/1872/1 internal alts to Carver's E end, mostly swept away by FB Bond 1915;
1872 rest West Bagborough ch, Som; SRO cf/1872/8; new S wall; roofs;
(1873-5 St Luke ch and parsonage, Jude St, Victoria Docks, London; BoE; St Luke, Boyd St, Royal Docks damaged 1940, restored 1960, deconsecrated 1985, closed 1997, converted to community centre; also Boyd Workingmen's Institute 1875;
1874 ?Queen’s College, Taunton, Som; BoE S, ‘illustrated in 1874’; ?error as main buildings are by James Wilson qv 1846-7, RL says this was the Junior School adjoining; but Pevsner probably mistook the 1874 BN illustration, of a college by Giles & Gane, but this was of Taunton College School, later King’s College, of 1867-70, by CE Giles qv;
(1874-5 Abbey Mill, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; BoE; 1874 KR 160 by RG of G&G of Furnival's Inn, London; ill BN ?.?.75 as by RG, Archiseek website)
(1875 Boyd Workingmen's Institute, Victoria Docks, London; near church of St Luke designed by CEG;
1875 rest Midsomer Norton ch, Som; SRO cf/1875/13; ?chancel 1878-9 by Richard Gane but he was dead in 1877; plans of 1875 for enlarging E end, but possibly only tracery renewed, SNB;
(1876 work at Semington ch, Wilts; WBR;)
(1876 work Storrington ch, Sx, by RG continuing work begun by G&G in 1872;
Also alts chancel Steeple Ashton ch, Wilts WBR2 und seating plan;
GILES & GOUGH Architects, 28 Craven St, Strand, London. John Giles c1835-1900 & Albert Edward Gough 1842-1908. Specialists hospitals and asylums. John Giles won competiton and designed Langham Hotel, Langham Place, London, 1865. Partnerships were Giles & Biven 1868-70, Giles & Gough 1872-97 but also Giles, Gough & Trollope 1884-1900 with John E Trollope 1856-1929. G&B 1st prize Highgate Infirmary 1868; 1st prize Leavesden & Caterham Asylums 1868; 1st prize Homerton Fever Hospital 1869; G&G: 1st prize Chatham Asylum 1872; 1st prize adds Carmarthen Joint Counties Asylum 1877; 1st prize Glos Asylum 1879; 1st prize Suffolk Asylum 1880; 2nd prize Dorset Asylum 1890; GG&T: 2nd prize Isle of Wight Asylum 1892; 1st prize Staffs Asylum 1893; 1st Winwick Asylum 1894; 1st Hendon Asylum 1895;
1876-82 Crewkerne Grammar School, Som; G&G of 28 Craven St, Strand, T Br 7.2.80 no architect, Trevena contractor £6547/0/0d; Br 28.8.80; Rev RC Bartelot, History of Crewkerne School, 1899: nearly £10000, Trevena contractors, opened 18.1.82 two stained glass windows one given Major Sparks shows De Combe as priest, other given by Perry family shows Archbishop Cranmer and Edward VI; one of these was by Hardman BN 1882; WG 22.9.82; new buildings 1880, gymnasium 1884, swimming bath 1888, Kelly 1906;
(1881-3 2nd County of Gloucester Asylum, Coney Hill, Gloucester, Glos; competition 1879)
1883 entry Sexey’s County School, Bruton, Som; RHH; G&G; comp won by GJ Skipper;
1891 1st prize Taunton County Asylum, Cotford St Luke, Som; GG&T; RHH; built as Somerset & Bath Asylum, later called Tone Vale Hospital; built 1892-7, HW Pollard qv builder, SAS; clock tower dated 1896, opened 1897; admin block and two infirmary wings each side and recreation hall survive of main buildings, also director’s house, lodge, and chapel of St Luke; TC 29.3.93; adds 1910; closed 1995 now Cotford St Luke village;
(1892 reservoir, Western Joint Asylum, £1586 GG&T, Br 30.7.92;)
GILES & ROBINSON see CE Giles
GILES, CHARLES EDMUND, Architect, Taunton, 1822-81. Wrote a MS autobiography (CEG) now in America, of which a photocopy in SRO T/PH/wln 1. Born Frome, son of William Giles 1783-1853, brought up at Old Rectory, schooled in Frome (vicious Welsh headmaster called Williams), then in Bridgwater school run badly by his older brother, then articled aged 14 1836-9 to Henry Shaw of London (useless ‘he knew himself to be no architect in any sense excepting the desire to be one’ (CEG). Giles’ brother then running badly the City of London School had met Shaw and commissioned from him a Tudor Gothic house to be built at Windlesham, near Oxford (??near Bagshot), hence the apprenticeship (‘result as most blunders are of ignorance and some crime’). Left Shaw 1839 worked for (?George) Alexander qv, London (‘as bad as the previous error’,‘a man absolutely without talent for art of any kind’ ‘devilish temper’ ‘no clients came a second time’) Aged 20 in 1842 returned to Frome, family in chaos, before buying a ten-year partnership aged 21 for £500 with Somerset County Surveyor Richard Carver (‘who had in the days of ignorance of all art matters in England done a large business through the opportunity afforded him by his office of contact with the squires of the county’). (‘greatest difficulties lay with my partner himself who could not at all understand Art to be otherwise than a fashion of the times changing with Caprice’ CEG 144). Carver became jealous when younger squires and clergy came to CEG, fostered by Carver’s 2nd wife who wanted to benefit her younger son. Married Carver’s eldest daughter by his 1st wife on 1.3.1848 (Jane Eleanor Carver 1822-1900) ‘with whom came about £1000 of money and soon after the death of the second sister of consumption another £400’ with which bought No 14 The Crescent, Taunton where they were resident by 1850 and first two children were born Eleanor (1850-1931) and Edmund (1852-1926); money problems persisted through conflict with Carver ‘did all that he might to achieve my ruin’ but luckily ‘soon after this son died and the enmity collapsed and my friendship was now sought’; Abandoned partnership about 1849 (dissolved 14.8.1852, SAS) losing sum paid for partnership; much involved with foundation of SANHS with Sir William Trevelyan & Rev W Chilcott 26.9.1849; took three pupils and moved out to The Close, Stoke St Mary, 1853, for 3 years, where sons Edgar (1855-96) and William (1856-92) were born; had 6½ acres, lived there with his three pupils Stephens from Maidstone a ‘’ who later joined with CEG's assistant Peck and succeeded ‘pretty well in his career’, - Levins who had taste for crazy religion and left to be ordained and is ‘a rather dull executive kind of parson’ and Richard Gane who ‘finished his career with me’ completed his articles in a good office in London, joined his father in trade as a builder in Trowbridge and years after (1869) when I was in difficulties from ill-health bought a share of my business and doing fairly well with me for two years when my health gave way finally bought the remaining share and stock (1873) and started fairly on his own account. In this he signally failed not having head for responsibility he became a drunkard and going to Australia died there at Sydney of drink and despair … left debt unpaid to me of £310; wife’s uncle died 1857 left money to his nieces ‘but tied up in entail so that a more weak and foolish will could not have been made, meanwhile his wife was to…ing a life interest in the strength of which she at once married her old lover and survived some 21 years’ (CEG 146). On marriage did a tour abroad in 1848, prevented by revolutions from going to France, went to Bruges, Antwerp, Brussels, Cologne, Hanover, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg before beginning life at No 14 The Crescent. Saw revolution in streets of Berlin. First child Eleanor b 30.5.1850, Edward b1852, Edgar b1853, William Edward b1856. In 1849 visited artist Henri Gerente in Paris. After 1849 foundation of SANHS got influential clients to set against ‘jealousy of my partner and his destruction of my hopes’. Got work in Lincs through cousin Archdeacon Giles and from Rev Pulteney in Northants and Rev H Broyd (?) in London. Father’s death in 1853 left him enough money to free him from partnership debt. Went on six month tour to Italy leaving office in hands of his ‘clever assistant’ Mr Peck qv and pupil Stephens qv, a youth from Maidstone. At end of 1856 moved to Westbourne Park Villas, London, and in 1859 to 24 Westbourne Park Road, lived there until 1866 when moved to Brentwood, Essex. Year 1865 was acme of career earned £600 then ‘sudden illness swept away all the results of my success and cast me back into necessity and petty ways of life for ever’. To this he blames the fact that only the eldest child had proper education. In London joined RIBA sponsored by Scott & Ferrey but only spoke once at meetings. Business mostly church restorations, schools and parsonages never lucrative. Attended art-drawing classes in Newman St until health failed. 1865-6 confined to house by ill-health, so took into partnership Mr Robinson an old assistant who paid ‘only £100’ for a half-share. By 1868 business failing ‘my partner having a habit of wine-drinking to excess’ obliged in 1869 to restore his £100 to get rid of him. Had to seek help – Gane bought share at very small cost and in 1873 bought the whole partnership. Never earned more than £600, generally £450 and in bad years of American War fell to £200. I ended my upward career at 43 (1865) then an invalid. In 1873 income ceased entirely apart from income from a farm at Woolavington from widow of wife’s uncle Mr Morse supposed to bring in £165 but more like £140-150. Decided to go abroad, in Zurich 1874-5, Lausanne, Vevey 1876-9, then Florence 1879. Died at Rome. London office was at 7 Furnivals Inn partnership of Giles & Robinson (G&R) from 1866-9 with Walter Robinson (1833-1918) of London, at 7 Furnivals Inn AEBTD 1868; then Giles & Gane (G&G) 1869-76 with Richard Gane (c1839-77) of Trowbridge, Gane in sole charge from 1873. Giles & Gough qv partnership wrongly said to be CE Giles & W Venn Gough qv c1876-82 for Crewkerne Grammar School but this was by a London partnership of John Giles and – Gough. While in Italy 1880 wrote unpublished Autograph Memoir, photocopy of original in Santa Monica California in SRO T/PH/wln/1/S/2262, claims to have built 21 new churches (20 in longer list at end of autobiography but including St John Frome and excluding St Mary Frome), restored/rebuilt 17 (all listed in autobiography), repaired 42 (only 29 named), built 27 schools (only 4 named), 16 parsonages, and some 25 other houses and buildings (a few identified in text); he dates his career 1844-73 but calls Bathealton church (1853) his first building in which ‘I took a real interest’ (CEG 205) and the Victoria Dock London church his best building.
1842? Schools, Holy Trinity ch, Taunton, Som; ‘my first building of any (?illegible) the large schools of Holy Trinity, Taunton’; schools were of 1842 and 1862, dem; c1844, SAS: c1844, dem; T/PH/win/1/S/2262; Bush, 1983;
1843-5 repairs St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, restoration and repair works; three lead plaques removed from the Church and sold at auction 1.11.2018 stating... '1845 Messrs Carver and Giles, architects and surveyors, A.C. Cox, J. Jerboult, S.C. Easton, Churchwardens, Revd. J Cottle, Vicar, J Barlett, plumber' SAS; ?C&G in consultation with Benjamin Ferrey qv; roof raised three feet, chancel restored, stained glass windows installed, stalls and tower screen; see also 1849; Cottle, The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, 1845, 3, 4 and 6; TC 29.1.5
1844 restored Minehead ch, Som; C&G, E 1844; SAS;
1845-6 Magdalen Almshouses, Magdalene Lane, Taunton; RL; not mentioned in autobiography; JT illustrates plans for these almshouses of 1867 apparently signed William Shewbrooks. Partly demolished; the almshouses by St James ch, Taunton are said to have been built by same Taunton Town Charity also in 1845, but these look late C19; SAS TC 27.8.45; TC 3.6.46; C&G;
1846 proposed rebuild Wambrook ch, Som; plans ICBS C&G unex; another prop also unex 1858-9 by CEG;
1846-8 school and master’s house, North Curry, DD/EDS/2541; SAS; Dix, North Curry- A Place in History, 2006, 162; Bushell, The Story of the Village School in North Curry, 2002, 8 and 16 illustrations of architects drawings; C&G
(1846-7 alts Hemyock ch, Devon; C&G; ICBS; 9th in list of rebuilds)
1847 proposed church, Rowbarton, Taunton, unexecuted, 1847; ICBS rejected, work not started by 1854 due to...unexpected difficulties; a chapel of ease was eventually built, possibly by William Bruce Gingell, but dem c.1879; C&G, SAS;
1847? rest Charlton Mackrell church, Som; 4th in list of rest works; for Archdeacon Brymer +1852; CEG work on church is given as reason for commission to design schools in 1853 in memory of Brymer; so attribution of church restoration to B Ferrey qv is wrong? In 1847 chancel rebuilt, porch reconstructed, new windows, vestry added; another (N) vestry possibly by CEG added 1861;
(1848 work on Honiton ch, Devon, SAS, C&G)
(1848 S porch, Netherbury ch, Dorset, BoE, church restored 1850)
1849 West Hatch School, Som; E 1849 355; RL; but Kelly says school 1858;
1849-50 rep and enlarged Wellington ch, Som; C&G; ICBS; carvings from old rood screen found by Giles now in Taunton Museum, E 1849 37, SANHS 1 1851 30; by R Carver 1847-51 RL; dismantled chancel and S chancel aisle, demolished N aisle, extended ch eastward, rebuilt N aisle wider; but vestry of 1844 anticipated the widening? New pews; church guide;
1849-51 rebuilt Nether Stowey ch, Som, except tower; plaque says C&G; 4th in list of rebuilds; TC 13.9.51; D/P/n.stwy/8/1/1;
(1849-51 Holy Trinity, Beaminster, Dorset; C&G, BoE; 12th in list of new works ‘small church of a cheap order’ CEG 208; 'quite large for second church of small town', BoE)
1849ff Repairs St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; SANHS 1 1851 89 ref to sculptures on W door restored by me a little while ago, spandrel carvings of Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene and Vision of St Gregory (identified by Pugin); Mr Richardson added new portions in mastic (mortar in print, crossed out in pencil SANHS copy); 1st in list of rest works; in 1850 George Godwin (1815-1888), editor of Builder, reported to the RIBA on...the wretched state of dilapidation and decay of the tower; 1852 CEG report on the state of the tower; 1852 CEG appointed architect for restoration of tower with Benjamin Ferrey consultant but the opinions of 'Messrs Scott, Cornish & Manners' were against restoration; parish rejected their view, and some work was done by Joseph Staple, builder, of Stoke sub Hamdon (SAS); TC 14.4.52; but in 1858 decision taken to take down and rebuild under Scott and Ferrey with Henry Davis qv as builder, work began April 1858, completed 1862, SM 16.9.62,
(1850 rest Netherbury ch, Dorset; 24th in list of rest works; BoE, also S porch 1848;)
1851-5 Kingweston ch, Som; rebuilt on new site, keeping a Norman doorway and font; for Francis Dickinson of Kingweston House; old church dem 1851 VCH; Henry Woodyer made plans 1850, CEG employed by 1851, ?his first independent work; drawings unsigned for a brass lectern, the altar and wood-paving and one signed for nave paving are in DD/DN 363; Benjamin Webb writes 20.12.52 ‘I am glad Giles is going to work out the Lostwithiel idea’ ie Lostwithiel model for spire; CEG 205: ‘the most costly of all my works in proportion to its size a result arising from the eccentric and peculiar way in which the work was done as well as the costly mode of using materials without any regard to economy from some fancied sleight to religion and truthfulness being associated with economy in the use of wrought stone etc in the mind of the donor’; ‘a want of harmony in the several parts from each part being designed at different periods and the style of the church being made more ornate and important as the works proceded’ but tower and spire ‘not far behind the best works of its class’; 2nd church in Giles list of best works; consec TC 25.7.55 Doulting stone and Blue Lias;
1852-4 rest Brompton Regis ch, Som; ICBS; RL 2 22; 12th in list of rest works; ICBS says repairs, reseating; plans suggest new porch doorway and S windows; church guide says another rest in 1885 when chancel and S transept rebuilt on old foundations, but E window looks like CEG;
(1853 completed Studley ch, Trowbridge, Wilts, to design of WH Wilkins, son of principal donor, who died 1853 aged 21; ICBS;
1853-4 Bathealton ch, Som; Giles in autograph memoirs in SRO calls this ‘the first work I took a real interest in .. I see no reason to be ashamed of it: it was built about 1853’; £1881/8/6d, paid for by Archdeacon CA Moysey of Bathealton Court; contr H Dark of Taunton; stone from Great Ball Bathealton ‘large stones furrowed and mortared to give a uniform appearance of small ones’; painting 1855 by A Hoare in Gainsborough Gallery, Suffolk; engraving by CEG; stained glass by John Toms; font by H Davis qv; opened 18.9.54; 1st in Giles list of best new works;
1853 Charlton Mackrell School, Som; E 1853 214 & 1855 50; 2nd in list of schools; memorial to Archdeacon Brymer, interior lined with Minton tiles; mentioned in correspondence between Giles & FH Dickinson, SRO, inc 13.10.52 Giles instructed by Mr Brymer to prepare sketch, Giles having already worked for late Archdeacon Brymer on plans for alts to church; lithograph 1853 with Giles name. E 1853 192 attribs a Charlton school to John Norton; and Charlton Mackrell school is attr to Benjamin Ferrey ?from his obituary, error. inf Celia Mycock, Charltons Hist Soc; builder Snaith, SAS;
1853-4 rest Wellington Monument, Blackdown Hill, Wellington, Som; RL says completed monument after d of Wellington in 1852, work included refacing and other structural alterations; but restoration being undertaken by Messrs Goodridge of Bath, cost c £1,140 according to Br 8.4.54 185 and 18.4.54, 202 (these refs may not be correct); Giles ref comes from Giles' autobiography inf John Girdler author of history of monument;monument started 1817 to design of Thomas Lee qv, CEG prepared a report upon the condition and considered it to be a public danger with its shaft having...fallen into grievous disrepair, the summit being quite open and apparently unfinished. A watercolour painting by Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1810-1897) of Sidmouth depicts the state at that time. In 1846 had been struck by lightning causing considerable damage; following the death of the Duke in 1852, local concerns were galvanised into commissioning the report in which CEG envisaged completing the monument as a simple pillar, without the terminal statue conceived by Lee. This approach was evidently adopted, but the detailed plans for the works were provided by Henry Edmund Goodridge and Alfred Goodridge; DD/DN 4/4/90; Allen and Bush, The Book of Wellington, 1981, 114-5; Girdler, The Wellington Monument in Somerset, 2001;
1853-4 Vicarage, Barton St David, Som; VCH; Alex Higgins builder; additional room, stables and coach-house added 1854, enlarged and refitted 1866;
1854 St John’s Schools, Vicarage St, Frome, Som; SNB;
1854 Long Load ch, Som; BoE; 1854-7 ICBS; 1854-6 RL; 1856 Kelly; 15th in list of new churches;
1855 Schools, Wellington, Som; E 1855 130; RL; 3rd of four schools CEG names in autobiog; St John’s Schools, High St, Wellington; tower had spirelet, now removed;
1855 2nd prize Law Courts, Taunton, Som; CEG 216; Assize courts won by WB Moffatt qv; Br 1855 59, 81, 190;
1855 repairs tower, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, TC 16.5.55, repairs only to buttresses and portions considered dangerous, not full restoration;
1856 Stuckeys Bank, High St, Wells, Som; SNB; 1856 RL, Knight of Wells builder; autobiography says he did two banks; George Inn and adjacent house purchased for demolition for bank SM 15.1.56; William Burges in BN 1865 605-6 commented... 'I shall never forget my horror on coming upon a Venetian bank built in freestone in a quiet, dull cathedral town-it was simply an impertinence'.
1856-7 Cann’s Field House, Park St, Taunton; RL; later Cannsfield House now Corner House Hotel; Henry Davis builder; JT 35; possible that Giles was involved with adjacent terrace Nos 16-20 Park St, in multi-coloured stones, and pairs of houses beyond Nos. 21-25 and 26-30, almost certainly built by Davis qv; TC 11.2.57, SAS;
1856-7 Stuckey’s Bank, 25 Fore St, Taunton, Som; dated 1857, palazzo style, originally 5 bays, extended to left by George Oatley 1906; autobiography says he did two banks; ref to proposed minor alts to Stuckey's Bank Fore St, TC 12.3.56
1856-7 alts Hillfarrance ch, Som; ICBS; vestry, chancel and transept windows; 8th in list of rest works; TC 24.9.56;
1856-8 vicarage, East Woodlands, Som; James Davis qv builder, corbel over porch and motto carved by James Halliday; Longleat 14/3 2/12 29/9/1852 and 18/2/1854; also trustees of Pennard Charity minutes 14/3 29/0 24/7/1854; house at Woodlands in list of houses; letters 14/3 27.5/0 01/1/1856 re site, and 14/3 13/0 27/9/1855 letter-book with correspondence with CEG; 27.5/0 27/5/1856 agreement with James Davis and spec; letter re lost plans 14/3 27.5/0 30/1/1861; letters 1862 re failed drainage 14/3 13/0 10/2/1862; ground plan with details for drainage undated 14/3 27.5/0 01/1/1867 and 27.5/0 01/1/1869; CEG built chancel and vestry of Woodlands ch 1870-1, as part of intended complete rebuild; nave and aisles 1880 by JL Pearson qv modifying CEG plans for economy;
1856-8 rest Williton ch, Som; RL; 5th in list of rebuilds. New N aisle and W front with porch, originally capped by a broach-spired timber bellcote, replaced 1896; reopened TC 18.8.58, Mr Giles gave carved Lamb & Flag over N doorway;
1856-63 rest Trull ch, Som; RL 2 22; TC 20.1.58, Henry Davis bldr;
1857 rest Over Stowey ch, Som; rebuilt chancel, TC 10.6.57, SAS; not in autobiog; church restored by Carver qv in 1840; invitation to a reopening 22.3.1866, DD/AH/21/15/24; chancel lengthened 1902 in matching style by AB Cottam qv;
(1857 school, Partney, Lincs, BoE, also restored church 1862)
1857-8 Schools, Stoke St Gregory, Som; Br 1857 497; builder WH Woodford, SAS, TC 2.11.57;
185? proposed rest Shapwick ch, unex, 1850s VCH; SAS;
1857 rest Staplegrove ch, Som; major restoration and extension W, SCG 22.8.57, John Macey of Bishops Hull mason; Spiller of North Town carpenter (presume John Spiller); reopened TC 19.8.57, SCG 22.8.57, font and credence table by Henry Davis qv; not in autobiog;
1858-9 NW tower & W front, Corfe ch, Som; ICBS 1858-9 W extension; Giles demolished the C13 tower and extended B Ferrey’s nave and aisle by one bay; neo-Norman; 18th in list of restoration works; TC 27.4.59; new work of Pibsbury Blue Lias with Ham dressings, roof of tower of solid blocks of Ham stone, corbels and bosses carved by Halliday of Wells, circular W window with glass by Clutterbuck, aisle W windows quarries and medallions by Powell, chancel arch enriched with cable moulding, beautiful oak roof found in the chancel now exposed to view, ;
1858-9 enlarged Binegar ch, Som; ICBS; rebuilt except tower 1859 Kelly; SNB; 11th in list of rebuilds;
1858-9 rest East Brent ch, Som; ICBS; repewed RL; not in autobiog;
1858-9 proposed rebuild Wambrook ch, Som; ICBS no plans; unex; cf previous scheme also unex 1846 by C&G; not in autobiog.
1858-60 enlarged Bishops Lydeard ch, Som; ICBS; D/D/cf/1859/1 builder Edward Jeboult; 9th in list of rest works; N aisle rebuilt, repairs, chancel rebuilt;
1858-60 rest Allerton ch, Chapel Allerton, Som; ICBS; £1364; virtually rebuilt, added N aisle, nave bellcote; opened 30.8.60; 15th in list of rebuilds; did he also design rectory 1868-9? Photo in CEG 214 wrongly labelled Partney, Lincs. Font carved by Davis?
1858-61 rebuilt tower Curry Rivel ch, Som; ICBS has file 1858-63 for restoration including rebuilding tower; Br 9.6.1860 368 says FS laid for new tower in style of old, no architect used. Tower rebuilt after vestry meeting 1857, Pibsbury stone, contract Hartnell of Curry Rivel with Staples of Stoke sub Hamdon, Charles Fry of Curry Rivel clerk of works, CEG architect, William Pollard of Crediton, foreman, work began 8.5.60, Henry Bevan of Langport mason killed, completed 1861 £1260. Mounter 88-9. See 1861-3 for restoration of rest; 3rd in list of rest works;
1858-70 rest Nettlecombe ch, Som; RL; DoE chancel altered and vestry added 1858 and 1870 by CE Giles under direction of James Babbage, so two periods; 16th in list of restorations; plan SRO D/P/net/8/3/2 is inscribed CE Giles plan generally followed in restoration from 1858-70, but reredos plan in same folder is by Slater & Carpenter qv 1870;
(185? unex work in South Carolina, USA for 'Plowden Western Esq' including a cathedral at Charleston and a large mansion at Georgetown to include the best of the middle ages, not executed due to Civil War breaking out in 1861; CEG 213; Plowden Charles Jennett Weston (1819-64), born London, educated Harrow and Cambridge, married Emily Esdaile in Somerset, 1847, one of richest men in South Carolina and largest slave owner, lived at Hagley Plantation, captain of his own militia in Confederate army, 1861-2, contracted TB, briefly Lt-Governor of South Carolina, 1863-4, died childless, wife returned to England;
(1859 Pennington ch, New Forest, Hants; 18th in list of new churches; BoE)
1859-60 All Saints ch, East Clevedon, Som; engraving in autobiography; SNB; 3rd in Giles list of new works ‘suffered from strained parsimony’ ‘but pleases Clevedon visitors’; for Sir Arthur Elton; Br 4.6.59; consecrated SM 6.11.60; stained glass by Capronnier 1874;
1859-61 Draycott ch, Som; ICBS; RL; SNB; consecrated TC 14.8.61; 17th in list of new churches; also vicarage, SAS;
1859-61 Leighland ch, Old Cleeve, Som; ICBS; 1861-2 DoE and VCH; 1862 BoES; 4th in list of new churches;
1859-61 Isle Brewers ch, Som; BoE; ICBS 1858-61; builders Spiller Taunton RL; FS TC 28.9.59; under construction, Dec style, Br 8.10.59; consec 2.8.61, Br 1861 569; £1500, for Rev Joseph Wolff vicar 1846-62 known as the ‘eccentric missionary’; E window designed by Mrs Miles, wife of Rev Robert Miles, rector of Bingham, Notts and mother of Frank Miles, painter. 20th in list of new churches;
1860 ?Greenham ch, Som, as spirelet like Long Load; but TC 18.7.60 gives Henry Davis qv as architect & builder and no architect named in Br 28.7.60 484, glass by Lavers & Barraud; not in autobiog;
186? attrib work at Eastbrook House, Church Rd, Trull, Som, the Gorhic gatehouse range, No 42 Church St, and possibly the cottage pair Nos 57-59 opposite; SSW;
(1860-1 Holy Trinity ch, Ventnor, IofW; engraving pasted in autobiography, 4th in list of new churches ‘contains some of my best designs .. defect in the attenuated character of the spire’ ‘unmeaning character of reredos’ CEG 207;
1860 appointed to restore St John ch, Frome, Som, work begun by B Ferrey; Oxford Architectural Soc report 1860 that Mr Bennett of Frome has appointed Mr Giles, while Mr Butterfield appointed for chancel by Lord Cork; cf 1862-6; restoration to begin WI 18.7.61;
1861 rebuilt Ansford ch, Som; BoE, GR; 1859-61 ICBS; 1859-61 repaired & enlarged RL; entirely rebuilt except tower, new N aisle VCH; EO Francis of Castle Cary builder, faculty 1860, old church demolished 1861, opened TC 21.8.61, reading desk by Mr Giles of novel design, reredos of Bath stone, carving by John Seymour Taunton, sanctuary paving Minton tiles; SJ 22.8.61 cf CCV 8 165; two S windows retained square-headed; small chancel N window erected by AJ Woodforde to family and large chancel window to be erected by Woodforde family, restoration cost c£1000; 7th in list of rebuilds;
1861 St John ch, Bathwick, Bath, Som; 1860-2 ICBS, 1861-2 MF, SNB; enl with new nave and chancel 1870-1 by AW Blomfield qv; BN 19.5.71 and 26.5.71, octagonal top to tower and spire are by AWB 1870-1 and baptistery by AWB 1879; tile floor plan in Maw’s archive N&Q 1994 340;
1861 ?alts Drayton ch, Som; RL; not in autobiog; unlikely as church restored 1854-6 by Maurice Davis qv;
1861 attrib N vestry, Charlton Mackrell church; CEG id schools 1853 and main restoration 1847;
1861-3 rest Curry Rivel ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1861/2; nave roof, porch roof, aisle roofs, roughcast interior walls, organ gallery of 1831 taken down, new altar and rail, ?pulpit given by Charles Fry the clerk of works, 1863 (1888 according to Mounter 90) 3rd in list of restorations; tower already taken down and rebuilt 1858-61 see above;
(1861-5 rest St Martin ch, Haverfordwest Pembs; new arcade, windows etc. Spire rebuilt l869-70 by G&R; Pembs RO HPR/25/270; D Miles, Haverfordwest, 83; Carmarthen Journal 20.6.62; ICBS; Pembs Herald 29.9.65; Carver’s wife was related to Rev J Thomas of Haverfordwest, sent his son Edmund to school with Rev Thomas 1861 who he calls the boy’s uncle; autobiog; 16th in list of rebuilds;
1862 enlarged Cutcombe ch, Som; RL; added S aisle and SE chapel; tile floor plan in Maw’s archive N&Q 1994 340; 1st in list of rebuilds; builders Pearse & Hole of Dunster, Br 1862 790, SAS;
(1862 Belleau ch, Lincs 6th in list of rebuilds; BoE);
(1862 rest Partney ch, Lincs; also school 1857, BoE; 25th in list of rest works)
1862-3 rest Carhampton ch, Som; SRO; CB 1863 182; 1862-3 RL; 10th in list of rebuilds; SRO plans by James Piess qv builder; screen restored by John Seymour, painted by Stansell of Taunton, SAS; Seymour also restored Trevelyan monument; no evidence that Giles designed the tower of 1870?
1862-3 alts Trull ch, Som, SAS; box pews removed reseated, new font, pulpit moved; but medieval bench ends remain?
1862-5 alts St John ch, Frome, Som; rest about to begin WI 18.7.61; almost all rebuilt, 1860-6 completed work started by B Ferrey qv and design Via Crucis, RL; Oxford Architectural Soc report 1860 Mr Bennett of Frome has appointed Mr Giles, Mr Butterfield appointed for chancel by Lord Cork; very long account with history of church and Frome in autobiography; St John Frome Selwood 5th in list of new churches ‘I am not responsible for seats and external porticos of chancel and S chapel .. not to be blamed for the bad Pieta in the Lady Chapel’; added Via Crucis Stations of the Cross 1866 carved by James Forsyth;
Opened SWJ 23.6.66; Via Dolorosa to N porch carved by Forsyth; S porch carving by Ezard of Bath; others by Forsyth on vestry and Lady Chapel; ten stained glass windows by Hardman; painted decorations by Clayton & Bell; architect CEG of Bayswater, formerly of Frome; Messrs Brown contractors; Mr Tookey clerk of works; carving mostly by Early of Taunton, with Ezard of Bath, sculpture by Forsyth, metal by Singer of Frome;
(1863 Christ Church ch, Cambs, called Christ Church, Upwell, Norfolk; 7th in list of new churches; also a parsonage in list of houses; CEG 208 ‘both (Upwell and Nordelph) simple but not quite commonplace’; Christ Church Upwell is now parish church of Christ Church, Cambs, acc to BoE 1863 by John Giles, error, Nordelph is in Norfolk, 1865)
(1863? house, Christ Church, Cambs presumably the parsonage, called Christ Church, Upwell Norfolk, list of houses, Christ Church is just in Cambridgeshire, church by CEG 1863, BoE wrongly attrib to John Giles;
(1863-4 St Mary ch, Haverfordwest, Pembs; rebuilt N porch, planned spire not built; BN 1864 569; D Miles, Haverfordwest, 90-1. CEG took over restoration on death of WH Lindsey in 1863;
1863 rest Mark ch, Som; SRO cf/1863/5; include former vestry at E end of N aisle into N aisle with new E window, reform E arch of N arcade; RL;
1863 plans rest West Coker ch, Som; D/D/cf/1863/7; unex, SAS; restored 1863-4 by JM Allen qv, rebuilt N aisle, SSW;
1863-5 rest West Harptree ch, Som; ICBS; N transept, repairs; SRO cf/1863/4; 1865 SNB; 8th in list of rebuilds; 1865 CEG, SNB; by G&R SAS;
1863-4 St Mary ch, Welshmill Rd, Frome, Som; SNB; 1860-5 SAS, new church, with apse and bellcote, with school and houses for schoolmaster and curate, now vicarage; 13th in list of new churches;
1863-5 involved rest Shepton Beauchamp ch, Som, restored by GE Street qv, with CEG possibly executant architect, SAS, WG 2.6.65, ICBS; D/D/cf/1864/1;
1864 school and houses for school-teacher and curate, St Mary ch, Welshmill Rd, Frome, Som; one of only four schools CEG names in autobiog; complex of school, church and paired houses for schoolteacher and curate, 1864 SNB; ?same as Chapel & school, Frome Selwood, Som, E 1865 53, SAS suggests this is a different work;
1864 rest Monkton Combe ch, Som; SRO cf/1864/2; 1863-5 SNB ‘rather a terrible piece of architecture’ Pevsner; ‘the tower being one of my best efforts’ CEG 209, 9th in list of new works; enlarged 1886 by EH Lingen Barker qv; ICBS 1864-5 new tower and S aisle;
1864? Parsonage, Monkton Combe, Som; engraving CEG 216; in list of houses in autobiog; not in SNB;
1864 attrib rest Stoke St Mary ch; S aisle and vestry added, Henry Davis qv builder; SAS; not in autobiog;
1864-5 rest Thorne St Margaret ch, Som; SRO cf/1864/4; rebuilt except tower 1865; 1863-5 ICBS; reopened July 1865 £828/6/0d; church extended E, screen moved from tower arch to vestry, fragment of Norman moulding kept over S door; 14th in list of rebuilds;
1864 tenders for ? SCG 20.8.64;
1864 attrib Stuckey's Bank, High St, Wellington, Som; but autobiography only mentions two banks, assumed to be Stuckeys, Wells, 1855, and Stuckeys, Taunton, 1857; SSW;
1864 rest Fivehead ch, Som; D/D/cf/1864/6; 1863-6 ICBS, not in autobiog; extended S aisle to W, reseating, repairs, SAS;
(1864 clerestory, South Molton ch, Devon; BoE; 23rd in list of rest works;
1865 attrib Wilts & Dorset Bank, 4 Fore St, Taunton, Som; very Gothic, but autobiography only mentions two banks, assumed to be Stuckeys, Wells, 1855, and Stuckeys, Taunton, 1857; SSW;
1865 rest Norton Fitzwarren ch, Som; CB 1866 41; reopened TC 13.9.65; rebuilt NE chapel, restored chancel, reredos, E window by Clayton & Bell, builder John Spiller qv,
(1865 Holy Trinity ch, Nordelph, Norfolk; called St Peter's 8th in list of new churches CEG 208 ‘both (Nordelph and Upwell) simple but not quite commonplace’, both called Norfolk in autobiography list but Christ Church, Upwell, 1863, is just in Cambs; Holy Trinity Nordelph 1865, for Rev W Townley, demolished 2010, wrongly attributed to John Giles on website; also house at St Peter ch, Nordelph, Norfolk presumably parsonage; in list of houses;
1865 entrant Forum House Hotel & Baths comp, Bath; RHH;
1865 rest West Harptree ch, Som; CEG, SNB;
Giles & Robinson
1865 alts Chewton Mendip ch, Som begun CEG, finished G&R; RL; G&R SNB; 5th in list of rest works; presumably 1865-6; vestry, S porch, E window;
1865 alts vicarage, Chewton Mendip, Som; by G&R, covering letter by Walter Robinson; add of service court and parish room; SRO DD/Bbm/146;
1865-6 rest Westonzoyland ch, Som; by G&R, RL2 23; new chancel roof 1865, SSW;
1865-7 rest Bawdrip ch, Som; D/D/cf/1865/1, original proposal to rebuild except crossing tower, modified to complete restoration, roofs raised, windows renewed, pulpit, font, reredos; ?also Greenhill family pew between porch and S transept but faculty refers back to 1833 faculty relating to this; 19th in list of rest works; by G&R, SCG 11.5.67; 1864-7 SAS, D/P/baw/6/1/1 and 23/1;
1866 adds Parsonage, Stowey, Som; SRO DD/Bbm/148, add of service wing; cottage scale front; G&R, Walter Robinson signs papers;
1867? rest Langport ch, Som; 2nd in list of rest works, maybe the chancel restoration in 1867 for the banker W Paul;
1867 Huish Almshouses, Magdalene St, Taunton, Som; G&R of Furnivals Inn; contract in SRO DD/DP/72/3, 1866, John Spiller builder; SCG 14.9.67; also known as the Huish Homes;
1867 1st prize Taunton College School (King’s College), South Rd, Taunton, Som; RHH; autobiography says plans prepared 1866 after a tour of modern schools; built 1867-9, Br 1867 715; SCH 8.10.70, illustrated with plan BN 13.11. 1874; bankrupt 1879, purchased 1880 by Canon Woodard as King Alfred's College; engraving signed by Giles & Gane, RL; 1867-9, BoES; 1868-70 SAS, builder John Spiller qv, alterations headmaster's house, 1877; Kelly 1906 says Woodard School dedicated to King Alfred opened 26.10.1880. Buildings of red Monkton stone comprising temporary chapel, dining hall, schoolroom, classrooms, studies, dormitories and other requisites; added wing 1901 £3500 with dormitory and library; BoE says chapel 1899-1908, 1906 connecting wing, and 1926-7 headmasters house, all by WE Tower qv; engraving autobiography shows fleche on top of tower roof; mentioned in autobiog list; engraving CEG 213;
1867 tender for ? Taunton; SCG 5.10.67, 30.11.67; G&R;
1867 New Cross, Taunton, Som, based on the Old Market Cross destroyed 1769, paid for by AW Kinglake (see Wilton House) in memory of his parents, his father was William Kinglake banker +1852, dismantled 1934 (Burma War Memorial stands on the site); SC notes;
1867 rebuilt and extended church-house, Leighland, Old Cleeve, Som, as vicarage, G&R, VCH says 1877 quoting D/P/lei/3/4/2-5; ?wrong date for G&R, the papers appear to relate to 1867;
1867 attrib reredos, St Cuthbert ch, Wells, SAS; by James Forsyth qv, SNB; restoration of St Cuthbert ch is 6th in list of rest works, no date known;
1867-8 rebuilt chancel, Kingsdon ch, Som; G&R; SRO D/D/Bbm/160; 7th in list of rest works; new roof, N vestry etc;
(1868 rest Steeple Ashton ch, Wilts, G&R; WBR; 22nd in list of rest works; see also 1871-4)
1868 attrib National School, Chewton Mendip, som; SAS;
1868 rest Exford ch, Som; D/D/cf/1868/2; application by G&R, plan by G&G, completed by CEG, ICBS 1868-71; RL; engraving CEG 215; 2nd in list of rebuilds; 1868-71 SAS;
1868-9 rest Pensford ch, Som; SRO cf/1868/5, G&R; 1869 by CEG, SNB, rebuilt body of church, now house; 12th in list of rebuilds;
1868-71 rest Lydeard St Lawrence ch, Som; SRO; G&R; 1868-71 ICBS, G&R completed by CEG alone; RL; 10th in list of rest works; repairs roof and walls;
1868-9 vicarage, Chapel Allerton, Som; plans for stables 1869 in SRO DD/Bbm/171; the parsonage begun 21.9.68 finished 29.9.69 (church guide); list of houses in autobiog;
1869? rest Crowcombe ch, Som; 14th in list of rest works; possibly the new roof £720, 1869, cf PSANHS 54 1908 61; ch was rest in 1856 by JL Pearson qv £470;
(1869-70 spire rebuilt St Martin ch, Haverfordwest, Pembs; G&R; completion of earlier restoration see 1861-5; D Miles, Haverfordwest, 83; Pembs RO HPR/25/270;
C.E. Giles and Richard Gane
1869 rest chancel, Hemington ch, Som; SAS D/D/Bbm/162 work by RG; not in autobiogr list;
1869-71 chancel and vestry, Woodlands ch, Som; F&G Brown of Frome qv builders; payment vouchers 1870-1 £700, Longleat 14/3 2/12 1/1/1869; 3rd ch in list of those all but rebuilt; Giles planned total rebuild with bellcotes over W end and chancel arch, but nave and tower (and spire?) of 1712 were retained as money was short, nave and aisles done in 1879-81 by JL Pearson qv possibly to Giles plans, or at least in harmony with his chancel; but keeping W tower; CEG also designed vicarage, East Woodlands 1856-8; spec 14/3 27/0 01/4/1869 and agreement with F&G Brown qv to take down and rebuild chancel 1870; 14/3 27/0 1/1/1870 has account of new chancel & vestry 1870 and letter to Bennett, vicar of Frome; 14/3 13/0 8/2/1871 has corresp with steward H Parr Jones concerning plans been sent, Jones says ‘I fear it will be some time before we can think of completing the church’; 14/3 13/0 9/3/1875 letter re cost £825 excepting architects fee; FT 30.11.70 chancel opened, new with new chancel arch, dwarf stone screen, five steps up to sanctuary, fine new reredos in three panels with marble-shafted niches, panels left plain for future embellishment; Minton floor tiles mixed with encaustic tiles given by vicar; plain glass by Horwood in windows except central E light Christ figure removed from E window of parish church, Frome; altar cross gift of Mrs JW Singer, altar cloth of Rev JHS Horner;
(c1870 rest Horncastle ch, Lincs; reredos c1870 BoE; 27th in list of rest works)
1870-1 rebuilt Tolland ch, Som; RL 2 23; WSFP 15.7.71; SCH 15.7.71; Shewbrooks & Son qv builders, Mrs Stagg of Taunton stonework; £1000; 13th in list of rebuilds;
1871-2 rest Wookey ch, Som; SRO cf/1871/3, CEG of G&G, Br 4.5.72 352; A 27.4.72; Mr Knowles of Cheddar & Wrington contractor; c£1700; report on condition 1869 by E Christian qv., church guide by B Luker; 13th on list of rest works; 1869-72 SAS;
(1871-4 rest Steeple Ashton ch including new pulpit made by F&G Brown qv of Frome, ?the contractors; seating plan signed by G&G; ICBS application in 1872 says chancel had been rebuilt 1855 and that ‘the W end … was most substantially repaired & refitted with open seats of oak’ in 1869. In 1872 they apply to a grant for reseating ‘the centre of the church’; the completion cert is dated 13.2.1873: architects for this last phase named as G&G, presumably also for 1869 work.
(1872 rest Storrington ch, Sx; autobiog; G&G with further work in 1876 by Gane qv; inf content/view/549/33/ 17th in list of rebuilds;
1872 alts Wiveliscombe ch, Som; G&G; altered chancel of church by Carver, RL; D/D/cf/1872/1; most of this work removed in 1915 alterations by FB Bond; 20th in list of rest works;
1872 National School, Bridge St, Williton, Som; plans SRO DD/EDS/6443 signed by CEG; schoolrooms in cross-wing to house, the big N end classroom added later probably not by CEG;
(1872 Hordle ch, Hants; 6th in list of new churches ‘not far behind the best work of my time’ CEG 208)
1872 rest West Bagborough ch, Som; SRO cf/1872/8, G&G; RL; S wall and porch rebuilt,
(187? church, Silvertown, North Woolwich, London; mentioned in autobiography as one of two large churches near London with St Luke, Victoria Dock, London; 10th in list of new work; unidentified;
(1873-5 St Luke ch, Jude St, Victoria Docks, London; G&G; CEG autobiography includes it as 11th in list of new works, ‘my last work before retiring’ ‘on the whole my best work I think’; all but spire built; fleche on roof; engraving in autobiography from BN 20.6.73; also schools and parsonage in list of works; engraving in CEG 212; church bomb-damaged 1940, restored 1960, closed 1980s, now a community centre)
(187? Schools, Victoria Dock, London; included as best of his schools, first in list of schools)
(187? Parsonage, Victoria Dock, London; in list of houses;)
Giles retired in 1873
1874 Cotlake House, Queen’s College, Taunton, Som; RL; not the main buildings by James Wilson ?the Junior School, RL personal comment; 1874-80 SAS;
(1874 Abbey Mill, Church St, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts, by Richard Gane of G&G; K Rogers, Wilts & Somerset Woollen mills, 160)
1875 rest Midsomer Norton ch, Som; SRO cf/1875/13, G&G; plans enlarging chancel not exec, but tracery possibly altered; SNB;
(1876 alts Semington ch, Wilts, G&G, WBR; vestry added 1876-7 to church by E Christian)
1876-82 ?Crewkerne Grammar School, Som; error, Giles & Gough architects according to school history opened 18.1.82; RL says by CE Giles +1881 and William Venn Gough of Bristol qv; error for different firm, John Giles & Gough of London qv; Kelly 1906 lists new buildings 1880, gymnasium 1884, swimming bath 1888, no architects named;
1877 rebuilt and ext Old Cleeve ch, Som; RL; not in autobiog lists;
1877 new front Churchill Court, Churchill, Som; for his brother JA Giles, SNB; not in autobiography; possibly only work by CEG after retirement, SAS;
1882 Summerleaze, Murty Hill, Mells/Frome, RL; Br 8.7.82 designed by the late CEG walls of mountain limestone, snail-creep random-work, Beer stone dressings, Ruabon roof tiles, Maw & Co floor tiles, stained glass by E Horwood of Frome; the conservatory, entrance and stables designed by WF Bird qv son of the contractor;
ALSO
(18?? St Andrew ch, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; ?dem; not in BoE; 16th in list of new churches)
18?? Thorne St Mary ch, Som, 13th in list of new churches; ?where, Thorne St Margaret was rebuilt by Giles 1865 but is already in the list under rebuilds. Thorne Coffin ch is St Andrew; probably a misreading of Frome St Mary church of 1863-4 which otherwise does not occur;
(18?? ?Walton ch, Pembs; 19th in list of new churches, handwriting of place name indistinct, and if it is Walton not clear which of two churches, neither known to be by Giles: Walton East 1849-53 by Joseph Jenkins, new build, Walton West rest 1854 by RK Penson not new build; )
18?? Rest Sparkford ch, Som; 17th in list of rest works, no obvious work there;
18?? Rest Winsford ch, Som; 15th in list of rest works: no known work, restored 1890-1 by JD Sedding qv;
18?? Rest Luxborough ch, Som; 11th in list of rest works; rebuilt saddleback top of tower, restored rest; date unknown
18?? Rest A… ch, Som; illegible; 20A in list of rest works after Wiveliscombe;
(18?? Rest Harmondsworth ch, Mx; 21st in list of rest works; BoE mentions ceiling removed in 1862)
(18?? Rest ??Scomisled ch, ?Lincs 26th in list of rest works; illegible)
(18?? Rest West Keal ch, Lincs 28th in list of rest works; BoE has chancel restored by GE Street in 1867 and tower rebuilt 1881-4;
(187? Schools, Victoria Dock, London; included as best of his schools, first in list of schools)
18?? ?rest Isle Abbots ch, Som, nd, not in autobiography; main 1875 restoration by B Ferrey qv inf J Sampson;
18?? house at Clevedon, probably parsonage for All Saints; inc in list of houses
18?? house at Draycott, Som; prob a parsonage; in list of houses;
(18?? house at Thames Ditton, Surrey; possibly a parsonage;
(18?? house at Welney, Norfolk presumably parsonage; St Mary ch Welney, built 1848 by JC Buckler;
(18?? house presumably parsonage, St Peter ch, Victoria Dock, London; list of houses; engraving plans CEG 214; ?? no St Peter's church there now;
(18?? A large wing to a mansion in Essex; list of houses;
18?? house in Somerset; list of houses;
18?? house at Taunton, Som; list of houses ?Cann’s Field, Park St, 1857.
18?? shop and house at Taunton, Som; ?the Gothic house at top of North Rd/ Staplegrove Rd;
18?? Two banks and other main works of various kinds; presumably Stuckey's Bank, Fore St, Taunton, 1857, and Stuckey's Bank, High St, Wells 1855-6;
Also in the autobiography is a photo unexplained of Huntspill Court, West Huntspill, Som, a later C18 house for Admiral Sir Charles Saunders;
GILL & BROWNE 1 Fountain Buildings, Bath. John Elkington Gill +1874 worked with Thomas Browne and firm continued under Browne from 1874 as G&B before becoming Browne & Gill qv when Wallace Gill joined.
1874 Backwell parsonage, Som; G&B; SRO D/D/Bbm/208;
1875 alts Rodney Stoke parsonage, Som; G&B; D/D/Bbm/217, refronted with canted bays.
1876 rear adds Draycott parsonage, Som; Thomas Browne of G&B; bbm/224; gabled; Draycott parsonage probably house at Draycot in list of CE Giles works;
1876-81 reblt Ashwick ch, Som; G&B; AFtext;
1877 attrib add Ammerdown Park, Kilmersdon, Som; AFtext; smoking-room l. of porch;
1877 alts No 9 Bathwick Hill, Bath; G&B; MF;
1878 organ chamber, St Saviour ch, Bath; SRO; G&B; not in MF;
1879 adds Oakwood, Bathwick Hill, Bath; G&B;
GILL & MORRIS see Wallace Gill
GILL, CHARLES LOVETT, Architect, 41 Russell Sq, London. 1880-1960, partner of Albert Richardson qv as R&G;
1954 proposed Baths and laundrette building, Dunster Beach holiday camp, Dunster, Som; plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/178; modern-Georgian with a cupola, never built;
GILL, JOHN ELKINGTON Architect, Bath +1874 partner of GP Manners in Manners & Gill qv, Manners +1862, then Gill on own, then with Thomas Browne firm continued after Gill's death in 1874 as Gill & Browne (G&B), then Browne & Gill qv, uncertain when names were reversed but Browne & Gill was Thomas Browne with Wallace Gill qv, son of JEG, who joined c1879. Buried Smallcombe Cemetery, Bath. Court case executors of JEG v Rev SR Henderson formerly of Nunney re ??? WG 18.12.74;
(1862-6 rest Holy Trinity ch, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR; 1864-6 reopened 13.2.66; Trowbridge Advertiser 17.2.66, reseated, C13-C14 effigy found; work begun by M&G finished by JEG;
1864 ?rebuilt chapel, United Hospital Bath; MF says 1864 work by Wallace Gill (?error, too young) rebuilding a chapel of 1849 by Manners & Gill, and that Browne & Gill added another chapel in 1897-8, ?also wrong; Manners & Gill added attic storey to hospital 1861-4, MF;
1865 alts St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; SRO; not in MF;
1865-6 Chancel, Christ Church, Montpelier, Bath; MF; SNB
(1865-6 rest Doynton ch, Glos; BoE; possibly also involved with remodelling Tracy Park, Wick, Glos c1858-64 for Rev CR Davy, rector of Doynton, but this would be begun by M&G?;
1866 alts Old Theatre, Old Orchard St Bath; conversion from RC church to Masonic Hall; MF;
1866 adds Parsonage, Paulton, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/153; bay windows and rear bedroom over kitchen;
1866-7 La Sainte Union Convent, Pulteney Rd, Bath; MF; add 1880 by B&G;
1867 repewed - ch, Som; and new pulpit in EE style, circular, WG 27.12.67
1868 adds vicarage, Litton, Som; D/D/Bbm/161 Gothic adds to earlier C19 house with labels over sashes; T: BC 9.1.68;
1868 rest Farmborough ch, Som; SRO; ICBS 1867-70;
1869 rest St Saviour ch, Larkhall, Bath; SRO cf/1869/8; not in MF;
1869 alts Barton House, Barton Buildings, Bath; MF; back of Jolly's department store, 1869, two N gables 1885 by B&G
1871-4 shopfronts 1-6 Wood St, Bath; MF; SNB;
1873 Choir room & Sunday school, St John ch, Bathwick, Bath; exts by B&G 1881;
1873 reps Brompton House, St John’s Rd, Bath as vicarage for St John ch, alts 1885 by B&G; MF; but SRO has purchase of a house 1876 Bbm/215;
1874 Backwell parsonage, Som; G&B; SRO Bbm/208;
1874 rest chancel, Nunney ch, Som; SNB; G&B; 1871-4, SAS, builders F & W Brown qv of Frome; FT 9.11.70;
(1874 National School, Doynton, Glos by JEG; BoE)
1876-81 rebuilt Ashwick ch, Som; G&B; SNB; D/D/cf/1876/2; possibly also vicarage, 1881, SAS;
1877 attributed add Ammerdown Ho, Kilmersdon, Som; G&B, SNB; additions 1856-7 by M&G;
1877 alts Spa Villa, No 9 Bathwick Hill, Bath; G&B; MF; SNB
1878 organ chamber, St Saviour ch, Larkhall, Bath; SRO; G&B; not in MF;
1879 adds Oakwood, Bathwick Hill, Bath; G&B; SNB;
Also 18?? rest Hinton Charterhouse ch, Som, Peach NofB, but SNB says restored by GG Scottt 1849 and again in 1866, probably also by Scott;
GILL, WALLACE Architect 1856-1928; 1 Fountain Buildings, Bath, Kelly 1906; son of John Elkington Gill qv, Thomas Browne continued practice as Gill & Browne after JEG died 1874 and after Wallace Gill joined c1879 the firm was Browne & Gill qv until Browne died in 1899 then from 1899-1903 Gill & Morris (G&M) with Percy Morris (later County Architect, Devon), then WG alone until retired in1909, practice continued by Mowbray Green qv;
1897-8 chapel, United Hospital, Bath; by B&G, SNB; 2nd chapel, first 1849 by Manners & Gill, altered 1864;
1899-1901 alts St Michael ch, Northgate, Bath; remove galleries, organ chamber; D/D/cf 1899/8; reseating cf/1901/18
1900 conversion of medieval dovecote, Witham Friary, Som, to village hall; McCann, Dovecotes of Historical Somerset, 38; Proc BNHFC 10 1905; for Duke of Somerset;
1900 vestry, St John ch, Weston, Bath; G&M; SRO cf 1900/1;
1900 addition St Stephen's Primary School, Richmond Rd, Bath; G&M; orig school 1839 by GP Manners; SNB;
1901 Pavilion for Bath Boating Co, Rockcliffe Rd, Bath; MF;
1901 vestry, Charlcombe ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1901/30
1902-3 alts Pulteney Bridge, Bath; rebuilt SW pavilion; MF; G&M;
1903 Stables, Northfield House, Richmond Rd, Bath; MF;
(1903-4 service wing, Tockenham Manor, Wilts; plans WRO; G&M
1904 St Michael’s Church House & No 88 Walcot St, Bath; MF;
1908 alts Christ Church, Montpelier, Bath; MF; battlements and turrets;
1909 alts Hinton Charterhouse ch, Som; plans D/D/cf/1909
Attrib Crown Inn, Bathwick, Bath;
GILLETT, BENJAMIN Builder, Langport, 1806-88, son of John Gillett builder. John Gillett & Son and Maurice Gillett (also a son 1796-1877) are carpenters in Bow St, 1844 dir. John, Maurice & Benjamin are in Somerset Directory 1830.
1871 alts School House, The Green, Long Sutton, Som; alt school of 1840 to teacher’s house for new school, VCH 3 166, Som RO DD/EDS/1; not clear if Gillett also des new School, The Green, 1871;
GILLMORE, EDWARD T. Architect 5 South Parade, Weston s Mare, 1906, 1931.
1909 villa and two pairs semi-det houses, Langport Rd, Weston s Mare, Som, for James Hemmens builder; SRO;
1928 three houses, Langport Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO;
1929 Detached house, S end Langport Rd, Weston s mare, Som; SRO D/B/wsm/24/1
GILPIN, WILLIAM SAWREY. Watercolourist, 1762-1843, after 1820 garden designer and influential theorist of the picturesque, author Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening; son of Sawrey Gilpin, nephew of William Gilpin. Designed terraces at Clumber Park, Notts;
1820c remodelling of park, Marston House, Marston Bigot; new drives, lodges and lake; SAS; Piebenga, William Sawrey Gilpin: Picturesque Improver, Garden History 22, 2, 1994, 175-196; CL 3.1.2018, 44;
1825-32 garden improvements, Mells Park, Som; SNB;
GILTSOFF, JOHN 1882-1964, allegedly a Russian architect in exile, born Archangel, Russia, buried Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery, Watford;
1938 renovated The Old Cider House, Ilton, Som, £300; Ilton Historical Facts, parish history;
1948 rest Impens Fmho, North Newton, Som; hall staircase and plaster relief decoration of a medieval mounted procession; inf owner;
GIMSON, ERNEST see JD Sedding.
GINGELL, WILLIAM BRUCE. 1819-99 Architect. Bristol. cf GJL 435. Partner c. 1847-50 at Werburgh Chambers, Bristol, with Thomas Fuller Jr of Bath qv (see Fuller & Gingell), both having been pupils of James Wilson in Bath. There may have been an office in Taunton 1847. Partner in mid-l850s with Thomas Royce Lysaght (G&L), but seems to have been short lived,. Lysaght reappears in Bristol c1875 building houses and offices etc to c1886;
1847 Unitarian Schools, Mary St, Taunton, Som; by F&G; dem for 1886 schools; visible in photo JT60;
1847 unex design for St Andrew ch, Rowbarton, Taunton, Som, Br 1847 77, new ch by WBG 'of Taunton' in pointed style of Henry III w broach spire; not blt, present ch 1881 by JH Spencer;
(c1849 completed Canynge Sq, Clifton, Bristol, 1840-9 by C Underwood qv; SNB
(1849 Normal College, Swansea, Glam, F&G, CJ 23.3.49 tender)
(l849-50 Llandovery College, Carms, first sketch ‘The Welsh Collegiate Institution’ signed F&G (Llandovery Album, DKingerlee, 1985, 13). Later drawings are signed Gingell acc to Tom Lloyd. Competition Welshman 9.3.49, won by F&G. Tenders F&G Br 10.3.49, 23.6.49 and CJ 29.6.49. FS laid F&G PH 21.12.49. The firm contracted for themselves £3500 acc to Br 5.1.50, 19.1.50, 26/1/50 objections from profession which led to Fuller resignation from IBA.
(l850-4 Llandingat ch rest. Llandovery, Carms, Carmarthen Journal 4.10.50 New 5-lt altar window, new arcade, new 3-lt chancel N window, tower gallery. NLW plans. ICBS 4272 gives F&G, but corr. and completion certificate signed Gingell. CJ 10.3.54
(1852-5 Leeds & Yorkshire Assurance, Commercial St, Leeds, Yorks; 1st pr 1852 RHH)
(1852-3 General Hospital, Lower Guinea St, Bristol; GJL; 1852-7 SNB)
(1853 3rd prize Preston TH, Lancs RHH)
(1854 Sugar warehouse, King St & Baldwin St, part demolished, part now Canada Ho, Baldwin St)
(1854-7 Bristol, West of England & S Wales Bank, Corn St, Bristol. G&L; W of England & S Wales District Bank, SNB, now Lloyds; carving by John Thomas
1856 ?work at Oakwood (Smallcombe Villa), Bathwick Hill, Bath; signs 1856 elevation and plan in sale particulars; HGS pl 32, p 163;
(1856 Nos 155-7 Whiteladies Rd, Bristol; SNB)
(1857 West of England & S Wales Bank, St Mary St, Cardiff, Glam; now Nat West; G&L (but by TRL according to BoW213).
(1857 West of England & S Wales Bank, Cardiff St, Aberdare, Glam, now HSBC (by WBG BoW 139); BN 1857, 246; BN 1858 126 Italian style
1857 Court House and police station, Shepton Mallet, Som; BN 1857 270;
1859-60 Bridge House, Bridge, South Petherton, Som; dem 1959; for William Blake, cf Blake, The Blakes of South Petherton; Gothic; West Lodge dated 1879, East Lodge, stable court and fragments survive; large parts of front stonework were incorporated in a bungalow at Canford Cliffs, Dorset (photo in book).
(1860 Work for Christopher Thomas in Broad Plain, Old Bread St and Straight St, Bristol)
(1862 Entrant Bristol Royal Insurance Co Offices competition, RHH)
(1862-4 National Provincial Bank Nos. 31-3 Corn St, Bristol; SNB;)
(1863 Sugar warehouse, King St, Bristol dem)
(c1863 Tobacco warehouse, King St, Bristol)
(1864-7 Liverpool, London & Globe Assurance, 36 Corn St, Bristol; SNB, carving by Thomas Colley)
1864 West of England & S Wales Bank, now Lloyds Bank, High St, Weston s Mare, Som; AEBTD; SNB, ornament removed;
(c1865 Rogers Brewery, Jacob St, Bristol; SNB, part demolished)
(1871 outpatients department, General Hospital, Guinea St, Bristol; SNB; hospital by WBG 1852-7;
(1874 Robinson’s Oil Seed Manufactory, offices, warehouse & mill, Bathurst Parade, Bristol. Gomme 369-70; SNB;
(1876 Robinson’s offices, 1-6 Redcliffe St, Bristol Dem.)
(1879 attr alts No 35 Corn St, Bristol; SNB, building of c1790, previously thought to be by John Nash c1811
(1882 Warehouse for Christopher Thomas, Old Bread St, Bristol)
(1886 Alliance Insurance, 37 Corn St, Bristol dem c1930 for Friends Provident 1931-3 by Giles G Scott qv)
(1888 Warehouse for Greenslade, St Thomas’s St, Brisol)
(1890 No 24 Clare St, Bristol; Gothic; SNB; )
(Nos 59-63 Baldwin St, Bristol; blt for fish merchant; SNB)
(1897 ?refronted Fish Market, Baldwin St, Bristol; but SNB says style more akin to WV Gough)
attrib
1865 W of England & S Wales Bank, Fore St, Taunton, Som, 1865, dem; ill JT 45, Venetian Italianate in manner of Foster & Wood;
(1884 Nos 71-3 Lower Redland Rd, Bristol, SNB;
(1884 remodelling of four-storey building of 1850s, Broad Plain, Bristol, SNB;
(1880c No 3 Portwall Lane, Bristol;
GIRDLESTONE, JOHN WARD Engineer
(1887 Granary, Bristol Docks, £27,197/18/7d, T Br 12.2.87;
GJR ARCHITECTS, Exeter Devon. Established 2001 by Alan Ringe & Sarah John. Did trad housing at Cossington, Som, (for Stonevox Ltd) & at South Petherton, Som; new village hall Cossington, Som (cf also Hugh Nettelfield); housing dev Bridgwater, Som by a lake, with Peter Sandover archt; housing dev flats Yeovil, Som;
20?? Esporta Health Club, East St, Taunton, Som;
2010 Landmark House offices, Wirral Park, Glastonbury, Som; Mendip DC awards 2011;
GLASCODINE, JOSEPH. Bristol, millwright, carpenter, District Surveyor c1805, son of Samuel Glascodine qv. Lived at house designed by his father in Stokes Croft, Bristol, to c1805, died 1817. Probably father of Richard Glascodine, District Surveyor from 1817, +1819; HC;
(1792 House, Church St, Warminster, Wilts, for William Wansey; VCH 8 94; HC; only known work; later St Boniface College;
GLASCODINE, SAMUEL Bristol carpenter, builder. Employed on John Wood's Bristol Exchange 1741 and on Clifton Hill House 1746; HC; died before 1761 when business passed to Joseph Glascodine, millwright and carpenter qv
(1744-5 St Nicholas Market, Bristol; HC)
(1746 Post Office, 48 Corn St, Bristol; HC; SNB, matching left flank by T Paty 1782)
(1752-6 Kingswood ch, Glos; HC; rebuilt 1878;
Also house for himself, Stokes Croft, Bristol, later the Baptist College;
GLEED BROS, Builders, Northgate, Bridgwater. Advert in 1930s town guide lists works: new sewerage Bridgwater, £3400 (F Parr); St Mary Parish Room Bridgwater (1902) (Samson & Cottam); villa at Burnham (AB Cottam); shop at Bridgwater; seven houses Ashleigh Ave, Bridgwater £2000; adds to Schools, Bridgwater (AB Cottam); warehouse at Bournemouth (T Stevens); villa at Burnham £1300; villa at Burnham £900 (W Press); farmhouse and buildings West Harptree for Duchy of Cornwall; hotel and shops Bridgwater (G Strawbridge) £3000; shop premises Burnham (Wilde & Fry) £1000; shop prems and fittings High St Bridgwater (FHJ Garbutt); House and pumping-station, Yatton (AB Cotterell engineer);
GLENCROSS, LESLIE Architect, FRIBA born 1888, entry in WWinA 1926 says designed private houses in London, Sussex, Devon and Somerset;
GODFREY, R. WILLIAM. Street. Builder & undertaker, not in 1906 dir.
1914 Shields Terrace, 45-9 High St, Street, Som; GHS10, one of first brick buildings in Street, end house dem 1983 and whole remodelled with mullion windows as annex to No 51 High St, Mullions Hotel; Mc Garvie Guide to historic Street;
1920-1 built 52 houses, Merriman Gardens, Street for Street UDC, ST Clothier architect, with Allen & Sons builders; McGarvie;
1925-6 built 23 houses, Jubilee Rd, Street for Street UDC by ST Clothier qv, with Allen & sons and W Latcham builders;
1927-8 built 36 houses Ivythorn Rd, Garston close, Street, by ST Clothier qv, with Allen & sons and W Latcham builders;
GODFREY, WILLIAM Freemason;
1769 paid for freestone and working thereof for TH, Wincanton, Som; GS; also Edward Walter tiler, Edward & Moses Walter plasterers, - Ivie carpenter sashes sash frames, Thomas Pomroy mason; enlarged 1867 for £800, burnt down 1877, reopened 1878;
GODWIN, - ?builder, Clevedon
1863 Herbert Terrace, Clevedon 'built by or for Godwin', Lilly, The Builders of Clevedon, 2000, 6;
GODWIN & CRISP Architects, 21 Portland Sq, Bristol. Edward William Godwin 1833-86 qv & Henry Crisp qv fl 1864-71; Godwin went to London c1865.
1864 advert re 11 acres building land, Burnham on Sea, Som SCG 17.9.64;
(1865 E window, St Philip & St James ch, Bristol; SNB; glass by Heaton Butler & Bayne perhaps des by EWG;
(1866 entrant Manchester TH comp; RHH)
(1866 National School, Winterbourne Down, Glos; BoE)
1866 entrant W of England Dissenters Proprietary School, Taunton, Som; competition, RHH
(c1870 Cherry Orchards, Westbury on Trym, Bristol; SNB; for George Smith; design mostly by H Crisp;
GODWIN, EDWARD WILLIAM Bristol, architect, furniture designer, artist, 1833-86; pupil of William Armstrong qv; in Bristol to 1865, partnership with Henry Crisp 1864 to c1871, EWG went to London in 1865.
(1850 attrib involvement alts Cutlers Hall, Bristol, by William Armstrong; SNB)
(1860 rest Ditteridge ch, Wilts; BoE)
(1860-4 Northampton TH, Northants;)
(186? comp entry Assize Courts, Small St, Bristol; won all prizes but commission given to Popes & Bindon qv;
(1861 St Philip & St Jacob School, Queen St, Bristol; exec by JA Clarke qv; SNB;
(1861-2 Nos 10-11 Rockleaze, Sneyd Pk, Bristol, exec by JA Clarke qv; SNB;
(1862 Perrys Carriage Works, 104 Stokes Croft, Bristol;
(1863 adds Highbury C chapel, Cotham, Bristol; now Cotham parish church; added apse and tower to chapel by Butterfield;
(1864-7 Congleton TH, Ches)
(c1865 Nos 74-6 Stokes Croft, Bristol; SNB)
(1866 unex des village hall, Westbury on Trym, Bristol; SNB)
(1866-73 Dromore Castle Co Limerick;)
(1870-4 Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon)
(1877-9 The White House, 35 Tite St, London for JM Whistler)
(1882-4 alts No 34 Tite St, London for Oscar Wilde)
GODWIN, GEORGE Architect, Bristol, 1813-88, editor of The Builder 1844-83, partner with younger brothers Henry Godwin and Sidney G Godwin; designed several London churches inc St Mary, The Boltons, 1850;
(c1842-72 rest St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol; refaced exterior; SNB, appeal launched 1842, spire rebuilt 1870-2
(1855 Walls Court Farm, Stoke Gifford, Glos, for Alderman Thomas Proctor; BoE; DWG 14.1.1858)
(1860 Stanley Farm, Stoke Gifford, Glos for Alderman Proctor; BoE;
(1867 Mansion House, Clifton, Bristol, for Alderman T Proctor; G&H Godwin
(1872 Drinking fountain, Clifton Down, Bristol for Alderman Proctor; SNB)
GOLDING, WILLIAM ALBERT Born S Africa, trained with Herbert Baker, RIBA 1944; inf Diane Crighton;
1946 Coppins, Upper High St, Castle Cary, Som, for Dr Lennie; D Crighton, Time for Somerset 70, drawings at house; red brick flat roofed; drawings ?also for a later extension?
GOLDSMITH, TOLSON & NUGENT, Architects, Bath. Previously Tolson & Nugent; merged in 1985 with Vallis & Associates qv of Frome to form Nugent Vallis Brierley qv;
1960-1 W end of chapel, Royal School, Lansdown, Bath, by Tolson & Nugent.
1969-70 Dixon 6th form Centre, Kingswood School, Bath; MF;
(1975 Field House, Cronkbourne, Isle of Man, GT&N; HMGI;
1978 Chapel Row, Bathampton, Som; GT&N; HDA 1978 for improvement;
GOLDSMITH, HUMPHREY HUGH Architect 18 Gay St, Bath, 1904-79, partnership London with FJ Potter (1871-1948) and Edward Felix Goldsmith, partnership c1942-6 with Arthur Bellham Grayson qv; later Humphrey Goldsmith & Partners, later ?in Goldsmith, Tolson & Nugent qv;
(1961-3 repairs Combe Raleigh ch, Devon; ICBS; HG&Partners
GOMER, RICHARD
c1825-30 Batson Cottage, 85 Hill Rd, Clevedon, Som; SNB;
c1825-30 Melrose Cottage, Hill Rd, Clevedon; Lilly;
GOODALL, RODNEY DAVID. Architect, 8 Bath St, Frome. Dip Arch, ARIBA. Practice from 1968. Author The Buildings of Frome, 3rd ed 2013.
(1975 rest Silver Street House, 13 Silver St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts for Preservation Trust; WBR2)
(1978 rest Priory House, Market St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR2, presumably the underscaled addition to left.)
GOODE, JOSEPH JOHN Civil Engineer, 1873-1940, surveyor to Taunton RDC 1894-1901 and surveyor to Langport RDC 1902-9; North St, Somerton, Kelly 1906; brother Wilfrid Goode was surveyor to Street UDC 1919-22, SAS;
GOODHART-RENDEL, HARRY S. Architect, architectural historian. 1887-1959. Grandson of Stuart, Lord Rendel, took his name. Related to Maud Rendel, Lady Gladstone, daughter in law of WE Gladstone, did much work for Hawarden estate, Flints c1920-35. Author of first study of Victorian architecture. Francis George Broadbent 1909-83 was partner, Partnership was Goodhart-Rendel, Broadbent & Curtis, later FG Broadbent & Partners;
1924-6 alts Tetton House, Kingston St Mary, Som; BoE S; SC notes: small Regency house remodelled and enlarged by HS Goodhart-Rendel 1924-7 and 1948, for the Hon. Mervyn Herbert, son of Henry, 4th Earl of Caernarvon. Goodhart-Rendel also designed lodge (?the octagonal lodge), cottages (1948), etc. Br 130 906. Clive Aslet, The Last Country Houses, 1982, 329; Alan Powers (ed.), H.S. Goodhart-Rendel 1887-1959, 1987, 54; RA 1937 exh;
In the list in his 1987 AA catalogue Alan dates it to 1924-7 and 1948, for the Hon. Mervyn Herbert. 'A small Regency house was enlarged with a new wing, invisibly blended into the earlier work. The main external feature is a two-storey bow with carved wooden caryatids above a concave copper roof, with a semi-dome over, a free invention in the Regency manner. Internally there is much ingenious period detail, and a fine single-flight staircase in the manner of CR Cockerell. Goodhart-Rendel also designed lodges, cottages etc.' He illustrates the front with the bow, and on p.11 has a detail of the bow, while on p.12 he writes: 'His commissions of that decade [the 1920s], mainly domestic and 'keeping in keeping' with earlier fragments of houses like Langham Old Hall and Tetton House to which he was adding, were typical of their time. An individual touch is apparent in the geometric elaboration, sometimes forced on to an uncomfortably small scale. Yet Tetton House is worthy of special mention as a rare exercise in Regency Revival architecture, as opposed to decoration.'
1939-50 Chapel, Royal School, Lansdown, Bath; BoE N; MF, W end 1960-1 by Tolson & Nugent; H&F;
1948 design for estate cottages, Tetton House, Kingston St Mary, Som; Alan Powers 1987;
GOODLAND, EDWARD Architect? Edward Goodland & Joseph Wood, SAS;
1819 res Beercrowcombe ch, Som; ICBS;
GOODMAN, J. HUGH Architect, Bath; WBR;
(1905 Isolation Hospital, Bradley Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts, opened 18.11.05; builder George Moore, Trowbridge; WBR2;)
GOODRIDGE & SON Bath see HE Goodridge.
GOODRIDGE, ANTHONY GREGORY Surveyor, Milborne Port, 1799-1854, originally from Weymouth, married in Sherborne in 1850;
1822-7 alts Milborne Port ch, Som; ICBS; no plans, enlargement; VCH 154 n 67 1826 two-bay N aisle with gallery, plan by Messrs Ellis (qv) and AG Goodridge, from vestry book 1819-47 and churchwardens accounts.
1825 Glove factory, Milborne Port, Som; £412/17/3d; McKay 198; AC Goodridge;
GOODRIDGE, ALFRED SAMUEL. 7 Henrietta St, Bath. 1828-1915. Son of Henry Goodridge qv, worked with HEG in 1850s as G&Son. ARIBA, 7 Henrietta St, Kelly 1906; Kelly 1889; Edwin Moreton Hicks qv was articled, later in Office of Works WWinA 1926;
1854-5 work on Wellington monument, Wellington, Som; by G&Son; SAS: CE Giles qv prepared report to repair and complete the monument following death of Wellington in 1852. Giles envisaged simple pillar without the terminal statue originally conceived by Thomas Lee qv in 1817. This approach was evidently adopted, but detailed plans were commissioned from HE and AS Goodridge, apparently following a competition, ASG probably the architect, 1853-54, builder David Aust qv; Br 16.7.53; RIBAD 31389; Girdler, The Wellington Monument in Somerset, 2001, 6-7, 16, 21-22 and 53; NT, unpublished report 2009, 3-4; PSANHS 160 2017 137-40;
1858 N aisle, Bathampton ch, Som; SNB; but ?work by CE Davis 1858 lychgate, chantry chapel windows, new chancel, chancel arch, recess by porch for effigies, new E window;
1860-1 Nonconformist chapel, Smallcombe Cemetery, Bath; MF; SNB;
1861 3rd prize Bath Markets; RHH; Br 19 596 ‘Mr Goodridge’;
1877 Fountain, Laura Place, Bath; MF, dismantled except for bowl; SNB;
1878 Drinking Fountain, Bath, Som; RHH; Br 38 170; ?same as the Laura Place fountain, 1877, but this is not a drinking fountain;
(1885-7 TH, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR; opened DWG 13.6.89, carving by Sheppard, clock by Benson of London;
1892 shopfront 42 Milsom St, Bath, Som, for Bristol & West Bank; MF;
(1900 Lady Brown’s Almshouses, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR;
Also Ravenscroft, North Rd, Bath,
GOODRIDGE, HENRY EDMUND. Architect, 7 Henrietta St, Bath; HC; Father of AS Goodridge qv who wrote a memoir of his life; 1797-1864 son of James Goodridge, builder, articled J Lowder qv, set up 1820s, buried Lansdown Cemetery. HL Elmes was pupil; firm was Goodridge & Son from 1850s; ?marriage of Eliza 2nd daughter of the late H Goodridge to WG Gray solicitor of Cleveland Ho, Bath, DWG18.2.1836; James Frederick Goodridge of Bath married DWG 3.10.1844;
1821-3 chapel addition to Downside House, for Downside Abbey, Som; HC; RL; 1823 SNB, T-plan with chapel and school accommodation; extensive additions nearly completed TC 3.1.1821 grand opening next spring; called the Old Chapel;
1821 front Argyle C chapel, Bath; BoE N; APSD;
1822 alts Widcombe ch, Bath; ICBS rej 1820-4;
1822-4 Christ Church, Rode Hill, Som; HC; BC 9.9.24; 1824 RL; SNB, for Archdeacon Charles Daubeny, now a house, converted 1997-9 by Pollen Architects qv; HEG also remodelled next door C18 house as rectory, 1824, now Daubeny house;
1822-5 Alts No 20 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, for William Beckford; attrib CL 29.4.1976; WB bought No 20 in 1822, bought No 1 Lansdown Place West c1822 and had a bridge built probably by HEG when working on Lansdown Tower 1825-6, WB sold No 1 in 1832 and kept the bridge. Bought No 19 1836 and HEG joined it to No 20, encased staircase in a tunnel, new library.
(1823 N aisle, South Wraxall ch, Wilts; ICBS;
1823-4 Tower and chancel, St Mary Magdalen ch, Holloway, Bath; MF;
(1823 alts Malmesbury Abbey, Wilts; GM 1823 2 170; replaced W window tracery in stone, built stone gallery, new seats, interior cleaned; DWG 14.8.23 repairs nearly completed, new W w, groining restored, triforium reopened nearest chancel, new gallery, new pews;
1824 remodelled house, Rode Hill, Som, as rectory for Christ Church, Rode Hill; now Daubeny House;
1824-5 attributed Auction Market & Bazaar, Quiet St, Bath; MF; niche sculpture by L Gahagan;
1824-8 Lansdown Tower, Bath, for William Beckford; SNB built 1826-8, sold 1847 as pleasure garden, then bought back by Duchess of Hamilton, WB’s daughter, to be reused as cemetery. First designs by HEG 1823 inc a Saxon one; complete as to the masonry DWG 2.8.27
1825 The Corridor arcade, 18-19 High St, Bath; MF; alts 1870;
(c1825-30 addition Cottles House, Atworth, Wilts; Glos RO D 1086 P 13;
1826 Woodland Place, Bathwick Hill, Bath; six houses, MF
1826? Woodhill Place. Bathwick Hill, Bath; MF; semi-det pair, HEG lived here 1829;
1827 Cleveland Bridge and toll-houses, Bath; William Hazeldine contr for bridge;
c1827-30 Cleveland Place East, Cleveland Pl West, and Cleveland Terrace, Bath; lining approach to Cleveland Bridge; MF; shopfronts of 1832 on Nos 4 and 6 Cleveland Tce;
182? ?Bathwick Hill House, Bath attrib MF, and said to be des before HEG visit to Italy in 1829
1829 Montebello, Bathwick Hill, Bath for self, now Bathwick Grange; 1829 MF;
(1829 alts Hardenhuish House, Chippenham, Wilts; HC, possibly to suggestions by J Soane qv; for Thos Clutterbuck;
1829-34 alts Prior Park, Bath for Bishop Baines, but none of the main work may be by HEG, outside steps may be by Baines nephew Fr J Baines qv, John Peniston & Son qv added pedimented 2nd fl to E wing centre, rest of E wing raised c1830, in 1834 HEG remodelled W wing as seminary and added theatre, entrance hall and staircase and raised it by a storey and a half. No other known work except plan for vast domed RC cathedral behind, unexecuted. But who added the single-storey block on the E (school) wing. Main house interior burnt 1836; SNB
(1830 Dunkeld House, Scotland, for Duke of Atholl incomplete; APSD Dunkeld;
c1830 ?No1 Sydney Buildings, Bath; attrib MF;
1831 Hood Monument, Butleigh, Som; memoir by AS Goodridge; masons Jacob Chapman, James Cornish & W Hunt, names carved in dome; but signed David Aust qv; to Admiral Sir Samuel Hood +1814;
(1831-3 reblt Rowde ch, Wilts exc tower; HC; tender DWG 26.1.32;
(1832 Atworth ch, Wilts; ICBS;
(1832 prop column to Reform Bill, ?Warminster, Wilts, not built; DWG 28.6.32)
1832-5 Holy Trinity ch, Combe Down, Bath; SNB; HC; FS BC 24.5.32; GM 1835 2 196; ICBS 1831-6 sub Monkton Combe; aisles etc 1883-4 by WJ Willcox qv
1833 The Corridor Rooms, behind Nos 7-8 High St, Bath; MF;
(1832-3 repewed Potterne ch, Wilts; ICBS; T: DWG 5.7.32;
(1834 design for RC churches in Tasmania, Australia, made for Bishop Polding appointed vicar-apostolic of New Holland, Van Diemen's Land and adjoining islands in 1834; only RC church at Richmond, Tasmania definitely built 1835 to HEG design, altered 1858-9 by FH Thomas; E Ratcliff in Beckford Journal 2013 68ff; possible that RC cathedral Sydney was completed 1839 to designs bought from England by Polding, and that RC churches built under 1836 Church Act in New South Wales followed HEG model;
(1834ff RC Pro-Cathedral, Clifton, Bristol; project abandoned c1840, finally roofed in 1846-8 by CF Hansom qv; SNB; for Bishop Baines
1834 Lodge, Dinder House, Som; RL; SNB, Italianate
1834 unex plans, School, Woodlands, Som; Longleat 14/3 32/0 01/1/1831; three different designs in cottage, Tudor and Elizabethan styles; paid for 1834 design 14/3 2/12 2/4/1836; school was built to different plans not in archive;
(1835 RC church, Richmond, Tasmania; RC vicar-apostolic of Van Diemen's Land and New Holland was from Downside and laft twith a sheaf of plans by HEG for various types of churches; Richmond may not be the only one built; Beckford journal 19 2013; extended since;
(1835-6 RC church, Lyme Regis, Dorset;
1836 ?interiors Prior Park, Bath after 1836 fire; MF thinks not by HEG; burnt again in 1991;
1836-9 alts National School, Frome, Som, built 1825, Amy Frost, 2009, 7; SAS;
1837 ?interiors, 19 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, for William Beckford; attrib CL 29.4.1976; WB bought No 20 in 1822, bought No 1 Lansdown Place West c1822 and had a bridge built prob by HEG when working on Lansdown Tower 1825-6, WB sold No 1 in 1832 and kept the bridge. Bought No 19 in 1836 and HEG joined it to No 20, encased staircase in a tunnel, new library.
1837-9 Holy Trinity ch, Frome, Som; ICBS 1836-9; John Sperring surveyor; 1837-8 SNB, S transept added 1851, school of 1840, architect unknown;
(c1840 Devizes Castle, Wilts for V Leach; RA 1842; after 1838 WBR;
1841 Synagogue, Corn St, Bath; dem; NoB 1879;
1841 Testimonial to 50th year of pastorate of Rev W Jay of Argyle Chapel, Bath, on vellum with border by HEG TC 10.2.41;
1841-2 ?Gymnasium, Prior Park, Bath; HC; MF thinks not by HEG but by Rev James Baines using bits of W wing Prior Park dismantled by HEG in works 1834;
1842c attrib Argyle Hotel, Manvers St, Bath as HEG was surveyor for area in front of Bath Station for GWR; SNB; ?also Royal Hotel, Manvers St, Bath, opposite.
1842 to let villa at Bathampton, Som, fitted up with elegancies, replete with conveniences .. two-stall stable, hot and green houses .. apply HEG architect, 7 Henrietta St, BC 9.6.42
1845 Eastern Dispensary, Cleveland Place, Bath; MF;
1845 Argyle Church Schools, Grove St, Bath; dem; NoB;
(c1845 library Hamilton Palace, Scotland, for 10th Duke of Hamilton; RA 1842;
(1846 unex des Hamilton Mausoleum, Lanarks; HC;
(1846 alts Ecclesgreig House, Kincards, for Forsyth Grant; RA 1846;
1846-8 Fiesole, Bathwick Hill, Bath; 1846 HC; for himself;
c1846 Casa Bianca & La Casetta, Bathwick Hill, Bath; MF; semi-det pair
1848 Entrance screen, Lansdown Cemetery, Bath; Romanesque; HEG also probably des William Beckford’s tomb; SNB; flanking walls incorporate piers that had been around Beckford's tomb in Abbey Cemetery, tomb moved here 1848. Cemetery consec DWG 4.5.48;
(1848? School, Pickwick, Corsham, Wilts, built on land given by Lord Methuen in 1846; DoC; but plans WRO 782/37 are 1857, certified 1858, and design exhibited RA in 1857;
184? ?Argyle Hotel, Manvers St, Bath; attrib MF as HEG surveyor to GWR for this part of Bath; late 1840s, possibly also Royal Hotel opposite a little later;
1853-4 ?rest Wellington Monument, Blackdown Hill, Wellington, Som; G&Son; Br 1853 455; restoration being undertaken Messrs Goodridge, c. £1,140, Br 8.4.54 185 and 18.4.54 202; but by CE Giles acc to RL and National Trust; apparently neither Br ref mention Goodridge at all;
1853 ?Sydney Gardens Hotel, Sydney Rd, Bath; attrib MF; orig Ravenswell & Lonsdale, Italianate villas;
1854 Percy C chapel, Bath; G&Son with ASG; APSD Bath; renovated 1868 £700 and 1875 £200, CYB 1876;
1856 Dolemeads School, Bath; under railway arch; BE 12.1.56;
(1857 Avonbank & Llanfoist, Clifton Down, Bristol; pair of Italianate houses SNB; Bristol RO plans; GJL;
(1857-8 Pickwick District School, Corsham, Wilts; WRO 782/37 1857, certified 13.4.58; exh RA in 1857; but built in 1848 according to DoC, error?
Also
18?? lodge, Merfield House, Rode, Som, RL;
18?? attrib refront Notton House, Lacock, Wilts; WBR;
18?? alts No 2 Pierrepoint St Bath for Bishop Baines when Theatre Royal was RC church and add of private chapel to rear of No 5 Pierrepoint St, Bath.
Houses with Italianate features in style of HEG or Edward Davis qv include
1829-50 Aldon House, Yeovil, Som, for John Batten;
1830c enlarged Wraxall Court, Som
1842 rebuilt Colerne Rectory, Wilts, attrib WBR;
1836 attrib Bassett House, Claverton, Som, SNB built as a hotel;
18?? refacing No 9 Harley Pl, Clifton, Bristol, nd. Attr SNB;
GOODRIDGE, JAMES Builder, Bath, father of HE Goodridge qv, 1766-1849, died 1849 aged 82, for fifty years confidential agent to Pulteney estate and for many years agent to Duke of Cleveland, Bath; DWG 31.5.49; agent to Lord Darlington's estate in Bath, R Bennett article on John Pinch Sr in Bath History, Darlington later D of Cleveland;
1845 proposed new road to Milford (?Wilts) and sites for houses on either side, by JW Goodridge for Church Commissioners; WRO CC/Map/32/1;
GOODWIN & TATUM, London; at 325 Leigham Court Rd, Croydon, 2008. Geoffrey Goodwin and Leonard Tatum. They did a disastrous housing scheme on Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth, that had to be rebuilt;
1960 Competition victory, extension to County Offices, Taunton, Som; by Leonard Tatum; competition judged by JM Richards, Lionel Brett and Geoffrey Jellicoe. Forerunner of Cornwall County Hall on which Jellicoe advised. Courtyard landscape by Bill Mount of Somerset County Architects. Inf J Gould; initial quadrangle built ?1962-4, extended later with an eight storey block, 1968-9, that was added or extended higher to accommodate unexpected additional staff required for building the motorway through the county; inf retired CC architects;
19?? Ambulance Station, Shepton Mallet, Som; inf J Gould – now with pitched roof; JF
19?? ?Ambulance Station in Keynsham, Som, was given to them because funding for county offices additions dried up; M,?error for Shepton Mallet;
1992 Proposed County Council offices, Taunton, Som; 4-st flat-roofed; AJ 9.5.92;
GORDON, - Former architect with GLC and wife also architect bought and carefully restored the 1935 Arthur Bliss house at Pen Pits, Penselwood, Som, over thirty years from c1980. Inf Alan Powers.
GORDON, GEORGE HAMILTON. London. G Hamilton Gordon of Westminster who designed a chapel at Longford Castle, Wilts, 1894 and a mansion at The Leas, Folkestone, Kent Br 1.2.1896 both for Earl of Radnor; ?of Robinson & Gordon with AW Robinson. He may also have worked at Glyndebourne, Sx.
(1891 strengthened roof, Crockerton ch, Wilts; plans Longleat archive;
1891-5 proposed vestry and reseating Wambrook ch, Som; ICBS no plans; two applications 1891 and 1895.
(1893 cottages and reading room, Longford Castle, Britford, Wilts; WBR 2)
(1894 chapel for Earl of Radnor, Longford Castle, Wilts, unex; ill Br 24.3.94; G Hamilton Gordon;
(1895 rest Great Toller ch, Dorset, ?Toller Porcorum; WG 8.11.95; 1891 BoE;
GORDON, THOMAS Architect, London. Probably Henry Thomas Gordon c1845-1922, in practice from 1870, Gordon & Lowther from 1875, Gordon Lowther & Gunton from 1885, specialists in designing WM chapels; SAS;
1882 rest Limington ch, Som; SRO cf/1882/5; the rest of the church (not chancel) restored for £1200 under Mr TG architect; Kelly 1906; WG 8.12.82;
GOSLING, JOHN
1720 attributed Assize Courts, High St, Bridgwater, Som; dem; VCH 6;
GOSS, WILLIAM, Carpenter, Street. Brother Thomas was clockmaker. GHS7;
C1810 Goss House, 26 High St, Street, Som for himself; GHS7;
GOTCH, LAURENCE Architect, London. Laurence Gotch & Partners, 8 City Rd and Brighton;
1953 Minor alts National Employers House, No 2 The Crescent, Taunton, Som; plans SRO D/B/ta/; alts to staircase;
GOUGH, ALBERT EDWARD Architect, Bedford Square, London. C1842-1908, partnership with John Giles by 1872, see John Giles and Giles & Gough;
1871 rest Pilton ch, Som, except chancel (restored by E Christian); Br 29 1871 432, Br 28.4.71 319; £2300, roof rebuilt, about half aisle roof is new, replica of original, new pulpit and font carved by Herley (?Hervey) of Wells; lectern supplied by Hart & Peard, London; new altar; galleries removed, pine pews; S entrance arch restored to the Norman style; N door is EE and also nave arcade they have been similarly treated; stained glass one window given by R Clerk of Westholme House and several others in various parts of the church all by Horwood of Frome;
1876-82 Crewkerne Grammar School, Som; by Giles & Gough,
GOUGH, ARTHUR REUTLINGER Architect, Bristol. Son of William Venn Gough qv 1842-1918, worked with father from c1908 as WV & AR Gough, and firm continued under same name after father’s death; WWinA 1926 lists Mission ch at Burnham, Som; Sefton Park School, Bristol, 1908; Lord Winterstoke wing Bristol Grammar School 1912;
(1922 War memorial, Horfield ch, Bristol; SNB)
(1927 St Peter ch, Henleaze, Bristol; ext by ARG in 1937; SNB
(1931 tower, Holy Nativity ch, Wells Rd, Totterdown, Bristol; SNB)
(1934 St Gregory ch, Horfield, Bristol; H&F; SNB 1933-4)
1934-40 reps St Martin ch, Bishopsworth, Som; ICBS;
GOUGH, GERALD CHARLES Architect, Park St, Taunton, 1931 dir; ARIBA
GOUGH, WILLIAM VENN, Bristol. 1842-1918, born Frome, pupil Henry Masters, ARIBA 1872, worked in CF Hansom office, partnership with Archibald Ponton qv 1870-8 as Ponton & Gough, GJL; on own from 1878 until joined by son Arthur Reutlinger Gough qv c1908 (WV&ARG); ARG continued firm into 1930s; Gomme; office Atheneum Chambers Nicholas St from 1872, and 98 Hampton Rd 1898-1906, and at 24 Bridge St 1906-14; SRO deeds DD/GL/54 contains ref to WVGough 1871;
(1878? Ch of Holy Nativity, Wells Rd, Totterdown, Bristol; bombed 1940 dem; tower by AR Gough 1931 survives; church 1870-83 by Ponton & Gough, SNB;
1886-7 rest Westbury sub Mendip ch, Som; SNB; WG 28.1.87; vestry, organ chamber, rebuilt tower, reseating;
1887 Bennett memorial, cemetery, Frome Selwood, Som; ill BN 25.11.87; archiseek; the stone cross in churchyard of St John ch, Frome, stone cross from St Barnabas Pimlico Archdeacon Bennett's previous church, SAS; WG 16.9.87, builder FP Brown qv;
(1888 White Hart PH, Bedminster Pde, Bristol; GJL;
(1888-9 addn Old Post Office PH, Westbury Hill, Bristol; SNB;
(1890 Coopers Arms PH, Ashton Rd, Bristol; GJL;
(1891 Colston Girls School, Cheltenham Rd, Bristol; SNB, ext by WVG 1906)
(1893-4 South St Primary School, Bedminster, Bristol; SNB)
1894 unex proposals to enlarge Christ Church, Frome, Som by demolishing tower for new wider chancel, and lengthening nave by two bays, Gill, Story of Christ Church, Frome;
(1896 Port of Bristol offices, Queen Sq, Bristol)
(1897 Cabot Tower, Brandon Hill, Bristol; GJL)
(1898 1st prize, Lewisham Clock Tower, London; RHH)
1898-1912 St Martin ch, Bishopsworth, Som; ICBS; WVG; St Martin's Rd, 1900-1 by WVG, nave ext 1907, and W narthex 1939-40 by ARG
(1902 add Bishop Rd Primary School, Bristol; WVG prob designed orig school 1895-6; SNB;
(1903 Vicarage, St Andrew ch, Bedminster, Bristol; GJL; presumably St Aldhelm vicarage, Chessel St, 1903, SNB
(1903-4 S range,St Matthias College, Fishpnds, Bristol; SNB;
(1906-7 St Aldhelm ch, Chessel St, Bedminster, Bristol; ICBS; enl 1912-13; 1905-13 by WV&ARG, SNB;
(1908 Sefton Park School, Bristol; under AR Gough in WWinA 1926;
(1911 alts Horfield ch, Bristol; SNB; WV&ARG;
(1912-13 enl St Aldhelm ch, Bedminster, Bristol, WV&ARG; ICBS; 1905-13 SNB;
(1912 Lord Winterstoke wing, Bristol Grammar School, under AR Gough in WWinA 1926;
(1913 St Ambrose ch, Lower Easton, Bristol; GJL;
GOULD, JEREMY & CAROLINE Architects, Street. BD 10.6.1994 (BD), trained with Sir John Burnet Tait & Ptnrs, practice est 1980 after winning comp for Millfield School library; JG author book on Modern Movement houses in Britain, Professor of Architecture, Plymouth University. List of work on plymouth.ac (P); Hill Farm, Walton Hill, Walton 2012; Caroline Gould (SC Robertson) did thesis on C19-C20 buildings in Street.
1976 Denmore, West St, South Petherton, Som; J Gould: ‘We did an eccentric mono-pitched house at West Street, just along from the church in 1976! Our first house.’ For the widow of an Air vice Marshal.
1977-80 Library & resource centre, Millfield School, Street, Som; BD 10.6.94; P; £600K. RIBA award; CTA 1982; competition victory;
1978 Monument, Bowling Green Mill, Street, Som to centenary of Avalon Leatherboard, by Caroline Gould; Mc garvie, Bowling Green mill, 132;
1978-82 reps Old Parsonage, Walton, Som; £50K;
1979 Offices, Castle Cary, Som for Avalon Components £60K
1982 House, Street, Som for Brian Perry; P £60K;
1982 Purseys Garage, Walton, Street, Som; £70K
1983 four houses, Longvernal, Midsomer Norton, Som £120K;
1984 five houses, The Mead, Street, Som £100K
1985 House at Dronfield Farm, Bancombe Road, Somerton, Som; £80K;
1985 House, Street, Som, for Eileen Clark; £60K;
1984-90 South Somerset DC offices, Lynx West Industrial Estate, Yeovil, Som; BD; inc council chamber, chief exec office, finance and other depts; with Sir John Burnet Tait & Partners; two parts 1984-7 £2.4m and 1989-90 £800K;
1986 reps Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, Som; £100K
(1986-90 reps West Woodyates Manor, Salisbury, Wilts; £270K)
1987-8 reps Hadspen House, Pitcombe, Som; £200K; rest roof - BD;
1987-93 alts Village Hall, Curry Rivel; P; £95K;
1988 Workshops, Upton Bridge Farm, Long Sutton, Som;
1989 six houses Horsington, Som, for Somerset Rural HA;
1989 Two houses at N Cadbury, Som for Somerset Rural HA
1989-2003 reps Fairfield House, Stogursey, Som; for Lady Gass;
1990 Village Hall, Monksilver, Som; P; £120K; w Plymouth Architecture Sch
1990-2 CRMA Fine Arts Centre, Millfield School, Som; BD; RIBA Reg Award 1993; P, £1.35m; Southwestern Builders, Street, conts; HBS qv quantity surveyors;
1991-2 Crematorium repairs & garden pavilion, Yeovil, Som; BD; P, £200K repairs, £40K garden; spoilt since;
1991-2 rest Long Sutton QM, Som; BD; £49K;
1993 The Vine Health Centre, Hindhayes Lane, Street, Som; BD; P £340K;
(1993-5 reps Old House, Blandford Forum, Dorset; £200K;)
1994-2004 Reps Cutterne Mill, Evercreech, Som; reblt chimneys; £180K, P; for Miles Thistlethwaite & Pippa Lewis;
1995 House, Street, Som, for T&C Clark; £40K; ‘garage conversion’
1995 rest Gants Mill, Pitcombe, Som; Gants mill leaflet; P £140K;
1995-6 Doctors surgery, Locks Hill, Frome Som; P £260K; SNB;
(1996-8 Doctors surgery, Budleigh Salterton, Devon; £410K;
1996 reps Claverham QM house, Som; £100K;
1997-8 adds Old PO, Farleigh Hungerford, Som; £80K;
1997 House, Bagnell Farm, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som, for - Pittard
1997-8 reps Holmans Place, High St, Butleigh, Som; P; £150K;
1997-9 reps Great House, Theale, Som; £102K
1997-9 unex plans Doctors surgery, Wedmore, Som;
1998-2000 offices, East Brent, Som for Wm Haley engineering;
1999 Village Hall, Stogursey, Som; P;
1999 Pharmacy, Frome, Som; £66K;
2000 add QM, Claverham by Caroline Gould; Survey of QM houses, 2017;
(2000-3 alts West Swillets Farm, Seaborough, Dorset; £750K)
2000-3 alts No 130 Taunton Rd, Bridgwater, Som, for Sure Start;
2003-6 Village hall, Middlezoy, Som; P; £250K;
2003-6 rest Greenbank Open-air Pool, Street, Som; £150K;
GOULD, RICHARD DAVIE Borough Surveyor, Barnstaple. 1817-1900. Borough Surveyor for 44 years. Married Judith d of Francis Ford of Milverton, Som, TC 21.10.1840; Worked with son John Ford Gould from 1860s, John Ford Gould obit TC 6.4.1881;
(1844 Bridge Buildings, Barnstaple, Devon.
(1844-50 Hall, Barnstaple, Devon; Philip Hardwick with Philip C Hardwick, for Robert Chichester, money ran out, rear finished by Gould qv; Br 1871 29 24; JF;
(1850 Bideford TH, Devon)
(1852 1st prize Music Hall, Lit & Phil Soc, Crediton, Devon, RHH; Crediton TH BoE)
(1855-6 Barnstaple Market, Devon)
(1857 Cemetery, South Molton, Devon; BN 1857 592)
(1861 Devon County School, West Buckland, Devon)
1863 rest West Buckland ch, Som; Br 1863 484; 1863-5 ICBS
(1871-3 Winkleigh ch, Devon;)
GOULDEN, PETER Architect
2010 No 33 Chilkwell St, Glastonbury, Som; inf owner of Chalice Hill House;
GRADIDGE, RODERICK Architect, Bedford Park London
19?? Added oak bay window, Westcombe Stables, Westcombe, Evercreech, Som, for Hermione Hobhouse; inf HH;
(1965-7 Garden House, Ashton House, Ashton Keynes, Wilts; also table tomb for cremated remains area in graveyard and headstone to his father c1970)
GRAHAM, HARRY T. D. Architect Bath. Worked with Hugh Roberts qv, Hugh Roberts, Graham & Stollar, then Graham Stollar & Associates (GSA). At 30 St Catherine’s Hill, Bruton, 2009, died 2016.
(1965 Brockenhurst Park, Hants for Hon. Denis Berry; JM Robinson Latest Country Houses, 203; CL 31.8.67;
197? Westcombe Stables, conversion of stables of demolished Westcombe House, near Batcombe, Som, for self and wife Hermione Hobhouse, architectural historian;
1980s rest N side Beauford Sq, Bath; GSA; AFtext but not in SNB;
1983 rest Prior Park Cottages, Bath (HRG&S); SNB;
20?? house for Roger Martin, Coxley, Som;
2012-13 Ropewalk House, Higher Backway, Bruton, Som; inf Harriet Graham; adjacent to Provender Mill;stone ground floor, timber above, hipped roofs;
GRAINGE ARCHITECTS, Exeter, Devon; established 1990; Tony Pollintine and James Brookes directors 2019;
201? Victoria Park Community Centre, Bridgwater; website;
2016-18 Maple Building, Richard Huish College, South Rd, Taunton, Som; for arts and computer science;
GRANGE, RICHARD Not in HC.
1698-1700 attributed Ven House, Milborne Port, Som, rebuilt and enlarged c1725-31 by N Ireson qv; RL; Error, only document is design for garden layout signed by Grange mentioned in CL dated 1739 and was not certainly executed. HGS 48-9 ills plan dated 19.9.1739 called Prospects of Ven House, the seat of James Medlycott Esq’ who died 1731.
McKay 278: Works began 1698, account drawn up 1700 including builders' costs £1050, clay for bricks on land £500 for half-million, timber from Digby estate Sherborne, 71 sash windows glazing cost £46/6/0d; total £2492/6/4d excluding interior work or gardens; R Dunning thinks the account actually for Ireson period works;
1739 design for garden layout, Ven House, Milborne Port, Som, but marked as done for James Medlycott +1731. HGS 48-9;
GRANT, - Burnham. Described as a local architect.
1891 Burnham Institute, Regent St, Burnham, Som; history of Institute says plans commissioned from Mr Grant, a local architect, but he was sacked in the course of building and WJ Press qv, builder, of Burnham completed the scheme, presumably to Grant’s plans; Hist of Burnham Inst; tender James Kents £520; opened 25.11.91;
GRANT, E. Landscape architect? He signs a 1738 plan of Redlynch Park, Som; HGS 114-5, possibly only a survey;
GRAVATT, WILLIAM 1806-66; HC; Mathematician and civil engineer. Pupil of Bryan Donkin, engineer. associated with Brunel from early days of 1825-7 Thames Tunnel, in charge of Bristol & Exeter Railway; FRS 1832; appointed surveyor & engineer to the Parrett Navigation, Som, 1836; Body & Gallop, The Parrett Navigation, 2002; LTC Rolt, IK Brunel, 1957; was he sacked from B&E? Resigned from B&E 1841 after falling out with Brunel, SAS;
(18?? Engineer to Calder & Hebble Navigation, Yorks; HC;
(1832 Lit & Phil Society Hall, Halifax, Yorks; HC:
1836-44 resident engineer, Bristol & Exeter Railway, broad gauge, Act 1836, survey by WG, open to Bridgwater June 1841: cuttings at Pylle & Uphill; open to Taunton 1.7.42, Somerset Bridge over Parrett at Bridgwater 1838-41 was masonry bridge but failed, and was replaced in timber 1843. Fell out with IK Brunel 1841 and resigned; Taunton to Exeter open 1.5.44; White Ball Tunnel under Blackdown Hills; LTC Rolt 193-4;
1836-9 engineer, Parrett Navigation, Som; works include locks at Oath, Langport, and Midelney, and then the Westport Canal to continue towards Ilminster. 2.3 miles from Midelney to Westport with 6 bridges on route and 3 on approach to Westport. At Westport brick and stone canal building had stabling for horses below and timber above, also 3-storey wharf-side warehouse, also a coal yard of Stuckey & Bagehot, and canal manager’s house; £10,000 estimate, Act of 1834, second Act 1839 to raise more money, opened 20.5.39, first coals 29.5.39; Mounter 84; total cost £38,870. ?assisted by Charles Hodgkinson (Wet Moor Mag May 2012 20); Midelney Bridge over canal 1837, William Mead, stonemason, SAS;
1839-41 Great Bow Bridge, Langport, Som; 1839-40 HC; SRO plans A/CQN/1/1-2 are unsigned. Other SRO docs refer to both by WG and Edwin Down qv but seems that Down was contractor; for Parrett Navigation, £3,989, opened 1841, Mounter 84; Pibsbury Lias stone; three-arch; William Cobbe qv engineer with Gravatt was working on bridge in 1840-1.
GRAY, GEORGE EDWARD KRUGER. See George Kruger.
GRAY, GODFREY
1896 rest chancel, Christon ch, Som; SNB;
GRAYSON, ARTHUR BELLHAM Architect Wincanton, 1900-66, born Louth, trained AA, worked briefly with Oliver Hill, post in Jersey 1929 with Roy Blampied, ARIBA 1930, assisted Blampied on extension to States Buildings, St Helier, 1930-1, neo-Georgian, practice in Jersey 1932-9 pioneer modernist there, built Les Lumieres, St Brelade, 1934, pure Modernist house; Clos du Paradis, La Pouquelaye, 1936, Modernist housing; evacuated 1940 with assistant Albert (Dick) Le Sueur, lived at Somercot, Saltford, Som, in practice in Bath 1944-6 with Humphrey Hugh Goldsmith, Grayson & Goldsmith, taught at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, returned Jersey 1945 with Dick Le Sueur, designed Nurses' Home for General Hospital, 1950, which Donald Insall qv worked on, retuned England 1952 set up in Wincanton, memorial service 1966 in Wincanton WM chapel; left his books to St Mary's Convent School, Shaftesbury; find-a-grave website; information Jeremy Perceval and article David Le Lay in Bulletin Jersey Society in London, Winter 2013;
19?? restored Shanks House, Cucklington;
1958-9 St Mary & All Saints ch, Wraxhill Rd, Yeovil, Som; Harwood & Foster; dem; font (from Trent, Dorset) moved to Holy Trinity, Lysander Rd, Yeovil.
1961 South Petherton RC ch, Som; orig timber-clad with glass W end, W end later rebuilt in stone with roundel window, the stained glass 2009 by John Reyntiens;
1961 roof repairs, Wyke Champflower ch, Som; SRO D/cf/1961/1/9;
1961-2 rebuild WM chapel, Baltonsborough, Som;
(1962-3 Convent chapel, St Mary's RC Convent, Coombe House, Donhead St Mary, Wilts, convent is nowcalled St Mary's Shaftesbury)
1963-5 reps Evercreech ch, Som; ICBS;
GREASE, W. H. Architect.
1880 Cottages at Lees, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som, for JH Warre; Samuel & John Pleass & Edwin Gardiner builders; contract DD/DP/72/3;
GREEN & HOLLIER Architects 27 Queen Sq Bath, 1931 dir see Mowbray Green
GREEN, DANIEL Mason, Marksbury. Not in HC.
c1770-97 refronted Hunstrete House, Marksbury, Som, for F Popham, dem c1830; SNB;
GREEN, JAMES Engineer. Exeter. 1781-1849, son of Birmingham engineer, worked for John Rennie qv 1801-7, moved to Exeter 1808 as Bridge Surveyor, Devon, County Surveyor 1818-41. Canal engineer, favoured inclined planes over locks: involved with Braunton Canal, Exeter & Crediton Canal 1810; Bude Canal 1818-25 (inc 225’-rise Hobbacott inclined plane); Exeter Ship Canal 1820-7; 1827 Rolle Canal, Devon; 1832-5 extension Kidwelly-Llanelli Canal, Carms, from Burry Port to Cwm Mawr, dismissed; consultant for docks at Bristol and Newport (1836); bankrupt 1837, involved with Bute Dock at Cardiff; 1841 moved to Bristol, retired to London, son Joseph D Green was resident engineer Bristol Docks 1849. Biography by B George, 1997;
1817 report on improvements to Chard to Yarcombe (Devon) road for Chard Turnpike Trust; SAS;
1822-4 surveyed English & Bristol Channels Canal Co. route as assistant to T Telford; SAS;
1825-6 surveyed line of road from Wincanton, Som to Upottery, Devon; SAS;
1829-36 revived Grand Western Canal (Bristol to Exeter) of which piece near Tiverton had been built 1810-15 by John Rennie. Green 1829 looked at canal and railway alternatives, proposed small canal for tub-boats with 2 or 3 inclined planes £50000. Then revised as 11.5m link to Taunton from summit at Lowdwells as tub-boat canal for 8-ton boats w seven boat-lifts and one inclined plane in 2nd report, 1830, estimate £65000; approved; work began from Bridgwater & Taunton canal at Taunton to summit at Lowdwells where existing canal ended. Eight lots, 1-3 built by Houghton & Co, 4-8 by H Macintosh; connection to Firepool at Taunton, aqueduct over Kingston Road, Taunton, aqueduct over Tone nr Nynehead; proposed perpendicular lifts (Anderson lifts); each caisson 26ft x 6.5 ft wide, cf paper in Trans ICE 2, 1838; Canal had stop-lock at Taunton, Silk Mill Bridge, Taunton carried Bishop’s Hull to Staplegrove road, dem; lifts at Taunton 23.5ft; Norton lift 12.5ft; Allerford lift 19ft; Trefusis lift 38.5ft; Nynehead lift 24ft; aqueduct over drive at Nynehead Court; inclined plane at Wellisford rising 81ft in 440ft; Winsbeer lift 18ft; Greenham lift 42ft; and 3.5 ft connecting lock at Lowdwells. First three lifts were similar Anderson lifts; Trefusis, Nynehead and Winsbeer similar w vertically-lifting caisson gates and all three had locks; Greenham the tallest had a drain in caisson and lock not needed; Wellisford plane did not work; 1835 open to Bradford on Tone Som; Green dismissed early 1836, replaced by Capt J Twisden qv completed 1838; opened 28.6.38, cost £80,000, 262 ft rise; 24.5 total length to Tiverton; H Harris, the Grand Western Canal; surviving canal bridges eg at Trefusis Farm, Bradford on Tone; Harpford near Langford Budville, Silk Mill Bridge dem; leased to GWR 1853, sold 1865, closed 1867 lifts and plane dismantled;
1830 proposed Chard Railway, SAS;
1831-5 Chard Canal, Som, proposed 1831, Act 1834, 13.5 m length from Bridgwater & Taunton Canal opened 1827 to basin at Chard; two boat lifts, two (eventually four) inclined planes, two tunnels proposed, plans 1833 SRO Q/RUP/119, survey 1833, plans approved 1834, work began at Wrantage 1835 when Green replaced by Sydney Hall qv because of problems with boat lifts on Grand Western Canal. From B&T there were 1. aqueduct over B&E railway ?built after 1841; 2. aqueduct over River Tone; 3. Ruishton aqueduct; 4. Thornfalcon plane; 5. Lillesdon tunnel; 6. Wrantage Aqueduct over A378; 7. Wrantage plane; 8. Crimson Hill tunnel 1800 yards; 9. Ilminster Wharf; 10. Ilminster plane; 11. Ilminster tunnel 300 yds; 12. Bere Mills lock; 13. Chard Common plane; 14. Chard Feeder Reservoir; 15. Chard Basin (filled in); Sir William Cubitt qv consultant for the inclines. Bankrupt 1853; Closed 1868; wikipedia; Chard Canal website;
1833-6 proposed West Moor drainage, between Langport and Ilminster, Som for Parrett Navigation Co with William Summers as Surveyor of the Works, SAS;
(1836? Newport Docks, Mon)
GREEN, JAMES BAKER New Buildings, Blandford Forum, Dorset. 1826-74. Architect to Corporation of Blandford Forum. Manager Blandford Gas Company, Inspector of Nuisances, 1859 directory. Also listed in Blandford are Augustine Henry Green builder, New Buildings, and William Baker Green surveyor, timber merchant, Oakfield. SAS says was called Charles Baker Green;
(18?? Cemetery, Blandford Forum, Dorset:
1869-70 Corton Denham ch, Som; for Portman estate;
1872-4 rebuilt Hestercombe House, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som, for 1st Visc Portman; Portman commissioned plans from Henry Hall, rejected them for cheaper ones by Green, which were started with the gutting of the interior and rebuilding of the attics, then JBG died and Hall was called back to complete the job, 1874-5. Hall’s is the tower, the centrepiece and porte cochere and the stair hall. The gables are Greens and the reconstruction of the NW projection. SCG 18.8.77;
(1872-3 School, Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset; BoE)
(1873-4 Pimperne ch, Dorset, for Viscount Portman; BoE; WG 11.74 plans prepared by the late Mr Baker Green)
GREEN, JOHN Builder, Sherborne, Dorset.
1834 alts Stowell ch, Som; all replaced 1912-13 by FB Bond; ch guide says work was by John Green, builder of Sherborne who raised walls and put on new roof for £90, but VCH 7 160 says rebuilt except tower by Mr Read, from SRO D/P/stow 4/1/1 and 23/6, cf R Read of Salisbury;
GREEN, JOHN
(1846-7 paid for work at Stourton ch, Wilts for Sir RC Hoare £1009, probably new S aisle; Mr Ingalton paid for model and George Hacker for carving WRO 383/83
GREEN, MOWBRAY ASHTON Architect, Bath. 1865-1945 born London, articled 1884 to AS Goodridge qv, returned Bath 1890 or 1891, MAG ARIBA 5 Prince’s Buildings, Bath, Kelly 1906, and Nethern House, Weston, Bath; president BSA 1908-9; in 1909 continued Wallace Gill qv practice, joined 1914 by John Herbert Hollier 1879-1953 (G&H) born Bristol, pracrtice at 27 Queen Sq Bath 1931 dir; obit Br 14.12.45; RIBAJ Jan 1946 100, ASG; practice continued as Mowbray Green & Partners, sold to Frank W Beresford Smith qv in 1947; Author Eighteenth century architecture of Bath, 1905;
(1894-5 six houses, Ashcroft, Cirencester, Glos; WWinA 1926)
1896 residence at Bath, Som; WWinA 1926;
1896 proposed public hall, Avenue Rd, Combe Down, Bath BC 2.4.96;
1897 residence at Bath, Som; WWinA 1926;
1899 residence at Bath, Som; WWinA 1926;
1905 four almshouses, Weston near Bath WWinA 1926;
(1905 Savory’s Printing Works, Perry Rd, St Michaels, Bristol; GJL; SNB, ext 1909; two printing works Park Row, Bristol 1905-6 and 1911-12 WWinA 1926)
1906-8 alts Eagle House, Batheaston, Som; SNB;
1907 Co-op stores, Oldfield Park, Bath; WWinA 1926;
1910 Bath Technical Institute, Long Acre, Bath; SNB;
(1911 Vandyke Press, Park Row, Bristol; GJL; SNB; 1911-12 WWinA 1926
1912-13 nave St Luke ch, Wellsway, Bath; SNB;
1912 St Stephen parish hall, Lansdown, Bath; WWinA 1926;
c1912 alts Nos 13-14 and Nos 27-8 Royal Crescent, Bath; WWinA 1926;
1915-16 rebuilt Parr's Bank, Milsom St, Bath' WWinA 1926;
1920 War memorial, Christ Church, Julian Rd, Bath; SNB;
1920 Churchyard cross, Corston, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1920/48;
1920-2 sixteen cotts for RDC housing scheme; ?Bath; WWinA 1926;
1921 add All Saints ch, Weston, Bath; SNB, memorial chapel;
1921 Picturedrome, Southgate St, Bath; WWinA 1926;
1921 WM schoolroom, Batheaston, Som; WWinA 1926;
1921-3 garage and offices, Grove St and Barton Buildings, Bath, Som; WWinA 1926;
(1922 rest Tisbury ch, Wilts; WBR;
1924-5 rear add Royal School, Bath; SNB; memorial building 1923-5, WWinA 1926;
1925-6 reps tower, Puriton ch, Som; ICBS;
1926-7 Linden House, No 63 Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; plans at house, SAS; Moggeridge & Sons, builders;
(1927 rest Warminster ch, Wilts; WBR;
1929 reps tower, Stawley ch, Som; ICBS;
1931-2 converted houses Queen Sq, Bath, for Literary & Scientific Institution; SNB; G&H;
193? laid out Parade Gardens, Bath, and designed domed ticket kiosk; G&H; 1930s SNB;
1931 reps Cossington ch, Som; rejected ICBS; G&H; tower repairs SAS;
1935-6 reps Old Cleeve ch, Som; ICBS; G&H; RL;
1936 plans for tower, Whatley ch, Som; SAS;
1936-48 reps Dunkerton ch, Som; rejected ICBS; tower reps; G&H;
1936-8 rest Assembly Rooms Bath with interiors by Oliver Messel; SNB; reopened 1938, bombed 1942.
1937 Haycombe Cemetery Chapel, Bath; G&H; SNB;
1938 converted Bayntun’s Bookshop, Manvers St, Bath, to PO sorting office; SNB; G&H;
1938-9 rest St Margarets Almshouses, Leycroft, Taunton, Som; G&H with FW Beresford-Smith; HBC report 1985;
1946 Nos 1-3 Kensington Pl, Bath; C20index; MG & Partners
1948 No 8 Lansdown Place West, Bath; C20index; MG&P
1949 rest Nos. 4-13 Cavendish Place, Bath MG&P; C20index; SNB says Nos 6-9 rebuilt after war damage;
1949 Bath plan
1949? rest Nos 1-15 Rivers St, Bath; C20index; rebuilt after bomb damage;
1951ff rest Abbey House, Hetling Court, Bath completed by Carpenter & Beresford-Smith; C20 index;
WwinA 1926 also mentions
war memorials;
houses at Marlborough Wilts and Batheaston, Som;
GREEN, ROBERT Builder 73 High St, Wincanton. 1830, 1840, 1848, 1852-3 dirs. Family business, followed by son Thomas, grandson Leonard, great-grandson Ted. PB 72. also George Green carpenter & builder Bayford Hill 1848 and 1852-3 dirs;
18?? Houses for Capt Festing & Miss Barrow, High St, Wincanton, Som; PB 61; top end S side next three-storey ones built by Thomas Green; Capt Festing RN High St in 1848 dir. ?Nos 56-58.
GREEN, THOMAS Builder Wincanton, son of Robert Green qv. Carpenter builder at 73 High St 1894, 62 High St 1906;
18?? Three three-storey houses, top of High St, Wincanton, Som; PB 61; presumably Nos. 60-64
1896 builder Elementary School, South St, Wincanton, Som; Thomas Hudson qv architect; R Legg Book of Wincanton 69; opened 17.12.96, £4600;
GREEN, WILLIAM ALBERT Builder, 13 Jesmond Rd Clevedon, 1906 dir; son of – Green in Palmer & Green, builders; Lilly Builders of Clevedon;
1874-6 houses lower Linden Rd, Clevedon, Som, by Green;
1878-81 Lower Queen's Rd, Clevedon almost entirely built up him, he had his yard there, also Rivulet Terrace on opposite side of road; Lilly;
c1880 houses, Queen's Rd, Clevedon, built up by 1881-2 also houses by Hedges, Bennett and W Shopland; Lilly;
1890s houses Victoria Rd, Clevedon, by Green; Cranbrook, Greenbank, Ferndale, Elmview, Norham, Lithgow;
1895-1905 Houses, Jesmond Rd, Clevedon entirely by Green; Lilly;
189? six pairs, Highdale Ave, Clevedon; from Nos 5-7 onward;
1896-1907 three terraces, Stroud Rd inc New Buildings c1897; Lilly;
GREEN, WILLIAM CURTIS Architect London. 1875-1960. Articled John Belcher, set up 1898. Designed power stations for tramways, smaller country houses. Joined Dunn & Watson qv c1900 (DW&CG), brief partnership with Archibald C Dickie 1868-1941 (CG&D) around 1903. Dickie had been with Dunn & Watson also. Designed Dorchester Hotel London in 1930s. RIBA Gold Medal 1942. Firm later Green, Lloyd & Son with – Lloyd and son, Christopher Green, then Green, Lloyd & Adams. ASG. Sketches of Wiltshire inc Wilton House, Lake House, and around Mere, Tisbury, and Salisbury, from Arch Association Sketchbook in Br 5.8. and 12.8.1899;
(1899 Tramways Generating Station, Counterslip, Bristol; SNB;
(1900-1 Tram depot, Bath Rd, Bristol; SNB;
190? Alts Hatch Court, Hatch Beauchamp, Som for Henry Lloyd (purchased house 1900, +1917); plans in Donald Insall Associates report; minor internal, bathrooms etc; CG&D;
(1906 The Institute, Painswick, Glos; ASG; CL 1919)
1913-14 Old Bank, High St, Bath; DW&CG; MF;
(1940s buildings, Training College, The Close, Salisbury, Wilts; GL&Son, BoE; and on into 1960s, 1965 add to kitchen and dining wing Audley House;
(1961ff buildings at St Mary's School, Calne, Wilts; by GL&Son, BoE; chapel 1971;
GREEN, WILLIAM JOHN. Architect, Bath, 1835/6-1902; brother-in-law of Thomas Fuller qv, trained in Bath according to BC 22.9.59; won Soane Medal for Architecture 1857 (BM 21.3.57) with design for Metropolitan Hotel and 2nd prize competition for lyric theatre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with Louis de Ville, then assisted Thomas Fuller in preparation of drawings for Canadian Parliament competition Ottawa 1859; he himself won 2nd prize for a 'proposed residence for the Governor-General of Canada' c. 1859; D Mindenhall, Thomas Fuller 68;
Perhaps same as WJ Green of Portman St, London who designed the C chapel, Russell Town, Bristol, CYB 1868; and WJ Green who worked in Denbighshire in 1870s, altered Vivod, Berwyn, for William Wagstaff solicitor, and designed Bodnant c1874 for HD Pochin, chemical manufacturer from Salford; Bodnant is described in BN 21.7.1881, now National Trust;
1859-60 alts U chapel, Trim St, Bath, Som; MF; SNB;
1861 2nd prize Bath Markets, Som; RHH
1862 2nd prize Theatre Royal, Bath, Som; RHH; Br 20 608;
GREENFIELD, GUY London. Guy Greenfield Architects, founded 1990; 2001 finalist for Stirling Prize for Hammersmith Surgery, London;
(2005 Nautilus housing dev, Westward Ho, Devon; RIBA award)
(2005-6 Castle Drive apartments, Falmouth, Cornwall)
2009 Exmoor Medical Centre, Fishers Mead, Dulverton, Som; BD review Feb 2010;
GREENLEAVES, ERNEST Architect, Stolford Lodge, 13 Arundel Rd, Weston s Mare, WwinA 1926; LRIBA, born 1868; worked for fifteen years with TR Phillips of Pontypridd, Glam;
GREENWAY, (BENJAMIN & DANIEL) Bath, marble and freestone masons, carvers and vase makers, possibly sons of Thomas Greenway fl 1704-30 qv, employed on the Exchange, Bristol, 1740-3; SNB; fl 1740-52 IR as they sold garden ornaments to the Duke of Atholl for Blair Castle, Perths, in 1752; Joseph Greenway was advertising garden ornaments from address at the Cold Bath, Bath (which Thomas Greenway designed in 1704) in 1757,
GREENWAY, FRANCIS HOWARD 1777-1837 Architect, Bristol, pupil John Nash, worked in Carmarthen 1801; c1805 opened yard in Bristol with brothers Olive & John Tripp Greenway as stonemasons, architects, builders etc; the brothers all bankrupt 1809; FHG convicted of forgery 1812 sentenced to death, transported to Australia and employed on public works there, government architect 1816; HC; monuments signed by Olive Greenway qv are dated c1819-36, signed by John c1791-1828, including Coplestone Warre Bampfylde +1791 of Hestercombe at Kingston St Mary; two at Timsbury +1808 and +1826, Caleb Pointing at Midsomer Norton +1828;
(1802 design for chapel, library etc for side of quadrangle at Bristol; RA 1802;
(1806-9 Hotel and Assembly Room, The Mall, Clifton, Bristol; SNB, now Clifton Club; completed after 1809 including interiors by Joseph Kay; Olive and JT Greenway contractors;
GREENWAY, OLIVE Bristol, stonemason and architect. c1805 opened yard in Bristol with brothers John Tripp Greenway and Francis Howard Greenway qv as stonemasons, architects, builders etc; the brothers built the Assembly Rooms Clifton design by FH Greenway who had been trained by John Nash, but all bankrupt 1809 and the job finished by Joseph Kay; monuments signed by Olive Greenway c1819-36, include Elizabeth Palmer, Paulton, Som, +1830;
(1831 Downend ch, Glos; BoE)
GREENWAY, THOMAS. Mason, Widcombe, Bath. Possibly designed General Wade’s House and No 15, both Abbey Churchyard, No 15 Westgate St, and General Wolfe’s House, Trim St, Bath, c1715-20; HC mentions houses in Trim St begun 1707, his sons also masons and were employed by John Wood for urns etc. TG visited Dublin 1730 taking flower pots, urns & vases, IR.
1704 Cold Bath, Widcombe, Bath, dem; HC; Ison;
c1719 attr Manor House, Freshford, Som; SNB;
c1720 attr General Wade's House, No 14 Abbey Churchyard, Bath; SNB; but possibly designed by Wade himself; attic storey looks like Nathaniel Ireson qv; also attr to TG No 15 Abbey Churchyard c1720;
1720 Four houses, Saw Close, Bath, one now Theatre Royal; MF; SNB;
1720 Manor House, Freshford Som
GREENWELL, ALLAN born 1861, surveyor to Frome RDC 1894-1901 with William Purnell; SAS;
GREENWOOD, SIDNEY
c1966 Houses, Clarken Close, Church Mead, Nailsea, Som; C20index; Bungalow Plans;
GREGORY, Sir CHARLES HUTTON Engineer 1817-98. Assistant engineer to Robert Stephenson on Manchester & Birmingham Railway, employed on London & Croydon Railway 1840 and and L&SE Railways 1842-3, introduced first semaphore signals; chief engineer Bristol & Exeter Railway 1846 in succession to Brunel; ngineer to Somerset Central Railway from inception, attended meeting in Wells 31.8.1852. JG Speller says that CHG succeeded Brunel as engineer to Bristol & Exeter Railway in 1844 and was himself succeeded by JJ Macdonnell; responsible for locomotives on B&E until 1850; consultant engineer to lines in Ceylon, Trinidad, Cape Colony, Selangor, Perak. Knighted 1884; president of the ICE;
1846 chief engineer Bristol & Exeter Railway 1846 in succession to Brunel; SAS;
1853-4 engineer, Somerset Central Railway, Som, from Glastonbury to Highbridge, Act of 1852, George C Ashmead qv surveyor, J&C Rigby qv contractors; Dunning Glastonbury 76; started 18.4.53 at Highbridge, opened August 1854, ILN 26.8.54; extended to Wells 1859 by CHG; station at Glastonbury part re-erected in car park;
1858-9 engineer Somerset Central Railway extension Glastonbury to Wells; bridges at Coxley and Polsham, station yard at Wells; opened WJ 5.3.59; P Fry Railways into Wells; contractors J&C Rigby qv, £118000; resident engineer FC Slessor, SAS;
GREGORY, EDWARD Builder, Weston s Mare;
1846-7 builder Emmanuel ch, Weston s Mare; GP Manners architect; Cheltenham Chronicle 26.3.46 FS;
GREGORY, THOMAS. Engineer, Coalbrookdale foundry, foreman pattern-maker under Abraham Darby III made patterns for the Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, 1777-80.
1794-8 Bridgwater Town Bridge, Som; cast-iron from Coalbrookdale, plans by John Parry of Cardiff qv; BDRP 5ff; dem 1883; cf engraving 1797 has only TGs name; pretty well completed SM 1.10.98; 75’ span, 24’ width, £4000; plaque survives on Royal Clarence Hotel dated 1795;
GRESSWELL, HUGH Architect, 1 Trafalgar Buildings, Charing Cross, London. Born 1888, articled 1906-10 Howard Goadby of Twickenham, 1914-15 assistant to Walter Cave; ARIBA 1921 proposed by Walter Cave, address 77 Huron Rd Balham SE17; mention in WWinA 1926, no works listed. His office was former office of Frank Norman Reckitt qv.
1931 Forches Garden, Golsoncott, Rodhuish, Som, gardener’s cottage for FN Reckitt of Golsoncott, plans at house now owned by his great-grand-daughter Josephine daughter of Penelope Lively, inf P Lively;
GRESWELL, CHARLES HERBERT Engineer, 1852-1926, born Kilve, civil engineer in India c1871ff, bought Manor Farm, Bicknoller, 1898, 1901 retired at The Cottage, Holford, in Clifton 1911 census, died in Bicknoller; ?related to WT Greswell +1971, owner of Weacombe House, West Quantoxhead from 1937;
1904 alts Wayville Farm, Bicknoller, Som, for self, inf from descendant, Charles Greswell, 2012, owner; CH Greswell, Wayfield 1906 dir; chimneys look like Horace Farquharson work at Woolston Grange nearby 1911;
GRIBBLE, CHARLES R. 1834-95. 6 John St, Adelphi, London (1868); 22 Spencer Villas, Putney, London. ?son of EW Gribble of Torquay who designed Newton Abbot I chapel, Devon, AM 1836, and villa for Bishop of Exeter, now Palace Hotel Torquay SEA 1840 47. Articled to R Gould of Barnstaple then John Gibson qv 1854-9, succeeded Gibson as architect to National Provincial Bank 1883. Did NPB branches in Gloucester, York, Hampstead, Deal, Weymouth (1882). Built Plymtree, Upper Richmond Rd, Putney, London, for self. Designed other banks: Deutsche Bank, George Yard, Lombard St, London; Lambton's Bank, Sunderland; Fenwicks Bank, London. Also 1861 Union C chapel, Putney, London CYB62 Gothic. Presumably related to Herbert Gribble 1847-94, architect of Brompton Oratory RC ch London 1878-84. H Gardiner Gribble advertised for tenders to build residence at Brittons Braunton, Devon, Br 12.4.73;
(1882 National Provincial Bank, Weymouth, Dorset; T Br 29.4.82;
GRIEVE, MAXWELL B. Architect;
20?? house, Ladye Bay, Clevedon; C20 index;
GRIFFITHS, JOHN 1825-99 of Brecon was clerk of works 1870-2 at St Audries, West Quantoxhead, Som, under John Norton qv. Lived at Rydon Lodge, West Quantoxhead until c1874. Son John Norton Griffiths was named after Norton, 1871-1930, adventurer, involved in Jameson Raid, became leading civil engineer Norton Griffiths & Co built railways in Angola, Americas, Australia, Canada. Possibly involved with Grand Pier extension, Weston super Mare, Som, 1906. 1910 Arica-La Paz Railway. MP 1910ff, raised regiment and recruited miners for tunnelling in WW1, detonated Messines Ridge 1917, destroyed Romanian oil-fields 1916-17, knighted as Sir John Norton-Griffiths, engineering firm revived after war, became 1st baronet 1922. Contract to raise Aswan Dam 1929, murdered in Alexandria 1930; DS 169-71;
GRIFFITHS, Sir JOHN NORTON Engineer 1871-1930 see John Griffiths.
GRIMSHAW, HARRY Architect, Bridgwater;
1929 Village Hall, West Huntspill, Som; SAS, now a house; L Wilkins, Catcott, builder;
GRIMSHAW, Sir NICHOLAS Architect London. Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners practice founded 1980, Nicholas Grimshaw born 1939 was with Terry Farrell from 1965 to 1980 see Farrell & Grimshaw, firm now Grimshaw Architects. Major projects all over world. President of RA 2004-11;
(1981 Wiltshire Radio, Wootton Bassett, Wilts; lightweight addition to Gde 2 listed house; AJ 2.10.83;
(1993 Western Morning News premises, Plymouth, Devon)
(199? Factory for Herman Miller, Chippenham, Wilts; cf Farrell & Grimshaw;
(1994-5 RAC regional control centre, Bristol)
1999-2003 New Royal Bath & renewal of old baths, Bath, Som; rebuilt Cross and Hot Bath with Donald Insall Associates; SNB; called Thermae; 2006 opened? After problems with leaks;
2013 appointed architects to Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, Som; to continue and develop plans drawn up by YRM qv who went out of business in 2011; BD 25.10.13; also taken over a YRM project for new nuclear station at Sizewell, Suffolk; all for EdF;
GRIMTHORPE, 1st BARON. See Sir Edmund Beckett
GROCOCK, GEORGE HENRY Architect, Bedford. Partnership from 1898 with CE Mallows (M&G) in Bedford, joined 1900 by SB Russell.
1897 Proposed stable and cottage, Minehead, Som; plans AA 1897 2 65;
GROUP ARCHITECTS DRG
(1960-3 Robinson Building, Bristol; SNB, fifteen storey tower)
(1970-4 Bristol United Press building, Temple Way, Bristol; SNB;
GROVER & WARD engineers John Grover and Richard Ward
1868-9 Clevedon Pier, Som; SNB; contr Hamilton's Windsor Ironworks, Liverpool; toll house by Hans Price qv; pier head alt 1892-3 by GN Abernethy qv; restored 1989;
GROVES, JOHN THOMAS c.1761-1811 architect, surveyor, son of London master bricklayer, John Grove(s), to whom he was apprenticed in 1775. 1778 exhibited views of Westminster Abbey at RA; study tour of Italy 1780 not returning until c.1790. Exhibited a view of Temple of Sybil at Tivoli, 1791; 1794 elected member of Florentine Academy in absentia; 1794 appointed Clerk of Works at Whitehall, Westminster and St James’s; architect to General Post Office 1807; surveyor for the Improvement of Westminster. In 1799 married Jane Sarah Chapman, daughter of General Richard Chapman, at Kingston St Mary. 1810-11, Master of the Tylers’ and Bricklayers’ Company. Designed houses, including Broomfield Lodge, Clapham Common, c.1797, dem, Tewin Water, Hertfordshire, c.1798, and Morden Surrey, c.1800, dem; repaired W front of Ely Cathedral and Bishop’s Palace, 1795-1808; monument to Nelson on Portsdown Hill, overlooking Portsmouth harbour, 1807; obelisk at Garbally Park, Galway, Ireland, 1811. HC; SAS;
1805-10 attrib Tainfield, Kingston St Mary, Som, new house for his father-in-law, General Chapman; information from Alan Hughes; SAS;
GROVES, William Edwin 1862-1930 surveyor, joint surveyor Dulverton RDC 1914-18, SAS;
GULLICK, JOHN. Mason. Evercreech.
1781 Re-erected Village Cross, Evercreech, Som; paid £1/10/0d; village website;
GUNN & FRY Minehead see Edwin Gunn
GUNN, EDWIN Architect, 1878-1958, born Essex, qualified 1911, superintending architect to Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, based at Ruislip, WWinA 1926; retired to Minehead 1934, then did a great deal in town to c1950. Wrote books on house building and farm buildings including Little things that matter for those that build, 1923; Architecture of East Anglia, 1929, The Thousand Pound House, Economy in House Design 1932, Farm Buildings, new and adapted, 1935; worked for Survey of London as editor, retired to Minehead, but practice restarted there. Harriet Bridle lives in his own house, Delabole Cottage, Ballfield. An autobiography exists ?in RIBA. Firm was Gunn & Fry with Francis Alex Fry (1907-73) who joined at beginning in 1934, later Aston & Fry later Aston & Marsden;
(19?? 29 Reed Pond Walk, Gidea Park, Essex ill in REDA 1911;
Several houses by Gunn are dated pre his arrival in 1934;
1920 Owls Mead, Whitegate Rd, Minehead;
1926 Delabole Cottage/ Chimney Cottage, Ballfield Rd, Minehead, SSW; Delabole Cottage was his own house;
1929 Stone Steps, Ballfield Road, Minehead,
193? Grixy, The Parks, Minehead ?for Frederick Clarke 1872-1949, ?on former glebe land, now Little Stoke; builder ?Burgess & Son; OD; c1930 SAS;
1933 Olton, Hopcott, Minehead, SAS;
1934 converted stables, Elgin Tower, Minehead, to house; D/U/M/ 22/1/745; G&F, SAS;
1935-6 Open-air swimming-pool, Warren Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/746 and 747 and 754; alts 1938 775; dem; G&F, SAS;
1936 Eight cottages, Marshfield Rd, Alcombe, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/757; G&F
1936 adds Penylan Hotel, Blenheim Rd, Minehead; G&F; D/U/M/ 22/1/764; G&F SAS;
1936 adds Village Hall, Alcombe, Minehead, Som D/U/M/ 22/1/765; G&F, SAS;
1936 church hall, C chapel, Bancks St, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/766; G&F SAS;
1938 alts York House Hotel, The Avenue, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/774 and addn of third floor 783; G&F, SAS;
1938 Semi-detached houses, Periton Lane, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/779; G&F, SAS;
1939 converted Irnham Lodge, Minehead, to nursing home; D/U/M/ 22/1/784; G&F, SAS;
1940 three pairs semi-det off King Georges Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/787;
1944-6 Fifty-seven council houses, Quarry Close, Alcombe, Minehead by Edwin Gunn; SRO; by G&F, OD;
1946 alts Lynton House, The Parks, Minehead; G&F for A Hurford; SRO plans;
1946 Alts No 20 The Parks, Minehead; G&F; OD, plan in SRO;
Delabole slate roofs a trademark, maybe did the set of hipped-roof houses in Ballfield Rd; two pairs on Porlock Rd including Brooklinn House; five or six W of Whitegate Rd on Hopcott Rd (A39), Owl’s Mead in Whitegate Road; Delabole Cottage Ballfield Rd was his own house
GUNTON & GUNTON. London. See also Thomas Gordon; specialists in WM chapels;
1922 Chapel, Kingswood School, Lansdown, Bath; 1920-2 MF;
GUTHRIE, LEONARD ROME see Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie.
HABERSHON & BROCK, London. Matthew Edward Habershon (1826-1901) and Edgar Loftus Brock (1833-95) a former pupil, partner 1865, Brock continued practice after MEH retired in 1879;
1869 C chapel, Cannington, Som; C Stell; £750; Gothic;
HABERSHON & FAWCKNER London & Newport see WG Habershon
HABERSHON & PITE Architects 38 Bloomsbury Sq London see WG Habershon
HABERSHON, MATTHEW London 1789-1852
1864-6 adds Royal School, Bath, SNB; error for WG Habershon;
HABERSHON, WILLIAM GILBEE. Architect. 38 Bloomsbury Sq, London and Park Square, Newport Mon. and Belvedere, Tredegarville, Cardiff (AEBTD 1868). 1818-91, FRIBA 1852, retired 1877. Son of Matthew Habershon 1789-1852 architect in London (and millenarian prophet), brother of Matthew Edward Habershon 1826-1901, known as Edward Hapershon. Partnership with Edward Habershon c1849-58 (WG&EH), to 1863 according to HC and RIBA; then Habershon & Pite (H&P) with Alfred R Pite c1860-78 (1863-78 RIBA); but also Habershon, Pite & Fawckner (HP&F) c1866-78 with John Follett Fawckner (1829-1898) who was agent for the firm in Cardiff from 1857 before becoming partner in 1870 according to SAS, 1872 according to J Hilling, Cardiff & the Valleys, 138n. RIBA says JFF was partner 1870-91; Habershon and Pite retired in 1877-8 according to SAS leaving JF Fawckner in charge, firm was Habershon & Fawckner (H&F) 1879-98; then Habershon, Fawckner & Co (HF&Co); then Habershon, Fawckner & Groves (HF&G) with JT Groves qv. Architects to Tredegar estate from 1850s. AEBTD 1868 also includes Tredegar Estate offices and Bank; National Schools at Bassaleg, Maindee and New Tredegar; Bute Dock Welsh B chapel, Cardiff; Canton B chapel, Cardiff; Cardiff YMCA; Alexandra Orphanage for Infants, Hornsey.
(1852-3 enl Friern Barnet ch, Mx; W&EH;
(1852 St John ch, Hove, Sx; Elleray 68; E&WHH;
(1854 design Adelaide Cathedral, S Australia; Colonial Church Chronicle, April 1855, 383; Messrs Habershon; Unex;
(1855 Canonbury C chapel, St Pauls Rd, London; WG&EH; cruciform, CYB 1856; BoE London 4 662; dem;
(1856 Entrant Government Offices, London comp; RHH; W&EH;
(1858 Howe C chapel, Great Torrington, Devon; CYB 1859; WGH;
1864-6 adds Royal School for Daughters of Officers, Lansdown, Bath; MF 268, by ‘M Habershon’ impossible; & SE wing 1883-4 ‘MH&F’;
(1872 St Thomas Infants School, Trowbridge, Wilts; H&P; WBR;)
1879 1st prize North Town Nursery estate, Taunton, Som; RHH; H&F; SRO A\CMY/489 has H&F plans for The Elms Nursery Estate included with plans of Laurel estate by HO Samson earlier C20; Estate was Elm Grove, Birch Grove, Linden Grove and The Avenue, houses not built according to H&F suggestions nor were all house sites built on;
1883-4 SE wing, Royal School, Bath, Som; MF; H&F;
1886 ref to Mr Fawckner 'honorary architect' inspecting a building, ?where, TC 8.12.1886
1887 YMCA George Williams Memorial Hall, Eastover and Salmon Parade, Bridgwater, Som opened October 1887 BM 12.10.87; by JFF dem;
HADEN, (G.) & SON. Trowbridge. ?GN Haden & Sons the famous heating engineers
1867 rest Winford ch, Som; SRO; check?
HADFIELD, DAVID Bath. later Hadfield Associates of Pickwick Rd, Corsham, Wilts;
1989-90 Hawkshead and Wingfield Ho, two houses rear of 1-2 Bathwick Hill, Bath; by Hadfield Oatley; MF; C20index;
1997 Aquila, Widcombe Hill, Bath; by DH; MF;
2003 Spadgers, Dark Lane, Bathampton, Som; C20index;
c2010 All Saints Place, 1-2 Margaret's Buildings, Bath; C20index;
The Beeches new house for Chris Caple, where?, for £80K, by David Hadfield Associates built of SIPS, on SIPS UK website; and five other houses using SIPS system inc one for Margaret Favager at Bath, Som;
HAGGETT, WILLIAM Architect, Sherborne, Dorset 1808-87
(1857 alts Abbey House, Sherborne Dorset, OSS)
(1857 Keepers Lodge, Sherborne Castle, Dorset; T BN 1857 389, PC Hardwick and W Huggett; OSS PC Hardwick;
(1857 Vicarage, Haydon, Dorset, T: BN 1857 389 PCH and W Huggett;
HAGUE, DANIEL. Bristol c1736-c1816. Son of Daniel Hague of Corsham, Wilts, in business as builder and surveyor until c1805. HC
1763 adds Mells Park, Som; burnt 1917 and dem; SNB; extended with bay-fronted wings;
(1784 builder Bristol Royal Infirmary; HC; SNB, by Thomas Paty with DH as builder, built 1784-1809)
(1786-8 attributed Hope Chapel, Hotwells, Bristol; SNB;
(1787-90 Portland Square, Bristol; only completed c1823, SNB, Thomas Pope among the builders)
(1789-94 St Paul ch, Portland Sq, Bristol; DH also the mason)
A summerhouse in garden of No 209 Bath Rd, Brislington, Bristol has detail like Portland Sq, SNB;
HAKE, GUY DONNE GORDON Architect, 1887-1964 2 Richmond Pk Rd, Clifton, Bristol, principal of Bristol School of Architecture; retired to Yarcombe, Devon, 1951; painter, member of Bristol Savages; ?relation of poet Thomas Gordon Hake 1809-95;
(19?? reordered interior Victoria Rooms, Clifton, Bristol;Bristol Savages website;
(1945 report on The Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR2;
(1948 Laboratories, Spencer Moulton & Co, Kingston Rd, Bradford on Avon, acc to Alex Moulton but plans in WRO 1945 are by Pictor & Snailum qv;
HALE, CHARLES Surveyor to Shepton Mallet UDC 1894-1905; SAS;
HALFPENNY, WILLIAM +1755, architect, author of books of designs, manuals etc; called Mr WH, alias Hoare, lately of Richmond in Surrey, carpenter, in 1736; perhaps from Yorkshire. Designed church in Leeds, 1723, based in Bristol in 1730s made unex designs 1739-40 for The Exchange and for adds to the Infirmary, 1742, and designed Coopers' Hall, King St, 1743-4, also Redland Chapel 1740-3, but possibly replaced John Strahan who had died c1741-2; attrib to him are No 40 Prince St, Clifton 1740-1, dem; Clifton Court, Clifton Green c1742-3; by 1748 said to be in London; Stout's Hill, Uley, Glos c1750; orangery Frampton Court, Glos c1750; Upton House, Tetbury, Glos, 1752, Assembly Room, Prince St, Bristol 1754-5, dem;
1748-50 attrib builder, Babington ch, Som, SAS; probably a design by John Strahan qv exec by WH as similar to Redland Chapel, EH list; by an unknown architect, SNB; Strahan was dead c1741-2??
HAILE, W. H. Engineer to Somerset Drainage commissioners. Report on flood prevention 1929; MW;
HALL, ALBERT Architect, civil engineer, Tisbury, Wilts ref TC 11.1.1933
HALL, HENRY Architect. 15 Duke St, Adelphi, London. 1826-1909. Portrait photo in Hestercombe Gardens guide. Born Wansford, Lincs, articled Thomas Pilkington, in office of Edward Blore, then William Boulnois from 1849, entered competitions from there, own practice 1858; at 15 Duke St 1861-8, at 3 Bloomsbury Place 1871, 19 Doughty St 1876-1905. ‘.. as a lesser light Mr Hall shone with a steady and clear effulgence. He stood for upholding the best traditions of the profession, never stooping to anything unworthy, always the soul of honour and absolute integrity, in a workd, he was a ‘fine old English gentleman’. Obits Br 30.10.09 and 6.11.09, quoted in Hestercombe guide p25; private practice largely carried out in Somerset and Dorset, obit.
(1855 1st prize National Schools, Sherborner, Dorset; RHH; BN 1857 290, by H Hall of Islington)
(1855 prize Bridport Cemetery, Dorset; SAS)
1856-7 National School, Horsington Som; competition, Br 1856 68; £928/17/6d;
(1857 National School, Horsecastles, Sherborne, Dorset OSS)
(1861 Rectory, Haselbury Bryan, Dorset, Italianate Charles Down of Sherborne builder, James Short clerk of works, capitals etc by Henry Earp; Br 19.10.61;
1863-4 School, Milborne Port, Som, Br 1864 657; ill Br 1864 792; McKay 184, FS 23.5.63 in commemoration of wedding of Medlycott daughter to Captain Betty RA; opened 1864; £2000; tower with cross-gabled cap replaced 1878 by clock stage and spire, probably by Hall also; Alfred Reynolds qv builder, SAS;
(1865 1st prize Corn Exchange, Dorchester, Dorset; RHH)
1867 alts Rimpton parsonage, Som; D/D/Bbm/154 alts stable, minor alts house, also work in 1876, Bbm/123
1867-9 rest Milborne Port ch, Som; D/D/cf/1867/6, rebuilt nave & N tr; RL; McKay 181ff; FS 6.9.67; Alfred Reynolds builder; W window by Clayton & Bell 1869; heating by Haden of Trowbridge; opened 24.6.69; £3000; mortuary in churchyard rebuilt; vicarage demolished and fragments reused in shelter on corner of Gainsborough said to be porch;
1869 alts Compton Pauncefoot parsonage, Som; bay window, minor alts to windows, D/D/Bbm/163;
1869 rest Maperton ch, Som; SRO cf/1869/5; BoE S all rebuilt except tower; RL; Lynn Pearson Tile Gazeteer 2005;
(1869 Wilts & Dorset Bank, Blue Boar Row, Salisbury, Wilts; commenced TC 17.2.69, Robert Futcher, Fisherton Works contractor; WBR2, now Lloyds Market Place, doubled in size 1901)
1869 teacher's house, West Camel school, Som; now Bridge Cottage, RL; but cf 1876;
(1870-1 N aisle Sandford Orcas ch, Dorset; BoE; plans SRO D/D/cf/1870/6)
1870-1 rest Montacute ch, Som; RL; 1869-72 ICBS, nave roof; WG 2.6.71 reopened, contractor William Pudden of East Coker, clerk of works J Cox of Montacute, £3200. W end opened out by removal of organ and ringing floor. Church rebuilt except tower and porch but features of old carefully retained. Some relics found now built into walls including part of ancient arch with curious interlaced pattern of Norman work now inserted in nave wall. Roofs had been plastered to undersides of timbers, while N tr and chancel had square ceilings. All now renewed with circular ribs those in nave and chancel differing in character. Ribs from corbels w angels bearing shields and inscriptions (colours by Foot & Son, painters, Yeovil). Transept roof has corbels and cornice similar to old work which was discovered. Nave is Perp, transepts and chancel Early Dec. A space between porch and n tr had not been opened for more than 30 yrs had an arched roof panelled and cusped, an arch w similar panelling connecting w the porch. The panelling on the S was pierced so as to form a two-light window and there was a single-light window of a similar descry in the outside wall. These have been opened and restored and the mortuary chamber converted to a baptistery. A very perfect small fig on a pedestal was found blt into the outer wall, the stone having panelling on the two side faces. Oak screen between baptistery and porch and a new arch is formed to connect baptistery w N transept. The parvise over porch was in imperfect state and evidently never completed, now forms organ chmbr, a gallery for the organist is carried out on stone corbels musicians, an old corbel of similar charcter was found during work has been used also. Orig stone stairs have been rearranged w entrance from baptistery. Pitch pine seats the nave bench ends imitating old ones, those in chancel and N tr more ornamental, the S transept fitted up for Montacute House, tower for schoolchildren, seats slightly raised. Dwarf screen as passage for the ringers. Choir seats have iron standards. Pulpit stone base w marble shafts, and handsome brass openwork above. This adopted as ch arch low and narrow so as not to obstruct view. Reredos old inscription around retained but plain slab removed and ornamental work introduced Minton tiles w Evangelist symbols, as well as elaborate carving. Phelips tombs taken down and refixed by Cole of Yeovil, bells rehung under G Pippard East Coker, carving done by G Porter Newark St, Bath bur considerable portion by J Cox and his workmen. Organ remodelled by king of London c£100. Handsome gates at porch, coronas and lamps and noble vane by Petter & Son, Yeovil. Five new stained glass windows in chancel E end by Clayton & Bell 2 on N, Nativity and Baptism, two on S Resurrection and Ascension. Brass lectern on base of polished Devonshire marble given by Mr Mitchell who also gave the beautiful marble altar step. T: SWJ 5.2.70;
1871-2 Vicarage, Milborne Port, Som; RL; McKay 184 agreement 19.6.71 for completion by 1.5.72; £2087/16/2d; Alfred Reynolds builder; FS 14.2.72;
1872 National School, Henstridge, Som; Br 1872 792;
1873 School, Queen Camel, Som; Br 1873 855; WG 6.6.73 at expense Captain Mildmay;
1873-4 resited two C17 arches from Low Ham at Hazlegrove, Sparkford, Som for - Mildmay; RL; reassembled as single arch next to Lodge of 1871 presumably by Hall.
1873-5 rest South Cadbury ch, reblt chancel, nearly £1200; reseated; VCH; WG 3.4.74;
1873-5 National School and teacher's house, North Cadbury, Som; VCH; DD/ EDS/5562;
1873-7 alts Hestercombe House, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som; for 1st Viscount Portman, completed in time for grandson Hon EWB Portman’s 21st in 1877; RL; Henry Davis contr; remodelled C18 house with new tower etc; Hestercombe guide book. Tom Maybery and DoE say James Baker Green qv was architect. Guidebook says Hall designed the Victorian Terrace garden, apparently with Lord Portman; stable alts W range dated 1878; story seems that Baker Green made intial plans and started work gutting old house and demolishing centre bay, then died. Hall called in but Portman basically kept JBG work as done and did not use more elaborate ones by HH, inf PWhite; tower, interior are by Hall, but big S bowed projection not built nor was he allowed to alter Green’s gables. Centrepiece prob also Hall;
1875 rest Rimpton ch, Som; SRO; RL add N transept and vestry, reblt porch, removed gallery;
(1875 outbldngs Poyntington parsonage, Dorset; SRO D/D/Bbm/212; two 1-st ranges;
1876 ?adds Maperton House, Som, for TT Walton; inf owners;
1876-8 Huish Episcopi Board School, North St, Langport, Som; Br 1877 70; SCG 29.6.78
1876 West Coker National School, Som; Br 1876 176;
1876 National Schools, Church St, Castle Cary, Som; Br 1876 819;
1876 alts Rimpton parsonage, Som; creation of loft rooms in rear wing; SRO D/D/Bbm/223;
1877 chancel roof, Rimpton ch, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/225;
(1877-9 Caswell Bay House, Bishopston, Glam; BoW)
1878 ?clock stage to tower, Church School, Milborne Port, Som; McKay 184;
1878 school and house, South Petherton A 7.9.78
1878-80 Cemetery, Langport, Som; tenders to Clerk to burial board; SCG 17.8.78; Tender £1185 accepted WG 6.9.78; cost £1400 (Kelly) one chapel, dem; A 17.8.78; A 7.9.78 £1185 Davis of Langport builder;
1878 farmhouse, Tythe Farm, North Cadbury; £1760Cox of Yeovil; A 7.9.78;
(1879 Pinckney Bros Bank, Market Pl, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR; ill BN 6.9.78, red brick w Bath dressings and half-timber; bank absorbed by Wilts & Dorset by 1897; Hale & Sons, Salisbury, bldrs;
(1879 Alderbury Workhouse, Wilts; WBR; begun GB Nichols of Birmingham)
(1880 1st pr Halesworth Hospital; RHH)
1880-1 rest Seavington St Mary ch, Som; ICBS; reseating, repairs, chancel and porch roof, nave windows. WG 5.11.80
1883-4 alts South Brewham ch, Som; ICBS;
1885 Stoke sub Hamdon Post Office, Som; Br 1885a 815; ?the PO on N side of High St or the corner building on the Ham Hill road.
(1885 1st pr Cheltenham Grammar School, Glos; RHH)
1891 Chapel of ease, Milborne Wick, Milborne Port, Som; Alfred Reynolds bldr; WG 23.10.91 Ham stone, nearly £400;
(1899 1st pr three schools, York Rd, Dartford, Kent; RHH)
HALL, HERBERT AUSTEN 1881-1968 articled Philip Tree 1897 worked for Silcock & Reay 1900-1, Treadwell & Martin 1902, LCC 1903, 1905-13 joined Septimus Warwick (W&H) won Lambeth TH comp 1905, Holborn TH 1906, Berks County Hall 1909. Later with TB Whinney as Whinney, Son & Austen Hall.
(19?? Bristol Gas Co HQ; ASG
(1936 Bristol Aeroplane Co HQ, Filton, Glos; ASG; RA 1937 exh;
(1935 Gas Light & Coke Co offices Exeter, Devon; RA 1937 exh;
HALL, SYDNEY Engineer, 1813-84, 1833 pupil of William Cubitt qv, friend of his son Joseph Cubitt qv, then at Horseley Iron Works, Birmingham, practice 1838-48 with James Corry Sherrard,; went to Swansea in 1848 as director Patent Fuel Co., JP there 1868, moved to London 1871, supervised building Wear Fuel Works, Sunderland for same company, retired 1875. Grace's Guide from ICE obituary;
1835-42 completed Chard Canal, Som, proposed 1831 by James Green qv, Act 1834, 13.5 m from Bridgwater & Taunton Canal (opened 1827); two boat lifts, two inclined planes, two tunnels proposed, work began at Wrantage 1835 when Green replaced by Sydney Hall because of problems with boat lifts on Grand Western Canal. According to Grace's guide, Hall replaced Green only in 1841-3, recommended by Cubitt, and did all the works once the original lifts and locks abandoned;
From the B&T Canal there were: 1. aqueduct over railway; 2. aqueduct over R Tone; 3. Ruishton aqueduct; 4. Thornfalcon plane; 5. Lillesdon tunnel; 6. Wrantage aqueduct over A378; 7. Wrantage plane; 8. Crimson Hill tunnel 1800 yds; 9. Ilminster wharf; 10. Ilminster plane; 11. Ilminster tunnel 300 yds; 12. Bere Mills lock; 13. Chard plane; 14. Chard feeder reservoir; 15. Chard basin; Sir William Cubitt consultant for the inclines. Opened 1842. Bankrupt 1853. Closed 1868.
HALL, THOMAS Steward to Henry Fownes Luttrell of Dunster Castle.
1764-5 Responsible possibly for raising of level of entrance courtyard by eighteen feet and remodelling W end of the gatehouse to suit the new level, making the roof of one level and adding two polygonal turrets on the W end with a reused C16 doorway between; JHP Gibb in PSANHS 1981 13;
HALLAM, VIC. Company involved with Somerset County Council schools programme in late 1950s early 1960s, esp. Vic Hallam Ltd designed and made pre-fabricated buildings, esp schools, also Anderby seaside chalets, at Anderby, Lincs and in Devon and Cornwall. The Vic Hallam architect involved with Somerset CC was John Rice acc to JFoden, but Jeff Sneasby of Acland Baron & Smith who was also involved in development of the Method building system (see Somerset County Architects) may have been with Vic Hallam.
Vic Hallam and his brothers started their firm making chicken coops and sheds at Marlpool. By the time the company reached its peak in the 1960’s, they had a huge site (seen here) next to the Erewash Canal at Langley Mill, and were renowned for their prefabricated buildings, particularly schools. The company was also responsible for building the Derbyshire Miners’ Camp at Skegness. The Hallam site is now under reconstruction as a business-park. 1966 Cheddar Secondary Modern, Somerset (extract from system-build website) The system-built secondary schools of the 1960s haven’t really been a cause of much pride in the architectural world. Vic Hallam’s advert for just such a modular, timber-framed design design at the Cheddar Secondary Modern School makes it look rather smart. But it was taken in summer; in winter, the pupils in the picture probably shivered due to lack of insulation. Typical Construction & Problems With Vic Hallam Buildings - See Below (Sheffield LEA) Typical Construction Sheffield LEA which informed us that it had identified problems with some 1950s Derwent timber framed schools. They were manufactured by Vic Hallam plc in the 1950s and 1960s. The Derwent system comprises permanent buildings of one or two storeys, mainly based on a timber post and plywood box beam framing construction. The buildings are braced by tongue-and-groove roof boards and framed external wall panels. Later forms of the system used different types of cladding such as brick work and tile hanging, although the same principle of structure remained. Typical Problems Sheffield LEA found deterioration in the external walls and in certain internal structural members of Derwent buildings. Other common faults were rotting of the timber columns between window sill and floor level, rotting of timber internal columns between floor level and lower ceiling level at the point at which a change of room height occurred and rotting of external columns over their entire height, when adjacent to rainwater outlets, together with other examples of junctions between plywood beams and timber posts that were exposed to water leaks. Hope this helps. Ioan Howells.
HALLETT BROS Builders,
1881-2 built Congregational Schools, South Petherton; WG 15.7.81;
HALLETT, THOMAS. Milborne Port carpenter
1797-8 rebuilt Tippling Philosopher, Milborne Port, Som, for Lord Uxbridge; R Duckworth, Yesterday's Milborne Port;
HALLIDAY & RODGER see G.E. Halliday
HALLIDAY, GEORGE ELEY. Architect, Cardiff. 1858-1922. Pupil of EH Burnell from 1876, then assistant to J Prichard in Llandaff. Practice from c1883-93 was H & Anderson (H&A) with TH Anderson; Diocesan Surveyor Llandaff 1892; partnership with John W Rodger whom he had used as a contractor (H&R):
1891 Municipal Buildings, Christchurch St W, Frome, Som; H&A;
(1896 2nd prize Southampton Hospital;
(1899 1st prize Swindon Hospital, Wilts, 1899, RHH, H&R, WBR; addition of scarlet fever ward, lodge & chimney to Infectious Diseases Hospital, Gorse Hill, Swindon, Wilts, 1899-1901; WBR2, hospital of 1891 by HJ Hamp Boro Surveyor;
HALLIDAY, JOHN EDWARD Warminster. Clothier,dyer, and amateur architect, of family long established in Taunton and Warminster. A notebook at Wilts RO suggests that he designed parsonage at Coleford, Som, 1832, but SNB says Rectory by Thomas Thatcher qv 1830-1; no plans in SRO?; WBR;
HALLIDAY, WILLIAM. Builder, carpenter, worked for William Stradling of Chilton Polden, WH occupied the cottage at Chilton Priory according to Stradling’s guide of 1839, where no architect is named, but Jonathan Holt, Somerset Follies, mentions an attribution to JW Wainwright qv of Shepton Mallet. For Stradling, WH carved benches at Othery ch, Som, copying medieval ones and probably re-erected the porch from Somerton Castle as landscape feature at Tower House, Chilton Polden, c1842; according to D Crighton he bought No 35 High St, Wells (Somerset Hotel), exhibited at the Great Exhibition 1851, and bought No 58 High St, Wells, in 1885 for his daughter to run as sweetshop; Albert Halliday, woodcarver and antique furniture, was at No 35 High St and Edwin Halliday antique furniture at No 33, in 1906;
1836? work at Chilton Priory (also known as Stradling’s Folly), Chilton Polden, house is also attributed to John Westlake Wainwright qv who had altered Chilton Polden church 1828-29, also a Gothic Cottage with oak carvings; DD/S/ST 17/6; Headley and Meulenkamp, Follies Grottoes and Garden Buildings, 2003, 439; Holt, Somerset Follies, 2007, 63 photo, 64-5; SSW
184? alts Tower House (built early 1800’s), Chilton Polden, William Stradling had built grottoes and follies in the grounds, and rebuilt the medieval porch from Somerton Castle, Somerton, dem in 1842; DD/S/ST 8; Crighton 81;
1848-50 bench-ends, Othery ch, carved poppyheads on the pew ends in the S transept for William Stradling, 1848- 50; SSW;
1850c transept roofs, Doulting ch, Som; SNB; ...The very fine transept roofs were restoration work carried out by Halliday of Wells, about fifty or sixty years ago, but so well done that they appeared original. They were the best local type of XV Century work; FB Bond in PSANHS 53, 1907, 38
1855-6 carved work, Stuckeys Bank (now the NatWest), High Street, Wells, for CE Giles, Crighton, Time for Somerset, 2006, 37
1887 carved shields on entrance pillars, Recreation Ground, Moat Walk, Wells, with the arms of the Bishop and the City for Edwin Hippisley qv; SAS; J Sampson, Wells The Bishop’s Barn - An Archaeological Assessment, 2013, 14;
HAMMETT, RICHARD Street. Land agent, surveyor, engineer; 1774-1847, son of John Hammett; with experience digging channels in peatland.
1811ff surveyor, Galton's Canal, Som, a short canal crossing Westhay Moor connecting the River Brue to the North Drain, Meare, started 1811, operational from c.1822, little used from the 1850s and abandoned in 1897; for Samuel Galton, SAS;
1825 Surveyed proposed Glastonbury Canal, Som; ‘Report on the Glastonbury Canal’ 1826. Survey not accepted and a second commissioned from John Beauchamp qv, then in 1829 John Rennie qv called in to solve problems of levels; canal built 1829-33; contractor fled 1831, Rennie left unpaid, opened 15.8.1833; wikipedia; Lewis 222-3; Body & Gallop, The Glastonbury Canal, 2001, 8;
1826 surveyor, High Ham & Ashcott Turnpike Trust; SAS;
HAMMONDS YATES PARTNERSHIP, Portishead, Som. Robert Hammonds.
20?? 34 houses on Larkhill Rd, Yeovil, Som, built by Norton & Sons; N&Sons website;
2010-11 42 houses, Lyde Rd phase 1, Yeovil; for David Wilson Homes; brick and rendered trad;
HAMMOND, Rev. J.
1860-1 rest Priddy ch, Som; SNB, completed after his death;
HANCOCK, Rev. JOHN. 1812-81 Son of William Hancock of Wiveliscombe, banker, trained as clergyman 1843-6, made a Deacon 1846; 1847 curate at Huish Champflower; curate at Haselbury Plucknett ch 1862 and vicar 1869-81, where he carved the bench ends and lectern. RL Bucknell, Haselbury Plucknett church guide, 3rd ed 2009.
1863-4 designed and carved neo-Norman chancel arch Hardington Mandeville ch, Som, 1863-4, Pulman’s Weekly News 19.4.64; though CB says architect was George Pearce qv; model for arch was Stoke sub Hamdon. Did other carved stonework at church.
1870? oak lectern, Haselbury Plucknett ch, Som; also two clergy chairs, carved bench ends, and panels of biblical scenes on the choir stalls, SSW; church guide;
1870s carved wood panels and stonework for new fireplace in vicarage, Haselbury Plucknett, church guide;
HANCORN, SAMUEL Junior, 16 Dock St Newport & St Stephen’s St, Bristol. 1837-68. Born Brecon, son of Samuel Hancorn Sr in Pigot 1835 as carpenter joiner, Struet, Brecon, in 1844 dir as builder, carpenter & joiner, Llanfaes, Brecon; pupil Foster & Wood, Bristol, practice Bristol c1859-61 as Cook & Hancorn (C&H) with John Thornhill Cook, died young. AEBTD 1868:
1859 Library & Institute, Cheddar, Som; Br 15.1.59 49; C&H; now parish hall; inf AF;
(1861-2 WM chapel, Tintern, Mon; FS Br 12.10.61 John King of Bristol contractor; Br 1861 705; ill WCC ?62 97-8, £370; FS 19.9.61, opened 26.6.62; almost under the shadow of the old Abbey stone Gothic; AEBTD; ?same as Chapel Hill WM BoW 162; MM 28.9.61 & 28.6.62; )
(1861 alts WM chapel, Brynmawr, Mon; BN 27.9.61)
(1861 Bethcar WM chapel, Ebbw Vale, Mon; Br 1861 515; C&H; 1860-1 BoW224, now county library, giant Ionic pils giant arch, it had semi circular portico lost 1958-9 when converted; AEBTD)
(1862 CM chapel, Nantyglo, Mon; Br 30.8.62; and manse; Garn CM, AEBTD)
(1864 1st prize church at Pontypool, Mon; RHH)
(1864 Ragged Schools, Dock St, Newport, Mon; BN 11.11.64; AEBTD; 1st prize RHH, Br 22 211)
(1866 Trinity WM chapel, Whiteladies Rd, Bristol; dem; SNB; opened Bristol Times & Mirror 2.11.66; Dec Gothic with French details; elegant spire;
(1866 3rd prize Humberstone Rd ch, Leicester, RHH)
(1866 1st prize British Sch, Merthyr Tydfil, Glam RHH)
(1867-8 WM chapel, Lower Cwmbran, Mon Br 1867 718; BN 13.9.67; AEBTD)
(1867-8 Tyndale B chapel, Whiteladies Rd, Bristol; AEBTD 1868; Bristol Times & Mirror FS 18.7.67; design selected in comp; £5652; opened BT&M 12.10.68 by late SH c£7500; generally but incorrectly attributed to H Crisp (AF); bombed, W front and tower in rebuilt chrch 1957; Bristol RO plan book 7/164 29.8.67; tower built 1894; SNB SH died before chapel was opened;
(1867-8 WM chapel, Maindee, Newport, Mon MM 24.8.67, 26.10.70; AEBTD)
(1867-8 Dr Coke’s Memorial School, Brecon, Brec; AEBTD; GVB 190, in mem of Dr Coke WM missionary to USA, opened 6.1.68, burnt 1890; in garden of George Hotel.
(1867 ?Redland Park C chapel, Bristol; BN 14 509 says 1867 by SH; but Bristol Times & Farley’s Journal 14.9.61 records opening 4.9.61 by Fripp & Ponton; EE Gothic ‘of a type which prevails in Bavaria and the Southern parts of Germany’; inf AF; bombed;
(186? Mr Stone’s implement works & warehouses, Dock St, Newport; AEBTD 1868)
(186? Day Schools, Chepstow, Mon; AEBTD 1868)
(186? WM chapel, Pontywaun, Risca, Mon; AEBTD 1868)
HANNAFORD, THOMAS ROBERTS, Architect. Born 1819, son of Stephen Hannaford, attorney in Jamaica; married in Clifton 1840, in Weston s Mare 1843 when child William baptised at St John's to TRH Architect and Rebecca Wright Hannaford; by 1850 in London, TRH of 21 Trigon Terrace, Kennington, entered the Great Exhibition competition; employed by Great Western Railway, signs drawings for Frome Station 1850, from 29 Crown St, ?Camberwell (town name missing); later resident at Westbury on Trym, Bristol; generally stations on the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway are attributed to RJ Ward qv the resident engineer;
1844 N aisle, St John ch, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB;
1850 Railway Station, Frome, Som; FSYB 3 45-54; by JR Hannaford, SNB;
HANNAM, FRANCIS C. see Burrough & Hannam
(1955-7 reblt Avonmouth ch, Bristol w new N asile; By FL Hannam, SNB;
HANNAM, JULIAN FRANCIS see Burrough & Hannam and Arturus
2003 adds Hutton ch, Som; by Arturus; SNB
HANSELL, ALEXANDER NELSON. Architect. 1856-1930, articled WS Champion, then with FW Tasker & CR Pink, in practice in London 1882-8, then Japan for 30 years, then 1918 in China with Hemmings & Berkley. Nominated FRIBA 1891 by Waterhouse, Aston Webb & Macvicar Anderson.
1884-5 rest Tintinhull ch, Som; Br 1884a 595; report from ANH read at vestry meeting 9.10.79, rest to begin vestry 30.10.82, new roof and general repairs app 1883 to ICBS rejected; vestry 27.4.84 restoration may begin forthwith, completed May 1886 when vicar drew up balance sheet; J Sampson report on Tintinhull ch 12.1.2010;
HANSOM, CHARLES FRANCIS, Bristol. 1817-88. Leading RC architect. Pupil brother Joseph A Hansom, partner 1855-9; son Edward was with him 1868-73 H&Son, and FB Bond 1887-91 H&B; Gomme 436;
RC church specialist. 1844-6 Hanley Swan RC Worcs; 1846-9 Woodchester RC Glos; c1848 adds Ratcliffe College (RC) Leics and 1854-8 BoE359; 1848-50 RC Convent, Loughborough, Leics BoE293; 1861-9 Franciscan convent, Woodchester; 1864 Chapel RC convent Loughborough, Leics BoE293; 1865 Devizes RC, Wilts WBR; 1866 Lyneham RC Wilts WBR; 1874 reredos St John ch, Bovey Tracey, Devon BoE192; 1874-8 rest Corsham ch, Wilts, WBR; WALES: 1847 St David RC, Swansea, Glam; BoW585; 1847 Usk RC, Mon; BoW; MM 16.10.47; Tower CH 1865; 1851 Brecon RC; BoW; G&VB 131-3, £1000, opened 1851; 1851-2 RC and presbytery, Union St, Carmarthen, Cms; CJ 4.7.51; 6.8.52; 1853 Henllys, Llanfaes, Ang, for Hampton-Lewis family; RH; 1857 RC infants sch, Stow Hill, Newport, Mon; BoW; but plans Gwent RO suggest by JAH; 1860-1 St Peter RC, Roath, Cardiff; BoW; tower 1884 by JJ Hurley; 1865 Tower, Usk RC, Mon; BoW; ch 1847 by CH; c1875 Library, Hardwick Court, Chepstow, Mon; RIBA file; dem; LHW 100 & rev edn;
(1849 St Nicholas ch, Poyntzpool, Bristol; adds 1861; GJL;
(1849 interior RC Cathedral, Bristol; 1846-8 SNB, altar c1848 now at chapel of House of Charity, St Agnes Ave, Bristol, SNB;
1849-50 Chapel, Franciscan convent, South Rd, Taunton altered existing first-floor chapel of 1808-11 with new steep roof, Gothic windows in older openings, and add of chancel outside original and added chapel of St Joseph on side of chancel over an open undercroft. Catholic Annual Register 1850 123; Stephen Welch notes; chancel paintings by Charles Weld 1851; Rosemary Berry history;
1853 refectory, Franciscan Convent, South Rd, Taunton, Som; S Welch notes; refectory with work-room over; neo-Georgian extension to bow-fronted centrepiece of 1772 hospital, also bow-ended, original front door resited to right; begun 26.4.53;
1853 add Franciscan Convent, South Rd, Taunton, Som, of new school SW raised on an open basement, with cupola neo-Geo/ Ital style; basement originally open playground glazed as oratory 1878;
1853-4 adds College, Downside Abbey, Som; SNB; RL, L-shaped block with distinctive oriel window, lost in adds by L Stokes;
1857 RC ch, Stratton on the Fosse, Som and schools; SNB; SAS says: St Benedict ch originally designed as school and teacher’s house c.1847-8, transformed by Dom Alphonsus Morrall into RC church, 1857, extended and spire removed, 1913, interior transformed by Dom Ethelbert Hoare, parish priest, decorated,screen and reredos by Dom Ephrem Seddon of Downside Abbey; Bellenger, Downside A Pictorial History, 1998, 32, illust; DoC 179; Bellenger, Downside Abbey- An Architectural History, 2011, 26 and 41; SNB says church and schools of 1857;
1858 RC ch, Camp Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB; ext 1893 by Rev AJC Scoles qv;
(1858 ?RC church, St Mary's Lane, Chippenham, Wilts; said to be by either CFH or JAH, Penny Harris has seen newspaper ref to JAH; DoC says opened 1855;
1859-60 Cloister, Franciscan Convent, South Rd, Taunton, Som;
(1860ff Clifton College, Bristol, 1st pr RHH; first buildings opened 1862, adds 1866, 1881, 1888, and more by FB Bond qv after 1888; Chapel and belfry 1866-7 FS DWG 30.11.65 chapel paid for Mrs Guthrie; Perceval Buildings 1869 and 1875; E wing 1880-1; chapel N aisle 1881; adds 1886 £2180 T Br 24.4.86; gatehouse tower 1889;
c1860 Eyre Chantry Chapel, Perrymead Cemetery, Bath; MF;
1861-3 St John RC ch, South Parade, Bath, Som; and presbytery; FS WI 10.10.61, Bladwell & Ambrose contrs; FS Br 12.10.61 204 spire;
1862 3rd prize Theatre Royal, Bath, Som RHH;
(1862 drill shed, rear of HQ building of 1st Gloucestershire Rifles, Queens Rd, Bristol T: WDP 24.2.62;
(1863 Nos 1-2 Worcester Rd, Clifton, Bristol; GJL;
1864-5 Middle School, Franciscan Convent, South Rd, Taunton, Som; large
NE addition to existing buildings; Rosemary Berry history;
(1864 RC ch, St Joseph's Rd, Devizes, Wilts; BoE, WBR; DoC says by JA Hansom qv nave only, chancel added 1909, S aisle never built; opened DWG 26.1.65 no architect named)
(1864-6 Clack ch, Bradenstoke, Wilts; to be built DWG 12.4.64; 1866 WBR)
(1866-7 Hill's almshouses, Berkeley Pl, Bristol; SNB;
(1865-7 chapel, Clifton College; FS DWG 30.11.65, £5000;
1867 Completed corridor by chapel, Prior Park, Bath; CH & Son; MF;
(1867 3rd prize Bristol Royal Insurance offices; RHH;
(1867 3rd prize Bristol Assize Courts; RHH;
1868 Farmhouse, Franciscan Convent, South Rd, Taunton, Som; detached house beyond gardens;
(1868 C chapel, Clifton Down, Bristol; GJL; SNB;
(1868 St Joseph Convent, Cotham Hill, Bristol; SNB;
1868-71 Steward's House, Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, building E of boys’ refectory and a new gatehouse from the village, works mainly by EJH; Bellenger, Downside Abbey-An Architectural History, 2011, 42; SAS;
(1870 adds RC Cathedral, Clifton, Bristol; GJL; opened BN 1871b 397; W narthex, hall and N porch added from 1876, SNB;
(1870-2 Phipps Mausoleum, Westbury Cemetery, Wilts to JL Phipps of Leighton House +1871, architect named by Steve Hobbs of WRO; A ?.?.1874 says that it was begun before Phipps' death, 88' from basement to top of spire;
(1874-8 rest Corsham ch, Wilts; WBR; or 1878-9; or restored 1878 £5500; confusion seems to be that CF Hansom restored the chancel in 1876-8 including new reredos and also added the N transept or Methuen Chapel 1878-9 at roughly the same time as GE Street took down the tower and rebuilt it on S of church in 1875-8; the dates may be wrong; reredos 1875-8 carved by E Shepherd, fitted by CF Osborne of Corsham; WBR2; the statues on the E wall by JE Boehm are of 1880 added in memory of Lady Methuen +1879;
(1875 rest chancel, St Stephen ch, Bristol; SNB; A 3.7.75;
1876-89 Board School, Ashton Gate, Bristol, later phases by FB Bond; SNB;
1877 Chapel, Carmelite Convent, Chamberlain St, Wells, Som; opened 17.10.77, nave only, ill A 19.1.78 Brown Bros of Frome builders, carving by Edward Sheppard; sanctuary added 1888, consec 31.7.90; DoC 211; SNB, chancel and nuns choir 1888 by Hansom & Bond
(1878 unex add Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol; GJL, from Arch 20 352;
(1879ff University College, Bristol; RHH, comp 1879, blt 1880ff; first part of quadrangle on N side 1879-80, ext 1904 with Fry Memorial tower by FB Bond, rear range E of courtyard 1883, S ext 1893-1904 by Edward Hansom & FB Bond;
(1880-1 East wing, Clifton College, Bristol T: Br 24.1.80;
(1881 Offices, No 2 Clare St, Bristol; SNB; corner Baldwin St;
(1882 Halls, St Agnes ch, Newfoundland Rd, Bristol; SNB; extended in seven phases to 1893; St Agnes School 1881 GJL;
(1883 Christ Church, Barton Hill, Bristol; GJL)
(1884 alts Duncan Ho/ Freemantle Ho, Clifton Down Rd, Bristol; fr a school; SNB;
(1884 adds Rodney Lodge, Clifton Down Rd, Bristol; GJL
(1885 lodge to park, Thomas St, Bristol opp St Agnes ch, SNB;
(1886 adds Clifton College, Bristol T Br 24.4.86 £2180;
(c1888 Easton Rd Board Schools, Bristol, w FBB; 1st pr Bristol Board School 1887 RHH;
1888 chancel and nuns choir, RC ch, Wells, Som; by H&B; SNB
Attr Giraffe Ho, Bristol Zoo c1860; alts Christ Church schools, Clifton, 1877;
HANSOM, EDWARD JOSEPH 1842-1900 Son of CF Hansom, worked with him 1868-73 as CF Hansom & Son qv, later with AM Dunn see Dunn & Hansom
1871 designed shrine of St Justina, RC ch, South Parade, Bath, Som; MF; while working for CF Hansom;
1892 reredos, chapel of Seven Sorrows, Downside Abbey, Som; SNB; carved by Wall;
1893-1904 Engineering and Medical schools, Bristol University, with FB Bond qv; SNB; first university buildings 1879-83 by CFHansom;
HANSOM, JOSEPH ALOYSIUS 1803-82. Architect. Pupil John Oates, Halifax, partner Edward Welch (H&W) 1828-34, H&W did works at Beaumaris, Ang 1828-35, bankrupted after winning Birmingham TH comp 1832. JAH: 1836 Lutterworth TH; 1837-41 Atherstone RC Convent; 1837-50 Princethorpe RC Priory; 1837 Nonconformist Proprietary School Leicester; founder of The Builder 1842-3; 1843 design for Sussex Memorial Br 1843 393-5; 1845 Leicester Particular B chapel; 1845-8 Clifford RC Yorks; 1850 Preston RC; partnership with brother CF Hansom qv 1855-9, 1858 Plymouth RC cathedral; partnership with son Henry John Hansom 1859-61; 1860 Ripon RC ch; partnership with EW Pugin 1862-3; 1865-81 Torquay RC ch; partnership 1869 ff with son John Stanislaus Hansom qv (H&Son); 1869-71 Holy Name RC ch Manchester; 1870-3 Arundel RC cathedral. Obit Br 8.7.82; Practice continued by JS Hansom; Penny Harris has written on JAH; Inventor of Hansom Cab.
(18?? Woodford parsonage, Wilts; H&W early C19, WBR; altered or rebuilt 1850 by TH Wyatt)
18?? ?alts and adds, Franciscan Convent, South Road, Taunton, Som; RH; unlikely as all alterations by CF Hansom qv from 1849 to 1868;
(1855 ?RC church, St Mary's Lane, Chippenham; no architect named in DoC;
(1860 No 7 Wetherell Place, Clifton, Bristol, for himself; SNB;
(1860-1 Nunnery, Abbotskerwell, Devon; TC 9.10.61;
(1865 RC church, St Joseph's Walk, Devizes, Wilts; DoC; error, BoE says by CF Hansom qv; account of opening DWG 26.1.65 does not mention architect;
HARBOTTLE, EDWARD HALL, Architect, Exeter, 1842-1927, born Murton, Northumberland, practice in Exeter from c1871, Topsham by 1878, nephew Harbottle Reed partner until 1895, then EHH & Son with son Alfred Charles Harbottle (1882-1938)
1882-5 rest North Newton ch, Som; SRO; consecrated TC 15.4.85
(1887 1st prize Heavitree ch tower, Devon; RHH)
1893 chancel, transepts, All Saints ch, Weston, Bath, Som; MF; SRO cf/1892/6;
1901 Screen, All Saints ch, Weston, Bath; D/D/cf/1901/29;
1909 alts Oake ch, Som; choir stalls, rebuild SW porch; plans SRO D/D/cf/1909 EHH & Son;
HARBOUR, JAMES Builder, Holyrood St, Chard.
1867-8 Contractor with J Hawker qv for C chapel, Chard, Som, WJ Stent qv architect; dem;
1876 supplied terracotta chimneys, Harvey's almshouses, High St, Chard, Som; Tony Prior, Harvey's, 2009, 19
18?? Gospel Hall, Combe St, Chard, Som; for Plymouth Brethren, £176/7/8d; M Bonnington, Chard Baptists;
HARDICK, THOMAS Builder Warminster 1806-95; carpenter joiner in 1830 dir and carpenter builder in 1842 dir, possibly brother of William Hardick qv (1803-87) but Thomas Hardick & Son estimated for moving East St toll-house to Boreham Rd, Warminster in 1840, the toll-house originally built by Thomas Hardick in 1828; WBR; WBR2 says Thomas Hardick did railway work with Brunel in Somerset and Wiltshire and that Brunel offered him place on his staff; manager Salisbury Gas Co 1862-95;
(1851-2 B chapel, Sheep St, Devizes, Wilts; BoE);
(1856 B chapel, Station Hill, Chippenham, Wilts);
(1861 made mahogany pulpit Ebenezer B chapel, North Row, Warminster, Wilts, made and fixed ceiling cornice there;
(1868 B chapel, Westbury, Wilts opened, Mr Hardick, William Keates builder, £1200 WI 2.7.68; possibly William Hardick qv)
HARDICK, WILLIAM Surveyor, Warminster, timber surveyor, High St, in 1842 dir; employed by Longleat estate, father of William Henry Hardick qv, firm was was W Hardick & Son in 1870s.
(1838 Parsonage, Norton Bavant, Wilts; WBR says by WH Hardick, more likely to be WH or TH)
1848 report on buildings at Withial Farm, East Pennard, Som for Longleat estate; 14/3/ 19/0 10/5/1848 report by WH and Henry Batchelor Hale; report on repair of existing and new ones required; 11/6 20/7/1848 has affidavit of HB Hale;
1860 Lamb Brewery, Christchurch Street East/Bath Street, Frome, builders F & GW Brown; SAS, documents from the Somerset Estate in the Longleat Records:
1862-3 New farm buildings, Withial Farm, East Pennard, Som; Longleat 14/3 19/0 1/1/1862 plans, spec 14/3 19/0 1/1/1863; by WH;
(1868 B chapel, Westbury, Wilts opened, Mr Hardick, William Keates bldr, £1200 WI 2.7.68; or possibly T Hardick)
(1872 alts Fisherton Delamere School, Wilts, WH&Son; WBR)
(1874 Boyton School, Wilts, WH&Son; WBR)
HARDICK, WILLIAM HENRY 25 High St, Warminster. Architect, surveyor, in Kelly 1889-1907, son of William Hardick qv;
(1856 revised TH Wyatt plans for Wilts Reformatory for Boys, Tascroft Farm, Warminster, Wilts; WBR2; builder Barnden; also extension 1873, builder William Strong of Warminster;
(1873-4 extensions Wiltshire Reformatory, Warminster, Wilts, William Strong, builder, of Warminster; WBR2;
1878 alts B chapel, Beckington, Som, by Mr Hardick, builder Parsons of Warminster;
1893 pair of cottages, Blatchbridge Lane, Frome, builder Thomas Parfitt of Frome; SAS, miscellaneous documents from the Somerset Estate in the Longleat Records;
1893-4 New classroom, Woodlands School, Som; plans and spec Longleat 14/3 32/0 05/9/1893; account book Longleat 14/3 2/2 01/1/1890; Hodder & Sons Frome bldrs; also cloakroom and closets;
HARDING & VOWLES Bristol. Not in Gomme. ?Vowles was well-known Bristol organ builder.
1883 rest Brislington ch, Bristol; D/D/cf/1883/9; also ?unsigned plans 1885/8 for reredos Brislington; St Luke ch Brislington rest 1873-4 by B Ferrey qv, SNB;
HARDING, JOHN Architect, Salisbury; John Harding & Son with Michael Harding;
(1902-10 Sherborne School for Girls, Dorset with WD Caroe; OSS;
HARDMAN, Rev JOSEPH. Vicar of Felton, Som
1865-6 Felton ch, Som; SNB;
HARDWICK & CO Builders
1864-6 Seymour Arms, Witham Friary, Som, for Duke of Somerset; Henry Hallett carpenter, ironmongery by Cockey & Co of Frome; McGarvie, Witham Friary, 39; Charles Hallett carpenter, Witham Friary, is in 1906 dir;
HARDWICK, PHILIP CHARLES, London 1820-90. Leading London architect, joined father Philip Hardwick 1840 took over 1847. Great Western Hotel, Paddington 1851-3; Great Hall, Euston Station, 1846-8, dem; Aldermaston Court, Berks, 1848-51; Limerick RC Cathedral 1856-61; Rendcomb House, Glos 1864-7; Charterhouse School 1865-72.
(1844-50 Hall, Barnstaple, Devon; PH with PCH, for Robert Chichester, money ran out, rear finished by Gould qv; Br 1871 29 24;
1849 Bickenhall ch, Som; BoE S; GR; ICBS 1846-8; consecrated 1849 Kelly;
(1857 Keepers Lodge, Sherborne Castle, Dorset; T BN 1857 389, PCH and W Huggett; OSS
(1857 Vicarage, Haydon, Dorset, T: BN 1857 389 PCH and W Huggett (? William Haggett); OSS;
(1859-60 interiors, Sherborne Castle, Dorset; BoE;
(1862 Hartham ch, Corsham, Wilts; WBR;
HARDWIDGE & TANNER Builders, Clevedon; builders yard corner Old Church Rd and Coleridge Estate; Lilly;
1885-7 Houses Hallam Rd, Clevedon at Albert Rd end: Clovelly, Eddington, Eversley, Milligan; Lilly The Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
189? bldr Ashley Ho, Sunnyside Rd, Clevedon, for Bernard Horsey, architect CR Middle qv; later added Oreston and Gilcrux;
189? houses St John's Rd, Clevedon, Som; Lilly;
HARDY, JOEL Yeovil. Builder?
1835-6 Pall Inn, Silver St, Yeovil, Som; minutes of Womborn Almshouses 22.6.35 refer to his plan and resolution to ask JH to prepare plan for trustees; LB archive Yeovil library;
HARDY, THOMAS Author, 1840-1928 trained as architect with John Hicks of Dorchester qv, articled 1856-9, paid assistant 1860, left for London 1862 to join Arthur Blomfield qv, there until 1867, then returned to work for Hicks and his successor GR Crickmay qv in Dorchester.
1865-7 rumoured to have worked on Chilton Cantelo ch, Som, rebuilt by AW Blomfield, and the estate cottages at Lower Chilton 1867; inf S Bartlett, Hinton Farm.
HARE, CECIL GREENWOOD. Architect, 1875-1932, born Stamford, Lincs, chief assistant and secretary to GF Bodley qv 1906; continued Bodley & Hare practice under that name after Bodley died in 1907, continued or completed Bodley works eg cathedral San Francisco, USA; designed All Saints ch Southsea, Hants 1922; Wick Manor Worcs 1923-4; Dilham ch, Norfolk 1931; shared office and work with Albert V Heal (Creed & Heal) 1919-24
1909 alts St John ch, Clevedon, Som, due to subsidence, replaced chancel arch with iron girder and screen made by Singer & Son;
(1910 screen, Stockton ch, Wilts; Bodley & Hare; plans WRO;
1911-12 NW porch, All Saints ch, Weston s Mare, Som; AFtext;
1913 vestries, St John ch, Clevedon, Som SRO cf/1913/21
HARE, HENRY THOMAS. 1861-1921 Leading Edwardian architect; ASG 205-6; PRIBA 1917-19. 1893-5 Staffs County Hall, Stafford; 1893-7 Oxford TH; 1897ff Westminster College, Cambridge; 1898 Southend TH, Essex; 1900 Henley TH; 1900 1st pr Strand-Aldwych improvements London unex; 1902-3 Crewe TH, Br 27.9.02 sculpt by Schenk; 1902 Wolverhampton Public Library; 1902 Harrogate TH Br 5.7.02; 1903 Southend Public Library; 1903 Hammersmith Public Library; 1904 Shoreditch Public Library Br 23.7.04; 1905-8 Islington Public Library Br 1.2.08; 1906-7 UK Provident Inst, 196 Strand, London dem; 1908 Office building, Carfax, Oxford; 1908-10 Fulham Public Library Br 5.3.10; 1912 New buildings, Queens’ Coll, Cambridge; 1912 Frances Holland School, Park Rd, London NW1; Thomas Davison of London was chief assistant, won comp for Technical School, Trowbridge, Wilts, 1898;
1898 3rd prize Taunton TH, Som; ill BN 15.7.98, ill Archiseek website;
HARFORD, ALFRED Bristol fl 1872-1906; GJL;
(1876 Eastville PM chapel, Stapleton Rd, Bristol; GJL
1879 Board School, Bedminster Down, Bristol A 23.11.78;
(1879 alts and adds to premises John St/ Tower Lane, Bristol T: Arch 19.4.79;
(1880-1 Totterdown B chapel, Wells Rd, Bristol, SNB)
(1904 Nos 1-8 Queensdale Rd, Upper Knowle, Bristol; GJL)
HARFORD, WILFRED Architect, ARIBA senior member County Architects Department, Somerset, 1935, TC 8.5.35;
HARGER, F. Architect;
(1870 Nethercott, Iddesleigh, Devon for Captain Arnold, T BN 25.3.70; tender Howard, £2066/10/0, accepted; inf Fergus Dowding;
HARGREAVES, THOMAS Taunton. Architect and surveyor to Taunton Local Board of Health, advert of services offered now that allowed by board to practice on own account, SCG 16.7.1864, TC 20.7.64; Borough Surveyor Taunton c1861-9, SAS;
1859-61 enlarged Otterford, Som, plans ICBS; new N aisle & vestry; with William Beadon, W & S Shewbrooks, builders, SAS; DD/DP.72/3;
HARLAND, PETER JOHN BLUNDELL ARIBA. 1900-73. London. Taught at AA mainly neo-Georgian work, entered 1932 comp for RIBA HQ. Cousin of Claude Lovat Fraser whose widow Grace sang in Bliss’s Rout 1920, married to Lisa a director of Ballet Rambert. Designed house at Church Farm, Ashmansworth, Newbury, Berks, for Gerald Finzi composer as well as the one for Arthur Bliss. Also two big TB hospitals on the edge of London in Charles Holden or Dudok manner, inf Alan Powers email;
1934-5 Pen Pits, Penselwood, Som, for Arthur Bliss; J Gould Modern Houses in Britain 1977 54; A&BN 16.8.35 194-7; ?in FRS Yorke, Modern Homes; P Abercrombie ed, The Book of the Modern House, 1939; Also music room in grounds. VCH 187 has refs: Arthur Bliss, As I remember, 1970, 1034, 1709, 190, 193; Alan Powers CL Aug 1985 559-63; Wilts Arch Mag 89 1996 139-43; Somerset & Avon Life Apr 1988 32-4; Trudy Bliss was the prime mover and made the garden, she was from California, they sold house 1955. Dining room table by Betty Joel, textiles by Marion Dorn; RA 1937, six items, photos, plans etc;
(1935 cottage adjacent Beech Knoll, Aldbourne, Wilts for Gerald Finzi plans WRO G8/760/235)
(1936 Tolworth Isolation Hospital; RA 1937 exh:
(1938-9 Church Farm, Ashmansworth, Berks for Gerald Finzi;
1946 int alts, Rectory, Exford, Som for CB Smith Bingham; SRO D/r/dul/ 24/1//201
HARPER & HARPER. Architects. ? Ewen Harper & J Alfred Harper, Birmingham, who designed Methodist Central Hall, Birmingham 1900-2
1903 Bath Electric Tramways Depot, Walcot St, Bath; G Hopkins & Sons engineers; SNB;
HARRIS, -
1885 involved Town Hall, Highbridge, Som; Mr Harris acted as assistant architect, Mr Philip foreman of works; TC 28.10.85
HARRIS, B. Architect, surveyor etc at Sherborne, residence Park Lodge Farm, Staple Fitzpaine, near Taunton, advert re auction of trees, SCG 30.4.1864; also calls himself auctioneer, timber surveyor and commission agent;
HARRIS, CLARENCE Property developer, called ‘Gassy’ Harris, managed Taunton Gas Works during war, bought country houses and divided them into flats after WW2, then sold off grounds. Upcott Manor, Bishops Hull; Monkton House West Monkton 1953; Walford House West Monkton; Court Place West Monkton;
HARRIS, EMMANUEL VINCENT 1879-1971. E Vincent Harris articled James Hervey of Plymouth, assist EK Purchase, Leonard Stokes, and Sir William Emerson. Worked in Navy Loan Dept, 1901 joined LCC. 1904 with TA Moodie (1875-1948) until Moodie left to be chief architect South African Railways; OBE, ARA, RIBA Gold Medal 1951; retired to Chard, 1954, buried at Chaffcombe, Som, memorial stone designed by Arthur Bailey qv;
(1904 1st prize Glamorgan County Hall, Cardiff, Glam; H&M; P&P49, drawing from RIBA; BoW says comp 1908 opened 1912; 1912 acc to RA 1937 exh
(1910 Cardiff Fire Station, Glam; H&M; ASG;
(1914 design for Board of Trade, London;
1923-5 Science Block, Taunton School, Som; WW1 memorial; PC 142; competition assessed by R Atkinson, £10,670, RG Spiller contractor, memorial screen carved by Reed of Exeter; opened 6.10.25; 1922 according to RA 1937 exhibition where sections, plans elevations and photo of main entrance shown; TC 7.10.25;
(1925 Nottinghamshire County Hall, Nottingham;
(1927-38 Central Library and Municipal Buildings, Manchester; 1934 acc to RA 1937 exh)
(1931 Mardon Hall, Exeter University, Devon; RA 1937 exh)
(1931 plan Council House, College Green, Bristol; AF; EVH was assessor for 1930 competition, censured by RIBA for misconduct; appointed 1933, built 1938-52;
(1932 Sheffield City Hall, Yorks; 1931 RA 1937 exh;
(1933 Leeds Civic Hall, Yorks; RA 1937 exh;
1932-5 Somerset County Hall, Taunton, Som; A-block 1932-6, RL; rumoured that Harris intended this as only part of a much bigger composition and lobbied in 1950s to be given the job, but county decided on competition in 1960, won by Goodwin & Tatham qv; 1934, RA 1937 exh, 6 items exhibited: plans, sections, elevations, photo of entrance hall; opened TC 23.10.35, £113,500;
(1933ff Council House, College Green, Bristol; competition design 1931, appointed 1933, construction began 1938, completed 1952, opened 1956; AF;
(1943-58 Exeter University chapel, Devon; H&F)
1960-1 Wyndham House, Chard Grammar School, Som; RIBAD 31182-3; ; perspectives of two ranges facing each other signed by JDM Harvey qv; AF notes; ill AJ 5.5.60 680; two buildings, lower one dining-hall library etc steep hipped roof, hipped porches over throughway, perspective shows flat top to porch but this was built hipped, this range dated 1962. Also W range chimney feature is gabled, flat-topped in perspective. Open ‘cloister’ is now infilled and windows plastic. Story of Harris offering services for free in Derek Warren’s history of Chard School.
HARRIS, F.E.L. Architect to CWS Manchester;
(1907-8 CWS flour mill, Avonmouth, Bristol; SNB)
(1908 Co-op premises, High St, Chippenham; plans WSHC
HARRIS, GEORGE. Builder, Paradise, Yeovil, Somerset Dir 1830.
HARRIS, JOHN mason
c1546 N aisle, Halse ch, Som; guidebook;
HARRIS, ROBERT OLIVER. Architect 1897-1972. Born King's Heath, Birmingham, 1925 assistant architect Essex CC; 1938 appointed County Architect, Somerset in succession to Major Toomer qv, in post 1939-62. Resigned 1961 succeeded by Bernard C Adams qv; most of the surviving drawings at Somerset RO are signed by Leonard Mew qv (later Leonard Meux) assistant architect. see Somerset County Architects;
1938-40 completed secondary schools begun by Major Toomer at Williton, Stoke sub Hamdon, Ilminster, Ansford, Huish Episcopi and Taunton (Bishop Fox's); SAS;
1939-40 Police Station, Shuttern, Taunton, plans by Leonard Mew qv;
1948 Agricultural workers cottages, Cannington, Som; two pairs near Court Farm; perspective signed L Meux;
1949 Priorswood School, Taunton, Som; BoE S;
1953 Wiveliscombe Secondary School, Som, BoE S;
1954-5 Writhlington Secondary School, Som; AFtext;
HARRIS, WILLIAM, 7 Park St, Bristol. District Surveyor Bristol 1840-7. Penzance MH 1836-8, Helston MH 1837-8, Bodmin MH 1839, all Cornwall. Clifton I chapel, Bristol 1838. HC. Probably died 1848.
(1837 sale of Red Lodge, Bristol apply Mr Harris architect; BM 12.8.37;
(1838 enlarged Hope Chapel, Hotwells, Bristol; SNB; orig a proprietary chapel of1786-8, later C chapel, ?same as Clifton I chapel)
(1838 began rebuild chancel & transepts, Chepstow ch, Mon; HC; CEAJ 1 1837-8 235; BoW: initiated by Harris but finished by Wyatt & Brandon; chancel rebuilt Seddon & Carter 1890;
1845 plans alts Christon ch, Som; rejected by ICBS;
HARRISON BROOKES ARCHITECTS 15 Portway, Frome. Established 1999 by Rebecca Harrison and Rhys Brookes; Rebecca Harrison SPAB scholar, 1993, worked for Philip Hughes qv on restoration of Little Norton Mill, Norton sub Hamdon, Som; and repairs chancel roof, Langport ch, Som; Rhys Brookes timber-frame specialist worked with Roderick James; consultants for restoration of Royal Victoria Park, Bath and Sydney Gardens Bath;
(1999 The Bishop House, Redlynch, Wilts; timber-framed new house for £120K partly self-build; website;
(1999? Homberger House, where, timber-clad curved-roofed house and recording studio;
(2000 Visitor centre, Cotswold Water Park, Glos; timber-frame; website)
2000ff reps Cameley ch, Som for CCT;
20?? repairs Argyll House, Frome, Som; website;
20?? kitchen add, house, Lambridge, Bath, Som; website; glass addition in rear angle;
(20?? repairs cloister, Iford Manor, Wilts; website;
20?? reapirs and addition Ashwick Court, Ashwick near Oakhill, Som;
(20?? kitchen add, Park Cottage, East Knoyle, Wilts; website;
(20?? garden studio, Barton House, Barton Farm, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; timber-frame; website
(2000-3 rebuilt West Barn, Barton Farm, Bradford on Avon, Wilts for Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust; Rhys Brookes; opened 2003;
(2005 restored Ostler's House, former stable, Hare & Hounds, Pickwick, Corsham, Wilts, for Wilts HBT; website;
(20?? work on The Ivy, Chippenham, Wilts; inf Rhys Brookes;
(20?? Friends Building and Restaurant, Westonbirt Arboretum, Glos; timber framed;
(20?? new Victorian style glasshouse, Lasborough, Glos; with Foster & Pearson)
2008 restoration Royal Victoria Park Bath; HB were team leaders for the £1.8m restoration of the park including conversion Temple of Minerva, Royal Victoria Park, Bath to visitor space, enclosing arcaded front, timber-framed addition, completed 2009; conserving the Coade stone lions on gate-piers, repainted as bronze; design of three sets new iron entrance gates;
2015? repairs Court Farm, Wookey, Som, Rebecca Brookes architect;
2015 conversion, dairy building, Court Farm, Wookey, Somerset, won Mendip DC award 2016; made into house; Rebecca Harrison architect;
201? proposed conversion B chapel, South Parade, Frome, to residential; chapel of 1850 by James Davis qv;
201? conversion Shawford Mill, near Beckington, Som, to residential
201? repairs canal structures, Nynehead, Som, remains of Great Western Canal;
(201? restored East Hall Farm, where? Limestone mullioned;
201? consultants for possible restoration, Tone Mill, Wellington, Som;
201? rear addition The Priory, South Stoke, Som, Tudor-Gothic of 1850;
(201? repairs Hilltop Farm, Martley, Worcs, to farmhouse and outbuildings;
201? consultants, restoration Sydney Gardens, Bath;
HARRISON, JAMES PARK 18l7-l902. Architect, Oxford. Acceptable to Ecclesiologists in 1840s, then fades out, BoE Glos 140, living in Dorking 1851;
(1842 Chancel All Saints, Harrow Weald, Mx;
(1843-7 Barnsley Ch, Glos res;
1844-5 rest Monksilver ch, Som; ICBS; chancel roof restored, repairs and reseating, SAS;
1845-7 rest Brompton Ralph ch, Som; ICBS; removed N gallery, added N aisle, reseated; restored again 1878-80 by Henry Parsons;
(1846-7 Pembroke Dock ch, Pmbs; Pembs Herald 25.9.46; design altered in exec by the Royal Engineer in charge, ?tower shorter.
(1846-7 Bussage ch, Glos, for Thos Keble
(1846-7 alts St Thomas ch, Oxford;
(1846-8 Hursley ch, Hants, for John Keble;
(1849 Warmley ch, Glos;
(1850 Southwater ch, Sx;
(1888-91 reconstructed shrine of St Frideswide, Oxford Cathedral;
HARRISON, REBECCA Architect, see Harrison Brookes Architects
HARRISON, WILLIAM Builder Minehead. William Harrison & Son Bancks St 1906 dir;
1872 builder Dunster Station, Som, for Minehead Railway; Frederick Furness engineer; £912; Clinker West Somerset Railway, 7;
1898 Two villas, Glenmore Rd, Minehead; OD34 by St Aubyn;
1900 Two villas, Glenmore Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/87; OD84;
1926 Crossways, The Parks, Minehead; SB;
HART & WATERHOUSE Architects, 1 Verulam Buildings, Grays Inn, London. Alfred Henry Hart 1866-1953 and Percy Leslie Waterhouse 1864-1932. Both were assistants to Ernest George, Alfred Hart set up in 1893, PL Waterhouse in 1894, partnership 1902. Did houses at Enfield 1905, Bushey, Henley,Winterslow, Wilts 1903; Nos 11-15 Charing Cross 1902; 10-11 Park Place, St James, London, 1903; Parkside flats, Albert Gate, Knightsbridge, London 1908-9; PL Waterhouse was born Hobart, Tasmania;
1903 House at Winterslow; ASG; Br 19.9.03; illustrated Br 9.7.04, tile-hung, asymmetrical; not found;
(1904 No 9 Charing Cross, London; Br 4.6.04)
(1905 Tullylagan House, Co Tyrone, Ireland BN 30.6.05; ?not built;
1906 Barle Combe, Northmoor Road, Dulverton, Som, for J Stone; stone with Palladian window in cross-wing gable to left, stone porch with parapet and balls; dull; D/R/dul/24/1/38;
(1909 Willing House, Grays Inn Rd, London)
(1910 The Pryors, Hampstead, London Br 17.9.10)
(1916 Clapham Maternity Hospital, London; AA 1916;
HART, GEORGE Builder Virginia Cottage, Mark, Somerset +1849. Cf P Slocombe, Mark, pp 316-7; George Hart carpenter 1833.
HART, JAMES Architect Cromwell Rd, Bristol
(1890 Wiltshire Bacon Curing Co, New Road, Chippenham, Wilts; DWG 7.8.90 and ?.9.90;
(1902 Nos 20-24 Park Row, Bristol; SNB;
(1905 Nos 1-3 Downs Pk West, Bristol; SNB;
(1906 attr Nos 29-31 Princess Victoria St, Clifton, Bristol for Cowlin & Son, builders; SNB)
HARTNELL, HENRY Builder, Curry Rivel. SRO DD\LC/8/2 collection of plans for farm buildings c1871 for Hillards Farm, Curry Rivel; Moor Town & Mr Genge’s Farms at Fivehead; Hatch Green Farm & Hatch Green Dairy House at Hatch Beauchamp; Broadfield Dairy House, Two Bridges and Woodlands Farms at Isle Abbots;
HARTREE, GEORGE builder, Clevedon, father of Thomas Hartree?
1820s Woodbine Cottage, Copse Rd, Clevedon; lilly 15;
HARTREE, THOMAS Builder, Clevedon
c1853 terrace, Copse Road, Clevedon at end nearest Elton Rd, from Stanley lodge to Olive Lodge; Lilly;
1862 Nos 9-27 Kensington Terrace, Ken Rd, Clevedon; Lilly;
18?? two houses in Railway View, Clevedon, Som, later renamed Melbourne Tce; Lilly; one of houses has T Hartree name on cornice
1870s Houses Alexandra Rd, Clevedon, Som; Birklands, Ashley Villa, Derby Villa and stables now Seavale Mews; Lilly;
1875ff Houses, Hallam Rd, Clevedon, Som; Sisson Lodge, Harpenden and Ventnor;
HARVEY, ALAN Architect, church specialist. ?the Harvey in Mitchell Harvey of Yeovil qv.
1995 cupboards NW corner, Martock ch, Som; ch guide; architect in charge after G Beech;
HARVEY, JOHN Sr Sculptor, architect, painter-stainer, Bath. Father of John Harvey II +1742; IR; Surveyor of Bounds Bath 1710-18; still alive in 1719;
(1687-1702 carved work Longleat, Wilts, designed a fountain 1687, carved enrichments for gate-piers, 1687;
(1693 and 1705 carved parapet ornaments for Dyrham Park, Glos;
1706 Pump Room, Bath, Som; dem; granted lease of house in Westgate St 'because of his carving of the capitals at the New Pump Room and other services' Council Minutes 1.7.1706;
HARVEY, JOHN Jr Sculptor, architect, Bath, died 1742, son of John Harvey I; 1720 carved ornament on Greville monument, Lansdown, Bath, ?designed by John Wood qv;
1734 St Michael ch, Bath, Som; dem; c1735-42 HC;
HARVEY, JOHN
1828 builder portico, Langport Arms, Langport, Som; unsigned undated alternative elevations D/B/la/104 do not look like work of R Carver qv who designed major alterations 1826-8; agreement by JH to build portico, also letter re painting building 1827 from JH;
HARVEY, JOHN DEAN MONROE. 1895-1978. Illustrator. ?born Newfoundland. Illustrated F Chatterton, English architecture at a glance, 1925. RIBA acquired collection of his drawings of France & Italy 2009 also some perspectives. Illustrated Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period by Stanley Ramsey, 2 vols 1919 and 1923.
1960 Two perspectives, adds Chard School, Chard, Som, by E Vincent Harris qv; RIBA 31182 & 31183; Harvey was only involved as artist; ;
HARVEY, T.J. Architect, builder, Torquay, Devon
(1861 five villas, Holbrook, between Dawlish and Teignmouth, Devon, ref to lawsuit, SCG 23.3.78)
HARVEY, WILLIAM ALEXANDER 1874-1951 architect and town planner London; William Harvey came from an artistic family and both his father and his brother were stained glass artists; articled 1890-4 David Smith & Son, and classes at Birmingham Municipal School of Art. Designed Bournville, the garden suburb built by the Cadbury family, to the south of Birmingham. Although he left the employment of the Bournville Village Trust in 1904, he continued as their consulting architect and designed most of the public buildings in the village, including an octagonal Rest House of 1913, the design for which was based on the Yarn Market at Dunster. He was joined in his practice by two former Trust employees, his nephew, Herbert Graham Hicks (1887-1956) and Frank Harold Bromhead (1881-1972). William Harvey was one of the founding members of the Town Planning Institute, and in 1906 published The Model Village and its Cottages: Bournville. Michael Harrison, William Alexander Harvey (1874-1951): Bournville and after ; SAS;
1904c ?additions and alterations, Leigh Court, Angersleigh, Som; AJ Spiller qv contractor, work at Leigh Court for W Harvey, mentioned in list of works in advertisement for AJ Spiller reproduced Chipchase & Cole, The Taunton Book, p14; probably Leigh Court, Angersleigh;
HASKELL, TONY A bridge in grounds of Barford Park, Enmore, Som, was designed in ?1960s by ‘one Tony Haskell, the County Architect of the time’ and made by local joiner, according to owner Michael Stancomb; CL 25.8.2010 37.
HASSARD, RICHARD, Engineer, 1820-1913; born in County Cavan, Ireland, the eldest son of John Hassard. Educated Exeter, returned to Ireland and practice as railway and hydraulic engineer; surveyor in Londonderry 1850-1, then for several years chief assistant to George Willoughby Hemans, railway engineer, later vice-president of ICE. Left Ireland c1866 for London; SAS;
1870 replaced Eugenius Birch as engineer to the Devon & Somerset Railway Company. SAS;
1871-3 engineer, Somerset & Devon Railway, Taunton to Barnstaple; stations at Milverton, Wiveliscombe, Venn Cross; Viaduct at Venn Cross 110ft lattice girder; tunnel at Bathealton; opened to Wiveliscombe 1871, to Barnstaple 1873; contractor JC Reed; but Eugenius Birch qv said to have been engineer for first section from Norton Fitzwarren to Wiveliscombe, and RH engineer for second part Wiveliscombe to Barnstaple 1871-3 so presumably not for Milverton and Wiveliscombe, but for station at Brushford (Dulverton) Som, 1873; Venn Cross Viaduct dismantled except stone piers; Dulverton Station survives as house, goods shed also.
HASSELL, - Exeter. Apparently an unknown architect.
1803-5 Pixton Park, Dulverton, Som for Lord Porchester later 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, who married in 1796 Elizabeth d of Major John Acland of Pixton +1778. VCH notes by Mary Siraut, ref F.J. Snell, ‘A Sacristan’s Commonplace Book’, The Antiquary, 35, 137-8.
HATCHARD-SMITH, JOHN Architect London FRIBA born 1853; entry in WwinA lists Trocadero Restaurant, London; Golden Bay Hotel, Westward Ho, Devon; and hotels in Somerset (unidentified), Hants, London and Tenerife;
HATT, DORIS. Artist
1932 Littlemead, Swiss Valley, Clevedon, Som, for herself; SC notes; MHB;
HATTERSLEY, -. Contractor
1860 contractor Chard Railway, Som, the 3 m link from LSWR at Chard Road 2 m. from Chard, to Chard Canal Basin, Furnham. Chard Railway Co established 1860, first and second contractor both failed and first engineer left, bought by LSWR April 1861; and work done by LSWR opened 8.5.1863, station at East St/ Victoria Rd, called Chard Town;
HATTRELL, W.S. Architect, W S Hattrell & Partners
1969 Playhouse Theatre, Weston s Mare; SNB;
HAUGHTON, SAMUEL WESLEY, surveyor, 1855-1936, later practice in City as SW Haughton & Son; SAS;
1931 WM chapel, Alcombe, Minehead; opened 23.5.31; inf OD; small, dull;
HAVERSTOCK ASSOCIATES Architects Cliff Rd, London NW1; formed 1980 by John Jenkins and Russell Graham; partners 2013 Claire Barton, David Givens and Tom Gibb;
2012-14 Police firing-range, Black Rock Quarry, Portishead, Som; Miller Construction qv contrs; PFI scheme with Bluelight partnership;
2012-14 Police Station, Keynsham, Som; Miller Construction qv contrs; PFI with Bluelight partnership;
HAVILAND, -
1793-6 Mr Haviland paid £5/5/0 amid bills for Burrowbridge ch, Som, 1793-6, no indication that Haviland was architect but 5 guineas a possible fee, total cost £450; PSANHS 87 1941 109-10;
HAVILAND, JOHN 1792-1852 born Gundenham Manor, Langford Budville, Som, apprenticed James Elmes, London, for whom completed St John church, Chichester, Sx, 1812, when Elmes fell ill. Worked St Petersburg 1814, emigrated to USA 1816, settled Philadelphia. Noted prison architect, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, noted Greek Revival architect. Twelve volumes of sketches, specs and corresp in SRO. HC. JSAH 1861 20 136. Br 10 1852 341. CEAJ 15 227. Stained glass memorial in Langford Budville ch.
HAWKER, JAMES Carpenter builder. Holyrood St, Chard, 1811-92, in 1848 dir, staunch Baptist. Worked with James (Jacob?) Harbour, born 1844;
1853-4 B chapel, Wadeford, Combe St Nicholas, Som; plans 1853 in possession Chard B chapel; M Bonnington, Chard Baptists, 153;
1867-8 contractor with J Harbour qv for C chapel, Fore St, Chard, Som; WJ Stent qv architect; Pulman, Book of the Axe, 1875; dem;
1874 built South End Schools, Chard, Som; John Wightman qv architect; £930; FS 23.6.74; Wightman was an ironfounder;
1886 adds B schools, Holyrood St, Som, plans 1886 in possess Chard B chapel; not done until 1892; addition was a brick top storey; M Bonnington, Chard Baptists;
HAWKES & ANDREW Land agents and surveyors, Williton, 1906 dir. Thomas Hawkes 1821-1906 son of Thomas Hawkes Sr qv and his cousin Thomas Hawkes Andrew FSI qv; Thomas Hawkes Jr was surveyor to the Minehead United Turnpike Trust until would up in 1877;
1901 Sherborne Arms Hotel, Wootton Courtenay, Som; D/R/wil24/1/2; later the Dunkery Hotel;
HAWKES, THOMAS Sr Land, agent, auctioneer surveyor, Williton. 1780-1858. In dirs 1840, 1842, son Thomas 1821-1906 joined c1853 and was the Thomas Hawkes of Hawkes & Andrew qv; Thomas Sr was agent for Wyndham estate and surveyor to various turnpike trusts in the 1820s; drew up several Somerset tithe maps SAS; commemorated in a stained glass window in the WM Chapel at Williton, for his 1833 Staunch Methodist, author of A Collection of Tunes, 1833, know as Hawkes Tune Book, containing over five hundred tunes, SAS; A Lock, Around Corsham, 1997, 61; West Gallery 2 1991;
1833 road alterations for turnpike trusts at Washford Cross, Tombland Hill and Bardon Cross, Som; SAS;
HAWKINS & ALVES Architects. Glastonbury. Henry Hawkins qv was Glastonbury builder, George Alves qv was architect and surveyor in Glastonbury in 1889 dir, borough surveyor by 1906 dir.
1893 WM chapel, Leigh Road, Street, Som; named on FS; James Pursey contractor;
HAWKINS, BENJAMIN. Builder, High St, Glastonbury. Builder & stationer, 1861; B Hawkins & Sons. Perhaps father of Henry Hawkins q.v.
1866 fittings WM chapel, Glastonbury, Som; by B Hawkins & Sons; F Merrick qv builder; CSG 26.5.66;
18?? National School, Compton Dundon, Som DD/EDS/ 5768
1868-9 builders MH and TH, Burnham on Sea, Som; WG 9.7.69 Mr Down qv of Weston s Mare architect, Hawkins & Son builders;
HAWKINS, HENRY. Builder, Magdalene St, Glastonbury 1875 dir, not in 1906 dir. Possibly son of Benjamin Hawkins builder, qv, and perhaps architect in Hawkins & Alves qv. Hawkins & Sons in 1866 appears to be Benjamin with Henry and ?; Hawkins & Son in 1867 may be Benjamin & Henry
1867 builder adds Vicarage, Somerton, Som; C Knowles architect; D/D/Bbm/
1869 builder MH and TH, Burnham on Sea, Som; WG 9.7.69 Mr Down of Weston s Mare architect, Hawkins & Son builders;
1877 add Clark Factory, High St, Street, Som; plans Clark archives for a 6-bay 2-st building facing SW with iron cols inside.
1877 builder boiler-house, Bowlingreen Mill, Street, Som; JA Clark qv surveyor; McGarvie Bowling Green Mill 27, 63; dem;
1877-8 addition to cottage, Bowlingreen Mill, Street, Som; McGarvie, Bowlingreen Mill 28; ?dem;
1880 Unsuccessful tender, restor North Curry ch, Som; JO Scott architect; Olivey N Curry 1901;
1881 add Clarks Factory, High St, Street, Som; fifteen-bay two-storey building with iron cols down centre; plans Clark archives;
1881 summer-house, Millfield, Street, Som; plans and letters Clark archives; for WS Clark before the main house was built, adjoining walled garden, site then called Mill Batch; now Millfield School chapel.
1883-4 chapel, ?Butleigh, Som, ref to architect and builder being HH; WG 28.9.83, 22.8.84;
1890 B chapel, Glaston Rd, Street, Som; Mr HH architect, WG 6.6.90;
1893 WM chapel, Leigh Road, Street, Som; Hawkins & Alves named on FS and James Pursey contr;
HAWKINS, HENRY Presumably related to Henry Hawkins, builder, Glastonbury;
1937 remodelled No 57 Hillhead, Glastonbury, Som, for – MacCauley; greatly altered; SC notes; MHB;
HAWKINS, JOHN Builder, Bridgwater, +1840.
1801-2 Parsonage, Otterhampton, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/22; 2st 3w with outer triple sashes, quoins and ped doorway;
1811 surveyed completed Taunton & Somerset Hospital (design by John White), East Reach, Taunton, with William Burgess qv and gave their...unqualified approbation, TC 26.12.11;
HAWKSLEY, THOMAS & CHARLES. Engineers. Thomas Hawksley 1807-93, PICE 1872-3, pioneer water engineer, set up practice 1852, son Charles 1839-1917 joined 1857, partner 1862, PICE 1901-2, designed Catcleugh reservoir, Northumberland 1899-1905;
1866 Bridgwater waterworks scheme, treatment works built 1876-9 at Ashford, near Charlinch, Som; inf John Willows, Wessex Water; by Thomas Hawksley; reservoir built 1931-2 with additional building for filtration;
(1872 Biss Springs waterworks, Upton Scudamore, Wilts; WBR2, and 1925;
1873 Yeovil waterworks, Som; Br 19.4.73 CE Robinson clerk of works, cost c£20,000
1891-1902 Blagdon Reservoir, Som; SNB; nb not the Blagdon near Pitminster reservoir of Taunton Corporation 1891-4 by FW Roberts and James Taylor consultant engineers, HT Cole engineer (waterworks manager) qqv;
HAWORTH TOMPKINS Architects, London, founded 1991 by Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkin, theatre specialists, e.g refurb of Royal Court and of Young Vic,
2004-5 conv St Paul Parish Hall, Monmouth St, Bath into the Egg Theatre for Theatre Royal, Bath; SNB; HT website
HAWTIN, WILLIAM HENRY. Architect, Bristol, fl 1863-87, prolific house designer in N Bristol; GJL; a JW Hawtin des a warehouse in St Thomas St, Bristol, 1854;
(1863 houses, Abbotsford Rd, Redland, Bristol; corner Hampton Rd; GJL;
(1864 Nos. 3-9 Queens Rd, Bristol; dem; GJL;
(1864-8 Royal Hotel, College Green, Bristol; SNB ext c1990 by Denny & Bryan;
(1865-7 Houses, 1-14 Cambridge Pk, Bristol; GJL; SNB;
(1867 and 1872 Nos. 8-18 Park St, Bristol; SNB; Central Chambers 8-14 1867 GJL;
(1875 Cotham Gdns, Cotham, Bristol; GJL)
(1877 Pembroke C chapel, Oakfield Rd, Clifton, Bristol; SNB)
Attrib Palace Hotel, Old Market, Bristol, 1869-70;
HAY & OLIVER London. John Mountford Hay (qv) & C Bryan Oliver of Bath qv in partnership from 1875, SAS; JMH on own 1868-73, CBO on own briefly in 1874; CBO designed Calne TH Wilts 1883 and was in firm of Burgess & Oliver by 1891.
(1874 1st prize Holbeach Grammar Sch, Lincs; RHH)
(1874 1st prize Newcastle under Lyme Sch, Staffs; RHH)
(1875 1st prize Little Bytham Board Sch; RHH)
1875 3rd prize Taunton Cemetery; RHH; St James Cemetery, Staplegrove Rd;
1875 1st prize Board School, Wellington, Som; RHH; ?school in Courtland Rd.
(1876 Hotwells School, Hotwell Rd, Bristol; dem; Gomme;
(1878 St Luke’s School, Barton Hill, Bristol; T: Br 6.4.78; A 6.4.78;
1875 attrib Cemetery, Rockwell Green, Wellington, Som; two chapels dem. 1986; SAS;
1878 School, Kingsmead St, Bath, Som SCG 19.1.78, Messrs Morris builders, £2750, for 300 children, Messrs H&O of London & Bath; A 3.8.78;
HAY, JOHN MOUNTFORD Architect, Bath, 1841-97; see also Hay & Oliver fl 1874-8. Died in Poplar, London;
1868-9 rest Wembdon ch, Som; BoE S; rebuilt after a fire; 1868-70, alts 1910 Samson & Cottam, RL;
1871 National School, Wembdon, Bridgwater DD/EDS/6740;
1872-3 Church of England Schools, Bridgwater, Som; opened Br 15.3.73 213; at E end of town; brick with stock brick and stone dressings, 600 pupils, c£2800, builders Harvey & Sons, Torquay; presumably Eastover Schools, Cornborough Place;
HAYMAN, GEORGE A. C. ARIBA AMTPI 72 Whitmore Rd, Taunton, in 1963.
HAYWARD & WOOSTER Builders Bath. Offices in Walcot Street.
1877 mews to No. 14 Royal Crescent, Bath; AF text;
1913 silo, Camden Mills, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath; SNB; ?JG Stone architect;
1929-30 W wing add Sanatorium, Kingswood School, Bath; SNB;
HAYWARD, ARTHUR M. Webbing manufacturer, Crewkerne.
1904 Radford Mount, Misterton, Som, for himself; T Press, Somerset Country Houses & Villages, 1931-2.
HAYWARD, GILES. Builder East St, Crewkerne 1849 dir. +1860, SAS;
1830-1 Gallery, Merriott ch, Som; ICBS; removed;
HAYWARD, JOHN. Architect, Exeter. 1808-91 pupil of Charles Barry, living in Bath 1831, whence entered competition for King Edward School, Birmingham, by 1834 in Exeter, had extensive church practice in Exeter diocese, offices in London and ?Bath.Diocesan Architect Exeter; worked with his son PB Hayward 1838-88;
(1846 Uffculme ch, Devon, plans Wilts RO D5/33/5, unsigned, named in specification;
1850-1 enlarged Milverton ch, Som; ICBS; extension each end N aisle, vestry and porch, new roofs, reseating and repairs,
(1855 Diocesan Training Coll, Exeter, Devon ill Br 1855 43)
(1861 2nd prize TH, Tiverton, Devon; RHH;
1865 vicarage, Langford Budville, Som; Plans SRO DD/Bbm/143; Book of Nynehead 151 says letters between John Hayward and promoters of Nynehead rectory show that ‘the original idea was to build the house in stone, like the new vicarage at LB which Hayward also designed’
1866 rest Langford Budville ch, Som, new N aisle; McDermott church guide; but DoE says restored by Ferrey who drew up plans in 1848; D/D/cf/1866/2 confirms Hayward in documents though drawings are unsigned; original N windows reset in new N wall;
1867 vicarage, Nynehead, Som; new house and bldngs plans SRO D/D/Bbm/155a; Nynehead Local History Soc letter suggests JH also designed brick cottages on Nynehead Court estate as very like those at Bramford Speke, Devon, by JH, all of Poole brick; Book of Nynehead 148-51, ill elevation of vicarage; FS 20.6.67 WWN; Henry Davis qv builder;
1868 Stables, Nynehead Vicarage, Som; D/D/Bbm/164;
(1876-8 Beer ch, Devon; SCG 17.8.78, carving by H Hems; Mr Hampton, foreman, Mr Harris clerk of works;
(1879 1st prize Blundells School, Tiverton, Dev; RHH; Hayward & Son,
HAYWOOD, JOHN born 1751, exhibited RA 1773-94; HC;
1780 design for MH, Bridgwater, Som; unex; RA;
(1785 design Lodge, Clehonger, Herefs; RA;)
HBS Architects, Highbridge. See Higgison, Brown & Stukey.
HEAL, SAMUEL Bridgwater. Builder.
1782-3 involved vicarage (now Glebe Court), West Monkton, Som; gave directions regarding gutters and drains in 1782 that might imply that he was the builder; George Stellart of London detailed plans for a hothouse; DD/DP/7/13
1785-8 Kingweston House, Som, for William Dickinson; plans attributed to Henry Holland qv but Holland correspondence 1783 may relate to unexecuted plans; Dickinson was advised by John Acland of Fairfield on plans; VCH; Heal was assisted by Abraham Chaplin of Taunton as Heal had other work in Devon, Mary Siraut inf; letters in SRO; house was remodelled c1823.
1787-8 remodelled rooms in SW range, Nettlecombe Court, Som; RL 2 63; SC; bills for joinery work for Sir John Trevelyan including mahogany doors, fluted Ionic cols, architraves, wood and stone Ionic capitals, SRO DD/WO/40/10/1-2 bill £291/1/6d calls him ‘Heal the architect’;
HEAL, A.V. Engineer Grays Inn Sq London
1930 works for Minehead Electric Supply Co, two sub-stations SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/716-7
HEATHCOTE, CHARLES H. Architect 1851-1938 pupil of CF Hansom qv, worked mainly in Manchester;
1868 won medal of merit for measured drawings etc of Portbury ch, Som, from RIBA, WI 11.6.68, stating that he was former pupil of Corsham School, Wilts, and aged only 18.
HEATHMAN & BLACKER architects, possibly involved with Sea Mills housing, Bristol after 1919, SNB;
(1932 Cenotaph, Bristol; competition victory; SNB
HEAZELL & SONS. Architects, Nottingham. E.H. Heazell.
1914 Baptistery, All Saints ch, Clevedon, Som; at NW corner; SRO D/D/ cf/1914/19; SNB says enlargements after 1910 are by E.H. Heazell; Julia Elton says baptistery completed 1914;
HEDGELAND, CHARLES Architect Mount Radford, Exeter. Architect c1839 to Grand Western Canal Co, proposed Taunton to Topsham, first part 1810-14 Cullompton to Tiverton, revived by James Green engineer qv 1829-30, work done 1830-38, from Taunton to Lowdwells, Som, connecting to Tiverton, Green dismissed 1836, replaced by Capt John Twisden; Cabel Hedgeland, architect, died in Exeter aged 76 12.2.1839, SCG 23.2.39;
(1825 Rectory Manaton, Devon; BoE)
(1828 St Petrock ch, Exeter, Devon; BoE)
(1839 parsonage Sampford Peverell, Devon, Tenders for erection for Grand Western Canal Co SCG 10.8.39; tenders to be addressed to Capt Twisden RN, Canal Office, Halberton.
HEIGHWAY FIELD ASSOCIATES Exeter
2000 Hammet’s Wharf flats, Taunton, Som; inf SC, resident;
HEIGHWAY, PAUL. Exeter.
200? Rest Laurel Cottage, Carhampton, Som, for Peter Jacques; inf Mr Jacques;
HELLAND, SAMUEL Builder
1833 unsuccess tender alts North Curry ch, Som; R Carver architect; reseating etc; Olivey, North Curry, 1901, 196
HELLICAR, EVELYN ARTHUR GRESLEY, Architect. 1862-1929. Son of vicar of Bromley. The Rev Ames Hellicar +1839 had been vicar of Fivehead & Swell, Som. Articled to TG Jackson qv 1883-8; practice London from 1889 briefly with Sydney Vacher, married in Trent ch, Dorset, 1894, Diocesan Architect Rochester; designed much around Bromley: St Mark Bromley, St John Welling, South Hill Wood, Bromley RA 1902, Carnegie Library Bromley 1908; ASG; died Hambledon, Surrey, obits Br 30.8.29 336; RIBAJ 21.9.29 772. Albert Richardson was a pupil 1898-1902;
1891 rest Thorne Coffin ch, Som; SRO cf/1891/19;
(1891-2 lodge, Compton, near Sherborne, Dorset, for Col Goodden; ill Br 23.4.92; cottages and lodges at Nether & Over Compton, 1890s, wikipedia;
(1893-4 alts Bingham’s Melcombe, Dorset; ASG; BoE; Br 24.3.94 hall re-roofed, back wall rebuilt, AH Green, Blandford, builder;
1897-1900 Lufton Manor, Lufton, Som; 1897 ASG; 1900 on rainwater heads; for Herbert Phelips Batten +1918, formerly of Hollands, Yeovil; red brick Queen Anne style.
19?? rebuilt Hollands House, Mudford Rd, Yeovil, HP Batten's house before Lufton Manor, now part of Yeovil College, originally built before 1830 for E Batten, much rebuilt in early C20 probably for Evelyn Phelips Batten, daughter of Herbert Batten, there 1901-12 demolished 2019; photos show roughcast free-Georgian-style house; ;
1902 Lattiford House, Holton, Som rebuilt after fire; SAS from ; for Captain Hardy, GS;
(1904 Peak House, Sidmouth, Devon, rebuilt after fire;
19?? Sharcombe, West Horrington, Som; SAS from wikipedia; suggested as Sharcombe Park, Dinder house of c. 1830 rebuilt after fire in 1922, , SNB;
1908 Backwell Down, Backwell Hill Rd, Backwell, Som; Br 7.11.08; ASG; c1906-8 SNB;
(1908 Carnegie Library, Bromley, Kent Br 7.11.08)
(1910 pair of cottages, Winterbourne Whitechurch, Dorset; ;
includes Hollands, Mudford Rd, Yeovil, HP Batten's house before Lufton Manor, now part of Yeovil College, originally built before 1830 for E Batten, much rebuilt in early C20 for Miss Evelyn P Batten, demolished 2019; photos show roughcast free-Georgian-style house
HELLMAN, C.
1850? Goods Shed, Frome Station, Som; signs drawings for GWR; FSYB 3 47-54; station is by TR Hannaford qv, 1850;
HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY engineer, 1814-85, born St Asaph, son of poet Felicia Hemans, member ICE 1837, member RIBA 1840-52, worked as railway engineer in Ireland until 1854, engineer Midland Great Western Railway 1845-65, Athlone Railway Bridge 1850; and Waterford & Limerick Railway to 1865; member ICE Ireland from 1845, president 1857-9; returned England 1854, worked on Vale of Clwyd Railway 1855, Hartfield & Uckfield Railway 1862, emigrated New Zealand in 1870 became engineer- in chief but had stroke on visit to Wales 1872;
1867 report on drainage of Brue levels, 28.9.1867; unexecuted; Lewis 224-5;
HEMINGWAY, RICHARD. Richard Hemingway & Partners, later Hemingway Architects, 49 Queen Sq, Bristol
200? Wardroom and officers accommodation, RNAS Yeovilton, Som, three 3-storey blocks with single-room accommodation for 162 junior officersand large two-storey wardroom block; BAM contrs;
200? Galley (dining-hall) for Junior Ranks, 40 Commando Royal Marines, Norton Manor Camp, Norton Fitzwarren, Som; BAM contrs;
(20?? Rolls Royce Production Phase 2, Filton, Bristol)
HEMS, HARRY Exeter. Sculptor, architectural stonework. 1842-1916, worked for Scott on Foreign Office and for John Giles on Langham Hotel 1865, came to Exeter 1865 or 1866 to work on Albert Museum there (John Hayward architect), set up Ecclesiastical Art Works Co, employed 70 in Exeter and eventually had London, Oxford and Ireland workshops. Huge range of work in Devon (see BoE). By 1903 firm was Hems & Sons, with Harry Hems Jr and Wilfred Hems who retired 1938 and firm ended; Herbert Read qv worked for him from 1874. Made Bristol High Cross on College Green;
1873 reredos, Winsham ch, Som, by Ewan Christian qv WG 12.9.73;
1874 pulpit, chapel, West of England, Sanatorium, Weston S Mare; Hans Price architect; WDP 2.11.1904 report on pulpit at St John ch, Weston s Mare refers to this;
1875-7 pulpit, bench ends, Dunster ch, Som, also restored monuments; GE Street qv architect; SAS;
1878 reredos, Crowcombe ch, Som; to Mary Boles +1876; notes in church; design by JD Sedding?
1880-1 restored stonework, carved figures in porch, North Curry ch, Som, for JO Scott; Br 16.7.81;
1883 reredos and bench ends, Brean ch, Som, Hans Price architect; BN 8.6.83;
(1884-9 pews and pulpit Christ Church, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, for JO Scott qv; WBR2
1886 reredos, St Saviour ch, Larkhall, Bath; design by JD Sedding; SNB;
1895-7 screen and woodwork, St Michael ch, Yeovil, Som, JN Johnston architect; SSW;
1897-9 carving, Capital & Counties Bank, Yeovil, Som; SAS, WG ?.3.99
1899-1900 carved panels, Library, Weston s Mare, Som; Hans Price architect; SNB;
1900? memorial Celtic cross to TL Brown +1899, Chard cemetery, Som; signed;
1901 restored screen, Halse ch, Som; for CE Ponting; D/D/cf/1900/7;
1902? Boer War memorial, Holy Trinity ch, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB; alabaster relief;
1902 and 1904 reredos, Christ Church, Crewkerne, Som; dem; SAS: D/D/Cf/1899/10 and 1904/81; HH&Sons
1903-4 Milverton ch screen, Som; HH&Sons design unsigned D/D/cf/ 1903/64, £460;
1904 pulpit, St John ch, Weston s Mare, Som; WDP 2.11.04; stone and marble;
1904 reredos, Radstock ch, Som; SNB;
1906 restored churchyard cross, Wookey, Som; church guide;
1908 reredos, Burrington ch, Som; SNB;
1913 chancel fittings, Loxton ch, Som; SNB; GES Streatfield architect;
1920 churchyard war memorial, Cheddar, Som; SAS, by Thorpe & Openshaw of Oxford;
HENNEBIQUE, FRANCOIS Engineer, France 1842-1921 Patented Reinforce-concrete building system in 1892, used at Weaver Building, Swansea, 1897; malthouse, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath, c1900 and GWR Goods Shed, Canons Marsh, Bristol, 1904; SNB; LG Mouchel firm were agents for his system in Britain;
HENNET SPINK & ELSE, Engineers, Bridgwater, see George Hennet
HENNET, GEORGE. Bridgwater. Engineer, iron founder. 1799-1857 born York, educated Boston and Stamford, taught mathematics in London, employed c1825-6 in Addiscombe, Sy, where he did some architectural work. Engaged as surveyor by Robert Stephenson and Brunel. Established iron foundry in Colley Lane, became principal contractor to GWR and numerous associated railways. Established foundry at Bridgwater c1844 alongside GWR railway works. Supplied B&E railway in 1840-1, cast pipes for atmospheric railway S Devon Railway 1845. At same time replanned Teignmouth, Devon. Firm nearly failed 1853, he was bankrupted, died 1857. Firm continued under his son Follet Charles Hennet (1835-93) as Hennet, Spink & Else (HS&E) with Daniel Spink (1832-68) and RC Else qv, called Bridgwater Engineering Co from 1873 failed 1878. Firm made three bridges over Thames, prefabricated cast-iron lighthouses for Watchet, Som, South Wales, and Australia. Ironwork for Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash. Obituary of GH in ICE proceedings 1858.
(1844-9 Swivel-bridge and ironwork for S entrance lock, Floating harbour, Bristol, designed by Brunel;
(1852 Exminster Station, Devon, for South Devon Railway)
(1863-4 Swivel bridge over N entrance lock, Bristol floating harbour; HS&E ironwork to design by Brunel modified by Thomas Howard, the docks engineer;
1862 Lighthouse, West pier, Watchet harbour, Som; cast-iron;
(1863-4 bridge over Thames at Hampton Court, Mx; dem)
1866-7 made Marsh Bridge, Dulverton design by Arthur Whitehead qv SIAS 2 1977; lattice girders;
18?? ?Easton road bridge over Cheddar-Yatton Railway, lattice girders like Dulverton; SIAS 80 1999
HENNIKER-GOTLEY, ANTHONY ROGER
1969 reps East Harptree ch, Som, rej by ICBS;
HENSLOWE, JOHN CECIL EDWARD. Architect, 1887-1943, born London, in New York 1913, returned in 1930s to Yeabridge near South Petherton
1936 Hospital extension, Crewkerne, Som; TC 18.7.36, dedicated, W Bridge & Sons of Crewkerne builders; SCH 18.7.36, SAS, nurses and outpatients wing;
HENSON, SAMUEL Burlescombe, Tiverton, Devon. Samuel Henson Jr of Uffculme repaired Plymtree ch, Devon 1827-9, possibly the same. HC.
(1824-5 alts Culmstock ch, Devon)
1828-31 galleries, reseated Churchstanton ch, Som; HC; ICBS says SH was surveyor and plans were by John Lee qv;
HENWOOD, LUKE District Surveyor Bristol, designed cupola on tower of All Saints ch, Bristol, 1807; SNB;
HEPWORTH, ARTHUR JACKSON Architect. 1911-2003. Jack Hepworth was a cousin of Barbara Hepworth, trained as a painter first, then at Hull 1937 under Leslie Martin, worked in LMS railway station office, then on Festival Hall as assistant architect to Leslie Martin at LCC. He was the modernist painter Arthur Jackson. 1957 moved to Somerset as architect to Morlands Sheepskin of Glastonbury. Designed factories for Morlands at Glastonbury and Highbridge, Som, and Redruth, Cornwall.
1956 Nos 8-14 (even) Wick Hollow, Glastonbury, Som; row of houses for Humphrey Morland, a director of Morlands Sheepskin and J Morland and others. Bungalow; No 8 in Bath stone for H. Morland, No. 10 similar but rendered, No 12 only partly to AJH design, partly pitched-roofed; No 14 rendered like No. 10. Flat roofs, two storeys with glass and wood infill to the garden fronts. Website says he designed seven private houses and illustrates ‘house for HM’ and ‘house for JM’; house for Humphrey Morland ill in A&BN 20.9.56; £10,412; later designed an extension to the house for J Morland; designs for No. 8 at house;
1960-1 O block. Morlands site, Glastonbury, Som; dem; dry-process building, pioneering use of 60 ft long pre-stressed concrete curved slabs to ridge and furrow roof with north lights. Morlands Magazine Spring 1961;
HERITAGE PRACTICE architects. The Heritage Practice, see Charles Johnstone;
HERIZ PAYNE, 33 High St, Glastonbury; Johnny Heriz-Smith RIBA and Liz Payne MRTPI;
2002 Housing for Mendip Housing Ltd, Street, Som; brick with timber porches; also Mendip Housing Ltd development at Frome, and one at Wells, 2009.
2004 The Linhay, Greinton, Som; barn conversion;
2005 conv The Stables, Kingweston House, Som; conversion of EC18 coach house and stable group.
2007 The Tanneries, Glastonbury, Som; neo Georgian development of 22 flats in apparent houses;
2007 proposed housing on site of Butleigh Hospital, Som; hospital by GJ Skipper 1882 qv dem 2014;
2008 Housing development The Cross, Grange Rd/Glaston Rd, Street, Som;
2008-9 adds UR church, High St, Street, Som; development behind;
2008-9 rest Magdalene Almshouses, Magdalene St, Glastonbury, Som;
2009 Pilgrims Tap flats, off Northload St, Glastonbury; brick hipped with restoration of Blue Lias Cider Tap room adjoining;
2010 dev at Pennard Hill Fm, West Pennard, Som; Mendip awards 2011
2010 development No 5 High St Wells, Som; Mendip awards 2011;
2010 dev on Churchill Rd East, Wells, Som; Mendip awards 2011
2010 development, Sunnyside Pl, Frome, Som; Mendip awards 2011
2012 Abbey Court, off Magdalene St, Glastonbury, Som; four houses w sedum roofs;
2012 adds and conv The Old Chapel, Barton St David, Som;
HERLEY, C.J. Stonecarver, Taunton or Wells;
(1867 carved work All Cannings ch, Wilts; TH Wyatt architect, DWG 18.7.67, CJ Herley of Taunton)
1871 pulpit and font, Pilton ch, Som; AE Gough qv architect, Herley of Wells carved pulpit and font;
HERNIMAN, GEORGE, builder, timber merchant, Taunton, 1785-1842; with son Robert qv who continued business.
1825-7 builder, alts Bishops Hull ch, R Carver architect; SAS;
1830 builder adds House of Corrrection, Shepton Mallet for Richard Carver; SAS; gatehouse, keeper's house and chapel; TC 7.7.30;
1833 unsuccessful T for alts North Curry ch, Som; R Carver architect; Olivey, North Curry;
1836 builder Registry Office, Middle St, Taunton by R Carver TC 22.3.37; G&RH;
1841-3 builders, County Gaol, Shuttern, Tauntonl G&RH TC 30.6.41, 11.8.41;
HERNIMAN, ROBERT East Reach, Taunton. Builder, contractor, surveyor, son of George Herniman qv. Edward Jeboult was apprenticed to him 1845-8 when Herniman gave up building side;
1856 malthouse, Nerrols Farm, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som; Miles PP;
1862 House on Old Gas Works, South St, Taunton, Som; contract in SRO DD/DP/72/3; RH to sell old gas works to John Ridge;
1866 builder rest Ruishton ch, Som; D/D/cf/1866/4; CB 1867 139; 1865-7 SAS, JH Smith qv architect, TC 17.10.66;
HETREED ROSS ARCHITECTS, Bath Brewery, Tollbridge Rd, Bath. Formed 2001 by Jonathan Hetreed and Ann Ross, joined by Suzanne Thurlow 2008, Amanda Henderson 2009; Ellie Risius 2009; Jonathan Hetreed was with Feilden Clegg qv for 16 years to 1997; Ian Walker of CaSA Architects worked for HRA
(2003? adds St Margaret's Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts for Town Council office, bar and kitchen;
2004 conv St Michael's Church House, Walcot St, Bath, to restaurant; orig bulding by Wallace Gill qv; Biggs contactors £180K;
2004 glass conservatory, Georgian terraced house, Bath; 2005 BANES Design Quality Award;
(20?? ext and adds Friezecroft farmhouse, Glos; in South Glos DC area;
(2008 proposed house below former windmill, Masons Lane, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, proposed as three round towers, not built;
2009-10 ext to Victorian terraced house, Bath;
(2010-13? New house in Cotswolds AONB, Wilts, rubble basement and timber and glass upper floor, curved in plan;
20?? timber-framed adds Stables, Maplecroft, nr Bath, Som; ?Maplecroft, Bradford on Avon, wilts;
2010 Bridge Lock Mews, Widcombe, Bath; four houses overlooking Bridge lock on canal; Banes New housing Award 2011;
2011-13 Plockton House, Bath, Som; large hillside house, three storeys built into bank; plans made 2007 won on appeal;
2011-12 eco-refurb, 1960s house, Bath;
2012-14 renvoation buildings, Paulton Foundry, Paulton, Som
(2013-14 adds Dry Arch House, nr Monkton Farleigh, Wilts; timber clad;
(201? alts house, Lower South Wraxall, Wilts, conversion and ext of timber-frame garage for disabled flat;
(20?? glass pavilion, Blackberry Cottage, Turleigh, Wilts;
20?? passivhaus refurb of 1950s suburban house, Som;
(20?? adds and exts to cottage, Little Acre, Bradford on Avon, Wilts;
2012 ext to 1930s house, Englishcombe Lane, Bath; with timber-clad circular stair turret; Home building & Renovating March 2013; for J & L Abercrombie;
(2013 new village house, near Bath, Wilts; trad style;
2013-14 Haycroft House, near Street, Som; large new house in gabled c1900 style;
2009 Community shop, Freshford, Som; original design by David Thurlow; Ken Biggs Contractors; website says design-and-build by Biggs;
(2009-10 garden room extensions, cottage, Colerne, Wilts;
2009-10 oak-framed bedroom addition, Turleigh, Wilts;
2010-11 adds to two cottages, Pipehouse, Freshford, Som;
2010-14 new house, Stonehouse Lane, Bath based on Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style
(2011-13 new buildings, Fairfield Farm College, ?Dilton Marsh, Wilts; cafe, shop, kitchen and conference facilities;
(2012-13 Offices etc for Anthony Best Dynamics, Holt Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; single-storey timber-frame, timber clad;
(2013 garden-room, village house, Wilts;
2013 adds to 1960s house in Church Rd, Bath;
2014 Lansdown Close, Bath; retirement eco-home reconstructed from stone potting shed;
2014 proposed passivhaus farmhouse, poultry farm, Glastonbury, Som;
(20?? sewage treatment plant, West Bay, Dorset;
(20?? The Slade Centre, Gillingham, Dorset, conversion of early C20 department store;
(20?? Office conversion for Real World Ltd, The Malthouse, ?Box, Wilts; conversion of a storage building;
(20?? conversion De Montalt Mill near Bath to flats;
2014 proposed eco-homes, Spotted Stud Lane, Merriott, Som;
HEWITT, G. A. see G A Howitt;
1856-8 Clerk of works, Orchardleigh House, Som, TH Wyatt architect; TrAMS 27 1983; called Mr Hewitt in diaries but GA Howitt in WI 9.11.58 which says that he has gone on as clerk of works at Bowden Hill, Wilts;
HEWLETT, REGINALD MAURICE, Architect 1909-86, founding partner of Stone & Partners qv from 1936;
1960 Maundown Treatment Works, Wiveliscombe, Som, for Taunton Corporation, in association with Clatworthy reservoir; opened 7.7.61; Mr Goldfish ? clerk of works; inf in film commentary by Michael Cull;
HEWLETT, WILLIAM Clevedon ?builder
1832 Albert Villa, Copse Rd, Clevedon, or maybe built for WH; Lill; later Peterhurst;
HIBBERT, JO ELIZABETH Architect. Worked for Acanthus Ferguson Mann, English Heritage, from 2004 with Jonathan Rhind qv, then on own, but part of Levitate practice formed in London 2005 by Spencer Guy and Tim Sloan. Involved at Chilliswood, Trull, Som for Mr & Mrs Leamon;
200? rest Old House, East Town, West Pennard, Som;
2006-9 rest Whitestaunton Manor, Som for Stuart & Sylvie Moore, as project archt for Jonathan Rhind then as sole architect; reopened hall roof, roof repairs by Carrek Ltd;
HICK, EDWIN MORCOMBE Architect LRIBA born 1873 articled AS Goodridge of Bath; assistant architect in Office of Works, WwinA 1926;
HICKES, HENRY WILLIAM Architect, Bath, born 1832. See Hickes & Isaac, partnership from c1859.
1868 Fountain, Market Place, Shepton Mallet, Som; by HWH, SNB;
HICKES & ISAAC. Bath. Architects. Henry William Hickes, born Bath 1832 & Thomas William Player Isaac qv 1836-1910, born Montacute, Hickes not Hicks although this spelling is on plaque in South Petherton church. Partnership began c1859, dissolved 1873;
1855 1st prize Almshouses, Yeovil, Som; RL2 64; competition won by TWPI; Br 1855 298; this was Womborne’s Almshouses, Bond St, Yeovil, built 1860-2 by H&I;
1857 Plans for labourers’ 2 and 3 bedroom cottages by TWPI - competition entry for Chard Crewkerne & Ilminster Labourers Friend Soc; SRO DD/X/MAR/1;
1859 1st prize Walcot Cemetery, Bath; RHH; ?was this for Locksbrook Cemetery, built 1862?;
1859 Drainage plan, Yeovil Borough, Som; SRO D/H/yeo/24/4/1; H&I;
1859-61 rest South Petherton ch, Som; SRO; Br 7.9.61 621, cost £2750, nave restored old roof pattern followed carved bosses added from few old models left, tracery betw ties and principals added copied from Kingsbury ch, aisles reroofed, S porch doorways rest in EE style, N porch new Perp doorway; plaque in church ‘Hicks & Isaac’.
1860-2 Womborn’s almshouses, Bond St, Yeovil, Som; H&I, LC Hayward From Portreeve to Mayor 114; £1500; Harwood & Rawlins builders Yeovil; cf 1855 1st prize won by TWPI;
1861-3 Bath Markets, The Parade, Bath, Som; 1st prize 1861 RHH; Br 19 596; 1861-3 MF; behind the Guildhall;T for ironwork BC 17.4.62;
(1861 2nd prize Dartmouth town improvements, Devon; RHH)
(1861 2nd prize labourers' cottages for Yorkshire Agricultural Soc, Leeds; RHH;
(1862 entrant Exeter City Prison comp, Dev; RHH;
1862 alts Argyle Chapel, Bath; MF; SNB, upper part of facade;
1862 Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath; inc paired chapels and lodge; SNB; landscape by Edward Milner;
1863 wooden footbridge over Avon, Bath; collapsed 1877; MF;
1865 entrant Forum House Hotel & Baths comp, Bath; RHH;
1866-7 St Luke ch, Wellsway, Bath; SNB; nave replaced by Mowbray Green qv 1912-13;
1868 Drinking Fountain, Market Place, Shepton Mallet, Som, by HWH; SNB;
1869 Nos 5-12 Manvers St, Bath; MF;
1869-76 Clarendon Villas, Widcombe Hill, Bath; MF;
HICKS ASSOCIATES Architects, Longhouse Farm, Redhill, Som;
c2001-2, Hall to WM chapel, Chew Stoke, Som; SNB
HICKS & GABRIEL Architects Bristol, partnership of John Hicks and SB Gabriel qqv; Gomme says erroneously that SJ Hicks was partner;
(1843-9 St Jude ch, Bragg's Lane, Bristol; ICBS H&G, plan signed SBG; by SBG SNB;)
(1847 St Simon ch, Baptist Mills, Bristol; Lower Ashley Rd, by H&G, SNB, Gomme; ICBS plan signed H&G; alts 1876 by Pope & Bindon)
(1848 St Michael ch, Two Mile hill, Bristol; ICBS by H&G, plan signed SBG;
HICKS, JAMES Architect, Redruth, Cornwall. 1846-96; articled John Watson of Torquay, designed a great deal in Redruth, also Passmore Edwards Free Libraries in Redruth and Liskeard, and Art Gallery, Newlyn, all Cornwall;
(1874 schools, Box, Wilts,
1876 Residence near Bath, Som; BN 8.9.76; probably Rudloe Park, one of the Pictor houses, Box, Wilts;
(1879 3rd prize Putney B chapel, London; RHH;
(c1881 Fogleigh House, Box, Wilts, Arch 9.7.81, for Pictor family)
(1884 alts WM chapel, Sherborne, Dorset, £2000, new gallery, vestry BN 7.11.84; chapel of 1841)
Attrib: Rudloe Park, Box Hill, Box, Wilts; quarry offices, Clift Quarry, Box, Wilts; all for Pictor family, quarry owners of Box; also Gastard House, Gastard, Wilts;
HICKS, JOHN Architect. 1815-69. Born in Totnes, son of parson schoolmaster who moved to Rangeworthy nr Bristol in 1834. Dorset Historic Churches Trust (DHCT) suggest that he began practice in Bristol in 1838. In partnership with SB Gabriel (H&G) from c1845-8. Moved practice to 39 South St, Dorchester, Dorset, probably in 1850 (before 1852) as his older brother Rev James Hicks was curate then vicar of Piddletrenthide, vicar 1845-85. Thomas Hardy qv worked for him, articled 1856-9, paid assistant 1860-2, left for London 1862 to join Arthur Blomfield qv and returned as Hicks' assistant 1867-9. Hardy worked on St Peter, Dorchester, and designed capitals at Turnworth, 1868-9. Hicks's work after he died in 1869 was completed by GR Crickmay qv, not by T Hardy;
Confusion of JH with an erroneous SJ Hicks of Bristol qv is probably based on misreading of signature; ICBS only lists John Hicks as Gabriel's partner;
(1836 reblt Horfield ch, Bristol; 1831 SNB; reblt since; 1836-7 ICBS plans signed Hicks; transepts and gallery;
(1841 St John ch, Apsley Rd, Clifton, Bristol; on Whiteladies Rd; by SJH acc to SNB and Gomme; chancel by SB Gabriel 1864; 1838-41 ICBS plan signed John Hicks
(184? attrib, vicarage, St John ch, Apsley Rd, Clifton;
(1841 attrib Sandford Charity School, Northwick, Glos; BoE; JH designed ch in 1842-3;
(1842-3 Northwick ch, nr Severn Beach, Glos; dem; BoE, neo-Norman; 1841-3 ICBS, existing plan 1842, plan as altered 1843, both signed J Hicks;
(1843-7 alts Winterbourne ch, Glos; BoE;
(1843 restored Monkton Farleigh ch, Wilts, faculty WRO D/1/61/6/5; rebuilt nave;
(1844 St Andrew ch, St Andrews Rd, Montpelier, Bristol; Gomme; dem 1969; 1844-5 SNB;
1844 survey, Abson ch, nr Wick, Glos recommending rebuilding; ICBS;
(1844-6 Rectory, Monkton Farleigh, Wilts; by Hicks, BoE; WBR, by JH of Bristol; minor rear adds 1872 by WH Wontner, plans WRO;
(1845 Filton ch, Bristol, Glos; Gomme; BoE, 1844-5;
(1847 St Simon ch, Baptist Mills, Bristol; on Lower Ashley Rd, by Hicks & Gabriel, SNB, Gomme; ICBS plan 1847 signed H&G; )
(1848 St Michael ch, Two Mile hill, Bristol; ICBS by H&G, plan signed SBG;
Attrib in Bristol area: Court Farm, Elberton, Aust, Glos c1840-50; Sandford Charity School, Northwick, Glos, 1841; BoE;
(c1852 vicarages, Dorchester and Lyme Regis and schools at Long Bredy, all Dorset; DHCT website;
(1852 alts Piddletrenthide ch, Dorset; BoE; 1854 acc to DHCT website, raised the walls; brother Rev James Hicks was vicar 1845-85)
(1854-9 chancel and N aisle, Powerstock ch, Dorset)
(18?? Alts St Peter ch, Dorchester, Dorset; vestry and E window; plan signed Thomas Hardy;
(1859 rebuilt Rampisham ch, Dorset, exc chancel; BoE; first major church work in Dorset acc to DHCT;
(1860 adds Bridport ch, Dorset; BoE; ICBS)
(1860-1 Coombe Keynes ch, Dorset; BoE
(1861-2 North Poorton ch, Dorset, BoE)
(1861-2 Athelhampton ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1861-2 Shipton Gorge ch, Dorset; BoE; FS Br 12.10.61)
(1862 Bettiscombe ch, Dorset, BoE)
(1864 East Lulworth ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1864 chancel, Batcombe ch, Dorset, BoE)
(1864-6 alts Wool ch, Dorset; BoE; reopened SM 4.9.66; Wellspring & Son contr; carving by Boulton of Worcester and Grassby of Dorchester; organ by Walker; roof corbels and pulpit by Grassby; E window by Bell of Bristol)
(1865-6 adds Okeford Fitzpaine ch, Dorset; boE)
(1865-6 Broadmayne ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1866 East Holme ch Dorset; BoE)
(1867 Stour Row ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1867 Compton Abbas West ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1869 Turnworth ch, Dorset, built by GR Crickmay; BoE, Thomas Hardy designed capitals)
(1869-70 West Lulworth ch, Dorset; exec by GR Crickmay; BoE
(1869-70 St Mark ch, Swanage, Dorset, completed by G Crickmay)
(1870 Hinton Martell ch, Dorset; faculty refers to JH but built by G Crickmay qv; BoE)
HICKS, S. JOHN. Bristol. Architect, partner with SB Gabriel (H&G). But he may never have existed, confusion with John Hicks qv 1815-69 who practised in Bristol before moving to Dorchester c1850. Gomme says that SJH died or retired c1850, so they may be the same person.
(1841 St John ch, Apsley Rd, Clifton, Bristol; on Whiteladies Rd, SNB, by SJH, also Gomme; also vicarage nd;
(1847 St Simon ch, Baptist Mills, Bristol; Lower Ashley Rd, by H&G, SNB, Gomme)
HIGGINS, WILLIAM HENRY. Builder & contractor, 10 Magdalene St, Glastonbury, Som; advert 1889 Kellys dir;
HIGGISON, BROWN & STUCKEY. Highbridge. Firm was known as HBS, later became LED Architects Ltd qv of Highbridge & Totnes, Devon. The firm were long-time architects to Millfield School. 'Higgison Brown & Stuckey, HBS as they became have advised Millfield for years and their QS, John Pendelston, became estates advisor employed full-time by Millfield. Pendelton and Millfiled eventually fell out but HBS go on. Their work is consistently feeble.' (J Gould). Richard Samuel formerly of Somerset County Architects worked for them in 1990s.
19?? Riding-stables, Millfield School, Som; inf J Gould
1975? First two boarding houses, Millfield School, Street, Som; Acacia and ?
1984 Keen’s Elm/Butleigh boarding houses, Millfield School, Street, Som; one large building, later made into one house Keen’s Elm;
1985 Jubilee Sports Hall, Millfield School, Street, Som; inf J Gould: The green shed Sports Hall next to our Fine Arts Centre is also by HBS in 1980s. Dim. To celebrate school’s jubilee.
198? Physics Building, Millfield School, Som; J Gould; was flat-roofed, had a hipped roof added c2000;
198? Chemistry Block, Millfield School, later clad in red brick; ?also Biology block also later reclad.
1992 Day-unit, Hospital, The Avenue, Minehead, Som; single-storey brick addns behind the old Town Hall, on Blenheim Rd; plans in building;
1995 Top floor adds A Block and B Block, Millfield School, Street, Som; inf J Gould; original blocks 1965 by Nealon Tanner qv;
1994 Swimming-pool, Millfield School, Street, Som; inf J Gould; cost £50m, contains 50m pool, was to have been 25m, extra cost born by a parent. Big shed, designed by Dick Samuel.
1997? Biology and Chemistry buildings reclad, Millfield School, Street;
1998 Surgery, North St, Langport, Som; inf Greg Venn S Somerset DC; ?design by Dick Samuel; addn in similar style 2011 by LED Architects.
2002 Dormitory houses, Millfield School, Street, Som; eight around Junior Sports Field; inf J Gould: ‘The boarding-houses S along Somerton Road are all by HBS. The locals call it the the 'Open Prison'. Enough said’. Same style as earlier boarding houses.
20?? Martin’s Boarding house, Millfield School, Street, Som;
2005-6 Chemistry building, Millfield School, Street, Som; by LED Architects
2011 Adds Langport Surgery, North St, Langport, Som; by LED Architects.
2012 Deputy-headmaster’s house, Millfield School, Street, Som, by Somerton road entrance; J Gould: ‘There's a really silly laminated timber building going up now near the entrance drive. God knows what it is - probably by HBS too’. Presumably LED Architects.
Also presumably at Millfield School: Business Studies and IT mid 1980s; older accommodation blocks; dance studio mid 1980s; reception and headmaster’s office block; headmaster’s bungalow Keen’s Elm lane; Tennis Centre 1990s;
Also: Edgarley Hall, now Millfield Preparatory School, Glastonbury. Not much there of value in my view but all by HBS at different dates.
HIGHLEY, EBENEZER JOHN. Architect originally from Newport, Mon, chief architectural assistant Bridgwater Corporation +1941, obit TC 27.9.41; under Boro Surveyor RA Watson designed extension to Municipal Buildings, Westover Senior school, extension to Durleigh waterworks, houses on housing estate,
HILL, GEORGE. Somerset County Architect, see Somerset County Architects.
HILL, JOHN WYATT Architect, 14 Ashleigh Rd, Bridgwater, Kelly 1906;
1904 Four houses, Ashleigh Rd, Bridgwater T Br 16.7.1904;
1904 alts cottages, Ashleigh estate, Bridgwater T Br 15.10.04;
1904 shop and offices, King St, Bridgwater, for Albert Lewis; T Br 22.10.04;
HILL, OLIVER. Noted 1930s architect, uncle of Piers Denny qv of Carrek Ltd, conservation builders.
19?? Planned landscape garden for Clarks, Street, Som; undated plan Clark archive
19?? Flower beds in front of Greenbank Pool, Street, Som; inf Caroline Gould;
1940-1 The Orchard, Orchard Ave, Tickenham, Som; SNB; timber-framed, boarded;
HILL, RICHARD TOWNING Architect. 27A Great George St Bristol, RTH and Partners with Michael Hitchings qv, partner 1954-64; changed name 1966 to Richard Towning; associated with Whicheloe Macfarlane qv as firm of Whicheloe Macfarlane & Towning Hill involved in late 1960s redevelopment of High Kingsdown, Bristol, design architect Anthony Mackay;
1954 Headland, Score Lane, Blagdon, Som; C20index;
1955-7 House, Draycott, Som; SC notes; Matthew Hardy list of houses 1945-75; 1954 acc to C20index;
1956 Split-level house, Mendips, Som; C20index; probably Upper Meadow, Chelvey Batch, Brockley, ill in CL in 1959;
1957 The Ripple, Quarry Hill, Tickenham, Som; in 1960-1 Bungalow Plans;
1959 house, Providence Lane, Long Ashton, Som; C20index; SC notes; ?same as the houses near Long Ashton in M Hardy list of houses 1945-75, House & Garden Book of Small Houses, 1961;
1960 ?Dryalls, Combe Batch, Wedmore, Som; C20index;
(1963-5 Housing scheme, Pitch and Pay Lane, Downleaze, Bristol, with SPAN housing, extended c1969; SNB;
1964-5 Frome Tool & Gauge Factory, Marston Way, Frome by Michael Hitchings of RTH; Frome Society
(1971 housing Calne, Wilts, Woodroffe Square, The Knapp, Ogilvie Square and Foreman St, off Abberd Way, Calne; GI;
(1977 flats Druids Wood, Avon Way, Bristol with Building Partners Bristol Ltd; GI; HDA 1977;
HILL, THOMAS Builder, Clevedon
189? Houses Madeira Rd, Clevedon; Lilly Builders of Clevedon;
c1895 houses top end Madeira Rd, Clevedon
189? Three pairs semi-detached houses, Highdale Ave, Clevedon opposite Nos 5-27 odd;
HILL, WILLIAM. Architect, Leeds 1827-89; biographical article in Christopher Webster ed, The practice of architecture, 2012;
(1854-5 Cemetery, Chippenham, Wilts DWG 26.7.55, opened; Harris & Wray, Corsham, contrs)
(1856-7 Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wilts WI 16.4.57 £1910; opened WI 10.12.57; by W Hill of Leeds, James Randell contr;)
1859 chapel, Perrymead RC Cemetry, Bath; by William Hill, SNB, possibly WH of Leeds; but possibly by WA Hill qv;
HILL, WILLIAM A.
1874 rest Combe Hay ch, Som; SRO; SNB, N porch and S aisle
HILLIER, HERBERT
1905 Cottages, Shockerwick nr Bath; ill from ?BN on Archiseek site
HILTON & RAWLINGS Architects 3 Victoria St, London
1882-4 unex plans Rectory, Chaffcombe, Som SRO D/D/Bbm/262 Gabled, m&t ws, brick chimneys; but Glos RO D4335 has plans of 1885-6 by JP Moore of Gloucester for house as built;
HILTON, E.W.
1924-33 ?Somerdale Chocolate Factory, Keynsham, Som for Frys Chocolate; attrib SNB;
HINDE, KARL ALFRED Engineer, Street. 1882-1954. Nephew of WS Clark, son of Clark’s sister Edith Hinde, employed by the Clark factory as engineer from1920s.
HINE, GEORGE THOMAS Architect, Nottingham, 1841-1916. Articled to father Thomas C Hine 1813-90 in Nottingham, and joined his practice, partner 1867, moved practice to London 1890. Specialist in asylums, consultant to HM Commissioners in Lunacy. 1887 1st prize Woodford Asylum Mx; 1890 1st prize Dorset Asylum Charminster; 1891 1st prize Ryhope Asylum Sunderland; 1893 1st prize Isle of Wight asylum; 1893 2nd prize Staffs Co Asylum; 1897 1st prize Raunceby Asylum Sleaford Lincs;
1879 2nd prize North Town Nursery estate, Taunton, Som; RHH;
1891 2nd prize Somerset & Bath County Asylum, Bishops Lydeard, Som; RHH; built 1892-7 by Giles, Gough & Trollope as 2nd County of Somerset and City of Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum, later known as Tone Vale, now Cotford St Luke village;
1901 adds Somerset & Bath County Asylum, Som; probably to Mendip Hospital, Wells, Som; SNB says late C19 ward additions ‘apparently by GTH’ at Mendip Hospital;
(c1913 annexe Roundway Asylum, Devizes, Wilts; with H Carter Pegg; WBR;
HINE, JAMES Plympton Devon 1830-1914. Born Ilminster, family moved to Plymouth, but articled to Willaim Armstrong in Bristol, worked with EW Godwin qv also a pupil there, wrote Architectural Antiquities of Bristol 1851 with him, and designed a scheme for restoration of SS Philip & Jacob ch, Bristol, 1854, unexecuted; joined Alfred Norman (1823-93) in Plymouth from 1869, won competition for TH, Plymouth, 1870-4, firm was Hine & Odgers by 1886, with James C Odgers, then Hine, Odgers & May by 1904; BoE Devon;
(1861 1st prize Devon & Cornwall Bank, Totnes, Devon; RHH;)
1868-9 Literary & Scientific Inst and Museum, Frome, Som; AEBTD 1868; Arch 7.8.69; c1865-8 SNB; now Frome Museum;gift to town of James Sinkins, mill owner, relative of Hine; SAS;
1885-6 Unitarian Schools, Mary St, Taunton by Hine & Odgers, BN 15.10.86; the minister at the time was called Odgers; glass by Fouracre of Plymouth;
1889 Reading Room, Ditton St, Ilminster, Som, for JW Shepherd of Dowlish Ford Mills; J Street, Mynster on the Ile, 1904; now the Library;
HINE, JOHN Builder Dunster. John Hine & Sons 1906 dir.
1895 builders WM chapel, Bossington, near Selworthy, Som; Foster & Wood archs; by Hines Bros of Dunster acc to Book of Luccombe & Selworthy;
1907 Bldrs WM chapel, Roadwater, Som; Hine & Co, design by Rev Lewis H Court; Book of Roadwater;
1924 Farmhouse, Timberscombe, Som, for WG Morel, by JH&Sons D\R/wil/24/1/51; dull four-bay;
HIPPISLEY, EDWIN Surveyor, 12 Chamberlain St, Wells, 1815-97, son of Joseph Hippisley (1787-1852), surveyor, worked with his father to 1850-2. Surveyor to the Tudway estate, to Burial Board and Surveyor to the Fabric, Wells Cathedral 1853-97, J&E Hippisley 1850, Hippisley & Sons (Kelly 1889, 1931) or Messrs Hippisley; one son Edwin Maggs Hippisley (1845-1907) was one of surveyors of ecclesiastical dilapidations for diocese 1891-1919, another son was William John Hippisley (1853-1901).
1850 alts parsonage, Wookey, Som; D/D/Bbm/105; new front; J&EH;
1850 report on fire, East Paper Mill, Dulcote near Wells; and estimate of rebuild costs; SAS; J&EH
185? plans rest Shapwick ch, Som, unexecuted, VCH, 1850s;
1857 rear adds vicarage, Timberscombe, Som; D/D/Bbm/126; also a bay on front right;1856 SAS;
1858-9 Central School, St Johns St, Wells, Som; SNB; DD/EDS/5306;
1861 rest St Cuthbert ch, Wells, Som; D/D/cf/1861/9; repair and reseating;
186? survey Butleigh village, Som, RIBAD, after 1860; SAS;
1866 vicarage, Coxley, Som; DD/Bbm/149; gabled centre; dem
1867 repairs vicarage, Burnham on Sea, Som; spec D/D/Bbm/158;
1869 reroof St John's Vicarage, Chilkwell St, Glastonbury, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/166;
1871 stable, vicarage, Pill, Som; SRO Bbm/181;
1871 stable, vicarage, Horrington, Som; SRO Bbm/182;
1874 adds vicaage, Bleadon, Som; laundry, porch; SRO Bbm/204;
1875 add vicarage, North Curry, Som; side add; SRO Bbm/213;
1877 add vicarage, Church St, Wedmore, Som, plain hipped SW wing matching early C19 SE range; SRO bbm/229
1880 alts Canonical House, Wells, Som; SRO D/D/bbm/244; new rear elevation;
1880 alts Deanery, Wells, Som; SRO D/D/bbm/246; no plans;
18?? National School, Wookey, Som; DD/EDS/1535; enlarged 1894?
1887 survey plans, recreation ground, Bishop's Barn, Wells; SAS; entrance gates JW Merrick builder, heraldry carved by William Halliday; J Sampson, report on Bishop's Barn, 2013;
1891 survey for repairs, vicarage, Woodlands, Som; Longleat !4/3 27.5/0 22/1/1891;
1902 Board School, Priddy, Som, SAS;
1930 New cemetery, Meare, Som; layout plan in church; Hippisley & Sons;
HIPPISLEY, JOHN Surveyor Wells, see Edwin Hippisley;
HIRST, HENRY CECIL MONTAGUE Architect, 30 Broad St, Bristol. ARIBA, articled JH Hirst qv possibly father; surveyor to Bristol & West Building Soc, WWinA 1926;
(1883 No 60 Redcliff St, Bristol; tobacco factory with Henry Crisp; SNB;
(1888-9 St Thomas ch, Fishponds Rd, Bristol; SNB; nave completed 1903;
(1891-2 Kingswood Reformatory School, Kingswood, Glos; Arch 1.1.92)
(c1891-2 Tower Hirst, Circular Rd, Sneyd Park, Bristol; SNB)
(1901 adds Wiltshire Reformatory for Boys, Tascroft Farm, Warminster, Wilts; WBR2; Butcher & Son builders; WWinA 1926; Ivor Slocombe history of Reformatory, to cost £1550 but scheme reduced £1314/14/3d;
(1906 St Michael vicarage, Windmill Hill, Bristol; SNB)
(1906-7 Bristol & Anchor Almshouses, Park Crescent, St George, Bristol; SNB
(1908 rebuilt Nos 44-5 High St, Bristol; SNB)
HIRST, JOHN HENRY, Harrogate & Bristol. 1825/6-1882. Yorkshire origin, office Bristol c1851, with SB Gabriel 1852-6 G&H; Gomme; Obits Br 15.7.82, BM 8.7.82, Daily Bristol Times 7.7.82; Office: Guildhall Chambers 1868; 8 Small St 1882; home Avonhirst, Stoke Bishop, Bristol; GJL; HCM Hirst qv may have been a son.
(1848-9 Royal Hotel, Esplanade Terrace, & Public School, Weston s Mare, Som; AEBTD 1868 no date; hotel extended completed 1849 by G&H acc to SNB, adjacent terrace was Royal Terrace;
(1851 3rd prize Bristol Athenaeum G&H;
(1856 Alts Assembly Rooms, Clifton for shops; GJL; built 1806-11 by Francis Greenway qv, alts 1856 and 1894, SNB;
(1856 1st prize alts Royal Hotel, Clifton, Bristol;
(1856 3rd prize Bristol Lunatic Asylum; BN 1858 101; exh Arch Exhib Soc;
(1857 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol with Charles Underwood; GJL; 1854-7 SNB; later refronted by SS Reay;
(1858 3rd prize Presbyterian ch, Bristol;
(1866 entrant Manchester TH comp)
(1873 Ashmeads Warehouse, Victoria St, Bristol; dem;
1873-5 Nos. 9-11 St Stephen St, Bristol; AF
(1879 entrant University College, Bristol comp; GJL;
(1882 Whites Almshouse, Temple St, Bristol; dem;
HITCHCOX, NORMAN, Yeovil. Norman Hitchcox Partnership. Jack Sweet says not a qualified architect, designed the Tesco Store, Middle St, Yeovil, later Wilkinsons.
1994-5 County Court, Hendford, Yeovil, Som; plaque; Q Anne style;
HITCHENS, J. M. Engineer. MICE MIME. Deputy Chief Engineer to Somerset Rivers Catchment Board under Louis Kelting qv. Hitchens’ daughter says that he designed all installation at Gold Corner Pumping Station, 1941-2, designed and supervised bridges and digging of the Huntspill River 1940-1; designed West Sedgemoor Pumping Station, Stathe, near Burrowbridge, 1944, various bridges on the A38 and on the GWR railway lines; inf D Crighton;
HITCHINGS, MICHAEL. Architect. In partnership with Towning Hill of Bristol 1954-64.
1965 Frome Tool & Gauge Ltd, Marston Trading Estate, Manor Rd, The Butts, Frome, Som; illustrated in Moxley Jenner & Partners, 1973. Precast concrete with prestressed hyperbolic roof shells. Really good and still there! Inf J Gould; mention without named architect in SNB.
HOARE, - London.
(c1757-70 Fonthill Splendens, Fonthill Gifford, Wilts; for Alderman Beckford, dem 1807 by William Beckford; HC;
(1763-4 Town Hall, Maidstone, Kent; HC)
HOARE, PRINCE Sculptor, Bath. 1711-69. Born near Eye, Suffolk, younger brother of painter William Hoare 1708-92, worked with Peter Scheemakers, sculptor. In Bath in 1730s but spent c1742-50 in Italy. No 8 Gay St by John Wood qv was built for him. See IR for works;
(1760-2 chimneypieces for Corsham Court, Wilts; IR; library and a bedroom; more chimneypieces in 1765;
1764-5 Prince's Buildings, George St Bath, built by him as speculative development; he lived at No. 5, SAS;
HOBHOUSE, PENELOPE Garden designer. Married to Paul Hobhouse of Hadspen, Som. One of the leading garden designers of late C20, commissions all over England, also Aberglasney, Cms, Wales. Gardens for self at Hadspen and Tintinhull, Som; garden at Hadspen was altered by Nori & Sandra Pope after 1987 ill CL 12.10.1995 and has completely gone. Dairy Barn, Pitcombe, 2013.
19?? Gardens, Tintinhull House, Som; for NT, she was tenant for 14 years;
2009 designed magnolia lawn, behind Day School, Bruton School for Girls, Pitcombe, Som; plan with bursar; PH with SCG Associates;
2010 Garden for self, Stables, Hadspen, Som; personal comment;
HODDELL, JAMES 1847-1938 Clevedon & Bristol. Came from Midlands to Bristol as surveyor, set up office in Clevedon 1874 as architect, surveyor, auctioneer, estate agent, coal merchant; moved himself to Clevedon by 1889; GJL; Kelly 1906 James Hoddell & Co auctioneers, estate agents, surveyors and general valuers, 19 Alexandra Rd, Clevedon.
(1876 Nos 1-9 Pembroke Vale, Clifton, Bristol;
(1877ff houses in St Andrews, Bristol including three houses Chesterfield Rd, 1877, and houses in Belmont Road 1881; GJL
(1889-90 Shop & house, Lawrence Hill, Bristol T Br 7.12.89; JH&Co; £560;
18?? Laid out Walton St Mary, Clevedon, Som; GJL; and designed several houses
HODGKINSON, CHARLES Engineer. Langport, Som, Bragg’s dir 1840; Charles Hodgkinson, Wet Moor Magazine May 2012. Noted Cheshire family of engineers, Eaton Hodgkinson engineer, Edward Hogkinson, architect, John Hodgkinson was engineer on mineral railway projects in South Wales c1800-30;
1836-40 supervising engineer, Parrett Navigation, Langport, Som; William Bennett engineer; ?William Gravatt was engineer, Hodgkinson was his assistant, the work included the Westport Canal.
HODGSON, FREDERICK JOHN WHITLOCK Architect, LRIBA Guildford, Surrey;
(1919 alts and shopfront, Park St, Bristol; WwinA 1926;
HOLBROOK, JOSEPH Westbury, Wilts
1951 Signal-box, Frome Station, Som; signs drawings, FSYB 3 45-54;
HOLBROW & OATEN see William Holbrow
HOLBROW, WILLIAM Architect Bristol, later Holbrow & Oaten (H&O) of 9 Clare St;
(1895 Shoe factory, Wilson St, St Pauls Bristol; SNB)
(1904 three shops and houses, Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol T Br 12.12.03, H&O)
(1913-14 Magnet Cinema, Newfoundland St, St Paul's, Bristol; SNB, by H&O)
HOLDEN, CHARLES HENRY Architect 1875-1960 see Adams & Holden. Biography by Eitan Karol (EK); ASG; Major architect of C20 London Underground HQ and stations, London University Senate House, BMA building; Law Society Library; office of Percy Adams 1899, partnership A&H, joined by Lionel Pearson AH&P 1913.
(1902-6 Bristol Central Library 1st prize won 1902 by HPA but designs were by CHH; sculpture by Charles James Pibworth 1878-1958; Br 2.9.05; Br 20.1.06; CF Dening resident architect; carving by William Aumonier; SNB;
(1910 King Edward VII Memorial Wing, Bristol Royal Infirmary; 1911-12 by A&H, SNB)
(1921 War Memorial gateway, Clifton College, Bristol; SNB)
1921-3 Willoughby Cleeve, Hodder Combe, Holford, Som; ill in EK; stone and gable hung with Cornish slate; dated GF 1922 for George Fawkes (?), director of Wills tobacco; builders HW Pollard, qv; D/R/wil/24/1/25;
1925-6 Great Hillcroft, Hill Lane, Bicknoller, Som; ill in EK; for Henry Bickersteth Mayor +1948, master at Clifton College (commemorated in window in Bicknoller church); builder James Chibbett & Son;
HOLDING, EDWARD GEORGE DE WILDE Architect, 1886-1958, son of Northampton architect Matthew Holding (1846-1910), pupil of his father, completed father's unfinished works in 1910, became architect to Wessex Kinema Co of Bournemouth; BH;
1934 Plaza Cinema, South St, Wincanton, Som; BH;
1936-7 Wellesley Cinema, Mantle St, Wellington, Som; BH;
1937 Cerdic Cinema, Fore St, Chard, Som; opened 14.6.37; BH;
HOLE, JOHN Dunster Carpenter. Edward E Hole, carpenter, in 1906 dir also Alfred L Hole, cabinet-maker.
1848 Estimate for woodwork and altering pews, Nettlecombe ch, Som; DD/ WO/54/11/48
1864 Bill for cabinets, Nettlecombe Court, Som; DD/WO/54/11/75;
HOLLAND, HANNEN & CUBITTS, London engineers, contractors. Formed 1883 by Holland & Hannen acquiring Cubitts. Part of Tarmac from 1976.
1957-8 Clatworthy Dam and reservoir, Som; S Colwyn Foulkes qv architect;
HOLLAND, HENRY Jr. Architect. 1745-1806. London. Son of Henry Holland Sr, builder, partner of Capability Brown 1771, his son-in-law 1773; Colvin; D Stroud, Henry Holland, 1950 rev 1966; Claremont, Sy, 1771-4; Brooks Club London 1776-8; Cardiff Castle 1777-8; Berrington Hall Salop 1778-81; alts Nuneham Pk Oxon 1781-2; alts Carlton House London for P of Wales 1783-96; Brighton Pavilion 1786-7 enl 1801-4; York House Whitehall London portico etc for D of York 1787; Woburn Abbey Beds alts 1787-1802; Drury Lane Theatre 1791-4; Covent Garden Theatre 1792; Oatlands Sy for D of York 1794-1800;
1783 alts Kingweston House, Som, for William Dickinson; Letter from HH to WD, DD/DN 242 9.9.83 ‘I shall proceed with plans as directed .. being however partial to the eastern design …’. This appears to relate to alterations to existing house. Dickinson apparently showed plans for rooms by Holland Oct 1783 to John Acland of Fairfield who advised alteration, but no evidence that HH used for new house 1786-9 where Samuel Heal of Bridgwater was builder assisted by Abraham Chaplin of Taunton; house was remodelled in early C19.
HOLLIER, JOHN HERBERT Architect, Bath, Green & Hollier 1931 dir, see Mowbray Green;
HOLLINSWORTH, JAMES Engineer, 1763-1828. 1787 worked on Oxford Canal, 1792 awarded contract for Lechlade Bridge Glos, when called mason of Banbury, 1795 worked on Braunton Tunnel on Grand Union Canal with William Jessop qv; 1796 living in Seend, Wilts, working on Kennet & Avon Canal with John Rennie qv; The Hollinsworth Swing Bridge named after him, one on Portsmouth & Arundel Canal opened 1823, near Barnham, Sx. Died 1828 near Chichester, Sx; ?not same as James Hollingsworth, architect, contractor, dealer and chapman, of Lechlade bankrupt Gloucester Journal 29.8.1796;
1810 assisted John Rennie on proposal for a Bristol to Taunton canal; SAS;
1822-6 Engineer Bridgwater & Taunton Canal, Som; Josiah Easton senior surveyor; Act 1824? Initially opened to join Parrett at Huntworth, 12 miles, 700 yard embankment at Lyng 40’ high; lock at Firepool Taunton, beam-engine house at Charlton, four locks in N Petherton CP (Higher & Lower Maunsel, Standards, and Kings) and lock each side of basin at Huntworth; two cuttings, twelve timber swing bridges, eleven brick bridges; opened 3.1.27; extended 1837-41 to Bridgwater, when locks and basin at Huntworth were filled in. This section has notable Crossway swing-bridge on ball-bearings and lock into Bridgwater Basin but ?all engineered by Thomas Maddicks qv;
HOLLOWAY, BENJAMIN. The Lions, West Quay, Bridgwater, carpenter & builder; HC; RL;
1723-8 Employed by Duke of Chandos at Bridgwater, Som, who thought him a ‘very great knave’, designed at least four houses in Castle St, which has six each side but others maybe by Duke’s London surveyors Thomas Fort qv & Edward Shepherd +1747. Also terrace of artisan houses in Chandos Street, by Holloway and J Hutt 1726-8 according to modern plaque; BoE S says Castle St planned 1721, begun 1723; RL;
1726-7 Altarpiece, West Huntspill ch, Som; built by Thomas William surveyed by BH; VCH 8; dem; three panels under an arched pediment topped with gilded urns; painting of St Peter from central panel survives; SAS say surveyed the altarpiece built by Thomas Willis (sic), removed 1860-1;
c1730 The Lions, West Quay, Bridgwater, Som; for himself, ill with Holloway’s name in William Halfpenny Perspective made easy, 1731;
HOLMAN, - Engineer and surveyor to Minehead UDC
1954 Two blocks of 4 flats, Brickyard site, Alcombe, Minehead; SRO D/U/M/22/1/ 850
HOLLYMAN, THOMAS Clevedon, ?error for William Hollyman qv.
c1823 Ship Aground Inn, Clevedon, Som, rebuilt 1869 as Rock & Pier hotel;
Lilly The Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
HOLLYMAN, WILLIAM Agent to Clevedon Court estate responsible for early development in Clevedon; D&J Lilly The builders of Clevedon, 2000; SNB;
c1823 Ship Aground Inn, Clevedon, Som, rebuilt 1869 as Rock & Pier hotel;
Lilly calls him Thomas Hollyman ?error; mention p9 demolition 1869-70 of 'original baths built by Hollyman in the 50s', p15 mention Royal Hotel 1825-6 by Hollyman ??;
1825 Hill Road, Clevedon, Som, leases taken up by WH with George Newton mason of Wraxall, inc No 36 on corner copse Rd; SNB
1825-6 Royal Hotel, Clevedon; Lilly p 15; ?same as Ship Aground;
182? Ilex House and Trellis House, East Clevedon, Som; Gothic; 1827 SNB:
1827 The Grove, Walton Rd, Clevedon, Som
1828 Swiss Vale House, Walton Rd, Clevedon, Som
HOLMAN, JOHN Crewkerne, Carpenter & joiner 1822 & 1830 dirs.
HOLT, - Architect, Bolton-le-Moors, Yorks
1863 2nd prize Militia Stores, Bath, Som, 1st pr CE Davis qv but commission given to CJ Phipps qv; TC 26.8.63;
HOOLE, ELIJAH Architect, London. Collaborated with James Wilson on adds to Kingswood School Bath 1882-3 see Wilson & Hoole; involved with social housing movement, friend of Octavia Hill the social housing pioneer and for her designed cottages in Ranston St, London, after 1886; worked for the WM but not apparently connected with Elijah Hoole, the Methodist missionary in India who died 1872;
(1875 Housing for Bristol Industrial Dwellings Co.; A 28.10.75; dem SNB;
(1879 Housing junction Lambeth and Kennington Roads; archiseek;
(1881 WM chapel, Holly Park, Crouch Hill, London; archiseek;
1882-3 extended hall, Kingswood School, Lansdown, Bath, Som, with James Wilson see Wilson & Hoole; SNB; also four-storey dormitory block and sanatorium;
(1884-5 Toynbee Hall, Commercial St, London; pioneering settlement house for Canon Barnett;
1891 Gymnasium, Kingswood School, Bath; SNB;
(1892 Bermondsey Settlement, London; WM settlement house;
HOOPER, HENRY Builder, Exeter, 1793-1868, in partnership to 1853 with brothers William and William Willis Hooper; built Exeter St Davids Station and Exeter Markets, mayor 1843-4 and 1857-8; SAS;
1843 Sea-wall, The Esplanade, Watchet, Som; WH Norman, Tales of Watchet Harbour; also town slip; John Allen of Watchet, builder, SAS;
HOPKINS, BILL Building contractor, concrete manufacturer, Wincanton.
1995 Pen House Farm, Penselwood, Som; for himself; personal inf; large thatched trad style house;
HOPKINS, RICE Plymouth. Engineer, 1807-57, born Swansea, son of Roger Hopkins (1775-1847) qv. Worked with father on projects in Devon; worked also with brother Thomas Hopkins (1810-48). In Plymouth dir 1836 as architect. Partnership 1836 with father as Roger Hopkins & Son; Engineer to Llanidloes & Newtown Railway, Mont, the West Somerset Mineral Railway, 1854-7; and Watchet kHarbour Commssioners, Som; S Hughes, Copperopolis, 145-6;
1854-7 engineer, West Somerset Mineral Railway, from Watchet through Washford, Roadwater and Leighland to mines at Brendon Hill. Survey begun by William Doyne qv in 1853 who was dismissed. Hopkins estimate 1854 £50,000. Act of 1855 included rebuilding Watchet harbour. Railway built 1856-61, but RH died before harbour works begun. William Robertts, assistant, John Gunn of Maunder contractor; work continued after Hopkins death by W Roberts and then under Morgan Morgans qv who completed the Combe Row incline.
1857 plan for Harbour, Watchet, Som, for shipment of iron-ore from Brendon Hills; £20,000, not selected as he had died and James Abernethy was cheaper; WH Norman, Tales of Watchet Harbour; plans SRO DD/SAS/S2560/3;
HOPKINS, ROGER Swansea and Plymouth. Engineer, 1775-1847, son of Evan Hopkins, engineer. Employed 1807 on Oystermouth Tramroad, Swansea; 1807-19 leased Cathelid colliery, Clydach, Glam, with his brother David; 1810 moved away, engineer to Severn & Wye & Monmouth Railways, Forest of Dean; settled in Plymouth as engineer to Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway, Devon, 1821-7. Son Rice Hopkins (1807-57) qv worked with him on Plymouth & Dartmoor; sons Rice and Thomas (1810-48) worked with him on Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, Cornwall, 1832-4; in Plymouth Directory 1836 as architect. 1831 in Gwauncaegurwen, Glam: tender for a non-tidal dock at Swansea; sank coal-pit at Gwauncaegurwen and 1837-40 started Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Railway a tramroad to canal at Pontardawe (P. Reynolds, Railway & Canal History Journal, 169, 500-5); managing director Victoria Ironworks, Ebbw Vale, Mon, 1836-9 with two sons, company bankrupt 1849.
(1825-7 Shaldon Bridge, Teignmouth, Devon, timber 1671’ long, replaced 1930, tollhouses remain; BoE.
(1831 tender for non-tidal dock, Swansea, Glam;
(1836 Inn, shops, agent’s house & 100 worker’s houses for Victoria Ironworks, Ebbw Vale, Mon; T: MM 17.12.36, Hopkins & Son
1836 surveyed proposed Great Western Union Railway, Bath to Weymouth; RH&Son; R Legg The Book of Wincanton, 2005, 45;
HOPPER, THOMAS. London. 1776-1856. Trained as surveyor by his father, set up 1802 as building surveyor. Leading country house architect and designer of public buildings. Connected with Prince Regent through first client Walsh Porter + 1809. County surveyor, Essex, 1816-56. cf Neil Burton, in Kerry Downes, The Architectural Outsiders, 1985, (NB);
(1806 Egyptian hall at Craven Cottage, Fulham, London;
(1807ff work for Prince Regent on Carlton House, London, inc Gothic conservatory;
1814-17 Leigh Court, Abbotsleigh, Som, for PJ Miles, Greek; client asked that it be based on Pythouse, Wilts, by John Bennett c1805; SNB; probably also the Lodge.
(1819-26 County Gaol, Chelmsford, Essex; 1822-6 HC, alts 1845-8;
(1820-2 County Gaol, Fisherton Anger, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR2; 1818-22 HC, later Radnor Ho, dem 1875 and c1960;
(1819-21 Gosford Castle, Co Armagh;
(1822-40 Penrhyn Castle, Caerns; 1822-37 HC;
(1829 enlarged Guildhall, Salisbury, Wilts forming existing portico; HC;
(1834-40 Amesbury Abbey, Wilts; rebuilt for Sir E Antrobus, exhibited RA 1841; CL 1.3.1902;
(1834 Atlas Insurance office, Cheapside, London;
(1835 competition entry, House of Parliament, London;
(1836-7 alts Rood Ashton House, West Ashton, Wilts, BoE; WBR2 builders Young & White of Devizes;
(1842 competition entry, Conservative Club, London;
(1843-7 Birch Hall, Essex;
(1844 Arthur's Club, now Carlton Club, London;
HOPWOOD, J.
1951-3 rebuilt Francis Hotel, Queen Sq, Bath; SNB; adds 1977-80 by Oxford Architects Partnership.
HORDER, PERCY RICHARD MORLEY Court House, East Meon, Hants 1870-1944, born Torquay, son of Rev WG Horder Congregationalist minister and hymnologist. Articled George Devey, 1886, continued working for James Williams after Devey died, became a partner. Worked for Jesse Boot, chemists, Nottingham; did vernacular houses and Congregational churches and colleges inc Muswell Hill 1900, Bushey, 1904, Penge, Brondesbury Park and Ealing Green all 1911, Cheshunt Congregational College, Cambs 1913-14. Post-war partnerships with Briant Poulter (1881-1972) from 1919-25 and from 1926-9 with Verner Owen Rees (1886-1966). RIBAJ Oct 1944 320 and Nov 1944 24-5; L Weaver Small Country houses of Today, nd, includes The Croft, Chesham, Bucks; Lane End, Walton Heath, Sy; and Inverleith, Norwich (with AG Wyand); 52-4 Brook St, Mayfair, London, 1895; ASG; shops for Boots after 1919 inc Bristol, Brighton etc; 110 New Bond St london 1905; 30 Smith Sq, London, 1926;
(1902 Moonhill, Cuckfield, Sx; RA 1902)
(1905 Greystock, near Warwick; RA 1905)
(1911ff alts Waterston Manor, Dorset BoE)
(1911 Two houses at Rodborough, Glos; ASG)
(19?? Little Court, Charminster, Dorset; ASG)
(1913 Gyde Orphanage, Painswick, Glos; ASG)
1920-2 Periton Mead, Periton Rd, Minehead, Som; Randall Phillips, Small Country Houses of Today, vol 3; for Dr CS Orwin, director of Oxford Inst of Agricultural Economics, enlarged from small villa; PMH designed the formal gardens and altered and enlarged the house c1922; CL 14.7.23, buff sandstone, Treborough slate for wall cappings and hall floor, Ham stone dressings; built around a 'modern villa';
192? London School of Tropical Medicine with VO Rees.)
(1922-8 Nottingham University for Jesse Boot)
(1927 Arts Theatre, Great Newport St, London, conversion of existing)
HORE, JOHN Engineer to Kennet Navigation, Berks, as son of one of proprietors. Act of 1715, by 1723 11.5 miles of river improvements done. Resigned 1725, then was wharfinger at Newbury and re-employed for survey work in 1734.
1724-7 Avon Navigation, improved navigation on River Avon from Bath to Bristol, appointed by committee inc Ralph Allen and Duke of Beaufort; 11.5 miles dredged and weirs bypassed; c£12,000; W Berry Kennet & Avon Navigation, 2009;
HORN, WILLIAM Minehead, surveyor and builder. Name spelled both Horne and Horn in rectory papers;
1809 alts rectory, Wootton Courtenay, Som; repairs and adds £577/11/0d; D/D/Bbm/30; remodelled with new four-bay front, gable in third bay; also repair Hunshead barn and dwelling-house £26/15/6d;
1821 Workhouse, 3-7 Middle St, Minehead, Som; minehead online chronology;
HORNE, ALBERT VAUGHAN. Engineer, builder, 1837-1915, born Luccombe son of john Horner, builder to Egremont estate; by 1861 working as builder with brother Thomas Horne, carpenter, in 1865 married daughter of William Collins, agent to Egremont estate. By 1871 surveyor for Egremont estate, Orchard Wyndham, Williton. Engineer to West Somerset Mineral Railway 1874-99, moved to Belmont, Watchet, by 1906 had succeeded William Collins as land surveyor and steward to Orchard Wyndham estate;
1871 National School, Exford, Som; DD/EDS/ 5830; SAS
1874 National School, Ilton, Som; DD/EDS/ 5698; SAS
1874-99 engineer West Somerset Mineral Railway;
HORNE, T. Surveyor, Williton. 1872 dir.
HORNE, WILLIAM see William Horn.
HORROBIN, JAMES Roadwater, later Doverhay Forge, Porlock. Blacksmith. Son of Harry Horrobin, traditional blacksmith, JH started designing in 1970s, worked with Rachel Reckitt making her screen at Old Cleeve ch, Som, 1974; screen at Torre Abbey Devon; gates to metalwork gallery, V&A London, 1981; stairs etc C Saatchi house London 1985; gates County Arcade, leeds; grille over roof-light Sir John soane Museum London; ironwork Crown court 66 Cheapside London; 75th anniv garden arch, Welwyn Garden City;
much work in Rodhuish ch, Som, inc font-cover, sconces, candle-stands, flower-stand; sanctuary-lamp at W Quantoxhead ch; chandelier Crowcombe ch, Som; bench and handrail Roadwater Village Hall;
(1983-5 Gates, Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, London; W Whitfield archt;
19?? Gates, Bishop Fox School, Taunton, Som;
(2004 Churchill screen, crypt, St Pauls Cathedral, London;
(20?? Bus shelter, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton;
HORSINGTON, THOMAS Banwell
1799-1800 Parsonage, Banwell, Som; L-plan ground plan SRO D/D/Bbm/18;
HORWOOD BROS, stained glass makers, Frome, Edwin Horwood 1834-92, Harry Horwood 1838-1917 and Mark Horwood 1840-1904, born Mells, trained in stained glass at St Andrew's College, Mells, Edwin became main designer, in Mells 1861 census, in Frome by 1871. Harry emigrated to Canada and set up glass making there; firm closed after Edwin died in 1892. List of works in Cuzner's Handbook to Frome Selwood 1866-7 includes glass at Buckland Dinham, Cloford, East and West Cranmore, Hemington, Kilmersdon, Norton St Philip, and Whatley, also glass at East Pennard 1857-8, Gaer Hill 1857-8, Witham Friary 1864, Trull 1865, Frome St John 1864 and 1875, Pilton 1871, Beckington 1873 also decoration of chancel roof, Frome Holy Trinity 1875-6, Mells 1882, Frome Christ Church 1887, Tellisford nd;
List of works in Cuzner's Handbook of Frome Selwood 1866-7 138-40 (C ) includes following in Somerset: Buckland Dinham; Cloford; East Cranmore; East Pennard; Frome St John & St Mary; Gaer Hill; Hemington; Kilmersdon; Mells; Norton St Philip; Trull; West Cranmore; Whatley; Witham Friary; and outside Som Devon: Bideford; Kilmington; Upton (Torquay); Glos: Barnsley; Tewkesbury; Isle of Wight: Northwood; Jersey: St Johns; Lancs: Wigan; Lincs: Fulbeck; Potterhamworth; London: Kensington St Barnabas; Northants: Southwell; Oxon: Brightwell; Holywell (Oxford); Magdalen School; Merton College Library; Shropshire: Woolstaston; Suffolk: Lawshall; Wilts: Boyton, Cholderton, East Kennet, Highworth, Horningsham, Trowbridge Holy Trinity, Warminster, Zeals; Ceylon: Colombo Cathedral; Australia: Muswell Brook NSW; Sydney Cathedral; South Africa: Grahamstown; Gibraltar Cathedral in progress; inf from Canon Jeff Hopewell;
HORWOOD, VICTOR WILLIAM 1878-1939 born Frome, son of Harry Horwood, glass painter, see Horwood Bros; emigrated as child, became principal architect of Manitoba from 1904; Archiseek;
HOSEGOOD, ANDREW WEBBER, 1880-1926, land-agent and surveyor, Williton and Minehead, born Sampford Brett, qualified as surveyor 1901, from 1906 took over firm of Hawkes & Andrew qv with Thomas Andrew, the firm becoming Andrew & Hosegood, cf TH Andrew. Brother James H Hosegood qv born 1883 involved too; worked for Minehead developer JH Holman who was there brother-in-law;
1921 Garage, High St, Williton, Som for J Gliddon & Sons D/R/wil/24/1/14;
1924 Raglands, Tower Hill, Williton, Som, house for AH Gliddon, hipped with a gable over a 2-storey canted bay on S; W porch. D/R/wil/24/1/57;
1926 layout roads off Whitecross Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/687 for Minehead vicarial glebe;
HOSEGOOD, JAMES H. Surveyor, Minehead, born 1883, younger brother of Andrew Hosegood 1880-1926 qv see Andrew & Hosegood.
1924 layout The Ball housing estate, off Martlet Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/666;
HOSIER, JAMES CHARLES, 1833-1914, of Brown & Hosier, brick and tile makers of Burrowbridge, partnership dissolved 1879, later a photographer in Bridgwater, SAS
1878-9 Board School, Othery, Som; contractor – Tottle; school history, from BM 5.6.78; SCG 8.6.78;
HOSKINS, SILAS Appraiser & surveyor, Castle Cary, 1816-94; father of Thomas Hoskins, carpenter, SAS;
1870 parsonage, Stowell, Som; SRO DD/Bbm/173;
HOW, THOMAS Builder, Brompton Regis, 1828-93, employed by Lethbridge estate Luxborough; brother John How, carpenter, also worked on Lethbridge estate 1872-3, DD/DP/14/3; John How wheelwright, blacksmith, in 1906 dir;
1872 builder Skilgate ch, Som; rebuilt except tower by How of Brompton Regis; DoE; architect unknown;
1873 house, Cophold, Brompton Regis, Som, for AG Lethbridge, contract DD/ DP/72/3
1874 cottage, Almoor Farm, Exton, Som, for AG Lethbridge; contract DD/DP/ 72/3
HOWARD, EDWIN THOMAS. The Ferns, Wellington. Architect & surveyor; Kelly 1889; Surveyor, sanitary inspector, waterworks engineer & collector of rates to Wellington UDC, Kelly 1906; 1846-1920, born West Monkton, articled in Taunton to John Leversedge, partnership Leversedge & Howard 1868, but Leversedge absconded with funds of Taunton Turnpike Trust that year; Howard worked in Bedford before 1873 when appointed Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector to Wellington, Som, held post 47 years 1873-1920, followed by son Ernest Tom Howard (1876-1957) who joined c1900, so buildings after that strictly ETH&Son. The firm built most of new houses in Wellington to 1940s; LF Isaac, The Howards and the transformation of Wellington, 2004 (LFI)
1877 planned Springfield estate, Wellington, Som; for CH Fox; LFI, RL; workers terrace houses in Springfield Rd 1877 and 1883-7, middle-class villas on W side of Station Rd, called High Path. Nos. 26-27 High Path, 1877, and other High Path houses 1883-96 and 1903-4. No. 8 High Path for himself 1887, No 14 1889; tender semi-detached pair Station Rd, SCG 8.6.78; ref to two villas for Mr Sully SCG 29.6.78;
1879 Old Schoolroom, Wellington School, Som; 1880 WS 173; Gothic addition to S of School House, later called Southside, ext 1888 by ETH, adds 1924 and 1960;
1880 added top floor to School House, Wellington School, Som; original house called Cooksleys, South St, leased by school from Elizabeth Were 1837, bought by W Corner headmaster 1863, bought by school 1879;
1881 Houses, Bulford Lane, Wellington; LFI 17
1884 Houses, Champford Lane, Wellington, also 1905;
1884 water supply, Wellington, Som; angry letter BN 5.12.84 from E Pritchard MICE saying that he not Howard had identified site for reservoir and made plans; see 1885
1885 Fox Fowler Bank, Fore St, Wellington, Som; RL 2 26; headquarters, now Lloyds; LFI 13
1885 Westford Pumping Station, Rockwell Green, Wellington, Som; pumps dated 1886; DoE; powered by gas engines, gas produced on site; E Pritchard of Birmingham consultant engineer; LFI; also town drainage completed 1886; chimney added 1902 when changed to steam; SIAS 136-8;
1885 Water Tower, Rockwell Green, Som for Wellington drainage; LFI; SIAS 138;
1887 laid out Waterloo estate, Waterloo Rd, Wellington, Som; E side Waterloo Rd Nos 47-52 and 54-7 1887-8, No 58 (Bramdean) 1889, only plan signed by Howard is for Nos 69-70. First houses in Victoria St 1887 more 1890, George St 1892-3 and 1900-6, Bovet St 1895-7 and 1904-8, one pair Seymour St 1895, rest 1906 and 1924-37;
1887 The Ferns, 8 High Path, Wellington, Som for himself; LFI 3-4 ad 13; later renamed Monkton; inglenook added 1920;
1887 attrib Kilkenny House, Priorswood Rd/ Cheddon Rd, Taunton, Som; RL 2 26; LFI 6; unlikely?
1887 Royal Jubilee Warehouse, South St, Wellington, Som, for Egerton Burnett, later Northside building, Wellington School; RL 2 26; WS 172; extended 1903, 1910, bought by school 1926, extended 1926; reconstructed inside and extended 1991 by Stone & Ptnrs qv;
18?? Two houses on ‘the main road through Ilminster’, Som attrib LFI 6;
1888 add The Schoolroom, Wellington School, Som; orig built 1879-80; WS 173;
1889 No 14 High Path, Wellington, Som LFI 13;
1890 report on restoration of Wellington Monument, near Wellington, Som TC 27.8.90; repairs by Joseph Blackburn of Nottingham, SAS;
1890-1 rest West Buckland ch, Som; D/D/cf/1890/12; rest 1891 £950 Kelly; reopened BN 61 1891 35; TC 17.6.91 reopened, HJ Spiller contractor;
1891 attrib Cottage Hospital, South St, Wellington; SAS;
1892 remove galleries, Holy Trinity ch, Mantle St, Wellington, Som; D/D/ cf/1892/7; ch dem;
1892 Water Tower, Dark Lane, Wellington; LFI 2; SIAS 138 says 1896;
c1892 laid out Wellesley Park, Wellington, Som; first house No 35 for Thos Sully, No 29 Sunnycroft ‘his most accomplished house; No 31, 1893; No 3-5; No. 7-9 1893; LFI 6 and 14-15; RL 2 26;
1892 clerk of works, Police Station, Wellington, Som; complaint of ETH that not adequately paid for supervising TC 4.1.93;
1893 Technical Block, Wellington School, Som; RL 2 26; enlarged 1908 by ETH&Son, extended as Music school 1986 by L Prichard qv;
1893 No 71 Waterloo Rd, Wellington, Wesley Villa; sim to 31 Wellesley Pk; LFI 12;
1895 Avondale, 76 Waterloo Rd, Wellington LFI 12;
1895 houses, Farthings Pits, Wellington; LFI 18;
1896 Tonedale estate, Station Rd, Wellington, Som; including Tone Hill and Crosslands; LFI 4-5;
1903-4 Sunday School, Union B Chapel, Rockwell Green, Som, Follett Bros builders; AL Humphreys Wellington 560ff;
1903 No 22 High Path, Wellington; LFI 13
1903 chancel seats, Wellington ch, Som; plans SRO cf/1903/69 signed ETH MSA;
1904 Pavilion, School Field, Wellington School, Som; WS 173; ETH&Son
1906 The Grange, Wellesley Park, Wellington, blt as Blackdown School;
1907 add Baptist Sunday School, South St, Wellington, Som; RL; LFI 14, S end addition to schools by SK Pollard 1864-5; AL Humphreys Wellington 560ff contractor John Twyford ,Wellington, FS 5.5.07, opened 13.9.07;
1907 No 36-8 Wellesley Pk, Wellington, Ham stone and red brick; LFI 15; called Walton/Isca, dated 1907;
1907-8 houses, Clifford Terrace, Wellington; LFI 18;
1908 add Technical school, Wellington School, Som; ETH&Son WS 172; original of 1893 by ETH;
1908 classroom Block, Wellington School, Som, rooms 1-3 1908, W gable end rebuilt to different design 1932 when rooms 4-8 added by Ernest Howard, roof rooms 9-10 1981 by JF Hannam
1908-12 houses, Holyoake st, Wellington; LFI 18;
1909 Houses Foxdown Terrace, Wellington; LFI 18;
1911 well house, Wellington School, Som; circular pump house over bore hole dem 1963; WS 67-8;
HOWARD, ERNEST THOMAS Wellington. Son of Edwin T Howard qv, 1876-1957, known as Tommy Howard; born Taunton, educ Wellington School, articled in Newton Abbot, joined father c1900, firm may have been ETH&Son (not in 1906 directory), took over as surveyor to Wellington UDC on father’s death in 1920, continued in post to retirement in 1945. RL 2 26, LFI; from mid-1920s built houses in Wellesley Park (begun by father) extending street towards Dark Lane, Seymour St 1924-37. Also housing in Pyles Thorne Rd after 1927, ?1925-33; work at Wellington School where he was a governor including entrance on South St (with CH Biddulph-Pinchard) and classrooms left of chapel steps; post-war extended Longforth council-house estate into 1950s, and more in Wellesley Park and Shuteleigh 1949-50, also No 29 High St built of 2” brick for F Sydenham; bungalows in Buckwell, Pyles Thorne Rd and Wellesley Park, houses at Runnington and Hemyock (Devon) and shop on Priory estate all around 1955. LF Isaac, The Howards, 2004; office 14 High St 1931 dir; LRIBA;
1903 Choir stalls, Wellington ch, Som; ch guide, lengthened 1938; removed 1986; some stalls taken to Ashbrittle church 2012; plans are signed ETH MSA ?father or son? SRO D/D/cf/1903/66;
1919 adds Overside, Wellington School, Som; WS 173 ETS&Son; originally a private house South St called Doreen, bought 1918. Adds 1960 by M Torrens qv;
1925 Houses, Holyoake st, Wellington; LFI 18
1925-33 houses, Pyles Thorne Rd, Wellington LFI 18
1926-30 Houses, Station Rd, Wellington; LFI 18
1926-32 Houses, Wellesley Pk, Wellington,
1928 No 28 Wellesley Pk Wellington
1928-30 Houses, Owen St, Wellington
1929-31 Nos 42, 46 and 50 Wellesley Pk, Wellington; LFI 16;
1930 No 46 Wellesley Pk, Wellington, blt for mother of sir Gilbert Garnsey;
1931 No 45 Wellesley Pk Wellington for WJR Gill of poole brickwks; LFI 16
1931 Cottage Hospital, Wellington; TC 25.2.31;
1932 No 4 Wellesley Pk, Wellington, (Rosemary), LFI 15-16;
193? No 50 Wellesley Pk, Wellington, (Laneside)
1932 No 1 Shuteleigh, Wellington, (orig Dunoon), south St; LFI 17;
1932 add to Classroom Block, Wellington School, Som, rooms 1-3 1908 by ETH&Son, W gable end rebuilt to different design 1932 when rooms 4-8 added by Ernest Howard; roof rooms 9-10 1981 by JF Hannam; WF 172;
1934 new drive and gates, Wellington School, Som, with CH Biddulph-Pinchard; WS 173; gates by Morris Singer; widened 1984, gate-widening by C Webb;
1936ff Houses in Shuteleigh, South St, Wellington; RL; LFI 8;
1936-7 houses, Mitchell St, Wellington; LFI 18;
1940s TC has numerous refs to ETH as architect to Wellington UDC;
1951-2 Houses, Wellesley Pk, Wellington, Som;
1953 Pavilion, Bulford Field, Wellington School, Som; WS 173;
1957 No 2 Wellesley Pk, Wellington, Som; LFI 16;
HOWARD, FRANK ERNEST Architect. Oxford. 1888-1934. Designed church furnishings, co-author with FE Crossley of English church woodwork 1917. NMR HOW01 has collection of 5000 items related to parish churches.
(19?? War memorial screen, St Andrew ch, Chippenham, Wilts; WBR2)
1923 woodwork, Wookey Hole ch, Som; SNB;
1934 Font cover, High Ham ch, Som; 1961 letter from vicar; VCH;
HOWARD, HENRY Builder, Clevedon
1855 ?Sunhill, Prince's Rd, Clevedon for Peter Llewellyn, Bristol metal merchant; attrib Lilly, Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
1863 Marlborough House (later Charleville), Victoria Rd, Clevedon; on corner Albert Rd;
HOWARD, J. ?architect, J. Howard & Son
1920 No 20 Edward St, Bath, Som; C20index;
HOWDILL & HOWDILL Architects Leeds
(1903 WM chapel, St George, Bristol; Br 1903a 637, 20.6.03 FS laid;
HOWITT, GEORGE ARMSTRONG mason, Devizes;
1856-8 Clerk of works, Orchardleigh House, Som, TH Wyatt architect; TrAMS 27 1983; called Mr Hewitt in diaries but GA Howitt in WI 9.11.58 which says that he has gone on as clerk of works at Bowden Hill, Wilts;
(1861 carving Savernake ch, Wilts; Br 5.10.61; TH Wyatt; GA Howitt of Devizes stone and alabster work incl pulpit, font, rail etc;
HOWITT, THOMAS CECIL. Architect, Nottingham, 1889-1968, FRIBA. known as Cecil Howitt. Designed Nottingham Council House 1927-9, Nottingham University buildings, churches in Nottingham. architect to Odeon cinemas,
1934-5 Odeon Cinema, Locking Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; BoE N; 1935-6 SC notes; faience by Shaws of Darwen; opened 25.5.35; BH;
1936 Odeon Cinema, Penel Orlieu, Bridgwater, Som; SC notes; BH;
1937-9 unexecuted Municipal Buildings, Hendford, Yeovil, Som; competition 1938 judged by C Cowles Voysey, won by R Cecil Howitt (sic) of Mansfield £97,500; plans amended 1939; abandoned; plans on display in Town House offices of Yeovil Town Council; copies J Sweet;
(1938 Odeon Cinema, Broadmead, Bristol; SNB, much altered 1983-5)
HTA ARCHITECTS London, formerly Hunt Thompson Associates, since 2013 HTA Design Llp of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol; Benjamin Derbyshire chairman joined 1976, PRIBA 2017; Simon Bayliss, Michael De'Ath, Caroline Dove;
(2008-13 Hanham Hall eco-housing estate, Hanham near Bristol, Glos; by Ben Derbyshire, Simon Bayliss;
2014ff Mulberry Park, Combe Down, Bath, masterplan for and redevelopment of former MoD Foxhill site for Curo housing; 700 houses by 2028;
(2017 Filwood Park estate, Filwood, Bristol for Barrett homes; 150 units;
HUBBARD & BEVAN Builders, Plymouth;
1878 tender enlargement barracks, Taunton, £24,600; A 26.10.78;no architect named but the work was under Caldwell reofrms, Major Henry Seddon qv with Major Crozier and Thomas Berry;
HUBBARD FORD PARTNERSHIP
(1980 Rownham Mead flats Merchants Rd, Bristol; SNB)
1984 Clevedon town centre redevelopment, Som; Marble Mosaic Co website; Tarmac Cubitts contractors;
c1985 bungalow, Blagdon Court, Blagdon, Som; SNB
1985 St James Court housing for elderly, Taunton; HDA 1985;
HUDSON SMITH, Glastonbury. Barry Hudson and Douglas Smith, then Douglas Smith & Partners (DS&P).
c1975 Riding School, Millfield School, Street, Som; inf J Gould, portal frame; officially by Douglas Smith but actually by a rather good architect who went on to work for Rock Townsend in London;
1989-90 Mission church, Vestry Lane, Street, Som; Caroline Gould says possibly by HS, possibly by DS&P;
HUDSON, THOMAS. No 2 Tything, Wincanton. 1852-1904, born Wells, auctioneer & architect, Sweetman’s 1894 dir;
1896 Primary school, Tything, Wincanton, Som; R Legg, Book of Wincanton, 2005, 69 Elementary school, South St, Thomas Green builder; Br 1894 404; WG 2.11.94;
HUDSON, THOMAS, builder and builders merchant, Gillingham Dorset from 1865, built WM chapel, Gillingham, son-in-law Albert Martin joined after 1885, and firm was Hudson & Martin.
HUGHES & WILBRAHAM Land agents, 3 Manston Terrace, Exeter
1956 convert Hawkridge school, Som, to cottage, new dormers and windows; nasty; SRO D/r/dul/24/1/233
HUGHES, JOHN engineer
1845 engineer to Somerset and North Devon Junction Railway, not built, from Sampford Brett to Porlock Dock; Q/RUP/181;
HUGHES, PHILIP. The Dogs, South St, Wincanton. Surveyor. Philip Hughes Associates. Philip@pha-building-conservation.co.uk. 01963 824240. Rebecca Harrison qv worked for PHA c1995-9; Meriel O'Dowd there c2009 later with English Heritage;
1995 rest Rowlands Mill, Ilton, Som for Peter Speke, contrs JV Baker;
199? restored Little Norton Mill, Norton sub Hamdon, Som; Harrison Brookes website;
1995-6 reps Langport ch, Som for CCC; ch guide; contractors Carrek Ltd;
199? SE staircase, Barrington Court, Som, for NT, made by Stuart Interiors the tenants; NT reference guide 2004;
2000ff repairs The Dogs, Tout Hill, Wincanton, Som, for self;
2000-04 repairs Cloford Manor, Cloford, Som, for Richard Mawer; inf owner;
(2002-4 rest St Paul ch, St Pauls, Bristol; SNB)
2006 reorder West Camel ch, Som; SBPT award 2008;
2010 rest Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Som for – Schroder, including new orangery.
(2011-18 repairs St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles, Dorset for E of Shaftesbury)
(2019 repairs tower and spire, Trent ch, Dorset; shortlisted 2020 SPAB Betjeman Award; Sally Strachey Hsitoric Conservation Ltd;
Repairs Honeywick, Hadspen, Som, inf owner;
repairs Lytes Cary, Som, for NT;
repairs Manor Farm, Mere, Som;
repairs Maperton ch, Som;
repairs Hinton St George ch Som;
HUGHES, WALTER Yeovil;
(1936 attrib alts Abbeylands, Sherborne School, Dorset; OSS)
HUISH & COOKSLEY Builders Porlock 1906 dir James Huish and John Cooksley; yard up Parson Street still has James Huish, builder undertaker etc, Tel No 88 painted on sign. Huish and Cooksley family members appear in group photograph for harbour lock at Porlock Weir, 1913, Book of Porlock 100;
1890-1 rest Porlock ch, Som; JD Sedding architect, Cooksley & Huish bldrs, Book of Porlock 45;
1901 cottage, West Porlock, Som for Dr Lush, D/R/wil/24/1/6, by J Cooksley, thatched 2-st 3w badly drawn design, also 1902 addition at rear;
1911 builders Lynch House, West Lynch, Som for Allan Hughes; CHB Quennell architect, John Cooksley builder;
1913 builders harbour lock, Porlock Weir, Som; Huish and Cooksley family members in group photograph, Book of Porlock 100;
192? Hacketty Way House, Porlock, Som for – Clifford; Book of Porlock 19, Huish’s builders;
1930 builder rest Lynch ch, West Lynch, Som, Huish of Porlock, archt WHR Blacking; Book of Luccombe & Selworthy;
1931 alts chancel Porlock ch, Som, architect WHR Blacking, by WJ Cooksley and W Huish, new reredos, rails, side chapel and oak altar-table; D/D/cf/1930/71;
1939 tower screen and font-cover, Porlock ch, Som; D/D/cf/1939/21 by WHR Blacking of 21 The Close, Salisbury; Huish & Son and Cooksley & Son contractors;
HUISH, FREDERICK EDWARD Builder, contractor, Glastonbury Rd, Street, 1842-1917; 1906 dir;
1877 repairs Bowlingreen Mill, Street, Som; by Frederick Huish & Sons, ‘wheelwright, joiner, builder & general contractor’ acc to McGarvie, Bowlingreen Mill, 26-7
1882 adds Edgarley House, Glastonbury, Som; plans signed Frederick Huish, copies archives Millfield Prep School; major addition for JA Porch; ?a different Frederick Huish;
1886 builder Wilfrid Terrace, Wilfrid Rd, Street, Som; plans C;lark archives by GJ Skipper March 1886, signed FH as builder;
1887 builder Clock Tower, Clark Works, High St, Street, Som; plans in Clark archive by GJ Skipper architect, signed F Huish builder;
1887 builder Vestry Hall, Leigh Rd, Street, Som; plans archive by GJ Skipper architect, signed FH as builder;
1891 builder adds Bowlingreen Mill, Street, Som; W Reynolds architect; £975; McGarvie Bowlingreen Mill 58; stockroom and offices facing street, and other adds; engine-house, enlarged drying-room, new stiffener and machine rooms, offices entrance and gangway;
1891 contractor, Lawson Terrace, Wilfrid St, Street, Som; architect W Reynolds qv; GHS51;
1892-3 contractor Brutasche Terrace, Street, Som; architect W Reynolds; GHS5, also ?Grange Terrace 1898;
1896-7 builder adds Bowlingreen Mill, Street, Som; architect W Reynolds; £487; water-tower £70, boiler-house & drying loft £375; McGarvie;
HULLE, ROBERT Mason, working at Winchester from c1400, completed nave at Winchester Cathedral after d of William Wynford, gave advice on Winchester College 1418-19; died 1442. JHPS 162-3
(c1425-37 Fromond’s chantry and Library above, Winchester College, Hants; attr JHPS 162;
1439-40 carved rood-loft, St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; dem; JHPS 162
(1440-2 St John’s hospital, Sherborne, Dorset; JHPS 162)
HUMBY, WILLIAM Wilton, Wilts. Surveyor, 1813-51.
1835-6 alts Wincanton ch, Som; ext to N aisle and new gallery; ICBS; John Feltham 1806-48 builder, SAS; all demolished 1887-9 in JD Sedding rebuild.
(1837 builder workhouse, Wilton, Wilts; WBR, Edward Hunt architect;
HUMPHREYS, HENRY HOWARD London, engineer, 1869-1930, founded practice 1899. Howard Humphreys consulting engineers offices across East Africa since 1930s; London part closed ?taken over by Brown & Root, Nairobi firm remains. HHH was son of Baptist minister in Wellington, and brother of Arthur L Humphreys, historian of Wellington. Educated Wellington School; WS 174;
1905 Fives Court, Wellington School, Som; WS 57, 172; £240; altered to squash court 1959 by M Torrens qv, then incorporated in Corner Building by JF Hannam qv 1986; WS 173
1911-12 swimming-pool, Wellington School, Som; WS 173;
HUNT, CHARLES Architect, Blandford Forum
(1896 chancel Blandford Forum ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1900 alts Sturminster Newton ch, Dorset, Mr Hunt of Blandford, WG 2.2.00;
HUNT, F.W. Architect London
(1885 rest Ryme Intrinseca ch, Dorest, £300, Fred Cox of Yeovil bldr; WG 14.8.85;
(1887 ?, Child Okeford, Dorset; Mr Hunt architect, with Mr Green. WG 5.8.87
(1888 adds Shillingstone ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1891 rest Corsley ch, Wilts; BoE)
HUNT, EDWARD GOWEN 1872-1958, Surveyor to Watchet UDC and harbour-master +1940. Inf WH Norman, Tales of Watchet Harbour, 2002;
1925 repair breach in East Pier, Watchet Harbour, Som; Joseph Chidgey, builder;
1935 rebuilt outside of East Pier, Watchet, Som, in concrete; HW Pollard & Sons contractors;
1937 crack in West Pier, Watchet, Som repaired; G Pollard & Co contractors;
HUNTER, STEPHEN Builder, Bristol
(c1814 completed The Paragon, Clifton, Bristol, crescent begun 1809 by John Drew qv; SNB)
HURFORD, JAMES HUGH Builder 1866-1940, born Weston s Mare, moved to Minehead by 1881, Bampton St, Minehead, 1906 dir; partnership in 1890s with John ?Burgess qv; brother-in-law of Andrew and James Hosegood; SAS;
1893-6 Nos 13-21 The Parade and Nos. Blenheim Rd with John Burgess qv; by JP & FW St Aubyn & Henry Wadling, architects, SAS;
1895 builder Nos 56-8 The Avenue Minehead, Som; OD2; SAS: Nos 15, 23-24 1899, and 54-8, FW St Aubyn & Henry Wadling architects;
1895 building in Frog St, Minehead; OD4; Isaac Cribb architect, SAS;
1896 builder two villas, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, Som; architect WJ Tamlyn; D/U/M/22/1/19;
1896 builder, 8 houses, The Butts, Slebourne Place, Minehead, SAS; F Roberts qv, architect;
1897-8 six houses, Glenmore Rd, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/22/1/46; OD27 1897 four houses; OD41 1898 two houses
1899 builder, three villas near Shute Farm, Martlett Rd (now St Michael's Rd), Minehead, by WJ Tamlyn SAS;
1899 12 cottages, Bampton St, Minehead, WJ Tamlyn architect; SAS;
1899c builder, stable, Friday St, Minehead; Isaac Cribb architect; SAS
1900 alts No 86 Bampton St, Minehead; WJ Tamlyn architect; SAS;
1900-1 builder, Penrhyn, St Michael's Rd, Minehead; WJ Tamlyn architect;
1902 builder, stables, Irnham Rd, Minehead, WJ Tamlyn architect, SAS;
1903-7 builder, houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead, AJ Cox architect;
1908 builder, Cleeve Cottage, Park Lane, Minehead; AL Cox architect, SAS;
1909 builder, Nos 17-19 The Avenue Minehead, AL Cox architect; SAS;
1909 builder, Nos. 17-19 Bancks St, Minehead, AL Cox architect, SAS
1910 builder stables, Friday St, Minehead, AL Cox architect, SAS
1911 builder house, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, AL Cox architect, SAS
HURLBUTT (ROGER and WILLIAM) Warwickshire carpenters, Roger died c1710 and William c1698, both buried Warwick. Remodelled state rooms at Warwick Castle 1669-78.
(c1681-3 alts Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Wilts, for Sir Edward Seymour; HC; in 1681 John Hiscocks sought licence to quarry roof tiles at Marston Bigot, som, for Bradley House; McGarvie, Book of Marston Bigot, Som, 64;
HURTSONE, GEORGE. Builder, Middle St, Yeovil, Somerset Dir 1830.
HUSSELL, ALLEN Architect, Ilfracombe, Devon, ARIBA; William Allen T Hussell 1870-1954, born Ilfracombe, pupil WH Gould, began practice in 1890s, designed Gaiety Theatre, Ilfracombe, 1910; SAS;
1903 House and stable, Withypool, Som for Miss Darbyshire D/R/dul/24/1/16 two letters, no plans; Miss Darbyshire at Holmbush 1906; also D/R/dul/24/1/31 hipped one-and-half storey lodge, cottage for Charles Darbyshire of Ilfracombe, James Steer of Winford builder, no architect; also alts to Holmbush ?1988 stamped RG Spiller builder of Chard;
HUSSEY, FRANK TOOZE, Builder, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som, 1845-98;
1895 Schoolmistress’s house, North Barrow, Som; SRO D/P/bar.n/18/8/1, for Viscount Portman of Hestercombe.
HUTCHINGS, THOMAS. North St, Bridgwater. Born Keinton Mandeville 1781, called architect, surveyor, builder and undertaker in Robson 1839 dir, called builder in North St, 1844 dir; died 1868.
1814-15 Rebuilt top of spire, St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som after lightning damage 17.11.1813; tenders WFP 24.2.14; Squibbs 56;
1816 WM chapel, King St, Bridgwater; Bridgwater Times 4.7.1860; £400; also schoolroom King St demolished c1922 for new one; TFT feasibility report 2005; closed 1980;
1823 Vestry screen and an altar screen, St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; VCH;
1826-7 contractor MH, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Som; John Bowen qv architect; Squibbs 59;
1828 Parsonage, Kilton, Som; D/D/Bbm;
1833 works to river bed at Langport, Som; SAS;
183? report on North Petherton ch, Som but work done by R Carver qv in 1839, SAS;
1838-40 builder, Holy Trinity ch, Bridgwater; R Carver architect; dem; SAS;
1842 Mr Hutchings ‘a Bridgwater architect’ inspected Curry Rivel ch tower, Som; Mounter 88; nothing done;
1850 Nos 1-2 King Square, Bridgwater, Som; first two houses of planned N side of square;
1860 enlarged WM chapel, King St, Bridgwater; FS 2.7.60; Bridgwater Times 4.7.60; opened 29.11.60; extended to rear, new interior with extended gallery, walls raised 3’, new ceiling plaster with rose by George Perry; new arcaded front porch; also new manse, No 2 Dampiet St to rear; closed 1980; feasibility study 2005 by TFT Heritage, Taunton; James Kitch, East Quay, Bridgwater, contractor; iron gallery front added later by James Culverwell, Bridgwater ironfounder ?the alts of 1871-2 £1051;
Could have designed all the King Square houses, S side built from 1807, E side from 1820s;
Attrib by Squibbs: National Westminster Bank; College House, north St (for himself), and Hutchings Buildings, Mount St, all Bridgwater;
HUTCHINGS, WILLIAM ALFRED, Silver St, Ilminster. 1865-1938, builder, contractor, joiner, undertaker (1906 dir); founded the Wharf Lane Concrete Co 1920 where artificial ‘Minster Stone’ was made, company supplied imitation stone eg for facing Yeovil Police Station and Cheltenham racecourse; inf B Murless; made arcaded screen at Jordans, Ilton, dem; stone for Ilminster town council offices 1935, North St. Pamphlet by John Coles in SRO; worked on Forde Abbey and Chilworthy house as builder, built range of semi-bungalows and some houses on land at the Beacon, Ilminster; mumerous cast-stome commissions for Devon CC eg porticoes Police Court, Plympton, and Plympton School; cast-stone on Crown Inn, Ilminster, Sidmouth Unitarian Lecture Hall, Devon; font St James ch Exeter, Devon; later firm supplied castings for eg the Metal Box Co offices Reading, Cheltenham Racecourse, Telecom Ho Plymouth; bankrupt 1990s?
1916 builder, J&T Taylor office and factory, Cornhill, Ilminster for J&T Taylor, collar makers; now 3-5 East St; Chard & Ilminster in old photographs 126; first building built of Minster Stone, designs by WAH;
1936 House for self, The Beacon, Ilminster, Som;
HUTCHINSON, - . Railway contractor Huchinson & Ritson
1852 Prop complete Frome to Weymouth line BLJ 30 for Frome, Yeovil & Weymouth Railway but lease of line mentions Messrs Hutchings & Co, contractors & capitalists; company dissolved;
1852-3 contractors, Martock to Durston section of B&E Yeovil branch; BLJ
21-2; H&R;
HUTCHINSON, -. Builder, Clevedon
1862 Nos 29-33 Alfred Pl Clevedon; Lilly The Builders of Clevedon, 2000; plan for erecting dwelling-houses in the village abutting Ken Rd rejected by Board as no sewers;
1870 Nos 12-30 Southbourne, Clevedon; Lilly;
1876 Belmont Place, 1-5 Ken Rd, Clevedon; Lilly
HUTTON, JAMES
(1892 People's Palace, Baldwin St, Bristol for Livermore Bros; SNB)
HUXTABLE, FRANK. Builder
193? Studio, Great House Street, Timberscombe, Som for JAM Lomas qv, painter, by FH, ‘local builder’ article by Jeff Cox on Lomas in Exmoor Review;
ILES, JOHN Architect, 12 Dowry Square, Bristol. John Iles Associates or JIA. Founded 1983, specialist in healthcare buildings.
(20?? converted Lloyds Bank/YMCA, Wells Rd, Totterdown, Bristol, to Banco wine-bar and apartments;
20?? conversion of former concrete casting building to Weston Quarry Arts Centre, Weston s Mare, Som;
20?? remodelled bungalow near Bristol, overlooking Chew Valley, Som;
2012 converted hotel, Clevedon, Som, to apartments with infill block;
ILETT, PHILIP BAWLER. Taunton. Surveyor and engineer. Made several enclosure maps for Somerset c 1818-22; wrote his will on Madeira 1827, SAS; Charles Ilett 1802-40, also a surveyor, died in Langport;
1824-6 Bridge, Burrowbridge, Som; contractor John Stone of Yarcombe only named on plaque; SRO D/RA/9/10 elevs, plans, 1824 signed by PBI; 9/19 plans for stone bridge; 9/20 plans for iron bridge with R Darby of Coalbrookdale;
IMRIE, PORTER & WAKEFIELD Architects, Warminster Wilts; George Blair Imrie 1885-1952. Firms papers are in WRO;
(1953 conv Wilts Reformatory, Warminster, Wilts, to Tascroft Farm flats and farmhouse for Longleat estate; WBR2;
(1950s housing developments, Copheap Rise, Orchard Close and The Downlands, Warminster, Wilts; WBR2)
1954 QM, Bedminster, Bristol; survey of QM houses, 2017;
INGELOW, BENJAMIN see Carpenter & Ingelow.
INGLIS, J. C. General manager and consulting engineer to Great Western Railway. Oversaw the Castle-Cary to Durston line 1903-6, but engineer in charge was A.W. Armstrong qv;
INGRAM, ROBERT W. Architect, London, ARIBA. Architect to Currys Ltd of Uxbridge Rd, London.
1965 Shopfront, 2 Fore St, Taunton, Som, for Currys; plans SRO D/B/ta/24/1/ 170/10267; nasty mosaic;
INGS, L. R Architect
1976 Kingsway shopping precinct, Frome, Som; SNB
INNES-WILKIN, DAVID. RIBA 14 Princess Victoria St, Bristol. Innes Wilkin Architecture later Innes Wilkin Associates. 1A Walter St, Southville, Bristol 2010: Kivel Ct housing, Salisbury, Wilts; won planning consent for RNIB care home Burnham on Sea, Som built by Design & Build company; new square Bloy St, Easton, Bristol HDA 1997; modernised Sutton estate Brislington, Bristol; modernised St Pauls Gardens Bristol; urban renewal scheme The Barbican Plymouth Devon; housing Hesketh St Liverpool; alts Clifton High School Bristol; offices Clarks Wood Timber, Feeder Canal, Bristol;
1996-7 Holbrook Park, South Petherton, Som; eleven self-build timber-frame houses for Camelot Self-build Housing Co-operative to Walter Segal plans; Camelot was set up by Knightstone Housing Assoc. J Gould: ‘A group of houses at South Petherton by John Broome (? I think), self-build timber using the Walter Segal building method. Quite brave on a difficult sloping site. Don't know the address but it could be Holbrook Park.’
INSALL (DONALD) ASSOCIATES. Architects London. Office in Bath 7a Northumberland Buildings; firm founded by Sir Donald Insall; Bath office under Peter Cary; Rob Dunton, director;
(1959-61 St Nicholas Almshouses, King St, Bristol rebuilt by JK Maggs with Donald Insall; SNB
1990sff rest Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som, for Sir Benjamin Slade; also new kitchen addition 2006; Smith Gamblin qv also involved; Peter Cary architect; inf Sir Benjamin Slade;
1999-2003 rest of Hot Bath, Cross Bath etc Bath with Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners; SNB;
1999-2005 rest Godminster Manor, Pitcombe, Som for Richard & Jules Hollingbery; job architect Peter Cary; inf owners;
2007-11 rest Hatch Court, Hatch Beauchamp, Som for Philip Gibbs; swimming-pool in service court; Peter Cary architect;
INSCAPE ARCHITECTS Bristol. Formed 1982 by Mike Richards, renamed Inscape Richards Architects 2008;
199? Priors Field, Abbots Leigh, Som; C20index 2007, correction already there in 1999;
(1998 River Station restaurant, Bristol; SNB)
(2000-4 Priors Close, Kingsdown Parade, Bristol; SNB)
2007 Yew Tree House, Abbots Leigh, Som; C20index
2010-11 House adj 35 Fromefield, Frome, Som; Mendip awards 2011;
INVISIBLE STUDIO, Bath Set up 2012 by Piers Taylor formerly of Mitchell Taylor workshop qv;
2015 offices Invisible Studio, woodland rear of Calton Gardens, Bath; timber-frame on stilts, £15K;
(2016 Staff mess-room and wide-span shed, Westonbirt Arboretum, Glos, with Charley Brentnall, timber framer; AJ 8.4.16;
IRESON, NATHANIEL 1686-1769. Architect, builder, sculptor, potter. Came from Warws or Northants, at Ladbroke, Warws, 1711, apprenticed to Francis Smith of Warwick, may have worked for Thomas Archer at Hale, Hants, 1716, as two daughters baptised there 1716-18, called NI of Coleshill in 1720 when he took on Matthew Percy as apprentice; worked with a brother John Ireson +1729; from Warws, moved to Stourhead, Wilts, as builder 1720, churchwarden Stourton 1722-3, daughter Mary died there 1723, daughter Martha born 1724 perhaps at Wincanton, died 1797; bought Windmill Farm, Wincanton, Som, c1726, built Ireson House where he lived until death in 1769. Opened a quarry on his own land 1733, used clay for bricks and pottery. Paid poor rate for 'Windmills' and 'part of Vinings' 1736 and 1746, GS; began work as potter 1737, earliest pieces dated 1737 GS, made Delft-ware. Churchwarden 1749. Quarry mentioned 1741 when John Hacker mason killed there. Parish overseer 1751. Feoffee of Fairs & Markets 1765; left Crases or Crosses House, Wincanton, to grand-daughter Nancy Kettermaster (born 1757) in will and tools to John Ireson; wife died 1772; monument in Wincanton churchyard 1772, the statue reputedly carved by him well before his death and kept in his house. H St G Gray in SANHS 87 1941; list of works in G Sweetman, History of Wincanton, 1903, 209-11; died 18.4.69; book by Peter Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Ireson, 2016, makes many attributions listed as PF, many not substantiated; worked in later years after c1743, with son-in-law Richard Kittermaster;
(1714 mason Etwall Hall, Derbys, F Smith architect; PF from Andor Gomme;
(1715-18 mason for house at Hale, Hants, by Thomas Archer for himself; PF;
(1717 mason Chettle House, Dorset by Thomas Archer; PF cites evidence that Smith of Warwick masons; Teddy Bourke of Chettle researched Ireson;
(1717-20 attrib mason Kingston Maureward, Dorset, Thomas Archer architect, PF;
c1720 attrib General Wade's House, 14 Abbey Churchyard, Bath, generally attrib to Thomas Greenway, with front possibly by General Wade himself; SNB suggests top storey has clumsy feel possibly of Ireson;
(1721 attrib Royal Victoria Hotel, Swanage, Dorset, PF via Michael Hill;)
(1721-4 builder Stourhead House, Wilts, to Colen Campbell design; WBR2, 1720 HC; bills paid to NI so no longer working for Smith, PF, assisted by brother John Ireson +1729;
(1722 alts Zeals House, Zeals, Wilts for Thos Chafin, PF via Sweetman archive and EH list)
(1722-3 work Stourton ch, Wilts; plaque records church 'newly paved and seated and beautified', NI and John Butcher, churchwardens; HC;
172? attrib West Barn Grange, Witham Friary, Som; PF from M McGarvie
172? attrib W front, Godminster Manor, Pitcombe, Som; PF;
1723ff work Redlynch Park, Som, for Stephen Fox, later Lord Ilchester; Ireson first mentioned as paid in 1723 £29/10/0 for ‘securing Redlinch house from fire by taking out the beames in the chimneys’, probably repairs to C17 house to which Thomas Fort had made additions, DRO D/FSI box 207. The house of 1708-9 by Thomas Fort had remained unfinished when Sir Stephen Fox died 1716, and son Stephen born 1704 did not live there until 1725, beginning work on house 1727, presumably under NI. W&D 27-8.
(1724 monument to daughter, Mary Ireson +1723, Stourton ch, Wilts; HC;
(1724 work Kingston Deverill ch, Wilts; HC; parish recs; SANHS 87; PF via Sweetman)
(1724 work for Lord Digby payment in Hoare's Bank archives for unknown work perhaps at Sherborne, Dorset, £119; PF)
1725 Mells Park, Som; RL; HC, contract at house; CL 24.5.62; dem; HGS 117 for Thomas Strangways Horner +1741; c1725 SNB, extended with wings 1763 by Daniel Hague, alts by J Soane c1794 and 1802-24, burnt 1917;
(1725 attr Dean's Court, Wimborne, Dorset; PF
c1725-31 Ven House, Milborne Port, Som, for James Medlycott +1731 inc work on W façade of 1698 house; CL 24.6.1911; Tipping English Homes 4, 1, 385-96; accounts SRO DD/MDL/S/947/14/9; RL says 1731; VCH gives Dunning, Country Houses 148-50 as ref; estate sold to Medlycott in 1698 with house called Venn Farm on map of 1689 SRO DD/MDL, shown as rectangle with E front and central long rear wing. Inventory 1731 suggests largely complete by then. Story that façade of 1698 house built into W front of NI house discounted by Dunning; PF says either for James or Thomas Medlycott 1725-31;
c1726 Ireson House, Wincanton, Som; BoE S; originally Windmill Farm bought by NI for himself; much altered c1851; RL; Sweetman; VCH; Ireson had his pottery here made Delft ware. House has several segment head ws in rusticated surrounds and a doorcase with diagonally set piers with cornice, the piers with vermiculated rustication, provincial baroque. PF.
1726-7 attrib facade Widcombe Manor, Bath, for Philip Bennet Jr, MP 1741-7; SNB; Philip Bennet Sr +1725 memorial in Wincanton ch probably not by NI; Giant pilasters, large vermiculated keys, curved pediment porch, oval with swags in pediment. Bennet was lord of manor Maperton near Wincanton. 1726 PF via SNB;
1728 Monument to Thomas Strangways Jr +1726, Melbury, Dorset, DRO D/FSI box 187; W&D 370 n48, £200. ‘noble reredos architecture of white and mottled grey marble without any effigy’, BoE 278;
(1728 tablet Gilllingham ch, Dorset also tablets 1733 and 1735 'appear to be his work'; GS)
(1728 attrib Shroton House, Iwerne Courtenay, Dorset, for William Jeanes, steward to Pitt family; PF;
1728-34 attrib Sandhill Park, Ash Priors, Som, for John Perriam; PF via Teddy Bourke; 1720 acc to BoE
(1729 attrib Meadow Court, Tockenham, Wilts for Walker Heneage; PF on basis of random comment by M Binney in CL Sept 2008; unlikely, very similar to No 137 High St, Wootton Basset, Wilts;
1730 attrib Holbrook house near Wincanton; PF via Sweetman;
1730-3 Berkley House, Berkley, Som, for Abigail Prowse +1763 (mother of Thomas Prowse qv); 1730-2 SNB; HC, contract Warws RO Mordaunt CR 711, box 3; worked with John Plimer of Bodmington as partner, IR; PF;
(1731-3 attrib Frampton Court, Frampton on Severn, Glos for Clutterbuck/ Clifford family; attrib PF
(1732 St Giles ch, Blandford Forum, Dorset, PF via Michael Hill; PF also attributes much post-fire work at Blandford to Ireson with the Bastards as builders: Red Lion Inn 1732, No 75 East St 1732, No 26 Market Place 1732, SS Peter & Paul church, 1733-9; Coupar House 1750; via Michael Hill;
1732 attrib Hazlegrove House, Sparkford, Som, attrib PF as carpentry there by the Bastard brothers, but design generally attributed to Humphrey Mildmay brother of owner Carew Mildmay;
1733 attrib White Horse Inn, High St, Wincanton, Som; attrib HC; PF via Sweetman; VCH; provincial Baroque.
(1733 attrib work at More Crichel, Dorset, with Bastard brothers; PF via Michael Hill; HC has Crichel House rebuilt for Sir William Napier Bt after 1742 fire by John Bastard with Francis Cartwright qv;)
1734-9 completed Crowcombe Court, Som for Thomas Carew; begun by Thomas Parker contract 1723 but abandoned 1727 after only foundations laid; CL 22-9.4.33;SRO DD/TB\29/10 has papers indicating that Parker was caught selling coins found hidden in walls of old house; but Dr Schwieso has established that Parker had built entire outside shell before he was sacked, so probably Ireson did only interiors; PF gives 1734 contract date;
(1735 attrib Spettisbury House, Dorset for Col Hoddy, dem; attrib PF
(1735 Encombe, Dorest for John Pitt MP probably with Francis Cartwright qv, attrib PF; HC attributes it to John Pitt;
1735 attrib S aisle Wincanton ch, Som; BoE S; S aisle and porch, RL, mostly dem in rest of 1887-9; PF; no evidence that NI involved. Segmental pediment doorcase (not a porch) remains; but S aisle by John Clewett qv mason acc to ‘inscriptions’, R Legg Book of Wincanton, 2005, 23;
1735 attr Rosewell House, Kingsmead Sq, Bath, for Thomas Rosewell; MF as NI known to have been involved in area in 1730s; Baroque but does not look like NI work; SNB 'the style suggests NI who was involved here in the 1730s';
173? developed part of Kingsmead Sq, Bath; MF 249;
(173? attrib No 59 Queen Charlotte St, Bristol; SNB, mid 1730s refacing of house of 1709-11 similar to Rosewell House, Bath, see 1735; PF via SNB)
173? attrib Rodber House, The Batch, Wincanton, Som; HC; Sweetman; VCH; red brick and stone; early 1730s for Simon Webb +1775, there in 1736. PF 1730s for Simon Webber;
173? attrib Rockhill House, North St, Wincanton; PF via Sweetman; for Bartholomew Day; present house looks early C19;
1735ff work at Redlynch, Som, for Stephen Fox-Strangways, made Lord Ilchester in 1741; W&D 86-7. House begun 1708-9 by Thomas Fort qv ?abandoned at d of Sir Stephen Fox 1716, son then minor moved in 1725. Building work ?on main house was begun 1728, letter from Lord Hervey refs to ‘foundations of new buildings lay’d’, Henry Fox supervised while brother was on Grand Tour 1728-9. Being fitted 1731, upholsterer paid £191. 1734 Lord Hervey ref to sitting in ‘new alcove room’. Payment to NI 1735 £45/16/0d. W&D thinks this was the nine-bay W facing house ?the one begun by Thomas Fort in 1708-9? Building work recommenced 1739 after Fox’s marriage, under NI, paid £41/19/0d for ‘his bill for garden wales etc’ W&D 267; ‘a new stable block was constructed in 1740-1, and additional accommodation provided within a building known as the ‘offices’ built 1741-5, the 2-st structure joined to house only by a covered passage. This had laundry, stores servants hall etc downstairs and upper chamber storey, plan BL Add MSS 51374 fol 52-3. Complete by 1746 as Henry Fox asked if he and his wife could ‘lye in the offices’. Garden bldngs in early 1740s. Work stopped for lack of money 1745, unfinished. 1746 letters re chimneypieces for saloon, parlour & eating rm supplied by Henry Flitcroft qv. Work continued into 1750s directed by NI though HF seems also to have been involved. 1753 £10/10/0d paid to ‘Mr Ireson in part of Mr Cartwright’s bill’ W&D 267; also paid for ‘mending the temple’ and in 1755 for ‘taking down part of the end of the temple in the wood and setting it up again’ W&D 414 n34;
Embattled lodge 1754-5, a venison house at same time, 1759 bricks for pheasant court presumably at The Aviaries, 1759 ‘bogg-house’ (toilet). House was ready for occupation 1750, described by Walpole in 1762.
c1738 attrib Redlynch ch, Som for Stephen Fox-Strangways, created Lord Ilchester 1741; RL; HC; VCH marked on E Grant 1738 estate landscape proposals, but may be the intended site, not yet built; 1750 BoE S, from Sweetman 211; cf 1750; 1738 PF via Sweetman;
(1739-43 builder Lydiard Park, Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts for 2nd V St John, architect probably R Morris; payments in accounts to NI, probably did all plaster and woodwork inside; 1743-7 acc to PF, but plaque in attic 1743 completion;
1740 attrib The Greyhound Inn, Market Place, Wincanton, attrib PF via Sweetman; 'new built' in 1760 BoE;
(1740 attrib Oare House, Oare, Wilts attrib PF via Teddy Bourke; for Henry Deacon, London wine-merchant;
(1740 attrib Cranborne Lodge, Cranborne, Dorset for Samuel Stillingfleet attrib PF
1740-1 stables, Redlynch Park, Som; for Stephen Fox-Strangways, made Lord Ilchester 1741; RL; VCH payments to NI 1740-6 inc for stables £2166; HC; now flats The Clock House.
1741-5 office wing, Redlynch Park, Som, matches stables; complete by 1746 cf J Marin, Wives & Daughters, 87. Converted to house by Lutyens 1901, burnt 1914, rebuilt as house by John Thorpe 1914-16, now flats.
1742 attrib Four Towers, near South Brewham, Som, dem, VCH 18; also called Stavordale Castle, land sold 1739 to Stephen Fox-Strangways of Redlynch, Lord Ilchester 1741;
1743 chancel, Bruton ch, Som, GS 211; for Sir Charles Berkeley; no proof VCH; HC; the Kentian to Rococo interior decoration may be 1743 but could be 1770; 1741 according to PF;
c1743 mon to Rev Robert Kingston +1743, St Cuthbert ch, Wells, Som; signed; SNB; +1748 acc to HC;
1744 plans for restoration of Frome ch, Som, not used, but he was paid by churchwardens; GS; ?nothing in SNB; ?repairs to tower and spire of St John's church; attrib church tower, PF;
c1744-9 attrib St John's vicarage, Vicarage St, Frome, Som; SNB, or possibly by Henry Spencer qv; 1744 PF via SNB or possibly Henry Spence;
1744ff master builder at Stourhead, Wilts; IR, Gunnis;
174? attrib adds Barford Park, Enmore, Som for James Jeanes or Andrew Guy, added wings and attic storey, PF vis Michael Stancomb, owner; BoE 2014 says work in progress in 1751 and attic later C18
c1745 alts The Dogs, Tout Hill, Wincanton, Som; whole house attr HC; Sweetman; house is C17 with very little mid C18. Philip Hughes owner says one small payment is recorded. Interiors are generally earlier c.1680-1720; PF 1745 via Sweetman;
17?? attrib Hillside House, Wincanton, Som; HC; GS; dem;
17?? attrib alts Balsam House, Wincanton, Som; attr HC; GS; early C17 house; DoE suggests front terrace wall archway only left, nothing inside.
1748 alts Wincanton ch, Som; dem in JD Sedding rebuild 1887-9; rebuilt chancel, added clerestory, re-roofed and re-windowed nave; altarpiece was inscribed as given by NI architect 1748; HC; GS 45; S aisle of 1735 not necessarily by Ireson, built by John Clewett qv mason; Collinson chancel rebuilt and ch new roofed and windowed; R Legg, Book of Wincanton 2005 23 says also that NI worked on the tower installing a clock and five bells in 1748;
1748 attrib alts Shanks House, Cucklington, Som, E front and interiors for Elizabeth Giffard or John Dalton; attrib PF via EH listing; plasterwork looks like NI; BoE 2014 says either after 1727 for Elizabeth Watts or after 1747 for Rev Nathaniel Dalton;
c1748 tablet Rev R Kingston +1748, St Cuthbert ch, Wells, Som; HC; +1743 SNB;
(c1749 unex design for N front Corsham Court, Wilts; HC; pub in C Hussey, Early Georgian 1955 229; signed NI; nine-bay N front as built was dated 1749 and is probably by NI, BoE; PF )
1750 Redlynch ch, Som, for Lord Ilchester; GS 211; attributed HC; ; but marked on Edward Grant 1738 estate map, possibly only a proposed site, see 1738; arms of Earl of Ilchester, earldom created 1756, inside;
(1750 Goddard tablet, Gillingham, Dorset, GS: 'NI appears to have made'
(1750 attrib Whatcombe House, Winterbourne Whitechurch, Dorset; for Edward Morton Pleydell; attr PF
1753 work at Redlynch, Som: £10/10/0d paid to ‘Mr Ireson in part of Mr Cartwright’s bill’; W&D 267; also paid for ‘mending the temple’ and in 1755 for ‘taking down part of the end of the temple in the wood and setting it up again’ W&D 414 n34;
c1755 exec alts Redlynch, Som, designed by Henry Flitcroft; RL; HC; from BL Add MS 51373 A ff 37-40; dem;
(1758 attrib adds Steepleton House, Blandford, Dorset, for Peter Beckford PF as built by Richard Kittermaster, NI's son-in-law;
1759-60 rebuilt Tithe Barn, Somerton, Som for Arundell of Wardour estate; S&D N&Q 35 319; work completed by Richard Kittermaster as NI injured in fall, PF;
1759-60 repaired Southey Farm, Isle Brewers, Som for Arundell of Wardour estate; S&D N&Q 35 319;
1760s Nathaniel Ireson monument, Wincanton Churchyard, Som; high rusticated pedestal with cornice to poor quality statue carved by NI himself; headless now;
Also attributed, mostly for alternating pediments: W front Godminster House, Pitcombe (attr DoE but c1700 VCH); alts Hadspen House, Pitcombe, c1750, for Vickris Dickinson; Honeywick, Pitcombe, said to have been built for a parson son of Lord Ilchester (DoE) looks 1720s; Martin’s shop Market Place, Castle Cary; Dolphin Inn, High St, Wincanton (VCH), only right half is old; Rockhill House, North St, Wincanton, built 1730s for Bartholomew Day, now entirely early C19, no evidence apart from date; No 7 High St Wincanton pedimented façade to C17 building and curved rear stair projection, also pedimented summerhouse attr DoE; Shanks House Cucklington, earlier to mid C18 remodelling with baroque chimneypiece and good plasterwork for Watts family; Cheriton House, South Cheriton, Som mid C18, nas triple keystones; alts Manor Farm, Charlton Mackrell, Som, attrib PF via Sweetman;
Also church monuments at Gillingham (Dorset) (Frances Dirdoe also tablet to Goddard 1750 acc to PF via GS), Hornblotton, Som. (Elizabeth Dymock +1730 acc to PF) and South Brewham, Som (Balch family PF, two c1800 both with affixed cast-iron heads) all three sites listed in IR via Frederick Rhead but not identified; Cucklington, Som to Sir Nicholas Watts 1729 acc to PF via GS, ?similar monuments to Robert Watts +1716 and Nicholas +1729 BoE 2014; Philip Bennett +1725 at Wincanton, Som attrib PF via GS, rustic with coloured cherub heads BoE 2014; William Norris +1730 at Bromham Wilts PF via GS; Delft tile tablet at Amesbury, Wilts, to Lucretia Corfe PF via Dr H Cole; Somerton, Som mon to Edgar & Thomas Rook 1764 PF via GS, Thomas Rooke +1764 BoE 2014;
IRVINE, JAMES THOMAS. 1825-1900 Architect, born in Shetlands, aged 14 sent as assistant to George Gilbert Scott with whom he remained until 1884; worked especially as clerk of works, mentioned in Scott's Recollections re rest of Rochester Cathedral, Kent, 1871. Worked on Scott's restoration of Bath Abbey, Som, up to 1873. Involved from 1869 with the rediscovery of St Laurence ch, Bradford on Avon Wilts (which he first saw after 1863 when working on Bath Abbey), the Saxon church, with Canon WHR Jones after Anglo-Saxon carvings found 1854. Trust formed 1874 to restore with JT Irvine appointed to supervise, but Jones also appointed CS Adye qv and Irvine resigned 1881 over Adye's decision to demolish master's house of former Grammar School (there 1712-1874) and substitute buttresses. See HM Taylor, JT Irvine's work at Bradford on Avon Archaeol J 129 1972 89-118. After Scott died in 1878 worked for JL Pearson qv before 1885 and then as architect in Peterborough; DSA. Son George Gilbert Irvine was architect in Aberdeen, gave eleven vols of sketches to Bodleian mainly of churches around Peterborough and details of Lichfield Cathedral.
ISAAC, THOMAS WILLIAM PLAYER. Architect, Bath, 1836-1910. Partner with Henry William Hickes born 1832 qv as Hickes & Isaac qv c1859-76.
1855 1st prize Almshouses, Yeovil, Som; RHH; CEAJ July 1855; RL2 63 says Hickes & Isaac designed the Woborne Almshouses, Bond St, Yeovil, 1860.
1857 Plans for labourers' 2 and 3 bedroom cottages by TWPI - competition entry for Chard Crewkerne & Ilminster Labourers Friend Society SRO DD/X/MAR/1
1886-92 enlarged Manor House, Freshford, Som; SNB;
JACKMAN, REGINALD ERASMUS 1879-1962, surveyor to Williton RDC from 1928;
1937 Williton RDC offices, Fore St, Williton, Som; WE Dewar, Minehead builder; Book of Watchet & Williton Revisited;
JACKSON ARCHITECTS, Taunton and Cheltenham.
JACKSON GREENEN, DOWN & PARTNERS;
1991 Coverdale Court housing, Yeovil, Som; HDA 1991;
JACKSON, B. VAUGHAN ?error for BV Johnson qv
1896 Farmhouse, Orchardleigh, Som; Br 1896 ?;
JACKSON, ARTHUR BLOMFIELD. ?relative of Sir Arthur Blomfield and
Sons.
(1898 Dominions House, St Augustine's Pde, Bristol; SNB, for Star Life, top two floors never built)
1926 rebuilt Crowe Hall, Widcombe, Bath, Som after fire; CL 7.4.10 79, for William Tindall; cf also Axford & Smith builders;
JACKSON, GORDON W. Architect. Gordon W Jackson & Partners
(1959 St James ch, Exeter, Devon)
1959 Boulevard C chapel, Weston s Mare, Som; H&F; on foundations of chapel by TL Banks qv 1876; SNB;
JACKSON, Sir THOMAS GRAHAM 1835-1924. London. Cf memoirs TGJ, Recollections, 1923. Pupil of GG Scott, 1858, in practice 1862, much employed at Oxford, his own Northern Renaissance style cf Examination Schools, 1886. RIBA Gold Medal 1910, baronet 1913. James Bettley, Old Vicarage, Great Totham, Maldon, Essex CM 9 8NP working on Jackson, mostly his Oxford works. Obit list of works RIBAJ 32 1924 50
1872-4 Hornblotton ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1872/7 ; 1872-4 BoE S; RL; 1873-4 Howell & Sutton, Victorian Churches, 1989; sgraffito work ?designed by TGJ, executed by pupils of FW Moody at South Kensington, Francis Wormleighton & Owen Gibbons; reredos & E wall tiles by William de Morgan, chancel pavement by Powell’s;builders Clarke & Son, Bruton, for Rev Godfrey Thring;
1873 rest Barton St David ch, Som; ICBS says 1873-94 with E Buckle; BoE says N tr 1894 (by Buckle); RL 1873 rest, reseating & porch;
1876-8 rest Alford ch, Som; VCH; ?nave roof, stalls, floor-tiles; Recollections 151, 162; tile design SRO DD/SF/369; N&Q 33 418; for Rev Godfrey Thring of Alford House family, rector from 1858; EO Francis & Sons, Castle Cary, bldrs, £611, CCV 9 29;
1875? ?alts Montacute House, Som possibly created 1st floor library from great chamber as part of apartment for WR Phelips’ mother; but Jackson’s remodelling of the house ‘is almost a matter of conjecture’ P Howell email quotes William Whyte p 68. BN 45 1883 28 has printed sketch of house by TGJ; redid library ceiling, SAS,
1876-9 Lottisham ch, Som; ICBS; 1876 DoE & Kelly; for Rev Godfrey Thring?
1881 adds rectory, Hornblotton, Som; two two-storey bays and new gable window lighting stair, all on W side; SRO D/D/bbm/250; £1000; for Rev Godfrey Thring; now Hornblotton House;
1882-8 Thorne House, Thorne Coffin, Yeovil, Som; BoE S; BN 18.5.83 and illustrated Br 2.6.88; AR vol 1 1896-7; 1882 RL; 1882 on W front, 1888 on rainwater heads, 1886 on stable cupola, for JL Hooper. ?built around an existing house 1878-88; woodwork by Bennet Colley, local craftsman;
(1886 add to Examination Schools, Oxford ill Br 9.10.86
1892 reredos St Stephen ch, Lansdown, Bath; SRO cf/1892/9;
1883 reredos Odcombe ch, Som, WG 17.8.83, placed in church, Derbyshire alabaster;
(1899 Radcliffe Science Library, Oxford ill Br 26.8.99)
1899-1901 rest W front Bath Abbey, Som; MF; by `1906 had repaired flying buttresses on S aisle and built two new at W end and replaced pinnacles; refacing in clipsham stone;
c1900 alts St Stephen ch, Lansdown, Bath; N transept ceiling and reredos; MF;
1901 designed plinth for effigy in Ilton ch, Som; effigy of unknown female of Wadham family; for Wadham College, Oxford. Plain small tomb-chest. Made by Mr Glastonbury of Puckington for £8/5/0d; church guide;
1900-2 repairs Compton Martin ch Som; ICBS; but plans modified by Harvey Pridham, architect, of West Harptree; SNB;
1912-14 organ-case, Bath Abbey, Som; MF;
1922-4 War Memorial cloister Bath Abbey, Som; MF; dedicated 1927;
Attrib entrance hall, Evercreech House, Som, BoE S; for Sherston family owners from 1876;
JACQUES, HAROLD S. Architect, Bank Chambers, Alfred St, Burnham on Sea, Kelly 1906;
(1908-9 No 21 Downs Park West, Bristol; SNB)
JAMES BROS builders Clevedon;
1881 Reading House, Alexandra Rd, Clevedon for Mr Sweet; Lilly, Builders of Clevedon, 2000, from planning files; Francis Sweet baker & confectioner 1906;
JAMES, ANN Architect, 55 Oakley St London SW3
1954 House, Periton Rd, Minehead for Roland H James; D/U/M/22/1/851
JAMES, C.
(1881 alts to building of 1840s, Thomas Soap Works, Bristol; SNB)
JAMES, JOHN Architect c1673-1746, son of Rev John James of Basingstoke; HC
(1714-33 St George chapel, Tiverton, Devon; HC;
(1731-3 Standlynch House, Wilts; for Sir Peter Vandeput; CL 13.2.1986; CL 13-20.7.1945; now Trafalgar Park)
(1736-7 advice re repairs Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts; HC)
JAMES, JOSEPH, 15 Furnival's Inn, London. 1828-75, Architect, articled SW Daukes; ARIBA 1854, FRIBA 1867, obit Br 19.6.75. Worked mostly for nonconformists, esp Congregational church: Bexleyheath C chapel 1853-4; Barnsley C chapel, 1855-6, CYB 1857 dem; Halifax, Square C chapel, £15000 major Gothic chapel CYB58 dem exc spire; Spring Hill C College, Birmingham 1855-6, CYB58, BoE Warws 192; Norwich C chapel, CYB59 and 1860, Romanesque, dem.; Cemetery Rd C chapel, Sheffield Gothic £3000 CYB 1860 dem; Cambridge Heath C chapel, London CYB65 Gothic; 1856-8 and 1863-7 Christ Church C chapel, Tudno St, Llandudno, Caerns; Gothic; Br 1856 484; CYB58; proposed transepts, apse for vestries, tower & spire ill CYB63; HEAC 3 329 says FS 14.8.57, opened 7.7.58, improved 1863, 1867 FS of tower; AEBTD; RL says he designed Moseley Grammar School 1855-6 and St Matthew ch, Smethwick 1855;
1866-70 West of England Dissenters Proprietary School, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; 1st prize 1866 RHH; PC 56: plan to cost £8000 by JJ of 2 Circus Place, Finsbury; now Taunton School; JJ modified his plans for economy still costed at £10,500; Henry Davis given contract £14137; clerk of works Mr Salmon; WG 7.6.67; FS 1.10.67, SCG 5.10.67; TC 9.10.67; architect in financial trouble 1868, W wing unstable and needed iron cols under dining-room beams; opened 14.6.70. TC 22.6.70; Grey stone from West Leigh with Bath facings, Tudor Gothic by T James of London, cost including site more than £20,000, central block with two wings one the schoolroom the other the dining room, centre 106’ tower. School founded 1847 in Bishops Hull Road, now called Taunton School, Staplegrove, Kelly 1906; AEBTD; Henry Davis qv was contractor AEBTD; started as the Independent College, or West of England Dissenters Proprietary School, on Wellington Rd 1847; RL; letter to TC 7.4.69 from 2 Circus Place, Finsbury Circus, London;
JAMES, RICHARD CROFT Architect, Bristol, WWinA 1926, born 1872 FRIBA; partner of WS Paul qv
JEBB, PHILIP. Architect. 1927-95, specialist in country houses, worked for Landmark Trust. NMR has over 2000 measured drawings mainly of new classical houses and restoration in London. Cf JM Robinson, Latest Country Houses, 1984. Brother-in-law of Francis Pollen, worked with him 1956-8.
(1967-8 adds Abbey House, Audley End, Essex;
1970 rest No 1 Royal Crescent, Bath, as museum for Bath Preservation Trust; MF; 1967 C20index;
(19?? Commandant’s House, Lundy Island, Devon, for Landmark Trust.
1985-6 Cupola on clock-tower, Avishays House, Chaffcombe, Som for – Callender; reclaimed carillion clock dated ?1873, orig 16-bell, now only 8; inf Kim Critchley, Avishays; NMR only has designs for conservatory, 15 drawings, two 1985, the rest 1987;
JEBOULT, EDWARD Taunton. 1829-93 Builder, author, ironmonger, photographer; cf JT. Apprenticed 1845-8 to Robert Herniman qv then William Shewbrooks qv. 1850 forced to take over family drapers 1850-4, set up as builder contractor 1855; gave font to St Andrew ch, Taunton; abandoned building contracting 1864 to become ironmonger at 46 North St; had marble mason’s yard 65 High St; temporary surveyor to Turnpike Trust 1868 but was contractor to Trust, Market trustees and Local Board of Health for many years; 1873-7 set up business in Bristol, 1877 returned to new shops and workshops West of England Stone & Marble Works he had built at No 13 Station Rd Taunton in gardens of Blackbrook House. Produced tombstones, timber gazebos, dealt in antique and oak furniture;
1854 built vicarage, Heathfield, Som, James Wilson qv architect, and probably the Lodge 1859;
1854 clerk of works, Manure Works, Kingston Rd, Taunton for Taunton & W of England Patent Manure Co founded by Dr WE Gillett of Fairwater asylum; JT 14, ill JT 18; works closed 1868;
185? clerk of works Kingston House, Taunton, for JH Beadon JT 14; ?on Kingston Road;
1856 three villas, Station Rd, Taunton, called Arrandale Villa/Sussex Villa and Elgin Lodge; JT14
1856 developed Cherry Grove estate, Kingston Rd, Taunton, sold off plots, purchased 1856. JT14;
1858-9 builder, rest Bishops Lydeard ch, Som, CE Giles qv architect; SAS;
1859 fitted out North Town Cottage, Taunton, Som for himself;
1860-1 woodwork & carving, Cheddon Fitzpaine ch; architect Edward Ashworth qv, masonry C Stagg, TC 14.8.61
1862 assisted Ewan Christian qv in rest chancel, Ashill ch, Som; church guide; named as ‘local diocesan architect’ error; but JT14 lists Ashill among churches he worked on, see also 1882;
1864 Sunny Bank development, Cheddon Rd, Taunton; eleven model cottages, JT 14 implies built after 1856 but ill JT 18 says built 1864, celebration dinner 1864;
1876 shopfront for Mr Weaver, Station Rd, Taunton; plans D/B/ta/24/1/340;
1881 repaired screen, Timberscombe ch, Som, JD Sedding architect; SAS;
1882 rest nave and tower Ashill ch, Som; £700; ‘Mr J had already prepared plans for this work, but Mr Speke of Jordans offered half the cost on condition that the architect was Mr John D Sedding of London.’ Church guide. JT14 lists Ashill among churches he did do; restoration in hands of Messrs Jeboult WG 16.6.82;
Also built
Bloomfield rectory.
Some 40 shopfronts in Taunton, also in Cardiff, Manchester & Exeter.
JEKYLL, GERTRUDE 1843-1932 Garden designer, collaborated with Lutyens.
1904-8 made planting plans for Hestercombe, Som; possibly never visited; suggestion in 1960s letter to BoE that planting plans by Ellen Willmott of Warley, Essex, were lying around in possession of head gardner of ‘pre 1914’ date;
19?? ?work at Brympton D'Evercy; HGS;
1919 Planned garden for unbuilt house by AJ Pictor at Marksdanes, Bruton, Som; SAS;
1923-4 garden plans Stowell Hill House, Stowell, Guy Dawber qv architect; SAS;
1925 advised on gardens Barrington Court, Som; NT guidebook; never visited; advice c1917-25 SAS, provided scheme of 40 drawings and 47 pages of planting plans for all the gardens of which only simplified version done; ;
c1926 gardens, Mells Park, Som; with E Lutyens; SNB for Sir Reginald MacKenna; Lady MacKenna was Jekyll's niece;
JELLICOE (GEOFFREY) & PAGE (RUSSELL), landscape architects. Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe 1900-96, trained as architect, joined Tubbs & Son of Reading, 1925, developed landscape practice with Jock Shepherd to 1931; partnership with Montague Russell Page (1906-85), 1935-9, Page was trained as landscape architect, worked at Longleat, Wilts, Jellicoe became principal landscape architect of later C20, president of ILA;
1934 Caveman restaurant, Cheddar Gorge, Som. Furniture by Gordon Russell Ltd, murals representing Early Man in cheerful mood by Eliot Hodgkin. Alan Powers, ‘In Search of the Caveman Restaurant’, Thirties Society Journal, 5 (1985), 18-23. 1934-7, HGS 247 ff; Russell Page got contract as working for Lord Weymouth at Longleat, brought in Jellicoe, M Spens, Gardens of the Mind: the genius of Geoffrey Jellicoe, 1992; 1933-c1935 SNB, badly treated; builder Stones of Bristol, SAS;
JELLY & PALMER Bath see Thomas Jelly
JELLY, THOMAS Bath +1781. Architect, builder, in partnership with John Palmer J&P; HC; married in 1760 to Mary Smith niece of Richard Whatly of Bradford on Avon;
Jelly's wife was Mary Smith; her grandfather was John Whatly (1671-1717) Bradford maltster innkeeper at the New Inn (Old House) whose daughter Ann(e) married clothworker John Smith in 1736/7. Richard Whatly (1709-1782) was Ann's brother and married Eleanor Smith, daughter of the same John Smith by his first wife - keep it in the family! I have seen, somewhere, Richard referred to as Steward of the Kingston estate, as well as having property of his own, but I was only thinking about the BoA estate, not the Bath one. I suppose there might be reference in Bath or Nottingham, but that is a step too far for me!
Richard Whatly's daughter Ann married Rev Benjamin Richardson, curate of BoA and pioneer geologist, friend of William Smith and donor to the Bristol and Bath Institutions (that's why I initially got interested) in 1785 and Lynchetts was built for them. The tithe map of 1841 lists numerous properties as Ann Richardson's after his death, presumably inherited from her father and she had a house in Belvedere in Bath. An obituary for Richardson was published in 1832 by "H.J." who was Rev Henry (Harry) Jelly (d 1843), Thomas' youngest son, Perpetual Curate of Trinity Church, Bath, and another geologist. There was a Rev Harry Richardson Jelly, who may be the same.
1749-50 attrib North Parade Buildings, Bath; MF; orig Gallaway’s Buildings.
1750 Theatre Royal, Orchard St, Bath; MF; enlarged 1775 by John Palmer qv, closed 1805, first provincial theatre to be allowed to call itself Theatre Royal, 1767, Curtains!!! 1982 also says also reconstructed 1767, interior completely rebuilt as masonic hall;
1752-4 King Edward Grammar School, Broad St, Bath; HC; MF, carving by Joseph Plura Sr, statuary, 1753 and 1755, IR, Plura's father-in-law John Ford qv was contractor;
1755-62 ?Bladud Buildings, Bath, either TJ or by TW Atwood qv, MF;
1756 attrib No 4 Abbey St; MF; similar to North Parade Buildings;
1761 possibly involved with building of Milsom St, Bath; J&P; MF; 1753 lease plans were by Robert Smith;
1762 houses in Abbey St, Bath built with Henry Fisher, mason; HC; MF No 1 Abbey Green and adjacent houses in Abbey St and Church St;
1763-6 Kingston Baths, Bath, dem; HC;
c1764-5 Princes Buildings, George St, Bath 'of standard Jelly type, SNB
1764-70 involved at New King St, Bath, S side with John Ford qv sculptor and mason; N side with James Coleman carpenter MF;
c1768 involved St James Parade, Bath, developed by TJ, Henry Fisher qv and Richard Jones qv; design probably by J&P though resembles John Wood II work in Brock Street,
1768-9 St James ch, Stall St, Bath; J&P; MF; dem;
1775 Scheme for Guildhall, Bath; J&P; MF;
(1775 Cottles House, Atworth, Wilts, for Robert Hale; J&P; HC says design was under John Palmer; plans Glos RO;
1777-80 St Swithin ch, Walcot St, Bath; J&P; MF;
JENKINS & POTTER Engineers. London, Bristol & Plymouth, est 1950. Engineers for site drainage Bishop Fox School, Taunton; structural engineers for Tacchi Morris Theatre, Heathfield School, West Monkton;
200? Household waste recycling centre, Highbridge, Som; for Somerset CC.
JENKINS, AUBREY Architect, The Barn, Stogumber, FRIBA.
1980 alts No 65 Selworthy, Som (Rectory Cottages); NT Holnicote report;
1992-3 alts village hall, Stogumber, Som; R Prole, Watchet, builder, £47,810; AJ did plans for free; Stogumber 2000 p121-2;
JENKINS, Rev. WILLIAM. Red Lion Square, London c1763-1844. Probably born in Wales, Wesleyan minister who later trained as architect. By 1788 minister in Bedford, retired 1810 to concentrate on architecture; designed WM chapels Sheffield 1804, Hinde St London 1809, Rochester 1810, Canterbury 1811, Darlington 1812, Sloane Terrace london 1812, Exeter 1813, Hull 1814, Leicester 1815, Bath 1815-16, Morthampton 1816, Great Queen St London 1816-17, Oxford 1817-18, also London chapels in Lambeth, Kings X and Southwark. HC. Father of William Wesley Jenkins +1864 and John Jenkins +1844, architects;
1815-16 Walcot WM chapel, Bath, Som; HC;
1819 attrib WM chapel, Paul St, Shepton Mallet, Som; similar to Walcot WM chapel; SNB;
JERVOIS, Sir WILLIAM FRANCIS DRUMMOND 1821-97 Engineer, 2nd Lt in Royal Engineers 1839, Lt 1842, Brigade-Major 1842, Second-Captain in Xosa War 1846-7, returned 1848, major 1854, assistant inspector-general fortifications 1856, Lt-Col 1861, col 1867, Maj-Gen 1877, Lt-Gen 1882. Fortified Alderney 1852-4, secretary to Royal Commission on defences 1859-60, director of fortifications against Napoleon III, the 'Palmerston forts'; advised on defences widely including Canada and other colonies; knighted 1874;Governor of Staits Settlements 1877-9, of South Australia 1877-83, of New Zealand 1883-8;
1862-7 responsible for overall design of forts at Brean Down and Steep Holm island, Som; N van der Bijl, Brean Down Fort, 2000; Lt Robert Veitch RE (1841-1916) was in charge at Brean Down, contractor John Pollard, Bristol;
JESSOP, HENRY Engineer, 5th son of William Jessop qv, engineer in India, died 1834;
1829 Proposed floating-harbour, Bridgwater, Som, based on Josiah Easton plan 1811 with canal to Combwich; £101,180; unex; BDRP 8, 12;
JESSOP, JOSIAH (or JOSIAS) Engineer, 1781-1826, 2nd son of William Jessop qv. MW has only J Jessop in index but Iain Miles SIAS 7 attributes everything to William Jessop.
1800ff Drainage of River Axe valley, Som; initial report by Josiah Easton qv; SRO SRB/AD4 was modified/ criticised in supplementary report by – Sutcliffe of Leeds 1801; Act obtained 1802 with Jessop engineer, work done 1803-10 MW 142-4, clyse blt at Hobb’s Boat and 3 major cuts nr Loxton, Rackley & Bleadon, sluice erected 1810 design for ‘bridge for the Axe Drainage’ SRO ill Iain Miles, SIAS 7 13, says William Jessop;
1810 Engineer drainage of Weston valley up to Portishead Mill but replaced by William White qv; MW 164;
1812 Proposed floating dock, Watchet, Som; unex; estimate £7446/10/0d; WH Norman, Tales of Watchet Harbour; cf earlier schemes by William Jessop 1797 and 1806;
JESSOP, WILLIAM Engineer, 1745-1814, born Devonport, lived Newark from 1784. Canal engineer, trained under Smeaton, worked for Telford on Caledonian Canal, became one of the most important engineers, worked on Kennet & Avon Canal, somerset Coal Canal and Bristol harbour. Son Josias or Josiah 1781-1826 qv also canal engineer. Iain Miles SIAS 7 says William not Josiah Jessop was drainage engineer for Axe etc. Robert Anstice qv was his assistant.
1791 Advice on King’s Sedgemoor Drain, Som, with William White; Miles SIAS 7 14;
1797 Report on Watchet Harbour, Som; proposed an East pier for £3467, nothing done till 1806 (see below)
1800ff Drainage of River Axe valley, Som; initial report by Josiah Easton qv; SRO SRB/AD4 was modified/ criticised in supplementary report by – Sutcliffe of Leeds 1801; Act obtained 1802 with Jessop engineer, work done 1803-10 MW 143-4, clyse blt at Hobb’s Boat and 3 major cuts nr Loxton, Rackley & Bleadon, sluice erected 1810 design for ‘bridge for the Axe Drainage’ SRO ill Iain Miles, SIAS 7, says William Jessop who retired in 1805 leaving Robert Anstice qv in charge.
(1804-9 Floating Harbour, Bristol, with his son Josias or Josiah qv, inc the New Cut and Feeder Canal; SNB)
1806-8 Eastern pier, Watchet Harbour, Som; cheaper solution than his proposal of 1797 done with piles £1356/19/11d; dem;
JEWELL, GEORGE BERE. Architect Pitney Villa, Kingston, Yeovil, c1854-96. SRO DD/MAR bundle of plans mainly for farms and outbuildings in Somerset, Devon and Glos by GBJ c1882-90 some marked P for Portman estate. Work at Hestercombe for Portman estate (P White) includes the Forge at Cheddon Fitzpaine, and may include the 1895 N and E ranges of stable court, the ‘chauffeur’s cottage’, the gamekeeper’s house at Combe House, the farmhouse at Hestercombe Farm;
JEWELL, HORACE ASHTON, surveyor, 1895-1990, born Charles near South Molton, Devon, from 1935 joint surveyor to Dulverton RDC with AR Orledge, SAS;
1938 Westerfield, Brushford, Som; for self; MHB;
JEWELL, T. Architect and civil engineer, High St, Taunton. Advert for business TC 6.4.1859;
JEWSON, NORMAN Arts and Crafts architect, Sapperton, Glos, 1884-1975, articled Herbert Ibberson, worked for Ernest Gimson, then Gimson's partner, 1911, married Ernest Barnsley's daughter, after Gimson died in 1919 set up practice in Cirencester, retired 1940; biography by N Mander;
1911c worked on restoration of Priests House, Muchelney, Som c1911 with Ernest Barnsley, for SPAB under William Weir qv;
(1926-7 rest Owlpen Manor Glos for himself)
1937 Thatchings, Hilltop Lane, Kilve, Som, thatched, dated 1937, and cob summerhouse; holiday cottage for himself, SAS; originally called Lane End;
193? Rowditch, Rowditch Lane, Kilve, Som; for Mrs Heady; this has big addition according to D Crighton;
JOHNSON, BERTRAM VAUGHAN, Architect, Beaminster, Dorset. 1863-1928 architect Born in London, in 1886 articled Samuel Tucker, but moved 1887-9 to Arthur Blomfield qv, then practised in London; for a time in partnership with John Priston Cutts (1854- 1935) and Percy Charles Boddy (1881-1964), before moving in 1916 to live and practise from Beaminster, BV Johnston architect, Woodlands, Beaminster, WWinA 1926;
1895 Farmhouse, Orchardleigh, Som; RA 1895;
1900 Victoria Hospital, Frome, Som; exh RA 1900; c1899-1901, SNB;
JOHNSON, FRANCIS Architect, Craven House, Bridlington, Yorks. 1911-95 specialist in neo-Georgian country houses; in practice from 1937, firm Francis Johnson & Partners continues;
2015 prop house at Valley View Farm, Batcombe, Som; to be called Batcombe Park; FJ&P;
JOHNSON, FREDERICK JEDIDIAH. Surveyor, 1882-1958, surveyor to Wincanton RDC from 1935; SAS;
JOHNSON, JOHN Architect 1732-1814, born Leicester, trained as carpenter, in London by 1760, architect. His 2nd son Rev Charles Johnson (1768-1841) was a canon of Wells. Another Somerset connection came in 1776 when Johnson was building a London house for Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde (1753-1823), who had succeeded to the baronetcy of Poltimore in Devon. Charles Bampfylde was related to Coplestone Warre Bampfylde of Hestercombe House, close friend of Charles Kemeys-Tynte at Halswell Park, SAS; from 1782 County Surveyor Essex, bankrupt 1803; became dependent on assistance of eldest son, John Johnson (1761-1813) to perform his duties as County Surveyor. John Johnson junior was builder and speculator by 1794, and worked for his father on a number of public contracts. By c.1790 he was describing himself as an architect and surveyor.
c1778 attributed riding-school (or exercise house) and coach-house, Halswell House, Goathurst, Som; CL 9.2.1989; SAS c1770 possibly built by Joseph Edney qv of Bristol,
c1778 Temple of Pan, Halswell House, Goathust, Som; exhibited Soc Artists; HC; RL, built as estate steward’s house; perspective at house shows this as l. pavilion of an intended model farm with temple centrepiece.
JOHNSON, JOHN. London 1843-1919 architect, born London, practised from Queen Victoria Square, London c.1881-1914. John Johnson specialised in competitions, winning sixteen of the twenty-six he entered, including Town Halls, in Staines, 1880, and Leyton, 1894-96, Clock Towers in Gravesend (over 18 m. high), 1887, Brighton, 1888, and Surbiton, 1904-08.
1870-2 Cottage Hospital (Fiveways), Yeovil, won competition in 1870, the building opened 1872, demolished 1969, builder Frederick Cox qv, Br 1870 1043; RHH; L Brooke, Yeovil A Pictorial History, 1994, ill 134, photo c.1880; Polychrome brick with big canted 2-storey veranda at S;
1875 ?SE addition, Newton Surmaville, Barwick, SAS; first floor sitting-room with oriel based on Montacute Priory Gatehouse; may have rebuilt the coach-house (1870) and stable; for George Harbin +1880, owner from 1837; CL 5. 9.1952; evidence for Johnson?
1884-5 Corporation Baths, Huish, Yeovil, builder Frederick Cox qv; SAS, Osborn, A-to-Z of Yeovil’s History,
JOHNSTON, JOSEPH NICHOLSON. Architect, West Park, Yeovil, Kelly 1906, office 21 Princes St, Yeovil; 1860-1942, born London, articled George & Peto 1877-81, assistant to Frederick Boreham 1881, office in London 1881, ARIBA 1882, no list of works in 1882 nomination papers, RIBA status lapsed in 1912; set up in Yeovil ?1886 ?1891; bankrupt TC 10.5.1916; obituary Br 30.1.42 ‘planned many buildings in the town including houses in The Park .. St Michael’s church, 1897’. WG 4.1.1952 ‘a Yeoviltonian looks back’ names two architects: Mr Benson ‘seemed to prefer the simpler forms of Georgian and Early Victorian design and I was a great admirer of his work, much of which no doubt remains today. Mr Joseph N Johnston preferred the more florid style of the Late Victorians and chose as a rule red brick and carved Ham stone for his materials. One specimen of his work with a false gable which I disliked stood at the top of Middle St for over fifty years until it was entirely removed during the late war by a direct hit from a German bomb.’.
1886-90 alts Ash ch, Som; ICBS; CB 1887 85 add chancel; chancel SRO cf/1889/15; WG 24.6.87, 13.12.89;
1892ff several houses, The Park, Yeovil, Som inf DM ?from CHAC plans; CHAC has plans proposed new street The Park, 9.11.92;
1893 adds rear 31 Middle St, Yeovil, Som; CHAC plans, 9.1.93;
1894 Masonic Hall, Hendford, Yeovil; FS Yeovil, Exeter & Plymouth Gazette 17.5.94, opened YE&PG 23.11.94; BC 23.11.94; no architect named; could be by C&CB Benson qv; SAS says by JNJ;
1894 Board School, St Michael’s Rd, Pen Mill, Yeovil; plans CHAC 9.7.94; T Br 30.6.94; HW Pollard, builder, SAS, ill BN 29.6.98;
1895 Girls High School, The Park, Som; adds 1908 probably by JNJ who was school governor; Jean Hatch, Yeovil Girls High School;
1895 premises for Mr Hayward, corner Middle St/ Vicarage Lane, Yeovil, Som; plans CHAC No 131, shaped gables all removed.
1895 Inglewood, Hendford Hill, Yeovil; SSW;
1896 screen, Holy Trinity ch, Peter St, Yeovil, Som, ironwork by JW Singer & Sons; SRO cf 1896/12; removed;
1896 remodel Royal Marine PH, Great Western Terrace, Pen Mill, Yeovil, Som; plans CHAC 181; cut off corner, add clubroom.
1895-7 St Michael ch, Pen Mill, Yeovil, Som; Kelly 06, c£9000, erected by trustees of Henry Cole, consecrated 12.6.97; built by Canon EP Cole of Bristol and sisters in memory uncle Henry Cole, screen memorial to Rev TH Cole; engraved in one of building papers as ‘Cole Memorial Church’; £10000; HW Pollard builder, H Moore clerk of works. CHAC plans new church Brickyard Lane 6.5.95;
1897-8 Capital & Counties Bank, 1 High St, Yeovil, Som; FR Bartlett & Sons contrs, carving by Harry Hems & Sons Exeter; Jack Sweet from WG March 1899; ill BN 20.5.98, archiseek;
1898 Pen Mill Board Schools, Yeovil BN 29.6.98, archiseek; brick and Ham stone; HW Pollard qv builder;
1900 ext of Park Road, Yeovil; plans CHAC not seen 7.5.00;
190? Adds Hendford Manor, Yeovil, Som for B Paynter; inf DM ?from CHAC plans; Jack Sweet has c1909 postcard showing porch looking new. Prob also dining-room window in SW wing.
1908 adds Girls High School, the Park, Yeovil, Som; Jean Hatch, school history;
1911 unex scheme to clear N side of The Borough, Yeovil, Som, to open view of parish church; Chronicle 4, 1, 1987, reproduces design with memorial from WG May 1911;
JOHNSTON, PHILIP MAINWARING, architect. 1865-1936, pupil John Belcher, architect to Chichester Cathedral, SAS;
1891 proposed new tower, N porch and N aisle, Holford ch, Som; ill Br 1891 292, unex;
JOHNSTONE, - Architect, ref in TC 3.9.1890 to council meeting, where? Mr J, the architect;
JOHNSTONE, CHARLES Architect, The Heritage Practice, Grange Rd, Bristol.
19?? Rest garden temple, Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Som; SF 110;
JONES & WILLCOX Bristol
1818-21 plan for new nave Easton in Gordano ch, Som; ICBS, also existing gr plan; marked 'this plan suppressed'; also a plan for total rebuild except tower by John Gardiner qv. SNB says nave was rebuilt 1822-7 by Edward Brigden qv and again by E Christian qv 1871-2;
JONES & WILLIS Church furnishers, Birmingham and 43 Great Russell St, London. Designed church stained glass also and decoration,
1900 wall-painting, South Petherton ch, Som;
1898 Altar North Petherton ch, Som; carved front; D/D/cf/1898/4
JONES, CHESTER
1933 adds Barley Wood, Wrington, Som; SNB
JONES, DANIEL Builder. Tory, Bradford on Avon, Wilts. Son of John Jones, builder, 1771-1814, whose three sons were partners: Daniel, Charles & Bryant Jones; Briant (1802-43) and Charles (c1798-1852) died, so Daniel (+1866) was on own from 1852. Daniel went to London first, was bankrupt in London, and in Bradford on Avon by 1833. Did much work for TH Wyatt over 25 years. Obituary letter Br 16.3.67. Daniel & Charles Jones built Christ Church Bradford on Avon, Wilts, 1841 (GP Manners); Wilton ch, Wilts, 1840-5 (Wyatt & Brandon); Derry Hill ch Wilts (Wyatt & Brandon) 1839; Newton Toney ch Wilts 1844 (W&B); Horningsham ch Wilts 1844 (W&B); Melksham TH, Wilts, 1847; Frankleigh House, Bradford on Avon 1848 (H Clutton). Daniel Jones alone built Hilperton ch, Wilts 1852 (TH Wyatt), Chippenham St Paul ch 1853-61 (GG Scott), Burbage ch, Wilts 1854 (TH Wyatt); Savernake ch Wilts 1860-1 (THW), Woodborough ch Wilts 1861 (THW); WBR; also Victoria and Albert Villas, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, WBR;
Charles Jones c1798-1852 built numerous toll-houses 1837-9 around Bradford on Avon; WBR2: owned Nos 27-32 Tory in 1841 TM, was a Town Commissioner for Bradford on Avon, 1839;
Bryant Jones was Brian Beavan J Jones 1802-43 killed 1843 building Wilton ch, Wilts, which his brothers finished; obit letter mentions churches at Tarrant Gunville and Tarrant Hinton, both Dorset; work for Badminton estate, Glos; work on Lansdown Tower, Bath, Som; and on churches at Wootton (?) and Coombe (?);
1856 builder Orchardleigh mansion, Lullingstone, Som, TH Wyatt archt; Br 16.3.67
1861 builder rest Lullingstone ch, Som; TH Wyatt archt; Br 16.3.67
JONES, H.J. Bristol
JONES, HAROLD see Fry, Paterson & Jones
1954-7 rest St Paul ch, Weston s Mare, Som after bomb damage; SNB;
JONES, HERBERT J. Bristol. Ref in SCG 5.1.1878 to Herbert J Jones surveyor and architect late of Tiverton, Devon;
(1878 design for Manor Park Cemetery, East London SCG 5.1.78)
1882-3 WM chapel and house, Lower Linden Rd, Clevedon, Som; 1st pr 1882 RHH; SNB, Gothic
(1883 alts Premises, John St, Bristol for A Pole printer; T BN 29.6.83;
(1885-6 Ebenezer WM chapel, British Rd, Bedminster, Bristol; SNB, facade removed
(1887 stable and coach house 3 Cotham Park, Bristol T Br 26.2.87;
(1887 alts No 34 Thomas St, Bristol for Jacob Done T Br 26.2.87
(1887 alts No 1-2 Bridewell St, Bristol for Chard Bros T Br 26.2.87;
(1887 ext to machine room, Caxton Works, Bristol Br 26.2.87)
(1887 add to schoolroom, WM chapel, Redland Rd, Bristol T Br 18.6.87;
(1887 roof, warehouse, Nelson St, Bristol, FW Gedge & Sons T: Br 18.6.87;
(1889-90 WM chapel, Westbury Hill, Bristol; SNB;
(1889 branch factory & manager’s house, Kingswood, Bristol/Glos for RW Ashley & Sons boot & shoe mfrs; £1376; T Br 16.11.89
(1892 alts Clifton Downs Hotel, Bristol, £1872, T Br 15.10.92)
(1892 adds Cannery, Whitehouse St, Bedminster, Bristol for Parker Bros Ltd T Br 1.10.92)
(1892 Warehouse and office Lindrea & Co, Bristol Br 21.5.92;
(1893 WM church, Bishopston, Bristol; SNB)
(1895 B chapel, school-cum-chapel, Horfield, Bristol; SNB;
(1897 rebuilt WM church, Redland Rd, Bristol, after fire; later Christ Church;
(1902-3 adds primary School, Victoria Pk, Bristol; SNB)
JONES, J.E. Architect, Gloucester. Advertises Glos Journal 28.9.1867;
JONES, J. F. BEVAN
1937-51 rest S side Pulteney Bridge, Bath, Som; SNB;
1963 rebuilt N side Bath St, Bath, Som; AFtext;
JONES, OWEN 1809-74 London-born, trained with Lewis Vulliamy, travelled studied Islamic architecture 1830-3. Published Grammar of Ornament 1856, RIBA Gold Medal 1857.
Designed relatively little: 1842 involved with James Wild on Christ Ch, Streatham; 1845-9 No 24 Kensington Palace Gardens; 1851 decoration of Crystal Palace; 1852-4 interior Crystal Palace Sydenham; 1856 St James Concert Hall Piccadilly dem; 1856-60 Osler’s Gallery Oxford St dem; c1872 Abbotsfield, Somerset. His design for Midland Grand Hotel St Pancras 1868 ill in Marble Halls.
(1845 ornamental dairy and cottage for James Morrison MP exh RA 1845, presumably at Fonthill House, Fonthill Gifford, Wilts; WBR2; dem?; OJ may have designed and fitted out rooms at Fonthill House for Alfred Morrison after 1850. Fonthill House was the W pavilion of Fonthill Splendens converted to house called The Pavilion c1829, rented by James Morrison and purchased c1832; alts done possibly by JB Papworth then given to 2nd son Alfred Morrison after James bought Basildon Park, Berks, 1839, and rebuilt with extra storey and Italian tower 1846-50 by David Brandon qv, then renamed.
1870-2 Abbotsfield, Wiveliscombe, Som, for Lacey Collard, piano manufacturer; second floor omitted; BoE S; RL; SC: site bought 1870, work under way TC 6.7.70, thirty hands employed; house completed 1873 for Charles Lukey Collard + 1891; matching lodge prob not by OJ as not on maps until 1890s.
JONES, RICHARD Bath 1703-c1778. Mason, clerk of works to Ralph Allen 1730-64, then city surveyor 1765-72, then Sergeant at Mace; HC; reminiscences in C19 transcript in Bath City Library lists many buildings where he was builder or clerk of works; .
1735ff built Prior Park, Bath, Som, for Ralph Allen to des of John Wood, completed it after Wood was sacked 1748. Altered design of E wing, designed various outbuildings
17?? garden house, Widcombe Manor, Bath; Aftext; reminiscences refer to 'drawings of the other piece at Widcombe, done for one Squire Bennet, and his summer house in his garden';
1750 rebuilt Lower Assembly Rooms, Bath; dem; HC;
1752-4 New Bridge, Weston, Bath; called Newton Bridge, HC; for R Allen;
1754 alts Old Bridge, Bath; presumably the rebuilding in 1754, HC;
17?? alts Claverton House, Claverton, Som; for Ralph Allen; dem;
17?? alts Claverton ch, Som; for R Allen;
1754 alts Bathampton ch, Som; for R Allen; AFtext;
1755-6 built Palladian Bridge, Prior Park, Bath, not to his design; FS 29.5.1755 according to reminiscences; based on Roger Morris Palladian Bridge at Wilton, Wilts, of 1736-7; T Mowl, Palladian Bridges, 34-5;
(1757ff rebuilt Deanery, Bristol, for Dean Warburton, married to Allen’s neice)
(1760 repairs Bishops Palace, Gloucester, Glos, for Bishop Warburton)
1762 Sham Castle, Claverton Down, Bath, for R Allen; Jones claims it was to his plan, but Sanderson Miller made a design seven years earlier;
1764 memorial to Ralph Allen, Claverton churchyard, Som; reminiscences say to Jones design, probably exec by Robert Parsons, mason; Gunnis; HC;
1766 unex des for Guildhall & Market Hall, Bath, Som; HC;
JONES, THOMAS builder, architect, Exeter, 1745-1829, in partnership with Philip Stowey c1742-1804 and, after Philip Stowey went to Madras in 1777, with his brother James Stowey c1749-1823, see Stowey & Jones; named in advert BC 25.3.1784 re sale of Staplake Mount, Kenton, Devon; in 1794 refronted Downes, Crediton, Devon;
1772 General Hospital, South St, Taunton; by S&J; FS 1772 never completed, sold 1794;
JOPLING, JOSEPH London. Architect & engineer, c1789-1867. HC. Wrote much on architectural drawing and on proportions of Parthenon.
1828 design for remodelling Ammerdown Park, Kilmerston, Som for JT Joliffe; SC; unex, SNB;
(1830-1 Pantechnicon, Motcomb St, Belgravia, London; HC;
1849-55 Column, Ammerdown Park, Kilmersdon, Som; SC, in memory of TS Joliffe +1824; 1853-5 HC; Br 9 1853 633-4; commissioned 1849 completed 1855, SNB;
JOSEPH, MESSRS Architects, 10 Lowndes Square, London. Prominent C20 commercial firm in London founded by Delissa Joseph 1859-1927, son of Solomon Joseph, architect of synagogues and industrial dwellings; DJ began practice 1882, did London synagogues and offices, hotels, mansion flats. ASG.
1956 add Higher Thorn, Exford, Som for M Waley-Cohen, large plain extension; D/r/dul/24/1/231;
JOWSEY, CYRIL. 1897-1970, not an architect, a chief draughtsman at Hydrographic Office, London, in Navy List 1937 as superintendent of chart production and supplies department.
1939-40 Hydrographic Office, Taunton, Som; inf Adrian Webb: ‘the main building, the one you can see the front end from the main gate was built between around 1939-1940. It was a purpose-built chart factory and it was designed by one of the Chief Draughtsmen, Mr Jowsey’.
JOY, WILLIAM Mason probably of Bristol school, worked at Wells and Exeter taking over from Thomas Witney. Still alive in 1347. JHPS 82. Possibly designed lierne vault to choir Bristol Cathedral (SNB), S porch St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, and worked at Ottery St Mary Devon c1337-45;
1329ff master mason, Wells Cathedral, Som after Thomas Witney qv. Blt presbytery; SNB high vault of choir complete c1340; Jsampson says 1333-37, as by 1337 the choir was being furnished,
c1330 ?Abbot's kitchen, Glastonbury Abbey, Som, J Sampson suggests on basis of mason's marks also found at Wells and Ottery St Mary
(1337-45 Ottery St Mary ch, Devon; attrib J Harvey and Jean Bony;
c1338-40 Strainer arches, Wells Cathedral, Som, attr SNB, similar to Bristol Cathedral detail;
(1345 work at Exeter Cathedral; paid 20/- in 1346-7;
1340s Vicars Hall, Wells, Som; SNB; completed 1348;
JUPP & LAMBERT. see CK Jupp of Beaminster.
1935 reps Halstock ch, Som; ICBS rejected;
JUPP, COLIN KINGSLEY. Architect, North Crediton then Beaminster. LRIBA, 1881-1958, pupil of Detmar Blow and then George & Yeates, own practice from 1909; in WWinA 1914 at North Cheriton, Som, designed Combe Cross, Templecombe, Som; Woodrow, Bishops Caundle, Dorset; ballroom at Lattisford House, Holton, Som; in 1926 WWinA with no details; died in Tavistock, SAS;
19?? ballroom at Lattisford House, Holton, Som; WW in A 1914; house is dated 1902 rebuilt after a fire;
19?? Combe Cross near Stowell, Som; WWinA 1914;
1913 cottage, Chaffcombe, Som with CW Pike; SAS;
1913-14 Paddock House, Sutton Montis, Som for unmarried sister of Lord Portman, inf David Bucks owner. davidbucks@
19?? House at Horsington, Som; inf David Bucks, not sure which one; WW in A 1914.
(1932 council housing at Beaminster, Dorset; WG15.7.32;
JURY, Major ARCHIBALD GEORGE. Architect to Taunton Borough Council from 1938 to 1946; 1907-2003, born Devon, articled to FW Beech of Ellis Son & Bowden, Exeter, then c1927 in Middlesbrough with borough engineer, then 1936 at Gravesend as Deputy Borough Architect, then Taunton; ARIBA 1941 proposed by HSW Stone qv, and RR Kitching and RJ Archibald (Middlesbrough architects); returned to Taunton 1945 after war service in RE but left in 1946 to become Chief Housing Architect at Liverpool, then City Architect, Glasgow, 1951-72. At Taunton work included housing schemes pre and post war, converting to flats large houses and a War Department hospital; DSA;
KEARLE, ROBERT Carpenter, paid for various minor works at Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som, for Gen Sir John Slade e.g 1824 repairing the ‘crib-house’ £45; SRO DD/SL/38/1-2;
KEENE, HENRY 1726-76, 1746 College Surveyor to Westminster Abbey and 1752 surveyor of Fabric, Westminster Abbey, HC; son-in-law of sculptor John Devall; cf Timothy Mowl in The Architectural Outsiders;
(c1754-60 adds Bowood, Wilts; WBR; enlarged and remodelled for 1st E of Shelburne 1755-60 HC, but altered 1761-70 by Robert Adam qv;
17?? design for temple, Halswell Park, Goathurst, Som; V&A; RL;
1758 attrib S transept Goathurst ch, Som; with Gothic plaster ceiling; 1760 Tynte family pew, Goathurst ch; Tim Mowl;
(1759-60 adds Corsham Court, Wilts, ?exec after 1761 by Lancelot Brown; HC says unex)
1765-7 Robin Hood's hut, banqueting house, Halswell Park, Goathurst, Som, for Sir CK Tynte qv, loosely to HK drawings; RL; HGS 77;
KEITH, JOHN CHARLES MALCOLM. Architect, Portishead.
1885 Parsonage, Weston in Gordano, Som; SRO Bbm/264, stone m&t ws, brick chimneys;
1886 alts Fir Cliff, Portishead, Som, for JFR Daniel T Br 17.4.86 £286;
KELLETT, PAUL A. Architect, Wells
2010 The Garden Ho, Little Entry, Wells, Mendip awards 2011;
2011-12 11A Allens Lane, Wells, Som; Mendip awards 2012;
2011-12 alts The Farthings, Wells, Som; Mendip DC 2012 awards.
2011-12 alts Melrose House, Glastonbury, Som; commended Mendip DC awards 2012; ?Melrose House, Coursing Batch;
KELTING, LOUIS. Born 1910, chief engineer from 1938 of Somerset Rivers Catchment Board formed 1930, name changed to Somerset River Board 1950, to Somerset River Authority 1964. Miles SIAS 7 33ff. OBE MICE. JM Hitchens qv was Deputy Chief Engineer; articled pupil to Somerset Drainage Commissioners, then engineering assistant with CC, then at Nrflk and Cheshire before 1938;
1939 widened King’s Sedgemoor Drain, Som;
1940 Huntspill Cut, Som; to supply water to Puriton ROC factory; from Gold Corner on South Drain to a new outfall on Parrett.
1941-2 Gold Corner Pumping Station, East Huntspill, Som; powered by four 240hp Crossley diesel engines. Gold Corner Pumping Station was designed by the Somerset County Architects qv, Leonard Mew project architect, the installation of machinery etc under deputy chief engineer to SRCB JM Hitchens MICE MIME, inf D Crighton;
1941 West Sedgemoor Pumping Station, Stoke St Gregory, Som; ?dated 1944 on building; designed by JM Hitchens, the deputy chief engineer according to Hitchens’ daughter, inf D Crighton;
1947 Stanmoor Pumping Station, Burrowbridge, Som;
1948 Southlake Pumping Station, Burrowbridge, Som;
1950 Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Som; new pump house beside 1830s pumping station;
1954-5 Currymoor Pumping Station, Stoke St Gregory, Som; plans in pumping station.
1950s imps to River Kenn, new 2.5m channel and outfall clyse
1959 Pumping Station from North Drain to R Brue,
1960 Three pumping stations at Westover (Langport), Midelney (Drayton), and Pibsbury (Huish Episcopi), all near Langport, Som.
1969-72 Sowy River, Aller, Som, relief channel from Parrett to Kings Sedgmoor Drain;
Also imps to Dunball Clyse; imps to Penzoy River;
KEMEYS-TYNTE Sir CHARLES Halswell, Som. Amateur architect, garden designer, his portrait by Hogarth 1753 has him with drawing instruments and book titled Garden Plans. HGS; CL 9.2.1989. Owner 1740-85, subscribed to Thomas Wright’s Grottos 1758; friend of Hoare and Bampfylde cf Friendhip Urn at Hestercombe;
1740ff Gardens at Halswell, Goathurst, Som; HGS; but cf also Robert Adam, Henry Keeene, John Johnson, Thomas Prowse, Jacob de Wilstar;
KEMP, EDWARD Garden designer 1817-91, Paxton’s foreman at Birkenhead Park, then its superintendent; Author ‘How to lay out a small garden’, 1850; gardens at Daylesford Hall, Glos; Leighton Hall, Powys; Underscar, Cumb; parks at Hesketh Park, Southport, Stanley Park Liverpool 1866-70;
187? Gardens, Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Som; CL 17.6.1899 752ff, ‘planting about 25 years ago’ under E Kemp; for RH Paget;
KEMP, JOHN Mason
1787-90 repairs Woodlands ch, Som including repairing cornice 1787-8 and blanking E window 1790; Longleat 14/3 2/12 28/7/1784 also payments to carpenters; John George architect of Bath was involved, letter from T Davis, steward, over disputed payment 14/3 13/0 5/11/1788;
KEMPE, CHARLES EAMER. 1837-1907 Architect and stained glass designer. Lived at Copped Hall, Epping C18 house that he altered. Made stained glass from c1865. Walter Tower qv. came to him in 1890s as partner and continued firm as C. E. Kempe & Co Ltd after 1907, did some architectural work. Stained glass: see The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass, ed P Collins for the Kempe Trust; Margaret Stavridi wrote biography 1987;
1891 Screen, St John ch, Frome, Som; Kelly 1906; by CEK of London architect, £600, figures by Zwinck of Oberammergau; SRO cf/1891/5;
1907 Crucifix, Chapel, Kings College, Taunton, Som; last thing designed by CEK acc to history of junior dept, but older college history says by Tower; carved by Zwinck of Oberammergau;
KEMPSHED, JOHN London. Carpenter, architect, born 1763, exhibited designs at RA 1791 and 1825, applied for County Surveyor Essex 1816. HC. Called J Kemshead on Hinton St George drawing.
1808 design for castellated park entrance formerly in Poulett papers, Hinton St George, Som, may have been for Hinton House; not there now; HC;
1809-11 alts Crewkerne ch, Som; nave repewed, galleries at E end of aisles and W end of nave, the W gallery only definitely by J Kemshead; VCH 4 32 n 65; Pulman Book of the Axe 304; SRO D/P/crew/4/1/2 and 6/1/1
1812? Alts Hinton House, Hinton St George, Som; VCH 4 43 mentions J Kemshead providing alternative designs for the entrance corridor to those of James Wyatt +1813; Yale Brit Art B.1975.2.419; Colin Winn, The Pouletts of Hinton St George, 1995, 134 says J Kemshead produced other plans for Grand Entrance Hall after Wyatt died in 1813, ie not 1812.
KEMPTHORNE, SAMPSON 1809-73; pupil of Annesley Voysey, set up practice in 1835, competed for Penzance MH 1835, through his father appointed architect to Poor Law Commissioners, produced model plans for them 1835, used GG Scott briefly to assist in S of England; RL; HC; founder member of IBA, office 36 Clarges St, London; some 40 workhouses built to his plans before he emigrated to New Zealand in 1842, where he worked as architect and surveyor; typical SK workhouse is to hexagon plan of three radiating wards behind a front range.
(1836-7 Workhouse, Warminster, Wilts; WBR;)
(1836-8 Workhouse, Axminster, Devon; square plan: also SK plans used for Devon workhouses at Barnstaple, Crediton (hexagon), Okehampton, & South Molton)
(1836 Workhouse, Winchcombe, Glos; dem; not hexagon;
1836-8 Workhouse, Odd Down, Bath, Som; ; £12,300; hexagon;
1836-7ff Workhouse, Northover, Bridgwater, Som; £7500, ; with Edwin Down qv; hexagon; dem; builder John Wainwright qv; adds 1847, Br 31.7.47 and 25.9.47 ; SAS;
1837-8 Workhouse, Trinity Road, Taunton, Som; ; later Trinity Hospital, mostly dem, only three-storey front block dated 1837 left; but HC addendum 2000 says by R Carver ?executant architect; hexagon;
1837 Workhouse, Preston Road, Yeovil; same hexagon plan as Taunton; now Summerlands Hospital, two-storey front block only remains.
(1837 Workhouse, Thornbury, Glos; not hexagon plan)
1837-9 Workhouse, Langport, Som, at Hamdown, Huish Episcopi; dem; similar hexagonal plan to SK other workhouses; .uk;
1837-8 Workhouse, Weymouth Rd, Frome, Som; later Selwood Hospital; .uk, £5400; hexagon; partly demolished, William Brown qv builder;
1839 remodelled rectory, Cheddar, Som; TBC; D/Bbm/
1839 Haselbury Plucknett Ch, Som, nave rebuilt ICBS, HC; also chancel; reopened SCG 22.6.39 taken down and rebuilt on an enlarged plan; rebuilt except tower, chancel arch and arch to NE chapel, SSW; alts 1907-8 by E Buckle qv;
1840-1 Ash ch, Som; ICBS; HC; BoE; VCH sub Martock; chancel 1886-90 JN Johnston qv; tower added 1919 by CB Benson;
1840 Misterton Ch, Som; ICBS; HC; RL; James Perry qv builder;
1842 and 1846 proposed side galleries, Crewkerne ch, Som; VCH 4 32; unex; an arch for private pew made over the S porch 1847 (?not by Kempthorne) D/P/crew/ 4/1/7 and 9/1/1 under 1842 and 1846;
work at Holy Trinity Martock, Som, in SAS is error for Ash ch 1840-1;
KEMSHEAD, JOHN see John Kempshed
KENDALL & NORTH Architects, surveyors and consulting engineers, Hammett St, Taunton; WwinA 1926 John David Kendall AMISE1891-1948 and – North.
1919-22 housing scheme Taunton borough council; WwinA 1926;
1922-3 business premises, shopfronts etc Taunton; WwinA 1926;
KENDALL KINGSCOTT Architects, Stoke Gifford, nr Bristol.
(2005-7 Wiltshire & Swindon history Centre Chippenham Wilts; ?executive architects, design by Atkins;
2010-11 adds Batheaston Primary School; website; new hall;
20?? two houses, Severn Rd, Portishead, Som; timber framed; 'contractor's architect'
2011 adds St Dunstan’s School, Glastonbury, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
KENDALL, WILLIAM Kineton, Devon
(1837 Parsonage, Poyntington, Devon; SRO DD/Bbm/66;
KENNEDY, HENRY. Bangor, London. Henry Kennedy +1896. Diocesan architect Bangor; born in London, address 1 Scarsdale Terr, Kensington, 1841, at Menai View Bangor 1844 dir, 284 High St 1880 dir; retired 1894. Partners Rogers c1860-5 (K&R), either Frederick Rogers or John Mechelen Rogers c1831-89 - ICBS gives both names. JMRogers was a pupil of Pope Bindon & Clark Bristol AEBTD 1868, and des several bldngs in Bristol 1870-4, obit Br 14.12.89 says only died Brighton aged 57 and had been in design dept of War Office, ARIBA 1870; then from c1865 Gustavus Hamilton O’Donoghue qv (K&O). Called of London, Bangor and Glasgow in 1867.
(1860 1st prize Devon & Cornwall Bank, Exeter, Devon; RHH; K&R;
(1862 entrant comp Exeter City Prison, Devon; RHH; K&R;
1868 exhibited design for Independent chapel, Long Ashton, Som, at Glasgow Inst of Fine Arts; Scottish architects website; K&O; present C chapel 1892 by Frank Wills qv.
KENSINGTON TAYLOR ARCHITECTS, Exeter.
2000 Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Heathfield Community School, West Monkton, Som; Jenkins & Potter engineers; £2.6m; Stansell & Co contrs;
2008-9 The Space, Heathfield Community School, West Monkton, Som;
2011 prop foyer building, Yeovil College, Yeovil, Som; circular reception building in front of 1963 college block;
2012 Library and Autism unit, Heathfield School, monkton Heathfield; Graham Hooper proj archt; Melhuish & Saunders bldrs; £541,000
KENT, DAVID architect Bath see DK Architects, or DKA.
KENT, WILLIAM 1685-1748. Principal English architect after Gibbs. It is suggested that there is a link between Mellifont Abbey, Wookey, Som, rebuilt, acc to Phelps, about 1730 for Col William Peirs MP for Wells, and Wayneflete’s Tower at Esher Place, Sy, which Kent remodelled c1733 for Hon. Henry Pelham (HC), prime minister 1743-54. Peirs visited Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln, at Oatlands, Sy in 1726 and Clintons and Pelhams were connected. John Winstone suggestion.
KENWORTHY, GORDON Architect, Oldham, Lancs, FRIBA. See Dixon Hill & Co
KEYNSHAM URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL;
1972 St John's Court, Keynsham; HDA 1972;
KILLIGREW, WILLIAM Joiner, architect. Practiced from c1719. William Killigrew, builder, of Chippenham, who enlarged Tetbury MH Glos 1740 and surveyed Tetbury ch 1742 may be related.
1720 attr Weymouth House, Bath; dem; HC
17?? Attr No 3 St James’s St South, Bath; dem; HC
1720 Ballroom, Lower Rooms, Bath, Som; dem; HC;
1721-2 Bluecoat School, Bath; dem; HC;
c1725 Refronted Guildhall, Bath; dem; HC
KINDER, ARTHUR Engineer, architect, Great George St, London, 1826-1916, specialist in breweries, worked with his son by 1891;
(1870 brewery, off High St, Swindon, Wilts; builder - Phillips; WBR2)
1886 adds Northgate Brewery. Bridgwater, Som Br 1889a 418, tower etc; HW Pollard qv builders; dem 1967;
KING, CHARLES ROBERT BAKER Architect, 1837-1916, 31 Spring Gardens, London, 1887. ARIBA. Assistant to GG Scott 1859-78, worked at St David's Cathedral in 1870s, then worked for JO Scott always at the Spring Gardens office; BN published a number of designs including for St Margaret, Galle, Sri Lanka, 1884, Canons House, Canterbury, 1893, and rectory, Brondesbury, London, 1894. By c.1906 he had been joined by his son Harold Charles King (1869-1933).
(1872-6 St David's Cathedral, Pmbs, report presented 1872 as Mr Scott’s assistant W 18.10.72; inspected foundations for W front 1876.
(1887-8 Plans for major rest Llannon Ch, Cms, reversing Edward Haycock work, ill P&P 79, from Griffith, Son & Lewis collection. Unex.
(1888 Mynachlogddu Ch, Pmbs, rest; W 26.10.88; WWinA 1914;
1906-9 reps North Petherton ch, Som; ICBS to chancel arch and roofs of nave & aisles; ‘Pevsner comments on North Petherton church “No interesting architectural furnishings to make up for the dullness of the interior”. Alan Rome comment: ‘Not so! Splendid screens and some other fittings possibly designed by Charles Baker-King, assistant to Sir Gilbert Scott at Rochester and to Micklethwaite at Westminster Abbey. Superb screenwork. Organ case by Minns of Taunton, good if ungrammatical. 1880, altered 1910’. Letter 2.8.2005. ICBS has plans 1878 and 1883, 1878 by WS Champion qv, final plans 1883 by JH Spencer, also in SRO;
1914 choir stalls, North Petherton ch, Som; D/D/cf/1914/47, and sanctuary panelling and marble floor;
KING, HUGH Architect to Yeovil District Council; inf Adron Duckworth.
KING, LAWRENCE. Church architect
1968 reordered Christ Church, Frome, Som; AFtext;
KING, THOMAS Builder
1877 Buildings, Bishops Hull, Som for William Blake; Thomas King & John Moss qv; DD/DP/72/3;
KING, THOMAS Marble mason, Beaufort Place, Bath, 1741-1804, son of Henry King of London, clockmaker, apprenticed 1752 to Charles Saunders, mason, London, then came to Bath, became son-in-law of Thomas Paty of Bristol 1779, left £250 in Paty's will, and paid debts of brother-in-law William Paty 1801, had sons Thomas and Charles, died 5.12.04, buried Woolley, Som. Made monuments all over SW England, beginning with the actor James Quin in Bath Abbey 1761, important monuments include Maria Heathcote at Devizes St John, Walter Long at Whaddon, the latter died 1807 so after Thomas King died. Firm continues very productively presumably under Thomas II (1761-1841) and Charles King from 1804 until 1826, then restarts in 1844 always signed Thomas King. Thomas King brother Samuel +1812 mon in Whitminster ch, Glos, mentions TK;
Charles King may have continued firm alone as Thomas King II may never have been a sculptor. He may be the Captain Thomas King born c1776 of the Bath Light Horse Volunteers who was an apothecary at Brock St, and captain from 1815- 25, Proc Hist of Bath Research Group 6 2017-18 5;
A Philip King signs monuments in Wales to Admiral William Lloyd + 1796 at Langadog, Carms, and to JL Philips +1858 at Llangynin Cms; S King of Castle Combe signs a monument at Kington St Michael to John Hitchcock +1820; King & Sons of London sign a monument at Highworth to Sir John Croft +1797; King of London one to Sarah Burleton +1843 at Donhead St Mary;
(1773 chimneypiece(s), Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Wilts AHR report 2018;
1795 chimneypiece, Babington Court, Som; £39/12/0d, IR)
1810 chimneypieces, Longleat; IR; marble;
(1810-20 chimneypieces, Dodington Park, Glos; IR)
(1812 chimneypieces, Longleat, Wilts, several of Keinton stone, £28 ; IR;
KING, THOMAS builder, Bath,
1790-4 involved St James Square, Bath, Som; Thomas King and John Fielder among the builders, John Palmer qv architect; hsjsbath.co.uk website;
KINGDOM, SAMUEL, surveyor to the Minehead United Turnpike Trust employed to measure the roads from 1764, SAS;
KINGSLEY, MARK Architect, Frome. Practice 2004, worked for Associated Architects, Birmingham, then for NVB qv, Frome, as project architect on Arts Centre St Helen & St Katherine School, Abingdon (2002-3), Oxon and Trinity School (2003-4) and St Nicholas Primary School (2003-4) both at Radstock, Som; Mark Kingsley Architects. Also Vaudeville Court, Islington, London, housing scheme; 2008-9 Tristram eco-house, Polzeath, Cornwall;
2007-10 Minehead Eye, Minehead, Som; competition 2007, built 2009-10; AJ July 2011, Staffordshire black brick below polycarbonate cladding with colour-change LED lighting; £2,650,000; DB Russell Construction contractor;
20?? Prop add Crossways Cottage, Coleford, Som;
2010 Somerset Earth Science Centre, Stoke St Michael, Som;
2010 East Mendip Study Centre, Moons Hill Quarry, Stoke St Michael, Som; Mendid awards 2011;
KIRK, CHARLES Sr, architect, builder, Sleaford Lincs, 1791-1847;
1845 builder, County Asylum for Pauper Lunatics, East Horrington, Som; (Mendip Hospital) for Scott & Moffatt, died during the works; SAS.
KIRK, CHARLES Jr Architect, Sleaford Lincs, 1825-1902, son of Charles Kirk Sr qv, worked with him;
1889-90 West Chinnock ch, Som; SRO cf/1889/12, for Richard Hayward of Bridge House, West Chinnock and Coker Works, Crewkerne; stained glass by Ward & Hughes; opened 24.7.90; built by Charles Trask qv; WG 7.6.89, 22.11.89, 25.7.90;
1891 Marks Barn, Merriott, Som; Br 1891a 321; T: £5795 of WH Maxley accepted; for Major Hayward; now Merriott Court;
KIRKHAM, A.V.J. Architect, FRIBA, Knowle Cottage, Lamyatt, Som; other addresses include London, Barnet, and Cardiff;
(1933 alts Conock Manor, Chirton, Wilts, plans formerly at house for alts for Col. Smith-Barry;
KITCH, MESSRS see JH Kitch.
KITCH, JAMES HILLIER Builder, Bridgwater, 1839-1921, born Bridgwater, son of Robert Kitch, bricklayer, moved to Kensington, London in 1890s and back to Bridgwater by 1901, SAS; retired by 1911;
1864 ?building, Bridgwater, Som; Messrs Kitch architects and builders; SCG 3.9.64, capable of seating 300 people;
1867 House for Mr Knowles, architect, by Kitch builder, Bridgwater; SCG 28.12.67
1877 WM chapel, Catcott, Som, dem. 1975; BM 12.7.76; Cox, Catcott Secret History of a Polden Village, 2008
1878 builder, St John's Cemetery, Bristol Road, Bridgwater, by Edwin Down & Son qv, stonemasons Bradfield & Sons, chapels, lodge, gates, 1887; SCG 20.7.78 and 17.8.78; A/CMY/55 and 469;
1881-2 builder, RC ch, Binford Place, Bridgwater, by AJC Scoles Drum, Bridgwater’s Catholic Past, part 1, 9
1887-9 builder Carmelite RC Priory, South Street, Wincanton, Som, by AJC Scoles; Legg, Book of Wincanton, 2005, 51;
1897-9 builder RC church and presbytery, Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Som, for AJC Scoles, DD/X/BRG/4;
(1898 builder RC ch, Tisbury, Wilts by Canon AJC Scoles; SAS; FS 13.10.97, A history of the parish of Tisbury & Wardour, 2nd ed. 2007;
KITTO CONSTRUCTION LTD Design & Build, Bristol. Graham Rowe managing director.
200? West View Surgery, Keynsham, Som;
(200? Christchurch Medical Centre, Downend, Bristol)
2009-10 Surgery, Mantle St, Wellington, Som; £3.5m
(2011 New building, Clifton College Prep School, The Avenue/ Guthrie Rd, Bristol;
KLAENTSCHI & KLAENTSCHI Architects, Long Barn, Berwick St James, Wilts; Hans Klaentschi
(2005 garden studio for Jonathan Marland, Odstock, Wilts; RIBA award; Mark Lovell qv engineer;
2007-11 alts Tellisford Mill, Som for A Battersby & R Feilden; Mendip award 2012; inc hydro-power turbine 2007 by Mark Lovell engineers;
KNAPMAN, ERNEST HENRY, Bayford Hill, Wincanton, surveyor, 1868-1943, born Okehampton, Devon. Surveyor of highways with EJH Padfield to Wincanton, GS 112; Joint Surveyor to Wincanton RDC, 1902-34; a W Ernest Knapman practised in Barry, Glam, c1899 to 1910.
1905-7 plans for house Wembdon Rd, Wembdon, Bridgwater, Som, by or for WB Knapman; D/R/Bw/ 22/1/2/49;
KNAPP, DOUGLAS E. J. Architect, 5 Wood St, Bath, 1931 dir;
KNIGHT, H.S.L. Engineer and Surveyor Minehead UDC;
1947 Layout plan Periton Lane council estate, Minehead; SRO
1949 Eight flats Quarry Close, Alcombe, minehead for UDC; SRO
1950 Seven old persons bungalows, Marshfield Rd, Minehead; SRO;
KNIGHT, HENRY Builder
1869-70 school, Croscombe, Som, SNB;
KNOTT, RALPH Architect, Adelphi Terrace, London. 1879-1929, partner with E Stone Collins (1874-1942). Knott was assistant to Aston Webb, 2nd in Bristol Library and Malvern Library comps while there. 1908 selected for London County Hall, mostly built after war.
(1902 2nd prize Bristol City Library; ASG;)
KNOWLES, CHARLES Architect, builder, King Sq, Bridgwater, architect 1772-1852, in 1844 dir. A volume of essays from Architectural Publication Soc 1848-9 lists among subscribers Charles Knowles and John Knowles of Bridgwater (inf Priscilla Metcalfe); applied to be County Surveyor 1857. Son Charles Knowles Jr 1811-90 architect, surveyor and Savings Bank actuary;
1817 builder, parsonage, Stockland Bristol, Som, also called Stockland Gaunts, D/D/ Bbm44, £550, crude drawing for 3-bay 2-storey house, possibly by Young Sturge & Jacob Player Sturge; certified by Young Sturge, surveyor, Bristol. The present vicarage is wholly of 1883.
1825 plans for lock-up, Wrington, Som, SAS;
KNOWLES, CHARLES Jr Bridgwater, 1811-90 architect, surveyor and Savings Bank actuary; son of Charles Knowles Sr qv; born Wrington, in practice Bridgwater by 1842, at 46 High St by 1861; Town Surveyor, Bridgwater until c1875; SAS; a Charles Knowles builder of Wrington & Cheddar restored Wookey ch, Som 1869-72, Giles & Gane architects;
1848 alts Chedzoy Rectory, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/105; hipped early C19 house given Tudor chimneys, bay window and hoodmoulds; D/R/Bw/22/1/6/160
1848 alts Bawdrip rectory, Som; DoE;
1852-3 rebuilt Durston ch, Som, exc tower; RL;
1855 National School, Nether Stowey, Som, SAS; DD/EDS/1721;
1856 school, Combwich, Som; SAS, DD/EDS/2146;
1856 cemetery, North Petherton, Som; two chapels and lodge across the road; Morris dir 1872; TC 17.9.56, D Bradfield builder;
1857 School, Northmoor Green, Moorland, Som; Br 1857 645; adds 1865;
1858 unex plans rest Fiddington ch, Som; in church; work done by John Norton;
1858 school, West St, Bridgwater, Som, SAS; DD/EDS/3224;
1858-9 vicarage, Middlezoy, D/D/Bbm/134, m&t windows, gables on brackets;
1859 school, Puriton, Som; Br 1859 459; charity school, SAS;
1860 Cossington House, Som; RL; DG; SRO A/CMY/417 seven drawings; BoE gives 1863 date; house is attached to a five-bay deep-eaved house, now separate called Cossington House, addition is called Cossington Grange, mullioned with horrific Jacobethan tower. Plans show proposal to reclad original early C19 house in Lias Jacobean style, addition L-plan mainly bedrooms with a study for for Major Graham; also single-storey kitchen with fleche;
1864 ref to a building, quantities supplied by Mr Knowles, SCG 4.6.64, lawsuit in Bristol, Mr Shewbrooks builder, tendered, based on measurements supplied by Knowles as borough architect, SCG 14.5.64
1864-6 rest Middlezoy ch, Som; ICBS 1862-4; spec SRO, William Shewbrooks contractor;
1863-5 TH, High St, Bridgwater, Som; BoE S; RL; new Town Hall progress slow, Mr Shewbrooks builder, SCG 9.1.64; riposte from William Shewbrooks SCG 4.6.64 re gross inaccuracy of Mr Knowles quantities;
1867 infants school, St Mary's, Bridgwater, SAS; DD/EDS/4773;
1867 house for Mr Knowles, Bridgwater; SCG 28.12.67; Taunton Road, on site of Poor House, builder James Kitch;
1867 large adds vicarage, Somerton, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/155; Benjamin Hawkins qv Glastonbury builder; hipped E roof in plans was built as a gable;
1868 alts parsonage, Thurloxton, Som; D/D/Bbm/159; add of bay windows;
1868-70 Combwich ch, Som; RL; ?laying FS of church SCG 27.7.67, Abraham Squibbs of Bridgwater builder; WG 28.10.70;
1871 parsonage, Northover, Ilchester, Som; SRO Bbm/185; dull Italianate; now Vicarage Farmhouse;
1872 alts rectory, Goathurst, Som; D/D/Bbm/189; RL 1871; conversion of Paulet House or Manor House;
1874 ?cemetery, Behind Berry, Somerton, Som; WG 9.10.74;
1874-5 rest nave and transept, Pitney ch, Som; VCH 3 56, SRO D/P/Pitn 6/1/1-2 and 6/3/1; rest nave, rebuilt N wall, new roof using medieval bosses, E window of S chapel altered; RL; D/D/cf/1874/4;
1874-6 alts Holy Trinity ch, Bridgwater, dem; restored and reseated, SAS; Messrs Wills builders;
1875 Corn Exchange, Bridgwater, Som; addition within the earlier MH;
1876 Board School, Woolavington, Som; SAS; builders Willis & Cole, Bridgwater;
1882 Drainage, Kilton parsonage, Som; D/D/Bbm;
Attributed:
1867 Cannington Cemetery gateway;
186? The Grange, Cannington,1860s for J Ruscombe Poole solicitor;
KNOWLES, GEORGE WILLIAM Surveyor to Clevedon UDC, 1906 dir;
KNOWLES, JAMES THOMAS. Architect, London, 1806-84 father of Sir James Thomas Knowles, architect, friend of Tennyson, knighted 1903; biography by Priscilla Metcalf. JTK Sr worked for 4th Earl of Egremont of Orchard Wyndham, designed three rectories in Devon for him at Rewe (1844), Kentisbeare (1841) & Silverton, but BoE says Silverton rectory by Richard Carver qv 1839, who altered Orchard Wyndham for him in 1839-40;
1838 proposed Egremont Castle, Orchard Wyndham, Williton, Som, for 4th E of Egremont; contract drawings RIBAD PA524/2 (1-3); unex vast neoclassical replacement for Orchard Wyndham similar but not the same as executed designs for Silverton Park, Devon;
1838 unex design for rebuilding Williton ch, Som, RIBAD PA524/5 (1-5) and PA526/86 (1-3); none for a vicarage, although JTK is said to have made plans; curate lived at Eastfield (Kelly) which was a Wyndham dower house possibly remodelled c1838;
(1838 Blackborough ch, Devon for 4th E of Egremont)
(1839-45 Silverton Park, Devon; dem; for 4th E of Egremont +1844, never completed; BoE; stables remain as Landmark Trust; ill in Colvin & Harris, The Country Seat, 1970, clothed in colonnades; RIBAD PA 524/5/4)
(1841 Rectory, Kentisbeare, Devon for 4th E of Egremont)
(1844 Rectory, Rewe, Devon, for 4th E of Egremont; RIBAD PA524/5/4)
(1860-2 Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria, London with JTK Jr;
KNOWLES, JOHN see Charles Knowles.
KRUGER, GEORGE 124 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, later George E Kruger Gray, 1880-1943, designed much of the coinage in the 1930s and 1940s, also posters; born Kensington, served in Artists Rifles WW1, lived from 1922 at Logsdail, Talgarth Rd, London.
1914 Reredos, Horsington ch, Som; painted wood; signed design SRO cf/1914/36; to THM Bailward +1914; ?not made until 1920
LACIE HICKIE CALEY Exeter. LHC Architects. John Baulch, Nigel Blackman, Tony Boyle, Robert Bramhall;
2005 New buildings Somerset College of Art & Technology, Taunton, Som; inf J Gould;
2014 outline layout, Firepool area, Taunton, Som, for Taunton Deane DC; Somerset Gazette 15.1.14
LAIT, A. Yeovil
1898 Chimney, West of England Twine Works, East St, West Coker, Som; signed drawing in works.
LAFFAN, GEORGE BASTABLE Engineer, 1863-1919, born Cork, engineer to Twickenham Council, then Croydon, and from 1881-94 Borough Engineer, Bridgwater. 1898-1901 Borough Engineer, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, then in private practice, obituary says civil engineer, architect and surveyor there and prominent member of town council, TC 30.7.19;
1883 Town Bridge, Bridgwater, Som, with RC Else, iron by George Moss, Liverpool; £3214; opened 5.11.83; RC Else was mayor, lived at Binford House, sold to Corporation for Blake Gardens; bridge replaced the 1794-8 Coalbrookdale iron bridge by Thomas Gregory qv;
LAMB, ANTONY
c1958 house, Barn Close, Crewkerne, Som; C20index; ill 1960 House Plans;
LAMB, EDWARD BUCKTON. Charlotte St, London. Architect 1806-69, pupil of LN Cottingham; worked with JC Loudon on his publications; famously called one of the ‘rogue architects’ by Goodhart-Rendel for his eccentric Gothic churches. Design for villa at Stuttgart for King of Wurttenberg AM 1838 18; Almshouses for Indigent Foreigners, Norwood Br 1852 203. remodelled Hughenden, Bucks, for Disraeli; Obit Arch 4.9.69;
1854 alts vicarage, Milton Clevedon, Som; D/D/Bbm/115; alts to windows (new cornices, 4-pane sashes) and new porch and rear adds; vicarage called ‘lately rebuilt’ in 1839, further alts in 1869 by William Clarke qv removed porch, new entry on site of left window and single-storey W drawing room addition;
1856 work at Butleigh Court, Som, for Ralph Neville Grenville; house of 1845-51 for Rev George Neville Grenville was designed by JC Buckler qv; SC says Lamb added lodges and a fountain 1856; VS Annual 1977 says EBL added a ballroom demolished when rest of house was restored; lodge looks like EBL;
1859 N aisle, Butleigh ch, Som, for R Neville Grenville; VCH, similar to Thirkelby ch, Yorks; dated 1859;
1860-3 attrib stable court, Somerton Erleigh, Somerton, for William Pinney; ‘Lamb Stables’ is pencilled on two unsigned sketch elevations D/PI/16/1. Date 1863 on clock mechanism by Thwaite & Reeves;
1864-5 alts Milton Clevedon ch, Som; ICBS; new N transept, E w, reseating;
LAMB, PERCY AIDAN Architect, London, 1872-1947, trained with Edward Goldie, clerk of works Westminster Cathedral 1895-1907, then set up practice with Robert O'Brien North (1854-1919) another pupil of Goldie. Designed St Pius X RC ch, St Charles Sq, Westminster 1908; St Mary RC Preston Park Brighton 1912; Brother of Father Francis Lamb, prior of Carmelite Priory, Wincanton.
1912-13 High Altar, RC ch, South St, Wincanton, Som; Scoles & Raymond qqv architects; centenary history 2008; also Holy Infancy altar in aisle; High Altar, reredos and hanging rood-screen: R Legg, Book of Wincanton 2005 106 also Holy Infancy altar. He arranged for Austrians Ferdinand Demetz and Stufflesser to carve pulpit, stations of cross and Lady Altar.
LAMBERT, DAVID Architect with Saunders Architects qv, Southampton 1989-2013;
1999-2001 Leisure Centre, West Hill, Wincanton, Som; Wincanton sports website; Lottery Award 2003;
LANDER, HAROLD CLAPHAM Architect, Welwyn Garden City born 1868-1955; 1869-1955 son of RS Lander (1828-92) of Lander & Bedells, architects, articled to father, practice in London 1895, Fabian Socialist, Quaker, council member of Garden City Association, at first meeting 1901 gave paper on Advantages of Co-operative Dwellings; designing housing for a failed co-operative quarrying scheme 1905 in Aberdaron, Caerns; designed QM, Welwyn Garden City, 1926; firm was Lander & Kemp; not same as Lander in Cachemaille-Day, Welch & Lander (Felix J Lander);
19?? designed development scheme for Wellington, Som, WWinA 1926;
LANE, MICHAEL. Railway engineer, 1802-68, worked for Sir Marc Brunel 1825, for GWR from 1845, superintendent of permanent way of one division of GWR, in 1860 succeeded TH Bertram qv, as engineer to GWR until died in 1868; MICE 1861; obituary Grace's Guide online;
(1832-4 resident engineer Bristol Docks under IK Brunel qv;
(1834-40 resident engineer Monkwearmouth Dock for IK Brunel)
1840-42? assistant to GE Frere qv on western part of GWR;
(1842-5 resident engineer, Hull Docks)
(1861 involved in discussion re extending railway into Bristol Docks from Temple Meads, WI 10.10.1861; joint project GWR, B&E and Midland railways;
LANG BURNINGHAM ASSOCIATES Devon. Reg Burningham, Simon Lang, Derek Ogden & Phil Tedstone.
1979-81 ITT Thermistor Division factory, near Taunton, Som; BD 10.7.81; alongside canal. Steel shed, PVC coated corrugated cladding, red-brown and mid-grey; contractor Stansell & Son; £115K;
LANGDON & POOLE Builders, Minehead. See JH Langdon
LANGDON, JOHN HENRY. Minehead. Builder. 1847-1904, from 1870s favoured builder of GF Luttrell and Thomas Ponsford, firm was Langdon & Poole (L&P) in 1878; ran coach service to Lynton.
1872 built Railway Station, Washford, Som, built with William Morse (d.1895) Robert Pearson Brereton qv architect; SAS, Mowat, Railway Magazine 75 1934, 263; Clinker & Arend, West Somerset Railway, 1989, 7;
1871-5 built Beach Hotel, Minehead, as speculation in advance of railway; OD; still erecting July 1874, opened as Railway Hotel, but Beach Hotel by l875; CH Sansom architect;
1874-6 ?built Esplanade Houses, Minehead, by JP St Aubyn qv;
1875 builder Floyd's Corner, No 2 The Parade, Minehead, originally Bond's corner, CH Sansom qv architect (or possibly JP St Aubyn), 1877 SAS;
1876 Station Cottages, Minehead CH Sansom architect;
1877 Coastguard Station, The Esplanade, Minehead, Som; house for chief coastguard, and terrace of three houses backing onto North St, JP St Aubyn architect;
1878 builders, Endowed School, Wharf Lane, Ilminster, Som; obit; the present Greenflyte Primary built for Boys Grammar School; £1592/4/9d; JM Allen qv of Crewkerne architect; Langdon & Poole of Minehead contractors; Wharf Lane extension 1894 by W Wooler qv of Weston s Mare, lengthened S 1912.
1885-6 builder addition, WM chapel, The Avenue, Minehead, addition for John Foster & Joseph Wood, works by John Pearse & Son apparently completed by John Henry Langdon, SAS, D/N/wsc/4/2/4
1888 and 1899 Wyndcote, Martlet Road, Minehead, for Charles Henry Samson, 1888 and 1899, OD
1889-92 builder, Public Hall, The Parade, Minehead, Som;
1893 builder Wellington Hotel, Weillington Square, Minehead, Som; JP St Aubyn and H Wadling qqv architects,
1893 builder Metropole Hotel, Esplanade, Minehead, built as Esplanade Family Hotel; JH Langdon builder;
also built
villas on The Avenue, Minehead;
LANGFORD, DOUGLAS E. Architect, Exeter, see Lucas & Langford partnership formed 1896 by John A Lucas, dissolved 1931;
1931 Central Cinema, Church St, Yeovil, Som; faience ‘Persian style’; dem; BH; SAS says by Lucas & Langford
LAPLACE & CO France. Architecture and interior design founded by Luis Laplace, Argentinian, worked in New York for Selldorf Architecture 1999-2004;
2013 Art gallery, Durslade Farm, Bruton, Som, for Hauser & Wirth; including conversion of farm buildings, the conservation programme under B2 Architects qv; BD 21.12.2012; AR Sept 2014;
LARCOMBE, - Borough Surveyor, Chard UDC.
1971-3 alts Harveys almshouse, Chard, Som; convert 16 units to 8; T Prior, Harveys, 2009, 28;
LASDUN, Sir DENYS 1914-2001 Architect, London. National Theatre, University of East Anglia etc.
19?? Adds to rear The Court, Charlton Mackrell, Som; inf J&C Gould; minor bits and a kitchen;
LATHOM, - Architect mentioned TC 27.10.1886 re preparing plans for Albert St Schools, Bridgwater, Som; perhaps for additions; school of 1879-80 by John Parker qv Borough Surveyor; £3225, Chedzoy & Son builders; A 12.10.1878; large adds 1896-7 including master's house;
LA TROBE & WESTON, Bristol. James Henry La Trobe 1862-1921, pupil of JH Hirst qv 1878-82, assistant 1883 to Joseph Foster, did YMCA, St James Sq in 1884, partnership with Joseph Foster (previously of Joseph & James Foster) as F&L 1885-95, works on his own 1893ff include Wycliffe Chapel, Totterdown, 1893, WM chapel, Easton, 1895, alts Hanham C chapel, Glos, 1895, Cotham Grove School 1896. Partner with Thomas Henry (Harry) Weston (1870-1923) from 1895 to post 1918, did WM chapel at 496 Gloucester Rd Horfield 1897, Pupil Teachers Centre Bristol 1898 (C: BJ 24.11.97); School Bristol (C: BJ 19.1.98); Cabot Café, College Green, 1904, WM chapel Avonmouth Rd 1904; WM chapel Knowle 1904, Air Balloon Hill School 1905; B chapel Hanham Glos 1906-7, Sailors Mission Broad Quay 1914, Whiteladies Road Cinema 1921. Noted for Arts and Crafts school buildings in Bristol acc to Elain Harwood.
1909 WM chapel, West St, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; inf Alan Brooks;
LA TROBE-BATEMAN, RICHARD Batcombe. Engineer, artist,
2006 Cocklemoor Bridge, Langport, Som; plaque;
LAUDER, ALEXANDER Barnstaple. Born 1836, died 1921 aged 85. Son of John Lauder (1807-65) engineer from Musselburgh, Scotland, settled in London, than by 1861 timber merchant in Barnstaple, Devon. AL born Holborn, London, trained in Edinburgh, called artist (painting) in 1861 census, architect & employer in 1901 census; designed churches and public buildings in London, Devon and Somerset. Set up in Barnstaple in 1860, WH Lethaby born in Barnstaple 1857 was pupil 1871-8 before going to London. Lauder & Smith brick, tile and terracotta makers established in 1876 with brother-in-law WO Smith; 1881 census 47 High St Barnstaple, architect, lawyer, merchant and manufacturer employing 36 men and 6 boys, aged 43, wife Mary Smith from Barnstaple. Mayor 1885-7. Sole proprietor by c1889. Designed Wesleyan Methodist churches. Boutport St WM chapel Barnstaple 1867 ext 1885 & 1905; Great Torrington Board School Devon 1871-3 opened Br 12.3.73; WM Sunday School, Sherborne, Dorset, 1872 for Cheap St WM chapel; Ravelin Manor, Barnstaple for himself, c1873; Marwood WM chapel 1874; Schools proposed South Molton, Devon SCG 1.11.1878; Schools at Newport WM chapel Barnstaple 1892; Co-op Barnstaple 1896; East Down WM chapel Devon 1901; Gliddon & Squire shop Barnstaple 1902; he set up Royal Devon Art Pottery Barnstaple 1876, remarkable decorative interiors also much coloured pottery; BoE Devon;
1864-6 WM chapel Milborne Port, Som; McKay 194; FS 16.11.64, opened 18.4.66 £2515/18/9d with schoolroom; WG 20.4.66; manse 1870-1 by AL; organ 1877; organ gallery 1887; classrooms 1893 £653/0/4d; £2732, renov 1903 £900, interior reconstructed 1901 (Kelly); now flats, Lauder Court.
1869-70 WM chapel, Vicarage St, Yeovil, Som; Br 1870 146; accounts 1865-9, SRO D/N/yeo/2/3/8; builders Bartlett, Sons & Harwood of W Coker & Yeovil, £3289; opened 30.3.70, roof and organ burnt 1934, bombed 1940, reopened 1948;
1870 unex plans WM chapel, Watchet, Som; minutes of chapel trustees 17.9.70 ‘resolved to go no further with him’, chose one of trustees, Robert Williams qv of Weacombe; minute book in SRO;
1870-1 attrib Manse, WM chapel Milborne Port, Som;
(1872 WM schoolroom, Abbey Rd, Sherborne, Dorset; OSS)
(1875 WM chapel, Southgate, Chichester, Sx, dem, A 25.12.75; archiseek;
1878-80 WM church, Burnham on Sea, Som; builder; SCG 3.8.78;
1881-2 Coke Memorial WM chapel, North St, South Petherton, Som; FS WG 12.8.81; attributed WM manse, Palmer St, apparently also 1881-2;
1882 entrant comp WM chapel, Clevedon, Som; RHH;
1883 Sunday School, WM chapel, Vicarage St, Yeovil, Som; £1500, J Pitman Milborne Port builder; bombed 1940; dem; FS 12.4.83 opened 27.9.83; George Pitman of Milborne Port contractor, opened WG 28.9.83;
1886 attributed WM chapel, Martock, Som; similar to South Petherton. T for Ham Hill stone Br 27.3.86 £365, no architect named;
1887-8 WM chapel Ilminster, West St, Ilminster, Som; WG 6.7.88, Mr Lauder preached at the opening; and church hall; WG 22.7.87 tender Mr Poole of Ilminster builder £1540 accepted;
1889-90 alts WM chapel, Merriott, Som; WG 14.2.90;
1892-3 WM chapel, Rowbarton, Taunton; TC 31.5.93; FS Br 1.10.92, FW Rowsell of Taunton contractor;
1893 WM chapel, Wrantage, Som; Rendell of Taunton builder; TC 28.6.93;
1893-1900 WM chapel, Kingsbury Episcopi, Som; plans 1893 but FS 23.11.99, built by Yandles & Sons, Martock, opened 5.7.1900; WG 6.7.00, two windows above rostrum to Job Bradford and wife, Gothic rostrum, nine pilasters and panles backed in red cloth, gallery for choir at back, £1600, chapel centenary history, 2000. Organ 1930 by Osmond. Pulpit removed 1980s and meeting room put under gallery.
?involved with South Petherton C chapel, Som: the chapel is of 1863 by RC Bennett qv, but manse 1868 (£950) looks like Milborne Port manse, Sunday school 1882 (opened 2.12.82); unlikely?
LAVER, RICHARD Papers relating to erection of a new market at Taunton 1833 (i.e. not the New Market of 1821) DD/DP/43/6 box 43 refer to designs by Richard Laver; probably a misreading for Richard Carver qv as DD/CPHS/45 has papers from 1833-4 relating to alterations by Carver to the Castle East Gate in connection with a new butchers' market;
LAWRAY ARCHITECTS Manor Rd, Yeovil, BA20 1UQ Partners Philip Dyke, Charles Evans, John Whatley.
Website identifies domestic, educational, retail, inc Poole High School, Dorset, Budmouth community Sports centre; refurbishment of Octagon Theatre Yeovil; work for Tesco; farm buildings conversion for Powderham estate; flats East Cliff, Bournemouth.
1993 Pre-prep school, Hazlegrove House, Sparkgrove, Som;
1994-2009 adds Sexey’s School, Bruton, Som: Art block add on site of stables behind Cliff House, in two stages 1994 & 2002; Walwin Common Room add to left pair of former Sunny Hill Villas 1994; Science Block E of old buildings, two stages 1994 & 2005; Cliff House extensions health centre addition at end of 1929 left wing 2003, large girls accom & house staff building to right 2002; Sixth Form Centre single-storey monopitch to W of old buildings 2005; Coombe hard courts at foot of valley two stages 1997 and 2008; Humanities & DT block E of Science block 2009; emails Rita Hoddinott, bursar and Charles Evans job architect on all these;
(1994 Addison Close housing, Gillingham Dorset HDA 1994)
LAWRENCE, J.
1823-7 drew plan for gallery, Ilminster ch, Som, by William Burgess of Exeter; ICBS
LAWSON, Rev G. R. ?vicar of Middle Chinnock, Som
1835-7 spec for alts Middle Chinnock ch, Som; ICBS;
LAWSON, SYDNEY Architect, member of congregation of Vicarage St WM chapel, Yeovil.
1954 WM Sunday School, Vicarage St, Yeovil, Som; Pippard & Berry bldrs, FS 20.11.54 opened 25.6.55; st glass w given by Mr Lawson; £10,317/3/5d; centenary history 1970 32. Previous school by A Lauder was bombed.
LAWSON, V.A. Architect, Stroud
(1903 alts Cove House, Ashton Keynes, Wilts; WBR2)
(1925 alts Lloyds Bank, Cricklade, Wilts; Lloyds archive 3.3066 20.3.25;
LAYZELL, JEREMIAH Builder, contractor, Broadway Hill, Horton. 1864-1941, founder of firm of Layzell & Sons builders;
1899-1900 builder Horton ch, Som; FS 26.6.99; Young & Driver, Churches of the Crewkerne & Ilminster Deanery, 2009, built by ‘Layzells’.
LDA DESIGN Exeter. Landscape architects, founded 1979 by Prof Robert Tregay. Master-planners Olympic parkland, London 2008-12; Cathedral Sq, Peterborough;
2004-7 Masterplan for Radstock, Som;
2011-12 Landscape, Castle Green, Taunton, Som; George Dundon project architect; footbridge by Moxon Architects with Flint & Neill engineers;
LEA, DAVID. Practice in Croesor, Llanfrothen, Caerns from 1970s. Designed WISE Building, at CAT, Machynlleth, Powys, with Pat Borer.
1989 Thatched garden studio for Jane Alexander, Nettlecombe Court, Som; AJ 27.9.89; inf Adam Voelcker who has been writing a book on Lea;
LEA, PAMELA A. Frome worked for Rodney Vallis firm, later Nugent Vallis Bryer, married to John Lea architect of Brimble Lea?? Work at Bruton School for Girls see under Vallis.
LEACH, - Architect
1892 pair of villas near Berrow Rd, Burnham, Som, WG 25.3.92 for Edwin Lawrence;
LEADBETTER, STIFF. Builder, carpenter, Eton, Bucks, died 1766. Surveyor St Pauls Cathedral 1756, carpenter for Lord Godolphin at Baylies, Bucks, in 1730s; HC;
(1744-9 alts Bulstrode Pk, Bucks for D of Portland HC)
(1756-64 Nuneham Park, Oxon; HC)
(1758-66 Shardeloes House, Bucks; HC)
(1759-67 Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; HC;
1761-5 Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Som for Joseph Langton +1779; HC; according to HGS 141 remodelling overseen by Lancelot Brown, letter of 29.3.1761 refs to SL as architect, and to grounds being by Brown.
LEAMAN, KEITH. The Square, Winchester. Of Plincke, Leaman & Browning. J Richard Plincke, K Leaman & ? Browning.
(1992 one of six chosen for Stonehenge Visitor centre, Wilts; PL&B)
1992-3 rest Rook Lane C chapel, Frome, Som; AF text, PL&B, Andrew Lowe job archt;
(1992-3 Grove Rd Primary School, Hounslow, London; Green Award Indep 7.11.93)
(1993? Winchester College of Art, Hants; PL&B)
(1993-6 D’Hautree School, Jersey, CI; Indep 7.11.93, PL&B
1993-5 rest Stavordale Priory, Som, for Cameron Mackintosh inc caretakers ho, swimming-pool; VCH 7 218; KL; also grotto; RL says KL was architect to owners before Mackintosh also;
(1995 Tanbridge House School, Horsham, Sx; Contract Journal 16.11.95; PL&B)
LEATHART, JULIAN Bath
1955-6 War Memorial science block, King’s College, Taunton, Som; Lang & Co bldrs;
LED ARCHITECTS. Architects, Ash House, Burnham Rd, Highbridge, Som, and Discovery Ho, Dart Marine Park, Totnes, Devon, Leading Environmental Design Architects. Rob Barnes & Andrew Kirby, chartered architects; successors to Higginson, Brown & Stuckey (HBS) qv of Highbridge.
1998 Langport Surgery, Som (by HBS); addn 2011;
199? Works at Edgarley House, Glastonbury, Som, by HBS for Millfield Prep School; inf J Gould;
2002 Residential campus, Millfield School, Som: Abbey, Kernick, Martin’s, Keen’s Elm, Orchards, Holmcroft, Joan’s Kitchen, Etonhurst, Butleigh, Southfield and Acacia dormitory clusters for total of 460 pupils; HBS designed the first houses in 1970s Acacia and Keen’s Elm, then Martin’s 1998, then in 2002 eight more were commissioned: Abbey, Butleigh, Etonhurst, Holmcroft, Joan’s Kitchen, Kernick, Orchards, Southfield; ?involved with three N of Butleigh Rd: Portway, Shapwick, Warner.
2003 Community Hall, Oake, Som;
200? refurbished Colin Atkinson Pavilion, County Cricket Ground, Taunton, Som; built in 1970s, roofline remodelled w triangular dormers, new balcony etc
2008-9 Chemistry Building, Millfield School, Street, Som;
2009 Creative & performing arts building, Sidcot School, Som; also refurb project for 1960s teaching block;
(200? Eco-house near Totnes, Devon)
(20?? City of Bristol Gymnastics Centre, Bridge Learning Centre, Bristol)
2011 Add Langport Surgery, Som; in same style as orig of 1998;
(2011 Proposed ATMOS sustainable housing project, Dairy Crest site, Totnes, Devon)
2012 Deputy headmaster’s house, Millfield School, Street, Som;
LEE, JOHN Architect, Honiton, 1781-1846, in partnership with brother William (1800-53).
(1804 Egland House, Honiton, Devon, SAS)
(1826-7 alts Upottery ch, Devon, by J & W Lee of Honiton)
1826-8 galleries, Churchstanton, Som (formerly Devon); ICBS; Samuel Henson (1771-1841) of Burlescombe, Devon, surveyor ?builder;
(1828 Barton House, Morchard Bishop, Devon, J&WL; SAS;
LEE, THEOPHILUS
187? Edgcumbe, Alexandra Rd, Clevedon plans clevedon UDC; Lilly, The builders of Clevedon, 2000;
LEE, THOMAS Jr Architect, Barnstaple, Devon, 1794-1834, son of Thomas Lee of Barnstaple 1756-1836 who trained as architect but never practised. Trained with Soane 1810 then D Laing, Society of Arts Gold medal 1816 design for British Senate House; exh RA 1814-24; involved with foundation of IBA when drowned 1834 of Mortehoe.
1817-18 Wellington Monument, Blackdown Hill, Som; obelisk intended for cast-iron statue; BoE S; RA 1818; HC; remained unfinished, refaced and altered 1853-4 by CE Giles; RL; 175-foot obelisk erected in memory of the 1st Duke of Wellington, who took the title of his Dukedom from the town, where he was Lord of the Manor. Begun in 1817, it was originally intended to support a cast-iron statue of the Duke, but was completed with a conical cap in 1852. The monument was restored in 1892. Also it was supposed to be surrounded by fifteen cannon (supposedly captured at Waterloo, but discovered to be Scottish naval cannon destined for Russia), but lack of funds prevented their removal from Exeter (where they were used as quayside bollards). Four were eventually acquired in 1911, but removed for scrap during the Second World War. Finally a further gun was acquired from Exeter by Wellington Rotary Club and installed at the monument in 1985. Given to the National Trust. Barbara Jones, Follies & Grottoes, Constable (1974), 385. Gwyn Headley & Wim Meulenkamp, Follies, Cape (1986), 56-7. 1852 completion by Henry Goodridge & Son or by CE Giles? Or both?
c1818 Bridge, Nynehead Court, Som, for WA Sandford; exh RA 1818;
(1820-3 Arlington Court, Devon for Col JP Chichester; RA 1822;
(1822 Eggesford House, Devon, for Newton Fellowes; RA 1822;
(1824 St Clement ch, Worcester; RA 1824; ICBS; Norman;
(1826-8 Barnstaple Guildhall, Devon; APSD;
(1826-9 Sedgley ch, Staffs for E of Dudley; APSD;
(1828 adds Disley ch, Ches; ICBS;
LEECH, CHARLES SAMUEL Boulevard, Weston s Mare; born 1860, Oldham, in Weston S Mare in Kelly 1889, not in 1906 Kelly.
1891 consulted re drainage at Burnham and Highbridge schools, TC 6.5.91
1892 pair of villas, Berrow Rd, Burnham on Sea, WG 25.3.92;
1898 move organ, East Brent ch, Som; D/D/cf /1897/18;
LEES, FREDERICK CHARLES. Architect, 20 Victoria St, London, in 1891, born 1857;
1893-4 plans alts East Chinnock ch, Som; ICBS; vestry, organ ch, reinstate nave arcade, remove gallery, CB 1893 102; arcade not reinstated. Plan in church.
LEETE & DARBY Architects, 52 High St, Weston s Mare, 1931 dir. ST Leete & NHN Darby, previously Leete & Smith qv;
1934-5 Sunway, 33 Dial Hill Rd, Clevedon, Som; SNB by N Darby; MHB;
c1936 Houses in Neva Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; Nos 17-27 (odd), 33-5; 22-6 (even); C20index; SNB by N Darby;
c1936 Nos 39-48 Station Rd, Weston s Mare, Sm; C20index;
LEETE & SMITH. Architects, Weston s Mare. ST Leete and RI Smith. See also Leete & Darby;
1921 Central Cinema, Oxford St, Weston s Mare, Som; opened 29.7.21; BH;
LE FEVRE, R. A. Architect, Bath of Snailum, Huggins & Lefevre and then Snailum, Lefevre & Quick qqv;
1960-2 Unmack Building, King’s College, Taunton, Som; inf college history;
1968 Assembly Hall, King’s College, Taunton, Som;
1970 Music School, King’s College, Taunton, Som;
LEGG, HENRY Builder, Strawberry Bank, Ilminster 1840 dir; Benjamin Legg, West St Ilminster in 1872 dir.
LEIR, Rev CHARLES EDWARD 1842-1924; Leir family had been rectors of Charlton Musgrove since 1617, and Charles Leir regarded church as something akin to his private chapel, informing the diocesan registrar that he considered himself as the...chief manager and overseer of the work and had...no plans but what are devised in my own head and carried out under my direction. Robert Dunning, Somerset Families, 2002; SAS;
1884 alts Charlton Musgrove ch, Som, D/P/ch.mu; Dunning, Fifty Somerset Churches, 1996, 158-9;
LENNOX-BOYD, ARABELLA Landscape design. Own garden at Gresgarth Hall nr Lancaster. Gardens at Ascott House Herts 1986, Eaton Hall, Ches, 1990; roof garden No 1 Poultry London 1995; Lake House on R Avon 1998;
(2001 proposed roof-garden, Visitor Centre, Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts, project architects Dixon & Jones; not built;
2008 gardens, Willett House, Elworthy, Som for Jane Smith, inf Jane Smith;
LESTER, JAMES, builder Frome, 1775-1820, declared bankrupt 1813; SAS;
1810-2 WM chapel, Wesley Slope, Frome, Som; AF text;
LEVERSEDGE, JOHN Architect and surveyor, Taunton, born 1820, surveyor to Taunton Turnpike Trust from 1833; in 1861 in practice with Edward Pressland (1833-1906) (L&P) at Shuttern House, Taunton and London; by 1868 Leversedge & Howard with Edwin Thomas Howard, former pupil of JL; in 1868 absconded with funds of Taunton Turnpike Trust and never seen again; SAS.
1853 plans and elevations Taunton Castle, in SRO; SAS;
1860 houses at Staplegrove, Som, TC 17.10.60; L&P;
1864 school, Galmington, Taunton, opened SCG 26.11.64; Woolfrey & Aplin contractors;
LEVERSHA, - Plasterer. The overmantels at Court House, East Quantoxhead, are reputedly by a Flemish craftsman called Leversha whose family remained as Luttrell tenants into modern times. No documentation, Luttrell family tradition. Overmantels in house for George Luttrell are of two dates 1614 and 1629. J & J Penoyre, Decorative Plasterwork;
LEVITATE Architects, London. Tim Sloan et al. Since 2012 grouping includes Jo Hibberd qv as website includes her work at Whitestaunton and Old Farm, West Pennard.
2010-13 alts Farm buildings Barrington Ct, Som, for NT new entrance visitor centre etc;
LEWARN, WILLIAM 1786-1850 builder-architect, Silver Street, Taunton.
1815 B chapel, Silver Street, Taunton, TC 5.10.15 Taunton Silver Street - A Baptist Chapel and its Town - The Early Years 1814-1851, 1998, 15-17, 143 layout plans; SAS;
LEWIS FOSTER LEWIS Architects Thornbury, Glos. Founded by Russell Lewis 1988.
20?? converted White Hart, Batheaston, Som, to flats
20?? refurbished Tideways, Portishead, Som; 1970s house;
20?? housing, Lodge Lane, Nailsea, Som; trad;
(20?? rest Olddown House, Tockington, Glos)
(20?? restored Withey House, Bristol, built 1935 for the Electrical Association for Women;
(2012 The Round House, Thornbury, Glos; by Russell Lewis)
LEWIS, DAVID Minehead. Architect.
1961-2 Calway House, Taunton; next to Bishop Fox School, an old peoples’ home, David Lewis of Minehead did the original completed 1962, then replaced about 1970; JF;
LEWIS, THOMAS Builder, Bath, WBR2; advert BC 10.1.1856 architect, surveyor, arbitrator and referee, valuer etc late Wells Road, now 8 Larkhall Place, Bath.
(1837-41 contractor with William Jones Brewer of Box quarrymaster for one third of Box Tunnel, Wilts; IK Brunel qv engineer)
1840-3 builder, New Gaol, Twerton, Bath; GP Manners architect; BC 9.3.43;
LHC ARCHITECTS, Exeter. See Lacie, Hickie, Caley.
LIDBETTER, HUBERT. London. 1885-1956, born Dublin, Quaker, set up in 1918, won competition for Friends House, London, 1923; architect of Quaker Meeting houses, also small country houses including Witheridge, Knotty Corner, Bucks, REDA 10, and Gade House, Watford, Herts, REDA 80; George Cadbury Hall, Selly Oak, Birmingham, 1929; practice from 1950 with his son Herbert Martin Lidbetter 1914-92 (who died in Taunton); SAS;
1925 restored Gerbestone Manor, West Buckland, Som; REDA 11; for Lloyd Fox of Tonedale Mills; new staircase and corridor behind original, add on end of rear NE kitchen wing and alts to centre of s side for drawing room. Also thatched squash court from former barn DoE; CL 16.11.1935;
LIGHTOLER, TIMOTHY. 1727-69 Carver, architect, born Lancs, in Warwick working on Warwick Castle with father and brother, both joiners called Thomas, c1750. From late 1750s produced books of designs; HC; architect from 1760s, began Soho Manufactory for Matthew Boulton 1761 but sacked 1763; des Platt Hall, Lancs c1763 and St Paul ch Liverpool 1763-9; HC;
1763-8 unex design for Guildhall, Bath; design 1763; won comp 1766 against J Wood Jr & R Jones qqv; 1768 FS laid; AFtext;
1766-7 Octagon Chapel, Milsom St, Bath; engraving in W Ison; HC;
LINE, JOHN Carpenter
1737-41 paid for repairs to Woodlands ch, Som; Longleat Pennard 2/12 1/1/1722; repaired wheel to bell 1737, door to bell-loft 1740;
LINSCOMBE, HENRY Yeovil, marble-cutter.
1791 Paid £1/1/0d for plan and estimate for new tower East Coker ch, Som, but plan and estimate of Joseph Radford of Chard qv used and Radford built it; Churchwardens accnts in Chronicle 5 2 1991 39; but HL was paid 6/6d in 1794 for 134 lbs of plaster. ?the same as Henry Luscombe paid 15/0d in 1794 for putting up monument to Mr Skinner in East Coker ch. John Batten, South Somerset Villages, 1894, 151 says tower des by a ‘Yeovil marble-mason’.
LITTLE & GOODSON. Architects, London. Alexander Colbourne Little 1877-1936 & Ingreson Charles Goodson 1879-1940. Alex Little left c1907 to join Hong Kong Public Works Department, private practice there from 1914; SAS;
1904-5 Carnegie Library, Corporation St, Taunton, Som; opening plaque now in new library, Paul St; TM Moggridge builder; BN 23.10.03, BN 18.3.04, Br 9.9.05; converted to pub 1996;
LITTLE, OWEN C. Architect, 1866-1931, born Devon, designed lodges and stable yard at Leeds Castle Kent and worked at Plas Newydd, Anglesey, from 1922;
c1905-8 adds Manor House, Mells, Som; low kitchen range, larger plans by Lutyens 1904 not used; AFtext;
(c1910 10 Shakespeare Rd, Birchington, Kent; ukmoho;
LLEWELLINS & JAMES Brewery architects and fitters, Bristol; established as brewers’ engineers and architects in the eighteenth century. By the 1880s they enjoyed their most productive period, and in 1888 produced a catalogue advertising their buildings and plant, including designs for breweries and malting; closed in the 1970’s.
1882 Evercreech Brewery, Stoney Stratton, Evercreech, Som, new plant and appliances; PP 28
1882 alts and exts Paull & Son, Brewery Lane, Ilminster, altered and extended adding...several modern appliances, PP 43
1885 plans, Tower Brewery, Merriott, Som, PP 48
1887 Albermarle Street Maltings (James Sleeman), Taunton, dem. PP 86-7, illustrated.
1904 new brewhouse, Sidney Fussell & Sons Brewery, Rode, Som, closed 1992 and dem. PP 60
LLEWELLYN HARKER ARCHITECTS LTD The Barn, Home Fm, East Pennard. Formed in 2000 by Martin Llewellyn RIBA, Jonathan RS Harker RIBA, PN Benjamin RIBA. Home Farm, East Pennard, restored for himself by M Llewellyn. Martin Llewellyn is brother of author Sam Llewellyn.
20?? Work at Sexey’s Hospital, Bruton, Som inc removal of one balcony and alts to other; website photo;
20?? work at St Andrew’s Primary School, Bath, Som; photo on website; school 1991 by Nealon Tanner Partnership, SNB;
2005-8 Eaglewood Park, Whitelackington, Som, conversion of outbuildings at Home Farm, Dillington for Lord Cameron; by Martin Llewellyn;
2008 Outbuilding, Whitelackington Manor, Som for Ewan, Lord Cameron; SW of house by swimming-pool; inf Lord Cameron; by Martin Llewellyn;
2010-12 repairs Court House, East Quantoxhead, Som for Hugh Luttrell; by Martin Llewellyn; inf owner;
2011 conversion, Cockmill Farm, East Pennard, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
2011 Village shop, Mells, Som; Mendip awards 2012;
(2013 alts Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; by Jonathan Harker for Paul Weiland; inf Jenny Napier-Ford; conversion of barn to functions room, ?also rear gable on N range with sitting-rm fireplace;
LLOYD, HENRY. Architect, Park St, Bristol;
c1851 Manilla Cres, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB;
(1857 North Wilts Bank, St John St, Devizes, striking object from Market Square; DWG 1.10.57
(1857 House for George Waylen, Salisbury road, Devizes, 'beautiful Italian villa' DWG 1.10.57;
(1861-4 Tiverton TH, Devon; 1st pr 1861, RHH; TC 22.6.64; BoE says comp was in 1864; TC 8.6.64 cost estimated at £50,000 inc new roads and removing old station; SM 5.7.54;
1859-61 Holy Trinity ch, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB; TC 9.10.61; organ ch by EH Edwards qv , 1885; consec Br 12.10.61;
c1862 attr Atlantic Tce, Weston s Mare, Som; SNB;
LLOYD, MATTHEW. Matthew Lloyd Architects, London. Firm started 1990s by ML who taught at Plymouth University with Jeremy Gould qv;
2000 addition Hindhayes Primary School, Street, Som; inf Caroline Gould;
LOBB, HOWARD Architect, co-ordinator with Hugh Casson of architecture for Festival of Britain. Did a Grammar School at Keynsham, Som, for Somerset County Council according to retired Som CC architects;
LOCKE, JOSEPH Engineer 1805-60, born near Sheffield, articled 1823 to George Stephenson in Newcastle, from 1826 worked with Stephensons on Liverpool & Manchester Railway, drove Rocket at opening 30.9.30 when William Huskisson killed. Built Grand Junction Railway 1829-37; Lancs & Carlisle; Carlisle to Glasgow, engineer to London & Southampton 1836-40; Manchester & Sheffield Railway 1845 (1838-40 SAS); London & Southampton became LSWR, engineer until resigned 1849, designed Richmond Bridge 1848, Micheldever Tunnel, Fareham viaducts 1848, Barnes Bridge 1849; Le Havre-Paris 1841-3 including Barentin viaduct; 1846 bought Manor of Honiton, MP for Honiton 1847-60.
1845 engineer proposed Exeter, Yeovil & Dorchester Railway plans Q/RUP/177;
1849-60 engineer Salisbury & Yeovil Railway, BLJ 40; Q/RUP/221 plans 1851; Thomas Brassey contractor; line to pass S of Yeovil through Sutton Bingham, Som, and on to Exeter as Yeovil & Exeter Railway. Work began at Gillingham 3.4.56, standard gauge, work Semley-Gillingham 1856, Bradford Abbas to Yeovil marked out March 58, Salisbury-Gillingham all but complete Aug 1858, Milborne Wick and Oborne cuttings under way, Sherborne Sentinel 18.9.58, East Mill factory, Sherborne, Dorset, converted to workshops, counting houses and dormitories. Open to Gillingham 2.5.59, problems with Buckhorn Weston tunnel Dorset delayed next piece to Sherborne, open 7.5.60. Agreed 1859 to spur to Hendford-Pen Mill line and a new joint station at Yeovil Town, plans to be arranged between LSWR & B&E and paid for by S&Y (BLJ43), temporary station at Hendford served by standard gauge alongside broad gauge. Sherborne to Yeovil line had three over-bridges, seven under bridges and four viaducts, six of the bridges of brick and stone, other four iron girders, three cast-iron, one wrought-iron. Viaduct over Yeo of 5 arches with cast-iron girders, report 26.5.60. Opened 1.6.60, WFP 5.6.60 gives account of ‘splendid bridge’ of five arches, cast-iron, contractors Brassey & Co. Evidence lacking that Locke involved in actual building 1856-60, no evidence of who designed stations.
1856-60 ?engineer, Yeovil & Exeter Railway; mentioned in LH Ruegg, The Salisbury & Yeovil Railway, 1878, as replying to toast to ‘The members for Honiton’ by saying that ‘for 16 years he had endeavoured to bring this line to bear’ but probably not actual engineer as had not been engineer to LSWR since 1849; extension only proposed 1851, Act 21.7.56, work begun 1856; WFP 5.6.60: to open 5.7.60, Mr Taylor contractor. BLJ 51 ff. William Taylor, Manchester, contractor, JJ Errington qv who had succeeded Locke as LSWR engineer in 1849 in charge, with WR Galbraith resident engineer and William Tite, architect. Stations at Yeovil Junction, Sutton Bingham, Crewkerne, and Chard Road in Somerset; Axminster, Colyton, Honiton, Feniton, Whimple, Broadclyst, Exeter Queen St in Devon.
LOCKE, RICHARD 1737-1806 land surveyor, antiquary and agriculturist. By 1755 had inherited fourteen acres of farm land in Burnham, which he increased to nearly one hundred acres by 1760.
1755 survey parish of Godney; remarked that is when...I first began to measure and value land, SAS.
177? Map of Glastonbury, before 1778
1782 proposed publishing coloured plan of Taunton to accompany his history and directory of the town; neither the plan nor the history were published.
178? proposed drainage scheme, King’s Sedgemoor Drain
1798c agricultural survey of Somerset as supplement to Collison’s History of Somerset;
LOCKYER, JAMES Architect and surveyor, Fitzroy Square London, 1796-1875, pupil of Robert Abraham, designed Royal Society of Chemistry 1846, White's Club 1852, Paddington Vestry Hall 1853, ??son James M Locckyer 1824- 65 took over practice in 1847 (SAS) in partnership with AH Morant, a relative;
1839-41 Knowle St Giles ch, Som; ICBS; VCH; BoE S says by Lewis Vulliamy 1837-40 because Vulliamy’s Br obituary lists a new church for Knowle (could this be another Knowle?);
LODGE, THOMAS ARTHUR. Architect, London of Lanchester, Lucas & Lodge, 1888-1967, partner in Lanchester, Lucas & Lodge, 1923, Geoffrey Lucas retired 1930 when firm was Lanchester & Lodge; hospital specialists, 1938 TAL designed Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, SAS;
1931 consultant for alts Taunton Hospital; TC 4.3.31, 24.6.31;
LOGAN & RENNIE Contractors, London & Newport. ?called Rennie, Logan & Matthews in The Story of Donyatt p 71.
1863-6 contractors Chard branch of Bristol & Exeter railway, under Francis Fox engineer, contracting engineer Mr Moseley, line opened 11.9.66; Stations at Chard, Ilminster, surviving bridges at Donyatt, crossing-keepers cottage E of Ashill.
1864-7 contractors Chard Joint Railway station and 1.3 m track joining to Chard station of LSWR; John Fox of Hatch engineer, Conybeers civil engineers, opened to passengers 26.11.67;
LOMAS, JOHN ARTHUR MEASE. Porlock, painter. 1862-1950. Son of Thomas Lomas of Cleveland, North Hill, Minehead, owner of Bristol Channel Chemical Works, Minehead, built 1877 burnt 1887, family moved to Christchurch, Dorset in 1901. brother of Harold Lomas, Minehead, photographer and early movie-maker; article by Jeff Cox in Exmoor Review and conversation; JAML studied at South Kensington, had successful London exhibition at Quest Gallery, New Bond St, 1906, moved to London c1911 returned in 1930s to a studio in Great House Street, Timberscombe, Som, built for him by Frank Huxtable, local builder. Wife died 1938.
1905 Windrush, Hawkcombe, Porlock, Som; hunting-lodge in roughcast and half-timber with red tiles, owner in 1906, 1910 dirs was A Borlase Eady; first-floor plan 1905 signed, but uncertain if this is for addition to a single-storey house or whole houses; JEML exhibited plans and photos of house at his 1906 exhibition; illustrated in Germany as Landhaus in Porlock, JA Mease Lomas in ‘Landhaus und Garten’ by Hermann Muthesius, 1907, 171 exterior and 203 hall fireplace; good Arts & Crafts interior;
LOMAX & HAY Engineers, Abingdon St, London
1864-8 engineers proposed port, Brean Down, Som; Sir John Coode consultant; RW Dowell contractor; £86000, abandoned c1868; N van der Bijl, Brean Down Fort, 2000;
LONG, - Dutch landscape designer employed c.1726 at Bradley House, West Bradley, Som, by Colonel William Peirs, having been sent to Peirs by Henry 7th E of Lincoln of Oatlands, Weybridge, Sy. Laid out ‘Canals, waterworks, walk and knots’ .. diary of John Cannon, clerk and bailiff to Peirs, typescript SRO DD/SAS/ C/1193. Cannon thought Long ‘a morose, ill-natured fellow’ and ‘gave him a push and threw [him] into the Canal’. Now West Bradley House.
LONG, CHARLES Frome Surveyor, 1788-1870. Charles Long of Frome, carpenter, leased land in Frome Selwood in 1810 from John Biggs of Tottenham Court, Mx, cabinet-maker, and in 1813 leased it to John Kemp, freestone mason, D/N/fr.b/1/1/16; called a carpenter who can neither read nor write by Thomas Bunn, when he accompanied him to advise on cost of repairs to Kilmersdon School, 1837; SAS; 1840 listed as carpenter, Wine St, Frome; but by 1851 living in St Pancras, London, as retired builder; died in Chard;
1828-9 tower, Witham Friary ch, Som; demolished as unstable 1875; N&Q 35 76; McGarvie Witham Friary 16: estimate £725; built to W of existing church; apse was squared off; cf also William Frome;
1827-8 gallery, Christ Church, Frome, Som; ICBS;
1831-2 rebuilt Rodden ch, Som; N&Q 35 76; SNB; lengthened by one bay, with new W tower,
1837? East Hill, Rodden, Som, for Mr Edgell; N&Q 35 76;
1837? Phoenix Hall, Dommetts Lane, Frome; SAS;
LONG, JACOB. Bath. Contractor. Jacob Long & Sons, Railway Rd, Bath also Sydenham Buildings, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath in 1906 dir; lived at Cheriton, Oldfield Park, Bath.
(1897 builder Ford ch, Wilts, CE Ponting archt; WBR2; BN 30.1.98)
(1899 builder Holy Rood RC Schools, Swindon, Wilts; Silcock & Reay; WBR2
(1902 builder Winsley House, Winsley Wilts; Silcock & Reay archts; WBR2; for Arthur Lee of South Kensington, London)
(1913 builder alts Greathouse, Kington Langley, Wilts; D Stewart architect; WBR2;
1924 rebuilt Halswell House, Goathurst, Som, for Lord Wharton after 1923 fire; TS Vickery architect; SSCH 71, J Long of Bath builder; complete recreation of C17-C18 interiors;
(1938-49 builders County Hall, Trowbridge, Wilts; PD Hepworth architect;
LONG, JAMES Builder, Bradford on Avon 1820-1911, did much work in the town and in Devizes after 1871; WBR; father William Long was stonemason and builder died c1861. Brothers were Charles Long builder and quarry master 1835-88, William Long Jr builder and quarry owner, who built New Mills, Lamb Yard c1845, and Victoria Terrace, 1859 and Albert Terrace 1863, and Abbey Mill, Church St, 1875 (architect R Gane) all in Bradford on Avon acc to WBR (possible confusion of two Williams); and John, carpenter. Charles' son Albert Long 1867-1952 worked for James Long
(1848-51 restored The Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts for Stephen Moulton; P Slocombe, The Hall, Bradford on Avon, 2012;
(1854-5 builder Town Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, with J Spender; WBR; Thomas Fuller architect;
(1856 builder Cemetery, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; T Fuller qv architect; WBR; two chapels and lodge;
(1871? North Wilts Bank, Church St, Bradford on Avon Wilts; WBR, possibly not built until 1877)
LONG, ROBERT Monumental mason, Taunton, 1797-1867 son of Mark Long c1766-1830, between them made many church memorials in Taunton area;
1842 font, Holy Trinity ch, Taunton, Som; SAS; JM Derick architect, GM May 1842 2 190;
LONGMAN, J. Surveyor.
1825 alts and gallery West Camel ch, Som; ICBS;
LOUDON, JOHN CLAUDIUS. Botanist, gardener, landscaper, prolific author on gardening, landscaping and planning, 1783-1843; laid out Derby Arboretum 1839; wrote Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm & Villa architecture, 1836;
1844 laid out Abbey Cemetery, Bath, Som; SNB; chapel by GP Manners
LOVE, ROBERT MACLAREN. 1888-1979 Worked for Public Works Dept in Malaya 1920 and New Delhi from 1928, as chief architect in planning department, designed Lord Irwin Hospital 1928. Returned England 1928; inf AM Rome who lived at No 11 Mayfair Ave, Nailsea, BS48 2LR;
1933 Nos 11-15 The Close, Mayfair Ave, Nailsea, Som; inf AM Rome terraced group of five, orig intended sixth detached one not built; Alan Rome lived at No 11.
LOVELACE, MARY KING, Countess of; 1848-1941, married in 1880 Ralph King 2nd Earl of Lovelace as his 2nd wife; born Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley, daughter of an MP. 2nd Earl died in 1906 and left her tenant for life of Ashley Combe estate, Porlock, Som, and ?also the other Lovelace estates, Ockham Park, Surrey, and in Leics; she brought up children of Judith, Countess of Lytton, who were heirs to estate. Moved to Ockham in 1920s, refused to let Lady Lytton sell Bratton Court estate, near Minehead, bought it back at auction in 1923. Her last visit to Ashley Combe was in 1932, then house was let, in 1939-45 to Dr. Barnardo's. Lady Lytton had her papers destroyed, 4th Earl of Lytton had Ashley Combe demolished. Cf Victorian Society Annual Report 1995 38-41;
Lady Lovelace designed houses etc in style of CFA Voysey qv whom she employed from 1895 onward, initially in Leicestershire, her own buildings were built with – Perkins, her clerk of works; Exmoor Review 1999 48-50;
1901 attrib add to stables, Ashley Combe, Porlock Weir, Som, unsigned plan for a small end addition with battered chimney and hipped roof, D/R/wil/24/1/6 for a bedroom over the harness room
1911-14 adds Worthy Manor, Porlock Weir, Som, including adds to stables; adds to Manor attributed to Voysey, new entrance hall with new staircase to newly formed bedrooms with typical voysey window frames and distinctive iron glazing bars; M Scott Exmoor Review 1999 49;
1912 Lillycombe House, Porlock Hill, Oare, Som; largely designed by Lady L but built under Voysey's supervision; RL; Wendy Hitchmough list; built for Edward MacDermot author of History of the Royal Forest of Exmoor, 1911, who had asked to be sold a site for a house, but she built this and leased it for his lifetime, he spent summers there to 1921, then lived here permanently; Exmoor Review 1999 49; plans ?RIBA;
1912 design for village hall, Porlock, SAS, error design is by CFA Voysey and in RIBA acc to Diana Crighton; not built until 1925 FS laid 27.6.25 by Lady Lovelace to plans by FW Roberts qv; the part to W added later;
19?? Add to Gatehouse Cottage, Ashley Combe, Porlock Som; BoE S; ?the addition to cottage attached to the entrance arch;
1927 ?conversion of Yearnor Moor Stables to house, Culbone, Som now pub; plans D/R/wil/24/1/61 are unsigned; unlikely
Also
cottages on Ashley Combe and Bratton Court estates;
?add to Broomstreet Farm, Oare;
addition to Culbone Lodge, Culbone;
addition to Culbone Cottage, Culbone;
Nos 1-2 Wentworth, Bratton, a pair of estate houses, are by Lady Lovelace according to Roland Lytton.
LOVELACE, WILLIAM KING 1st Earl of Lovelace, 1805-93, 8th Lord King married Hon Ada Byron in 1835, only daughter of Lord Byron, created 1st Earl of Lovelace 1837, took surname King-Noel in 1860. Lady Lovelace +1852. Estate at Ockham Park, Surrey, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey 1840, bought East Horsley, Sy, where he built Horsley Towers, moved there 1846. Remarried 1867 Jane Jenkins. According to SF, King was an architect and engineer honoured by ICE for developing steam-bent arched trusses, and won medal at Great Exhibition for brick making. Biography by S Tudbury-Turner, Surrey Archaeological Collections 70 1974;
1835-40 ?improvements Ashley Combe, Porlock Weir, Som; £2800; uncertain if designed by him; house was built before 1799 (first mention) for £1300, estate owned by Kings since 1734; improvements include Italian terraced gardens, tunnels and roads; Worthy toll-road built 1837; Italianate clock tower on house August 1837; bath-house on cliffs for Lady Lovelace; after 1840 spent less time at Ashley Combe; Mrs Ernst’s diary 18.7.1845 ‘an old irregular building to which large additions have been lately made in very bad taste and opposite to a mean entrance in a square flower garden, two sides of which are built up with three open terraces against the rock (one above the other) supported by a number of small arches, left with their hollow spaces at the back in the most ragged and forlorn state’, quoted in B Milne, The house at Ashley Combe; also ref to Lord L forwarding drawings to Lady L. She wrote: ‘Your drawings of Ashley Combe exites my curiosity about the bastions and battlements. You must have fancied yourself a feudal lord’; built Philiosopher’s Walk in honour of Charles Babbage;
(1846ff adds to Horsley Towers, Surrey; original house 1820-9 by Charles Barry, bought by Lord Lovelace, who added W tower, Great Hall 1847, large additions after he travelled abroad after death of Lady L in 1852; E tower 1858, cloisters and chapel 1859-60; also tunnel beneath grounds from cloister, bridges in grounds, and estate cottages;
18?? Attrib cottages etc on Ashley Combe estate, Som with similar brick detail to Horsley Towers: Gatehouse Lodge, Worthy, Porlock; Culbone Lodge, Culbone;
LOWDER, JOHN Architect, Bath; 1781-1829, City Surveyor, Bath, 1817-22; HC; exh design for mausoleum at RA 1803. A son, the Rev John Lowder, drowned c1849-50 acc to Overland China Mail quoted in TC 16.1.1850; HE Goodridge qv was pupil.
(1815 Bishopstone Rectory, Wilts; WBR; c1816-20 HC; for Rev Thomas Bromley; CL 12.11.1959;
1816-17 National School, North Parade Passage, Bath; dem 1896; MF
1818-20 Holy Trinity ch, James St West, Bath; ICBS; dem; 1820-2 MF; 1819-22 HC;
LOWREY, FREDERICK. Engineer to Somerset Drainage Commissioners from 1893, previously at Great Grimsby as engineer to Lincs Commissioners of Sewers. 1893 report on R Parrett floods prevention; MW; Miles SIAS 7 29 says name was Lowry; resigned 1895, followed by W Lunn qv.
LOWTHER, JOHN Mason, Walcot, Bath. In 1767 called late of Bradford on Avon now of Bath; fl 1752-78 may have des 12-16 Bearfield, Bradford on Avon Wilts c1750ff, WBR2;
LUCAS & LANGFORD Architects, Exeter; John A Lucas 1869-1945 in partnership with John S Lucas as auctioneers and surveyors before 1896, then joined by Douglas Langford qv as L&L, firm dissolved 1931; SAS
1931-2 Central Cinema, Church St, Yeovil, Som; dem 1988; SAS; BH; ?design by Douglas Langford;
LUCAS, ROBERTS & BROWN Architects, Barnfield Hill, Exeter;
(1950 St Sidwell ch, Exeter, Devon, from Nissen hut; H&F)
1962 Martin's Bank, Bridgwater; Martin's website; three-storey brick;
197? Bishop Henderson Primary School, Galmington, Taunton, Som; project architect Robert Willis, inf R Dunning;
LUCAS, WILLIAM KING Architect, 1845-1912 ARIBA, 12 Dalmeny Ave, London, in 1900; born in Langport, pupil Maurice Davis qv, then in London with CH Cooke from 1870, qualified 1881, offices in Hampsead then Barnet, died in Church Stretton, Salop; SAS; OD;
1872 restored pulpit, Long Sutton ch, Som; and presented the 12 statues added 1910, drawings and inf in church;
1900 Two detached houses, Irnham Rd, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/22/1/83; for Matthews Bros; Irnham Lodge and adj Harley House; OD80; OD says he designed three villas at top of Irnham Road for London builders C&G Matthews;
1900 White Lodge, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, and stables, for Matthews Bros; D/U/M/22/1/99; OD95;
1902 Stables, Irnham Rd, Minehead, for Matthews; OD135;
1902 ?Stables, Luxborough Rd, Minehead, for Matthews Bros; D/U/M/ 22/1/141; probably mistake for Irnham Rd;
1903 alts to stables, Irnham Lodge, Irnham Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/167; OD160;
LUDER (OWEN) PARTNERSHIP Architects, founded 1957 by Owen Luder (born 1928), leading figure in RIBA, PRIBA. Known for Brutalist designs, designed Tricorn Centre, Portsmouth and Derwent Tower and Trinity Centre, both Gateshead.
1969-72 Southgate Centre, Bath; dem for new shopping dev by Chapman Taylor 2006-10;
LUNN, WILLIAM Engineer to Somerset Drainage commissioners 1895-1920 in succession to F Lowrey. 1898 report on Parrett & Tone; 1912 report on R Parret; 1919 report on widening all main rivers of levels, unex; MW; Miles SIAS 7 30;
LUSCOMBE, - Exeter
1881 Unsuccess tender for rest North Curry ch, Som; Olivey N Curry, 1901;
LUSCOMBE, HENRY see Henry Linscombe.
LUSH, EDMUND & WILLIAM carpenters, builders, Salisbury, Edmund Lush +1795 was clerk of works to the Cathedral at Salisbury from 1750s to 1792; William, his son worked with him from 1777 and was called builder & auctioneer;
1778-80 attrib TH, Wells, Som SNB; SAS; but built 'after a plan of the Rev Dr Camplin … under the direction of Mr Paty' according to Felix Farley's Journal 17.8.76, HC; Rev Dr Thomas Camplin qv c1716-80, Archdeacon of Taunton, designed Holywell Music Room, Oxford 1742 when vice-principal St Edmund hall, Oxford; Thomas Paty qv builder;
LUTYENS, Sir EDWIN LANDSEER 1869-1942. Pupil Sir Ernest George, leading architect of earlier C20, knighted 1918, RIBA Gold Medal 1921, PRIBA 1938; office 1924 17 Queen Anne's Gate, London;
1900 lychgate, Kilmersdon ch, Som; RL; SNB; Amery and Richardson, Lutyens Exhibition, 1981, 84 and 193; Jane Brown, Lutyens and the Edwardians 1996, 114;
1901-2 alts gardens Ammerdown House, Som; RL; 1901-2 SC, SNB; HGS 208-11; for Lord Hylton; new Italian garden SE of house; CL 2.3.1929; RA 1937 exh six items plans and photos;
1901 converted service block, Redlynch House, Bruton, Som for 5th E of Ilchester; RL, burnt 1914 and rebuilt differently by John Thorpe qv. The E side had triple hipped gables and oak canted bays linked by balconies. Lutyens’ S porch survives, moved to W end. Minor works in gardens may survive, possibly the summerhouse to E and garden archway W, but possibly by John Thorpe.
(1902? work at Upham House, Aldbourne, Wilts; WBR2 for Miss Hanbury; ?error work was by C Biddulph-Pinchard
1904-8 gardens & orangery, Hestercombe, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som, for Hon EW Portman; 1904-10 RL, gardens with Gertrude Jekyll; CL 24 10-17.10.08; 1904-6 HGS 213-6; Orangery, Great Plat, Rose Garden, Rotunda, terrace and steps to orangery, Dutch Garden, Daisy Steps; also rebuilt gables of the water-mill; RA 1937 exh, plan and photographs; also a timbered village hall is illustrated in L Weaver, Village halls, 1922, where?
1904 unexecuted plans wing Mells Manor, Som; dated 1904, built to designs by Owen Little qv c1905-8; plans for gardens 1904, ?not executed; S range restored after family returned c1901 (house abandoned from c1765) up to c1905 (SNB) including a C17 style ceiling based on one formerly at Merchants Barton, Frome; added single-storey music room & garden room c1922; restoration work to house 1931; SAS; Amery & Richardson;
1907 unex alts Enmore Castle, Amery & Richardson 1981 194; SAS;
1908 design for unex memorial clock tower, Leigh on Mendip, Som; Amery & Richardson 194; SAS;
1908-9 Public well and shelter, Mells, Som; RL; in memory Mark Horner +1908, inscription by Eric Gill; wall 1909, SC notes. Working drawing 1909, SAS;
1909 Tombstone to Mark Horner +1908, Mells churchyard, Som; made by Eric Gill; SNB;
c1910-12 alts W front Ammerdown Park, Som; SNB; to mirror E facade, SAS;
1912? attrib mon Mary Lepel Joliffe +1912, Kilmersdon churchyard, Som; RL; attrib SNB;
1916 minor alts Edgarley House, Glastonbury, Som for Lt-Commander Thomas-Ferrand, insertion of bathrooms and drainage; copies of plans Millfield Prep School archives;
1917 Bronze wreath memorial to Lt Raymond Asquith + 1916, Mells ch, Som; lettering by Eric Gill
1918 Thomas Joliffe mon, Kilmersdon churchyard, Som; RL, headstone, slab and columns;
1920 plinth to equestrian bronze by Munnings to Edward Horner +1917 in Mells ch, Som; unex plan for a stone mausoleum to shelter it. 1920-22 RL; 1920 AF text;
c1920 war memorial column, Mells, Som; Amery & Richardson 143 and 195; SNB;
c1922 adds Manor House, Mells, Som; music room and garden room; SNB; music room, with loggia and sleeping balcony; HGS 211-13;
1922-5 Mells Park, Som for Reginald MacKenna, chairman of Midland Bank; BoE S; 1925 after fire, RL, previous house burnt 1917; ELL commissioned 1922 HGS 217; gardens c1926 with Gertrude Jekyll;
(1924 ??rest Milton Lilbourne ch, Wilts, with Harold Brakspear; WBR; unlikely
1924-6 Herbert chapel, Brushford ch, Som; BoE S; RL; ?Br 1926 1; to Hon Aubrey Herbert +1923 of Pixton Park, Dulverton, T Press, Somerset Country Houses and Villages, 1931-2; plans SRO D/D/cf/1924/9; full-length effigy of Herbert by Cecil de B Howard Canadian-born American sculptor based in Paris & Paimpol; fine opaque pink glass; plans show heraldry on E wall bosses never done, correspondence re stone altar refused by Chancellor of diocese and narrowing proposed door into church nave N wall to avoid a blocked window; Mrs Herpbert, rector and churchwardens in favour of stone altar but chancellor says that it is illegal;
1926 unex plans pair lodge-houses & gates, Hatch Court, Hatch Beauchamp, Som, for Brig Hamilton Gault; plans with John Townson; Amery & Richardson 197;
1931 rest Manor House, Mells, Som; SAS; not in SNB,
1932 MacKenna family monument, Mells churchyard, Som; SNB;
1932 unex design altar frontal, Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, D/D/ Cf/1924/9; RIBA, vol. M, 18; Amery and Richardson, 196;
1937 monument Sir John and Lady Horner, Mells churchyard, RIBA, vol. M, 39; Amery and Richardson; not in SNB;
LYE, THOMAS Builder, Crewkerne, Thomas Lye & Son, East St, 1883 dir;
1861c National School, off West Street, Crewkerne, Som; DD/EDS/6633, SAS
LYONS & SLEEMAN & HOARE Architects, Hartley Wintney, Hants, specialist in shopping centres eg Spitalfields Market London, covent Garden, Bicester, founder mark Lyons.
2010 Tourist Information Centre, Clarks Village, Street, Som; Mendip awards 2011; also shopping units and conversion of buildings;
LYSAGHT, THOMAS ROYCE. Bristol. Partner of WB Gingell qv in 1850s as G&L. Much work from c1872-1886 in Bristol; GJL; was living in Wolverhampton 1875;
(1857 West of England & S Wales Bank, St Mary St, Cardiff, Glam; BN 1857 699; now Nat West, BoW; ?G&L but by TRL acc to BN.
(1857-61 Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Fishponds, Bristol; T: BN 1857 645; contr BN 1857 671; opened 1861 now Glenside;
1861-2 Backwell School, Som; SNB, enlarged 1873 and 1892;
(1877 Nos 9-12 Cotham Vale, Bristol; GJL
(1879 entrant University College, Bristol, comp;
(1884 Constitutional Club, St Stephens St, Bristol; dem;
(1884 Carlton Chambers, 23-5 Baldwin St, Bristol; GJL)
(1886 St Vincent Works, Silverthorne La, Bristol; GJL
MACBEAN, TIMOTHY A. G. Georgian House, Greenhill, Sherborne, Dorset; 01938 814955. Architect to Sherborne School designed numerous alts and additions 1981-92, see OSS;
2000 New Park Farmhouse, Stavordale, Charlton Musgrove, Som; inf owner
2011 add dormitory block, Lisbury site, Sexey’s School, Bruton, Som; plans at school;
MACDONALD HAMILTON & MONTEFIORE
1968 House near Wincanton, Som; Bungalow Plans 1973;
MACDONNELL, J. J. Succeeded Sir Charles Hutton Gregory as Chief Engineer to Bristol & Exeter Railway. Followed in 1854 by Francis Fox qv; inf John Speller website;
MACEY, JOHN mason, born 1824 son of John Macey (d.1851) stonemason of Bishops Hull, SAS; 1851 described as a bricklayer, but 1861 listed as mason and inn keeper.
1852 school, Staplegrove, Som; Shorrocks, Church of St John the Evangelist, Staplegrove, 1992, 15
1857 builder, rest Staplegrove ch, CE Giles architect SCG 22.8.57
MACFARLANE, WALTER 1853-1932 ironfounder. In 1871 joined the Saracen Foundry, Glasgow, established 1850 by his uncle Walter MacFarlane (1817-1885) to become one of the most important manufacturers of ornamental ironwork. On the death of his uncle, commissioned series of standard designs from foremost Glasgow architects. Company moved in 1872 to a new Saracen Foundry in the N of Glasgow. The range of decorative ironwork the firm produced included railings, bollards, drinking fountains, bandstands, street lights and prefabricated buildings. Lynn Pearson, Victorian and Edwardian British Industrial Architecture, 2016]
1895 Vivary Park, Taunton, entrance gates and bandstand (though bandstand might be by Messrs. H. Phillips & Son),
1907 Queen Victoria Memorial Fountain, Vivary Park, Taunton; Colson Stone Partnership, Vivary Park Restoration Proposals, 1998, 14, 15 and 16; SSW similar fountain in Princess Gardens, Torquay, Devon;
1915 ironwork, Strand Cafe, Seafront, Minehead,
1??? cast-iron urinal, railway station, West Cranmore, Som, SSW;
1??? iron drinking fountain, Minehead station; West Somerset Railway News, November 2005; SAS;
MACGREGOR, JOHN ERIC MIERS London Partner of AR Powys see Powys & MacGregor, associated with SPAB;
1931 report on Montacute House for National Trust. CL 26.11.51.
1932 report on West Pennard Tithe Barn, Som; repairs done 1936 under Ernest Bowden qv; AF notes.
(1936 Lennox House, South Hackney, London; RA 1937 exh; flats)
1947-50 reps Hatch Beauchamp ch, Som; ICBS; ?inspected work by RM Torrens
1948 repairs Wellington Monument, nr Wellington, Som TC 24.4.48;
1948-9 plans reps Berkley ch, Som; ICBS;
1952 chancel ceiling, Stoke sub Hamdon ch, Som; DoE n.d.; SRO cf/1952/4/6 ?applies;
1961 Chappell Building, Sunny Hill School, Bruton; John Macgregor & Partners; plaque; flat roofed; ?a different Macgregor; classrooms and gymnasium.
MACKENZIE WHEELER Putney, London. Specialists hospitality and leisure industries. Est 1986 Rupert Wheeler and Duncan Mackenzie
1992 rest Hankridge Arms PH, Taunton, Som; AJ 9.11.95 53-4; for Hall & Woodhouse brewers; Stansel Conservation contrs; completed 2002, extensions each end;
(2002-5 Dogmersfield Park, Hants, conversion to Four seasons hotel)
2009 At the Chapel, High St, Bruton, Som, conversion of former Cong Chapel to bar, restaurant;
MACKENZIE, CHRIS Architect, Designscape qv founded 2005 by Chris Mackenzie, formerly with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios qv; partners Spencer Back, Alex Sykes;
2009 Twinneys, Charlcombe La, Bath; C20index;
MACKINTOSH, CHARLES RENNIE Glasgow. Architect, furniture designer, painter etc. cf Alan Crawford Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1995. Visited Somerset in 1895, made drawings of the medieval church tower at Merriott, Som published BA, and the inspiration for the tower of his Queen’s Cross ch, Glasgow, 1897-9, the only church he built; Crawford, 1995, 44-46;
1917 bedroom, Fairlawn, Weston Rd, Bath, Som for Sidney Horstmann; Scottish Architects website; Crawford 212;
MACKINTOSH, DAVID 11 Verney Place, Exeter. Architect and surveyor 1815-59, born Greenock, active in Exeter and Devon 1840s and 1850s; Holy Trinity Barnstaple 1843-5, only tower remains, the rest unsound and rebuilt by William White qv 1867; rebuilt Heavitree ch, 1844, restored Chudleigh 1847, Hartland 1848, Norham 1849, Kenton 1854, Mamhead 1854, Starcross 1854, Shillingford 1856. Died 14.8.1859 business taken over by his assistant WFC Cross, WBR2; SAS;
1843-5 pulpit, Ashbrittle ch, Som; made for Holy Trinity ch, Barnstaple, Devon by DM with G Abbot of Barnstaple, but church was badly built and mostly demolished 1866 when pulpit came to Ashbrittle;
(1850 Indio House, Bovey Tracey, Devon; BoE; Tudor)
1852 parsonage, now Greinton House, Greinton, Som; SRO D/Bbm/111, m&t ws; unusually large with good interiors; Mackintosh presumably also designed Greinton school, 1850, and restored church 1852-3;
1852-3 ?restored Greinton church, Glynne in 1854 says chancel glass all made in Exeter, by Alfred Beer, SAS;
(1859 Sandridge Park, near Melksham, Wilts, TC 26.1.59, about to be erected, Messrs Grant & Son builders; WI 3.2.59; builders J Grant & Sons, Exeter; WBR2, for RL Lopes late of Tetton House, Kingston St Mary, Som; called lately erected 1862;
MACLAREN, THOMAS 1863-1928 architect born Middleton, Perthshire, 1879 in London office of William Wallace (1870-c.1909) and William Flockhart (1854-1913). 1882 admitted student at RA, 1887 awarded RIBA Pugin Travelling Studentship, with which he studied medieval architecture in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. His studies of 1887 contain descriptions of Wells Cathedral and several parish churches and manor houses, together with drawings and watercolours, including Evercreech (tower), Cheddar (tower), Croscombe (exterior, details and plan), Axbridge (chancel), Lyng (pulpit), High Ham (screen), Bruton (interior), Langport (chancel cornice), East Stoke (interior), St John, Glastonbury (tower), South Petherton (exterior and details), Ditcheat (exterior, chancel and moulding details), Shepton Mallet (tower), Wells Cathedral (capital, spandrel, string courses and carved details, W front sculpture, N porch details, staircase to Chapter House, Chaingate and entrance to Vicars Close, Cloister wall S side; watercolour illust. in Ancient Church Fonts of Somerset, ed Adrian Webb, 2013, XIV], entrance to Chapter House, N transept and Chapter House, house in Market Place Somerton, timber-framed buildings, Axbridge, King Ina’s Palace South Petherton, Lytes Cary Manor House, Muchelney Abbey (details), Priory gatehouse, Montacute, almshouses, Bruton, Glastonbury Abbey (details), and Brympton House, Brympton D’Evercy. Worked as assistant to Frederick William Stevens (1847-1900) qv in Bombay, before opening own office in London 1889; left England 1892 for health reasons settling in Colorado Springs USA 1893, and enjoyed a successful career in Colorado, became a member of Institute of American Architects. In 1893 exhibited drawings and watercolours of Somerset and elsewhere at Denver Architectural Sketch Club. William Harvey Pridham qv was Club secretary having left England in 1889. Pridham and Maclaren probably met studying and drawing churches in Somerset. SAS;
MACPHERSON, JAMES. ‘Bartlett architect’.
200? Libraries, Hadspen House, Som for N Hobhouse, interior design of two industrial containers, removed to Shatwell Farm when Hadspen was sold, 2013;
MADDICKS, THOMAS DAWE Engineer, 1801-86 born Dean Prior, Devon, resident Firepool Cottage, Taunton, 1841, owned by B&T Canal company. He gave up engineering, owned property, sold beer 1844-51 at Railway Tap later Whitehall Tavern, admitted to workhouse 1885 died 1.3.86. BDRP 15ff and 24-5;
1834 engineer, Tone Bridge, Taunton, BDRP 15; FS 29.5.34; architect R Carver, SAS;
1837-41 Docks, Bridgwater, Som; SC notes; BDRP 15ff; for Bridgwater & Taunton Canal, Act 21.4.1837, estimate £25000, cost c£40000; - Chapple contr; dock almost complete Sept 1840, sluicing system similar to one proposedby Brunel for Bristol floating harbour in 1832; warehouse 1840-1 4st initial 3 bays, later extended by 2 to the E for Thomas Ware & Son corn-merchants in late 1860s early 1879s; cast-iron balance bridge over outlet erected under superintendence of – Grise; opened 25.3.41, rebuilt 1907 by John Lysaght & Co of Bristol;
1838 worked on Grand Western Canal, connecting Taunton with Tiverton, Devon, assisting Captain John Twisden RN (1767-1853), of Rock House, Halberton, Devon, company secretary and engineer after James Green qv; SAS; Harris, The Grand Western Canal, 2009, 32
MADGE, JOHN FSI Architect, 1862-1944, Somerset House, Fore St, Chard, and Gordon Villa, Chard; began as stonemason, partner of Edmund James Symes 1843-1915 as Symes & Madge qv; Kelly 1906, 1931. Mayor of Chard 1920-1; joined after 1915 by son John F Madge 1892-1952 and Douglas R Nicholls, firm remained Symes & Madge, 1931 dir, dissolved 1933;
1922 replaced chimneys, Harveys Almshouses, Chard, Som; Tony Prior, Harveys, 2009, 25; new chimneys in coloured concrete; Symes & Madge thanked for services without fee; William Tucker contr £102/7/8d; replaced again 2008;
1929-30 Lavatory, courtyard W side, Harveys almshouses, Chard, Som; T Prior 26; S&M; £168/12/6d, - Taylor builder;
MAGGS, JOHN KEELING. Architect, Bristol
1953 reps Backwell ch, Som; AF text;
1969 completed Christ the King ch, Stockwood Road, Bristol; SNB, chancel and N chapel by JR Edwards qv 1963-4;
(1977 Britton Building, Colston Girls' School, Bristol; SNB;
1989 reps Brockley ch, Som; AF text;
MAGNIAC, NICHOLAS, Architect Bath. Nicholas Magniac Associates est 1993; Nicholas Magniac RIBA, with Stride Treglown for 5 yrs, then ?with William Bertram & Fell qv, designed new neo-Georgian Trimbridge House for them; refurbished Queen Sq Place, Bath while with Tektus; shopfronts Northumberland Pl and Queen St Bath, also refurb of same building in Queen St; did conservation enhancement schemes for various South Wales local authorities inc Aberdare;
20?? adds Foxhilll Grove Farmhouse, Perrymead, Bath; Victorian Tudor style;
20?? add Maplecroft, near Bath; octagonal neo-Georgian garden room; ?Maplecroft, Bradford on Avon, Wilts?;
(20?? conv of squash court to swimming-pool, Wingfield, Wilts)
MALAIPERUMAN, JOHN Architect, conservation specialist, 2 Watery La, Nailsea, Som; originally from South India, trained at Bartlett, worked for Cheltenham BC, then with Whicheloe Macfarlane 1986-9 worked on rebuild of Georgian terrace at Pritchard St, Bristol, with Bruges Tozer 1989-96, Scott Brownrigg Turner, 1996-8; with John Bucknall qv 2004-5 worked on Whitestaunton Manor and churches at Wilton, Kingsbury Episcopi and Butleigh; 2005-7 with Llewellyn Harker qv worked on Vine Cottage, ?, Som; historic buildings consultant to Atkins from 2007 worked on restoration of pavilions at Westonbirt, Glos; own practice from 2005 website includes re-ordering churches at Castle Cary and Ansford;
2014 rest bandstand, Grove Park, Weton s Mare, Som; Weston Mercury 25.9.14; bandstand erected 1890? for £135;
MALLETT, JOSEPH Surveyor
1823-5 Gallery, High Littleton ch, Som; ICBS;
MALLOWS, CHARLES EDWARD Architect Bedford, 1864-1916, partnership 1895 with GH Grocock (M&G), worked with TH Mawson landscape architect,
1897 proposed cottage, Minehead (M&G), AA 1897 2 65; SAS;
1898 entrant TH, Taunton, BN 10.6.98; M&G;
1911 Cottage, Crowcombe, Som; AA 1911; alternative designs RIBAD for an unidentified four-bedroomed thatched building, 1910-11, destroyed by fire, 1924, 1915 cottage at Rexton Gorse, Crowcombe Heathfield, Som RIBAD Drawings Catalogue, L-N, 1973, 58-9, photos in the RIBA collection;
MALPAS, HENRY Architect, Market Place, Frome, c1807-79, 1830 Somerset Directory; architect & builder, Frome and Beckington, 1844 dir; HC: he said in 1850 that he had been a clerk of works for 25 years to such as Rickman & Hutchinson and Sampson Kempthorne qv under whom he spent seven years building workhouses; was landlord of Woolpack, Beckington by 1843-4;
1837-8 builder Frome workhouse, Som; HC; by S Kempthorne qv;
(1837-9 Gillingham ch, Dorset; Malpas initially clerk of works, design by William Walker qv, Walker’s design set aside for one by Malpas, exec 1838-9;
1839? unexecuted plans vicarage, Woodlands, Som; five elevations and plans framed in Longleat archive office, undated; estate gave notice to quit for a proposed parsonage in 1839, not apparently proceeded with, Longleat Pennard charity archives; plans Longleat 14/3 27.5.0 01/1/1890. Vicarage was built 1856-8 to plans by CE Giles qv;
1840 to let newly built cottage residence, Beckington, Som; four good bedrooms, large garden in the rear, enclosed in with stone walls, apply Mr Malpas, architect Frome BC 19.3.40;
1843-4 rest Beckington ch, Som; by a ‘pretended architect’ of Beckington’, SNB; this is according to Thomas Bunn, quoted in M McGarvie, St George's church, Beckington, 1990; work was for Rev Sainsbury Langford Sainsbury, when Malpas was landlord of Woolpack Inn and had been clerk of works for building of Frome workhouse, repairs to Compton's Aisle were at expense of Thomas Bunn, Rev Sainsbury 'restored without regard to expense everything that remained of what was venerable in the church and added a painted window' Thomas Bunn;
(1843-4 builder Broad Town ch, Wilts, WH Campbell architect; plans WSHC;
MANCON PROJECT MANAGEMENT, Bournemouth. Specialists in school buildings.
1999 Hobhouse Building, Kings School, Bruton, Som; design & build project; FJ Reeves & Sons builders; inf Sarah Oliver, estates manager;
MANN, RICHARD Builder, Bath
(1876 builder Melksham Forest ch, Wilts, CS Adye architect; WBR2)
MANNASSEH, LEONARD Freshford, Som. Mannasseh & Partners
197? No 1 Queens Parade, Bath; C20index;
1977-80 unex design library, Millfield School, Street, Som; RIBA;
1983-4 Brewery, Freshford, Som; conversion LM&P
(1986 commissioned to report on No 23 Silver St, Bradford on Avon by BoA Preservation Trust, nothing done GA1 1990;
MANNERS & GILL Bath. George Philip Manners qv c1789-1866 and John Elkington Gill qv +1874;
1846 chapel, Bath workhouse, Odd Down, Bath;?M&G;
(1847 attrib Christ Church Schools, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; 1848 WBR; opened 1847, Harold Fassnidge, BoA past & present; paid for by Capt Septimus H Palairet of Woolley Grange; addition 1911; also c1847 the detached School House; infants school added 1878 by – Long; ?M&G
18?? recommendation to remove galleries, St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; by M&G; presumably pre 1856 GG Scott restoration; VCH;
1845-8 St Matthew ch, Widcombe Hill, Bath, Som; ICBS;
(1846 alts Kingston Deverill ch, Wilts; WBR
1846-7 Emmanuel ch, Weston s Mare, Som; FS Br 1846 140; FS Cheltenham Chronicle 26.3.46, GPM architect, Edward Gregory, Weston s mare builder; 1847 BoE N;
1847 alts Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse, Som;
1847-8 alts St James ch, Southgate, Bath; ICBS; dem;
(1847-8 rest St James ch, Trowbridge, Wilts, WBR; monograms in chancel S stained glass window; stained glass by Joseph Bell remains in W and NE and chancel side windows, E window removed; DWG 3.8.48 eulogy of GPM;
1849 chapel, Royal United Hospital, Bath; APSD;
(1848-9 Savings Bank, Devizes, Wilts, Mr Manners employed Wilts Indep 20.4.48;
1849-51 alts Christ Church, Frome, Som: clerestory and N aisle; RL;
1850-3 enl Compton Bishop ch, Som; ICBS; N aisle, S wall, porch, roof;
1854 alts Cross Bath, Bath; AF text
(1854-5 St Paul, West Exe, Tiverton, Devon, supervised by Gideon Boyce qv FS TC 10.5.54; TC 3.5.54; completed TC 26.9.55;
1855 Corn Market, Walcot St, Bath; by GPM alone?
1855 Christ Church, Weston s Mare, Som;
1856-7 enl Ammerdown House, Som; RL; SC; AF text;
1857-60 Easton in Gordano ch, Som; ICBS;
1857-8 Pill ch, som; T: BN 1857 893;
(1858 Rectory, Kingston Deverill, Wilts; by GPM acc to WRO;
1858 alts Claverton ch, Som; SRO;
(1858 alts Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; T: DWG 11.3.58)
1858-9 Bath Gas Works;
1858-9 Kelso villa, Upper Bristol Rd, Bath, former Superintendent’s house for the Bath Gas Light and Coke Company, now offices; SC notes. M&G;
(1859 Highfield, Hilperton Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR;
(1859 Rodwell Hall, Hilperton Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts, WBR
(1860? The Grange, Hilperton, Wilts for Mr Bush; Wm Long bldr; WBR2)
1859-60 adds General Hospital, Bath new block and chapel 1859 w stained glass by Wailes; carving in pediment by – Ezard, work exec under JEG;
(1859-60 Rectory, St James ch, Shaftesbury, Dorset; M&G; T WI 8.12.59;
1860 Blue Coat Hospital, Upper Borough Walls, Bath; BoE; opened Br 1860 707, Roman pavement relaid in master’s residence; M&G;
1861 alts Weston ch, Bath; SRO;
1862 chapels, St Michael Cemetery, Upper Bristol Rd, Bath;
1863 Penarth House, Victoria Rd, Clevedon for Miss Woodfin of Penarth House, complaint re sewerage in D&J Lilly The Builders of clevedon, 200, 7, mentions her architects as 'Hamers & Gill'; Miss Woodfin was prop of girls' school prev in Beaufort Ho, Copse Rd;
1863 to let No 1 Norfolk Buildings, Bath apply M&G BC 21.5.63; ???
1864 alts chapel United hospital, Bath; ?? AF text says by Wallace Gill
(1864 alts Holy Trinity ch, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WRO; but ?by JE Gill alone 1864-6)
1864-77 plans St Paul ch, Bath, som, new ch for parishes of Walcot HT and St James, ICBS; but church was built to designs by Wilson & Willcox;
MANNERS, GEORGE PHILLIPS Architect, 1 Oxford Row, Bath, c1789-1866; monograph by Douglas Berkhardt; HC; with C Harcourt Masters qv, as pupil then partner, appointed City Architect, Bath, a new title (previously City Surveyor) 1823. From 1845-62 with JE Gill (see Manners & Gill) who continued practice, see JE Gill, retired 1862; CS Adye was a pupil; elder daughter Mary died Bristol Times 22.6.1844;
1825 Houses corner York St and Stall St, Bath;
(1827-8 The Moor, Clifford, Herefs for F Penoyre + 1827; dem; HC)
1829 St Catherine’s Hospital, Bath; APSD;
1829-30 alts Cross Bath, Bath; AF text;
1830 exec architect for rebuilding Hot Bath and add Tepid Bath, Bath, Som; des by Decimus Burton qv; HC; Tepid Bath 1829-30 dem 1922 for swimming-bath 1923;
1830-1 Coleford ch, Som; SRO D/P/Coleford/8/3/2 but ICBS says by John Sperring qv; 1829-36, SAS; Sperring prepared seating plan;
1830-2 St Mark ch, Lyncombe, Bath; APSD; FS SM 19.4.30, James Chappell builder;
1833 Herne House, Weston Park, Bath; for himself, semi-det pair with South Lynn; AF text; also attrib in Weston Park are Glenfield; The Retreat; Bath Priory Hotel; Granville/ Little Woodcote;
1833-7 rest Bath Abbey, Som; replaced buttresses, pinnacles N nave, altered tower and E end turrets to octagonal, new screen and organ, moved monuments, parapet on nave aisles copied from W front; Prior Birde’s Chantry restored separately, 1833 by E Davis qv; 1835 HC; CTA 1837 229-31;
1834 adds Charlcombe Rectory, Bath, Som; TBC; SRO D/D/Bbm/64; Tudor;
1834-7 St Michael ch, Northgate, Bath; ICBS; 1835-7 HC; modelled on E end Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts and ?Lostwithiel spire
1836-9 Godney ch, Som; ICBS; engraving dated 1838; 1838-9 SAS;
1837? ?report on James Wilson qv plans St Stephen ch, Lansdown, Bath; ICBS has plans 1837-57 and says report is by M&G i.e. post 1845;
1837-9 school, Bathford, Som; SNB;
1837 obelisk, Royal Victoria park, Bath; APSD;
1837-40 Cleeve ch, Som; ICBS; consec TC 1.7.40 Manners contributed the clerk's desk; elaborately carved font;
1839 houses, N side, Charlotte St, Bath; NofB;
1839 St John ch, Upper Bristol Rd, Bath, Som; ICBS;
1839 rebuilt Twerton ch, Bath, Som; ICBS; reblt again by E Buckle 1885-6;
1839-40 East Huntspill ch, Som; neo-Norman FS 18.3.39; porch raised to a tower in 1957; vestry 1887,
1839-41 Christ Church, Bearfield, Bradford on Avon Wilts; WBR; ICBS; FS DWG 19.9.39; extended with transepts and chancel 1878-81 by GG Scott qv, executed by JO Scott qv; engraving pre-alteration in church;
1840 involved with Trent ch, Som now Dorset, repairs discussed but done by Rev WH Turner; N&Q 34 on terracotta panels in churches at Trent, Penselwood & Pylle.
1840 paid by Mr Manners £98/6/0d for plans and specifications for St Stpehen's Church, Bath, by James Wilson qv architect; accounts BC 16.1.45;
1840 Green Down Cottage, Som to be let apply Mr Manners, architect, 7 Green St Bath, eleven bedrooms … BC 9.4.40;
1840 proposed schools, Christ Church, Frome, Som; unexecuted; SAS;
1840 additions to cells, Bath Gaol, T for masons work: BC 28.5.40
1840-3 Bath New Gaol, Twerton, Som; BoE N; APSD 1843; T BTM 14.3.40; T BC 19.3.40; T for warming and ventilating the new gaol now being erected BTM 21.11.40; debtors in new Bath prison given a capital dinner by Mr Manners architect of the building BC 22.9.42; proposed changes in design BC 9.3.43, Mr Lewis qv builder;
1841 Catholic Apostolic ch, Vineyards, Bath; APSD;
1841 lease premises Cheap St and Abbey Churchyard, Bath, occupied now by Mr Rogers & Mr Gardiner, lessee required to build a new front to the East, agreeable to a plan and elevation to be approved by the Council, particulars of new front from office of Mr Manners BC 8.4.41;
1841 alts and adds Police Station, Bath T BC 21.1.41;
1841 proposed schoolroom, St Michael parish, Bath T BC 22.4.41;
1841 Market Cross, Shepton Mallet, Som; BoE N; rebuilt upper part, SAS;
1841 tenders for altering and adding to a gentleman's house in the neighbourhood of Taunton, Som; TC 13.10.41; where?
1842 house and land to be let at Litton, Som apply Mr Manners, Commercial Rooms, Bath, BC 9.6.42;
(1842 Dilton Court, Dilton Marsh, Wilts, with John Peniston qv architect and David Aust qv builder; WBR;
(1842 National Schools, Church St, Trowbridge, Wilts;)
1842 parsonage, Brent Knoll, Som; plans SRO D/D/Bbm/?; new Tudor; red brick and stone;
1842 schools, Countess of Huntingdon’s chapel, Bath, Som; NofB;
(1842-3 rest Bromham ch, Wilts; WBR; T DWG 30.6.42 repewing and other work; reopened WI 12.10.43, Young & White contractors; WGS 10.10.43;
1843 organ gallery, South Brent ch Som, Br 1843 360; now Brent Knoll;
1843 proposed schoolroom, St James parish, Bath T BC 2.11.43
1843 to be let Rummer Tavern, New Market Row, Bath, to be put into tenantable repair apply Manners, City Architect; BC 23.2.43, also house on S side of Beau St, the lessee to put into tenantable repair;
` 1843-4 rest Berrow ch, Som; ICBS; repewed 1844 RL; ?organ gallery;
1843-6 chapel, Bath workhouse, Odd Down, Bath; FS BC 16.2.43; Br 1846 220;
1844 chapel etc Abbey Cemetery, Bath; BoE; cemetery layout by JC Loudon, built by Mr Birth of Belvedere, Bath, TC 14.2.44;
1844 proposed new girls and infants schoolrooms, National Schools, Weston, Bath, BC 6.6.44
1844 proposed iron bridge, 110' span, over Avon, Bath, T BC18.4.44; ?North Parade Bridge
1844 site of No 45-6 Southgate St, Bath to be let for building, plan and elevation with Mr Manners, City Architect, 1 Oxford Row, BC 2.4.44;
1845 widening Crescent Lane, Bath new walls and railings T BC 3.4.45;
1845 St Saviours Schools, Larkhall, Bath Br 1845 38;
1845 Kelston Lodge, Som to be let apply GPM BC 20.11.45
1845 conversion Wellington Inn, Walcot St, Bath to two houses T BC 6.3.45; one of the intended houses and a long range of dry healthy vaults under the Corn Market House to be let;
1845 rest South Stoke ch, Som; Tunstall Rambles 1848;
1845 vicarage, Twerton, Som;
1845 St Marks Schools, Lyncombe, Bath; NofB;
1845 land for new house, 13-14 Walcot St, Bath T BC 2.6.45, site of 13-14 Walcot St to be let for building, plans at office of Mr Manners City Architect;
1845-7 Clandown ch, Som; ICBS; T BTM 4.10.45; FS BTM 4.6.46, John Thatcher, builder;
1846 chapel, Bath workhouse, Odd Down, Bath;?M&G;
1846 Emmanuel ch, Weston s Mare Som; FS Cheltenham Chronicle 26.3.46; Edward Gregory builder;
1846 building land at Walcot St Bath available apply Manners City Architect BC 26.2.46
(1847 attrib Christ Church Schools, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; 1848 WBR; opened 1847 acc to Harold Fassnidge, BoA past & present; paid for by Capt Septimus H Palairet of Woolley Grange; addition 1911; also detached School House nearby; infants school added 1878 by – Long; ?M&G
(1847-8 rest St James ch, Trowbridge, Wilts, WBR; monograms in chancel S stained glass window; stained glass by Joseph Bell remains in W and NE and chancel side windows, E window removed; DWG 3.8.48 eulogy names GPM;
184? restored chancel, Norton St Philip ch, Som, by GPM before 1847, SNB
(1848 Savings Bank, High St, Devizes, on site of part of Black Horse inn and stables; Jacobean Gothic style; Mr Manners of Bath, DWG 20.4.48;
1848 site of New Market inn, New Market Row, Bath lately destroyed by fire to be let for building, the front elevation to be preserved; apply GPM City Architect 1 Fountain Buildings, Bath; BC 11.5.48;
(1852-8 Manor House, Westcot Barton, Oxon)
1856-7 enl Ammerdown House, Som; AFtext; M&G;
1857 Christ Church, Pill, Som; BN 1857 893 by M&G;
(1858 Rectory, Kingston Deverill, Wilts; WRO;
1861 South Brent National School, Som; Bristol Times 12.10.61; Mr Eames of South Brent bldr, £900; at Brent Knoll; also Br 19.10.61 722, new schools opened, of Bleadon limestone; TC 16.10.61; W Eames builder;
MARCH, JOHN EWART Architect, Axbridge, Som, 1913, RIBA Biog Dict; trained by WV & AR Gough Bristol, 1909-12, and with Stock, Page & Stock, Bristol, from 1912, ARIBA 1913;
MARCHANT, ROBERT Architect, ARIBA 2 Bedford Sq, London
1923 reps Emborough ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/, reps chancel;
1923-30 reps Hinton Blewitt ch Som; ICBS;
1925 reps Chesterblade ch, Som; ICBS; took down plaster ceiling exposed nave 1663 roof; SRO D/D/cf/1924/15 restoration, no plans.
1925-7 alts Ashill ch, Som; ICBS;
(1928-9 tower screen, Holy Trinity ch, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; 1928 WBR; C17 style, 1929 acc to church guide;
MARGARY, PETER JOHN Engineer, 1820-96, articled 1838 to William Gravatt on Bristol & Exeter Railway, chief engineer South Devon Railway from 1859 then of Cornwall Railway;
MARIS, JOHN Mason Stogursey.
MARKS, Sir GEORGE CROYDON 1st Baron Marks of Woolwich 1858-1938 Engineer London, worked for Easton & Anderson at Erith, designed cliff railways at Lynton 1890, Hastings West Cliff (1891) and East Cliff (1903) Bridgnorth (1893), Aberystwyth (1896), designed hotel at Aberystwyth, Liberal MP knighted 1911, Labour peer 1926;
(1894 Engineer, Clifton Rocks Railway, Bristol also to Grand Spa, with Philip Munro & Son qv architects;
MARKS (WILLIAM) & HURTNELL (JOSEPH) Builders
1869 Alts County Inn, Shuttern, Taunton, Som, for Eliz Northcott; DD/DP/72/3 spec and contract;
MARLEY, JOHN B. Builder and brickmaker, Irnham Rd, Minehead; 1865-1956, at 27 Blenheim Rd 1906; owner of Victoria Brickworks, Alcombe, founded 1897; WJ Tamlyn qv designed many houses for Marley incMarley’s own house, Cartref; firm was also JB & SB Marley; orig a watchmaker
1896 Row on Blenheim Rd, attached to No 21 The Parade, Minehead; Marley had built nos 19-21 The Parade in 1895 to design probably of JP St Aubyn qv; OD5;
1896 addition to Blenheim Terrace, Blenheim Rd, Minehead; OD68b, Nos 19-31;
1896 bldr RC ch, Townsend Rd, Minehead, Som; minehead chronology online; archt Rev AJC Scoles plans SRO also presbytery 1896;
c1897 red brick terraces, on Alcombe Rd and Hopcott Rd on two sides of brickworks, Alcombe, Minehead; inf OD, uding Marley’s bricks;
1898 Amended plan, No 4 Blenheim Rd, Minehead; OD37;
1900-1 Blt Nos 33-41 Blenheim Rd, Minehead; OD74; design by WJ Tamlyn?
1914 Bldrs Queens Hall, The Strand, Minehead, Som; JB & SB Marley; minehead online chronology; design by WJ Tamlyn, effectively gift of Marley and Tamlyn to the town, OD;
1919 Shed at Victoria Brickworks, Alcombe, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/614;
MARSDEN, Major WILLIAM ERIC Architect, Ebury House, 1a Blenheim Rd, Minehead. Bill Marsden. Partner with A Ewart Aston qv (A&M); SB says died c2010 aged 96, was briefly pupil of Lutyens before war, served in Burma, came to Somerset post-war;
1947 Gable Barn, Parkhouse Rd, Minehead; SB; not far from turning to lower Park;
194? Suntrap and Triangles, two bungalows The Parks, Minehead; SB;
1952 Oreland, The Parks, Minehead, built by Burgess & Sons; SB; dated MIC 1952 MEC;
195? Parkmead, The Parks, Minehead, bldrs Burgess & Sons, for Edward Stevenson, formerly of Bratton Ct, SB; Meadowcroft nearby was built by Stevenson for his daughter Mrs Cook 1961
1954-6 reps Nettlecombe ch, Som; ICBS; A&M;
1955 Altar rails, Sampford Brett ch, Som; WEM; SRO faculty;
1955-6 reps Luccombe ch, Som rej ICBS, appr 1964;
1955 lectern and reinstate S door, Timberscombe ch, Som; A&M; faculty
1955-6 reps West Quantoxhead ch, Som; ICBS; A&M; SRO cf/1956/2/5;
1955-62 reps Crowcombe ch, Som; ICBS
1957-9 reps Withycombe ch, Som; ICBS;
1958 rest Stoke Pero ch, Som; James Huish & Sons bldrs; notice in church;
1958-62 repairs Aisholt ch, Som; ICBS;
1959 reps Lovington ch, som; ICBS;
1959 minor alts shop, high St, Porlock, Som for Hawkings of Minehead; added two dormers in roof one one-and-half storey shop on N side; D/r/wil/24/1/186;
1959-65 reps Dunster ch, Som; ICBS;
1960 reps Sampford Brett ch, Som; SRO
1960 reps Withiel Florey ch, Som; faculty SRO; by Major Marsden and Ralph Fry acc to parish history;
1961 Meadowcroft, The Parks, Minehead; SB; for Mrs Cook daughter of E Stevenson of Parkmead next door;
1963-6 reps Monksilver ch, Som; ICBS;
1963-7 reps Timberscombe ch, Som; faculties;
1964 reps Luccombe ch, Som; ICBS;
1964 reps West Quantoxhead ch, Som; SRO cf/1964/5/1
1964 reps Porlock ch, Som; SRO faculty cf/1964/11/4
1964-7 reps Luxborough ch, Som; ICBS;
1967 West window Sampford Brett ch, Som; letter 6.6.67 from GB Synge; faculty SRO cf/1966/3/7; new tracery;
1967 reps East Quantoxhead ch, Som; ICBS;
Also houses in Parkhouse Rd Minehead and Bossington Lane, Porlock; SB;
MARSH, THOMAS EDWARD MILLES. Born Biddestone, Wilts 1818, died Bath 1907; Engineer, pupil of GE Frere qv, then assistant to Frere on Great Western Railway, then resident engineer at Bath responsible for line up to and including Box Tunnel until opened 1841; involved in archaeological investigation of Dolemeads, Bath, Roman site encouraged in building; worked in Wales until 1846, returned to work for Brunel on Wilts, Somerset & Weymouth Railway; worked for Brunel until Brunel died in 1859; obit Grace's Guide online from ICE 1909; carried out engineering works on his own account in Bath area after 1863; MICE 1862;
1877 Widcombe footbridge, Bath, Som; AFtext; replacing 1863 bridge by Hickes & Isaac that collapsed;
MARSHALL, H.J.C. Architect and surveyor, OBE FRIBA 9 Stationers Hill, London EC4. Related to the Marshall family of Street, correspondence at Ivythorn Manor, Street, re family, probably nothing to do with buildings.
MARSHMAN WARREN TAYLOR Bath. Arthur Marshman & John Warren founded practice in Bedford 1960 (offices Luton, Plymouth, London, Northampton, Dublin & Paris) amalgamated with John Taylor Architects (offices Truro, Plymouth & Bath) in 1968; BD 22.11.1985 offices Bath, Bedford, Exeter, Ipswich, Plymouth, Romsey, Truro, then known as MWT Architects.
1969-70 Calton Gardens, Bath; MF; houses on S slope above R Avon.
1972 conv Malthouse, Sydney Buildings Bath to offices; MF;
1973 completed Nelson Place West, Bath and new housing adj; MF;
1976 Elizabeth Court housing scheme, Wheelers Lane, Martock, Som; DoE HDA 1977 public sector old people’s dwellings, AJ 2.11.77, ‘proves that serious rural architecture is possible within the yardstick’; 32 dwellings at 124 to hectare density for Third Collingwood Housing Assn; Alford Bros contrs;
1976-7 Stonebridge stage 1, Frome, Som, with Levy Benjamin & Partners; HDA 1977; AJ 2.11.77 846;
(1979 Nos. 1-30 Barn Glebe, Trowbridge, Wilts; DoE HDA AJ 172 1980 42 774-5; design by MT Roberts, assisted by MJ Wells under B Bishop;
(1980 Eddystone Tce, Plymouth, Devon by MWT Architects; HDA 1980)
1981 Pavilion, Somerset County Cricket Ground, Taunton, Som; MWT Architects; completed 1981, BD 22.11.85; altered since; brick with pitched roofs;
1989 Circus Mews, Bath; HDA 1989;
MARTIN, ARTHUR CAMPBELL. Architect, 9 New Square, Lincolns Inn, London; of Egham, Surrey, BoE Wilts, of Frome, Som, acc to WBR, but not in 1906 Kelly, nor acc to RIBA Biog Dict; 1875-1963, articled to EJ May, FRIBA 1912; brother of Rev J Keble Martin;
(1899 alts Melksham House, Wilts, for C Awdry, exh RA, ill Br)
(1900-2 rest Manor House, South Wraxall, Wilts; WBR;
(1909 rest West Lavington ch, Wilts; WBR;
(1910 rest Market Lavington ch, Wilts; WBR
(1914-20 Hawkswell House, Little Cheverell, Wilts; WBR; BoE by Martin of Egham; neo-Georgian;
(191? Architect to Dauntsey’s School, West Lavington, Wilts, up to c1920, WBR, BoE ACM of Egham;
1922-3 Ridge, Queen Camel, Som, for Mrs Pitt; plans at house, ACM of London;
(1930 St Olave ch, Norbury, London; RA 1937 exh; St Olave, Mitcham, 1931, H&F)
(1936 St Luke ch, Milber, Newton Abbot Devon from design by vicar, Rev J. Keble Martin;
(1953-4 St Luke ch, Farnborough Way, Camberwell, London; H&C, completed by Milner & Craze)
MARTIN, JOHN. Signs 1822 survey of Sexey’s Hospital, Bruton, Som, SRO DD/BT 24/3;
MARTIN, PAUL Natwest Chambers, Burnham, Paul Martin Associates, Architectural Consultants.
2010-11 Alts Community Centre, Burnham, Som; website;
2012 Alts The Princess Hall, Princess St, Burnham, Som; board outside;
MARTIN, STUART Architect, Eversholt, Dorset, Georgian style houses and vernacular
20?? Higher Orchard, Som, renov and extension of thatched farmhouse; website;
MARTIN, T. Surveyor Radstock
1897 Roof and premises for Coombs & Co brewers, Radstock, Som, C: BJ 29.9.97;
MARYS, JOHN Stonemason, Stogursey.
1443 tower, Dunster Priory church, Som; contract survives to build tower in three years; BoES;
Attr tower, Minehead ch, Som, as similar tower arch mouldings to Dunster;
MASEY, PHILIP E. Architect, 24 Old Broad St, London, in partnership with John Norton qv; RIBA Biog Dict. 1823-97, ARIBA 1863, proposed by Norton, Truefitt, and Horace Jones; son FE Masey +1912 was architect in S Africa, partner of Herbert Baker; another son Cecil A Masey was architect 1880-1960; obit BN 27.8.97;
1863 inv in controversy over rebuilding King Ina’s Palace, South Petherton, Som, wrote to The Builder 10/10/63 that he had made measured plan 2 or 3 yrs prior to the rebuilding and that the house would never make a fit residence as too damp. Owner EE Gale replied that Masey’s letter to Builder was prompted by sour grapes because the job had gone to J Chapman of Frome, although Masey had been recommended to Gale. Corresp started with tirade by ‘FSA’ in Builder 3.10.1863, drafts in photocopy in SRO A/BKI/1, not clear that Gale’s letter was published.
(1879 restored St George ch, Bristol £4390, Cowlin & son builders; Arch 1.3.79; not mentioned under St George ?Brandon Hill in SNB;
MASON, JOHN Exeter. Builder
(1835 Stoke Canon ch, Devon; BoE)
1846-7 Bldr Wesleyan College, South Rd, Taunton, Som; archt James Wilson; JT 74;
MASTERS, CHARLES HARCOURT, 21 Old Orchard St, Bath. Pupil of Thomas Baldwin, exhib model of Bath at his house 1789-90, GP Manners was a partner at end of CHM’s career. CHM also lodged at 39 Rivers St, later GP Manners house. Made a model of the city of Bath exhibited BC 4.6.1789;
1794-6 Surveyor to Ivelchester & Langport Navigation, Som; attempt to make Parrett navigable to Ilchester; scheme failed 1796 after works began; William Bennett engineer;
1795-7 Sydney Gardens, Bath; Sydney House & gardens designed by Thomas Baldwin 1794 but built to modified des by CHM. Sydney House 1796-7 had coffee-rooms etc for gardens and ballroom above; MF; became hotel 1836 added storey by John Pinch, remodelled as museum by Reginald Blomfield 1911; FS of Sidney House by CHM who laid out the garden BC 17.11.1796;
c1797 Conduit, Market Place, Wells, Som; RL;
c1801 Cottage Crescent, Bath; MF; now Bloomfield Crescent;
c1804 Garden plan, Harptree Court, East Harptree, Som; plan at house ill HGS 128; house was called Richmond Hall, for J Scrope.
1805 attrib, Hetling Pump Room, Bath; MF;
c1805 Widcombe Crescent, Bath; MF;
c1805 Widcombe Terrace, Bath; MF;
1805 Rectory, Charlton Musgrove, Som; VCH; SRO D/D/C/pet 2/3; dem; coachhouse 1806 survives;
1814-20 Cothelstone House, Som; dem; lodge and coach-house survive; FS 3.4.17, quarry at Millbrook Fm, work supervised by GP Manners as Masters too old, clerk of works was – Watson, cf DJ Hinton Bishops Lydeard Revisited;
Atrrib Maperton House, Maperton, Som, c1802, for T Southwood.
MASTERS, HENRY Architect, Bristol. c1822-86; Gomme: one of most widely employed commercial archts in Bristol. AEBTD 1868 lists ironworks and other works in Wales, Glos & Somerset, Somerset work not identified.
(1850 Whitfield Tabernacle C, Kingswood, Glos, AEBTD
(1852 Tabernacle C, Wooton under Edge, Glos, AEBTD
(1853 Temperance Hall, Bedminster Pde, Bristol;
1855 1st pr Keynsham Schools, Som; RHH;
(1861 Oakfield Grove, Clifton, Bristol;
1861 joint 3rd Bath Markets comp, Som; RHH; Br 19 596;
(1865 Walsh warehouse Quay St, Bristol;
(1867 Elephant PH, St Nicholas St, Bristol; AF;
(1870 Greenbank Cemetery and chapels, Easton, Bristol;
(1871 Nos 7-11 Park St, Bristol; AF;
(1873 Five warehouses for Weston, Victoria St, Bristol;
(1878 printing-house Broad St, Bristol T BN 7.6.78; A 1.6.78)
(1879 No. 70 Park St, Bristol;
MATHER, ANDREW Architect Leicester Sq Chambers, London, 1891-1938 cinema specialist mainly for Odeon, his assistant Thomas Braddock said to have done actual designing; scottich architecture website; office in Glasgow 1938; obit Br 11.11.38;
(1924-5 Capitol, Haymarket, London, dem)
1933-4 Regal Cinema dance-hall and shops, The Avenue, Minehead; plans SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/782; also building line plan 739; plans 740; £12,000;
(1937 Odeon Leicester Sq London with Harry Weedon)
(1937 Boleyn Cinema Barking Rd London)
(1937 Odeon Springburn Glasgow; Broadway Shettleston Glasgow Scotland)
(1938 Odeons Ayr, Hamilton, Falkirk, Motherwell, Scotland)
c1938 alts Odeon, Station rd Taunton, Som, built as Lyceum 1913 by Stone & Lloyd qv, converted to cinema 1931-2 by FC Mitchell, became County Cinema 1935, Odeon 1936, dem 1998;
MATHEWS & RIDLEY Architects 3 Paul’s Bakehouse Court, Godliman St, London EC4; Henry Edmund Mathews 1868-1947 and Geoffrey William Ridley 1887-1958 practice began 1913 in East Grinstead, Sx; HEM was articled to father JD Mathews, partnership JDM&Son from 1893, FRIBA 1906; GWR had worked for Caroe & Passmore 1910-12;
1927 House, Porlock, Som, for Miss Nussey; on N side of Hacketty Way; roughcast with tile-hung gables, W entrance front w two chimneys, gables proj on other sides; D/r/wil/24/1/60
MATHISON, JOSEPH Langport +1951
1921-2 reps Hambridge ch, Som; ICBS;
MATTHEW (ROBERT) JOHNSON-MARSHALL & PARTNERS. Major Edinburgh and London partnership from 1950s, Robert Matthew and Sirratt Johnson-Marshall; took over Yorke Rosenberg & Mardall in 2012.
1963ff Bath University Bath; design plan 1965, phase 1 1966-7;
MATTHEWS & MACKENZIE Elgin. Architects, practice established 1839 by Thomas Mackenzie 1814-54 joined 1844 by James Matthews 1819-98, became Matthews & Mackenzie in 1877 when Thomas Mackenzie's son Alexander Marshall Mackenzie 1848-1933 joined. AMM had been articled in firm's Aberdeen office 1863-8 and set up on own in Elgin in 1870. Matthews retired 1893 and AMM continued alone;
1887 attr Elgin Tower, Burgundy Rd, Minehead, Som, built for John Christopher Kennedy, retired confectionery maker who came from Elgin, he may have died before house was complete. Scots Baronial, red sandstone. Attrib to A&W Reid of Elgin by D Crighton, erroneously acc to Matthew Woodhouse (BoS Elgin); dated 1887; design probably by Thomas Matthews;
MATTHEWS, HERBERT WILLIAM Architect & surveyor, 3a Terrace Walk, Bath; Kelly 1906; 1874-1954, born London, father came from Freshford, Som, and family moved back there by 1891 census, by which time he was articled to CS Adye qv, started own practice in 1898, at Fairfield, Bath as architect, surveyor, estate agent 1901 census, while in Bath organiser of Bath Pageant and involved with Bath Operatic & Dramatic Soc; did improvements to Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath, architect to Lady Honeywood Hotels Ltd (chain included Pump Room Hotel, Llandrindod Wells); designed Denewood Grange, Bath; in Crystal Palace, London by 1911 as manager of 1911 Festival of Empire Exhibition for which he designed replicas of parliament buildings of the Empire; met there Claude Grahame-White, pioneer aviator, became director in 1911 of Grahame-White, Bleriot & Maxim aircraft company, designed hangars and factory for company and in 1917 Aeroville, adjacent workers' housing; designed London Flying Club at Hendon, Mx; in 1919 one of the founders of aerial photography company Aerofilm; office later at 81 Piccadilly, London and lived at 3 Dunraven St, Park Lane, London; designed domestic buildings, shops, factory and aerodrome buildings according to obituary Times 1954; EH biography on-line Britain from the Air; buried Lyncombe, Widcombe & St James Cemetery Bath with son Herbert GW Matthews +1937 and wife Minnie +1945;
1901 Nos 1-13 London St, Bath, Som; MF; and No 14 The Hat & Feather PH;
19?? Denewood Grange, London Road West, Bath; EH biography;
(c1905 Little George Hotel, Chippenham, Wilts; WBR;)
(19?? Infectious Diseases Hospital, Chippenham, Wilts ?built 1899)
1908 alts No 47 Milsom St, Bath, Som, for Capital & Counties Bank; MF;
MATTHEWS, WILLIAM Builder
1837 rebuilt nave Bratton Seymour ch; Mr Davies architect; DoE list;
MAUDE, J. Architect
1969 alts old WM chapel, Mark, Som to restore to use on demolition of 1869 new chapel; E Gullidge builder; P Slocombe, Mark, p 183; closed 1998;
MAUNDER, LAURENCE Garden designer, Fitzhead, Som.
2005-7 garden, No 2 Mount Hey, Somerton, Som, for Niall & Belinda Connolly; inf N Connolly;
MAWSON, THOMAS H. Lancaster. Garden designer, worked with Dan Gibson. Gdns: Foots Cray Place Kent 1898; Moonhill Cuckfield, Sx 1902; Burton Manor Ches 1904; autobiography 1927.
1910 garden alts, Barley Wood, Wrington, Som, for Herbert Wills, HGS 222-3; autobiography 185;
1912 garden alts, North Cadbury Court, Som, for Sir A Langman; HGS 225 says for Mr Langmuir error; little remains;
(1912 terrace and garden house, Bowden Hill, Lacock, Wilts; AA 1912, probably for Bowden Hill House)
MAXWELL, KENNETH South African architect
1972 Highfield, Minehead, Som, built on Glebe land in The Parks; builder - Adams; inf SB;
MAY & SON builders, Bath
(1858-9 builders Manningford Bohune ch, Wilts; Whitley B Clacy architect; WI 20.5.58; 3.3.59)
MAY, EDWARD JOHN. London. Architect, involved at Bedford Park suburb, London 1880-5. 1855-1941, last pupil of Decimus Burton, in office of Shaw & Nesfield, retired 1932;
1884 The Lodge, Webbington, Som; BN 17.10.84, archiseek; half-timbered;
(1895 stables, Shaw Hill House, Shaw, Wilts for Charles Awdry; ill Br 14.12.95; H Hoskings builder; ill WBR2 119; ?dem;
1908 Webbington House, Compton Bishop, Som; AA 33 1908; AA 1911; REDA 1911 156-8; plaster by Bankart, Hayward & Wooster, Bath, bldrs;
MAY, ROBERT Engineer with Joseph Cubitt qv to the Brean Down Harbour Co., formed 1861 to provide an Atlantic port for mail ships in association with the Bristol & Exeter Railway; harbour begun 1864, abandoned 1868, destroyed by storm 1872;
MAYNARD, THOMAS builder, Clevedon, built the Regent House, Hill Rd, Clevedon, 18??; son John Maynard blt Embleton and Ferncliffe, Sunnyside Rd, Clevedon in 1890s; Lilly Builders of Clevedon; ?same as Thomas Maynard confectioner and baker for whom Regent House blt 1850s, John Maynard, confectioner and baker, took over estate of – Blackmore, a Wrington solicitor who had gone bankrupt and finished building London House, Hill rd, and in 1875 built Bank House for Wilts & Dorset Bank;
MBA Architects, Bath see Martin Blake.
McCALL, MALCOLM Architect, member of Ecos Trust, Langport, emigrated to New Zealand?
2005 conv Great Bow Wharf, Langport, Som for Ecos Trust; advice from David Gordon, trustee; Patrick Stow engineer;
2007 Old Apple Store housing, Stawell, Som for Ecos Trust, initial design, but altered and executed by O2i of Langport.
MEACOCK, PETER. Peter Meacock Central Workshop, Bristol, architects. Merged with Wyvern Architects of Swindon as Architects WCW
(200? Atom, panopticon sculpture/ structure, Pendle, Lancs with Architecture Central Workshop and Katarina Novomestska)
(20?? Computer workshops, Gatton Rd, St Werburghs Bristol)
(20?? Sugarcube housing, Gibson Rd, Bristol)
2001-2 Rise One and Rise Two, Harris Lane, Abbots Leigh, Som; SNB; C20index;
MEDLAM, ROBERT Builder South Brewham
1826 contracted to build single-arch bridge at Cooks Farm, North Brewham, Som, for Kings School Bruton, drawing and contract in Kings records; dem;
MEDLAND & MABERLY Architects Gloucester. Firm founded by James Medland 1808-94, county surveyor of Glos, Medland & Maberly 1854-68, then Medland & Son with his son Matthew Henry Medland.
(1860-1 B chapel, City Road, Bristol; SNB)
(1860-4 adds Workhouse, Stapleton, Bristol; SNB)
MEDLAND, JOHN London. Architect c1840-1913 ICBS; SNB, partner with CE Powell. Medland & Powell of London repaired Chastleton ch, Oxon, 1880, Arlington ch, Sx, 1890-4 acc to ICBS. Presumably related to Gloucester architect James Medland 1808-94, county surveyor Glos, whose firm was Medland & Maberly 1854-68, then Medland & Son with son MH Medland.
(1891-3 Leigh Woods ch, Bristol; 1st pr RHH; ICBS JM of London, plans rejected; Gomme says Medland & Maberly 1893 prob error; aisles never built;
MEDLICOTT, WALTER B. Architect Devizes, Wilts, dirs 1907-15; see Wilts index;
(1907 lodge Seend Cleeve House, Seend, Wilts; WBR2)
MEDLYCOTT, ANTHONY. Architect, London, son of Sir William Medlycott of Ven House, Milborne Port.
1937 vicarage, Milborne Port, Som;
MEEK, ANGUS. Bristol. Angus Meek Architects. Numerous housing, office & warehouse schemes in Bristol, Wilts and Glos cf website;
(1984 Bull Wharf, Bristol, Marble Mosaic Co website; CH Pearce contractor;
2008-10 rebuilt Grand Pier, Weston super Mare, Som; BD 9.7.10; £51m; competition victory;
2010 Churchill Way affordable housing, Watchet, Som; website; 33 houses for Summerfield Homes;
2010 prop redev Huntsman site, Shepton Mallet, Som; ?unex
2010 prop waterside flats etc for Bottelino’s, Portishead, Som;
2010 prop North Gate office dev, Weston super Mare, Som; for Summerfield Developments;
2010 prop flats, Marine Parade, Clevedon, Som; website
2010 Central Gate offices, Weston super Mare, som; website;
2010 Haskins store, Shepton Mallet, Som; website;
200? Library and flats, Portishead, Som; website;
200? Prop barrage and research tower, Birnbeck Island, Weston s Mare, som; unex;
201? The Rotunda, Pier Sq, Weston s Mare, Som;
201? Manor Court, Bower Hinton, Som; conv of barns to housing;
(200? Conv of bank, 31 Corn St, Bristol, to wine bar)
2012 prop housing dev, off Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, Som;
2012 Residential dev, Bartletts Elm, Huish Episcopi, Som; trad style
2012 Residential dev Sparkhayes Lane, Porlock, Som; trad style
2012 Residential dev Bircham Rd, Minehead, Som; trad style
2012 prop development at Coles Quarry, Backwell, Som;
MELHUISH, T. Architect;
1927 ten pairs of houses, Binegar Green, Emborough for RDC Br 29.4.27;
MERCER, EDWARD JOHN BUSH. 32 Morford St, Bath, builder. Kelly 1906
1881 reseating St Michael ch, Bath, Som; SRO cf/1881/4;
MEREDITH, J. NELSON City Architect, Bristol.
195? Bristol Airport, Lulsgate, Som; BoE N;
MERER, MARK. Charlton Mackrell. Sculptor, son of architect Stanley Merer qv; designed housing project for Swinonish tribe, Washington state, USA; inf M Merer.
200? Dockside Square, Portishead, Som; landscape and pierced steel tube light sculpture centrepiece;
2008-9 Welham Studios, Charlton Mackrell, Som; for himself;
MERER, STANLEY Architect, worked in Far East, + c. 2003.
1999-2000 converted Provender Mill, Bruton, Som, 1940s grain store to apartment and seven studios, with son Mark Merer, sculptor; 2002 SBPT award;
MERRICK (FREDERICK) & SON, Silver St, Glastonbury. Merrick & Son, Ecclesiastical builders, monumental sculptors, brick & tile mfrs. 1875 dir. Frederick Merrick & Son, Benedict St, offices Silver St, brick & tile works Wells Rd, Kelly 1906; cf also Petvin & Merrick fl 1841; son was John Merrick qv;
1824 ??bldr enl Edington Manor, Edington, Som to des by R Carver; house history in local studies colln SRO, almost certainly wrong;
1836 alts Martin St Farm, Baltonsborough, Som;by Charels Waterman of Somerton carpenter & joiner and Mr Merrick of Butleigh, builder; dem;
1856-60 builder rest St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; archt GG Scott; town trail;
1863-5 builders St John Schools, Glastonbury, Som; GG Scott archt; RL 2 35, Merrick & Son; reputedly the design was simplified by Merrick (?David Cole biography of GGScott); VCH;
1866 WM chapel, Lambrook St, Glastonbury, Som; CSG 26.5.66 opened, by F Merrick builder, interior fitted by Hawkins & Sons; no archt named;
1870 Albert Buildings, Northload St, Glastonbury, Som; dated 1870 FM;
1878 builders rest Burnham ch, Som; M&Son, SCG 17.8.78 reopened;
1878-9 builders, Edington ch, Som; archt E Down & Son; ch guide; FS 2.5.78 opened 20.5.79;
1880 Unsuccessful tender rest North Curry ch, Som; Olivey, N Curry, 1901;
1880-1 builders rest Wedmore Ch, Som; BE Ferrey archt; reopened TC 8.6.81;
1882 work on ?chapel at Glastonbury, carried out by Messrs M&Son WG 20.10.82;
1885-6 builder, rest St Benedict ch, Glastonbury, Som; JD Sedding architect; guide book;
1889-90 builders rest Somerton ch, Som; G Vialls archt; M&Sons opened TC 1.10.90
1891 reseat Lympsham ch, Som; SRO cf/1891/10
1895 reseat and reps Blackford ch, Wedmore, Som; SRO cf/1895/4;
1903 Examined alts Keinton Mandeville ch done by HE Cox, builder; SRO cf/1903/59;
Attributed: several terraces in Glastonbury plain red brick with some yellow brick chequered bands and parapets eg Nos. 56-62 and 66-78 Benedict St;
MERRICK, JOHN. Glastonbury. Builder, mayor. Builder of much of late C19 Glastonbury. Firm was still Frederick Merrick & Son in 1906
c1900 widened Benedict St, Glastonbury, Som; Glastonbury on old picture postcards 33;
1903 Restholme (now Chindit House), Wells Rd, Glastonbury, for himself; town trail;
1908-9 bldr Glastonbury Abbey restoration, ruins reopened 22.6.09;
1905-13 Merrick Terrace, Bemedict, St, Glastonbury, Som, dated 1905-13;
MESSEL, OLIVER HILARY SAMBOURNE, interior, theatre and film designer, 1904-78; architect after 1966 designing most of houses on Mustique for Colin Tennant;
1940 employed as 2nd Lt Messel to design camouflage for pillboxes on the Taunton Stop line; David Hunt and Chris Webster in Antiquaries J 2020 416; briefly there from 22.9.40 replaced 2.12.40 by Julian Trevelyan; camouflaged pillboxes as 'gothic lodges, caravans, haystacks, ruins and wayside cafes, always with great attention to detail';
MESSITER, M. & G. Surveyors, Wincanton. ?connected to Messiter bankers at No 5 High St Wincanton and house at No 7, bank opened 1792 by Richard Messiter, Uriah & George Messiter were bankers, George Messiter +1834 had sons George Jr, Henry, Thomas & John. Uriah Messiter +1848 owned Bayford Lodge. Bank merged with Stuckeys 1844. George & Henry Messiter alive 1857, only John by 1881. So who were M & G Messiter?
1820 alts Horsington ch, Som; rebuilt except base of W tower; plans 1818-26 ICBS; Sturges & Noakes builders; all demolished apart from w tower in 1885;
1826-8 involved with additions South Brewham ch, Som; ICBS; but ET Percy qv of Sherborne also involved;
METHUEN, Hon. ANTHONY PAUL Corsham Court Wilts, and Bath; later 5th Baron Methuen. Born 1891, 2nd son of Field-Marshal Paul 3rd Baron 1845-1932. Older brother Paul Ayshford b1886 was 4th Baron;
1929 rest Poundisford Park, Pitminster, Som for AW Vivian-Neal; Dunning, Some Somerset Country Houses; inserted E staircase, adds on E side;
(1933 rest Monkton Farleigh ch, Wilts WBR)
(1938 alts Hungerford Almshouses, Corsham, Wilts; WBR;
1957-8 reps Chilcompton ch, Som; ICBS;
1958-9 reps Chelwood ch, Som; ICBS;
1961-2 reps Hemington ch, Som; ICBS;
1962-9 prop reps Chilcompton ch, Som; ICBS grant cancelled 1969;
1964 inv reps Publow ch, Som; orig spec by Methuen, 2nd by Burrough & Hannam; ICBS;
MEW, LEONARD Assistant County Architect Somerset County Council; cf Somerset County Architects qv. In 1940s changed name to Leonard Meux. Worked for both AJToomer and ROHarris, County Architects. Called Leonard Meux when won 2nd prize in agricultural division TC 13.10.45;
MEYER, F. W. Landscape designer from Germany
1902 Wellington Park, Wellington, Som; Robert Veitch & Sons, Exeter, contrs; possibly Samson & Cottam designed lodge and gates;
MICHAELIS, ALEX Architect, London. Michaelis Boyd Architects set up 1995 partnership with Tim Boyd.
2007 add Weacombe House, West Quantoxhead, Som, for Christopher Courage; designed single-storey kitchen addition, executed by Marius Barran qv; inf owner.
MICKLETHWAITE & SOMERS CLARK London JT Micklethwaite 1843-1906 and George Somers Clark, partners 1876-92. JTM surveyor Westminster Abbey 1898.
1880-4 rest East Harptree ch, Som; to plans by GE Street; ICBS; SNB;
(1889 rest Inglesham ch, Wilts; for SPAB; WBR; SPAB files 1886-93 all letters are from JTM)
MICKLEWRIGHT, W. E. The Yews, Norton sub Hamdon. Stone mason, worked for Charles Trask +1907, manager there, took over Trask workshops, only lasted two years. Micklewright probably made furniture at Trasks to Henry Wilson designs, he made the gates for Tonbridge School Chapel and the wooden patterns for the bronze letters made by Trasks to be cast by Singer in Frome. Micklewright had own workshop later at The Yews closed 1923. WEM made carved oak chest in Norton sub Hamdon ch. ?Employed an Italian called Venai who carved two 10ft stone figs in armour ?for Weybridge, also a 2’ oak crucifix; Penny Cudmore article in The Nortonian, 2.
1921 made War Memorial, Martock chyd, Som; des by H Wilson qv; ch guide;
MIDDLE, CHARLES ROBERT Architect, Tyningfield, Linden Rd, Clevedon; Kelly 1889; a Mr Middle built Linden Rod and upper part of Prince's Rd, Clevedon acc to D&J Lilly, The Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
1876 Simla Lodge Hill Rd, Clevedon; Lilly;
1879 Lorraine Lodge, Hill Rd, Clevedon; Lilly
189? Ashley Ho, Sunnyside Rd, Clevedon, for Bernard Horsey, architect CR Midlle, bldrs Hartwidge & Tanner who later added Oreston and Gilcrux, ?to CRM plans;
MILDMAY, HUMPHREY of Shawford. Brother of Carew Hervey Mildmay of Hazlegrove House, Som.
c1730 Hazlegrove House, Sparkford, Som; Mildmay designed façade based on façade of a palace in Genoa; RPA Lankester, A History of Hazlegrove House, 1958, 21; first attributed by Horace Walpole in diary 1762 quoted in The History of Modern Taste in Gardening, 1982, 44.
MILES, THOMAS B. Shaftesbury, fl 1860-74 WBR;
18?? No 11 Market Place, Wincanton, Som; after 1837 house on site fell down went into chancery and George Russell Sr of London House, Wincanton, entered into contract with Mr Miles of Shaftesbury to build the present shop, Russell died before completion and William Russell, brother, lived there. Later owned George Sweetman; PB 33;
(1860 Builder Bemerton new ch, Wilts; TH Wyatt archt, Wm Howitt of Wilton clk of works did most of carving assisted by his brother George Howitt, but pulpit font and poor-box bracket by HT Margetson of Bristol; Wilts Indep 20.12.60;
(1866 builder Semley ch, Wilts; TH Wyatt archt WG 28.9.66)
(1869 builder workhouse, Tisbury, Wilts; TB Miles; WBR; dem;
(1872 School, Alvediston, Wilts; WBR, TB Miles;
(18?? school, Sutton Mandeville, Wilts; TB Miles, WBR:
(1874 builder school, Marnhull, Dorset; archt J Soppitt qv; WG 19.6.74;
MILLAR, C. F. Shirehampton
(1889-90 Convert Shirehampton tithe barn, Bristol, to working men’s club; T Br 14.12.89)
(1889-90 alts J Horts farm-buildings, Avonmouth, Bristol, on estate of PJ Miles esq; T Br 23.11.89; £825
MILLER CONSTRUCTION. Contractors, design & build; Part of Miller Group with offices in England and Scotland inc Bristol;
1986 Practical Centre, Wellington School, Som; design & build contract; WS 173; plain hipped 3-storey block E of South St;
1990 Science Block, Wellington School, Som; some architectural input from Stephen Bartleet of Stone & Partners; John Kendall-Carpenter Science Centre;
2001-2 Princess Royal Sports Centre, Wellington School, Som; on E side of South St;
(200? Civil Justice Centre, Bristol; des and build;
(2010 Broad Quay, Bristol; reclad and altered former Bristol & West office tower into hotel;
(200? Radisson Hotel, Bute St, Cardiff, Glam; design & build)
2012-14 contractors Avon & Somerset Police Somerset Operations Base inc offices and 36 cells, Express Park, Bridgwater, Som; by Ryder Architecture qv, design & build contract under PFI for Bluelight Partnership; £129 million with other facilities: tri-force indoor fire-arms training centre Black Rock Quarry, Portishead, Som by Haverstock Associates qv; police station at Keynsham by Haverstock Associates and police station for Bristol Patchway by Ryder Architecture; with Bilfinger Berger Project Investments;
MILLER, - builder Clevedon
1871-6 Rockhampton, Wye Villa, Edgcliffe, Perth Villa/Elba Ho, ?all Marine Parade, Clevedon; built by or for Miller; Lilly Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
MILLER, SANDERSON 1716-80 Radway Grange, Warws. Amateur architect, used various professionals incl W&D Hiorn, J Sanderson, W Hitchcox. HC;
(1743 Cottage, Edgehill, Warws; HC;
(1744-6 alts Radway Grange, Warws; HC
(1750-62 remodelled Adlestrop Park, Glos;
(1754-5 Great hall, Lacock Abbey, Wilts; HC)
(1754-60 Hagley Hall, Worcs)
1755 attr Sham Castle, Bath, Som for Ralph Allen but Richard Jones claims design was his;
(1758-60 Pomfret House, Arlington St, London dem; HC;
1774 Farmhouse for Alexander Hood in Somerset, presumably at Cricket St Thomas, Som; Anthony C Wood & William Hawkes, Sanderson Miller, Banbury Historical Society (1969), 109; not in HC; Alexander Hood later Viscount Bridport 1726-1814 bought Cricket House estate 1775;
MILNE, OSWALD PARTRIDGE. Architect London. 1881-1968 articled Sir AW Blomfield 1898-1901 then with Lutyens, own practice 1904; partnership with Hon Paul Phipps 1919, later with Alfred Underhill; did junior school, Dartington, Devon, 1932; science block Bedford School, 1933;
1954 rebuilt Hollam House, Dulverton, Som; much reducing Victorian house; OPM and A Underhill FFRIBA; SRO D/r/dul/24/1 220; plans more drastic than what was actually done;
MILNER, EDWARD Landscape gardener, pupil of Sir Joseph Paxton, inv with Crystal Palace grounds at Sydenham; grounds Hartsholme Hall, Lincs; Preston parks 1862-7; competitor Sefton Pk Liverpool 1867; Lincoln arboretum 1872; gardens Iwerne Minster, Dorset; +1884;
1862 landscape, Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath; SNB; Hickes & Isaac architects;
MITCHELL ARCHITECTS 9 Fore St, Williton. 2009. Chris Mitchell. Not same as Mitchell Architects, Plymouth.
200? Belvedere Court, flats and shops, Taunton, Som;
2006-7 Rest Tithe Barn, Dunster, Som; AHF newsletter; Patrick Stow engineer; Sweetlands contrs;
MITCHELL HARVEY PARTNERSHIP, Broadway House, Peter St, Yeovil, 2009. Alan J Harvey. They were Mitchell Sutton Harvey Partnership (MSHP) in 1971 and Mitchell Sutton Associates (MSA) in 1973;
1971 reps Holy Trinity ch, Yeovil, Som; MSHP; SRO D/D/cf/1971/2/1; and rearrange sanctuary 1971/2/7;
1973 Adds Ralph Allen School, Bath, Som for Som CC, MSA; SRO D/R/ ba/22/1/1466;
1978-9 alts C chapel, Princes St, Yeovil, Som; bicentenary history 1980 14;
MITCHELL SUTTON HARVEY PARTNERSHIP Yeovil See Mitchell Harvey.
MITCHELL TAYLOR WORKSHOP Bath. Piers Taylor set up Invisible Studio in 2012;
(2006-7 Moonshine, house for Piers Taylor near Bath, Som; ?The Rocks estate, Marshfield, Glos;
(2006-7 Room 13, art room, Hareclive Primary School, Moxham Drive, Bristol; SNB, first of a planned series of Room 13s, art studios run by the students working with resident artists;)
(2007-8 Sanderson House, Badminton School, Bristol; SNB, boarding-house )
(2010 Dining hall, Colerne Primary School, Wilts; also bike shelter, with Charley Brentnall, timber-framer; AJ 31.3.11)
2010 Stillpoint, Bath, Som; acupuncture & martial arts centre, on riverside behind Walcot St
2010 Starfall Farm, Northend, Batheaston, Som; house for Alexander Sturgis, director of Holburne Museum Bath; BD 19.3.10. Add to Georgian farmhouse in blockwork clad in stained larch,
2010-11 Library, King’s College, South Rd, Taunton, Som £1.2m; BD 2.7.10; AJ Specification 10/11, contractor RG Spiller; built to sustainable energy plan; BD 14.10.11 £1.3m;
MITCHELL, F.C.
1931-2 alts Lyceum Theatre, Station Rd, Taunton, Som, converted to cinema, the County Cinema, the Odeon by 1936, dem 1996; cinema treasures website;
MITCHELL, J. G. Yeovil. ?same as Mitchell Sutton Harvey qv.
1961 unex plans for Civic Centre, Hendford, Yeovil; CHAC;
MJW ARCHITECTS, Stoke St Michael, Som, est 2000 by Michael J Williams;
(2001 Technical Services building, Devizes, Wilts, for Kennet DC;
2001 Greenlands, Oakhill, Som; new house;
2002 three houses, The Maggot Factory, Milton Clevedon, Som;
(2003 eco-homes Egypt Mill, Nailsworth, Glos)
2006 conv former Sunday School, The Old Chapel, Stoke St Michael, Som to own offices and conversion of chapel to house for self
2006 proposed Cheese & Grain arts centre, Frome; conversion of warehouse;
2006-7 renovated farmhouse, Hornblotton, Som;
(2008 new house, Ubley, Glos)
2008 conservatory addn, Marchfield, nr Castle Cary;
2008 rear add house, Orchard Rd, Street, Som;
2009 Garden office, Coleford, Som
2008 addition Gospel Hall, Coleford, Som; front extension to late C20 building
2009 new house, Coleford, Som;
2009 restored Crosslynds, Stoke St Michael, Som;
2009 addition Somerfoss, Oakhill, Som; to 1970s house by Artist Constructor qv; 2010 acc to modernhouse website;
2009 refurbished tea-room, Victoria Park, Frome; Som;
2009 remodel Greenacres, North Wootton, Som, of a bungalow on campsite;
2010 new house, Grumbles Farm, Shepton Mallet Som
2011 house, Crown Garage site, West Harptree, Som;
201? New house, The Butts, Frome, Som;
201? garden room, Lansdown, Bath;
201? converted chapel, Radstock, Som;
(2011 White Cube Art Gallery, London with Caspar Mueller Keneer;
2011 refurbished North Hill Farm, near Yeovil;
(2011 small ext, barn conversion, Bratton, Wilts; timber-frame and brick;
201? new house, East Woodlands, Som on Longleat estate;
2012 proposed Civic Hall, Shepton Mallet, not built
2014 refurbishing, Norton Gospel Hall, Norton St Philip, Som;
2014 proposed semi-underground eco-house, Oakhill, Som;
2015 conversion Bridge House, Stallard St, Trowbridge to gallery and creative hub for Drawing Projects UK;
2015 conversion barns at Coombe Farm, Bruton to boutique hotel
(2016 sustainable housing, Stourhead NT estate, Stourton, Wilts, for Stourhead Western Estate
20?? Four Oaks, Nailsea, passivhaus construction;
20?? remodelled Greenacres, North Wootton, rebuild of bungalow;
20?? The Timber House, near Bath, self-build;
(2018? Stream Side, three houses Ubley near Bristol, Glos timber-frame timber clad;and another house opposite;
MLINARIC, DAVID Interior designer, Spargrove House, Batcombe. Born 1939, trained as architect, set up in 1961, firm now Mlinaric, Henry & Zervudachi. Work on many historic houses inc Waddesdon, Nostell Priory, Beningborough Hall, Spencer House London; Royal Opera House;
1995-7 rest Spargrove House, Batcombe, Som; with Mitch & Penné Pope qv; for himself;
200? Interior, Westholme House, Pilton, Som for Mark & Mary-Anne Franklin; inf owners;
(2008ff work at Wilton House, Wilts, repainting and gilding of dining room CL 20.1.2010)
MOCKRIDGE, HENRY. Mason, Trull, 1906 dir
c1900 Builder, Fairview Terrace & Southview Terrace, Trull, Som; N Chipchase, Around Taunton, 21;
MOFFATT, WILLIAM BONYTHON Architect, Spring Gardens London. 1812-87. Native of Cornwall, pupil with GG Scott of J Edmeston cl829, partner of Scott qv for 11 years 1834-45 (S&M, see Scott & Moffatt), dissolved because of WBM extravagance. Imprisoned for debt 1860; Sir GG Scott, Personal & professional recollections, 1879, 1995 ed; S&M qv practice specialised in workhouses, and some 124 contracts were completed, mostly institutions, inc Williton Workhouse Som 1838-40 and Bath & Somerset County Asylum, Wells, Som; John Jones worked for practice c1845-8; advert in Wilts Indep 31.12.1846 for a proposed People's Journal inc an article proposed 'Homes for the people' by WB Moffatt architect of the 'new railway street' with designs etc, of interest to Building Societies.
1838-40 Williton Workhouse, Som; see S&M; plans 1836;
1840 rectory, Babcary, Som; S&M; RL thinks ref in TC;
(1841 Rectory, Teffont Evias, Wilts; WBR;)
(l846-7 National School, Pontycleifion, Cardigan, Cd; plans NLW Greg Box 18 by S&M, but by WBM acc to PH 29.9.48; Daniel Evans clk of wks, Jenkins & Morgan bldrs; John Jones may have been responsible for plans; blt for Rev Robert Miles of The Priory, Cardigan, who ?employed S&M at Bingham, Notts, where he was vicar.
(1849-50 National School, Church St, Lampeter, Cd; NLW Greg Box 18 Plans; by WBM; sponsored by Harford family;
1855 1st pr Assize Courts, Shuttern, Taunton, Som; RHH; now the Shire Hall, prize won under dubious circumstances; building put up 1857-8 by Richard Carver qv, RL 2 35;
MOGGRIDGE & SON contractors Taunton. TH Moggridge & Son.
1927-8 contrs ext to Thone boarding-house, Taunton School, Som; archt ?; PC 147 £3540: matching style to 1910-11 house
MONRO & PARTNERS
1961 Marks & Spencers, Bath; AFtext;
MONROE, PHILIP Engineer. Bristol. see Philip Munro
MOODY, TERRY
1981-2 adds RC church, King St, Bridgwater, Som; extended nave, new parish hall to N. Church guide.
MOORE, FRANK. A (? signature undecipherable) Architect, Knowle, Bristol
1921 Ge-mare Farm and chauffeur’s house, Holford, Som for AJ Kerry, large bungalow with hipped first-fl billiard room over entrance hall and colonnade veranda, also chauffeur’s house on A39 with 2-st canted bay on gable end. SRO plans D/R/wil/24/1/17; one signature ?Frank A Moore other ?Frank A. Glenmoore, neither named in 1921 or 1923 Bristol dirs.
MOORE, JAMES PHILIP. Gloucester. Practice 1870s-1900 +1923. Partner AW Medland briefly. Des Lodge, Montpelier Gdns, Cheltenham, 1876; Hatherley Court 1878-81; much in Churchdown inc Hare & Horses 1887-8; alts Sedbury Park 1895-8; BoE Glos.
1885-6 Chaffcombe Rectory, Som; plans Glos RO D 4335 for house, stables 1885, and gates; SRO has 1882-4 plans by Hilton & Rawlins of London qv presumably discarded, GRO has one drawing 1882 by H&R; built 1886 (Kelly) for about £1000; now Blanda House.
MOORE, TEMPLE LUSHINGTON. Architect 1856-1920. Pupil later assistant GG Scott Jr. Worked with son Richard and nephew Leslie. Biog by Geoff Brandwood.
(1886-94 All Saints ch, Peterborough)
(1897 alts chancel, St Mark ch, Swindon, Wilts; BoE; T Swindon Advertiser 17.8.95)
1900-2 Restoration and new service wing, Coker Court, East Coker, Som; SC notes; for GW Heneage; restored hall bay gable and gable to W end, reopened hall roof, added a SW link back to a new SW service wing; CL 2.1.1909 does not mention architect but says plaster ceiling in hall taken down and roof renewed, stone tiles put on roofs, oak floor, all building done by estate workers under former bailiff Albert Caplen.
MOORSOM, - Engineer to Southampton & Dorchester Rlwy, Act passed 21.7.1845, standard gauge. BLJ 15-16. Proposed Weymouth branch 1845. Opened 1847.
MORGAN, ABRAHAM Kilmersdon, carpenter & builder.
1821 Parsonage, Writhlington, Som; SRO DD/bbm/51; plain 2st 3w front;
MORGANS, MORGAN. Engineer, completed West Somerset Mineral Railway from Watchet to Brendon Hills after death of original engineer Rice Hopkins qv in 1857. +1888. Morgans & Son mining and civil engineers, mine architects and surveyors, of Mansion Ho, Old Park St, Bristol & High St, Newport, with son Thomas Morgans. By 1877 Thomas was in practice with brother William Morgans in Bristol. On Brendon Hills presumably responsible for engine houses at Langham Hill and Kennisham Hill, oversaw Combe Row Incline entirely, lived from 1858 at Beverton House (now Tone Farm) built for Trevelyan estate, then c1861 moved to Sea View House (now Hill House) built for him
MORLAND, STEPHANIE. Glastonbury, of prominent tannery family, trained as architect, ?never practiced.
MORLEY, DAVID Architect David Morley Architects; with Foster Associates 1977; set up practice 1987; Andy Mytom specialist on sports projects;
20?? chosen to design English Institute of Sport, Bath University, Bath over Nicholas Grimshaw & Ptnrs, Richard Rogers Partnership, Bennetts Asocs; Edward Cullinan Architects and Andrzej Blonski Architects/ Studio Zoppini; BD ?.?.????;
2004 The Campus, Highlands Lane, Weston s Mare, Som; umbrella facility for North Somerset DC; planned 2001; opened 2005; RIBA award 2006;
(20?? Southmead Hospital, Bristol; £500m PFI scheme; with Greenhill Jenner Architects and Nightingale Associates;
MORLEY (W. J.) & SON, 269 Swan Arcade, Bradford. William James Morley 1847-1930; FRIBA 1892; articled Lockwood & Mawson 1861-8, their office manager 1868-73, then w Milnes & France. Started 1874, Morley & Woodhouse (M&W), joined by his son E Morley (WJM&S). 1888 Groves WM York (WJM); Toll Gavel WM Beverley (M&W), Ital, school added 1903-4 (WJM&S); 1903 Barnes WM, London, £6,600 (WJM&S); 1903 Creswell WM Worksop WCC03; 1902-3 Llangollen Eng WM, Denbs; £2,386; WCC02 48 and 216; stone, Gothic w tower and spire; Lewis Bros, Oswestry bldrs; 3 apse windows by TW Camm; 1903 Llangollen WWM, Denbs; WCC03 £3300 red brick, Gothic, no tower, wings; design in vestry; schholroom and chapel house dem; 1908 Harome WM Helmsley; 1909 Linacre WM Mission Sunday School;
1898 1st pr Weston s Mare WM chapel, Som; WJM; RHH;
MORLIDGE, JOHN Builder. Established as builder in Horseferry Rd, London, by 1825-6, Pigot's dir, also Samuel Morlidge, carpenter;
(1807-13 clk of wks, Longleat house, Wilts; J Wyatville archt; HC)
(1813-14 Everleigh ch, Wilts, for F Dugdale astley; HC, GM 1814 2 491;)
MORRAY-JONES, SIMON Architect, Bath, since 1980. Simon Morray-Jones Architects Ltd; Nick Tomlinson worked for him then founded Tonic Architecture qv; website has complete restoration of country house in Wilts (Bath stone 3-st 5-bay), new built neo-Georgian stone house in Dorset, new built thatched 'party barn' in Dorset; renovation of coastal manor house, Dorset; restoration of large C19 Gothic country house in Leics;
20?? refurbished Babington House hotel, Som; Orangery restaurant and cow-house spa in walled garden by Nick Tomlinson;
20?? refurbished pool and health suite, Priory Hotel, Bath, Som; website; Biggs contractors;
(2004 Gibbs Barn, Manor Fm, Longbridge Deverill, Wilts, by Nick Tomlinson, for Jennifer Newman and Bernard Rimmer, Max Neil of Foster + Partners also involved; HMGI)
2013 refurb No 1 Royal Crescent Bath for Bath Preservation Trust; website;
MORRIS, CUTHBERT RODHAM. Gwyon House, North Curry. Auctioneer & surveyor. Firm by 1906, CR Morris, Sons & Peard, with CW and RS Morris and JG Peard, offices also in Taunton & Bridgwater.
1870 reps WM chapel, North Curry, Som; advert for tenders in N Curry archive; reflooring, reseating, repairs and new stone step, 23.4.70;
MORRIS, JOSEPH 9 Friar St, Reading. Pupil of JB Clacy. Article in Tr Ancient Monuments Society 1989 on the Morris family of Reading, architects, by H Godwin Arnold refers to Joseph Morris and wife Emily becoming Agapemonites in 1884 and designing their church in London. He was involved with the community at Spaxton, Som, whither he retired, to East Gate House, Spaxton, designed by his daughter Violet qv. Son Frank Morris +1908 aged 37 was architect. Daughter Violet +1958 remained in Spaxton and practiced as architect, daughter Olive Morris did wood-carving; he and wife buried in garden at East Gate House; drawings for West Gate are stamped Joseph Morris but house looks like Violet's work.
1888 Alts The Agapemone, Four Forks, Spaxton, Som; addition at back of main house; ?design in Mander’s book on the Agapemone;
(1892-5 Ark of the Covenant, Rookwood Rd, Upper Clapton, London, JJM&Sons, BoE London N;)
(1892 Mc Ilroy Depatment Store, Nos 65-7 Regent St, Swindon, Wilts; for William McIlroy WBR2; dem;
MORRIS, OLIVE. Woodcarver. Daughter of Joseph Morris qv, did newels, mantelpiece and banisters at East Gate House, Spaxton, Som, for her parents 1905 and organ case for Agapemonite chapel, Spaxton, Som, now in Holy Cross RC ch, Bedminster, Bristol. Tr AMS 1989;
MORRIS, ROGER Architect, London, 1695-1749, early Palladian, worked for Henry Herbert Earl of Pembroke at Marble Hill (1724-9), White Lodge Richmond (1727-8), Column of Victory, Blenheim (1730-1), adds Pembroke Ho Whitehall 1731-2, and Palladian Bridge at Wilton, Wilts (1736-7). This last was the model for the Palladian Bridge at Prior Park, Bath, Som, of 1755-6, built by Richard Jones qv. Also did Clearwell Castle, Glos, c1728 castellated Gothic; and Castle Hill, Devon, c1729-40 'under direction of Lord Burlington and Lord Herbert', and ints at Eastbury Pk, Dorset, c1733-8 after death of Vanbrugh; in 1742 Lord Folkestone paid R Morris for a design for a building at Longford Castle, Wilts and in 1745 for 'drawing designs of the cupola to the building'.
MORRIS, VIOLET SHERWELL Four Forks, Spaxton. 1878-1958 Architect, daughter of Joseph Morris qv of Reading, moved with parents to Spaxton to be part of Agapemonite community there under Rev Smyth-Pigott and designed houses for family and neighbours; one of first women architects. Proved Smyth-Piggot's will TC 1.6.1927; Cf TrAMS, 1989, buried at Spaxton. Violet Morris proved will of Rev Smyth-Piggott WG 3.6.1937;
1904-5 East Gate House, Spaxton, Som, house for Joseph Morris; interior carving by Olive Morris; plans SRO D/R/bw/22/1/1/26a and 101; 1904-5 adds to house at Four Forks (as there were exisiting cottages now the N wing); plans and specs at house with owner 2012: details for stairs, boot-scraper, scullery draining-boards 24.1.05; front door 8.3.05; heating (w George Haden of Trowbridge) 29.3.05; plaque 3.4.05; front iron gate and stable gate 30.9.05; Joseph Willis & Son, St Mary St, Bridgwater bldrs;
1908 The West Gate, Spaxton, Som, for Hazleton family, £1000, Willis & Son, St Mary St Bridgwater, bldrs; Diana Crighton saw plans at house stamped Joseph morris;
1915 The North Gate, Spaxton, Som for Mould family, adjoining Agapemone; EH Coles & Sons, Enmore, bldrs;
1921 The Larches, Four Forks, Spaxton, Som, EH Coles of Enmore bldr; letter 3.4.32 to him in TrAMS; for the Misses Howlett £3750;
1930-2 No 1 Durleigh Hill, Spaxton, Som, for C Sellick;
1936 The Holt, Spaxton, Som, for Mr Scott, adj Lower Aisholt Rd; since extended;
1937 Crossway, Church Rd, Spaxton, Som, bungalow for Miss Newnham
1949 Brookside, Spaxton, Som, bungalow similar to The Holt;
MORSE & LANGDON Builders
1872 bldrs Washford Station, Som, for Minehead Railway; £940; C clinker West somerset Railway, 7;
MORSE, E. & C. Builders and contractors, Watchet. Edmund and Clifford Morse 1906 dir, also Stephen Morse, builder & contractor.
189- Alexandra Villas, West St, Watchet, Som; Book of Watchet & Williton;
MOSS, GEORGE. Surveyor, Lopen, described as a local surveyor who inserted gallery in Lopen ch, after N transept was built in 1834 by John Patch qv; ch guide;
MOSS (JOHN) & RENDELL (ROBERT) Builders
1874 Buildings, Lower Stowford Fm, Bradford on Tone, Som, for JH Warre; contr DD/DP/72/3; ?16.7.1869 alts to house occ Thomas Dinham at Lower Stoford, Som, overwritten on a draft of 1868 contract for Warre with Wm Shewbrooks qv
1877 Buildings, Bishops Hull, Som, for William Blake; Thomas King & John Moss; DD/DP/72/3;
MOSS, W. Builder
1875 Bridge over Tone, Bridge Mill, Bishop’s Hull, Som; plaque 1875 OGWW Moss builder;
MOSS-FLOWER, T.J. Surveyor, C.E. 2 Victoria Mansions, Westminster & Bristol, later TJ Moss-Flower & Davies of Baldwin St, Bristol;
1904 repairs and imprs Nynehead Court for GJ Lysaght T Br 9.7.04;
1904 Private school, Burnham on Sea, som T Br 3.9.04 for T Spencer;
1908 alts gardener's cottage, Woodford House, Chew Stoke, Som for CA Vaughan; TJM-F&D;
MOTLEY, THOMAS Bristol. Engineer. Born 1791, probably had son also called Thomas Motley. Thomas Motley architect, Willow Cottage, behind Widcombe Crescent, Bath, is in Kelly 1889 dir. Not same as TM industrialist in S Wales tinplate industry, he was from Leeds, married there 1820, involved in Dyffryn Lynfi & Porthcawl Railway Co in 1820s in partnership with Henry Fussell from Warminster; 1841-3 Motley, Fussell & Co owned Maesteg blast furnace and Margam tinworks, employed hundreds, failed, up for sale 1843 unsold to 1849; family may not have moved to S Wales until 1840 ?from Leeds; Thomas Motley invested in Dafen Tinplate works, Llanelli 1845-8, moved to Aelybryn, Felinfoel, Llanelli, then 1848 to Rock Ho, Pembrey, Carms, bankrupt 1849, moved to Isle of Man, died 1863. Eldest son James Motley born 1822 trained as engineer, noted botanist in Wales, after 1849 in Borneo killed there by Dyaks 1859; another son Arthur born c1824 lived at Loughor, Glam, emigrasted New Zealand.
1837 Suspension Bridge, nr Twerton, Bath; dem 1893; lithograph by Paul Jerrard;
MOULTON, -. Bruton.
1770ff work on Bruton ch, Som; VCH; acc to 1866 report by RH Carpenter; consulted in 1777 SRO D/P/brut 4/1/1; John Bishton says he appears as footnote to work at Stourhead;
MOXLEY JENNER Architects, Bristol. Raymond Moxley 1923-2014 and Michael Jenner, formed 1965 as Moxley Jenner & Partners. Michael Jenner ran Bristol office and Moxley the London office, Jenner was co-author of book on Bristol with Andor Gomme and Brian Little (GJL). A book produced by firm: Moxley Jenner & Partners, 1973, illustrates their work, also featured the Frome Tool factory by Michael Hitchings qv;
(1961-73 Colston Tower, Bristol; SNB; ?designed by Ray Moxley;
(1978 Princess Royal Gardens housing, Bristol; HDA 1978;
(1984 Centre Gate, Lewins Mead, Bristol; AF; and restoration of St Bartholomew's Hospital and houses Narrow Lewins Mead;
1985 improvements, Trinity area, Frome; HDA 1985;
(1988-90 St Augustine’s Court, St Augustine’s Parade, Bristol: refurb for offices; AF; with Stride Treglown qv;
1989 Housing, Ash Farm, Ash, Som; HDA 1989; RIBAJ 97 58-61 housing project design award, new dwellings mixed with original C17 listed farmhouse and several converted barns … ‘materials and forms complement the local vernacular’; ?now called Old Farmhouse; MJ;
(1990 QEH Theatre, Berkeley Place, Bristol; AF;
MOXLEY, RAY Architect, Bristol 1923-2014 Set up in 1953, designed Bristol's first high-rise block in 1964 ?Colston Centre; 1965 joined Michael Jenner as Moxley Jenner & Partners qv, Moxley ran London office while Jenner ran Bristol and Cardiff; RIBA obit 20.1.2015;
1956 Prior's Field, Yew Tree House and Lark's Field, three bungalows, Abbots Leigh, Som; C20index; all demolished; Prior's Field ?built in 1953 dem 2000; Yew Tree House dem 2006;
(1961-73 Colston Centre, Bristol; by MJ&P acc to SNB;
1962 Hill House, Slugg Hill, Somerton Road, Street, Som, for Ralph & Barbara Clark; ill in Moxley Jenner & Partners, 1973. Garden by Laurie Fricker; inf J Gould;
(1962-5 Clifton Heights, Triangle West, Bristol; AF;
1963 Preston's Cottage, Chewton Mendip, for Woodward family; addition c1970 by Tim Organ qv; Anthony Woodward, The Garden in the Clouds;
MOXON ARCHITECTS London established 2004 by Ben Addy; Tim Murray director from 2008;
2007-11 Third Way Bridge over River Tone, Taunton, Som; competition victory 2007, 36m bridge to connect W and N approaches to town centre; £1.5m.; Flint & Neill structural engs; BD 9.12.11; two arches w stainless steel suspension rods. Lifted as single 220t piece into place; Galliford Try contrs; Mabey Bridge fabricators; small civil engineering project award 2012;
2011-12 Castle Green pedestrian bridge, Taunton, Som; Flint & Neill engineers, AJ 13.12.12; also proposed subsequent pedestrian bridges over Mill Strem in Goodland Gardens (supported beam) and River Tone (tied arch);
MUDFORD, JAMES West Chinnock. Worked with his son Edward.
1820 plans West Chinnock ch, Som; ICBS; dem;
1825-6 adds West Chinnock ch, Som, by James Mudford and Edward Mudford; ICBS; dem;
MULEWARD, WILLIAM Carpenter, Westcombe. Built the new roof of the choir at Glastonbury Abbey, contract dated 23.9.1364, 'according to the design (devys et ordinance' of the abbot (Walter Monington), master Robert, mason, and Robert his lieutenant'. Antiq J 88 2008 216-21;
MULLET, ALFRED BULT. 1834-90 Architect, USA. Born Fore St, Taunton next door Wilts & Dorset Bank. Family emigrated 1842 to Glendale Ohio, trained c1854-60 w Isaiah Rogers of Cincinatti. Practice 1861. After Civil War rejoined Rogers now Supervising Architect US Treasury Dept, succeded him in 1866. Huge number of public buildings in US, post offices, custom houses etc, designed Old Executive Building next White House, Washington DC and Baltimore Sun offices Washington DC;
MULLINS, - Architect 12 Rivers St, Bath. Advert BC 19.4.1798 to let modern built house in parish of Walcot, five sitting-rooms, seven bedrooms; apply mr Mullins;
MUNBY, ALAN EDWARD. ARIBA 9 Old Sq, Lincolns Inn, London 1870-1938 Studied science at Heidelberg & Cambridge, took up architecture, practice in 1908 w TP Figgis, became specialist on science buildings, author of Laboratories, their planning & fittings, 1931. Obit RIBAJ 7.2.38 and 21.2.38; ASG 269. Designed Cooper’s School London 1909 with TPF. Blt science bldngs at Highgate School, London; Clifton College, Bristol, 1927; and Beaumont College, Berks. 1923 Science bldngs, UCNW Bangor, Caerns.
(1927 Science Building, Clifton College, Bristol; ASG;)
MUNDEN, CHARLES Builder Bay Hill, Ilminster Dir 1840; Love Lane dirs 1848-72
1860 builder rest Ilton ch, Som; JM Allen architect; Br 29.9.60 628;
MUNFORD, THOMAS Builder, North St, Crewkerne; TM & Son1906 dir;
MUNRO, PHILIP. Engineer, architect 2 St Stephens Chambers, Baldwin St, Bristol. MSA. 1843-c1911. Articled Alexander Leslie in Aberdeen, then worked on War Office trig survey of Channel Isles, then asstnt engineer Guernsey harbour works, worked for Ordnance Survey, set up in Bristol 1878, worked on Wilts & Berks Canal 1870-94; in partnership with a son 1881-1906 and may have worked with Mowbray Green qv c1910; GJL; says firm was Philip Munro & Sons;
(18?? Engineer Wilts & Berks Canal
(18?? Bridge over R Frome, Eastgate, Bristol; Clifton spa website;
1880 Paper Mills, Keynsham, Som; GJL;
1885 Cemetery, Burnham on Sea, Som; Clifton spa website; Gothic gateway, no chapel now; £1800;
(1890 Cornwallis Avenue, Clifton, Bristol; GJL;
1890? rebuilt St Cuthbert’s Mill, Wookey Hole, Som; Brian Luker gives 1890 as date for façade;
(1891-3 Clifton Rocks Railway, Clifton, Bristol co-engineer with GC Marks qv; GJL;
(1893 Clifton Pump Room and Spa, Clifton, Bristol; add to upper end of Prince’s Buildings, now Clifton Spa Hotel; 1890-4 SNB; developed with the Clifton Rocks Railway, PM was architect, GC Marks qv engineer;
(1898 Avon Gorge Hotel, attached to Grand Spa Pump Room, Clifton, Bristol, Som; SNB;
(1902 Raymend Hotel, Raymend Rd, Bedminster, Bristol, GJL;
(1905 workmens houses for Ashton Court estate, Bristol; Clifton Spa website)
(1907 Trinity Scottish Preb church, Cranbrook Rd, Bristol; by PM&Son; SNB;
(1910 Stables, Stoke Abbey Fm, Parry’s Lane, Sneyd Park, Bristol;
Light railway to Bristol Waterworks at Blagdon, Som; inf Brian Luker via JW;
Web-site for Clifton Spa also says that Munro designed Town Hall and Market at Burnham on Sea, Som, but this is by Edwin Down qv, 1868;
MURRAY, ESMOND Architect Bath Esmond Murray Architects formed 1991;
1994 rest TH, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, for RC church; proposed office extenion over an arch not built, new car-park gates;
20?? add to 1960s house, Lansdown Bath;
20?? alts WM chapel, Peasedown St John, Som; rear add and int alts;
20?? two new houses in grounds listed school, Bathwick, Bath;
(20?? B church Hanham, Glos;
20?? St Martin's Court, Bath block of 12 flats nr St Martins hospital;
20?? Flatwoods, Flatwoods Rd, Bath three new houses;
20?? conv Puckle Barn nr Bath;
MUSMAN & COUSENS
1958 Bucklers Mead Sec Modern School, Yeovil, Som; AJ 7.8.58 215; D Singleton & Son contrs;
MWT ARCHITECTS see Marshman Warren Taylor.
MYLNE, W.C. & R.W. London, engineers. Son and grandson of Robert Mylne (1733-1811) the Scots architect who won Blackfriars Bridge, London, comp in 1760. Robert Mylne was prominent as engineer, eg New River water supply to London. William Chadwell Mylne 1781-1863 continued practice and succeeded him as engineer to the New River Co, retiring 1861. Architect, engineer, surveyor and valuer, laid out much of New River Co estate in Clerkenwell, London. Competitor for Clifton Suspension Bridge 1827; his son Robert William Mylne 1817-90 worked with him, architect, engineer and geologist; HC;
1845 Proposed Bristol & English Channels Direct Junction Railway; Watchet to Bridport with branches to Wiveliscombe and Crewkerne; Plans SRO Q/RUP/178;
NANCEKIVELL, BOB Builder or Nancekeville?of D&J Shapland?
193? Large adds, Oare Manor, Oare, Som; historical notes at house, included E cross-wing with new drawing-room; ?architect not recorded;
NARRACOTT & OXFORD Architects 13 Guinea St Bristol, 2011.
NASH PARTNERSHIP see Edward Nash
NASH, EDWARD. Architect, Bath. Edward Nash Architects (ENA), Edward Nash Partnership (ENP), Nash Partnership (NP) Bath and Bristol. Robert Locke partner 1999, Daniel Lugsden 2002, Kevin Balch 1998, Bruce Clark conservation architect, Amanda Taylor urban design,
c1989 conv Somerset Coal Co warehouse, Kennet & Avon Canal, Bath, to offices; ENA; MF;
1995 Houses S side, Circus Mews, Bath; MF; ENP;
(1996 iron gate, Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; plans WBR at WSHC; for Paul Weiland; also later garden improvements;
2000-2 Conv Malthouse, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath to offices; ENP; MF;
2005 refurb Sutcliffe House, London Rd, Bath, former workhouse;
20?? refurb 10-11 Gt Pulteney St, Bath;
20?? conv barns, Kelston Manor, Som to house; Biggs contr; £750K;
20?? refurb Nightingale Lodge, Orchardleigh, Som; Victorian entrance lodge.
2006ff Wharf House, Bath, Som conv and refurb of house and workshops;
(20?? conv of Longfords's Mill complex nr Stroud, Glos;
20?? conv of maltings, Bath, Som for Somer Housing trust;
20?? Holiday Inn, Hayesfield, Bath, Som;
20?? GP surgery, Bath, Som walk-in Centre for BANES Primary Care Trust conv of 1980s greeting-card offices
2005 Orchard House, Freshford, Som; new house in walled garden, timber frame clad in woven oak lath;
20?? rest Warleigh Manor, nr Bathford, Som; £3.5m;
20?? new house, Batcombe, Som; single storey, oak-framed, timber-framed glazed end wall
20?? refurb Henley Hill Barn, Som; website
20?? Mount Haviland sheltered flats, Bath, Som;
20?? Herschel Place, Bathwick St, Bath, new Georgian terrace copying design from adjoining unfinished row;
20?? Garden imprs Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon, Wilts inc vaulted steps; for Paul Weiland; loggia over swimming pool with oak posts;
20?? Education centre, The American Museum, Claverton, Som; refurb of coach-house and stables; and development plan; Biggs contractors; £1.05m;
20?? refurb Bathwick Lodge, Bath, Som; renewal of garage and outbuildings;
(2009 prop adds and refurb Lee Bay Hotel, Devon)
20?? offices Brougham Hayes, Bath, Som
20?? Masterplan, redev of RAF Locking, Weston s Mare, Som for housing
(20?? plan for development, Mount hindrance, Chard, Som; 32 hectare site on n edge of Chard;
2010 redev masterplan Alcan factory site, Midsomer Norton, Som, for Linden Homes;
(2010-12 Kingston Mills, Bradford on Avon, Wilts 5.5 acre site of former Avon Rubber closed 1992, retained Lamb Factory and New Mills, 174 flats; £35 million;
(201? New house, Marshfield, Glos;
2012-13 housing dev and conv Temple Primary School, Keynsham, Som
(2012-13 HQ for Chartered Inst Water Management, Saffron Hill, London; retaining c1900 facade;
2013 prop refurb and reuse, Grand Parade, Bath, Som; reuse of spaces beneath Grand Parade riverside colonnade;
2013 prop single house, Bloomfield Rd, Bath, Som
2013 conv outbuildings, Glenavon Farm, Saltford, Som
(2013-14 HQ for Hitachi commercial Vehicle Services, Trowbridge, Wilts; website
2013-14 alts Tolley Cottage, Bath, Som; inc new canalside pavilion prop 2014
(2014 prop redev Bridge Garage site, Marlborough, Wilts;
2014 prop redev Upton house, Bathwick Hill, Bath;
2014 prop redev of MoD Endsleigh North site, Bath for 240 homes;
2014 prop dev around Tunley Farmhouse, nr Bath
2014 prop dev housing, Gatcombe Fm, Long Ashton, Som;
(2014 prop dev Bowyers Factory, Trowbridge, Wilts;
(2014 Phase 3, Paintworks, Bath Rd, Bristol, mixed use
NASH, JOHN Architect, London
(c1810-20 ?Miles & Harford Bank, 40 Corn St, Bristol; Nash designed premises for firm, not their later bank at No 35, but possibly No 40, orig four bays ext c1925 by WH Watkins; AF)
NATTRESS, GEORGE Architect, 31 Great James St, London. In practice 1870s, emigrated to United States, set up in Philadelphia, in directories 1891-1904. Living at 21 Summit, Clifton Height, Pennsylvania, 1902, with a son Andrew, a draughtsman, another son George, architect, was at 313 Berkley Av; Inf from Paul Heim of Wearne Wyche. Said acc to letter of 1898 to have worked on Truro, Portsmouth & Bombay Cathedrals. A water-colourist of note, painting by him of the W front Exeter Cathedral was advertised in repro on internet; drawing of palace of Maharajah of Indere, by John Campbell.
1873-4 Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Crewkerne, Som; compt won by GN of London Br 17.5.73 396. Twin chapels with porte cochere tower and spire between dated 1874, large lodge;
1875 Wearne Wyche, Pict’s Hill, High Ham, Som, for WB Paul, manager of Stuckeys Bank, Langport; inf Paul Heim, owner; BN 29.11.75; VCH; BN praised porch opening into hall;
1875 Stable block, Dillington House, Whitelackington, Som, for A Vaughan-Lee; service wing also acc to SC notes ?the little addition Nof N front;
(1878 entrant Brompton Oratory comp, London; Survey of London; BN Aug 1878;
(1881-2 rest Billingford ch, Norfolk; ICBS)
(1882 Billingford Rectory, Norfolk; Br 1.7.82)
(1885 ?prize for Great Yarmouth TH, Norfolk)
(1901-2 adds Christ Episc ch, Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, USA; GN&Sons;
(1905 proposed nave St Peter Episc ch, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA; blt modified plans in 1931
(1906 parish hall, St Peter Episc ch, Phoenixville, PA, USA;
(1912 No 2220 Chestnut St, Harrisburg, PA, USA, for Rev JF Bullitt of St Andrew Episc ch, Harrisburg;)
NAYLOR & SALE, Derby. Architects
1909 Prop vestry, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; addn at NE of church, not built; with Sprankling & Price qv; D/B/ta/24/1/40/492
1912 Choir vestry, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; with Sprankling & Price of Taunton; SRO D/D/cf/1912/50; added 2 bays on end of N aisle;
NEALE, JOSEPH. Architect, Bristol. GJL 438; 1835-77, moved to Exeter where killed by train;
(1858 Welsh CM chapel, St James Parade, Bristol; damaged 1940 rebuilt EH Button, spire removed c1970, ?now Welsh C; GJL; Trowbridge Advertiser 12.6.58 collapse of cottage next Presbyterian ch being built in St James Parade, Mr Neale architect)
(1859 WM chapel, Portwall Lane, Redcliff, Bristol; dem;
(1860 B chapel, Philip St, Bedminster, Bristol; dem;
(1870 St Gabriel ch, Upper Easton, Bristol; dem;
(1872 St Andrew ch, Hotwells Rd, Bristol, dem;
(1872 St Silas ch, Feeder Rd, Bristol; dem;
(1872 St Pauls school, Bedminster, Bristol; GJL;
(1872 Easton School, Bristol, FS Br 24.2.72;
(1873 St Matthew ch, Moorfields, Bristol;
(1877 Chapel, County Asylum, Exminster, Devon;
NEALON TANNER PARTNERSHIP. Bristol. Kenneth Nealon, James Leask, orig Kenneth Nealon & Partner,
(1952-3 Our Lady RC ch, Lawrence Weston, Bristol; adds 1957-8; RC C20 churches survey;
(1952-3 Christ the King RC ch, Filwood, Bristol; RC C20 churches survey;
(1953 St Vincent RC ch, Embleton Rd, Bristol; by KN; SNB)
(1956 Redcliffe Cres WM chapel, Bristol, by KN; H&F)
(1958 St Bernardette RC ch, Whitchurch, Bristol; by James Leask of NT; 1968 acc to RC C20 churches survey)
1965-6 A & B blocks, Millfield School, Street, Som; by Jimmy Leask of Nealon Tanner, & Partners: inf J Gould (I suppose very slightly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright 60 degree grids!). Their upward extensions (different brick and pitched roofs) are by HBS (qv) in the late 1980s. I met Leask years ago. I think that his name was James (this is listed in Somerset North) but he had a curious habit of changing his first name! The link to Millfield is through Ralph Clark who was a governor - he, Ray Moxley and Jimmy Leask were all in the Marine Commandos (I think) together. If you need to check this, I can ask Ralph Clark (who still lives at Hill House, Street)!
(1965-8 St Peter ch, Lord's Mead, Chippenham, Wilts; by Kenneth Nealon, Tanner & Partners; FS 27.6.67, consec 7.12.68, Dudley Coles Long bldrs; notable fittings by Frank Roper (1914-2000); Chippenham Civic Soc notes 2006;
1991 St Andrew’s School, Bath; SNB;
1991 Chilcompton Primary School, Som
1995-6 Widcombe School, Bath; SNB;
NEALON, KENNETH see Nealon & Tanner
NELSON, JOSEPH Engineer. Born Whitkirk, Leeds, +1833. Built lighthouses for Trinity House from c1809 incl two on Inner Farnes 1809-10, Lundy 1819 (D Alexander), Berwick on Tweed pier light, Longstone 1826. Worked with nephew George Burrell on Nash Point light, Glam;
1801 Low light, Burnham on Sea, Som; SC notes; ?error as Low Light and High Light behind blt 1832 by Nelson
(1808-9 Bldr South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead, Ang; (Daniel Alexander);
(1819 Blt Lundy Island lighthouse, Devon; (Daniel Alexander)
(1821 Bardsey Island Lighthouse, Caerns; nearly bankrupted by contract;
(1832 Two light-towers, Nash Point, Marcross, Glam, w keeper’s house; with nephew George Burrell;
1832 Two lighthouses, Burnham on Sea; High Light 120’ tower and two hipped-roofed houses, Berrow Rd, and Low Light, weatherboarded, on beach.
NESFIELD, WILLIAM EDEN 1835-88 Son of William Andrews Nesfield 1793-1881, qv, landscape gardener. Pupil W Burn 1851-3 and then his uncle A Salvin 1853-6. Set up 1858, shared office with R Norman Shaw 1863, in partnership w him 1866-8, shared office until 1876. Farm buildings at Shipley Hall, Derbys 1860-1; Combe Abbey Warws 1863-5; London Lodge Regents Park 1864; cottages Crewe Hall, Ches 1865; Cloverley Hall, Salop 1866-8; Lodge Kew Gardens 1867; Lodge, Broadlands Hants 1870; Calverhall ch, Salop 1872-8; Loughton Hall Essex 1878; Newport Grammar School Essex 1878. Retired in 1880; Andrew Saint, R Norman Shaw, 51.
18?? ?Lodge, Holbrook House, Wincanton, Som; attrib BoE S from AR 2 1897; there is no lodge that looks possible and no mention in AR 2 1897.
NESS, MALCOLM. Architect, Twinhill Mill nr Bridgwater
20?? Repairs Halswell House, Goathurst, Som, for G Bond; inf J Schwieso;
2006 adds Hilly Field House, ?; Carpenter Oak & Woodland website;
NETTELFIELD, HUGH With Quattro Design Architects, Bristol 1984-2011. Quattro Design responsible for Bristol Foyer; Knowle West Health Park; Gatehouse Centre; four Healthy Living Centres; National Wildlife conservation centre, Bristol Zoo; ?Hugh Nettelfield;
20?? Healthy Living Centre, Weston s Mare, Som;
2011 Village hall, Cossington, Som; inf Derek Gibson, HN retired from a Quattro Design, hall built by Stonevox Ltd developers of 42-house new estate with GJR Architects qv.;
NEWBY VINCENT & FINDLAY SMITH Southampton
VINCENT PERCY JOHN NEWBY Architect 20 Portland St, Southampton; partnership with Egmont Findlay Smith dissolved 1913; Newby Vincent & Partners by 1950; Giles Newby Vincent architect and interior decorator in London from 1990;
1911-12 Baptist Chapel Schools, South St, Yeovil, Som; Bird & Pippard bldrs; L Brooke Yeovil Baptist ch; by Vincent of Southampton BoES;
NEWMAN LEVINSON
(1987 ASDA store, Bedminster, Bristol; Marble Mosaic co website;
NEWMAN, - described as an engineer formerly of Sherborne,
1867 ref in dispute re building of house at Board of Health waterworks, Sherborne, Dorset, SCG 23.3.67; Job Davis carpenter & builder of Sherborne sued William Baker, builder, Yeovil, over work in 1863 for Newman who had designed it;
NEWMAN, R.
1705 Wk on Cucklington ch, Som; R Newman ‘workman’ named on S tower plaque; ?1703 or 1705.
NEWTON, -, architect, London, involved with unsuccessful attempt to build a harbour at Brean Down, Som 1864-8, abandoned unfinished, Sir John Coode consultant engineer, Lomax & Hay of London, engineers, RW Dowell contractor, £86000; FS 5.11.64, slipway built, - Chaplin resident contractor killed 1868 and project stopped;
NEWTON, C.D. Bournemouth.
1901 adds Leighton House, Leighton Rd, Minehead, Som, for Misses Hole; bathroom and cloakroom; D/U/M/22/1/106; bathroom, The Parks, for Miss Hole by CO Newton OD100;
NEWTON, ERNEST Architect, London 1856-1922. Brought up in Bickley, nr Chislehurst, pupil R Norman Shaw 1873-9, practice c1882, published Sketches for Country Residences 1882 and Book of Houses 1890. Early work like Shaw, later neo-Georgian; cf R Morrice in The Architectural Outsiders, ed Roderick Brown, 1985; father of Prof William Godfrey Newton architect to Marlborough College Wilts, c1921ff., Braydon Hall, Minety, Wilts 1929
(1904 alts Clyffe Hall, Market Lavington, Wilts; WBR; 1925 acc to WBR2;
1904 Triscombe House, West Bagborough, Som; AA 1905 2; for Mr Cheetham, Manchester cotton merchant 1902-4, builders Pollards of Bridgwater; divided into three 1950s, restored as one in 2002, burnt 1 April 2002; SC notes; Morrice 181, 229; OQ 18 illustrates elev from BN 28.7.05 and plan; ?also the stables and cottages;
NEWTON, GEORGE Clevedon, builder, developer, originally of Wraxall, involved in development of Clevedon with William Hollyman qv, together they took leases on the site of Hill Rd and Dial Hill Rd c1827 and on line of Wellington Terrace; GN bought land in Copse Rd 1829, developed it later ?with Highcliffe, 1840s; Lilly;
NEWTON, T. WALTER F. Architect, Birmingham. Son of AF Newton of Wiveliscombe, pupil Independent College Taunton 1873-8. Work in Birmingham Jewellery Quarter; No 7 Legge Lane 1887; later Newton & Cheatle ‘short but brilliant career’ des 134 Newhall St 1897, Buckler & Webb printworks 1898, 125-31 Edmund St, 1898-9, 41-3 Church St 1900-1; Union and City Arcades, 1900-1; 37-9 Church St 1900-1; cf Andy Foster, Birmingham.
1884 Cricket Pavilion, Independent College, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton; PC 84; £105; now Taunton School;
1887 Reading Room, Silver St, Wiveliscombe, Som; Wiveliscombe 2005 228; FS 24.6.87; ill BN 16.12.87;
NEWTON, Prof WILLIAM GODFREY Architect, son of Ernest Newton qv, professor of architecture at Royal College;
(1921ff architect to Marlborough College Wilts; memorial hall 1921-5, RA exh 1937, Science bulding, 1933;
(1928 church, Alassio, Italy; RA 1937 exh)
(1929 Braydon Hall, Minety, Wilts;
(1933 Sandy Lodge, Merchant Taylors School, RA 1937 exh)
(1933 Science building, Marlborough College, Wilts, modernist;
NICHOLLS & BARTON RG Nicholls & Vincent AM Barton; ?same as Ralph Nicholls see below. See also VAM Barton
1951 house, nr Holford, Som; inf
NICHOLLS, Major D. R. FSI. Chard.
1931 Infirmary, Chard, Som TC 6.5.31, Foster of Radstock bldr;
1933 Memorial Hall, Shepton Beauchamp, Som; Pam Pearce 129; JV Baker of Broadway bldr.
1933 Masonic Hall, Henhayes House, Crewkerne, Som; converted by Bro DRN architect, book on Somerset masonic halls;
NICHOLLS, FREDERICK R. Norton sub Hamdon
1874 ? at Crewkerne, Som; is an ornament to town, reflects great credit on the architect FRN of N sub H, WG 25.12.74;
NICHOLLS, R. G. see Nicholls & Barton and Ralph Nicholls
NICHOLLS, RALPH 4 Castle St Bridgwater FRIBA. ?same as RG Nicholls of Nicholls & Barton.
1953 housing, Cannington, som; HDA 1954;
1964-5 Westfield C chapel, West St, Bridgwater, Som; £56,746,16,8d; J Standerwick & Son Ltd Bridgwater contrs; plans etc SRO;
NICHOLLS, WILLIAM Surveyor, Bath. Not in HC.
1801 Parsonage, Norton St Philip, Som; elegant bow fronted design, SRO D/D/Bbm/19; signed William Nichols; not in SNB, ?not built.
1801-3 Dinder House, Som; SNB from research by B Little; adds c1850 by L Vulliamy;
NICHOLS, WILLIAM see William Nicholls
NICHOLSON, Sir CHARLES ARCHIBALD. Baronet. Architect. 1867-1949 Articled JD Sedding and worked under Henry Wilson after Sedding death. 1893 set up on own. Prominent inter-war church architect as diocesan architect Chelmsforsd, Portsmouth, Wakefield and Winchester and cathedral architect Belfast, Lincoln, Lichfield, Llandaff, Portsmouth, Sheffield, and Wells. Nicholson & Corlette (N&C) 1895-1916 with fellow Australian HC Corlette qv. Westcliff-on-Sea ch Essex 1895-1908; Epsom Ch Surrey 1895-1911; 1903 both partners entered Liverpool Cathedral comp; Government Buildings Kingston Jamaica 1907-10; Sheffield Cathedral adds 1919-48; Rugby School memorial chapel 1922; Chelmsford Cathedral adds 1923-6; Belfast Cathedral adds 1925ff; Portsmouth Cathedral adds 1938-9. Son of Sir Charles Nicholson Bt chancellor of Sydney Univ, became 2nd baronet on his father's death in 1903; brother of stained glass maker Archibald Keightley Nicholson; c1910-38 Honorary architect, Wells Cathedral, Som; RL;
(1909 designed organ case for Clifton College chapel, Bristol BC 23.9.09;
(1909-10 alts chapel, Clifton College, Bristol, N&C, SNB;
(1917 altar, Sherston ch, Wilts, possibly also rails and stalls: church guide;
1921 War Memorial chapels, Wells Cathedral, Som; refurbished two chapels with three stained glass windows by AK Nicholson, reredoses by G Tosi of Brompton, joinery by Bowman & Son of Stamford; cf Somerset War Memorial Book;
(1922 S aisle, Limpley Stoke ch, Wilts; church history notes, added as war memorial; apparently error, S aisle c1922 by CE Ponting qv chancel panelling 1929 by Mowbray Green qv; S aisle E window by AK Nicholson c1932;
(1927 large addition, St Boniface College, Church Street, Warminster, Wilts; chapel over library; now Warminster School;
NICHOLSON, THOMAS 1823-95. Architect, Hereford, prolific in Herefs and eastern Wales. ?same as Thomas Nicholson who worked in Bristol from 1850s to 1890 ‘perpetrator of many of the gloomier streets of later Clifton & Cotham’ GLJ 438;
1878 Pumping station, Bridgwater Corporation waterworks, Som, presumably the one at Ashford, Charlinch, Som; SCG 7.6.78
1878 adds Bindon House, Langford Budville, Som for Charles Lamport of Plas Mawr, Penmaenmawr, Caerns, tender adv SCG 22.6.78
(1879-82 Channings Hotel, Pembroke Rd, Clifton, Bristol; SNB; by the Bristol Nicholson)
NICKSON, R. S. Architect, FRIBA.
1960s rest Manor House, Dowlish Wake, Som; article from ?magazine at house;
NINNES, ALAN BARTLETT Architect 1931-81. Papers in SRO A/CZH. Worked for Birmingham City Council, then with Michael Torrens qv, self-employed at Kilve. Involved British Cellophane Bridgwater; Stogursey Vale Primary School; Roadwater Temperance Hall; Holford Village Hall and buildings around Kilve; plaque to him in Holford ch, iron screen in tower arch at first-floor is to his design, erected in his memory;
1977 alts Parsonage Barn, Kilve, Som; RIBAJ 1979 290;
NIVEN & WIGGLESWORTH Architects, London David Barclay Niven 1864-1942 and Herbert Hardy Wigglesworth 1866-1949, both from Scotland, Niven in office of Aston Webb, Wigglesworth of George & Peto, partnership 1893-1926;
190? House in Somerset, REDA 1909, restoration of a manor house, FC Hughes of Wokingham contractor; paneled interiors illustrated;
NOBLETT, Col -.
1914 Ashton, Chaffcombe, Som, to his own designs; T Press, Somerset Country Houses & Villages, 1931-2; on estate of similar Chaffcombe House, owned Holliday Hartley, both brick and half-timber;
NORMAN, ALFRED. Architect, Plymouth. In partnership with James Hine from 1869.
(1855 B chapel, Fore St, Devonport, Devon; Br 1855 52;
NORMAN, CHARLES E. Surveyor for Western Division of Somerset 1883-9; RL;
NORMAN, JOHN Builder, Clevedon, did houses in St Johns Rd 1880s and to the same plan two villas in Madeira Rd 1880s; more houses St John's Rd 1890s; Lilly builders of Clevedon, 2000;
NORMAN, SAMUEL London Picture-frame maker, c1731-c1782 born South Petherton son of William Norman, nephew of William Hallett, furniture-maker (born ?Crewkerne); apprenticed in London to Thomas Woodin, set up on own 1753. Partnership c1755 with father-in-law James Whittle +1759 (W&N), 1761 Master Carver to Office of Works, bankrupt 1767; supplied furniture worth £1250 to Earl of Egremont at Petworth and Egremont house, London in 1760s, also to D of Bedford at Woburn; Burlington Mag 1969 501-13; Apollo April 1998;
17?? Chimneypiece, dining-room Poundisford Park, Som, probably c. 1760;
NORTON, JOHN Architect, 24 Old Bond St, London, & Bristol. 1822-1904. GJL 438; artic Benj Ferrey, then in Bristol. ARIBA 1846, FRIBA 1857, des country houses inc one in Estonia. Several churches in Bristol. Obit Br 19.11.04. Acc to DS was at one time in partnership with Philip Edward Masey qv, and son Charles Harold Norton was an architect.
1849ff alts Manor House, West Quantoxhead, Som, for Sir John Acland-Hood works after he settled there 1849; McCann Dovecotes 180; same as St Audries where William Shewbrooks qv employed as builder JT 13; not clear what was done at mansion, but Norton worked for Acland-Hood from 1849-72 see below;
c1850 ?reblt Holford ch, Som exc tower; RL, unlikely; repairs 1878-9 by JN when nave roof and reseating were done; Kelly mentions chancel rest 1876 £400 and nave 1879 £400; ICBS has 1878-9 file but nothing for c1850, only proposed enlargements 1826-7 and 1834.
1850-1 Lodges, St Audries, West Quantoxhead, Som; Williton Lodge and Stowey Lodge 1850, Church Lodge 1851, DS;
1850-2 rest Othery ch, Som; RL, rebuilt chancel E end; cf also 1857; but Eccl 1848 196 says rest by B Ferrey qv. VCH says chancel rebuilt on old foundations probably by JN; new roof, sedilia, stalls, Minton tiles; Norton succeeded Ferrey as architect, SAS, VCH;
(1851 St Matthias College, Fishponds, Bristol, w Joseph Clarke qv; SNB;
(1851 Bristol High Cross, College Green, Bristol; dem 1950, top part in Berkeley Sq, Bristol 1956;
(1852-5 St John Baptist ch, Bedminster, Bristol; ICBS; dem;
1853 school, Charlton, Som, E 1853 192; ?where; not Charlton Mackrell school 1853 is by CE Giles;
1854-6 ?West Quantoxhead vicarage, Som; RL; earlier vicarage plans 1815 by R Carver qv may not have been built, rectory described as thatched; DS says rectory dates from 1864, but Br 24.8.1872 675 has tenders for Quantoxhead rectory by JN
1854-6 West Quantoxhead ch, Som; Br 8.11.56; 1854-7, RL, together with vicarage and school; faculty to dem old ch 20.7.1853; DS 68ff; plans in SRO 1853 showing unex transepts and vestries; also battlements to tower, instead of parapet, cost c£16000, stone from Sampford Brett, interior lined with Doulting; interior stonework by Wall & Hook of Stroud except carved capitals and corbels by Farmer of London; organ by James Walker; windows by Powell (patterned glass), O’Connor chancel and vestry, Hardman tower 2-lt; benches, stalls, reredos pulpit and desk by Henry Davis qv; Babbacombe marble monolith shafts; Plymouth marble chancel steps; Minton tile chancel and nave floors; clock by Dent & Co 1857; SCG 18.10.56: opening, cost c£15000, painting by Stansell, ornamental carving by Mr Davis espec pulpit & reading desk, chapelry windows by O’Connor inc Annunciation and St etheldreda; plumbing by Thomas Sydenham of Taunton; TC 22.10.56; Devonshire marble font ejected and base of black Plymouth marble with 8 pillars of Cornish serpentine destroyed 1990;
1855 refronted Othery vicarage, Som; VCH; with bay windows; SRO D/P/oth/2/1/5; original house 1828 by G Chappel qv;
(1855 St John ch, Bedminster, Bristol; dem and vicarage, dem;
1855 Home Farm, West Quantoxhead, Som, for Sir Alexander Acland-Hood; DS; McCann Dovecotes 180; octagonal dovecote on corner of farm buildings; possibly also the Gas Retort house to SW;
1856 new ch proposed dedic to St John Evangelist, where?; TC 5.11.56;
1856-7 School, West Quantoxhead, Som; E 1856 156; for St Audries estate; £600; ?blt by H Davis of Taunton TC 21.10.57;
1857 ?Keeper’s Cottage, Doniford road, West Quantoxhead, Som and kennels;
1857 reblt chancel E end, Othery ch, Som; RL; cf also 1850-2;
1857-8 Police Station & courts, Priest St, Williton, Som; RL; dated 1858;
1857-8 Police station & courts, Dunster Marsh, Dunster, Som; RL;
1857-8 Police Station & courts, Long Ashton, Som; actually at Flax Bourton adjacent to the workhouse, SNB; BN 1857 593 Bristol police station and court, Ashton division;
1858 rear adds Chelwood parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/129
1858-9 Highbridge ch, Som; Br 9.7.59 460: nave, N aisle, chancel and organ/ vestry, NW porch tower, S porch, 5-bay nave w coupled cols of polished Babbacombe marble 7” diameter to demonstrate method of opening sight lines, blue limestone banded in Bridgwater sandstone; spire; chestnut seats doors and screen, oak chancel fittings, c£2500 provision for S aisle; parsonage by same benefactor Miss Poole £900, and land for school on S; consec TC 22.6.59; enl by Norton 1882, RL; spire and bell-stage taken down c1911;
1858-9 Highbridge vicarage, Som; RL; Br 9.7.59 460 does not actually name JN as architect but may be assumed;
(1858-9 Nutfield Priory, Surrey; - mostly reblt 1870;
1859-60 rest Chew Magna ch, Som; ICBS; DWG 3.5.60;
(1859 steeple, Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol; AF; contract tower and spire BN 1857 864 J Norton, 24 Old bond St London;
(1859-61 St Luke ch, Bedminster, Bristol; ICBS;
1860 Parsonage, Chew Magna, Som; SRO D/D/bbm/136;new m&t ws, gabled
1860 Chapel, Long Ashton Workhouse, Flax Bourton, Som; SNB; .uk
(1860 2nd pr Clifton Coll comp, Bristol;
1860-1 adds Chelwood ch, Som; ICBS; SRO cf/1861/5; Br 12.1.61 opened, E Streeter of Bath contractor;
1860-1 rest and adds Fiddington ch, Som; ICBS; N aisle, vestry, porch; E 1859 ?; RL; plans pre-restoration in church dated 1858; also unex plans by Charles Knowles;
1860-1 Stogursey School, Som; Br 1861 269; 1865 BoE S; 1860 RL, church guide dated 1860 thank offering for recovery of Isabel daughter of Sir Peregrine Acland of Fairfield; a new wing is to be added to the school WG 11.6.69, Mr Trask of Shepton Mallet contractor;
1861-4 rebuilt Kilton ch, Som; E 1861 286; reopened TC 25.5.64, body of church done by Mr Hole of Dunster, tower work by Pearse of Minehead; SCG 21.5.64 body of church taken down, rebuilt in Doddington stone with Box-Hill dressings, tower built by Mr Pearse, of Bickham Hill stone,
1861-2 rest Aller ch, Som; ICBS; SRO cf/1861/4; E 1861 285; added N aisle;
1862 alts Paulton ch, Som; SRO cf/1862/5;
1862 School and house, Highbridge, Som; E 1862 65; Br 9.7.59 says land set aside for school by new church;
(1862 reredos Westbury on Trym ch, Glos Bristol times 3.5.62; carving by Farmer, coloured by Castell of London;
1862-4 Hewish ch, Som; ICBS; 1864 BoE N;
1862-4 Manor House, Brent Knoll, Som; BoE S; RL; also probably Lodge; owned 1906 JT Nicholetts;
1862-5 enl Chew Stoke ch, Som; ICBS; reopened Br 1863 ?675 new N aisle, E w by Bell of Bristol, F Durke of Chew Stoke bldr;
186- ?rest North Cadbury ch, Som, DoE nd; RL;
1863 school ?where for Sir Peregrine Fuller Acland, TC 1.4.63;
1863-5 rest Stogursey ch, Som; SRO cf/1863/6; E end neo-norman 1865 BoE S; Br 1863 432; E 1863 194; 1863-6 RL; vestry meeting 19.3.63, estimate £1600, William Brock of Temple Meads Steam Joinery Works, Bristol contr, £1365 est; sanctuary rebuilt, new pulpit, chancel remodelled, new roofs, choir stalls, stencil texts over tower arch; high altar; two new capitals chancel arch in Ham stone, ?also chevrons on E tower arch; E windows; tower parapet; R Ballard, church guide 1992; ?TC 23.9.63 rest has begun; BC 10.8.65 brief announcement of re-opening, also BC 28.9.65 Stoke Courcy ch reopened, £6000; ;
1863 Rectory, High Ham, Som; Br 1863 379; RL;
186? ?rest High Ham ch, Som; RL; error? ch rest 1868 by Foster & Wood qv;
1862-4 adds Chew Manor, Chew Magna, Som, for W. Adlam; VCH;
1863-5 reblt Clutton ch, Som; ICBS; 1865 BoE N, GR;
1864-5 reblt Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Som, for William Gibbs; Br 10.2.66; Jill Franklin: c£70,000; Eastlake App 253; AF 1863-5;
1864 new structure ? SCG 21.5.64 in same style as old one erected by JN architect of new ch at St Audries;
1864 proposed new church, ?, will be shortly commenced, des by Mr Norton, TC 21.12.64;
1864-70 plans Combwich ch, Som, rejected ICBS; church by C Knowles qv;
1865 Stogursey School, Som; BoE S; but cf Br 1861 269;
1865-6 ?Walton ch, nr Street, Som; BN 6.3.1891; probably error for Walton St Mary ch, Som, reblt by Norton 1869-70 or Walton in Gordano ch altered possibly by Norton c1869; des by JN with Rev JF Turner, 1865-6, acc to RL, but by the Rev JF Turner qv with no mention of Norton, CSG 3.6.65 and 5.5.66, builder F Merrick qv, carving by John Seymour of Taunton; font of Caen stone w Cork marble shafts, patterned glass by the architect, Lavers & Barraud Ew better than German glass, gem-like not archaic, and chancel S 2-lt, and nave S 3-lt and another 2-lt near font given Ref JF Horner (?not same as JFTurner); VCH says tower pyramid roof added 1886, BoES says pyramid roof 1860; tiles by Godwin;
1866 School & house, Huntspill, Som; RL; ?where. The small brick village-hall next West Huntspill church may have been a schoolroom, but no house; East Hunstspill Schools 1894 and West Huntspill Schools 1897 are both by Samson & Cottam;
1866 School, High Ham, Som; ext 1927, dem for new school 1988; VCH;
1867 ?2nd pr Taunton College School; RHH; Norton & Masey; among six invited architects, SCG 27.4.67
1869 vicarage, Stogursey, Som; RL; dem for structural problems and new house blt adjoining in 1912; plans SRO D/D/Bbm/169 gabled with m&t ws; cf Samson & Cottam;
c1869 attrib chancel, Walton in Gordano ch, Som; SNB, addn to church of 1838-9;
(1869 bill £57/14/0d balance due for laying out the Wollaston field, Dorchester, Dorset, WG 26.8.69; for what?
1869-70 St Mary ch, Walton Park, Clevedon, Som; SNB, rebuilt keeping only base of tower of medieval Walton ch;
1870 ?St Andrew ch, Bridgwater, Som; BoE S from Ian Nairn; no such church and none in region; RL; Norton restored Stogursey St Andrew in 1863-5;
1870 rest Worle ch, Som; about to be rest and reseated; WG 1.4.70;
(1870-1 Elveden Hall, Suffolk, for Maharajah Duleep Singh Br 1871 906;
1870-2 adds St Audries, West Quantoxhead, Som; plan ill in Arch 1872 156; £13000; 1870 for Sir A Acland-Hood, Eastlake; new principal range, c£13000; tower for bachelor bedrooms, hall with arcades, JF; see also 1849; DS; also billiard-room wing at NE corner and library wing at NW corner; Sampford Brett sandstone with Bath stone, Henry Davis qv contractor; photocopies of incomplete plans signed undated SRO A/AEI/1; TC 27.7.70;
1872 Rectory, West Quantoxhead, Som; T: Br 24.8.72 675; see also 1854-6;
(1872 South Western Hotel, Southampton)
1878-9 rest Holford ch, Som; ICBS plan shows nave reseating and mentions new roof; RL mentions repairs, but says reblt exc tower by JN c1850; Kelly mentions chancel rest 1876 £400 and nave rest 1879 £400; probably roofs, reredos, font;
1880 ?rest Flax Bourton ch, Som, BoE S added N aisle; prob error, SNB says N aisle by Edmund Ferrey qv;
1882-3 enl Highbridge ch, Som; ICBS; S aisle, S chancel aisle, rebld S porch; orig by JN 1858-9, RL; ?original plans envisaged S aisle;WG 25.8.82, C Trask qv bldr; WG 9.2.83;
Also possibly school Sampford Brett, Som 1867 for Acland-Hood estate and perhaps estate cottages Nos 4-6 Sampford Brett.
NOSSITER, WILLIAM Barwick. Carpenter & builder
1825 adds parsonage, North Barrow, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/53; service additions each end of plain house, 1 storey right, two-storey left; mostly dem in 1871 for house by Wm Clarke qv.
NUGENT VALLIS BRIERLEY Rook Lane Chapel, Frome. Successor to Rodney Vallis practice qv. ?Nugent, William Vallis, Michael Brierley. Michael Brierley senior partner of NVB Architects. Work for Bristol Univ inc Dolberry Building, Langford House, Langford, Som for animal welfare & behaviour dept; also Bristol U sports facility 2003 £3.5m; see under Vallis for earlier work.
(1989 Science Building, Dauntseys School, West Lavington, Wilts)
1995-6 exec archs Meyer Theatre and maths and drama depts, Millfield School, Street, Som; orig design by Neville Conder qv, NVB brought in by contractors Ernest Ireland inf J Gould;
(1998-9 theatre, Canford School, dorset)
1999 Science labs, Kings College, Taunton, Som;
1999-2000 ext house in Bradford on Avon, Wilts; trad stone with dormer gable; £120K;
(2000 Library, Dauntseys School, Wilts; infill of rear courtyard;also conversion of dormitories to classrooms;
2000 Select Foods offices, Cheddar Business Park, Cheddar, Som;
2002 Music school, Richard Huish College, Taunton, Som; also modernised library, new sports and changing facilities;
(2002-3 Sports centre, Dean Close School, Cheltenham, Glos;)
2002-3 alts C chapel, Rook Lane, Frome, Som, as own offices; SNB; SHBT and RIBA awards 2004; modern addition behind;
(2003-4 Theatre and dining-hall St Helen & St Katherine School, Abingdon, Berks;
(2003-4 Science labs, Dauntseys School, Wilts; adds to science building 1989; also masterplan, subsequent landscaping around Science Building etc, also refurb and ext to 1930s cricket pavilion; )
2003-4 St Nicholas School, Radstock, Som; AFtext; ?BANES award 2003; Mark Kingsley proj archt; £2.9m; Warings Construction contr;
2003-4 Trinity School, Radstock, Som; AFtext; ?BANES award 2003; Mark Kingsley proj archt; £2.4 m; Warings Construction;
(2004 Music School, Winchester College, Hants)
2004 Church hall adds, Trinity Church, Frome, Som;
(2004-5 Portway Secondary School, Bristol £15m;
(2005 adds to house Wine St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts;
2005 conservation of plaster reredos, Christ Church, Montpelier, Bath, Som;
2005 alts for girls’ boarding-house, Downside School, Som; alts to existing block; and Isabella House new girls boarding house for 60; also master-plan for site; 20?? addition of tower to Hillside Cottage, Stawell, Som;
(2005 adds Elmhirst & Millmead, Marlborough College, Wilts; NVB had already made adds in 1980s)
(2005-6 Bedminster Down Secondary School, Bristol; £15m;
2006 rest and adds Nynehead Court, Som, for Stepping Stone Group
(2006 House inside ruined WM chapel, Coppice hill, Bradford on Avon, Wilts)
(2008-10 Sixth form college and Sports hall, St Brendans College, Bristol)
2008 Primary School, Ashlands, Portishead, Som;
(2008 Upper sixth-form Boarding House, St Mary’s School, Calne, Wilts, and master-plan for school; also sports/swimming hall)
(2008-9 theatre, North London Collegiate School, London; also other work on campus;
(2009-11 St Mary's Primary School, Purton, Wilts £4.8m;)
(2009-10 Science labs, Kings School, Wimbledon, London;)
(2009-10 Abbeywood Community School, Bristol, Design & build secondary school for S Glos DC;
2010-12 New secondary school replacing Robert Blake School & Elmwood Special School, Hamp, Bridgwater, Som; BSF programme; £19m;
2010 Classrooms, Wells Cathedral School, Laundry Gardens, Wells, Som;
(2010 prop science building, Christ College, Brecon, Brec;
(2010 Senior day girls’ building, Dauntsey’s School, Wilts)
2010-11 Sixth form centre, Backwell School, Som; design & build;
2011 Castle Cary Rugby Club, Alhampton, Ditcheat, Som; Mendip awards 2012;
2011-12 new low energy house, Spring Rd, Frome, Som;
2011-12 common room and study rooms, Frome Community College, Som
(2011-12 Chesil Beach visitor centre, Dorset)
(2011 North London Collegiate School, Jeju Island, S Korea)
2012 House for Marc Waller, Batcombe, Som, by Mike Brierley; inf owner; oval, glass fronted; self-build;
(2012 African village and giraffe feeding station, Longleat, Wilts; self build by estates dept; also gorilla house, 2012, hawk display area 2012, also temporary Xmas market layout etc; proposed elephant house, penguin island cum sting-ray bay 2012-13;
(2012-14 Lower 6th form boarding ho, St Mary's School, Calne, wilts;
(2012-13 sports hall, North London Collegiate School, Junior School, London)
(2013 Theatre and prep school hall, Dean Close School, Cheltenham, Glos)
(2013-14 Sports pavilion, Dauntsey's School, West lavington, Wilts;
(2013-14 conv of stable-block to accommodation, Pilsdon Community, Dorset)
Also various adds University of Bath campus; executive housing Combe Down, Bath; house Weymouth Rd, Frome, Som, inc barn and dovecote; competition victory for new flats with library, Portishead, Som; grandstand and stewards boxes, Wincanton Racecourse, Som; canoe club, Frome, Som; pizza bar and snack shop, Longleat, Wilts; outdoor classroom and landscaping, Bruton School for girls, Som; Assembly hall, Ballard School, New milton, Hants; won competition for Construction & Engineering Building, Somerset College, Taunton, Som; St Christopher's Primary School, Hampstead, London; pool and sports hall, St Helen School, Northwood, London;
NURCOMBE, BENJAMIN Builder, Watchet. Benjamin Nurcombe & Co.
1875-6 bldr Roadwater ch, Som, mission church and schoolroom; BN&Co masons, James Nethercott, carpenter, opened 18/10/76, no architect named; extended with church-room 1906, two stained glass windows 1908;
NVB ARCHITECTS see Nugent Vallis Brierley
O2i DESIGN CONSULTANTS, Bank Chambers, Langport, Som. Duncan & Andrea Pyle, architects.
2009 Cider Barn, ?, Som;
2009 The Old Apple Store, Stawell, Som; five houses, to ecological standard, for Ecos Trust; initial design by Malcolm McCall, Trust member who emigrated, layout and designs altered in execution by O2i;
2010 Daisy Farm, Som, self-build straw-bale house in Mendip area;
2011 conversion of outbuilding to workshop/ exhibition space, Perham Farm,
Wick, Curry Rivel, Som, for Penny Horne;
2011 Conv of barn near Williton, Som, for R James;
2013 Accomodation block, Compton Dundon, Som; for Earth Spirit Centre; timber-frame and cordwood;
OATLEY & BRENTNALL Bristol. Sir George Oatley’s firm, which RH Brentnall joined 1947 and continued long after Oatley died in 1950.
1972 Cottage, Congresbury, Som for Miss C Gibbs;
1977 Gordano Service Station, Easton in Gordano, Som;
OATLEY & LAWRENCE See Sir George Oatley
OATLEY, Sir GEORGE HERBERT. FRIBA Bristol. 1863-1950, orphaned 1865, brought up in Sandown IoW, apprenticed to Thomas Dashwood until 16, then Godwin & Crisp in Bristol c1881, partner of Henry Crisp (C&O) c1889, Crisp died 1896. With GC Lawrence (O&L) his brother-in-law 1901-26 and with RH Brentnall (O&B) 1947-50; much work for Wills family from c1910, and for Stuckeys bank; biog Sarah Whittingham 2011; knighted 1925, WG 5.6.25; lived at Church House, Clifton Hill; at Barton Rocks, Winscombe in 1928. cf Nonesuch, Autumn 1994, article by S Whittingham;Austin B Botterill ARIBA born 1877 was articled Crisp & Oatley 1895 and with Oatley & Lawrence 1903-6 acc to WwinA 1926;
1879-80 alts B chapel, Paulton, Som: alterations to galleries, repewing, new baptistery and rostrum (P & P drawings: 1879).
1886 adds to school, Paulton B chapel, Som (P & P drawings: January, March and April 1886). Extant (1997); altered
1889 rest tower Dundry Church, Som: (P & P drawings: June and September 1889). Builders: Cowlin & Son (P & P Letter Book 85:243). 1931 repairs to tower. Cost: £600 (Letter from GHO to HC 11 December 1931). Extant (2008)
1890 unex design Leigh Woods ch, Som: competition design; unsuccessful (P & P Letter Books 17:500 and 18:29) (UBSC drawings: signed ‘Crux’, DM 485). Built to design by J Medland. 1919-20 lych gate (P & P Letter Book 82:618) (P & P drawings: December 1919). Builders: Messrs T Weeks & Sons ltd; estimate: £451 (P & P Letter Book 84:739). Extant (2000). 1923 memorial to Mrs A M Davey (P & P drawings: December 1922). Extant (1999). 1929 [memorial to] Gamble (P & P Register of Drawings) [the Revd Canon John Gamble was Vicar of St Mary’s 1892-1922]. Extant (1999). 1936 memorial to Mrs Melville Wills (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant (1999). 1948-49 tablet for organ in memory of George Alfred, Hilda, Vera and Vernon Wills (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant (1999). Church Listed
1898 alts Cricket House, Cricket St Thomas, Som: alterations & remodelling of interiors (P & P drawings: January 1898). For F J Fry. Builders and furnishers: Maple & Co; estimate £6,988 (P & P Letter Book 25:103). Extant; hotel, altered (2008); designs inc fireplaces for dining-rm, boudoir, hall, new glazing hall lunettes, decorative scheme drawing-room, painting scheme billiard rm and minor alts bathrooms etc. Also removal of three conservatories. Oatley fpl survives in billiard-room. Possibly Oatley fittings in dining-room. Otherwise much altered since.
1899 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Burnham-on-Sea, Som: alterations (P & P Letter Book 27:366). 1906 works (O & L partnership document 1907: ‘practically completed’). Bank has ashlar ground floor probably by Oatley, now Natwest (2012); H Pittard & Sons contactors for 1899 work acc to Natwest archives, no details for 1906.
1899 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Yeovil, Somerset: advising on alterations by local architect (P & P Letter Book 27:921) Demolished 1920s.
1899 alts Long Ashton Union Workhouse, Flax Bourton, Som: advising re proposed [unknown] alterations (P & P Letter Book 27:463). Extant; housing (2005)
1900 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Chard, Som: new strong room and repairs (P & P Letter Book 28:339). Builders: A Poole; estimate: £570 (P & P Letter Book 29:144). 1909 unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant.
1900-02 Barton Rocks, Winscombe, Som: GHO’s family holiday house (P & P Letter Book 29:258). Builders: Alfred Dowling; estimate: £1,390 (P & P Letter Book 32:447). Extant; private house (2008). 1934 piggeries (P & P Register of Drawings)
1901 alts The Priory, Abbots Leigh, Som: renovations (P & P Letter Book 31:241). For Roderick J Fry. Builders: Cowlin & Son; estimate: £655 (P & P Letter Book 31:389). Extant (2004)
1901-02 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Midsomer Norton, Som: alts (P & P Letter Book 31:387). Builders: Pittard & Son; total value of work £1,[629]:7:9 (P & P Letter Book 37:461). Fittings: Messrs Hancock & Co; estimate: £162 (P & P Letter Book 32:197) (O & L partnership document 1901: completed)
1901-02 Stuckey’s Bank, No 9 The Parade, Minehead, Som (P & P Letter Book 33:324). Builders: R J Spiller; estimate: £5,037 (P & P Letter Book 35:460). 1922 additions (Lawrence) (P & P Day Book 11:83). Extant; National Westminster Bank (1999); plans 1902 SRO D/U/M/22/1/132; BMCS: bank approached Luttrell estate for new site to replace premises opposite at No 8 The Parade, and was given last unbuilt site on The Parade adj new Market Hall being built 1901-3; Oatley plans 1901, building began 1902 completed 1903; 1922 adds by Lawrence, 1927 alts Samson & Colthurst qv;
1902 consultant, alts, Taunton & Somerset Hospital, East Reach, Taunton, Som: consultant architect to alts by J Houghton Spencer (P & P Letter Book 37:187)
1902-04 Hale, Bridgwater Road, Sidcot, Winscombe, Somerset (P & P Letter Book 37:143). For William Reed. Builders: Messrs Ford & Son; estimate: £1,662:10:0 (P & P Letter Book 37:617). 1906 forming attic rooms (P & P Letter Book 46:766). Extant; still private house (2005); SNB;
1903-06 Stuckey’s Bank, Bridgwater, Somerset (P & P Letter Book 40:544) (P & P drawings: August 1904). Builders: Messrs H Pittard & Son; estimate: £4,027 (P & P Letter Book 42:298). Structural engineers: Dennett & Ingle. Exterior carving: Gilbert Seale; estimate: £69 (P & P Letter Book 43:424). Fittings: Lawrence and Thompson (P & P Letter Book 43:407). Extant; National Westminster Bank (1996) corner Cornhill and York Buildings;
1904 stables, Oaklands, Leigh Woods, Somerset: stabling (P & P Register of Drawings). For J Parrish
1904 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Radstock, Somerset: alterations. Builders: Mr Thomas Foster; estimate: £173:15:0 (P & P Letter Book 42:938). 1912 [then Parr’s Bank] alterations. Builders: Alfred Dowling; estimate: £1,197 (P & P Letter Book 61:270). Extant; National Westminster Bank (1997)
1905 Drinking fountain in commem coronation of Edward VII, Market Place, Langport, Som (P & P Letter Book 43:596). Paid for by Stuckey’s Bank. Builders: Pittard & Son (P & P Letter Book 44:276). Granite basin: Messrs J Whitehead & Sons (P & P Letter Book 44:22). No fee. Extant; in poor condition (2000)
1905-06 The Western Gazette Co Ltd, corner of Newton Road and Sherborne Road, Yeovil, Som: new buildings. Builders: Messrs Bird & Pippard; estimate: £9,100 (P & P Letter Book 44:713). Final cost: £9,249:1:5 (P & P Letter Book 49:332). Structural engineers: Dennett & Ingle (P & P Letter Book 43:977). Heating engineers: Messrs Petter & Sons (P & P Letter Book 47:316). External carving, including head of Mercury keystone, by Gilbert Seale (P & P Letter Book 44:829) (O & L partnership document 1907: practically finished). Extant; still Western Gazette offices (2010); O&L; opening brochure ex inf Jack Sweet; style and detailed plans the work of J Trevor-Davies the managing director of Western Gazette;
1906 alts Chewton House, Chewton Mendip, Somerset: renovations (P & P Letter Book 45:616) (O & L partnership document 1907: ‘all completed’). For W Tucker
1906-07 Mendip Cottage, Hutton Hill, Hutton, Somerset (P & P Letter Book 45:318). For Philip Endres Gane. Builders: Mr F Chown; estimate: £1,180 (P & P Letter Book 45:832). Final cost: £1,225 (P & P Letter Book 49:274). Extant; known as Combe Lodge (2005)
1906-07 Downfield, Sidcot, Winscombe, Somerset (P & P Letter Book 46:193). For Miss R A Kendall. Builders: Messrs Ford & Sons; revised estimate £794:13:0 (P & P Letter Book 46:634). Extant; still private house (2005); SNB;
1906-07 Gatcombe, Bridgwater Road, Sidcot, Winscombe, Somerset: house and stables (P & P Letter Book 45:992) (plans in private collection: 1906). Builders: Messrs Ford & Sons; estimate: £2,641:3:0 (P & P Letter Book 46:754). For John Philip Board (O & L partnership document 1907: ‘Board’s House: The building at first floor cill level’). Extant; still private house (2005); SNB;
1906-07 adds, Stuckey’s Bank, corner of Market Place & Corporation St, Taunton, Somerset: new building adjoining bank for headquarters staff (P & P Letter Book 47:292) (O & L partnership document 1907). Builders: H J Spiller & Son; estimate: £3,304 (P & P Letter Book 48:825). Final certificate: £4,040:19:6 (P & P Letter Book 51:945). Structural engineers: Dennett & Ingle (P & P Letter Book 48:435). 1921 alterations (Lawrence) (P & P Letter Book 87:293). Then known as London County Westminster & Parr’s Bank ltd. 1923 unknown alterations (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant; offices (2004);
1907-08 alts Union Chapel, Winscombe, Somerset: alterations & additions (P & P Letter Book 49:315)
1907-08 alts Ammerdown House, Radstock, Somerset: alterations to children’s and servants’ bedrooms, new servants’ stairs, night nursery wing, garden entrance, panelled screens to light wells (P & P drawings: February, March and April 1907). For Lord Hylton. Builders: Messrs Cotterell Brothers Ltd; estimate: £863:1:2 (P & P Letter Book 48:601). Constructional engineers: Dennett & Ingle (P & P Letter Book 48:257). Only screens to light well executed. Extant (2000). 1912 new bedrooms for Lord and Lady Hylton and new dining room (P & P drawings: throughout 1912). Postponed April 1912 (P & P Letter Book 60:973). Suspended (pos due to death of Lord Hylton’s daughter) December 1912 (P & P Letter Book 63:518). Not executed. Garden temple (P & P Letter Book 60:405) (P & P undated sketches of garden buildings). Not executed (site visit)
1907-09 house & gardener’s cottage Hill Court, Yatton, Somerset: (P & P Letter Book 49:411) (P & P drawings: January 1908). For C E Franck. Builders: G & H Needham; estimate (for gardener’s cottage): £350 (P & P Letter Book 50:63). Estimate for house: £2,450 (including Messrs Gardiner Sons & Co’s quotation of £50:10:0 for constructional steelwork) (P & P Letter Book 50:594). 1919 painting & sundry minor repairs. Builders: Messrs Pittard & Son; estimate: £270 (P & P Letter Book 82:740). Extant; divided into two houses (1997)
1908-09 stalls, Church of St James, Winscombe, Somerset: choir stalls. Extant. Builders: R F Ridd; estimate: £87:17:0 (P&P Letter Book 51:338); SRO cf/1908/300, O&L. 1920 War Memorial, Winscombe, Som; Celtic cross in churchyard (church guide). Extant (1999). 1927-28 repairs (ICBS archive 11755 folios ff. 1-39). 1936 proposed screen to tower arch (P & P drawings: May 1936). Completed to a different design
1909 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Crewkerne, Somerset: alterations (P & P Letter Book 52:417). Builders: Messrs H Pittard & Son; estimate: £585 (P & P Letter Book 52:779). Extant; National Westminster Bank (2004)
1909 Pardestowe, bungalow, Holford, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings; ‘domestic work’); presumably Pardestone, not found;
1909-10 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Wells, Somerset: new strong room (P & P Letter Book 52:920). Builders: H Pittard & Son; estimate: £582:14:6 (P & P Letter Book 54:628). 1910 & 1918: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings). Prob what is now National Westminster Bank (2004)
1910-11 adds Hodshill Hall, South Stoke, Somerset: enlargement (Lawrence, P & P Letter Book 55:208) (P & P drawings: October 1910). For Geoffrey Hignett. Builders: Jacob Long & Sons. 1923 new entrance porch and drive layout (Lawrence) (P & P drawings: May 1923). Extant (2007)
1910-11 The Hayes, Kilmersdon, Somerset: house for Hylton Estates agent (P & P Letter Book 54:702) (P & P drawings: two versions: July and September 1910). For Lord Hylton. Builders: Alfred Dowling; estimate: £2,046 (P & P Letter Book 55:401). Extant; private house (built to second design), for sale as two properties, The Hayes (2003).
1910-11 alts Wraxall House, Somerset: alterations (P & P drawings: December 1910). For Mrs Arthur Baker. Extant; currently known as Wraxall Manor House (2005); minor alts to service parts;
1911 alts Coombe House, Oakridge Lane, Sidcot, Somerset: alterations & additions (P & P Letter Book 57:503). For H Woolcott Thompson. 1919 alterations. For Thomas S Tregelles. Builders: Messrs Ford & Sons; estimate: £1,855 (P & P Letter Book 82:660) (plans, August 1919, in possession of Sidcot School Archives). Extant (2005); boarding house for Sidcot School (purchased 1946)
1911 alts Wraxall Court, Somerset: alterations (P & P Letter Book 57:602) (P & P drawings: July 1911). For T Ruding Davey. Builders: L Thomas & Son; estimate: £2,856 (P & P Letter Book 58:315). Interior plaster work to house: Messrs G Jackson & Sons (P & P Letter Book 59:391). Extant (2005). 1913 bailiff’s cottage (P & P Letter Book 64:860) (drawings in private possession: May 1913). Builders: Mr W Foster; estimate: £420 (P & P Letter Book 66:754). Pair of cottages, Wraxall for T R Davey (drawings in private possession: September 1913). Extant (2005). 1919 new garage (P & P drawings: June 1919). Lodge: alterations & additions (drawings in private possession: April 1919). Extant (2005). 1922 cottage on estate: additions (drawings in private possession: November 1922)
1911 choir vestry addn, Chapel Allerton Church, Somerset: extension of choir vestry (drawings in private possession: March 1911) In memory of Richard Fraser Fraser Frizell, Rector 1898-1910. Builders: Mr [?] H Day; estimate: £95 (P & P Letter Book 57:859). Extant (2004); vestry extended again in 2003
1912 report on Kilmersdon church tower, Somerset (P & P Letter Book 61:710)
1912 alts The Gables, Leigh Woods, Somerset: alterations (P & P Letter Book 61:91). For E J Swann. Builders: Cowlin & Son; estimate: £525 (P & P Letter Book 61:649) (Also in P & P Register of Drawings: 1888)
1912 Unex alts, Ammerdown House, Kilmersdon, Som; for Lord and Lady Hylton new bedrooms and new dining room (P & P drawings: throughout 1912). Postponed April 1912 (P & P Letter Book 60:973). Suspended (pos due to death of Lord Hylton’s daughter) December 1912 (P & P Letter Book 63:518). Not executed. Also garden temple (P & P Letter Book 60:405) (P & P undated sketches of garden buildings). Not executed (site visit)
1912 alts Abbots Leigh School, Somerset: altering cottage adjoining school to provide cloakroom accommodation (P & P Letter Book 63:282). 1916 proposals abandoned (P & P Letter Book 75:348)
1912-13 alts Wesleyan Chapel, Keynsham, Somerset: alterations (P & P Letter Book 63:173). Not executed (P & P Letter Book 65:432)
1912-14 alts Backwell Hill House, West Town, Backwell, Somerset: new wing (P & P Letter Book 63:197). For William Garnett. Builders: Messrs Willcock & Co: estimate: £9,550 (P & P Letter Book 64:573). Heating engineers: G N Haden & Sons (P & P Letter Book 64:828). Plaster work to billiard room ceiling: Messrs G Jackson & Sons; estimate: £75 (P & P Letter Book 66:367) & boudoir ceiling (P & P Letter Book 66:706) & hall ceiling (P & P Letter Book 66:731). Carving: Messrs Turner and Hahn (P & P Letter Book 67:435). 1919 alterations. 1919-20 Calvary cross memorial. In memory of William Patrick (Pat) Garnett and two gardeners on the estate killed in World War I. Commissioned by father, William Garnett. Bronze crucifix by the Bromsgrove Guild; estimate: £375 (P & P Letter Book 83:466). Moved to Backwell churchyard 1997. Extant (2005). 1948-51 proposed alterations & adaptions of house for Muller’s Orphan Homes. Builders: W G Fisher & Sons; cost: £6,283 (P & P Ledger 5:196). Extant; health club (2005)
1914 Combe House, Backwell, Somerset: alterations & additions (P & P drawings: January, February and March 1914) (P & P Letter Book 67:768). For F S Hawkes. Builders: Mr W Lott: estimate: £1,005:1:0 (P & P Letter Book 68:658). Extant (2005)
1914 alts Ashton Lodge, Long Ashton, Somerset: alterations (P & P Letter Book 69:929). Works halted January 1915 (P & P Letter Book 71:925). House demolished 1964
1914 alts Newcombe, Sidcot, Somerset: alterations & additions (P & P Letter Book 71:651). For H Woolcott Thompson (P & P Register of Drawings: 1914). Builders: Messrs Ford & Sons; estimate: £628:15:0 (P & P Letter Book 72:251). Extant; owned by Sidcot School (2005)
1914-16 Kamiah, Winscombe, Sidcot, Somerset (P & P Letter Book 69:348). House for Miss Caroline Sturge and Miss Gay (P & P Register of Drawings). Builders: Messrs I Ford & Sons; estimate: £2,381:17:1 (P & P Letter Book 73:50). Extant; private house called Rowington (2008)
1914-19 adds Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Bath, Somerset: extension of paper store (Lawrence) (P & P Letter Book 69:517). Builders: Messrs E Chancellor & Sons; estimate: £3,265 (P & P Letter Book 69:782). Work interrupted by WWI. 1919 extension of bindery & printing works (P & P Letter Book 81:948). 1922 extensions to office (Lawrence) (P & P Day Book 11:84). 1925-27 extensions to factory (Lawrence) (P & P Day Book 11:84) (Letter from GHO to NC 3 July 1926)
1914-20 unex ‘Farm Colony for Mental Defectives’, Tatham Farm, Bishops Lydeard, Taunton, Somerset: (P & P Letter Book 68:833) (P & P drawings: March 1917, March and April 1918 & November 1919). For the Somerset County Education Committee. Boys’, Girls’, Women’s and Men’s Houses, lodges, kitchen, laundry, boiler house, recreation hall, school, hospital. March 1920 scheme abandoned and second scheme prepared (P & P Letter Book 84:306). Total estimated cost: £51,438 (P & P Letter Book 85:115). Second scheme abandoned August 1920. Sandhill Park: advising how house could be adapted for hospital use (P & P Letter Book 85:793). Sandhill Park Hospital built one mile to NW at unknown date (P & P Day Book 11:35). Hospital now closed (2003)
1915 alts Abbots Leigh House, Somerset: alterations (P & P Letter Book 74:747). For Mr Ingham Gunn. Builders: Messrs R Wilkins & Sons; estimate: £1,190 (P & P Letter Book 75:496). 1920 outside staircase & balcony (P & P Letter Book 84:704). Extant (2004)
1916 Memorial, Church of All Saints, Long Ashton, Somerset: memorial to Lady Greville Smyth (P & P Letter Book 76:704) (drawings in private possession: June 1916). Marble portrait medallion of Lady Smyth: E F Fabian; fee: 100 guineas (P & P Letter Book 76:801), alabaster monument: Messrs Martyn & Co ltd; estimate: £340 (P & P Letter Book 76:823). Church Listed
1918 alts Portishead Cinema, Somerset: suggested unknown alterations (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant; Portishead Library (1999)
1919 alts, Church of All Saints, Long Ashton, Som; War memorial lobby screen & doors to W entrance (P & P Letter Book 80:546) (drawings in private possession: undated). Builders: Messrs Ridd & Sons; estimate: £448 (P & P Letter Book 80:796). Extant; altered (1995).
1919 alts Banwell Castle, Somerset: alterations & additions (P & P drawings: March 1919). For Richard Calvert. Builders: Messrs A Dowling & Son; estimate: £4,341:1:0 (P & P Letter Book 81:600). Heating engineers: Messrs Spry & Co; estimate: £390. Electrical installation: Messrs Buchanan & Curwen; estimate: £219 (P & P Letter Book 81:453). Extant; hotel (2005). Listed
1919 Alts, Westminster Bank, Langport, Somerset: new strong room. Builders: Messrs H Pittard & Son; estimate: £990 (P & P Letter Book 82:251). Extant (2000)
1919 alts Richmond Grove, Lansdown, Bath, Somerset: alterations & additions. For Mr E Knox (P & P Letter Book 82:617)
1919 Pair of cottages, Backwell Down, Somerset (P & P drawings: June 1919). For William Garnett. Extant (2005); altered;
1919-20 Calvary cross memorial, Backwell Hill House, Backwell, Somerset. In memory of William Patrick (Pat) Garnett and two gardeners on the estate killed in World War I. Commissioned by father, William Garnett. Bronze crucifix by the Bromsgrove Guild; estimate: £375 (P & P Letter Book 83:466). Moved to Backwell churchyard 1997. Extant (2005).
1919-20 lychgate, Leigh Woods ch, Som; (P & P Letter Book 82:618) (P & P drawings: December 1919). Builders: Messrs T Weeks & Sons Ltd; estimate: £451 (P & P Letter Book 84:739). Extant (2000).
1920 War Memorial, Winscombe, Som, Celtic cross in churchyard (church guide). Extant (1999). 1927-28 repairs (ICBS archive 11755 folios ff. 1-39). 1936 proposed screen to tower arch (P & P drawings: May 1936). Completed to a different design
1920-23 alts to George Hotel, Frome, Som, for London County Westminster & Parr’s Bank, Frome, Somerset: rebuilding of George Hotel site (Lawrence) (P & P Letter Book 85:850) (P & P drawings: April 1922). Builders: Hayward & Wooster; estimate: £8,577 (P & P Letter Book 89:986). Extant; National Westminster Bank (2000); relatively minor external alts, reconstruction of ground floor;
1921 Premises at Keynsham for H J Loxton, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings; ‘domestic work’)
1921-22 Minor alts, Bishop’s Palace, Wells, Somerset: small alterations & decoration (P & P Letter Book 88:704) (P & P drawings: November 1921 & January and February 1922). For the Bishop of Bath & Wells and Mrs Wynne Willson (Alice Lillian Proctor Wills). Builders: Hayward & Wooster; estimate: £4,344 (P & P Letter Book 89:66). Heating engineers: G N Haden & Sons. 1922 restoration of drawbridge. Builders: Hayward & Wooster; estimate: £49 (P & P Letter Book 89:829). Extant (2000)
1921-22 Addn, Bristol & Clifton Golf Club House, Failand, Somerset: extension; accommodation for ladies (Lawrence) (P & P Day Book 11:55) (P & P drawings: March 1922). Extant (2008). Shelters on the links (Lawrence) (P & P drawings: 1922)
1922 Shelter, St Michael’s Home, Axbridge, Somerset: shelter in grounds (P & P Day Book 11:85). House extant; St Michael’s Cheshire Home (2008)
1922 churchyard extension, Backwell Church, Somerset: extension of churchyard (P & P drawings: August 1922). 1937 Memorial to Mrs J R Garnett (drawings in private possession: July 1937) AF text says bronze crucifix to Garnett, Oatley’s son-in-law 1919-20;
1922 alts Wraxall Village Hall, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings)
1923 alts Banwell Abbey, Somerset: alterations (P & P Register of Drawings). For Gilbert S James. Extant; two houses (2004)
1923 memorial to Mrs A M Davey, Leigh Woods ch, Som. Extant (1999).
1923 Adds Hodshill Hall, South Stoke, Som; new entrance porch and drive layout (Lawrence) (P & P drawings: May 1923). Extant (2007)
1924 alts Parsonage House, Easton-in-Gordano, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant (on stylistic grounds); ‘Old Rectory House’ (2004), rectory is by Paull & Robinson qv.
1924-26 alts No 3, The Circus, Bath, Somerset: alterations (Lawrence) (Letter from GHO to NC 3 July 1926). For Lady de Blaquière. Extant; flats (2004)
1924-31 unex adds, Downside Abbey, Somerset: Conventual Buildings (P & P Day Book 11:124) (Letter from GHO to OWC 15 December 1925) (‘extension of monastery, £50,000’, Letter from GHO to OWC 14/2/29) (plans scrapped by new Abbot and new ones in preparation, Letter from GHO to OWC 16 June 1930) (P & P drawings: July 1931) (‘to go forward’, Letter from GHO to OWC 16 November 1931). Not executed. 1931 Extension & building of a library (Letter from GHO to HC 11 December 1931). Not executed
1925 cottage, Chewton Priory, Som: gardener’s cottage (P & P Day Book 11:133). For Lord Waldegrave. Builders: H J Tovey. Extant (on stylistic grounds); Priory Cottage, Priory Farm, Chewton Mendip (2004)
1926 works 1 & 2 Onslow Villas, Bath, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings)
1926-27 alts Hillside, Crowcombe, Somerset: alterations (P & P Day Book 11:166). For Mrs Follett. Builders: Stansell & Son; dull hipped addition to a dull double-fronted hipped villa, plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/61, possibly Flaxpool House S of Crowcombe on A358;
1927 report Writhlington Manor, Somerset: feasibility study of converting into two tenements (P & P Day Book 11:169). 1931 scheme for re-use of the existing façade and staircase (P & P drawings: April). For Lord Hylton. Demolished after WWII (Pevsner)
(1927-8 alts No 8 Fore St, Trowbridge for Westminster Bank; drawings Bristol Univ; O&L; new ashlar ground-floor bank front;
(1927 inspection, Church of St Giles, Wimborne St Giles, Dorset: inspection. For the nine Earl of Shaftesbury (Letter from GHO to HC 8 December 1927). Church extant (2004)
1927-30 Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, Somerset. Open air hospital and school for the Bristol Crippled Children’s Society (Letter from GHO to OWC 11 October 1927). Foundation stone laid 7 July 1928 by Duke and Duchess of York (Letter from GHO to OWC 16 August 1928 ). 1929 ongoing (£55,000, Letter from GHO to OWC 14/2/29). First section opened 31 May 1930 by Prince George (Letter from GHO to OWC 16 June 1930). Total cost: c.£64,000 (opening ceremony programme). No fee (Letter from GHO to HC 20 June 1927). Builders: Henry Willcock & Co Ltd (Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror 4 May 1939). 1931-35 new wards, extension & Nurses’ Home (Letter from GHO to HC 11 December 1931). Closed 1993; demolished for housing
1928-29 alts Winsford Glebe, Taunton, Somerset: alterations & additions (P & P Day Book 11:221) (£-, Letter from GHO to OWC 14/2/29); ?not at Winsford
1928-29 addn Bindon House, Langford Budville, Somerset: ‘museum’ added to existing house (P & P drawings: July and September 1928) (Lawrence, £800, Letter from GHO to OWC 14/2/29). For Colonel J Hamilton Leigh. Extant (2005); altered;
1928-32 Coombe Lodge, Blagdon, Somerset (P & P drawings: June and November 1929, December 1930, October and November 1931, January, February, October and December 1932). For Sir George Vernon Proctor Wills, died before completed (1931). Cost 1931: £112,000 (Letter from GHO to HC 11 December 1931). Finished summer 1932 (Letter from GHO to OWC 2 December 1933). Builders: Cowlin & Son Ltd. Heating engineers: G N Haden & Sons. Extant; conference and hospitality centre (2008). Listed
1929 alts Redhill vicarage, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings) (Dame Monica Wills associated with job, Letter from GHO to J Thompson, 11 April 1931, UBSC)
1929 Almshouses, Taunton Castle, Somerset: old almshouses [from St James St] moving and restoring (P & P drawings: May 1930) (£-, Letter from GHO to OWC 14/2/29). One almshouse extant in new position (2004)
1929 alts Felton Church [St Katharine], Somerset (£-, Letter from GHO to OWC 14/2/29). Extant (2004); works not known, pos vestry (attributed on stylistic evidence)
1929 [memorial to] Gamble, Leigh Woods ch, Som [the Revd Canon John Gamble was Vicar of St Mary’s 1892-1922]. Extant (1999).
1929 alts Gournay Court, West Harptree, Somerset: repairs & alterations (Lawrence, £1,600, Letter from GHO to OWC 14/2/29). [Mansion bought by Sir Edward Geoffrey Hippisley-Cox in 1928]. Extant (2003). Listed
1929 adds Cranwells, Weston, Bath, Somerset: additions (Lawrence, £600, Letter from GHO to OWC 14/2/29). For Alfred Pitman. Extant; Summerfield School (2004)
1929-34 Wyndham Wing, Taunton Museum, Taunton Castle, Somerset: (P & P Day Book 11:238) (P & P drawings: September 1933) (Letter from GHO to OWC 2 December 1933). Paid for by William Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset. Extant (1997); greatly altered 1974, raised w new flat roof; opened 1934, blt by Henry W Pollard & Sons, Bridgwater; Built 1933-4 SANHS 80 1934 xlviii- lii;
1931 repairs to tower, Dundry ch, Som; Cost: £600 (Letter from GHO to HC 11 December 1931).
1931 Pair of cottages, Barton, Somerset (P & P drawings: April 1931). Extant (1997), altered. 1949 alterations to Nut Tree Farm. For G F Body
1931 Hayes Cottage, Winscombe, Somerset (P & P Day Book 11:264). For Miss Baxter
1931 Uplands Cottage, Wraxall, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings)
1931-33 Redmans, Wedmore, Somerset (P & P Register of Drawings, P & P Day Book 11:283, P & P drawings: 1933). For Miss Stribling. Extant; ‘Redmans’ (2004)
1931-35 new wards, extension & Nurses’ Home, Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, Som (Letter from GHO to HC 11 December 1931). Closed 1993; demolished for housing
1932 adds Norton House School, Midsomer Norton, Somerset: extensions (P & P Day Book 11:270). 1938 & 1939 unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings)
1932 Grand Pier, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset: proposals (P & P Day Book 11:271)
1933 Pair of rangers’ cottages, Leigh Woods, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings)
1933-4 Wyndham Galleries, County Museum, Taunton Castle, Som; SANHS 80 1934 plates 1-2; HW Pollard & Sons contrs; see 1929-34; TC 18.7.34;
1934 stalls, South Petherton Church, Somerset: new stalls ‘given by Methodist laymen in memory of Dr Thomas Coke, curate of the parish (1771-77) and later founder of the Methodist Missionary Society’, (Letter from GHO to OWC 27 November 1934) (P & P drawings, now UBSC: March 1935, DM 1812/Rolled Plans/Ecclesisatical/28). Extant (2004) 1938 alterations to staircase [to tower] (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant (2004)
1934-35 J N Fear’s Institute, High St, Keynsham, Somerset (Lawrence) (P & P Day Book 11:146) (P & P drawings: August 1934). Builders: Stone & Co Ltd. Extant (2003)
1934-35 Whiddon House, Daws Lane, North Petherton, Somerset (P & P drawings, now UBSC: 1934-35, DM 1812/Rolled Plans/Miscellaneous/36). For daughter, Mary Wallbridge. Extant; still private house (1996), mansard-roofed cottage;
1935 Screen, Blagdon Church, Somerset: chancel screen as a memorial to Sir George Alfred Wills and George Vernon Proctor Wills. Extant (2005)
1936 Ham Green Hospital, Pill, Somerset (Lawrence) (O & L dissolution of partnership document 21 February 1936). Extant; converted to housing, ‘Orchard View’ (2003)
1936 Chancel roof, Compton Bishop Church [St Andrew], Somerset: heating and chancel roof (P & P Register of Drawings). Church extant (2004)
1936 proposed screen to tower arch, Winscombe, Som, (P & P drawings: May 1936). Completed to a different design;
1936 memorial to Mrs Melville Wills, Leigh Wood ch, Sm; P&P. Extant (1999).
1936-37 alts Boulevard Congregational Church, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset: renovations and decorations; new pulpit and choir stalls (P & P Ledger 5:25)
1937 Memorial to Wynne Willson: unknown, prob in Wells Cathedral, Som (P & P Register of Drawings; ‘memorials’)
1937 Memorial to Mrs J R Garnett, Backwell Church, Som (drawings in private possession: July 1937) AF text says bronze crucifix to Garnett, Oatley’s son-in-law 1919-20;
1938 Adds Mental Hospital, nr Wells [Mendip Hospital], Somerset: advising on the re-casting of the plan and making additions to probably Nurses’ Accommodation Block (Letter from GHO to OWC 27 April 1938). Hospital converted to residential use (1997); 1938 block due to be demolished 1997/8
1938 Parish War memorial, Bathford, Somerset (P & P Register of Drawings)
1938 Memorial to St John Miles: unknown (P & P Register of Drawings;‘memorials’); presumably St John Miles of The Hill, Congresbury, cf 1939-40.
1938 ats South Petherton ch, Som; alterations to staircase [to tower] (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant (2004)
1939-40 Alts The Hill, Congresbury, Somerset: alterations, additions & renovations (P & P Ledger 5:57). For Mr St John Miles. Builders: Mr Standen; cost: £1,259;
1939 Alts Westaway, Leigh Woods, Somerset: minor alterations (P & P Ledger 5:55). For the Revd Canon L G Mannering
1939 Compton Dando Church [St Mary the Virgin], Somerset: corbels in chancel (P & P Register of Drawings). Executed to a different design by William Bertram, to mark the Millennium
1939 alts Mells Church, Somerset: bannerettes on pinnacles (P & P Register of Drawings). Extant (2000); to GHO’s design?
1939-42 Hospital, Winford, Somerset: Emergency Hospital for Ministry of Health (‘to be erected at great speed in view of casualties from air-raids’, Letter from GHO to Haroldine Copp 12 August 1939) (Given three weeks for complete scheme, did it with three days to spare, by his ‘two leading men’, incl Brentnall, GHO to OWC 25 August 1939). Builders: Poole & Son; cost: £21,420. Heating engineers: G N Haden & Sons
1940 fittings, Church of St Nicholas, Brockley, Somerset: new pews and altar rail (P & P Drawings: 1940). Not executed until 1952. Given by Sir Francis Cowlin. Extant; in care of Churches Conservation Trust (2004)
1945-46 work Martock ch, Somerset: adaptation of legs of original altar as communion rails (P & P Ledger 5:154) (P & P drawings, now UBSC: October 1946, DM 1812/Rolled Plans/Ecclesiastical/26). Extant (2004)
1946 work Badgworth Church [St Congar], Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings). Church extant (2004)
1946-48 alts Barrow Court, Somerset: alts, adds & decorations (P & P Ledger 5:143). Builders: W G Fisher & Sons Ltd; cost: £7,222 [possibly for Fishponds Diocesan Teacher Training College]. Extant; flats (2008)
1946-50 University Veterinary School, Langford House, Churchill, Somerset: various buildings; estimated cost: £75,563 (P & P Ledger 5:194). Opened 1952, for Bristol University. Extant (2008)
1947 work Meare Church, Somerset: unknown works (P & P Register of Drawings). Church extant (2004)
1948-51 proposed alts & adaptions, Backwell Hill House, Backwell, Som, for Muller’s Orphan Homes. Builders: W G Fisher & Sons; cost: £6,283 (P & P Ledger 5:196). Extant; health club (2005)
1948-49 tablet for organ in memory of George Alfred, Hilda, Vera and Vernon Wills, Leigh Woods ch, Som. Extant (1999)
1949 Alts Hillside, Walton-in-Gordano, Somerset: alterations. For Miss Acraman Jones (P & P Register of Drawings)
1949 Alts The Poplars, King’s Road, Clevedon, Somerset: sketch for alts & adds (P & P Ledger 5:183)
1949 alterations to Nut Tree Farm, Barton, Som. For G F Body
ODDY, ARTHUR Yeovil. Borough surveyor & manager of water works; Kelly 1906; succeeded in 1920s by AJ Price.
1910 Dorcas House (Corporation almshouses), Preston Grove, Yeovil, Som; WG ?.7.10;
1912 Clock tower, Yeovil TH, Som, in assoc with Petter & Warren archts qv; TH dem 1935;
1921 add to garage, Market St, Yeovil, Som for J Vincent & Sons; dem; plans CHAC 1167;
OFFICE OF WORKS, London. Took over design of major Post Offices 1858 under John Williams +1892, then Henry Tanner. FCR Palmer already at Office of Works was transferred to Post Office, there until 1920, designed standard ‘Class 2 offices known as ‘Ingatestone type’; WH Ludlow +1972 was architectural assistant to FCR Palmer; Walter Pott +1937 and John Rutherford were architects, style changed to Neo-Georgian under RJ Allison from 1920. HE Seccombe. Book on Post Offices (PO); Archibald Bulloch was in charge of post offices in SW and Wales from 1919;
(1907 Post Office, Castle St, Salisbury Henry Nicholas Hawke architect;
(1910 Post Office, Exmouth, Devon; Ernest E. Ellis architect;
1911 Post Office, North St, Taunton, Som; John Rutherford architect, Pollard & Son bldrs;
1913 Post Office, Parkhouse St, Minehead; by FCR Palmer, builder Burgess; des illustrated PO p42; adds 1934 by HE Seccombe;
19?? Post Office, Weston s Mare, Som; design ill PO p41;
(19?? Post Office, Weymouth, Dorset; des ill PO p 41;
1923-7 Post Office, New Bond St, Bath; Archibald Bulloch archt; SNB;
1932 Post Office, King George St, Yeovil, Som; plan for drainage 1932 CHAC; HE Seccombe architect, Hayward & Woster contrs;
1932 Telephone Exchange, Parkhouse St, Minehead; behind Post Office; opened 1932 OD;
1934 adds Post Office, Parkhouse St, Minehead by HE Seccombe, aqrchitect, builders Nix Bros;
1936 attr Telephone Exchange, George St, Bridgwater, Som;
1942 attr Exchange House, The Crescent, Taunton, Som; built as Telephone House centre for telephones in SW, possibly begun 1938; David hunt says built in wartime;
Also ?Telephone Repeater Station building 1927 on Hamilton Rd, Taunton;
Also Frome Post Office by Henry A Collins qv;
OGILVIE, YSEULT Architect, Wincanton. In partnership with husband Mark Hughes, land agent, then on own.
2010-12 plans restoration Ashington Manor, Som; unex;
OKELY, WILLIAM IGNATIUS see Fosters & Okely
OKELY, WILLIAM JAMES ?related to William Ignatius Okely, architect, partner in Bristol firm of Fosters & Okely qv 1824-36;
1858-9 Manse, Moravian Chapel, Ham St, Baltonsborough, Som; by Brother WJ Okely, a member of independent means; Louise Clap, Baltonsborough, 82;
OLDFIELD KING
1998 Field Farm housing, Shepton Mallet; HDA 1998;
OLDRIEVE, WILLIAM THOMAS Architect, Office of Works qv, 1853-1922, did many post offices, Merthyr Tydfil, 1905,
1900 Post Office, Weston s Mare, Som;
O'LEARY GOSS ARCHITECTS Chapel House, Alexandra Rd, Redland, Bristol; Robert O'Leary RIBA; Jenny Goss RIBA; much hospital and schools work in Bristol; adds to Southmead Hospital, Bristol for haematology and oncology;
(2001-7 conv Clifton Downs Hotel to Bridge House flats, Clifton, Bristol;
2011 proposed visitor centre, Clevedon Pier, Som;
2011-14 reblt Royal Pier Hotel, Clevedon, Som;
OLIVE, Rev. DAN Cf Beech & Tyldesley, Wells. Worked for B&T then was ordained. Designed numerous parsonages for Bath & Wells Diocese, divided Crewkerne parsonage into two;
1966 Vicarage, Ashbrittle, Som, by DO of Beech Tyldesley;
1974 Vicarage, Castle Cary, Som; Castle Cary Past & Present exhibition;
2000 chapel, Greencombe, nr Porlock, Som; HGS 237-8; for Joan Loraine;
Sculpture of mother & child by Tom Preater;
OLIVER, - Barnstaple
(1891 1st pr Yeoford ch, ; RHH
OLIVER, CHARLES BRYAN. Architect, Alfred St, Bath see Burgess & Oliver and Hay & Oliver;
(1883 1st pr Calne TH, Wilts; RHH; blt 1884-6 WBR;
1892 ref to ?repair work at Bath? WG 6.5.92,
1896 new building inc laundry superintendent's quarters, workhouse, Bath; BC 31.12.96
1902 Millbrook School, Widcombe, Bath; MF;
OLIVER, WILLIAM CLEMENT Architect, Barnstaple, originally a carpenter, 1833-1913;
1891 rest tower, Upton ch, Som; SRO cf/1891/14;
OPENSHAW, F.E. Architect
1936 National School, Cheddar, Som; TC 26.9.36, Messrs Ford bldrs; SNB says National School 1837;
ORAM, JOSEPH Nailsea
1819-20 outbuildings, Wraxall parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/48; £1187/4/0d; two pantries on house, barn, wagon-shed, stables, cider-house, two cottages converted to farmhouse;
ORCHARD, SIDNEY SAMUEL 1877-1957, surveyor to Taunton RDC from 1924;
1911-12 ?Masonic Hall, Midsomer Norton, Som; design by Bro. Orchard; Freemasonry in Somerset book;
ORGAN, (ROBERT & TIM) of Artist Constructor, Bristol. Tim Organ was architect, Robert born 1933, a painter. Formed Artist & Constructor in 1969 with John Schofield, later called Form & Structure, then from 1973 Architecton qv with Colin Harvey and Paul Richold. Book on Robert Organ as painter by Jenny Pery.
1970? addition to house at Chewton Mendip, som; for Woodward family; by Tim Organ; original house 1963 by Ray Moxley qv; modern houses website 2016; with polygonal kitchen;
19?? House at Oakhill, Som; cf John Schofield letter 19.11.09 ‘beautiful house highly recommended’; not in SNB;
c1980 Doctor’s Surgery, High St, Chard, Som; inf J Gould: Tim Organ with Hans Klaetschli;
ORME ARCHITCTURE see Mark Orme
ORME, MARK. Architect. Orme Ltd, 2 Farm Rd, Street, Som, later Orme Architecture, or Orme Ltd. Mark Orme died, then Edd Medlicott & Tom Gascoyne RIBA, directors; website;
200? The Gauntlet shopping alley, High St, Glastonbury, Som; website
200? Four Forks House, Spaxton, Som; Orme Ltd website;
200? Lower Coxbridge House, nr Street, Som;
200? Eden Nursery, Charlton Musgrove, Som;
200? The Balsam Centre, Wincanton, Som;
200? Add Tolbury Mill, Bruton, Som;
2010 Add Butleigh Primary School, Som; Gillam & Chivers contrs; Mendip DC awards 2011;
2010 proposed Henhayes sports-centre, Crewkerne, Som; YT 3.3.10; CS Williams contrs; Mark Orme;
2010-11 restor Red Brick Building, Morlands site, Glastonbury, Som; board;
2010-11 Mill Green, Rectory Lane, Norton sub Hamdon, Som; new house for Simon & Linda Weir; by Tom Gascoyne; Gillam & Chivers contrs; inf Linda Weir;
20?? Adds Fennel House, nr Wells, Som; Mark Graham proj archt;
Also restored a thatched II* building in Pilton (inf J Winstone)
ORMISON, HENRY Kings Road, Chelsea Horticultural engineer who had won prizes at Great Exhibition.
1868 Conservatory, Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Som, for RH Paget; de Viggiani, Two Estates, 1988, 88; £800; gardens by Edward Kemp, CL 17.6.1899;
1873c hothouses, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Som; SAS;
OTHEN, THOMAS BENJAMIN Architect, Taunton; 1869-1952. Born Midhurst, FLAS, practice in Taunton from 1901; at Highclere, South St, Taunton, 1931 dir;
1926 adds Wadeford B chapel, near Combe St Nicholas, Som; M Bonnington, Chard Baptists, 187-8;
OWEN, EVAN Surveyor & architect, Sherborne, Dorset, 1751-1824;
(c1789 The Cedars, Long St, Sherborne, Dorset, OSS)
1813 report on vicarage, North Cadbury with Joseph Beard qv, but new house by Thomas Ellis qv; D/D/Bbm/36;
1819 alts Rectory, Corton Denham, Som; D/D/Bbm/49; large rear addition, twin gabled.
OXFORD ARCHITECTS PARTNERSHIP
1977-80 adds Francis Hotel, Queen Sq, Bath; AF text; design influenced by Prof Roy Worskett qv, the City Architect;
PACE, GEORGE GAZE, Architect, York, 1915-75, trained with Darcy Braddell & Deane, and Pite, Son & Fairweather, established practice in 1949, church work includes chapel at Keele University and repair of Llandaff Cathedral after bombing. Peter Pace, The Architecture of George Pace (PP); partner Ronald Sims (Sims & Pace) collection of 20000 items at NMR SPA01;
195? Slate plaque to Rev L Jackson + 1950, Somerton ch, Som;
(1958 advice reordering Bristol Cathedral; PP)
1964 alts chapel Monkton Combe School, Som; PP;
PADMORE, JOHN Engineer, Bristol,
(c1712 Sea Mills Dock, Bristol; the third wet dock constructed in Britain; SNB, on River Avon;
1727 employed by Ralph Allen to design horse-drawn railway from Allen's Combe Down stone quarries to quayside at Dolemeads, Bath, Som. W Berry, Kennet & Avon Navigation, 2009, 8-9; 1.5 miles of track, 500-ft descent, also new design for quayside crane;
PAGE, ERNEST GODFREY. ARIBA. Not in 1906 dir or RIBA list. Some drawings of Bridgwater buildings by him in AH Powell, The Ancient Borough of Bridgwater, 1906. His father ET Page owned Page & Son, Bridgwater, printer, bookseller. Worked for Basil Cottam qv 1887-92, witnesses 1892 plans by Cottam for Brymore, Cannington, Som, A/CMY/534; assistant to AW Saxon Snell, London, 1892-8, then own practice in London with William White and later with JMW Halley; BF Brueton ARIBA born 1885 was articled to EGP;
(1902 House, Belvedere Drive, Wimbledon by A Saxon Snell and EGP ill in BN; archiseek website)
1905-6 Free Library, Binford Place, Bridgwater, Som; BoE S; won competition restricted to architects with connections to Bridgwater; C Bryer Jr contractor; photocopy of design in library gives address as 45 Warwick Ct, Gr…. Large octagonal hall with corner porch, 8 arches carry dome, stack rm 42’ long, newspaper rm 41’ long on right with barrel ceiling, magazine room and reference library on l. both 23’ long, all three reading-rooms with a bay-window for quiet reading.
PAGE, MONTAGUE RUSSELL Landscape architect, gardener, 1906-85, cf Russell Page, The Education of a Gardener, 1962. Worked with Gordon Jellicoe, 1935-9; one of founders of Inst of Landscape Architects; married to Gurdjieff's daughter Lida 1947-54;
1933-4 Cave Man Restaurant, Cheddar Gorge, Cheddar, Som; with Gordon Jellicoe; BoE N; 1934-7 HGS 248-9 commissioned by Lord Weymouth when Page was altering Longleat landscape, Wilts.
PAGE, SAMUEL & PHILIP Architects, London. Samuel & Philip Flood Page, sons of Samuel Page 1771-1852. Samuel Flood Page 1796-1854 and Philip Flood Page born 1798; SFP became a priest after designing Mill Hill ch, Mx 1829-36; HC;
1825-7 Partis College, Weston, Bath; BoE N; HC;
PAGE, THOMAS Builder, Bath; died BC 18.6.1789 'late a builder of this city'
PAGE, WILLIAM Landscape designer.
1855-7 gardens, Orchardleigh, Lullington, Som for William Duckworth; HGS 180-1; TrAMS 27 1983 132 says that - Page had laid out paths at Beechwood, nr Lyndhurst, Hants, 1853, for Duckworth; in 1855 designed terraces at Orchardleigh which were accepted but also designed a house, his design rejected as mean and uncomfortable looking, diary WA Duckworth 19.6.55; diary suggests that Page was consulted over cost of TH Wyatt house;
PALME, WILLIAM Carpenter Castle Cary. Probably built Ochiltree House, High St, Castle Cary, Som, for himself, called newly erected 1825, renamed after sale 1851 to John Boyd. CCV 6 141;
PALMER & GREEN Builders, Clevedon. James Palmer and – Green, father of builder William Albert Green qv. D&J Lilly, The Builders of Clevedon, 2000; only WA Green in 1906 dir;
1862ff houses Victoria Rd, Clevedon, Penarth House 1862, Brecon Ho 1864, Grosvenor Ho 1862, The Grange 1863;
1871 semi-detached houses, Victoria Rd Clevedon, opp Argyle ho; by palmer;
1873 Argyle House Victoria Rd, Clevedon, by Palmer
1875 The Elms and Southview, Prince's Rd, Clevedon, by P&G
1875 Houses on W side of lower Princes Rd, Clevedon, by Green;
1875 Colin Ho and Campbell Ho, Hallam Rd, Clevedon; first houses on road; Lilly; then Palmer built up opposite side until 1887 with house for himself, No 26, Camelot, Combe Hay, Cowper villa, Exmoor, Newnham, Rothsay, Tremor, Woodburn;
1874-6 houses lower Linden Rd, Clevedon, Som, by Green;
1890s houses Victoria Rd, Clevedon, by Green; Cranbrook, Greenbank, Ferndale, Elmview, Norhasm, Lithgow;
PALMER & SEDGWICK 22 Regent St, Weston s Mare. Auctioneers, surveyors, valuers, house land estate & insurance agents, Kelly 1906. J. Palmer & Alfred Sydney Edward Sedgwick, surveyor, of Queensmead, Bristol Rd, WsM. Also at Highbridge & Burnham on Sea. Offices in Bank Chambers Alfred St, Burnham also occ by HS Jaques archt qv; see Palmer & Stiling
PALMER & STILING Architects, High St, Bridgwater, Highbridge and Burnham. Kelly 1889; later Palmer & Sedgwick qv; ?connected with John Palmer bldr qv.
PALMER, - Architect to Messrs Boot's chemist; ref TC 28.2.1917 plans handed to FW Roberts … ?for where;
PALMER, FREDERICK CHARLES RICHARD. Architect, 1874-1934, at Office of Works qv for ten years before being transferred as architect to General Post Office from 1908 to 1920, developed standard ‘Ingatestone type’ for Class II Post Offices. Architect to National Provincial Bank from 1922 to 1934, when firm was Palmer & Holden with WCR Holden.
1913 Post Office, Parkhouse Rd, Minehead, builder Burgess & Son qv; OD; inf D Crighton from PO book pp 38 and 42; adds by HE Seccombe qv 1934 also built by Burgess & Son;
(1929 National Provincial Bank, 80 Market Place, Warminseter, Wilts; RBS archives;
(1930 National Provincial Bank, 30 Corn St, Bristol, refaced bank of 1862-4 by WB Gingell qv; SNB)
PALMER, J. Architect ?of Palmer & Stiling
1885 ?building, Burnham on Sea, Som, WG 24.7.85, Harding Bros builders; where?
PALMER, JOHN. Bath. c1738-1817. Son of Thomas Palmer glazier. Partner of Thomas Jelly +1781 qv who had worked with his father, partnership from c1765 (J&P) to 1781; appointed City Architect after Thomas Baldwin qv 1793; HC;
1768-9 nave St James ch, Southgate, Bath; J&P; dem;
(1775 Cottles House, Atworth, Wilts; HC; J&P;
1775 Theatre Royal, Orchard St, Bath, Som; orig 1750 by T Jelly
1775 rejected plan, Guildhall, Bath; J&P; MF;
1777-80 St Swithin ch, Walcot, Bath, Som; J&P; MF;
(1783 ?Lynchetts, 15 Woolley St, Bradford on Avon; documents in WSHC connected with Ann Whatly of Moxhams next door and her marriage to the Rev Benjamin Richardson mention Palmer; the house was built for them; e-mail Glenys Lunt; the house is a remodelling of outbuildings of Moxhams, with a new front; Ann Whatly was related to wife of Thomas Jelly;
c1785 Shockerwick House, near Box, Som; HC; for W Wiltshire;
(1789 sale advert well-built house Corsham with three-stall stable and coach ho, apply JP architect or Stanfield Davis on premises; BC 13.8.89
1789-93 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, Som;
1790 Hope House, Lansdown, Bath, Som; AFtext;
1791-4 St James Square, Bath, Som; promotion of Richard Hewlett & James Broom, leased 1790, to spend £10000 on building, complete by 1794, John Fielder and Thomas King among the builders, 45 houses; sjsbath.co.uk website;
1792-6 Nos 31-40 Green Park, Bath, Som; AFtext; then Nos 20-30 added c1790-1805
1792-1810 attrib Norfolk Crescent, Bath, halted by 1793 crash, completed possibly by John Pinch AF text;
c1793 attic storey, General Hospital, Bath, Som;
1794 All Saints ch, Lansdown, Bath, Som; dem;
1794 Kensington chapel and houses, Bath;
1797 No 8 Bath St, Bath, Som; House of Antiquities museum; AF text;
1798 Christ Church, Montpelier, Bath, Som;
1804-5 blt Theatre Royal, Bath, Som, to des of George Dance Jr qv;
1805-7 New Bond St, Bath, Som,
PALMER, JOHN builder Weston s Mare
1846 builder proposed WM chapel, Weston s Mare, James Wilson qv architect; WSMG 14.3.46;
1846 QM, Weston s Mare; FS WSMG 14.3.46;
1858-9 alts Bleadon ch, Som; ICBS;
PALMER, WILLIAM Surveyor Bruton.
1867 minor add parsonage, Batcombe, Som; D/D/Bbm/156; of offices on end wall;
PANCHARD, R. Bath. Exhibited a design for a cathedral at RA 1804 and put in plans for tower Hungerford ch, Berks 1811; HC;
PARFITT, G. J. Bruton. Engineer and surveyor. Did very detailed mid-C19 survey of buildings at Sexey’s Hospital, Bruton, Som; SRO DD/SE 94.
PARKER & UNWIN see Richard Barry Parker
PARKER, A. SOUTHCOMBE Plymouth, Devon.
(c1906 Kingdon House, Tavistock, Devon; BoE plate 174)
(1907-12 rest South Perrott ch, Dorset; plan in ch; BoE;
PARKER, CHARLES 1799-1881 FIBA 1834; book of designs for lodges and cottages, Villa Rustica 1832-41;
(1840 portico Stourhead, Wilts, roughly to orig Colen Campbell design; HC).
PARKER, GEORGE Carpenter Bath
1622 No 4 North Parade Passage, Bath; MF; lease of 1622;
PARKER, JOHN Borough Surveyor, Bridgwater
1878-80 Board School, Albert St, Bridgwater; A 12.10.78 £3225, Chedzoy & Son; Br 1878 497; spec SRO C/E/4 Box 106 344/4; ref to a Mr Lathom qv re work at Albert St School 1888; enlarged and master's residence 1896-7 Box 106 344/7, latrines 1897 by Samson & Cottam; demolished;
PARKER, JOHN HENRY. Architectural writer, Oxford 1806-84, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Author of A Glossary of Architecture, 1836, and Introduction of the study of Gothic architecture, 1849. Author of The Architectural Antiquities of the City of Wells, 1866.
PARKER, RICHARD BARRY Letchworth. 1867-1947 Born Chesterfield, articled Faulkner Armitage in Manchester 1889-93, partnership 1896-1914 with cousin and brother-in-law Raymond Unwin qv 1863-1940 (P&U). 1895 in Buxton, town-planners, 1902ff laid out New Earswick, York, for Rowntrees, 1903 won comp for Letchworth Garden City, made plans for Hampstead Garden Suburb 1905. Office in Baldock 1904. In 1906 Barry Parker set up office in Letchworth, and Unwin set up office in Hampstead, partnership continued to 1914; Dean Hawkes (ed.), Modern Country Homes in England, the Arts and Crafts architecture of Barry Parker, 1986, based on a series of articles that Barry Parker did for The Crafsman, an American magazine, starting in 1910.
1902-6 Haycroft Cottage, No 3 Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, Som; plans at the house; ?not same as house at Bridgwater 1907-9 for William Thompson, SC notes; Haycroft Cottage, No 3 Durleigh Rd is Voysey style small L-plan roughcast house. Brooklands, a much larger house next door, No 5, is Arts & Crafts of similar date; Mervyn Miller says that Haycroft Cottage was designed by Raymond Unwin, who was connected to the Sully family of Bridgwater, inf DC;
1904-6 Ravenscourt, Hopcott Road, Minehead, Som; now subdivided, main part is Callens Edge; conveyance of land 1904, built for Edmund H Corbett, at Ravenscourt in 1906 dir, then c1908 sold to Millicent Lethbridge, and renamed Gordon Lodge, extended westward before September 1908; small SE addition to dining-room pre 1913; sold 1919 to Henderson family, there to 1935, was thatched until bad fire 25/2/1944, (house was then called The Thatched House occ by Arthur Dolton); 1946-50 reroofed in green tiles and interiors almost wholley rebuilt; addition on W side of courtyard replacing a single storey covered way was probably post fire, by Edward Donati; qv; a very good Parker design acc to Mervyn Miller; now has green roof tiles; main part is Callens Edge; wing to W mostly the 1908 addition is Oakworth and Grodon lodge, stable block is Bracken lodge; house was published with text and plan by Parker in The Craftman; cf Hawkes pp 44-5;
1905-6 Kildare Lodge, Townsend Rd, Minehead, Som; 1903-6 RL 2 54; ASG 277 lists it amid works 1895-1903, for Mr Corbett & Dr George Henry; plans 1905 SRO D/U/M/22/1/234 by P&U of Buxton & Baldock, with stables and yard, for Dr Gordon Henry, so built 1905-6 as Dr Henry was at Blair Lodge in 1906 dir; the house had waiting and consulting rooms each side of front door; house for Mr Corbett is Ravenscroft, later Gordon Lodge, see below; another set of plans new house Alcombe Rd 1905 D/U/M/ 22/1/347; road names changed, now corner Townsend Rd and Paganel Rd; J Hurford qv was the builder;
1907-9 Haygrove, No 3 Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, Som, for William Thompson; drawing in SRO without the porch, and with a projecting piece on the cross-wing, drawing found by Diana Crighton; Mabel Parker diary lists visit in 1908;
190?? attrib Brooklands No 5 Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, Som, as brick doorway similar to brick doorway on No 3 in early drawing (see above); but owners say built by Albert Manchip builder for himself; Mervyn Miller knows no connection with Parker & Unwin;
(1919 plan Pinehurst Estate, Swindon Wilts; WBR: P&U; built from 1924;
PARKER, THOMAS Joiner. Gittisham, Devon. Died 1745.
1723-4 Crowcombe Court, Som, for Thomas Carew but abandoned contract 1727 and house completed by N Ireson qv. HC; £73/10/0d; SRO DD\TB/29/10. The papers include James Gaylard's letter to Thomas Carew giving information of the theft by Thomas Parker of Gittisham, the architect employed by Carew, Gaylard's confession of his part in the theft, an account of the discovery and the removal of the coins to Honiton and thence to Dorchester and London where they were sold to a receiver with a note that one was dated 1662 ‘so that I dare say the Deposit was in Monmouth's Rebellion’, order to arrest Thomas Parker, Inquisition of Treasure Trove, all in 1735; bundle includes a sheet of accounts for labourers, joiners and carpenters working on demolition, 1724, and Parker's mortgage of his property to Carew in repayment. Josh Schwieso research suggests house was far advanced before Parker was sacked;
1725-6 Repairs Crowcombe ch tower, Som; after lightning strike removed spire 20.12.1724; chwardens accounts;
1729 Screens, flooring and wainscoting the altar, Crowcombe ch, Som; HC; chancel W and S screens; paid £73
PARKER, W. J. Architect, South Molton St, London. According Scottish architects website WJP was at 64 South Molton St in 1910 and at 58 Great James St in 1902 (also 1910 acc to A Saint) and 97 Jermyn St in 1921; designed several suburban houses in Taplow, Bucks, and several Scottish architects trained with him .uk including LH Ross, GG Macfarlane and CS MacNab. No information at all at RIBA.
(1902 Broomcroft, Taplow, Bucks; added motor house 1904)
(1903 Three houses, River Rd, Taplow, Bucks,)
(1910 addition Bayesbrown, Taplow, Bucks)
1912 Golsoncott House, Rodhuish, Som, for Captain Whitehead private secretary to Count von Hochfeld of Croydon Hall; inf present owner from estate agent or sale particulars; minor additions after 1923 by Norman Reckitt qv for himself;
PARR & STRONG, Architects, London, Samuel Parr & Alfred Pope Strong FRIBA (1834-93), in practice together 1867-88, briefly Parr, Strong & Parr before JE Parr went to Canada in 1888; AP Strong was a pupil of TH Wyatt 1859-61; cf Donald Insall Associates report on 27 Clerkenwell Rd (DI);
1870-1 Chapel, Somerset County Asylum (Mendip Hospital), Wells, Som; SNB;
(1874 Warehouse for John Oakey & Sons, London; A 7.2.74 illustrated;
(1874 Star Works for Thomas De La Rue, printers, Bunhill Row, London, bombed 1940, DI;
(1879 No 27 Clerkenwell Rd, London, tinplate works of F&W Hudden; DI)
(1883-5 Great Southern Railway Terminus, Buenos Aires, Argentin; DI;
PARR, FRANCIS. Engineer, AMICE, Borough Surveyor, Bridgwater, from 1891, appointed TC 2.9.91, previously with Arnold Thorne, surveyor to Barnstaple Council, Devon. Kelly 1906 also waterworks engineer and manager & inspector of nuisances to the Borough & Port Sanitary Authority; still in post 1926;
1904-5 cloakroom and alts, infants department, Eastover School, Bridgwater T Br 10.12.04
1911 Magistrates Court, Mount St, Bridgwater, Som; JE Fursland builder; named on FS laid by HW Pollard mayor 3.8.11; closed 2012;
PARRY, ERIC Architect, London; Eric Parry Architects established 1983; major projects include renewal of St Martin in the Fields ch, London;
(2006 addition to Old Wardour House, Wilts for Luke Hughes; Natural Stone Award 2006;
2009-11 add Holburne Museum, Bath, Som; BD 30.7.10; £13m, ceramic clad; first proposed 2005, rejected 2007 over colour, changed colour to green;
2015 Cedars Hall, concert hall for Wells Cathedral School, Som, also a new sports pavilion to free the site;
PARRY, JAMES Cardiff. Architect. Possibly James Parry of Builth who was advertising in Hereford Journal in 1788 for masons prepared to work in Carms and Brec; inf Tom Lloyd: ‘In Holden’s Directory of the UK 1811 James Parry is listed under Cardiff as a builder. Lewis Topographical Dictionary: ‘The town (Cardiff) is situated . . on the eastern bank of the river Taf, over which it has a handsome stone bridge of three arches, with two smaller land arches to carry off the water in floods, which are here very violent, and by which two unfinished bridges from the designs of the same architect Mr Parry had previously been destroyed. The site of the present structure, which was finished in 1796, has been judiciously selected, and the new entrance which it has opened to the town is among the principal recent improvements.’ Other sources name Parry as the architect also. It was a big graceful bridge, as appears in engravings etc, but of course replaced in the late C19’. Gloucester Journal 29.8.1796 refers to inquiry set up by justices at QS into present state of the new erected bridge at Cardiff and the accounts of Mr James Parry, the architect;
Parry may have moved to Bridgwater, see James Parry of Bridgwater.
1794-8 Town Bridge, Bridgwater, Som, made by Coalbrookdale Co under Thomas Gregory their engineer; named with Gregory on plan 4.11.94 with proposals for abutments with turrets; contracts 1.6.95; £1530; casting Shrewsbury Chronicle 10.7.95; BDRP 5ff; engraving 1797 has only TGs name; ‘pretty well completed’ SM 1.10.98; 75’ span, 24’ width, £4000; one plaque with town arms survives on former Royal Clarence Hotel, dated 1795, the other in the Blake Museum;
PARRY, JAMES Bridgwater. Mason and bridge-builder. Possibly same as James Parry of Cardiff qv.
1803 rebuilt Highbridge Clyce, Highbridge, Som; £3450/0/0d plus house for £167/8/0d; contract in book on Highbridge, 2004; Lewis 137 gives 1802 for start of work but no name;
PARSON, GEORGE Land agent and surveyor, High St, Wellington, 1840 dir.
PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF, Engineering and management consultants founded 1885 in New York bought by Balfour Beatty in 2009.
2009-10 Beacon Centre, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Som; £13.5m;
PARSONS, ALFRED Landscape designer. Parsons, Partridge & Tudway formed 1899. Parsons designed the gardens at Great Chalfield Manor, Wilts, c1910. Tudway had a nursery at Wells, HGS 202-3, not in Kelly 1906.
1900-1 gardens, Milton Lodge, near Wells, Som, with CC Tudway JP of The Cedars, North Liberty, Wells, whose family owned house, HGS 202-3, possibly also Summerhouse 1909 and Parsons involved up to 1913;
PARSONS, GEORGE Engineer. 1807-76 Born at West Stour, Dorset, came as Portman estate steward to New Cross Farm, West Lambrook, Som, in 1830s, there when he married in 1839; patented agricultural machinery designs, possibly involved with design of large industrial farm buildings for Portman estate at New Cross Farm, which processed flax and had a twine walk in 1854. Possibly involved with the building of New Cross House for Portman estate, originally built by a solicitor called Nicholettes in South Petherton, it was newly finished when dismantled and re-erected in 1836 at New Cross. The flax mill at New Cross Farm burnt Feb 1854. Built Parrett Works, at Carey’s Mill near Martock, 1855, to fireproof design. Four storey mill with iron columns and beams but wooden floors, iron roof struts but wooden beams, iron battens. Staircase in cylinder of brick, cast-iron with central newel used for delivering water for fire-fighting from roof tank to taps at each level. Iron door frames. 16 ft by 10 ft 6 in breast-shot wheel in side range which was faced with cornice and mullion windows from Hele House, S Petherton, and had water-tank on the roof. Decorative facade added perhaps because it faced Parsons' own house Parrett House. Added steam power in 1865, Italianate chimney similar to Brunel's on South Devon Railway. Made sailcloth in new weaving shed 1865-8. Long twine-walk at rear of site. Iron-founding also on site? 1865 launched West of England Engineering & Coker Canvas Co, failed, decision to wind up 1868. Emigrated to New Zealand 1873, died there. CA Buchanan From field to factory, 34-8; brother Henry Parsons qv also a Portman estate steward, took over works in 1870.
PARSONS, HENRY. Surveyor. Haselbury Plucknett, later Misterton. +1897. Born West Stour, Dorset, steward to Lord Portman’s Somerset estates, lived at Manor Farm, Haselbury Plucknett 1855-72, then Manor House, Misterton from 1873, died 1897. He was JP, director of Wilts & Dorset Bank, Crewkerne Breweries, Western Chronicle, Plymouth Breweries; also steward for Duke of Devonshire in Somerset, Lord Wolverton (?Wolviston) in Dorset. County councillor, JP. Owned Manor House Misterton from 1888. Brother George Parsons qv was a Portman estate steward at New Cross, West Lambrook, entrepreneur who built Parrett Works, Martock 1855, which Henry Parsons took over in 1870.
H Parsons & Son, land & estate agents, Misterton, 1906 Kelly. R Maurice Parsons +1948 contined as Portman agent until estate sold 1924.
1875 rest Closworth ch, Som; SRO; Parsons of Haselbury; but cf JM Allen.
1879-81 rest Brompton Ralph ch, Som; ICBS 1880-1, says Henry Parsons of London 1828-1902 more likely Parsons of Misterton; builder Samuel Shewbrooks; RL; VCH says by Shewbrooks and no evidence for BoE attribution to Parsons, but appears unaware of ICBS papers; plaque in church says cost £823/9/6½d, rebuilt chancel, new windows and door, new chancel arch, nave roof, windows, repaired pulpit and desk, repaired S porch and door, repaired vestry, new bell-cage in tower;
1880 alts South Barrow ch, Som; SRO cf/1880/6; HP of Misterton; rebuild all except chancel E and N walls and tower; Kelly 1906 says rest 1882 by Mr Trask architect qv, more likely that Charles Trask was contractor;
HP probably designed additions to Manor House, Misterton, c1878, and Estate House & Estate Cottage, Misterton, 1879, a pair of houses containing the Portman estate office.
PARSONS, HENRY London 1828-1902
1879-80 ?rest Brompton Ralph ch, Som; ICBS 1880-1, bldr Saml Shewbrooks; more likely to be Henry Parsons qv of Misterton;
PARSONS, JAMES Wellington. Master builder, in 1796 dir. Thomas Parsons, carpenter, in 1840 dir.
1814 minor adds parsonage, Runnington, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/38; £188/2/5d; first report by Josiah Easton of Bradford on Tone, land surveyor, qv.
PARSONS, ROBERT. Bath. Mason. 1717-90. IR. Employed by John Wod Sr as stonemason on Bristol Exchange; mainly known for garden vases and ornaments sent all over England; Philip White suggests that he made the Friendship Urn, Hestercombe, Som, 1784, to a design by Coade; signs monument at Bucklebury, Berks, with John Ford Sr; became Baptist minister of Garrard St chapel c1768 buried in Walcot B chapel, Bath; obit BC 4.3.90; business continued by son Thomas Parsons, whose book of designs survives in Bath Library; TP made Mrs Miller's famous vase at Bailbrook, and was also B minister;
(1745-51 vases, Stourhead, Wilts; IR; Gunnis;
1748 stone carving, Titanbarrow Villa, Bathford, Som for John Wood Sr; IR;
1753? chimneypiece for Lord Egmont, Enmore Castle, Somerset; IR: ref in correspondence of JI Talbot of Lacock Abbey to having seen it, 'in the Gothick taste, which pleased me greatly';
(1754-5 chimneypieces Lacock Abbey, Wilts, for JI Talbot; IR;
1764 Built Ralph Allen mausoleum, Claverton, Som; BoE N; design by Richard Jones qv, HC sub R Jones; IR: RP visited Ralph Allen day before Allen's death in 1764 to show him designs for memorials, so may have designed it; SNB says design was by Jones;
(1766 Six vases, Corsham Court, Wilts; Gunnis)
Also 12 vases Castle Hill, Devon;
PARSONS, W. M. T. Architect?
1937 Shannon, Bawdrip Lane, Bawdrip, Som, for self; MHB pl 42; utterly altered;
PARSONS, WILLIAM Surveyor Bruton
1867 minor adds Batcombe parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/156
PARSONS, WILLIAM. Carpenter & builder, Langport. Somerset Dir 1830.
PASCALL & WATSON
1987-8 Buildings RNAS Yeovilton, Podimore, Som; Two hangars, a squadron office block, main air store; winch winding & safety equipment bldng, inflammable & detonator stores; boiler house; all with common detail plastic-coated profiled steel sheeting with radiused eaves for roofs and walls, horizontal runs of windows and low level brick; end walls ancillary bldngs have single skin glazing and secondary internal glazing; BD 29.7.88;
PASSMORE & DERRICK Builders, Minehead. Charles Passmore and William Derrick
1895 Two villas, Summerland Ave, Minehead; by CP; OD1;
1896 Seventeen houses Summerland Ave OD8
1899 Eleven houses Summerland Ave, Minehead; OD49
1899 Stables No 17 Summerland Ave OD 54;
1902 Ten houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead, for Charles Passmore; D/U/M/22/1/140, in terrace;
PATCH, JOHN, Crewkerne. Builder, surveyor & carpenter, c1794-1871; HC; in 1820, 1833 and 1844 dirs; built much Late Georgian style housing in Crewkerne acc to Simon Andrew (SA) smandrew@tiscali.co.uk . cf S Andrew, Crewkerne Town Guide, 1998.
1828 No 26 Abbey St, Crewkerne, Som, blt as school for Richard Carver of Bridgwater ??presumably not the architect, VCH 4 9;
1833-4 gallery, Lopen ch, Som; ICBS; rebuilt ch acc to HC, N transept dated 1833 and two nave ws, W gallery, and ceilings. N transept gallery removed c1955.
1838 Southville House, 46 Middle Path, Crewkerne, Som, blt for his own family; inf owner SA, later occ by JM Allen qv;
Attrib: typical arched doorway with horizontally reeded impost occurs at The Chimes, 20 Abbey St; Nos 7-11 Gouldsbrook Terrace c1841, one 3-bay and pair of 2-bay houses w arched doorways; No 3 Abbey St 1840s, arched doorway; 19 Hermitage St arched doorway (Unitarian manse) 1812; Baptist manse North St 1830s; No. 31A East St (Greyhound Inn) arched doorway; Chards House 21 Lyme Rd arched doorway; No 19 Market Square arched doorway; 4 Market St brick w arched doorway; Hinton Villa Oxen rd; 9 Market St 3-st block arched doors;
PATCH, WILLIAM West St, Ilminster. Surveyor & builder +1863. Builder and cabinetmaker, 1840 dir; carpenter & bldr 1848 dir; bldr and surveyor 1861 dir;
1840-1 adds Ashill Vicarage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm 84, 1841, refers to main addition being already complete; HC elegant cottage orne style; altered 1890, thatch removed; remodelling of a C16 house, still with framed ceiling, 1840 addition Gothic style drawing-room and bedroom above;
1841 adds Parsonage, Middle Chinnock, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/87;
1846 House for VT Langworthy, Ilminster, Som, TC 29.7.46, partly altered, mostly new;
PATERSON & JONES, Architects, Weston s Mare see Fry, Paterson & Jones
PATTEMORE, J. Architect to Chard RDC in 1946
PATY, JAMES I Bristol +1748. Mason, first of Paty dynasty, posthumous father of James Paty III 1748-1807, carver and gilder. Worked on houses in Bristol in 1740s including College Green and Unity St; IR;
1728-31 ?Earnshill House, Hambridge, Som, where he perhaps supplied the saloon chimneypiece; IR; Earnshill was attributed to John Strahan for whom Paty worked on Redland Chapel c1735 when thought to have been built for Combe family of Bristol. Now known to have been for Francis Eyles former MP for Devizes, so Bristol connection less strong; also suggestion of Colen Campbell design;
PATY, JOHN Architect, Bristol, died BC 18.6.1789, young man of distinguished genius; he was partner in Thomas Paty & Sons with brother William +1800 and father Thomas qv who also died in 1789; advert BC 4.6.89 says that John and William Paty will carry on business as architects and statuaries as carried on for 12 years with their father Thomas, but advert BC 25.6.89 refers to William being left alone;
PATY, THOMAS Bristol c1713-89 Stone carver, not apparently a son of James Paty I mason +1748 maybe a nephew. Brother of James Paty II +1779 and his partner in building schemes though they had separate workshops (IR). Laid out Bristol city centre streets: High St, Bridge St, Clare St, Union St, Bath St. He and his sons designed buildings esp around Great George St, Berkeley Sq area. Firm was Thomas Paty & Sons, sons were John Paty +1789 trained as sculptor joined in 1772 and William Paty qv +1800 trained as architect, joined him in 1777. Advert BC 4.6.89 says that John and William Paty will carry on business as architects and statuaries as carried on for 12 years with their father Thomas; advert BC 25.6.89 refers to William being left alone; Thomas King the stone carver of Bath was a son-in-law, Thomas Stocking, the plasterer was a neighbour and colleague.
(1741-3 stone and wood carving, Redland Chapel, Bristol, HC; IR;
(1741-2 stone carving Bristol Exchange; John Wood architect; IR;
(1746 carving Clifton Hill House, Bristol (Isaac Ware archt)
(1752-6 carver mason St George ch, Kingswood, Bristol;
(c1758-60 carving Royal Fort House, Clifton, Bristol; James Bridges archt; Thomas Stocking plasterer;
1758-60 The Cedars, North Liberty, Wells, Som, for C Tudway; HC;
(1762 alts Fonmon Castle, Glam, for Robert Jones; HC;
(1763-9 contr Bristol Bridge, des by James Bridges)
(1763-9 tower and spire, St Nicholas ch, Bristol;
(1764-6 Theatre Royal Bristol; HC)
c1767 attrib adds Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som; SC;
(1768 re-erected Bristol High Cross at Stourhead, Wilts)
1776-80 Blt TH, Wells, Som, to a plan by Rev Dr Camplin; HC; alts WD Caroe qv 1932-3;
(1782 N aisle wall, All Saints ch, Corn St, Bristol; AF; reps cupola 1781 HC;
(1783 Merchants Hall, Bristol; dem 1940; HC;
PATY, WILLIAM Bristol. 1758-1800, architect, monumental mason, son of Thomas Paty qv +1789, trained at RA schools 1775, in Bristol 1777, joined statuary mason business of Thomas Paty & Sons with his father and uncle James Paty II +1779 and brother John Paty +1789, then on own; City surveyor (one of three). He and father built terraces around Great George St. James Foster was pupil & assistant. Statuary business was bought by Henry Wood of London in 1801.
(178? Laid out Charlotte St, parts of Park St and Berkeley Square, Bristol with Thomas Paty; AF;
178? Designs for alts Butleigh House, Butleigh, Som; dem; SC;
(1786-90 Christ Church, Broad St, Bristol; AF;)
(1787-1800 Berkeley Sq, Bristol; attr AF;
(1788-91 Nos. 3, 7, 23, 25, 27 Great George St, Bristol. No 7 for John Pretor Pinney; AF;
(1791 Berkeley Crescent, Bristol; attr; )
(1795-6 Blaise Castle, Westbury on Trym, Glos; for JS Harford; HC;)
1799 attrib alts/ rebuiling Somerton Erleigh, Som, for John Pretor Pinney as Paty des Pinney’s Bristol house c1788-91, but Karin Walton says unlikely: JPP bought ‘Mr Howe’s Estate with a Modern new built Mansion house thereon and all its furniture’ in 1798 taking possession March 1799; could high quality plasterwork and fireplaces be by Paty’s firm?
PAUL & JAMES see WS Paul
PAUL, - Taunton, architect, made report in 1852 on poor construction of Wellington Monument, Wellington acc to SM 9.11.52
PAUL, ROLAND W. Architect, +1935. ?cousin of WB Paul of Langport +1897, grandson of Thomas Paul +1865, both directors of Stuckey’s Bank, inf Paul Heim, Wearne Wyche. Important member of SAHNS cf obit in Proceedings, wrote up the chapter-house Hinton Priory in SANHS 41 1895; drawings of Somerset antiquities regularly printed in Br: e.g Br 20.8.92 Taunton Castle, Trull pulpit, Cothelstone etc; Musgrave tomb, Stogumber Br 27.8.92; Bristol Cathedral Br 1.8.91; Glastonbury Abbey 4.8.94; St Cuthbert ch Wells 18.8.94; Witham Friary ch and Glastonbury St John 25.8.94, Bath Abbey 3.11.94; Malmesbury Abbey 27.7.01; Milton Abbey Dorset 5.1.01; Sherborne Abbey 3.4.97;
1888 proposed rebuild chancel, Chisleborough ch, Som; ill Br 1888a 414; unex, chancel now mostly vestry still has C17 windows; Br 9.6.88;
1892 Four cottages, South Petherton, Som for WF Blake, ill Br 16.7.92, half mile E of South Petherton; HJ Yandle of Martock bldrs; two-storey row;
1899 Lychgate, Huish Episcopi ch, Som; memorial to WB Paul; AA 1900 2;
(c1920-35 wings, The Deanery, Anchor Rd, Bristol; AF;)
PAUL, W. B. Error, the Paul family of Langport were bank managers of Stuckey’s Bank. WBP paid for 1867 Langport ch restoration in memory of Thomas Paul +1865 and lychgate at Huish Episcopi, 1899, is in memory of WBP +1897, by RW Paul qv. WBP lived at Wearne Wyche, near High Ham, which he had built for himself by G Nattress qv in 1875.
1867 ?rest chancel Langport ch, Som; VCH from parish records; error; work probably by CE Giles qv who claims restoration of Langport (undated) 2nd in his list of restorations in autobiography;
PAUL, WILLIAM S. Architect, Bristol. Worked with TS Pope (Pope & Paul) in 1880s and 1890s, then Paul & James after 1900 with Richard Croft James qv born 1872 FRIBA; did pubs in Bristol c1900 and Drill Hall, Old Market, 1914;
1883-4 alts Bishopsworth ch, Som; ICBS; Pope & Paul;
(1886 and 1890 fittings St Stephen ch,Bristol; P&P; SNB;
(1889 Haberfield almshouses, Hotwell Rd, Bristol; P&P; SNB
(1893 adds to Deanery, Bristol, prob by Pope & Paul; SNB.
(1899 Swendenborgian ch, Cranbrook Rd, Bristol; P&J, SNB)
(1899-1900 St Anne's Junior School, Bristol by Wm Paul; SNB)
(1902-7 adds Colston School, Stapleton, Bristol; P&J; SNB
(1903 Shakespeare PH, Lower Redland Rd, Bristol; P&J, SNB;
(1912 adds Colston Girls School, Cheltenham, Rd, Bristol; library; P&J; SNB;
PAULL, HENRY JOHN. FRIBA Cardiff, Manchester, Burnley and London. 1831-88. Born Worcester. Pupil Hamilton & Medland 1848, FRIBA 1867. Designed C chapels; had office in Cardiff 1860, Burnley 1861, Manchester c1867, Essex St London 1870, 9 Montague St London c1873, 10 Adam St London 1875; AEBTD; family from Ilminster, where Samuel Paull of Knot Oak, Ilminster, founded brewery 1840; father Joseph Paull born Ilminster, 1792, mother Katherine Major born Axminster, 1795; marriage of parents, Langport; brother William Major Paull born Bridgwater 1824; brother Joseph Paull born Worcester 1829; in 1830s Joseph Paull (accountant/merchant) converted to Congregationalism in Worcester; 13.3.1831 birth of Henry John Paull, Worcester, baptised 7.12.34 at Angel St C chapel, Worcester.
Simon Ramsden at English Heritage is researching. Numerous partnerships:
Paull & SUTTON (P&S) (probably RC Sutton of Nottingham) won competitions for chapel at Epworth, Lincs, 1858; schools Nottingham 1859; entrant Longton MH 1861; RHH;
HJ PAULL (HJP) of Cardiff won competitions for Taff Vale Railway Offices, Cardiff 1858-60; Brecon Cemetery 1858; RHH; in Cardiff 1860 as HJP.
Paull & ROBINSON of Cardiff fl 1861-2 (either GE Robinson of Cardiff or GT Robinson fellow pupil of Hamilton & Medland who was Paull's partner in 1867-72); Paull & AYLIFFE of Burnley c1861-6 (P&A) with Oliver Ayliffe: Albion C School Ashton under Lyne 1861; Westgate C chapel Burnley 1861 CYB 1862 ‘Lombardic’, arcaded int, by P&A of Burnley £6000; Blenheim Chapel Leeds 1864; Sherwell C chapel, Plymouth 1864; workers housing for Crossley at Halifax 1863-9; Philips Park Cemetery Manchester 1866. Partnership broke up June 1866, CYB 1867 365;
Paull & ROBINSON 1 St Peter’s Sq, Manchester (P&R) 1867-72; GT Robinson FRIBA c1827-97 pupil of Hamilton & Medland; Ashton under Lyme Baths 1870 BoE; Ripponden C chapel Yorks 1870, CYB70 & BH70;
Paull & BICKERDIKE c1872-5 (P&Bi): Christ Ch C chapel, Kennington, London 1873-6 ?cost £60.000;
HJ PAULL on own, ?in London: 1873 Chorlton cum Hardy WM chapel, Lancs; Westgate C chapel, Cleckheaton, Yorks CYB 1875; Driffield WM chapel by HJP of 9 Montague St, London;
Paull & AA BONELLA c1879ff (P&Bo), London: 1st prize Southport Promenade Hospital 1879; Woodberry Down B chapel, London 1882 (BH83); Islington C chapel 1888; Romsey C chapel Hants 1887;
Paull & COGSWELL c1891 (P&C);
1857 Cemetery, Ilminster, Som, two chapels and lodge; chapels dem, lodge remains; HJP; BN 1857 892 HJP of Cardiff.
1860 Lovington Rectory, Som; HJP of Cardiff; SRO DD/CC E.1339.
1862-3 rest Lovington ch, Som; P&R of Cardiff, SRO D/D/cf/1862/2; 1861-3 CB 1864 38; 1862-3 ICBS; SRO D/P/lov 6/1/1, 8/4/1, 9/1/2; D/D/Ca 445;
(1864 Sherwell C chapel, Plymouth, Devon; BoE; P&A;
1867-9 Easton in Gordano School, Som; SRO educ plans undated endorsed 16.3.67 by Diocesan Board of Education; P&R of Manchester;
1869 Easton in Gordano Rectory, Som; P&R of Manchester; SRO DD/ Bbm/168; also DD/Bbm/175 1870 affidavit from GT Robinson for extra expenditure £151/4/4d;
1870 Consulted over new Endowed School, Ilminster, Som, to replace Grammar School on new site N of West St, he may have prepared the 1875 plans rejected as too expensive at £14,350; Henry Paull of Essex St, London; Ilminster Girls’ Grammar School, 1979, 14-15.
1875-7 Board Schools, Ditton St, Ilminster, Som; P&Bi; Br 5.3.75 contracts open, P&Bi, 10 Adam St, London WC; also BA 5.3.75; 1877 (Kelly 1906);
1877 Attr Board School, Horton, Ilminster, Som; similar to Ilminster and under same board.
(1880 Boys High School, Plymouth, Devon; BN 6.8.80; Archiseek; P&Bo;
(1882 Tabernacle C chapel, Trowbridge, Wilts; P&Bo; WBR;
1883 entrant Sexey’s School, Bruton, Som, competition; P&Bo; RHH; Br 44 365;
(1884 Stuckey's Bank, Weymouth, Dorset, BN 5.9.84 P&Bo)
(1891 1st pr St Andrew ch, Exmouth, Devon, 1891, P&C; RHH; not in BoE
GE or GT Robinson:
Just checking through some of my notes and found that I had taken transcipts of some of the correspondence on file at Lambeth Palace- I do not appear to have looked at the original plans (to confirm whether it is signed GT or GE Robinson) but have noted the following: Letter dated 7 Feb 1862, addressed from Lovington, states "Mr Robinson, who drew the plans for Lovington Church, has left his office in Cardiff for a short visit, somewhere in Lincolnshire......". There is then a letter from Grantham (8 Feb 1862) signed George E(?) Robinson- the ? in my notes suggests I thought it was an "E" but was not sure. There is then some notes dated 13 March (1863?) "....Mr Paull....... It appeared that his late partner had drawn out the plans without consulting him......". The case for/against GE Robinson: I have him as born 1839 Broughton Lincs, 1868 Duke St London SW (Felstead 1993), c1873-1882 17 Church St Cardiff, 1884-5 Duke St Cardiff, 1886-1894 32 St Mary St and then various addresses in Cardiff until 1913 (Winn, disertation 1991).
Interestingly I also found on Glamorgan Cricket website: Full name: George Edward Robinson Born 1836, Broughton, Lincs, Wicket-keeper Clubs: Cardiff CC. Biography: Architect and surveyor. Teams: East Glamorgan (Miscellaneous: 1868); Glamorganshire (Miscellaneous: 1870-1875)
So we cannot be sure if GER was in Cardiff in 1862, but he does have a connection with Lincs (I cannot actually find a Broughton in Lincs to know if it is near Grantham) ...
The case for/against GT Robinson: GTR was a pupil of Hamilton & Medland, Gloucester, but set up in practice in 1848 (Felstead), whereas Paull was articled to Hamilton & Medland from 1848, so they may have met there. HJP entered the architectural competition for Longton Market in March 1861 along with RC Sutton of Nottingham, as did a GL Robinson of Leamington (presumably GTR who did a lot of work around the Midlands at his time, and in 1862 was in Leamington and consulting architect to the Church Extension Soc for Archdeaconry of Coventry) - so they might have met again there. HJP and GTR later went into practice together in Manchester around 1867.
Church Plans online (Lambeth Palace) suggests Lovington is HJP and GTR, but this might just be an assumption based on the fact that they were later in partnership together. So it could still be either!!!
PAYTON, E.S. Architect, surveyor 3 Wood St, Bath;
1904 alts Lyncombe House, Bath for GHB Moyer T Br 3.9.04;
1904 alts 32 Brock St, Bath T Br 3.9.04 addition of bathroom £119/10/0d;
1904-5 Motor garage for FL Wallace, Bath T Br 22.10.04,
1905 repairs Claverton ch, Som, to roof T Br 26.11.04;
PAXTON, RICHARD LAUDERDALE Architect, London, 1956-2006. Practice from 1985 was Paxton Locher with his wife Heidi, later just Richard Paxton. Did houses for Douglas Adams and Griff Rhys-Jones, Soho Theatre London 1996-2000, Jerwood Space London 1998.
2010-11 Upper Crannel Farm, near Glastonbury, Som, for Phoebe Judah. He died just after planning consent obtained, plans and model at house, plans modified in construction; information P Judah;
PEACH, HENRY Builder Chard 1849 dir.
PEARCE & OFFER Bournemouth. Architects, JS Pearce and GC Offer
1899 addition Beach Hotel, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/22/1/77; for F Wonson; OD, new dining-hall,
PEARCE, EDWARD Sculptor, Arundel St, London, also woodcarver, mason, contractor, sometimes architect, surname also written Pierce; son of Edward Pearce +1658, the painter who painted ceilings at Wilton House, Wilts in 1640s; born c1628-32, c1635-95 (IR) married 1661, worked for Wren, reissued his father's designs for friezes (1640) in 1668; master of Painter-Stainers Company in 1693; worked as clerk of works for Pratt at Horseheath, Cambs, for Wynde at Hamstead Marshall, and was much employed by Wren after the fire in 1666, master mason at St Lawrence Jewry, St Matthew Friday St, and St Andrew Holborn, supplied ornaments for all three and St Benet Fink. Worked as mason on on Fishmongers Hall 1669, St Paul's Cathedral 1678-90, St Clement Danes 1679-82, and works inside Grocers Hall 1680-4; did great staircase at Sudbury Hall, Suff, 1675-8, panelling etc for chapel, Emmanuel college, Cambridge by Wren 1676; panelling and carved ornament for Wolseley Hall, Suffolk c1677; attrib panelling Winchester College chapel 1681; great staircase Combe Abbey, Warws c1685, suggested by IR that his balustrade scrolls derive from his father's book of ornament; designed the Bishop's Palace, Lichfield 1686 his only known complete building. Mason contractor at Chatsworth 1689ff, provided garden sculpture for Hampton Court 1689ff; IR;
1682 attributed Staircase, Dunster Castle, Som; NT; similar to Sudbury Hall staircase; not in IR;
PEARCE, GEORGE Haselbury Plucknett
1863-4 alts Hardington Mandeville ch, Som; CB 1864 142; BoE S says chancel arch by Rev John Hancock meaning neo-Norman arch into N vestry, Hancock was curate-in-charge at Haselbury Plucknett 1860-83 and known there for woodcarving - bench ends and lectern. D/D/ch/1863/3 has unsigned plans, but Pearce is named in documents; TC 20.4.64 church re-erected by Mr P of Haselbury;
1870 plans school, Misterton, Som; built 1873-4 £649/15/10d by Gerrard of South Petherton; B Stacey, Memories of Misterton, 82;
PEARCE, GEORGE Martock. Mason, builder.
1848 built Hurst Bow Bridge, Martock, Som, design by R Carver qv, ironwork by Edward Murch foundry, Bridgwater; R Maber, More Martock Memories, 110-11; £180; rebuilt 1975 retaining outer ironwork.
PEARCE, NIGEL STUART Architect, The Pearce Practice, 50 High St, Taunton, 2010, 22A Bridge St, Taunton, 2020. Vice chairman SANHS; work for Smiths Gore agents.
PEARCE, RICHARD Architect, Clatworthy.
1816 parsonage, Huish Champflower, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/42 Plain square hipped house, stable with pedimental gable and lunette each side; £752/8/4d;
PEARCE, ROBERT
c1770 Built Trace Bridge, Ashbrittle, Som; ‘about 50 or 52 years ago, recollection of 1820. Repaired c1800 by William Cotterel of Stawley; Ashbrittle Millennium book, 135;
PEARSE, JOHN Junior. Minehead. Builder. ‘Pearse, Minehead’ is on C19 church monuments cf Notley monument, Stogumber. Firm was later Pearse & Son, not in 1906 dir.
1869, three houses, Ellicombe, near Dunster, Som; VCH draft Dunster;
1870 built Greenbank Villa, Blenheim Rd, Minehead, for himself; first villa of new Minehead, Gothic, designed by either JP St Aubyn or CH Sansom; later Carlton hotel, demolished 2003; some carved stonework rescued; Minehead Cons Soc Bulletin 1 2004;
1870-1 builder, WM chapel, Harbour Street, Watchet, Som; minutes of Building Ctee in SRO reveal that a design by Alexander Lauder qv was rejected and Robert Williams qv, one of the trustees, volunteered himself; John Pearse Jr of Minehead builder, tender £1540;
1872 builder Minehead Station, Som for Minehead Rlway £1118/17/6d; John Pearse; station extended in matching style after 1923; second platform 1905; Clinker West Somerset Rlway 1986 7; by JP&Sons acc to online Minehead chronolgy
1872 builder Blue Anchor Station, Carhampton, Som, for Minehead Rlway, £350; Clinker West Somerset Rlway, 1986, 7; by John Pearse
1877-80 builder St Andrew ch, Wellington Sq, Minehead, Som; by GE Street; JP&Sons acc to Minehead online chronology; by John Pearse acc to ch guide;
1881-2 contractors rest Timberscombe ch, Som; Pearse & Son, JD Sedding archt;
1884 contractor alts Wilton ch, Taunton, Som JH Spencer architect, TC 24.12.84;
1884-5 contractor alts St James ch, Taunton, B Ferrey archt WG 3.10.84;
1885-6 builder, addition WM chapel, The Avenue, Minehead, Som; opened 1.7.86; Foster & Wood qv architects; D/N/wsc/4/2/4;
PEARSON, GEORGE PARKER Surveyor, Chippenham, Wilts, designed War Memorial there.
(1935-6 Sevington House, Wilts, conversion of condemned cottages to country residence; RA 1937 exh)
PEARSON, JOHN LOUGHBOROUGH, 46 Harley St, London. 1817-97. Biography by A Quiney, l979 (AQ). Assistant to A Salvin and P Hardwick, set up 1843, RIBA Gold Medal 1880. Completed several Welsh works of Charles Buckeridge +1873; 1878-1901 Truro Cathedral, Cornwall; design 1878-9; E parts 1880-7, nave and crossing 1897-1903, W towers 1910, part of cloister 1935, rest not built. Son Frank Loughborough Pearson continued practice. WD Caroe was pupil.
1854-6 rest Crowcombe ch, Som, for Rev E Hotham, des 1854-6, exec 1856 for £470, AQ, from ledger book, plans for repairs to cost £1084; PSANHS 54 1908 61: ch rest acc to plans of Messrs Pearson & Raller (?Ralter), choir stalls erected, pulpit moved, font removed;
(1857 rebuilt Charlton St Peter ch, near Pewsey, Wilts; WI 8.7.58, taken down and rebuilt, the Chancey chapel rebuilt in replica; some Norman fragments found in taking down nave; rood screen preserved; and another screen; gallery removed, new benches, pulpit, reading desk, new roof, Minton tiles, Charles Salmon of Devizes contr;
1861 Oakhill ch, Som; 1860-3 SNB; £1630, Kelly; 1862-4 RL, blt by surveyors Wainwright & Heard qv; design 1860-2, built 1862-3, AQ 267: acc to ICBS a first unsatisfactory design was made by Wainwright & Heard in April 1860, JLP asked to make deign, sent in June. Later mde plans for churchyard; CB 1862 4 169;
(1866-8 Sutton Veny ch, Wilts; WBR; Rogers & Booth of Gosport, bldrs; WG 8.6.66 spire 160'; opened, A Harrison of Wilton clk of works, Clayton & Bell painted font, reredos, pulpit and supplied cathedral glass; Wilts Indep 23.4.68;
(1866-71 alts Chute Lodge, Chute Forest, Wilts; WBR;
(1868-72 Chute ch, Wilts; WBR;
1872 attrib chancel, Woodlands, ch. Som; AQ: Error, chancel 1869-72 was to design of CE Giles qv, who had planned to replace the rest. Pearson rebuilt nave and aisles in 1880, retaining the outer wall footings and the tower; Br 1880 39 340 says chancel rest some 11 years ago, no architect named. Longleat archives Pennard Charity:
(1878 Episcopal throne, Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts SCG 24.8.78; ??by GG Scott
1880-1 Woodlands ch, East Woodlands, Som; BoE N; GR; RL reblt exc tower; tower of 1712; AQ 284: chancel by CE Giles 1869-72 money not then available to complete church; Giles retired and nave and aisles rebuilt 1880 by JLP, possibly following Giles, but JLP reused old outer wall footings and kept tower, so possibly completely new design in harmony with Giles’ chancel. Br 1880 39 340 says chancel rest some 11 years ago, now the nave has been almost entirely rebuilt as well as S porch, Early Dec style windows, encaustic tile floors in passages, woodblock elsewhere, cathedral glass in windows, new organ; the tower to be restored at some future time; Brown of Frome contr; JLP plans in Longleat archives; payment vouchers 1880-1 incl rest of tower Longleat 14/3 2/0 18/2/1854; also 14/3 2/12 1/1/1869 has payment in 1879; 14/3 27/0 1/1/1870 has coresp with JLP 1879-81, with contrs F&G Brown 1879-81; between JLP and WG Brown architect & surveyor 1892 re copies of plans of 1880; copy of spec 1879-80 sent 1892; plans dated 1879 five of original seven sheets received from Messrs Brown 1892, clear that tower was restored to Pearson plans with new NE stair turret and new neo-Jaocbean W window and bell-lights; letters 14/3 13/0 22/8/1879 incs six re building 1879-80; 14/3 13/0 2/2/1882 includes six letters between JLP and steward 1882-3; accounts 14/3 2/12 01/1/1890 includes payment to J White for carving corbels of chancel arch in 1885; Frome church archive has copies of five drawings 2,3,4,5 and 6 (E, W, N & S elevations, and section) of original 7, tower shown as now but not clear if openings are designed by JLP or already there; also contract for nave and aisles 1879; Longleat drawings include plan 1, the ground plan with new work coloured, showing JLP keeping nave NW and SW corners, a little of outer walls, S porch walls, and tower.
Frome Times 21.7.80 work started eight months ago at beginning of last winter, chancel done 10 years ago, now all done up to W tower, walls pulled down to sill level, two new arcades inserted in Bath stone; walls raised with new windows in early Dec style; new nave roof, ...
(1882 rest Tidworth ch, Wilts; not in AQ; WBR; ?North Tidworth
1884 ref to building by JLP. Woodwork by Robinson of Bloomsbury, metalwork by Singer & Sons TC 25.6.84; ?Woodlands
1886-7 rest Queen Camel ch, Som; 1887 RL, rest, gallery removed, sacristy and organ chamber added at E end N aisle; Kelly 1906: by JLP £3200 reseated, choir stalls, organ chmbr; for Rev AC St J Mildmay; SRO faculty; AQ 270, design 1886, built 1887-8; WG 23.11.87, Messrs Lydford, Castle bldrs; Mr Luffman ?ck of wks WG 21.10.87,
(1887-8 Western towers, Bristol Cathedral, modified des by GE Street; further restoration 1890-1900, reredos 1899; screen 1904;
(1888 rest Abbey Gatehouse, Bristol; AFtext;
(1889 rest Lord Mayor’s Chapel Bristol; BoE; 1823 pulpit sent to Muchelney ch, Som and 1823 screen to Low Ham ch Som; AF; AQ design 1884 built 1888-9, reconstruction of w entry, new N transept & vestry, new N cloister, £4000, N tr glass by WG Bailey made by Edwin Howard of Frome (?Horwood) Br 1889 40 294, 1887 53 165; 1889 57 542; 1890 59, 132 and 344;
(1893 oak screen, ? ch, ??; WG 27.1.93
1895 Monument to Lord Arthur Hervey, Bishop of Bath & Wells (+1894), Wells Cathedral, Som; effigy by Sir Thomas Brock; AQ, BN 1897 73 204;
(1898-9 reredos Bristol Cathedral; BoE N; ill Br 26.2.98 and ill complete Br 6.1.00, Nathaniel Hitch carver, erected under FL Pearson
(1903 pulpit, Bristol Cathedral; AFtext;
(1904 crossing screen, Bristol Cathedral; BoE; by FL Pearson, AF text;
PECK, FREDERICK Architect, London. Was ‘clever assistant’ to CE Giles in Taunton, in charge of office when Giles went travelling for six months in 1853, with Giles pupil EW Stephens ‘a heavy slow youth’ (Giles autobiography). They set up partnership together. Peck & Stephens entered competitions for Chatham Workhouse (1st) 1857, Ashford Cemetery (2nd) 1858, East Grinstead workhouse (2nd) 1859, Maidstone church (1st) 1859, Cambridge Guildhall (1st) 1859 built 1860-2; Heyham church (1st) 1860; Peck alone won 1st prize Framlingham College 1862, 2nd prize Shrewsbury general Market 1866, 1st Bedford Middle School 1867, 1st Hertford Workhouse 1867, 1st Agricultural Hall Islington London 1868, 1st Finsbury District Schools 1868, 1st Lincoln County Prison; 22 Regent St London 1871;
PEDLAR, RICHARD Architect, Bristol
(1979 reps C chapel, St Margaret St, Bradford on Avon; chapel history)
PENISTON, GEORGE Son of John Peniston qv, possibly died young as only mentioned twice, once in WRS book of Peniston letters, letter 893 referring to sending him to work or train with William Baxter, clerk of works at Penrhyn Castle, Caerns, and in 1831, below.
1831 worked on Prior Park Bath with his father, MF; SNB says work for Bishop Baines by John Peniston & Son;
PENISTON, JOHN Architect, surveyor, The Close, Salisbury. c1778-1848, son of Thomas Peniston bricklayer. County Surveyor, Wilts, 1822. Son John Michael Peniston 1807-58, grandson Henry Peniston 1832-1911, were successive County Surveyors; WBR; HC; was a Roman Catholic, did much work for RC patrons, buried at St Osmund RC, Salisbury; another son George qv is mentioned in 1828 and 1831;
(c1810 rebuilt No 27 The Close, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR2;
(1823 alts Parsonage, Poulshot, Wilts; WBR)
(1825 alts Rowdeford House, Wilts for Wadham Locke, John B White builder; WBR;
(1829 RC chapel, Spetisbury, Dorset; dem 1967; McLaughlin Ross report on Cannington Court 2012;
(1829 plans toll-house, Fisherton Anger, Salisbury, Wilts; not used; WBR2, I Slocombe, Wiltshire toll-houses;)
1829-31 RC chapel of the Holy Name, Cannington Court, Cannington, Som; HC; RL, octagonal domed and E range with E window of chapel; house of the Clifford family was leased to Benedictine nuns and chapel was also parish church for area; dedicated by Bishop Baines 7.7.31; contractor – Haggar, plasterwork by – Padden; MacLaughlin Ross report on house 2012; reopened DWG 14.7.31, altar of Irish and English marbles with continental marbles given by Bp Baines; plans WRO;
(1830 alts Upton House, near Poole, Dorset; HC; Early C19 villa with E wing and chapel added after 1834 in cottage style, no archt named, BoE; plans WRO;
1831 alts E wing Prior Park, Bath, Som; MF, with son George; for RC college established by Bishop Baines, added 2nd floor centre with pediment including a tympanum from Hunstrete House; John Peniston & Son, SNB; two unsigned drawings for remodelling the centrepiece of the eastern wing are in WRO 451/74; the portrait of Bishop Baines in Prior Park chapel appears to show the E wing with no sculpture in the pediment (date of portrait perhaps pre-1831 as Baines bought Prior Park in 1828);
(1832 Ibsley ch, Hants; BoE)
(1833 rebuilt St James ch, Devizes, Wilts, except tower; HC)
(1834-5 RC chapel, St Ursula’s High School, Brecon Rd, Bristol; plans WRO for domed cruciform chapel 'at Westbury' ie Westbury on Trym; for RC convent; SNB;
1835 Yew Tree House, South St, Wincanton, Som, for E Yalden Cooper; HC; RL; George Cooper of Yewtrees, South St, in 1906 Kelly; now called St Audrey’s. Burnt 1836 and rebuilt, PB; plans WRO show house with a one bay piece to the right, not there now;
(1842 Dilton Court, Dilton Marsh, Wilts, with GP Manners; D Aust qv builder; WBR;
PENISTON, JOHN MICHAEL The Close, Salisbury, architect, County Surveyor, son of John Peniston qv; 1807-58, memorial plaque in Salisbury Cathedral relates his death while on parade as a militia officer;
(1854 Police Station, Trowbridge, Wilts, dem; WBR2)
(1857 Police Stations, Chippenham & Warminster, Wilts; Mr Peniston County Surveyor; BN 1857 342;
PENISTON, WILLIAM MICHAEL Railway engineer, fourth son of John Peniston qv, born Salisbury 1816, trained with Timothy Bramah, living at Bleadon 1841, but called of Weston s Mare when he married later in 1841; assistant engineer on Bristol & Exeter, resident engineer for Bristol-Bridgwater section, and later for Wilts Somerset & Weymouth railway section from Frome to Weymouth; at Yetminster, Dorset, 1849-54, bankrupt 1854; worked on Pernambuco & San Francisco Railway, Brazil, 1858-62, author Public works in Pernambuco in the Empire of Brazil, 1863; gave evidence to 1868 Parliamentary Commission on railways in Natal; died suddenly at Beere in Central Provinces, India, buried Khundwa, SWJ 13.11.69; Grace's Guide;
1844 engaged to provide a horse-tramway from Bridgwater Station on the B&E to the quays along the Parrett;
1845 Mr Peniston named as resident engineer, WS&W railway section from Frome to Weymouth, while Mr Ward qv engineer for Thingley Junction to Salisbury and branches to Frome and Radstock, all under IK Brunel. Ward may have done Frome to Weymouth also as present at opening of Yeovil-Weymouth in 1857; or completed work after bankruptcy of WMP in 1854.
(1849 plan of sewers, Sherborne, Dorset, for Board of Health inquiry into sewerage in Sherborne;
PENNETHORNE, Sir JAMES 1801-71 Born Worcester, 1820 London, studied under Auguste Pugin and then John Nash, Italy 1824-6, worked for Nash, completed Nash works Regents Park after Nash died 1835; chief architect Office of Works, RIBA Gold Medal 1865, knighted 1870. Biography: Pennethorne, the Last State Architect, by G Tyack
1834-8 rebuilt Dillington House, Som, for John Lee Lee. Lee inherited 1834 and m Edwards heiress 1834; work done when? Tithe Map 1838 not clearly outline of present (eg no conservatory) but may be inaccurate; Begun c1837 (Tyack);
(1849-56 Completed Somerset House, London; added W range;
(1851 ff Public Record Office London)
(1853-5 Ballroom, Buckingham Palace, London)
(1854 Duchy of Cornwall offices, Buckingham Gate, London)
PENNINGTON, E.W. Curry Mallet. ?not an architect
1902 Screen, Dulverton ch, Som; signs drawing SRO DD/cf/1902/37; no such name in Kellys Directory; screen based on fragments of previous screen removed 1854 before church was rebuilt;
PENNY, THOMAS Builder Taunton 1827-1906 born Leicester, moved to Wellington, came to Taunton to work for George Pollard timber business 1851, laid out showground for Royal Agric Show, Taunton, 1867, estab own timber business Wood St in 1876. In 1885 bought Greenway Farm estate and developed it with son Thomas Stubbs Penny (1854-1944) qv. Prominent Temperance campaigner. JT39. Lived at Knowls, 96 Trull Rd, CW Green, Trull & Staplehay, 89;
1864 BC chapel, Canon St, Taunton, dem 1969; drawing JT 59; by TP; SCG 24.9.64, George Webber builder;
1876 Cottages, Thomas St, Taunton, som; block plan D/B/ta/24/1/325; TP;
1876 alts House, Bridge St/ Wood St Taunton addn of two square bays; D/B/ta/24/1/337;
1876 alts No 75 Wood St, Taunton, Som for C Sealey; DD/DP/72/3;
c1876-82 Villas, 86-96 Trull Road, Taunton inc Knowls, later Channons, for himself, and Parkfield (now part Jack Trigg House) for son TS Penny; one dated TP 1882; next was Hovelands Lodge, then Ermington, finally 86-8 Ben Lomond/ West Hill; all part of Queens College; Green, Trull & Staplehay, 89; Hovelands Lodge ?there in 1875;
1889ff Housing, Greenway Farm estate, Rowbarton, Taunton, in streets named after children Cyril, Leslie, Raymond, Herbert, Thomas & William, also after Liberal politicians Rosebery, Gladstone, Asquith, and Harcourt, also Clifford Ave after Baptist preacher; the area had no pubs as Penny was temperance; JT 39;
PENNY, THOMAS STUBBS. Tone Bridge, Taunton. 1854-1944. Builder, mayor 1883-6. Developed Greenway estate, whole of Rowbarton W of Kingston Rd, Taunton, from 1889. Photo Bush Taunton Diary 62, 76; timber-merchant, bldrs materials etc; gave Greenway Rec Ground to town 1899. Lived at Parkfield, 94 Trull Rd one of group of villas blt in 1870s by Thomas Penny (one dated TP 1882?), TP lived next door at No 96 Knowls.
1889ff Housing, Greenway Farm estate, Rowbarton, Taunton in streets named after children of Thomas Penny: Cyril, Leslie, Raymond, Herbert, Thomas & William, also Liberal statesmen: Rosebery, Gladstone, Asquith, Harcourt; and Clifford Ave after Dr John Clifford Baptist preacher; the area with no pubs as both Pennys were temperance; JT 39;
PENOYRE & PRASAD, Architects, London
1998 Youth Centre, Parkway, Sydenham Estate, Bridgwater; BD 5.6.98, £440K; c1992 by Gareth Hoskins of P&P, inf J Gould;
PENROSE, FRANCIS CRANMER. 4 Trafalgar Sq, London. 1817-1903 Surveyor to St Pauls Cathedral des pulpit 1860;
1846 Butleigh Parsonage, Som; TBC; SRO D/D/Bbm/97; alts 1846 inserted new Tudor central block w angle turret between older ranges;
1848 Hornblotton Parsonage, Som; plans SRO D/D/Bbm/101 for Rev JGD Thring; erroneously said to date from 1876 BoE S; enlarged by TG Jackson for Rev Godfrey Thring, plans 1881 SRO, new roof, new bays on E front; correspondence in 1881 says that house was badly built in 1848 and Rev Thring had spent £2000 of own money already and sought another £1000 to mend roof;
1855 Castle Cary MH, Som; BoE S; bldr Maurice Davis, RL; Market House Co 1853, cost £2300, opened 2.10.55, Theodore Thring presided at dinner.
1864-5 rest Templecombe ch Som; ICBS Abbas & Templecombe; SRO cf/1864/5; RL new chancel. Vestry, N aisle, seating;
1865 designed W window stained glass, Curry Rivel ch, Som, to Anna Pinney; Br 1865 598; Renaissance/ Holbein style;
1877 alts Alford House, Alford, Som; BoE; RL; previous Georgian Gothic house for John Thring +1830 recased, picture at the house; VCH says rebuilt after 1839; after 1874 for Theodore Thring, barrister, cf CCV 6 51.
PENROSE, IAN Architect, 13 Queen's Terrace, Exeter. Ian Penrose Architects est 1980s now part of SMC.
1992 Village hall, Brushford, Som;
PENTON & SMART
1985 Pennard Court housing, Bath, Som; HDA 1985;
PENVOLD, J. & W. Clutton, Som. Architects, builders. James & William Penvold. William Penvold of Clutton.
1801 Parsonage, Radstock, Som, by James Pinvold SRO D/D/Bbm/20; three storeys with paired windows each side of front, no front door;
1814 rectory, Saltford, Som; D/D/Bbm/37 no plans; correspondence mentions Mr Penvold, presumably William.
1816 adds rectory, Clutton, Som by William Penvold, D/D/Bbm/45; add of drawing room. File has elevation of plain house with casements and thatched service wing signed James Donaldson London ?drawing of original.
PENVOLD, JAMES, Radstock, see J&W Penvold
PENVOLD, WILLIAM Clutton see J & W Penvold.
PEPPER & SONS, Brighton. Builders.
1872 repaired nave roof, Bruton church, Som, for Slater & Carpenter, architects. John Bishton, church history, 49;
PERCY, EDWARD THOMAS Sherborne, Dorset, 1793-1848. Land surveyor, architect, auctioneer; HC; 1830 Percy & Son; will probate 26.2.48;
1819-28 S aisle and W gallery, South Brewham ch, Som; ICBS; though one plan (unsigned) 1819 shows rebuild except tower with plain pointed windows; Messrs Messiter qv surveyors of Wincanton also involved, John Bartlett of Wincanton builder retired due ill-health, Robert Garratt of Wincanton, builder 1826;
(1830 repairs tower, Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; HC;)
(1836-7 workhouse, Horsecastles, Sherborne, Dorset)
(1839 Messrs Percy land surveyors and architects advertise sale of residence of JM Thorne adj Hound St, Sherborne, mainly new built within a few years, SM 22.7.1839;
PERRATT & BASTABLE Builders, Middlezoy. Thomas Perratt of Moorland House, Middlezoy +1868, stained glass to him in church.
1837-8 Saltmoor Pumping Station, Burrowbridge, Som; SIAS 7 20; 6 hp engine by Easton & Amos; £1007;
PERRY, HENRY. Building surveyor, carpenter, joiner, Crewkerne; 1849, 1852-3 dirs.
1837 alts East Chinnock ch, Som; ICBS; HP surveyor; for H Parsons acc to RL 2 65, but Parsons fl 1870s;
1847-8 gallery, Hinton St George ch, Som; ICBS;
1856 plans rest Chaffcombe ch, Som, rej by ICBS; new plans 1857 by JM Allen;
1860 nave & chancel, North Barrow ch, Som; SRO D/P/bar.n/8/4/1 plans; a drawing full-size for seat is dated Hazelbury 25/4/56 which suggests involvement of Henry Parsons qv the Portman estate steward; stone from Pylle, Doulting drs;
PERRY, JOHN Contractor, Weston s Mare. Originally an insurance agent, by 1871 builder and contractor, involved with construction of Brean Down Fort, Som, 1864-6 possibly in succession to John Pollard of Bristol, and ?also Steep Holm fort; N van der Bijl, Brean Down Fort, 2000;
PERRY, ROBERT
1792-3 Gallery, Woodlands ch, Frome, Som; Longleat 14/3 2/12 31/12/1792; paid for taking down old gallery and erecting new one with new staircase to the gallery and tower and flooring belfry and blocking windows in chancel; ironwork in gallery by Edward Hammersley; dem;
PETO, HAROLD AINSWORTH 1854-1933 Son of railway builder Sir Samuel M Peto. Artic to J Clements of Lowestoft 1871, Partner of Ernest George (G&P) 1876-95. Noted garden designer esp his own at Iford Manor, Wilts. HGS 218ff partnership dissolved 1892, moved to Landford House, Landford near Salisbury owned by his eldest sister 1896. cf Robin Whalley, The Great Edwardian Gardens of Harold Peto, 2007 (RW);
1887 ?garden details, Glencot, Wookey Hole, Som; house 1887 by G&P; attrib RW inc Glencot Bridge dated 1901
(1899ff alts and gardens Iford Manor, Westwood, Wilts, for self; WBR; loggia on house, casita, column to Edward the Peacemaker 1913; cloister 1913-14; CL 28.9.1907;
1900 attr gardens Tintinhull, Som, advised Dr SJM Price; HGS 233; evidence?
(1901-6 gardens, Heale House, Wilts for Louis Greville,
1902ff Gardens, Wayford Manor, Som; ASG; HGS 219ff for HPs sister Helen Baker. Lawrence Baker bought Wayford in 1899, enlarged with new wing by George & Yeates, 1902-5; arcaded summerhouse ? later; CL 29.9.34;
1905ff ??gardens Misterton Lodge, Misterton, Som; attrib HGS 221-3; rented from Portman estate 1905 by Major Alwyne Crossley + 1933, Peto’s nephew, bought 1924, changed name to Old Court 1933; B Stacey, Memories of Misterton, 28ff;
1909ff Gardens, Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Som, for HP’s sister Sarah Crossley +1938, bought house 1909; axial path, transverse path, CL 6.10.1934; ?did Peto design adds and alts to house.
(19?? Gardens Hartham Park, Wilts; and pavilion; ?1903 for Sir John Dickson Poynder, but he inherited in 1888, so possibly earlier, Mowl Hist Gardens of Wilts; S terrace with replica of Warwick Vase in Box stone,, exedral seat, water garden w Ital loggia, balustraded bridge,
(1912 interiors SS Mauretania sold 1934 and reused by WH Watkins in Avery’s Wine Bar, Park St, Bristol; ASG; woodwork by HH Martyn of Cheltenham.
1927ff gardens Widcombe Manor, Bath, Som, HGS 100, 222, for Horace A Vachell. ‘laid out in the last ten years’ CL 28.8.1937;
PETTER & WARREN Architects, Sarum House, Yeovil, 1931 dir. John Petter & Percy Francis Warren. John Petter born 1879 son of James B Petter 1846-1906 of James B Petter & Sons, engineers. Sons were Harry, John, Claude, Guy B, Percy W and Ernest W. Percy and Ernest twins born 1873 des an early horseless carriage 1895. JB Petter started as ironmonger in The Borough, invented the Nautilus grate. Henry B Petter and Hugh Petter, ironmongers, 15 & 20 High St, Kelly 1906. JBP & Sons Nautilus Works, Reckleford, Yeovil, blt 1901-10, manufactured Petter Oil Engines. Petter & Edgar ironfounders name on Yeovil bollards. Sir Ernest W Petter was knighted 1925, president British Engineers Association. John Petter was articled to Edwin Seward of Cardiff. Percy Francis Warren born 1885;
P&W later became Petter, Warren & Cooper (PW&C) with William Reginald Roydon Cooper qv (WRRC) qv, later Roydon Cooper Associates (RCA) qv.
1910 No 35 Middle St, Yeovil, Som; inf DM ?from CHAC plans,
1911-12 council houses, Fulfitt Terrace, Montacute, Som; sketch plans presented by Mr Warren to Yeovil RDC for house with sitting-room, living room scullery, and three bedrooms, 'resolved that architects be instructed to prepare all the necessary plans, estimates etc' SMJ 7.7.11; opened by John Burns MP same day as Yeovil Eastville houses, £148 each; cf Yeovil RDC, A Commemoration, 1973, pp 24-7: Petter & Warren remained architects to RDC for nearly 60 years, acc to WwinA 1926 did 20 schemes. Schemes followed at Newtown, Martock; High St, West Coker 1914-15; Westland Terrace, Yeovil Without (for munition workers); RDC built 120 houses at average £1050 after 1918. 200 houses built in 1930 making over 1000 since 1918. By 1939 had built 970 houses for £513,442. Six houses built 1939-45 for agricultural workers at Ash; post-war several incl Taylor’s Orchard, Chiselborough; experiment with aluminium bungalows. First ‘warden’ scheme at The Pitway, South Petherton 1965, 24 dwellings, similar at Mudford 1968, West Coker 1970, and Martock 1973; by 1973 2335 houses blt. Fulfitt Terr ill with original small-pane casements, and plaque.
1912 Clock tower, Yeovil TH, High St, Yeovil, Som, with A Oddy borough surveyor; burnt 1935 dem; WG 12.3.12;
1912 150 council houses, Yeovil, Som, E of Eastland Rd, on Eastville, Southville, Westville, and Mount Pleasant. £30,000. Opened 2.11.12 by John Burns MP head of Local Government Board; Yeovil vision website; P&W subsequently designed all council housing for Yeovil UDC, 383 houses by 1925 when another 500 planned, 1400 by 1939; pre 1925 in Higher Kingston; post off Preston Road ?Westfield Road. Westland Rd Brian Gittos says was built for Westland, later 1920s, David Shears says built by council to P&W design leased to Westland. Jack Sweet says garden suburb planned of which two roughcast pairs at beginning of road built c1915 and rest built 1920s in red brick, partly UDC partly RDC site.
1913 adapted Cheese Market, South St, Yeovil, Som, as Fire Brigade Station WG 30.6.13; £250;
1914-15 Council houses, High St, West Coker, Som; Book of West Coker 2008;
191? Council houses, Newtown, Martock, Som;
1916 Reckleford School, Yeovil, inf Jack Sweet; attrib DM;
1919 unex Electric Theatre, Middle St, Yeovil, Som; prop for Castle Inn site; plans L Brooke colln, Yeovil Lib;
1920 minor alt Westminster Bank, Hendford, Yeovil; CHAC 14.6.20, tiny rear scullery to former Stuckey’s Bank, dem.
1923 adds Masonic Hall, Hendford, Yeovil, Som; plans CHAC; hall of 1894;
1924-5 Nos. 172 & 174 Goldcroft Rd, Yeovil, Som, with Lt. Col. P. N. Nissen, for Yeovil Town Council. WG 7.11.24; Yeovil Vision calls these Nissen-Petren houses, supposed to cost £350 per house using Nissen’s steel ribs which cd be roofed before building of rest began. Nissen-Petren Houses Ltd formed with Nissen and Sir Edward Petter of Westland Aircraft Co among directors. But cost of prototypes was £513/11/7d, no more blt at Yeovil but Yeovil RDC blt at Barwick, S Petherton and W Camel.
1926 Houses, Westland Rd, Yeovil, Som, for Westland workers, similar to council houses; Roman villa found while excavating site.
1925 Westminster Bank, 2-4 Hendford, Yeovil, Som; RBS archives; now Natwest;
1926-8 Municipal Offices, King George St, Yeovil, Som; plaque; WG 23.7.26 steel frame, Bath stone, Cornish slate; also Town Clerk’s office adjoining on corner of High St, later Barclays bank, inf DM;
1928 Nos 1-8 Howell Hill, West Camel, Som, with Lt. Col. P. N. Nissen, SC notes; similar to 172-4 Goldcroft, but for Yeovil RDC;
1929-30 Westminster Bank, 67 Market Place, Warminster, Wilts; opened 14.4.30; RBS archives;
193? No 28 Swallowcliffe Gardens, Yeovil, Som by WRRC, 1930s; SC notes.
1933-4 Nos. 78, 80, 82 & one other, Combe Knap Lane, Yeovil, Som, by WRRC, greatly altered. SC notes
1934 St Andrew ch, Preston Grove, Yeovil, Som; FS inscr P&W;
1935 alts Rotary Boys Home, 35 Bristol Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO D/B/wsm/24/1/3973; P&W;
(1937 alts kitchens, Abbey House, Sherborne School, Dorset; PW&C; OSS:
1947-8 repairs WM chapel, Vicarage St, Yeovil, Som after bomb damage PW&C; centenary history 1970; windows by Hubert Blanchard of Exeter, furnishings by Raymond Bros Yeovil, opened 2.12.48
1948-50 reps North Barrow ch, Som; ICBS; PW&C; ICBS;
1950-1 reps Middle Chinnock ch, Som; WRRC & S Lawson; ICBS;
1950-2 reps East Chinnock ch, Som; WRRC & S Lawson; ICBS;
(1959 St Aldhelm's Modern School, Sherborne, Dorset PW&C; OSS)
1960-2 reps east Chinnock ch, Som; David Young of RCA; ICBS;
1966-7 reps Middle Chinnock ch, Som; RCA; ICBS;
WwinA 1926 lists: reconst of Houghton, Bassett, Southampton, Hants; adds St Ivel Factory Yeovil; new St Ivel factory Frome; Westland Works Yeoviol for Messrs Petters; adds St Winifreds, Combe Down, Bath for Captain Vaughan Jenkins (?house by CFA Voysey qv); cottages at Winterbourne Stickland Dorset for Sir E Hambro; alts and adds Suddon Grange, Wincanton for AH Vesey; adds Strangway, Marnhull, Dorset for Maj H Denison Pender; new school and special subject centre, Yeovil Educ Ctee; six housing schemes for Yeovil Corporation; 20 schems for Yeovil RDC; 16 schemes for Wincanton RDC; five schemes for Wells RDC and three for Clutton RDC;
PETVIN & MERRICK Builders. Samuel Petvin of Street and ?Frederick Merrick of Glastonbury qv.
1841 N aisle Keinton Mandeville ch, Som; ICBS
PETVIN, SAMUEL. Builder, Street. Petvin & Merrick (P&M) in 1841. Memorial to Thomas Petvin +1809 aged 74 in Street ch, signed by Isaac Petvin, sculptor. An Edwin Petvin signs as witness to signatures on 1858 plans for Board School, Street. See also Thomas Petvin.
1841 N aisle Keinton Mandeville ch, Som; ICBS, P&M
1860 builder Nos 2-12 Orchard Rd, Street, Som, housing for outworkers for Cyrus Clark; archt Samuel Pollard; GHS44;
PETVIN, THOMAS Builder, Street.
1858-9 builder British School, 118 High St, Street, Som, for 350 pupils, became Board School 1874, ext 1892 by W Reynolds qv, closed 1974; GHS says designed by TP but SRO plans are by Samuel Pollard qv
1860 Vestry Room, 125 High St, Street, Som; GHS42, now the Old Vestry. GHS says 1880 but 1860 on plaque
PHELPS, RICHARD. Son of Richard Phelps Sr sign-painter from Porlock, trained under Thomas Hudson of Dunster, and fellow pupil of Reynolds. Did portfolio of architectural sketches for garden buildings in mid C18, now in SRO. HGS 61ff suggests he designed the octagonal summerhouse on the tor or castle green at Dunster Castle, and this was basis for octagonal summerhouse at Hestercombe, p83. But the Dunster drawing may be by Bampfylde qv. and the summerhouse was illustrated by Buck in 1733. Richard Phelps the elder painted the Crucifixion altarpiece for Dunster ch in 1728, and was at Crowcombe Court, Som, in 1742, painting the library and best parlour, HGS 87; Book of Porlock 81 says RP painted a giant picture for Hestercombe with portraits of himself and CW Bampfylde in 1785, sold in London in the late C20; designed a tower for Dunkery Beacon, Winsford, Som, not blt;
177? Work at Dunster Castle, Som, for Henry Fownes (Luttrell) who married heiress Margaret Luttrell in 1747, she died 1766, he remained owner to 1780; attributed the castellated summerhouse on top garden called Bowling Green House but this is of 1727, shown in Buck view of 1733; a Broken Arch; Conygar Tower of 1772-5 on Conygar Hill; possibly rebuilt Castle Mill 1779-82; Lovers’ Bridge; also a Chinoiserie bridge on site of Lawns Bridge (surely a mistake for Marsh Bridge); HGS 84; VCH draft says designed two bridges in park, Castle Mill Bridge and Lovers Bridge; current NT map names bridges Lawns Bridge and Lovers Bridge;
17?? Mausoleum, Hestercombe, Som, attrib to CW Bampfylde qv, but a sketch by Phelps SRO DD\L/1/22/7A is similar; HGS 84-5; but Philip White says mausoleum is by Bampfylde and based on lost grotto at Stowe by Kent, probably dates from 1750s;
1772-5 Conygar Tower, Conygar Hill, Dunster, Som; built by George Rawle, mason, £76/0/11½ d; VCH draft; also artificial ruined gatehouse on the hill to the W;
1776 Gothic bridge, Crowcombe, Som; HGS 88 design v similar to one by RP in portfolio. Plaque says blt by George Rawle of Dunster mason, also prob the Convent or ‘ruin in the glen’ sim to RP design HGS 89-90; for James & Mary Bernard.
17?? Grotto, Terhill Park, Som; HGS 90-1 drawing SRO DD\ES/18/26 resembles Phelps style. Also drawn on map are two Gothic buildings, one sim to Mausoleum at Hestercombe.
PHILLIMORE, CLAUD London. 1911 2nd son of 2nd Lord Phillimore. Leading country house designer after WWII, designed over 40, cf JM Robinson The latest country houses, 1984. Practice 1947, with Aubrey Jenkins 1948. New houses at Belsay Northumberland, Lockinge Berks (unex but CP enlarged Betterton farmhouse nr Lockinge instead) remodelled Clovelly Court, Devon, post-fire, remodelled Knowsley Hall, Lancs 1953-6, and designed new house Knowsley 1963; dower house Arundel Park; Swanstead, Northumberland; Aughentaire, Tyrone; Bartlow, Cambs; Tusmore, Oxon 1960 (1964-5 BoE); Aske Hall, Yorks; retired 1970s, Donald Insall was pupil.
1955 Minor alts, Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Som, for Col Warrender, internal alts to single-storey NW range for servants; plans reproduced in report for owner T Shroder are by CP with Aubrey Jenkins; ?did CP later remove the gable over the entry and the flanking single-storey kitchen and orangery.
(1957-8 Fosbury Manor, Wilts; JM Robinson 209)
PHILLIPS, NIALL Architect, 35 King St, Bristol. Born 1952 Bristol, SPAB scholar, practice from 1977 with P Simons and John Schofield as Form Structures Ltd qv from 1978-80 specialising in reuse of old buildings: Arkwright Ho, Preston, Lancs 1978-80, Luggs Fm Stockford Devon 1978-80, Hanbury House stables Pontypool Glam 1978-80 converted to museum, repairs Gelligroes Mill, Blackwood, Mon, 1978-80; Niall Phillips Architects est 1980 with P Simons: did major conversion works inc Ebley Mills, Stroud, Glos; Spike Island Studios, Bristol; amalgamated with Purcell Miller Tritton c2008 but survives as distinct office of Purcell;
(1978-9 conv No 35 King St, Bristol to offices;
(1980 new Riding School for disabled, Lawrence Weston, Bristol;
(1992 renov Nos 9-11 Market St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, for BoA Preservation Trust;
(1992 Cathedral & Quay car park, Exeter, Devon; RIBA Regional Award 1993;
2009 The Hyde conference centre, Dillington House, Som; HGS 269; Tim Rolt and Dan Talkes of Niall Phillips Architects (Purcell, Miller Tritton by end of project); plaque;
PHIPPS, CHARLES JOHN. Bath & 26 Macklenburgh Sq London. 1835-97. AEBTD; Architect, theatre specialist son of John Rashleigh Phipps of Lansdown, Bath. Articled Wilson & Fuller qv until 1857, set up in Bath 1858, at Cornhill, London, 1863-7 and then at Mecklenburgh Sq 1867-97. FSA, FRIBA. Advisory architect to Theatre Royal Drury Lane for 15 yrs, exh RA 1863-97, designed business premises, blocks of flats, the Devonshire Club, St James St, London, the Carlton hotel as part of same block as Her Majesty's Theatre carried out and modified after his death by his son in law and partner A. Blomfield Jackson (1868-1951). Doyen of theatre architects for thirty years, built or altered: alts Theatre Royal Bath 1863; alts Theatre Royal Nottingham 1865; Theatre Royal South Shields 1865; alts Theatre Royal Brighton 1866; Prince's Theatre Bristol 1867; Royal Swansea 1867; alts Queen's Long Acre London 1867; Gaiety1868; Variety Hoxton 1869; Vaudeville 1870; Gaiety Dublin 1871; Tivoli Aberdeen (with JM Matthews) 1872; Theatre Royal Edinburgh 1873; alts Theatre Royal Portsmouth 1874; alts Theatre Royal Worcester 1875; alts Theatre Royal Dumfries 1876; alts Theatre Royal Dunfermline 1876; Opera house cork 1877; Opera House Leicester 1877; Royal Opera House londonderry 1877; alts Theatre Royal Worcester 1878; Rotunda Liverpool 1878; alts Sadlers Wells 1879; alts Theatre Royal Haymarket 1880; Theatre Royal Glasgow 1880; alts Princess's theatre 1880; Savoy 1881; Theatre royal Belfast 1881; Gaiety Hastings 1882; alts Strand 1882; Theatre Royal Leamington 1882; Lyceum Edinburgh 1883; Hippodrome Eastbourne 1883; alts Olympic 1883; alts Theatre Royal Edinburgh 1884; Theatre Royal Northampton 1884; alts Theatre Royal portsmouth 1884; Prince of Wales 1884; alts London Palladium 1884; alts Lyceum london 1885; Theatre Royal Exeter 1885; alts Vaudeville London 1887; Theatre Royal Darlington 1887; alts Theatre Royal Northampton 1887; alts Theatre Royal Torquay 1888; Lyric London 1888; Shaftesbury London 1888; Garrick London (with W Emden) 1889; Empire Devonport 1890; alts Theatre Royasl glasgow 1890; alts Toole's london 1890; alts Vaudeville 1890; Daly's london 1893; Grand Wolverhampton 1894; Pavilion Whitechapel (w E Runtz) 1894; alts Theatre Royal Glasgow 1895; Her Majesty's London 1897; Royal Hippodrome Dover 1897; alts County Kingston 1897; alts Opera house Coventry 1898; Holloway Empire 1899; cf Mackintosh & Sell eds. Curtains!!!, 1982;
1860 alts Racecourse, Lansdown, Bath, Som, WI 29.12.59 weighing room and covered stand for the Duke (?of Beaufort)'s party, stewards and friends, to be built by spring 1860; grandstand to be altered DWG 29.12.59 from Bath Journal;
(1860 2nd pr Drinking Fountain, Boston, Lincs; CHP of Bristol; Br 18 572;
(1861-2 Pewsey Cemetery, Wilts; 1st pr 1861 RHH; WBR 1862;)
(1861 Cox Memorial drinking fountain, by St James ch, Devizes, Wilts DWG 13.6.61, to be built; CJP of Bath;
1862-3 alts Theatre Royal, Bath, Som; 1st pr 1862 RHH; Br 20 608; auditorium completely rebuilt.
1864 Militia Stores, Bath, Som, for Second Somerset County Militia, ref TC 13.4.64 to better plans by CE Davis being put aside for cheaper ones by Phipps; Sir A Elton said that Phipps initial costing had proved false now £5817, higher than £5800 of Mr Davis's costings; plans in Pinney MSS, SRO DD\PI/16/1;
1865 comp entr Forum House Hotel & Baths, Bath, Som; RHH; Br 23, 26, 99, 299;
(1867 Prince’s Theatre, Park Row, Bristol; dem; Gomme;
(1872 1st pr Tiverton Land Co estate, Devon; RHH;
(1872 School and house, Lea, Wilts; WBR;
(1873 adds Pewsey School, Wilts; WBR; school by GE Street qv 1861-3;
(1879 reblt Lea ch, Wilts; WBR, GJ Phipps BoE;
(1887 Ref to a summons against Mr Phipps over burning of theatre in Exeter, Devon, WG 30.9.1887; Theatre Royal, Exeter, 1887, by Phipps;
PICK EVERARD Leicester. Architects, engineers; Taunton office under Rod Burton
2007-8 West Somerset District Council Offices, Williton, Som; £3m;
PICKFORD, A. C. Balham, London.
1923 2nd pr Memorial Buildings, Taunton School, Som; PC 142;
PICTOR, ARTHUR JOHN. Architect FRIBA; Bruton and Bath. 1861-1938. Born Box, Wiltshire, articled James Hicks of Redruth (1877-81), improver with JP Seddon qv 1883, travelled abroad then joined Arnold Thorne in Barnstaple, Devon, then worked for CJ Marshall until 1889, before rejoining Thorne, RL; qualified 1894, moved to Bruton and worked for TO Bennet & Sons in Bruton, land agents, before starting own practice there in 1895 but Bennett, Pictor & Co, listed as land agents, architects, agents to Railway Passengers Assurance Co, High St, Bruton and Sunny Hill, Pitcombe, in Kelly 1906; Diocesan Surveyor 1912-19 RL2 66; died 29.11.38; architect to Sunny Hill Girls School, Bruton 1900-39 according to school history ‘Gleam flying over’ by D Parsons (DP); in Bruton WWinA 1926 but practice at 14 Queen Sq, Bath 1931 dir; Pictor’s successor at Sunny Hill c1938 was called Hamilton. The firm of Snailum & Pictor may be with WW Snailum of Trowbridge +1934 or his son Terence Walter Snailum (1904-95); later Pictor & Snailum (P&S) c1945, then Pictor, Snailum & Hutchings Abbey Chambers, Bath, 1949, WBR2; Arthur Robert D Pictor 1890-1954 was son and presumably partner in later firms with Terence Walter Snailum;
Probably connected with Pictor family of Box, Wilts. William Smith Pictor owner of extensive Bath stone quarries near Box and Corsham, Wilts, 1847-90, lived at Pickwick House, Corsham, 1871 census, founder member of Bath Stone Firms, 1887, his brother Cornelius, manager, Alan Pictor manager from 1932;
(1896-7 United Free Methodist chapel, High St, Box, Wilts, WT 13.2.97 adjacent to previous chapel which became schoolrooms; AJP of Bruton architect, contactor Sawyer of Box; and AJP built adjacent schoolroom 1906-7;
1900 Sunny Hill Girls’ School, Pitcombe, Bruton, Som; Kelly 1906, £4000 for Bruton Girls School Co; T Hobbs Builder;
1901 Adds Hadspen House, Pitcombe, Som; NW wing with billiard-room on gr floor also probably alts to entrance hall and staircase; also NE wing 1909; but Robert Dunning says plans at house for N additions 1886 by Waller Son & Wood qv and Pictor work all dates from 1920;.
1910? Alts Godminster Manor, Bruton, Som; DoE; probably also the rebuilt after fire c1924, mostly removed in 1999-2006 work by Donald Insall Associates
1909 adds Hadspen, Pitcombe, Som, for H Hobhouse; NE wing with garden room on ground floor; also NW wing with ballroom or billiard-room c1901; Dr R O’Donnell HBC report 1988; also interior alts? Arch from hall to drawing-room, drawing-room fireplace, staircase, dining-room niches and fireplace?; but Robert Dunning says N range added 1886 by Waller, Son & Wood qv, and Pictor work was only in 1920;
1912 roof repairs, Shepton Montague ch, Som; ICBS;
1912 adds Sunny Hill Girls School, Pitcombe, Som; DP; Hobbs & Hill bldrs;
1913 ?add to New House, King’s School, Bruton, Som; attrib; new dining-hall;
1913 Public Library, Bruton, Som; inf J Bishton;
1916 ?Sanatorium, Sunny Hill Girls School, Pitcombe, Som; DP;
1919 unex alts Marksdanes, Bruton, Som, inc unex garden by Gertrude Jekyll; for Mrs Torrance, cf F Gunn, The Lost Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll;
1919-24 Memorial Building, Kings School, Bruton, Som; opened 19.6.24; including hall, library and museum; design in library;
1920 War Memorial churchyard cross, Bruton ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1920/25; dedicated 20/10/20; design in Bruton Library;
1920 Work at Hadspen House, Som; inf robert Dunning; but cf 1901 and 1909;
1921 War Memorial cross, Wedmore ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/192/72.
1930 alts chancel St Paul ch, Bath, Som, by AJP of 14 Queen Sq, Bath
1936-8 Day School, Sunny Hill Girls School, Pitcombe, Som; DP; but plaque says by AJ Proctor 1938;
(1940 bungalow, Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; plans WRO G13/760/ 340, P&S;
(1945 bungalow, Elms Cross, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WRO G13/760/ 362;
(1945-8 Laboratories, Kingston Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; plans WRO G13/760/??? P&S dated 1945, building opened 1948 on centenary of Moulton Rubber Co; but Alex Moulton remembered research building being by GD Gordon Hake of Bristol qv, Guardian Angel 51 2006;
(1949 alts The Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR2;cf also GD Gordon Hake)
Possible houses altered between wars: Suddon Grange Wincanton (no altered by Petter & Warren); Suddon House Wincanton; Balsam House Wincanton for Rev DR Pelly owner c1935;
PICTOR, ARTHUR ROBERT D. Architect, Bruton, ARIBA, WWinA 1926, 1890-1954; son of Arthur Pictor qv
PIERCE, ROBERT SIDNEY 1911-89. Born Ruthin, joint surveyor to Shepton Mallet RDC with William Lintern 1935-8; RL;
PIESS, JAMES builder, Bristol. Bath acc to RL2 65.
1868 rest Carhampton ch tower, Som; SRO cf/1868/1; but design probably by JP St Aubyn qv;
1868 rest Kilmington ch, Som (now Wilts); SRO cf/1868/3;
PIKE, CHARLES WILLIAM Dorchester
(1963-5 reps Poyntington ch, Dorset; ICBS;)
PINCH – One of Pinch family, architect (and son of an architect) who subsequently became a brewer in Kingsmead St, Bath, according to obituary of his son Frederick Pinch, clerk BC 3.9.96;
PINCH, CHARLES 21 Henrietta St Bath, son of John Pinch Jr (1796-1849), living at father's address in 1849; but another Charles Pinch was aged 44 in 1851 census, living at 4 Rochford Place 1854, later address of William Pinch qv in 1868 AEBTD; cf Robert Bennett article on John Pinch Sr in Bath History;
1850-1 Tatworth ch, Som; 1840-52 ICBS; 1851 BoES, GR; Maurice Davis contr;
PINCH, JOHN Sr Bath c1770-1827. Builder, architect, 1793 surveyor Pulteney estate in Bath after bankruptcy of Thomas Baldwin for whom he may already have been working, bankrupt after 1800, but worked for Henrietta Laura Pulteney +1808, career really restarted after 1808 as surveyor to her heir WH Vane, 3rd E of Darlington later 1st D of Cleveland in developing Bathwick; from c1819 worked with son John Pinch Jr qv 1796-1849 who helped his father on ‘two new churches, the houses in New Sydney Place and some gentlemen’s seats’ acc to a letter 1823; HC; brief obit BC 14.3.27, Robert Bennet article on Pinch in Bath History (RB); lived from 1795 to 1803 at 12 Chatham Row, bankruptcy sale of building materials 1804, moved yard to Spring Gardens c1804, there in 1809 dir; 1819 and 1824 dirs have Pinch & Son architects at 27 St James Parade, 1826 dir at 2 Duke St; buried with wife Martha and sons John and Charles qqv in Bathwick old cemetery, daughters Eliza born 1794, aged 82 in 1876, Harriet baptised 1798,
c1793-4 houses, Northampton St, Bath; HC from Francis Kelly CL 6.11.1980; commenced by Baldwin, finished by Manners, Pinch signature on several of the deeds, RB 1791-1805;
1795 Richmond Hill, Bath terrace of eight three-storey houses, deeds signed by JP, RB; possibly by JP, SNB;
1796 advert BC 30.6.96 apply John Pinch architect, 12 Chatham Row, sale of two newly built houses, one in Great Pulteney Street and one in Sydney Place, also a house in Chatham Row lately undergone thorough repair, and several newly built houses in Northampton St and Arundel Place (late Hamilton's gardens);
1802 repaired N side Pulteney Bridge, Bath, after 1802 RB,
1804-8 New Sydney Place, Bath, SNB; 1807-8 HC; work began 1804, built during 1807 and offered for sale 1808, RB; design ill RB 96; eleven houses, some signed leases;
1805 Johnstone St, Bath short street off Great Pulteney St, built largely to Thomas Baldwin designs of 1790, RB;
1805? Rockfield House, Nunney, RB; c1804-5 SNB;
1808-15 Cavendish Place, Bath; RB 1808-16 thirteen houses;
1808 houses upper end Park St, Bath, RB, part of Cavendish Place development; Park Place is also attributed by RB;
1810 Daniel St, Bath, apart from Nos 35-7, SNB; 36 houses and pub, RB; HC;
1813 unex plan Assembly Room & George Hotel, Frome, Som; Frome museum; SNB says present Natwest Bank was built as Assembly Rooms c1819-21 probably by JP Sr but possibly by Jeffry Wyatt or GA Underwood qqv; RL gives c1830 date and JP Jr for Natwest. George Hotel is separate building, 1754-5 refronted c1874; assembly room and stables adjoining the George Inn, drawn and signed by JP but unex, RB;
1813-24 Darlington Place, Bath; RB four-storey houses
(1814 attrib adds Corsley House, Wilts for Nathaniel Barton, with J Pinch Jr (unlikely as aged 16) WBR2; staircase ironwork similar to Bishopstrow House;
(1814-16 Hungerford ch, Berks, HC;
1817 Claremont Place, Bath four pairs semi-detached houses, RB; attrib SNB;
1817-19 Hampton Row, Bath, SNB;
1817-20 Sion Hill Place, Bath; HC; RB nine houses, begun 1818, complete in 1820;
(1817-21 Bishopstrow House, Wilts; VCH; HC; 1817 for William Temple, RB;
1817-20 Cleveland House, Bath, over Kennet & Avon Canal as HQ of canal company; 1820, RB, JP named in deeds;
1817-20 St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; HC; FS dated 1814 and plans dated 1814, RB, consecrated 1820; plans illustrated in guidebook by Rev R Prentis 1973 are said to be dated 1817, foundations completed 1814, £14,000, tower 125';
1817-30 Cavendish Cres, Bath; HC; 1815, RB, not completed for many years due to bankruptcy of William Bloom, the developer;
1818-25 Raby Place, Bath, RB, begun 1818, complete 1825; 1825 HC;
(1819 Hoare mausoleum, Stourton churchyard, Wilts; this is the Georgian Gothic canopy over tomb of Sir Richard Colt Hoare +1838, erected by Sir richard in 1819, the marble sarcophagus ordered from Fratelli Pisani, florence in 1820; c1817 Colt Hoare re-erected similar canopy, now gone over tombs of Henry Hoare and wife outside E end of the church and replaced their eroded tomb chests with neoclassical sarcophagi;
c1819-21 attrib Assembly Room, Frome, Som, as JP had made unex plans see 1813 above; SNB says present Natwest Bank was built as Assembly Rooms c1819-21 probably by JP Sr but possibly by Jeffry Wyatt or GA Underwood qqv; RL gives c1830 date and JP Jr for Natwest. Alts 1920-3 by Oatley & Lawrence qv;
1820 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath; MF; begun 1820, SNB; c1825 attributed, RB;
1820 Spa Villa, No 9 Bathwick Hill, Bath; HC from estate agent's brochure 1982 citing signed plan among deeds; originally octagonal;
1820c Nos 1-8 George St, Bathwick Hill, Bath; SNB;
c1820 St Mary's Buildings, Wells Rd, Bath; SNB; RB, no date, plans signed by JP with owners;
1822 rebuilt top of St John ch tower, Glastonbury, Som; according to chur guide ‘by Pinch’; VCH just mentions a survey in 1823 by either John Pinch Sr or Jr SRO D/P/gla.j/ 9/1/2; Thomas Hutchings qv built vestry screen and altar screen in 1823;
1824 Nos. 1-8 Darlington Place, Bathwick Hill, Bath; SNB; 1813-24 four-storey houses, RB;
1824 Cumberland Villa, 2 Bathwick Hill, Bath, RB, drawings with Lord Barnard at Raby Castle; simila to Spa villa;
1824-5 alts Twerton ch, Bath; enlarged, HC, AF text, rebuilt by GP Manners except medieval tower in 1839; ICBS;
1824-5 Nos 1-5 Bathwick Hill, Bath; SNB; Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 Bathwick Hill, Bath and 1-3 Sion Place, RB, drawings from Darlington estate office are signed JP but this may be a countersigning initials, RB; Sion Place 1826 an incomplete stepped terrace by JP Sr, SNB;
1824 Nos 1-8 Bathwick Hill, Bath; SNB; ?Darlington Place
1824-6 United Hospital, Beau St, Bath; HC; opened 1826 RB;
1825 Raby Terrace, Bath;
1826 Sion Place, Bathwick Hill, Bath; an incomplete stepped terrace SNB; RB with Nos 1-5 Bathwick Hill, drawings initialled JP;
1827c Rochefort Place, Bathwick Street, Bath, terrace of four; SNB;
1827 Willow House, No 6 Bathwick Hill, Bath, RB, plans completed just before JP's death;
1827 Nos 39-40 Bathwick Hill, Bath; AF text
1827 nos 36-37 Bathwick Hill, Bath; AF text
Attributed
1810 Winifred's Dale, Bath, semi-detached pair of villas;
(1814 attrib adds Corsley House, Wilts for Nathaniel Barton, with J Pinch Jr (unlikely as aged 16) WBR2; staircase ironwork similar to Bishopstrow House; RB from H Grice, History of Corsley House;
1820 Nos. 1-6 Cambridge Place, Widcombe Hill Bath; RB attrib by W Ison;
(1820 Sturford Mead, Corsley, Wilts; for similarity to Corsley House; for HA Fussell;
c1820 The Chantry, Chantry, Som, for James Fussell IV, HGS 157; M Girouard in CL 1.6.1961; marked on 1822 map; c1820-2 SNB;
1820s Camden Terrace and Lower Camden Place, Bath, attrib RB; two terraces; early C19 possibly by JP, SNB;
1829-31 St Saviour ch, Larkhall, Bath by J Pinch Jun qv; MH Port, Commissioners churches; RB design certainly by JP Sen as proposals and plans date from 1824; SNB probably to JP Sen design, £10,600, a plan approved in 1824 was Greek Doric;
Undated Bailbrook Lodge, 35-7 London Rd West, Bath by JP&Son; AF text;
PINCH, JOHN Jr Architect, Bath c1796-1849; HC; son of John Pinch Sr qv +1827, firm first became Pinch & Son, architects and surveyors in 1819 dir; helped his father on ‘two new churches, the houses in New Sydney Place and some gentlemen’s seats’ according to letter 1823; applied for County Surveyor of Somerset post 1830; R Bennet article on John Pinch Sen in Bath History (RB) records baptism of a second John Pinch aged 2 in 1798, the previous one in 1795 presumably died; firm was at 2 Duke St, 1827, then after death of father, son moved to 21 Henrietta St, there to 1849, when son Charles Pinch qv architect was also there.
(1814 attr adds Corsley House, Wilts with J Pinch Sr; WBR2; ?no evidence
(1823 The Nunnery, Isle of Man; HC)
1826 ?Higher Farmhouse, Chilton Cantelo, Som; inf Stephen Bartlett, Hinton Fm, Chilton Cantelo; for Maria Goodford;
1828-31 Midsomer Norton ch, Som; ICBS 1828-31; FS BC 16.10.28, - Parfitt of Midsomer Norton contr;
1829-31 St Saviour ch, Larkhall, Bath; cf MH Port Commissioners churches; RB design certainly by JP Sen; SNB probably to JP Sen design;
1829-31 galleries, Chard ch, Som; Simeon Styles of Chard contr; ICBS; Styles had in 1827-9 produced own plan for gallery; not in HC; RL;
1830 Library, Queen Sq, Bath, Som; centre of W side;
1832 Weston ch, Bath; ICBS; BoE N;
1834 N aisle, Batheaston ch, Som; HC;
(1835 toll-house, Upton Lovell, Wilts; WBR2; William Trapp builder
1836 top storey, Sydney Hotel, Bath, Som;
(1836 adds Grittleton ch, Wilts; HC; WBR)
1837-8 Downside ch, Som; ICBS; with CR Wainwright surveyor qv; RL;
1839 Paulton ch, Som; exc tower; ICBS; BoE N;
1839 Lomond House, 35 Bathwick Hill, Bath; attrib AFtext;
(1839 plans conv brewery, Limpley Stoke, Wilts; sale ad WI 13.6.39, sale of dwelling house with grounds to river and extensive buildings where brewing and malting business was carried out, which owner intended to convert to cottages and plans made by Mr Pinch, available to buyer; ?Weir House had brewery adjoining;
(c1840 Compton House, Over Compton, Dorset; Tudor; lithograph;
1840 St Mary’s Schools, Henrietta Rd, Bath; NoB;
1842 to let standings at Milsom Street Bazaar, Bath being converted from soiree and lecture rooms with shop on ground floor, plate glass will be introduced in the windows of the large rooms and everyfacility offered to .. artificers for displaying their wares in this great Leading Thoroughfare apply Mr Pinch architect 21 Henrietta St; BC 9.6.42
1842 rest Camerton ch, Som, plans by JP, app form and certif signed by GS Repton; ICBS; not in HC;
1843-4 Farrington Gurney ch, Som; Norman; ICBS 1842-8;
1850? SE wing Chilton House, Chilton Cantelo, Som, for Maria Goodford; inf Stephen Bartlett, Hinton Farm.
(1855 1st pr Blandford Forum Cemetery, Dors; RHH; Br 13, 382;
? alts Workhouse, Chippenham, nd, WBR, Mr Pinch, surveyor, Bath;
PINCH, WILLIAM Architect, 4 Rochford Place, Bath AEBTD 1868. Probably son (or brother?) of John Pinch Jr as living with widow Elizabeth in 1851 census, then aged 21; R Bennet article on John Pinch Sen in Bath history; Charles Pinch qv was at same address in 1854 dir;
PINCH, WILLIAM JOHN. London. Presumably one of the Bath family.
(1855 1st pr Weymouth Cemetery, Dorset; RHH;
PINCHARD, C. H. BIDDULPH see CH Biddulph-Pinchard
PINCKNEY, ALFRED BASKETT FRIBA retired to Bathford Som WwinA 1926
PINFOLD, C. Architect Office of Works, born 1907, did Post Offices in Chippenham Wilts, Exeter Devon, etc in 1950s;
PINKER, -
1864 ?Mar Lodge, Hallam Rd, Clevedon blt by or for – Pinker in back garden of Alexandra Ho, now Mowbray, Elton Rd; Lilly Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
PINNEY, Messrs J. G. Architects, mentioned re building, ?where, with master's house, terraces and roads complete, SCG 14.9.1878
PINVOLD, JAMES see James Penvold
PIPER WHALLEY & PARTERS
1962 House, Peasedown St John, Som; 1965 House Plans;
1963 House, Chilcompton, Som; ill in 1964-5 Bungalow Plans;
PITE, ARTHUR BERESFORD 1861-1934 Architect, London. Son of Arthur Robert Pite qv of Habershon & Pite qv, articled to Habershon & Fawckner 1876 and to his father 1881. ASG. Brother of William Alfred Pite architect 1860-1949.
1925 Chapel, Monkton Combe School, nr Bath, Som; ASG 286; H&F; BoE N by Pite & JS Hodges;
PITMAN, ANDREW
1974-5 Church room, Yatton, Som; AFtext;
PITT, STEPHEN. 1775-1848. Cousin of William and Thomas Pitt qqv. Possibly an Admiral (BoE) but no evidence yet found. Family at Cricket Malherbie since Matthew Pitt in C16.
1811 attrib Cricket Court, Cricket Malherbie, Som, for himself; c1820 BoES; but Chris Webster has found that house is not on 1838 tithe map;
PITT, THOMAS 1st Baron Camelford. 1737-93; HC; son of Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc elder brother of William Pitt the elder, so Wm Pitt's nephew, MP Old Sarum 1761, baron 1784. Designed garden ornaments inc Gothic cottage and bridge at Park Place, Henley, 1763, Palladian Bridge, Hagley, Worcs, 1764, Corinthian Arch, Stowe, 1765-6, and possibly S front of Stowe, 1772-7. Also alts to Boconnoc and Camelford House, London, 1771, for himself. Furnishings Carlisle Cathedral 1765.
1755-7 attrib Palladian Bridge, Prior Park, Bath, Som, for R Allen; HGS 98; but he was only 18 yrs old and at Cambridge 1754-9, still possible; T Mowl links bridge with William Pitt becoming MP for Bath, 1757.
(1763-4 Palladian Bridge, Hagley, Worcs; T Mowl, Palladian Bridges, not mentioned BoE)
PITT, WILLIAM the Elder, Prime Minister. Earl of Chatham and Viscount Pitt of Burton Pynsent Som 1766. +1778. Pitt was praised for his architectural skill in 1755 by brother-in-law Earl Temple who in 1749 called him ‘master of the lakemaker and the lake’ implying involved with lake at Stowe, Bucks. Pitt built a Temple of Pan 1747-52 at South Lodge, Enfield, his own house.
1765-7 ?designed addition to Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Som, for himself, built by John Ford qv of Bath; SC notes; also garden design and garden buildings, cf HGS 109-11. Garden buildings unlikely to be by Capability Brown: there were a Pan’s House, a portico, an arch, Blackbird Haunt, French’s House, French’s Seat, and Sheep House. Pitt paid Brown’s surveyor John Spyers £10 in 1774 for unknown work. Acircular temple was sold from Burton Pynsent c1804 and re-erected at Wadeford house, Combe St Nicholas.
1765-7 ?revised design of Pynsent Column, Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel, Som, by Lancelot Brown, HGS 109-111; CL 10.9.1987; finished 1767, Philip Pear of Curry Rivel bldr, RL2 63; Follies Journal 7 2007 41-55: John Ford of Bath mason; Column design possibly altered by Pitt substituting urn for statue of Gratitude, HGS 108, or was Gratitude statue put up and urn a later alteration by Pinney family?
PITTARD, HENRY Builder, Langport, took over Maurice Davis business, by 1914 also at 7 Unity St, Bristol, as Henry Pittard & Son. Pittards were family of builders from Curry Rivel.
1890 Mr Pittard, Langport, appointed architect by Market Committee of Town Trust, ? where, TC 10.12 and 17.12.90;
1899 Alts Stuckeys Banks, Burnham and Highbridge, Som; natwest archives; P&Son;
1914 Contrs The Bowling Green, Milborne Port, Som; G Dawber qv archt; AA 1914 I 26-27; HP&Son;
PITTARD, JOHN Mason Somerton see Chislet & Pittard.
PIZEY, JOHN R. Bristol. See Drake & Pizey. Born c1859, aged 42 1901 census, then at 8 Duchess Rd, Bristol, and with practice in Clevedon, Som, (inf David Martyn).
PLEASS, S. & J. Builders Samuel and John Pleass
1880 Bldrs with Edwin Gardiner of a cottage, Lees, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som; WH Grease archt; DD/DP/72/3
PLINCKE, LEAMAN & BROWNING Architects, Winchester; see K Leaman
1992-3 repairs Rook Lane Chapel, Frome for SBPT;
POLLARD, -
1845 renov tower, Huish Episcopi ch, Som; PSANHS 40 1894 86; well done by ‘a workman named Pollard’; removed 2-foot spearheads from each pinnacle; the architect was probably Maurice Davis qv, SAS;
POLLARD, -. Frome. A Pollard 'of Frome' built the front piece to the Shambles in Devizes, Wilts, in 1835 (or 1838), but directories 1838-9 have no Pollard in Frome at the date; Pollard & Son fl 1833;
(1835 Market Hall, Devizes, Wilts; BoE; WBR; 1839, Kelly 1867, VCH: new Market House 1791-3 finished by 1803, butchers' shambles roofed in 1838 and two buildings fused; Watlen, History of Devizes 576 )
POLLARD, Taunton Builders. Three sons of George Pollard Sen 1767-1838, Samuel Knight Pollard qv 1808-79, George 1816-69, and James Pollard qv born 1817 (?a William Pollard) built the Workhouse, Taunton 1837-8 by Sampson Kempthorne; took over Marble & Stone Works, Tone Bridge, Taunton, in 1846; RL 2 32.
1837-8 built the Workhouse, Taunton to design by by Sampson Kempthorne; TC 28.8.36; partly dem;
POLLARD & CO Builders Taunton George Pollard & Co, see George Heudebrouk Pollard
POLLARD & SON. ?George Pollard Sen of Taunton and one of sons.
1833 unsucc tender reseating North Curry ch, Som, and alts; R Carver archt; Olivey N Curry 1901 196;
POLLARD BROTHERS, Taunton partnership of Samuel Knight Pollard qv and George Pollard Jun qv as builders and stone and marble masons, dissolved 1848; took over Marble & Stone Works, Tone Bridge, Taunton, in 1846; RL 2 32;
POLLARD, CALEB Builder. Architect, Washford; Kelly 1889;
1874 Schoolhouse, Luxborough, Som, for AG Lethbridge; SRO DD/DP/72/3
1874 alts Poole Farmhouse, Luxborough, Som, for AG Lethbridge; SRO DD/DP/72/3
POLLARD, GEORGE Taunton builder 1767-1838 apprenticed John Boutcher, carpenter, builder, married Mary Knight, West Monkton, 1804. Trustee later Deacon of Paul St C chapel; RL SAS; obit TC 28.3.38 died aged 71, sons Samuel Knight Pollard 1808-79, George Pollard Jun 1819-69 also perhaps James Pollard born 1817;
1813 New house, Canon St, Taunton, Som TC 24.6.13;
1814 alts Gaol, Shuttern, Taunton; Crighton TFS 140; SAS;
1815-16 Shuttern toll-house, Taunton, Som, for Taunton Turnpike Trust; to cost less than £400; GP paid £30 Sept 1816 ‘in respect of the stone cornice’; LSYH 99; Gothic, much altered as Eye Hospital in mid C19; sold 1853;
1833 unsucc tender reseating North Curry ch, Som, and alts; R Carver archt; Pollard & Son; Olivey N Curry 1901 196;
POLLARD, GEORGE Junior Taunton 1816-69, son of George Pollard Sen, married Phoebe Heudebourck, whose sister married his brother Samuel Knight Pollard qv; partner with Samuel Knight Pollard as builders, marble and stone works, took over Marble & Stone Works, Tone Bridge, Taunton, in 1846; RL 2 32; dissolved 1848, and business continued by George alone; trustee of Independent College 1865; died at Grassendale, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, business continued by son George Heudebourck Pollard 1844-1924;
1851-3 Barn, Cothelstone Manor, Som, by Mr Pollard; steam engine by Parsons of Martock added 1858; DJ Hinton, Bishops Lydeard Revisited, 50; possibly James Pollard, SAS:
1855-7 builder, Shire Hall, Taunton, Som, by WB Moffatt; RL; TC 15.8.55; 1861 dir;
1856 British School, South St, Taunton DD/EDS/1136; SAS;
1856-7 builder, 1-5 Park St, Taunton, CE Giles architect; SAS;
1862 C chapel, Puriton, Som, Memories of a Somerset Village, Puriton, 1978;
(1862-4 contractor, Joint Counties Asylum, Carmarthen, Carms; by D Brandon, £24,950; bankrupted;
1864 Pitt Farm, West Buckland, Som, house and outbuildings for AW Adair; SRO DD/DP/72/3 also Heatherton Farm, Bradford on tone;
1864 House and outbuildings, Heatherton Farm, Bradford on Tone, Som; for AW Adair; contract SRO DD/DP/72/3; dwelling-house, stable, roof-house, linhay and implement shed at Heatherton;
(1864 Gave lowest tender for tower & choir restoration of St Davids Cathedral, Pembs, (GG Scott) but not used, Wood & Son of Worcester employed.
18?? Grassendale and Tone Lodge, 53-55 Staplegrove Rd, Taunton for self and mother; TC 11.12.1878, SAS;
POLLARD, GEORGE HEUDEBOURCK. Taunton, Builder, timber merchant, 1844-1924, son of George Pollard Jun 1816-69, grandson of George Pollard Sen 1767-1838; took over father's timber business George Pollard & Co Ltd, timber merchants and builders merchants in 1870, also ran brickworks at Bishops Hull, SAS; The Timber Yard, Wood St, Taunton, 1906; died in Bournemouth, 1924;
1871 Four houses, W end Sydney Terrace, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton; SRO DD/DP/68/4; Nos. 41-7 Sydney Terrace, probably remainder of Sydney Terrace, Nos. 29-39 and No 41 (Northbrook Lodge), but they may have been built before 1869 by G Pollard Jun; SAS;
1875 new front Bragg’s shop, The Parade, Taunton, Som, corner to Hammet St; D/B/ta/24/1/302;
1903 alts Castle Hotel, Taunton; ?? architect; Pollard & Co, Taunton, builders, TC 7.10.03;
1920 agreement with Somerset CC for building works all over county; GP&Co (GP&Sons??) inc cotts and farms Clevedon Court estate; new cotts Donyatt, Manor Farm Thornfalcon, Locking, Larkhill, Barton St David, Staplegrove, Cheddar, Abbey Farm Old Cleeve, Butsons Farm Thorne St Margaret; conversion of Lopen Manor fmho; alts to cotts at Compton Durville, S Petherton, at Dimmer nr Castle Cary, Henley Manor Crewkerne; new house at Churchill Park; bridge over River Brue at Butt Moor Glastonbury etc etc; SRO A\BNK/3/89;
1922 two houses, Mount Nebo, Taunton, Som; brick and roughcast with gables and canted bays; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/894;
POLLARD, HENRY WILLIAM, Builder 22 Monmouth St, Bridgwater; 1848-1922 1906 Kelly. Many times Mayor, 1893-1911, in 1911 laid FS of magistrates court 3.8.11 (plaque). Photo Bridgwater Images of England 1998 121. Firm est 1860 by father William Weaver Pollard qv with office in Eastover and yard in Church St, moved to Monmouth St. Son Herbert Henry Pollard 1881-1963 joined HWP in 1906, son William Cyril Pollard (born 1889) in 1924, firm was Henry W Pollard & Sons aftert c1912; Hugh Pollard joined in 1950, family bought out 1997, firm still exists 2011 as Pollard, Monmouth St, Bridgwater, cf website;
1880 adds Starkey Knight & Ford warehouses, Monmouth St, Bridgwater, Down & Son architects; SAS; A/CMY/34;
1881 builder YMCA, Eastover, Bridgwater, £2490;
1886-90 alts Starkey Knight & Ford Northgate Brewery, Bridgwater, Arthur Kinder qv architect; Br 1889a 418; PP;
1887 builder alts East Huntspill ch; HF Price architect; £160; WG 16.9.87;
1888 builder, two houses Poplar estate, Burnham on Sea Sansom & Cottam architects A/CMY/525;
1889-90 rest Trull ch, Som; JH Spencer architect; TC 26.2.90;
1890 builder five shops, Taunton between St James St and Tone Bridge, for ET Howard qv TC 12.8.91;
1890 Swimming Baths, Bridgwater 1890 AJC Scoles qv architect; Squibbs; SAS;
1892-7 builder Tone Vale Hospital, Cotford near Bishop's Lydeard, Som;
Somerset & Bath Mental Hospital, John giles, Gough & Trollope architects qv; RHH;
1892 Rebuilt Croad & Brown oil-cake mills Bridgwater Docks after fire;
1895-7 builder St Michael ch, Yeovil JN Johnston qv architect, woodwork Harry Hems; SAS; church guide;
1897 builder West Huntspill Board School, Som; Br 22.1.98; AB Cottam architect;Sansom & Cottam A/CMY/532; VCH; SAS;
1897 builder Van Heusen Collar factory, Bailey St, Bridgwater;
1898 builder Pen Mill Board Schools, Yeovil, 1898 JN Johnston architect; archiseek;
1898 store and workshop for HW Pollard, Monmouth St, Bridgwater, Sansom & Cottam architects, SAS A/CMY/216;
1898 builder Starkey Knight & Ford bonded store, Blake St/ Mill St, Bridgwater, Sansom & Cottam architects; PP; SAS;
19?? builder lifeboat ho and Knightstone Pavilion, Weston s Mare;
1904 builder Triscombe House, W Bagborough, Som; E Newton architect; BN 28.7.1905; RIBAD; ASG; burnt 2002 and rebuilt 2007 by Pollard;
1905 Two villas Wembdon Rd, Bridgwater D/R/Bw/22/1/2/47;
Henry W. Pollard & Sons Ltd:
1911 built Constitutional Club, Station Rd, Castle Cary, Som; VCH; opened 28.9.11 £1500; Castle Cary & Ansford 2002 41;
1912 builders Council School for Boys, Watery Lane Minehead, by Andrew & Hosegood qv, SRO school plans C/CA/
1913-14 built Infants School, Princess St, Burnham by Samson and Colthurst qv
1922-3 built Willoughby Cleeve, Holford by CH Holden qv architect, D/R/wil/24/1/25;
1928 built house for Frederick Gabbutt qv at Kilve D/R/wil/24/1/58; SAS;
1928 built Cemetery, Bridgwater by Henry Bishop qv;
1928 renovated mission church, Stolford, SA&WQ; SAS;
1929 Built Girls Grammar School, Bridgwater, Som;
1929 built village hall, Stogumber by WD Caroe qv; Stogumber 2000;
1935-6 built Odeon Cinema, Penel Orlieu, Bridgwater; TC Howitt architect;
1937 repairs pier, Watchet harbour by EG Hunt; Tales of Watchet Harbour 2002; ?Pollard of Taunton;
1957 built Blake School, Hamp, Bridgwater; designed by Somerset County Architects dem 2013;
1962 Built PO Sorting office, Friarn St, Bridgwater;
19?? built Westgate House, Bridgwater;
19?? refronted Lloyds Bank Cornhill, Bridgwater;
19?? built private houses, Westleigh Ave and Taunton Rd, Bridgwater;
2003-5 adds Castle School, Taunton; Stone & Partners archts;
2005 Adds Chilton Trinity Coll, Bridgwater; single-storey ?Stone & Partners; 2005 St Mark’s Centre and Construction Trades Building, Bridgwater College, Som; ?Smith Gamblin;
2015-16 adapted Knowle Hall, Bawdrip, Som, for Yew Wah International Education School;website
Also teaching block Richard Huish Coll, Taunton (design & build); performing arts centre Sidcot School; works at Millfield School, Street, inc dorms and headmasters bungalow, Walton House under design & build; adds Timbercombe, Broomfield, Som; adds St John B church, Weston s mare; housing dev Moor Lane, Axbridge; Eastwick Fm sheltered housing, Priorswood, Taunton; Wincanton Sports Pavilion; Cricket Pavilion and Football Pavilion, Millfield School, Street; Millstream Ho, Tangier, Taunton; Youth Centre, Rhode Lane, Bridgwater; Youth Centre Sydenham Bridgwater (Penoyre & Prasad); Oldmixon Surestart centre, Weston s Mare; Clevedon Baptist centre; For All centre, Weston s mare;
POLLARD, JAMES Taunton. Born 1817, son of George Pollard Sen 1767-1838, in practice with brother Samuel Knight Pollard, J&SP; surveyor & inspector to Taunton Local Board of Health 1849-51, unsuccessful candidate for County Surveyor 1857; A Mr Pollard advertises as architect and surveyor, Taunton, in TC 3.12.1845 offering delapidations surveyed and valuing, possibly SK Pollard;
1837-8 builder Workhouse, Chard, Som; dem; G Wilkinson architect;
1839 British School, South St, Taunton, 'reflects great credit on architect Mr Pollard TC 26.6.39; £900, Mr Rice builder; possibly SKP;
1843 C chapel, North St, Taunton, Som; RL 2 32; SAS says by Samuel K Pollard qv whose design is illustrated in chapel history;
1845 schoolrooms, C chapel, Taunton, Som TC 19.11.45, by Mr Pollard, possibly SKP, erected by Messrs Pollard; lecture and assembly room, 51 x 25 ft, two large schoolrooms, minister's vestry, and ten bible class rooms; possibly by SKP?
1847-8 West of England Dissenters Proprietary School, Wellington Road, Taunton, Som; SAS, TC 22.9.47; Proud Century – Taunton School 1948 18 illustration; housed in Wellington Terrace, already built, the addition, for dining-room and schoolroom, was by William Shewbrooks qv, so was James Pollard architect and Shewbrooks the builder? Or vice versa?
1851-3 Barn and linhay, Cothelstone Manor, Som, by Mr Pollard; taken down and rebuilt elsewhere 1856, steam engine by Parsons of Martock added 1858; DJ Hinton, Bishops Lydeard Revisited, 50-2; possibly George Pollard Jun qv:
POLLARD, JOHN Contractor, Totterdown, Bristol. ?related to Taunton and Bridgwater family;
1864-6 contractor Brean Down Fort, Som; Lt Robert Veitch qv supervised; SANHS 145 2003; N van der Bijl, Brean Down Fort, 2000; WFD Jervois overall director of fortifications;
POLLARD, SAMUEL KNIGHT. Taunton. Son of George Polard Sen and Mary Knight; 1808-79; ??partnership with brother James Pollard qv, J&SP; called auctioneer, appraiser in 1830 dir, later architect, engineer & surveyor; partnership with brother George Pollard Jun as builders, marble & stone workers took over Marble & Stone Works, Tone Bridge, Taunton, in 1846; RL 2 32; partnership Pollard Brothers dissolved 25.3.1848; advert TC 23.5.55 architect, surveyor & auctioneer, Middle St, Taunton; founder member of North St C chapel, built 1843, breakaway from Paul St church, commemorated by plaque in North St chapel where he founded Sabbath School; treasurer 1847-66 of Dissenters College, Taunton, trustee from 1865 to whom Fairwater estate was vested pre building new school on the site PC 53-4; AEBTD 1868 at Melville House, 12 Middle St, Taunton; married Caroline d of Rev William Heudebourck in 1832, son William Heudebourck Pollard 1842-1925; George Heudebourck Pollard 1844-1924 qv was nephew, son of his brother George who married Phoebe Heudebourck; died 1879 at Weston s Mare;
1835 Netherleigh, High St, Street for James Clark, by SP, GHS 14, ?error house was extended 1855-7 by SKP;
1843-4 C chapel, North St, Taunton, SAS; SKP was founder member; F Cornish stonemason and builder, who added Sunday School in 1845; Record, North St C church Taunton 1843-1943 illustrates original sketch design by SKP;
1845 Parsonage, Wiveliscombe, Som; gabled mullion & transom ws; SRO D/D/Bbm/94; SP architect & surveyor;
1853 attrib C chapel, High St, Street; SAS quoting JO;
1855-7 add to Netherleigh, 42 High St, Street, Som; RL; plans in Clark archive; house was built 1835 for James Clark and extended 1855 acc to GHS 14 which says original 1835 house was by SP; SAS;
1858 ?Baptist Sunday School, High St, Street, Som; RL; ?error for British School see below;
1858-9 British School, 118 High St, Street; VCH; GHS 43 says wrongly by Thomas Petvin qv Petvin was possibly the builder; SKP signed plans SRO DD/EDS, Thomas Petvin not mentioned though Edwin Petvin witnesses signatures of James and William Bennett and David Brooks, possibly builders; two large schoolrooms, one each floor to front, entrance with stairs and small classroom and teacher’s house behind, these dem for 1892 adds by W Reynolds; SAS; about to be built TC 2.6.58, GHS 137;
1859-60 Nos 2-12 Orchard Rd, Street, Som; RL; plans Clark archive 1859 for row of 12 paired houses. ?only 6 built. GHS 23, Samuel Petvin qv builder;
1860-1 C chapel, Mantle St, Wellington, Som; CYB 1862; RL; Gothic, flint with Bath stone, seats 540, 400 downstairs, 140 in organ/ school gallery, Oriel window over pulpit, 3 windows in apse; £1946; Br 20.7.61 499; TC 3.7.61; SAS 1860-1, Joliffe, Short history of the UR church Wellington, 1980; Allen & Bush, Story of Wellington, 27;
1864-5 B Sunday Schools, South St, Wellington, Som; FS 5.7.64 WWT 7.7.64, SCG July 1864 George Knight Wellington builder, opened 30.5.65, quoted in AL Humphreys, Wellington, 560; Westleigh stone, £1160, 10 classrooms upstairs w access to chapel gallery extended 1907 by Edwin Howard qv; TC 7.6.65;
1865 repairs Mount House, Mount St, Taunton for Mr Symes, court case brought by George Webber qv builder SCG 5.1.67;
1865 report on tower, St James ch, Taunton, Som TC 15.11.65, vestry determined to call upon Mr Pollard, architect; TC 18.4.66; Mr Pollard's plan was rejected, SCG 5.1.67 ref in court case; but SAS says reported on tower with Benjamin Ferrey as consultant and works were carried out 1865-6 by John Spiller qv, however tower was demolished and rebuilt in 1870 by JH Spencer;
1865 plan for Independent College, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, asked by trustees to prepare general plan, but refused to enter comp or hand over plan PC60;
Attrib: C chapel, High St, Street, Som, 1853;
POLLARD, WILLIAM Son of George Pollard Sen 1767-1838, brother of Samuel Knight Pollard 1808-79 and James Pollard born 1817; RL 2 32;
POLLARD, WILLIAM HEUDEBOURCK builder Taunton 1842-1925 son of Samuel Knight Pollard, brother to George Heudebouck Pollard 1844-1924, both grandsons of George Pollard Sen qv; ?dates are 1842-81;
POLLARD, WILLIAM WEAVER Builder, Bridgwater, 1821-91, father of Henry William Pollard qv 1848-1922, grandfather Herbert Henry Pollard 1881-196 and William Cyril Pollard 1889-? Firm extablished 1860 with offices in Eastover and yard in Church Street, later two combined on Monmouth St. SAS;
POLLEN, FRANCIS. Architect, 1926-87 specialist RC churches, designed Worth Abbey, Sx 1964-75; designed new house at The Grange, Hants, for Lord Baring 1976 and two new houses on the Kenmare estate Ireland for Mrs Grosvenor, 1956 and 1974.
1968 alts Downside Abbey ch, Som;
1970-3 adds monastery, Downside Abbey, Som;
1976 Chilcompton RC ch, Som; SC notes; SNB;
POND, URIAH
1828 'workman' who enlarged S gallery, Wincanton church; GS 45; ?also involved in new N gallery 1829 and re-arrangement of S gallery;
PONTING, CHARLES EDWIN. Marlborough. Arts and Crafts architect 1850-1932. Articled 1864 Samuel Overton, agent to Savernake estate. Diocesan Architect for Wilts part of Salisbury Diocese 1883-1928 and Dorset half from 1892-1928 and for part of Bristol diocese 1887-1915; surveyor Marlborough College.
Practiced from Lockeridge Cottage, West Overton, Wilts, in dirs 1875-99 and from Wye House, 8 Barn St, Marlborough, in dirs 1907-15. List of Wilts works in WBR; ASG; Tony Nicholson is researching (TN) a.nicholson@
(1871 School and house, Savernake, Wilts; WBR;
(1874-5 School and House, West Overton, Wilts; Tony Nicholson says this is the school for lockeridge also, in WBR list as two separate schools;
(1877 adds School, Avebury, Wilts; WBR)
(1882 prop ch near Mere, Wilts, at Wet Lane where several roads converge; WG 10.2.82; WG 17.3.82 £1000;
(1882 rest Avebury ch, Wilts WG 17.11.82;
(1883 rest Bishops Cannings ch, Wilts; WBR;)
(1883 village dispensary & parish room, East Kennett, Wilts; opened DWG 22.1.83; ill Archiseek from BN ?.?.84;
1884 report on Wincanton ch but rebuilding was given to JD Sedding; GS 46;
(1886 WM chapel, Poulshot, Wilts; WBR;
(1887 tile-mosaic panels St John ch, Boreham, Wilts; N aisle panels 1887 and 1893, expanded to full scheme in 1911 when chancel done, but not completed as plans of 1915 for S and W walls abandoned in favour of baptistery, last panel was 1930
(1888 Re-erected Temple Bar in Hertfordshire;
(1889-91 rest Edington ch, Wilts; restored altar; illustrated Br 30.7.92;
(1892 Pewsham House, nr Derry Hill, Wilts, for Mrs Lysley; exh RA 1892; stables ill Br 23.7.92; house ill Br 18.6.92; Light & Smith bldrs, Chippenham.
(1892 adds Hilperton ch, Wilts proposed N aisle, vestry and organ chamber, only vestry and organ chamber built by Light & Smith, Chippenham, illustrated Br 28.11.1903, oak screen between vestries and chancel, chancel oak fittings;
(1893 music rooms, Marlborough College, Wilts; WBR2)
(1893 rest Donhead St Andrew ch, Wilts; RA 1893; Br 24.2.94;
(1894 St Birinus ch, Morgan's Vale, Salisbury, Wilts, FS Salisbury Journal 29.9.94 in mem of CT Maud by his nephew Rev EH Ferryman of Redlynch Ho; c£2000; Charles Mitchell of Woodfalls bldr; red brick with Box dressings, ill Br 26.12.03; 1894-6 Redlynch ch, BoE;
(1894-5 Restored Bristol High Cross, Stourhead, Wilts; TN; Br 6.4.95, stonework by Harry Hems;
(1895 Dauntsey’s School, West Lavington, Wilts; WBR;
(1895 ?wk ?at Stourton ch, Wilts, for Sir Henry Hoare, WG 18.1.95, 15.3.95;
(1898 Ford ch, Wilts; RA 1898; ill ext and interior Br 4.12.97; ill BN 30.12.98; WBR; Jacob Long & Sons bldrs, statue of St John in S buttress by H Hems; £2300; Archiseek; ill Br 7.4.1900;
(c1898-1905 Clyffe Hall, Market Lavington, Wilts
(1898 St Marys School Wantage Berks;
(1898 rest West Stafford ch, Dorset; WG 26.8.98, on altar tomb designed by Mr P will be effigy;
(1900 report on National School, Beaminster, Dorset as Diocesan Architect; WG 21.12.00)
1900 rest Halse ch, Som; ICBS; SRO D/D/cf/1900/7; rest medieval screen, work by Harry Hems, TN; renew nave and chapel roofs, remove plaster nave ceiling, remove gallery, restore rood screen to original position and extend it across N aisle, raise tower floor reset font; new seats, replaster, reglaze;
(1901 rest Belchalwell ch, Dorset; WG 4.10.01, Norman & Son Blandford bldrs;
1900-3 rest Marston Magna ch, Som; ICBS; repairs to roof and walls (TN); ?redid roof or are the tie-beams original, stalls; wrote article in SANHS 46 1900 196-201; plans for reseating with reused parts of old benches, cf/1902/43;
(1901-2 Marlborough TH, Wilts; WBR; ill Br 11.1.02;
1902 W gallery, Ilminster ch, Som; and removal of aisle galleries; SRO cf/1902/
(1902-3 Tenantrees, Knighton, Dorset ill Br 7.3.03;
(1903 Rectory, Donhead St Andrew, Wilts ill Br 24.10.03; large;
(1905 Shaw ch, Wilts reblt; BN ?.?.05; Archiseek;
1907-12 rest Lytes Cary, Charlton Mackrell, Som, for Sir Walter Jenner Bt; work done from 1907-12 included restoration, new W front and remodelling of N front, recreating internal courtyard. Designed screen in Great Hall. In new part woodwork and ?other work was by Angell of Bath incl reused Wren pilastered doorcase supposedly from St Benet Gracechurch St. The dovecote, a disguised pump-house McCann Dovecotes 184, was not by CEP, but 1934 by Rolfe & Peto. BN 2.7.09; Angell of Bath not in 1906 dir.
(1907ff attr rest Avebury Manor, Wilts for Leopold Jenner;
(1908 Gymnasium, Marlborough College, Wilts;
(1909 screens to transepts, Christ Church, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, carved by Herbert Read; WBR2; ?also tester over pulpit, 1911)
1909 Fittings, Charlton Adam ch, Som; inf TN; ?stalls;
1910 rest tower, Long Sutton ch, Som; TN; ?faculty
(1912-3 ?Gastard ch, Wilts; but TN says: the architect for Gastard Church in 1912 appears to have been Mr Ware (or Warre – Edmund Warre?). Also in 1912, Mr Brakespear (sic) was paid £24 for a plan. I haven’t bothered to pursue the question of whether Ware followed Brakspear’s plan or produced his own. The builder was Long. I wrote to EH in Jan 2011 about this as the listing gives Ponting as architect. I asked them for their source but haven’t heard from them. Pevsner gives no name which seems odd. The Fowler family were substantial benefactors. It was dedicated in June 1913. Capt Edmund Warre worked at Wilton House, Wilts, 1913, and did Horningsham village hall Wilts for Longleat estate, 1930.
1914 organ case, Stoke sub Hamdon ch, Som; TN; Carol Palmer thinks he may have rearranged N tr chapel under tower.
TN: Yes, he did rearrange the N chapel at Stoke sub Hamdon. He also restored the wonderful coffered ceiling. SRO – D/D/cf/1914/57.
1915 W vestry Stoke sub Hamdon ch, Som; inf Carol Palmer; 1916 DoE; 1916 rest Hinton St George ch, Som; TN; general restoration; no faculty?
(1919 Lady Chapel and reredos Christ Church, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, Lady Chapel formed as Moulton memorial in S transept with added E rose window above an oak reredos carved by Herbert Read; guide book; WBR2)
1920 rest Hinton St George ch, som; TN; roof rest; no faculty?
(1920 rest Poulshot ch, Wilts; WBR;)
(1925-6 baptistery, Boreham ch, Wilts.)
Attrib on basis of similarity: 1902-5 alts The Abbey, Charlton Adam, Som for Claud Neville (similar staircase newels, but no evidence); 1907ff rest Avebury Manor, Wilts, for Leopold Jenner; adds Manor House, Weston Bampfylde, Som for A Smith c1907 (no evidence, TN);
PONTON & GOUGH Bristol. Archibald Ponton + c1880 and William Venn Gough qv; A Ponton was with SC Fripp qv 1859-65 (F&P), on his own 1865-7, then WVG joined him (P&G), partnership lasted to 1877;
(1865 ?St James vicarage, Victoria Sq, Clifton, Bristol, attrib to P&G; AF; but ?pre-partnership;)
(1866 Bristol Chambers, St Nicholas St, Bristol; Gomme; St Nicholas Chambers c1866 by AP, AF;
(1867-70 Museum & Art Gallery, Queens Rd, Bristol plan by AP with elevations by John Foster of Foster & Wood qv;
(1868 Gresham Chambers, 18 St Nicholas St; P&G; AF;
(1868 Avon Insurance, 51 Broad St, Bristol; by P&G, AF; c1870 GJL;
(1869 The Granary, Welsh Back, Bristol; AF; by P&G;
1873 rest Temple ch, Bristol, with B Ferrrey consultant; E w by Clayton & Bell; Br 26.4.73;
1873-8 rest Loxton ch, Som; SRO; 1873 by P&G; SNB;
(1875 St Mary’s, Stoke Hill, Bristol; Arch 23.1.75, for H Fedden;
1876 Rosemont, Leigh Woods, Bristol; Gomme; Arch 11.3.76
(1876 Villa in Redland, Bristol; Arch 11.3.76;
POOLE & NEWMAN Sherborne, Dorset. Newman qv was an engineer in Sherborne.
(1860 2nd pr Bristol General Cemetery, Arnos Vale, Bristol; RHH;)
POOLE, ALEXANDER Builder, contractor, Uplands, Ilminster; 1906 dir.
1900 Mission church, Ditton Street, Ilmisnter, corrugated iron; Chard & Ilminster News 22.10.00; carried out by Mr A Poole;
POOLE, THOMAS Builder, Clevedon
1827ff five houses, Hill Rd, Clevedon; inc French Cott 1827; Mid Oak Cott, Castle Cott (now Mt Lebanon); Lilly;
1828 Gothic Cottage, Hill Rd, Clevedon;
1828 cottages up Zig-Zag path, Clevedon; Lilly;
1828 Cypress Villa (now Rosa villa) Hill Rd, Clevedon
182? No 51 Hill Rd, Clevedon later Italian Warehouse;
1834 Newton House, Clevedon for George Newton; Lilly
1863 houses in Atlantic Terrace, Clevedon, now leagrove Rd; Lilly, The Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
POPE & BINDON see RS Pope
POPE & SON see RS Pope
POPE, BINDON & CLARK see RS Pope
POPE, JAMES
1707 bldr, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, Som; C Stell; AFtext;
POPE, MITCH Architect. Semley nr Shaftesbury. Partner 1980 in Garnham Wright Associates with Jack Garmham Wright; Michael A Pope and Penelope HM Garnham Pope partners 2012;
1995-7 rest Spargrove House, nr Batcombe, Som, for David Mlinaric; SC notes, Mitch & Pené Pope; Period Property UK March 2009; house had been burnt out, restoration with David Mlinaric;
POPE, RICHARD SHACKLETON. Bristol. c1792-1884 District Surveyor 1831-72. Son of clerk of works employed by Smirke, himself employed by Smirke and Cockerell. Cockerell sent him to Bristol where he remained, becoming District Surveyor 1831. Firm was Pope, Bindon & Clark 1847-58 (PB&C) with John Bindon and JA Clark qv; from 1858 Pope & Bindon (P&B); then 18?? Popes & Bindon (Ps&B) when joined by his son Thomas Shackleton Pope qv to 1869; then Pope & Son (P&S) 1869-76?; finally Pope & Paul (P&P) with WS Paul; obit Br 46 1884 426; HC;
(1821-3 clk of wks, Philosophical Institution, Park St, Bristol, CR Cockerell qv; HC:
(1827 Court of Justice, Corn St, Bristol; with George Dymond qv;
(1828-9 Cattle-market, Bristol, dem; HC;)
(1830-1 Wool Hall, St Thomas St, Bristol; GJL;
(1831-2 Bristol Gaol, Cumberland Rd, Bristol; dem 1895; APSD;
(1832 Bridewell, Bridewell La, Bristol; dem 1865; HC;
(1832-7 Bush Warehouse, Bristol; now Arnolfini arts centre; not in HC;
(1833 rest chapter-house, Bristol Cathedral; HC)
(1836-7 N aisle, Holt ch, Wilts; dem 1889)
(1837 eligible building ground for sale for villas, Southville, Bedminster, Bristol BM 2.9.37 in immediate vicinity church of St Paul;
(1837-8 Royal Western Hotel, Bristol with IK Brunel;HC; obit;
(1838 Okeford ch, Devon; HC)
(1839-40 Irvingite chapel, St Augustines Pde, Bristol; sold to RC church 1843, now St Mary on the Quay;
(1840 Parsonage, Church St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR; now Kingston Place; HC;
(1841 reblt Winsley ch, Wilts; WBR; HC; ICBS; DWG 1.7.41 says that Charles Jones qv of Bradford furnished the design, he was the builder; new church exc tower;
(1843-6 Guildhall, Broad St, Bristol; CTA 1845 248-50;
(1843 Buckingham Place, Clifton, Bristol;
(1844 Police Station, Bridewell St, Bristol; dem c1927; HC;
(1844-7 Buckingham B chapel, Clifton, Bristol; HC;
(1845 planned Victoria St, Bristol with SC Fripp qv, Br 1845 399; not carried out until 1870; HC
(1847 entr Army & Navy Club comp, London; RHH; PB&C;
(1848-9 Meat market, St Nicholas St, Bristol; HC;
1848-9 reblt Abbotsleigh ch, Som after fire; PB&C; AFtext;
(1850 rest All Saints ch, Corn St, Bristol; PB&C; Gomme)
(1852-4 Stuckey's Bank, 32-4 Corn St, Bristol, SNB; 1856 by PB&C, GJL;
1855 Bathford parsonage, Som; Italianate; SRO Bbm/120, spec by RSP, plans PB&C;
(1856 entry imprs Royal Hotel, Clifton, Bristol; RHH; PB&C)
(1857 schools, Brislington, Bristol; P&B chosen in competition; BN 1857 592
1858 National Schools, Clevedon, Som; gothic; ill Br 1858 294; P&B;
(1863 2nd pr Leigh Woods development, Bristol; RHH, P&B)
(1863 alts Markets, St Nicholas St, Bristol Ps&B Bristol Mercury 15.8.63;
1865 rest Kingston Seymour ch, Som; SRO cf/1865/3 Ps&B; ICBS 1865-6 E wall, organ chmbr;
(1867 Assize Courts, Small St, Bristol; P&B;
(1873 Fishmarket, St Nicholas St, Bristol; P&S;
(1875 Improved Industrial Dwellings, Goswell Rd, London; P&S; ?blt;
1883-4 alts Bishopsworth ch, Som; ICBS; P&P;
POPE, THOMAS Bristol +1805. District Surveyor Bristol 1801-5. HC gives no evidence for relationship with RS Pope qv , District Surveyor 1831-72..
(1802 plans two houses, corner Bell La and Broad St, Bristol for John Wadham; HC;
(1804 plans adds house in lower Park Row, Bristol; HC)
POPE, THOMAS SHACKLETON Bristol son of RS Pope qv, worked with father as Popes & Bindon 1858-69 and Pope & Son 1869-76;
(1860-1 reordered Bristol Cathedral advised by GG Scott; AFtext)
POPES & BINDON see RS Pope.
POPLE, W. J. Builder, Alfred St, Burnham-on-Sea. Kelly 1906, later WJ Pople & Sons.
1939-40 Masonic Hall, Burnham on Sea, Som; to 1936 plans by Bro WJP built by WJP&Sons Ltd.
POTTER & HARE see Robert Potter
POTTER, ROBERT De Vaux House, Salisbury. Later Potter & Hare (P&H), cf also Brandt Potter Hare Partnership, cf also Kenneth Wiltshire.
(1934 rest Charlton ch, nr Nunton, Wilts; WBR;)
(1936-7 St Leonard ch, Bristol; H&F)
(1936-40 St Francis ch, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR; H&F)
1948-9 repairs Bruton ch, Som; ICBS
(1952-3 St Francis ch, Ashton Gate, Bristol; H&F)
1955 porch All Saints, Weston s Mare, Som; BoE N;
(1956 Ascension ch, Crownhill, Plymouth, Devon; H&F)
(1956-7 All Saints ch, Swanage, Dorset; H&F)
1956-61 compl reps Fiddington ch, Som, begun by WHR Blacking of Salisbury, Kenneth Wiltshire signed compl cert; P&H;
1958-65 reps Barrington ch, Som; ICBS; P&H;
1958-9 reps Yeovilton ch, Som; ICBS; P&H with Kenneth Wiltshire
1960 alts Wilton ch, Taunton, Som; form new SE chapel, new stained glass by Paul Jefferies; SRO D/D/cf/1960/2/5
1963 Crematorium, Wellington New Rd, Bishop's Hull near Taunton, Som; DoE; Br 8.11.63 937-41; P&H; also circular Memorial Chapel;
(1963-6 reblt All Saints ch, Clifton, Bristol)
1965ff reps Kingsbury Episcopi ch, Som; P&H with KW;
c1967-9 Four ‘Canonical houses’, The Liberty, Wells, Som; P&H; inf D Crighton; SNB, flat roofs leaked and replaced pitched by Beech Tyldesley, 1983;
(1968-9 College chapel, Leweston, Dorset BP&H; H&F)
1979 reps South Petherton ch, Som; HBC app 24.1.79; KW;
POTTER, W.G. Taunton see William Potter
POTTER, WILLIAM builder Taunton. William Potter, builder and contractor, Watcombe House, Rowbarton, Taunton, 1906 dir. WG Potter was presumably a relation, see 1908;
1895 Baptist chapel, Comeytrowe, near Taunton, Som; Chipchase, Around Taunton, 20; paid for by Thomas Penny qv;
1908 builder Adult School, Rowbarton, Taunton, plans by WG Potter qv; TC 18.3.08; £184;
1938 builder WH Chapman store, North St, Taunton, G Baines & Son architects, plaque with no date says W Potter & Sons builders
POWELL, A. E.
1936 The White House, Nicholas Way, Brockley, Som, for WS Dening, greatly altered; MHB;
POWELL, A. H.
1908 Reps Barrington Court, Som, under guidance of W Weir of SPAB; report 1999 by Patricia Creed for NT;
1908 began rest Stocklinch Magdalen church, resigned replaced by Rupert Austin qv, cf SANHS 1996 135-47;
POWELL, E. TURNER 1859-1937 Began 1885, mainly in Surrey and Sussex, brick and half-timber houses. ASG. Obit Br 26.11.37 p 986. L Weaver Small Country Houses of Today ils West Chart, Limpsfield Sy p 130.
1910-12 Weary Hall, Galhampton, N Cadbury, Som; for Capt Kelly, 2009 sales partics; now called Barrow Court. House complete by 1914, outbuildings, gardens and possibly the hipped lodge added after 1919.
(1919 alts Lucknam Park, Colerne, Wilts for Sir A Read; new centrepiece to main front, rear additions and rear facade; plans WRO;
POWER, J. P. Yeovil. Not in 1906 dir.
1894 organ chmbr, St John ch, Yeovil, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1894/2; but ?organ only moved to chamber in 1919 when WD Caroe inserted tracery in E wall of N transept.
POWYS & MACGREGOR. Architects, 20 Buckingham St, London. Albert Reginald Powys qv & John Eric Miers MacGregor qv. Powys was one of the famous Powys family children of Rev Charles Powell + 1923 vicar of Montacute and East Coker, including novelist John Cowper Powys; ARP was secretary of the SPAB who initiated rescue of Montacute by persuading Ernest Cook to buy it in 1931 and give it to the NT.
1902 Drinking fountain, Montacute, Som; by ARP; plaque;
(1926 rest Ludgershall ch, Wilts; ARP; WBR;
1926 library wing, Northmoor, North Hill, Minehead, Som, for Major MR Liddon; P&M; D/U/M/ 22/1/685;
1931-2 rest Court House, Long Sutton, Som for Roger Clark of Street; Long Sutton WI 1953 village history; P&M; house given to Quaker Meeting adjacent, as hall.
1932 Report on West Pennard Tithe Barn, Som by JEMM for Roger Clark, but work done 1936 under Ernest Bowden qv
(1934 rest Shabbington ch, Bucks; ICBS)
POWYS, ALBERT REGINALD Architect see Powys & Macgregor. Died 1936, obit WG 13.3.36. Son of Rev Charles Powys (1843-1923) vicar of Montacute from 1885-1918. Articled Benson of Yeovil, Secretary of the SPAB, initiated rescue of Montacute by persuading Ernest Cook to buy it in 1931 and give it to NT. One of famous Powys family of novelists and artists, brothers John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) and Theodore Francis Powys (1875-1953) were novelists, sister Philippa (1886-1963) novelist and poet, sister Gertrude an artist, sister Marian expert on lace, brother Littleton Charles (1874-1955) headmaster of Sherborne; Llewelyn wrote about Montacute in ‘Somerset Essays’ 1937. Partnership with JEM MacGregor qv see Powys & MacGregor;
1902 Drinking fountain, Montacute, Som; plaque;
(1926 rest Ludgershall ch, Wilts; ARP; WBR;
POYNTON BRADBURY WYNTER COLE The Sail Lofts, St Ives, Cornwall. Des colleges and schools in Cornwall, lifeboat houses at Padstow, St Ives, Blackpool, Appledore, Lytham, Ilfracombe, Newquay, Falmouth. St Ives library.
(2004 Newquay Sport Centre, Cornwall)
2004-5 Crewkerne Sports Centre, Wadham School, Crewkerne, Som; Cowlin contractor; plaque;
PREECE, DAVID David Preece Associates
1987-8 Offices, RNAS Yeovilton, Podimore, Som; BD 17.2.89 £2m for PSA; Conder contrs also blt L-plan office using their dry envelope superstructure.
PREEDY, FREDERICK Architect, Worcester, trained with Harvey Eginton. 1820-98, buried Foxham, Wilts. Designed stained glass at Gloucester and Worcester Cathedrals and elsewhere. Many churches in Worcs. At 13 York Place, Portman Sq, London, AEBTD 1868;
1855-6 alts Bathford ch, Som; SRO; SNB: N aisle arcade and S porch; Br 1872 508;
1860 rebuilt chancel Batheaston ch, Som; SNB;
(1860 All Saints ch, Kings Heath, Birmingham, w Edward Holmes)
(1861-2 St Stephen ch, Worcester; BoE)
(1862 Wythall ch, Worcs; BoE)
(1865ff chancel, Fladbury ch, Worcs; stained glass and monuments to his family in church; BoE
1866-8 rest Batheaston ch, Som; ICBS; S aisle 1868 & chancel 1868 BoE N; but chancel 1860, S aisle 1868, organ chmbr & vestry 1875, Kelly; SNB: chancel reblt 1860, nave rest and new S aisle 1866-8;
(1867-8 Headless Cross ch, Worcs; BoE)
(1868 National School, Winsley, Wilts; WBR;)
1871-2 alts Bathford ch, Som; BN 1872 508; SNB S aisle and nave 1871-2, tower 1879; N aisle arcade & S porch all 1856; tower 1879-80; reredos by Boulton 1872; glass by Preedy S aisle 1872, N aisle W 1872;
1875 alts Batheaston ch, Som; ?organ chmbr and vestry;
(1876-7 St Mary Magdalene ch, Worcester; BoE)
1879-80 Tower, Bathford ch, Som; SNB;
Attrib c1870 Briscoe House, Bathford, Som, AF text, not in SNB;
PRESS, WILLIAM JAMES Builder, Alfred St, Burnham, home address Woodlands, Oxford St, Burnham (1906).
1891 Completed Burnham Institute, Burnham on Sea, Som; designed by – Grant, a local architect, who was sacked in the course of building and Press was instructed to complete; history of Burnham Inst;
19?? Villa at Burnham, Som; list of works by Gleed Bros bldrs;
PRESSLAND, - Architect, refererred to in Taunton court TC 17.10.1860 case re villa houses erected at Staplegrove by Robert Edward Ford, Mr Pressland was architect, partner of Mr Leversedge; Mr Leversedge surveyor to the Building Society that lent money; first two houses are erected;
PREWETT BIZLEY ARCHITECTS London and Compton Dundon, low energy specialists. Established 2005, Robert Prewett worked for Feilden Clegg Bradley; 2001-5, member of Passivhaus Trust; Graham Bizley award winner for low-energy retorfits in London and new house on terrace end at Newington Green.
(2004-5 House, Newington Green, London; RIBAJ Jan 2006;
(2008 new facilities, Regents Park open-air theatre, London; with Colvin & Moggridge landscape architects;
2012-13 Beacon View, Peak Lane, Dundon, Compton Dundon, Som; £500,000; passivhaus for self by Graham Bizley;
2014 plans refurb 27 High St, Bruton, Som;
PRICE, CEDRIC. Advised Niall Hobhouse of Hadspen House, Som, on various architectural interventions, 1980s, directly involved only with altering kennels by walled garden to summer accommodation.
PRICE & GROBHOLZ see Hans Price
PRICE & JANE Weston s Mare see Hans Price
PRICE & WOOLER Weston s Mare see Hans Price
PRICE, FRANCIS HENRY. Architect, Taunton, born 1878, articled CH Sansom qv 1894, worked in London offices of Young & Hall, TW Aldwinckle and JW Stevens, LRIBA 1910 proposed by Sansom, HW Stone and JW Stevens; practice Taunton with Ernest Sprankling 1871-1960 (see Sprankling & Price), office 16 Hammet St 1910; mentioned re public house licences in Taunton TC 11.3.1914; WW in A 1914;
PRICE, HANS FOWLER, Architect, Bourne, Trewartha Park, Weston super Mare. 1835-1912, born Langford, Som, son of Mr Price of Langford who died suddenly at Weston Railway Station SM 21.3.1865; pupil of TD Barry qv of Liverpool; set up in Weston 1860?, at 1 Sydenham Terrace, Weston AEBTD 1868, extensively employed in development of Weston 1862-1912; with – Grosholz or Grobholz c1875, then Walter H Wooler qv 1877-98 (P&W), then William Jane (P&J) at 15 Waterloo St, Kelly 1906; cf Woodspring Museum list. Quentin Alder, architect Bristol researching; AEBTD 1868 lists two Baptist chapels Weston; Hospital and Dispensary there and at Clevedon; Baptist chapel, Mark; Friends Meeting House and Market House, Clevedon; John Crockford-Hawley (JCH), councillor in Weston, has written on HFP: HFP set up office in 1860, became architect to Smyth-Pigott estate, married 1862 Jane Baker d of Smyth-Pigott solicitor, and worked with Robert Landemann Jones the Smyth-Pigott agent; ?involved in layout of The Boulevard, Weston s Mare in 1864 on Smyth-Pigott land; churchwarden at Christ Church, Weston
(1859 entrant Manchester Assize Court comp; RHH;
(1860 Oswestry Cemetery, Salop; RHH; AEBTD
(1860 1st prize Bristol General Cemetery; RHH;
1863 rest Brean ch, Som; RL; rest 1883 by P&W acc to Kelly;
1863 Market, ?Clevedon; market trustees had consulted Mr Price, who had prepared plan TC 8.7.63; but Clevedon MH is 1869
1864 proposed Dispensary, Clevedon, Som SCG 2.7.64, £300;
1864 B chapel, Wadham St, Weston s Mare; opened, cost £1100 with two schoolrooms etc, SCG 1.10.64, R Lewis builder; polychrome Italianate, Corinthian columns, interior had thin iron columns, rebuilt after bombing, now Blakehay Theatre; remodelled chapel of 1850 SNB
1864-5 Weston s Mare and East Somerset Hospital, Weston s Mare, Som; AEBTD and Dispensary; land given by Sir A Elton SCG 2.7.64; SCG 8.10.64; SCG 3.9.64; meeting re proposed hospital £1700 reduced to dispensary for £800 with possibility of future extension SCG 10.9.64; TC 4.1.65; first in England to be built by working men, Mr Palmer builder, SCG 31.12.64;
(1865 Layout for dev of Broad Haven and Little Haven, Pmbs; PH 12.5.65, sale of Goldwyer estate; possibly for F. Goldwyre, engineer - local inf on Haven Fort Hotel, Little Haven, Pembs, was that it was built for a GWR engineer, possibly FG, a Mrs Goldwyer there 1871 census.
1865-7 two B chapels Weston s Mare, Som, AEBTD 1868; one is Lower Bristol Rd, 1866;
1866 B chapel, Lower Bristol Rd, Weston s Mare, Gothic, the one mentioned in BH 1867 £2600 is probably this one;
1866 B chapel, Mark, Som; BH 1867, £300; AEBTD; P Slocombe, Mark p167, closed 1990, now Chapel House;
1866 Hospital, Weston s Mare; JCH;
1867 plans for new wing at ?hospital, Weston s Mare, Som SCG 2.11.67; WG 6.12.67; TC 11.12.67 design so arranged as to prevent any spread of contagion;
1868-71 Royal West of England Sanatorium, Weston s Mare, Som; Tudor style, with tall Gothic chapel, chapel; ill BN 2.6.71 as under construction;
186? Quaker Meeting House, Clevedon, Som; AEBTD 1868;
1868 MH, Clevedon, Som; AEBTD 1868; 1869 SNB;
(1868-70 Stapleton Road C chapel, Bristol; CYB72; sim to Bethel B chapel Pembroke Dock, Pembs; 1867-71 SNB)
1869 ?WM chapel, Mark, Som; Br 1869 652; ?error for B chapel of 1866, WM chapel dated 1797;
1869 Toll-house, Clevedon Pier, Som; AFtext;
1869 Rectory, Hutton, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm 172; SNB;
1869-70 Royal Pier Hotel, Clevedon, Som; Lilly, Builders of Clevedon, 2000, 9. The original baths built by W Hollyman qv in the 1820s were demolished and rebuilt by – Vickery qv to plans by Price;
c1870 alts Banwell Court, or The Abbey, Banwell, Som; BoE N;
1870s 67 cottages, in Newtown, Wooler Rd, Weston s Mare; JCH;
1871-3 chapel, Weston s Mare sanatorium; FS of new building beside present sanatorium; WG 2.6.71; chapel opened Br 24.5.73 no architect named, three stained glass apse windows; pulpit 1874 by Harry Hems qv; WDP 2.11.1904;
(1873-5 Bethel B chapel, Meyrick St, Pembroke Dock, Pembs; W 19.2.75;
1874 No 28 Waterloo St, Weston s Mare; SNB; HFP office;
1875 alts Vicarage, East Huntspill, Som; alts to a farmhouse bought in 1848; P&Grobholz; VCH;
1876 adds Christ Church, Weston s Mare, Som; 1876 SRO cf/1876/4 P& Grobholz; added chancel 1878 JCH; chancel, chapel and organ chamber 1877 by Price & Grosholz SNB; added clerestory 1889-90:
1876 WM chapel, The Boulevard, Weston s Mare; JCH; Gothic;
1877 PB chapel, Waterloo Rd, Weston s Mare; now Waterloo Hall; JCH;
1878 renov ? Wells, Som, by P&W, Stevens & Hardener bldrs; SCG 17.8.78
1878 Villa, Albert Quadrant, Weston s Mare, Som; P&W; SRO plans;
1878 rest West Huntspill ch, Som; BM 24.4.78, Thomas Searle of Bridgwater builder; then shortly afterwards burnt and restored again 1879-80; P&W;
1879-80 rest West Huntspill ch, Som after fire; P&W; Br 1880a 470-1;
1881 Church Institute, Weston s Mare, Som; for St John ch, rebuilt 1983
188? Magdala Terrace, Weston s Mare, Som; Magdala Buildings 1876 JCH;
1881 completed West of England Sanatorium, Weston s Mare; T BM 21.9.81; P&W;
1881 St Kew's Masonic Lodge, The Boulevard, Weston s Mare; JCH; half-timbered turret removed 1981;
(1882-3 Avonview Cemetery, St George, Bristol, SNB)
1883 rest Brean ch, Som; P&W; chancel rebuilt, reredos of Dumfries stone & bench-ends by Harry Hems, Exeter; T: BN 8.6.83 £581, Palmer of Weston s Mare; cost £673, Kelly; see also 1863; ?also des oak lychgate;
1885 Weston & Somerset Mercury office, Weston s Mare, Som; HFP responsible for most of Waterloo St part of Boulevard, JCH;
1885-7 Milton ch, near Weston s Mare, Som; ICBS; T Br 9.1.86, P&W;
1887 vestry & alts, East Huntspill ch, Som; P&W; SRO cf/1887/10; WG 16.9.87 gallery removed and organ resited on N side of chancel; old vestry demolished and chancel widened, new vestry on N, all carried out in Puriton stone matching rest of church; oak eagle lectern presented; stained glass on E side of chancel presented showing Good Shepherd/ Virgin Mary, architect Hans F Price, £160, HW Pollard Bridgwater, contractor;
1888 Boat Shop, Weston s Mare, Som;
1888 alts The Chalet, South Rd, Weston s Mare SNB; P&W; villa of 1862; WH Wooler's own house;
1889-90 add clerestory, Christ Church, Weston s Mare, Som; P&W; SRO 1889/13;
1890s houses, Grove Park estate, Weston s Mare; SNB; P&W; Grove Park Road JCH;
1890 S aisle & galleries, St John ch, Weston s Mare, Som; P&W; SRO 1890/6; SNB;
1891 ref to ?work at Royal West of England Sanatorium, Weston s Mare TC 18.2.91;
1892 Nos 83-5 Upper Church Rd, Weston s Mare, by Wooler SNB; Moorish;
1893 School of Art & Science, Weston s Mare, Som; Jacobean gables; 1892 SNB now part of Weston College, Knightstone Rd;
1894 1st pr MH, Weston s Mare; P&W; RHH; ?the TH rebuilding 1897;
1894 adds Parkhurst, Grove Park Rd, Weston s Mare; for T Walton; plans SRO
1894 add Boys Grammar School, Wharf Lane, Ilminster, Som; by Mr Wooler acc to school history, £1514/0/10d, Alexander Poole bldr;
1895-7 1st pr Weston s Mare Board School, 1895, P&W, RHH; 1895-7 Walliscote Road Schools, by P&W, SNB; 1897, JCH;
189? Locking Road Schools and Milton Primary School for Weston s Mare school board, JCH;
1897 adds Weston s Mare TH, Som; to TH of 1856-9 by James Wilson qv; SNB; ext 1927 by Fry Paterson & Jones qv;
1897-8 rebuilt Pavilion and reading room, Birnbeck Pier, Weston s Mare, SNB, after fire;
c1898 Houses, Trewartha Park Weston s Mare, Som; HFP lived at Bourne, Trewartha Park;
1898 rebuild Pavilion, Weston s Mare; C: BJ 19.1.98; P&W;
1899 Somerset House, High St, Weston s Mare, Som; 1897-9 JCH;
1900 Playhouse, Weston s Mare, Som; burnt 1968
1900 Library, The Boulevard, Weston s Mare, Som; Br 15.9.00 opened joint architects Hans Price with Wilde & Fry (qv), two figure groups by Harry Hems, other carved work by Hillman of Weston s Mare; 1897 JCH; 1899-1900 SNB;
1900 reps Loxton ch, Som; SRO cf/1900/9; P&J;
1902 Screen, St John ch, Weston s Mare; BoE N; made by Benham & Froude; removed;
1904 ?pulpit, St John ch, Weston s Mare, made by Harry Hems & Sons WDP 3.11.04 names no architect;
1905 House, corner Langport Rd & Clifton Rd, Weston s mare; SRO D/B/ wsm/24/1/181; P&J
1905 House, Langport Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO wsm/24/1/189; P&J;
1908 Villas,Queens Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; plans SRO; P&J; and porch;
1908 infants school, Worle, Som P&J; C Br 8.2.08;
1908 Masonic Hall behind Victoria Hall, Weston s Mare P&J with Wilde & Fry joint architects T Br 15.2.08 £1660;
1909 Porch, Glebeside, Queens Rd, Weston s Mare; plans SRO; P&J;
1912 Gas Light Co. workshops Weston S Mare now Weston Museum,
Also in Weston s Mare designed: octagonal shelters on seafront; warehouse, Alfred St; gate lodge Clarence Park laid out 1882; JCH;
PRICE, HENRY HABBERLY London engineer, originally of Neath Abbey Ironworks family, pupil Telford, 1823 patented improved paddle wheel for ships; WA Brooks engineer worked with him from 1826.
(1832 proposed London-Bristol railway)
1835 Proposed ship canal and docks, Bridgwater, Som; BDRP 12-13; £86837 or £116602 dependent on route;
PRICE, WILLIAM Mason, Surveyor of Works to Queen Elizabeth, previously involved with building at Longleat and Manor Farm Corsley, both Wilts, for Sir John Thynne in 1560s;
PRICHARD, JOHN. Llandaff. Leading High Victorian architect. 1817-86 (b 1818 BoW 91). Pupil of Thomas L. Walker, a contemporary of AWN Pugin in Auguste Pugin’s drawing school; began wk at Llandaff Cathedral when TH Wyatt was architect, designing Lady chapel Ew 1843 and taking over 1845, Diocesan Architect, Llandaff, c1846-86; neo Norman at Llanfabon 1847, correct Gothic at Bridgend 1849, inf by work w B. Ferrey at Merthyr Mawr 1849-51. Architect Llandaff in 1844 dir. Partner of J.P. Seddon 1852-62, JP designed most of Glamorgan wk of partnership, continued on own from 1863-86. Moses Parry qv continued practice. Basil Champneys was a pupil 1864-7. For Prichard & Seddon (P&S) see M Darby, JP Seddon, 19?? (MD).
c1859 House at Keynsham, Som; P&S; MD;
(1864 addn to School, Lacock, Wilts, plans WRO)
1874 rest Ubley ch, Som; SRO; JP;
PRICHARD, LEONARD Wellington. Continued practice of Ernest T Howard qv after 1957; WS 174
1986 Arts Centre, Wellington School, Wellington, Som, extension to former stables and coach house of The Willows, South st; WS 172;
1986 add Technical School, Wellington School, Som; Technical School of 1893 and 1898 by Edwin Howard reused as Music School, additional practice rooms by LP;
PRIDHAM, WILLIAM HARVEY Architect, mining engineer. The Vicarage, West Harptree, 1902 Brislington Bristol. Born 1863 Ramsden Crays, Essex, son of Rev George Pridham who became vicar of West Harptreee. From 1886 recorded fonts all over S England (Berks, Bristol, Dorset, Essex, Glos, Hants, Middlesex, Monm, Oxon, Surreey, Sussex, Wilts), but only three collections survive, Berks, Wilts and particularly Somerset where his list was comprehensive including fonts discarded, in gardens etc, some of which were then reinstated. Particularly critical of Victorian recarving. Emigrated 1889, by 1892 was architect in Denver, Colorado. 1893 won 1st pr for design for church in C13 style for Jackson Pk, Denver (Inland Archt & News Record XXI). May have emigrated influenced by Thomas Maclaren, Scots architect in Denver who toured Somerset churches in 1887. Pridham returned 1898. Completed Somerset fonts by 1899, deposited one set of drawings and typewritten notes on Somerset fonts 1899, whole intended for publication. Not published but collection, 416 measured drawings, bought by SANHS 1908. Many font drawings redone by WHP, finally drew 396 fonts, made ref to 85 missing ones. Also drew 1200 fonts outside county. In Bristol from 1902 working as mining engineer (1906 dir), back to America 1915, in Denver as mining engineer 1917, returned to England, recorded as going to South Africa 1926 and again 1933, date and place of death unknown. From Adrian Webb intro to 2011 SANHS pub of Pridham’s fonts.
1900 reps Compton Martin ch, Som; modified seating plans by TG Jackson qv; ICBS;
(???? Work for Sir Arthur Grant Bt, Monymusk, Aberdeens;)
PRITCHARD, E Engineer, MICE;
1884-6 consulting engineer, water supply, Wellington, Som; letter BN 5.12.84 angry that ET Howard qv taking credit;
PRITCHETT, JAMES PIGGOTT, York 1789-1868. Born St Petrox, Pmbs to Rev CP Pritchett vicar of Stackpole & St Petrox, chaplain to Earl Cawdor. Pupil Jas Medland and then D. Alexander. Exh RA 1808-9. In Barrack Office, then practice London 1812, in York from 1813 w Chas Watson to 1831. Extensive practice in York and Yorkshire; John Middleton was pupil and son-in-law; Colvin. Wakefield Lunatic Asylum 1816-19; York Friends Meeting 1816-19; Wakefield library 1820-1; York Asembly Rooms 1828; York Savings Bank 1829-30; Salem C, York 1839 Greek dem.; Huddersfield Station 1846-7. Father-in-law of John Middleton qv. who was a pupil. Son JP Pritchett Jr 1830-1911 in Darlington from 1854. HC.
1856 1st pr C chapel, Weston s Mare, Som; RHH, Pritchett & Sons; by JPP AEBTD; BN 1858 115 by Pritchett & Sons of Darlington, square tower, good effect;
PROCTOR, PHILIP Grosvenor House, Bleke St, Shaftesbury. Philip Proctor Associates, 2009. Philip Proctor, Brian Watts, Geoff Cole, Pierre Jordaans architects. Firm became PCWR, Proctor Cole Watts Rutter. Designed surgeries in Chippenham (1992), Ryde, school buildings for Sandroyd School, Leweston School, Clayesmore School all Dorset, traditional houses in Dorset; Community centre Sturminster Newton 2007; Cooperative store Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
(2004 add QM, Shaftesbury, Dorset; survey of QM houses 2017;
2006 adds Merefield House, East St, Crewkerne, Som;
2009 works at Hazlegrove School, Sparkford, Som; board;
2010 House at Penselwood, Som, for Jeremy Cox; board;
2015 add QM, Taunton, Som; EH survey of QM houses 2017;
2019 proposed alts Ditcheat Manor, conversion back to one house, by PCWR
PROPERJOHN, GEORGE Builder, North Petherton. Stonemason 1861 dir, builder in 1873 dir.
1877-8 bldr School, North Petherton, Som; JH Spencer archt; school history;
PROVIS, JOHN Chippenham, Wilts. Carpenter and joiner 1793-8, carpenter wheelwright and timber merchant 1822; wife +1813 aged 35; a Jack Provis blt Bear Hotel Chippenham c1756 acc to Wilts Times 7.10.2005;
1815 Parsonage, Chewton Mendip, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/41 2st 3 bay with band, cornice and blocking course, pilaster strips to each section;
(1816 Parsonage, Christian Malford, Wilts; WBR)
(c1835 cottages, Bath Rd, Chippenham, Wilts near Hungerdown La, 'lately erected by him' 1835; WBR2
PROVIS, JOHN Engineer, North Wales. Younger brother of William A Provis qv, assisted on Menai Bridge, Ang; LTC Rolt, Thomas Telford. At Castle St, Bangor, in Pigots 1828-9 dir and at Holyhead as engineer to Commissioners to HM Woods & Forests, in Pigots Dir 1844. Not same as John Provis qv of Chippenham Wilts, carpenter/joiner 1793-8, architect 1815-16, wheelwright 1822;
PROVIS, WILLIAM A. Engineer. WAP and Alexander Easton worked as engineers for Thomas Telford on many projects, beginning with TTs tour of Scotland 1812. Worked on Scottish roads until called on to survey London to Holyhead road with John Sinclair and Robert Sproat, team of three employed by TT. ?WAP took shares in Macclesfield Canal 1790s but was not employed on it. Contracted for 2nd division of Birmingham & Liverpool Canal 1829, Tyrley to Norbury, great difficulties with tunnel, also contracted for Newport branch and Knighton reservoir. Difficult stretch of Shelmore Great Bank 1829 still incomplete 1832. Founder member Soc of Civil Engineers 1818, TT president 1820. WAP wrote book on Menai and Conwy bridges. Brother John qv assisted him on Menai Bridge was resident Bangor 1828-9 Dir
(1818-26 Menai Suspension Bridge, Ang; appointed resident engineer for Thomas Telford 1819; LTCR; Companion Guide N Wales 198; FS 1819; masonry contractors Straphen & Hall gave up contract in 1820 and John Wilson long-time help of TT took it on.
(1822-5 resident engineer, Conwy Suspension Bridge, Caerns; LTC Rolt; for Thomas Telford.
(c1830-2 suggested as alternative to Samuel Beazley as possible designer for Bryn Bras Castle, Llanrug, Caerns; Richard Haslam)
1836 asked to assess works on Grand Western Canal after dismissal of James Green; H Harris Grand Western Canal 26; report 28.6.36;
PROWSE, THOMAS. c1708-67. Landowner, of Compton Bishop, and Berkley, Som, also Wicken, Northants; grandson of George Hooper Bishop of Bath & Wells; MP Somerset 1740-67, buried Axbridge, Som with large memorial in church; HC; amateur architect, friend of Sanderson Miller qv, used John Sanderson qv as executant architect. ?not the same TP as restored Magdalene Almshouses, Glastonbury in early C18 (Dunning, Glastonbury, 99)
1751 attrib Prowse family memorial, Compton Bishop ch, Som; SNB;
1751 ?Berkley ch, Som; RL; possibly by him HC 1749-53 but no evidence except that his mother Abigail Prowse owned Berkley House; 1750-1 SNB;
(1753-67 reblt Wicken ch, Northants; HC
1755 Hatch Court, Hatch Beauchamp, Som; RL; for John Collins, HC; date 1755 on rainwater heads, 1757 on clock tower bell; Prowse drawings survive; (c1755-7 Kimberley Hall, Norfolk; HW; John Sanderson exec;
(1757 advised on refronting The Lawns, Swindon, Wilts; HC; dem;
1758-61 The Cedars, Wells, Som for Charles Tudway MP; SNB; Thomas Paty qv bldr, plaster by Thos Stocking;
1764-5 Temple of Harmony, Halswell Park, Goathurst, Som; decoration only partly carried out 1767 by Robert Adam included a marble statue of Terpsichore by john Walsh, dedicated by Sir CK Tynte to Prowse; HC; HGS; plasterwork by Thos Stocking of Bristol; temple was in mem Peregrine Palmer MP of Fairfield Som.
(1765-6 alts Wicken House, Northants, for self; HC;
PRYNNE, GEORGE HALFORD FELLOWES. Architect, 6 Queen Anne’s Gate London; 1853-1927; son of Rev GR Prynne vicar of Par Cornwall, educ at Chard College and Haileybury, pupil of RC Windyer of Toronto, then in GE Street office, later assistant to RJ Withers. Completed Street’s St Peter ch, Plymouth, 1881, his father’s church, and added tower in 1906. Numerous works in London and Devon, mainly churches. Designed cathedrals at Umtata and Johnannesburg S Africa and Colombo. ASG. Known as GH Fellowes Prynne. Cf BoE Devon 107
(1885-6 Newton Ferrers ch, Devon)
(1891-3 St Peter ch, Budleigh Salterton, Devon)
(1893 Horrabridge ch, Devon)
(1893-6 adds Westham ch, Weymouth, Dorset; WG20.11.96)
1894 screen, Draycott ch, Som; SRO cf/1894/3
(1896 lychgate, Wyke Regis ch, Dorset; WG 20.11.96)
(1902 St Peter ch, Ilfracombe, Devon)
(1905-7 enlarged Holy Trinity ch, Exmouth, Devon and reredos 1912)
1921 Screen and altar, S transept, Burnham ch, Som; SRO cf/1921/27;
PUDDEN, WILLIAM Builder East Coker
1870-1 Contr rest Montacute ch, Som; H Hall qv architect, J Cox of Montacute, clerk of works; WG 2.6.71
PUGH-JONES, SIMON Architect
2012 conv Farleigh House, Farleigh Hungerford, Som, to training centre for Bath Rugby Club; Somerset Life
PUGIN & PUGIN Architects. Cuthbert Welby Pugin 1840-1928 and Peter Paul Pugin 1851-1903, younger sons of AWN Pugin, took over firm after older brother EW Pugin died. Joined by Sebastian Powell Pugin 1866-1949 and his cousin Charles Henry Cuthbert Purcell 1874-1958; RC C20 churches survey;
(1900-1 St Bonaventure RC, Bishopston, Bristol;
(1908-9 St Gerard Majella RC Knowle, Bristol;
PUGIN, AUGUSTE-CHARLES 1769-1832 refugee 1792, draughtsman to John Nash at St Davids Cathedral. Topographical artist, specialist in Gothic, father of AWN Pugin, cf biog by Rosemary Hill; HC;
1831? Vicarage, Portbury, Som appears to have been his work for on 1.2.32 Rickman went to see Pugin’s parsonage at Portbury and said ‘looks well outside but is miserable within’; HC;
PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE 1812-52. Biography by Rosemary Hill; firm continued by Edward Welby Pugin;
(1834 rest John Hall’s house, Salisbury, Wilts with FR Fisher; WBR;
(1835 St Marie’s Grange, Alderbury, Wilts; for self;
(1837 Lodge, Clarendon House, Wilts; WBR;
(1844 tomb, Bishopstone ch, Wilts and st glass; BoE;
(1845-6 Halstock ch, Dorset; BoE)
(1845-7 chancel Rampisham ch, Dorset; BoE
(1845-6 Rampisham rectory, Dorset; BoE)
(1847-8 RC ch, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR)
1851 stained glass window, Butleigh ch, Som; BoES;
PURCELL MILLER TRITTON. Conservation practice founded by Donovan Purcell 1913-73 originally Purcell & Johnson of Norwich, then PMT, absorbed Martin Stancliffe Architects, York, 2004 and Niall Philllips Architects, Bristol, in 2007.
2007-8 adds Wells Cathedral, Som; Somerset Buildings Trust Award 2008; the adds designed by Martin Stancliffe qv. Biggs contrs, new choir facilities linked to East cloister; £1.8m; also visitor centre shop and restaurant £2.4m;
(2008-10 rest Arnos Vale Cemetery Bristol; RIBA regional award;Biggs contactors, £3.9m;
2009 The Hyde Centre, Dillington House, Som; Bristol office, proj archt Dan Talkes (& Tim Rolt); YT 19.5.10, RIBA awards shortlist; project was started by Niall Phillips Architects qv who merged with PMT in 2007.
PURSEY, JAMES Orchard Rd, Street, surveyor to Street UDC (Kelly 1906). William Pursey quarry-owner and stone-merchant (1906 dir) built Laura Terrace, Orchard Rd, Street, 1890, named it after his daughter.
1888 Boiler-house, Bowling Green Mill, Street, Som; McGarvie Bowling Green Mill, 63;
1889 contr Cobden Terr, Wilfrid St, Street, Som; archt GJ Skipper; GHS51
1893 contr WM chapel, Leigh Rd, Street, Som; named on FS; Hawkins & Alves qv architects;
1894 ?contr Bear Hotel, High St, Street (see 1929)
1901 Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Lane, Street, Som; plaque names JP, surveyor and ST Clothier, clerk to Street UDC; also ?the oak lychgate and the lodge;
1929 ?contr adds Bear Hotel, High St, Street; archt ST Clothier; GHS15; ?or is entry meant to mean that JP was contr for hotel itself 1894 by W Reynolds;
PURSEY, WILLIAM Brooks, Street. Stone merchant, 1906 dir. ?related to James Pursey qv.
1890 Laura Terrace, Street, Som; GHS45; named for his daughter; 24 houses; ?designed by WP.
PWP ARCHITECTS Havant
2006-8 adds Cricket House, Cricket St Thomas, Som for Bourne Leisure; inf Soane Museum; very large hotel adds.
QUENNELL, CHARLES HENRY BOURNE Architect, 1872-1935, worked for JD Sedding and Henry Wilson, worked for Wilson at Brithdir ch, Mer, began practice in 1896 mostly in Hampstead Garden Suburb.
(19?? Cottage, Sutton Veny Wilts; WBR2; pre 1912;
1911 Lynch House, West Lynch, Selworthy, Som for Allan Hughes, plans at house; said that Hughes, director of P&O Line sacked Quennell, and built house to plans with own labour-force. Also John Cooksley of Porlock said to be bldr; Nursery addition to rear of rear wing c1923;
QUILTER, JOHN SALMON. Architect, 10 Brunswick Sq, London. FRIBA. 1841-1907. At 3 Henley Rd, West Brompton London in AEBTD 1868, at 9 Conduit St c1873 (Quilter & Farrer); practice continued by Cecil M Quilter, son, 1879-1951 as John S Quilter & Son, architects to Littewoods stores; Captain Roy M Qulter killed 1917;
1878-9 rest Long Sutton ch, Som; Kelly 1906: nave roof restored £230, roof of aisles and chapels reconstructed, organ gallery over rood screen, organ by Hill & Sons, £265; A 3.8.78
(1887 Fleming Memorial Hospital, Newcastle on Tyne, by John Quilter and George Wheelhouse, EH)
(1894 entrance building, LAMDA, Talgarth Rd, London, built as a teacher training school by JSQ, later Royal Ballet school until 2003;
(18?? choir vestry, St Mary ch, Sevenoaks, Kent, mentioned in history of St Luke ch Sevenoaks where JSQ was one of 4 architects asked to provide plans in 1901, but JT Lee selected;
(1901 vicarage, 192 Ramsden Rd, London for St Luke ch, Battersea; Survey of London;
RACE COTTAM ASSOCIATES. Sheffield and London. Founded 1993. David Cottam.
2005-9 Maundown Water Treatment Works, Exmoor, Som, for Wessex Water; 60,000 sq ft green roof;
200? Washpool Water Treatment Works, St Catherine’s, Bath, Som; disguised as a Cotswold barn;
RADFORD, JOSEPH. Chard. In 1794-7 UBD as builder & cabinet-maker.
1786 B chapel, East St, Chard, Som, dem; M Bonnington, Chard Baptists, 1992; ?attributed only.
1791-3 Tower, East Coker ch, Som; churchwardens accnts, previous crossing tower removed and new one built N of chancel ‘according to his plan and estimate’ though £1/1/0d for a plan by Henry Linscombe qv had been paid in 1791; Chronicle 5 2 1991 38-47
RAILTON, WILLIAM c1801-77. Architect to Ecclesiastical Commissioners 1838-48, designed many parsonages; 4th prize Houses of Parliament 1835; 1839 1st prize Nelson Memorial Trafalgar Square. St Barnabas parsonage, Bristol, W Robertson contractor, TBC;
1855-8 Winscombe Hill, Winscombe, Som, for Rev JA Yatman;
RALPHS, JOHN Warminster. Architect and builder, died January 1837, WBR;
(1833 parsonage, Fisherton Delamere, Wilts; WBR;)
1834 N aisle, Street ch, Som; ICBS; for Lord John Thynne, Rector of Walton with Street; ICBS files 1826-34, plans dated 1833-4;
1835 Estimate to build school, East Woodlands, Som to plans by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, Longleat 14/3 32/0 28/6/1835; uncertain if to Wyatville plans, and another tender was from W Brown of Frome;
1836 tower, Walton ch, Som; ICBS; HC; a N tower to replace medieval crossing tower, for Lord John Thynne of Longleat, rector; VCH; all rebuilt again in 1865-6 by Rev JF Turner qv but tower ?kept but rewindowed; ?National School, 1836, may also be by JR;
(1836-7 builder, Workhouse, Warminster, Wilts; S Kempthorne qv architect; WBR;)
RAMSDEN & CARR see Omar Ramsden
RAMSDEN, OMAR silversmith. 1873-1939. Born Sheffield, 1898 est studio with Alwyn Carr (R&C) in Chelsea, worked together to c1918.
1911 Lectern, Old Cleeve ch, Som; given by Count Konrad von Hochfeld of Croydon Hall; by R&C;
1919 Cross, candlesticks and vases, Lady Chapel, Martock ch, Som; ch guide; chapel rest as War memorial by FB Bond; also OR designed and made processional cross;
RAWLE, GEORGE Dunster, mason. 'The Rawles' are named as rebuilding Loxhole Bridge, Dunster, Som, in the 1770s and Marsh Bridge, Dunster, in 1772, with stone from Conygar Hill (VCH draft text)
1776 Gothic bridge, Crowcombe, Som; GR named on plaque, HGS 88, but design is v similar to one by Richard Phelps qv.
RAWLE, GEORGE Porlock
1837 ?WM chapel, High St, Porlock, Som; survives much altered as café; builders seeking to tender were advised to apply to GR ‘who will shew the proposed site, plan and specifications; and will receive tenders’; advert dated 30.1.37 is reprinted in Book of Porlock 50; possibly GR was not designer but representing building committee;
RAWLINGS, JOHN Builder Kingston, Yeovil. John Rollins, Som Dir 1830; John Rawlings Hunts Dir 1850.
1842-4 gallery East Coker ch, Som; ICBS; churchwardens accounts 1841 Mr Rawlins the architect presented his plans, repewing and gallery on N wall, 1843 paid £12/0/0d for plan, spec and surveying and alterations.
1848-9 builder TH, Yeovil, Som; Thomas Stent archt; £4000; LC Hayward, From Portreeve to mayor 1987 95;
1862-3 alts East Coker ch, Som; report by JR that roof of nave in bad state and aisle roofs dangerous, estimate £240; repairs for £270 done by William Puddens 1863; work may have been to plans by B Ferrey qv who made suggestions for improving church 15.9.62. Also suggested by Ferrey was removal of gallery from N aisle, resolved to be done 15.11.1864. Churchwardens accounts;
RAYMOND BROS, Yeovil.
1938 Stalls, Staplegrove ch, Som; ch guide; ?designed them or just made them; also desks, seats and chairs for clergy; first plan rejected by DAC in favour of something simpler;
RAYMOND, GEOFFREY Architect, 1881-1972, nephew of Canon AJC Scoles qv, firm was Scoles & Raymond 1903-20; see Rev AJC Scoles
RD ARCHITECTS LTD Rebecca and Jim Dyer
2005-7 Trees, Ubley, Som for themselves; SNB;
READ & MACDONALD Architects Herbert Read qv c1861-1935 and Robert Falconer Macdonald 1862-1913. Both worked for George & Peto, Macdonald on own 1887, joined Read in 1891. ASG: Stanford's map shop, Long Acre, London, 1901, library and rooms Lincoln College, Oxford 1905; Herbert Read is not same as Herbert Read, ecclesiastical furnisher, of Exeter;
1894 School buildings, Monkton Combe School, Som; BN 1894; inf RM;
(1898-1900 TH, Lynton, Devon; BoE)
1932 rest S porch as chapel, Wambrook ch, Som; DoE; or is this HR of Exeter qv;
READ, HENRY HERBERT. Woodcarver, St Sidwell Works, Exeter, 1860-1904 known as Herbert Read, born Wincanton, Som, worked for Harry Hems qv in Exeter from 1874, established own firm 1891 and firm still continues. Designer of church furnishings, screens etc,
(1905? wood-carving, Shaw ch, Wilts, CE Ponting archt, WBR2
(1909 Screens, Christ Church, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; des by CE Ponting qv; WBR2)
1910 Screen, Christ Church, Frome, Som; SNB, Voysey style; 1908?
(1919 reredos Christ Church, Bradford on Avon Wilts, des by CE Ponting; WBR;
1923 Reredos, Kewstoke ch, Som; SNB;
(1927 choir stalls, St Alban ch, Coldharbour Rd, Bristol; SNB)
1930 Rood beam and figures, Shepton Beauchamp ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/ 1930/81;
1930 Lady chapel screen, Holy Trinity ch, Taunton, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1930/ 94;
1932 rest S porch as chapel, Wambrook ch, Som; DoE; or is this by HR of Read & Macdonald?; finely carved oak roof;
(1937 made reredos, St Alban ch, Bristol; SNB; by RS Nickson of Liverpool)
1938 Rood screen and rood, Kewstoke ch, Som; SNB;
1948 Rood, Walton St Mary ch, Som; des by P Hartland Thomas qv; SNB;
(1949 Reredos and rails, St Michael ch, Two Mile Hill, Bristol; SNB)
1954 repairs screen, Withycombe, Som; ICBS;
READ, RICHARD Carpenter and builder, St Ann St, Salisbury, Wilts, in dirs 1822 and 1830, WBR2; Not in HC.
1833 Abbas Combe parsonage, Templecombe, Som; TBC; SRO D/D/Bbm/62; added front range; much altered since, now called The Empire Farm
1834 Stowell ch, Som reblt exc tower; Mr Read VCH 7 160 SRO D/P/stow 4/1/1, 23/6; all replaced 1912-13 by FB Bond; ch guide says work was by John Green, bldr of Sherborne, Dorset, who raised walls and put on new roof for £90.
READE & GOODESON, Canning Chambers, 4 South John St, Liverpool. R&G entered 1867 comp for Labourers’ Dwellings, Liverpool. Treleven Mellard Reade of L’pool won 2nd pr Everton Board School 1894 (RHH) but T Mellard Reade of Liverpool died 1890, obit BN 18.4.90.
(1862 Llandudno Junction Station Br 20 1862 474, TMR with Hedworth Lee, company engineer, Gothic, stone, iron veranda, Anglesey marble shaft, carving by Edward Geflowski; reblt 1896-7)
(18?? Dr Williams School for Girls, Dolgellau, Mer; TMR obit; school founded 1875, initial wk by S Bull;)
1873-5 Yeovil Schools, Som; R&G; 1st prize RHH; Br 1873 433 Reade & Goodison; Board School, Reckleford, Yeovil, built 1874-5. T for carpenters work, WFP 15.1.75, J Mellard Reade CE;
READE, TRELEVEN MELLARD Architect, Liverpool, see Reade & Goodeson
REAY, SAMUEL S. Architect, Bath, +1933, partner with Thomas Ball Silcock in Bath c1897 to c1911, see Silcock & Reay. TBS was MP for Wells 1906-10,
(1909 selected for alts Royal W of England Academy, Bristol BC 26.12.09; work done 1911-13 SNB;)
(1911 St Mark's B chapel, St Mark's Rd, Bristol; SNB)
(1911-13 remodelled Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; SNB based on a design by H Dare Bryan qv advised by George Oatley qv; vestibule lunettes by Walter Crane 1913-14;
RECKITT, FRANK NORMAN. Golsoncott House, near Rodhuish. Architect, born 1872, Arts and Crafts trained, articled WD Caroe 1895-6, worked as an improver with E Lutyens 1898-9, wife Beatrice made tapestry and needlework, daughter Rachel B Reckitt 1908-95 was sculptor, engraver. Grand-daughter is author Penelope Lively, neice of Rachel, who wrote ‘A House Unlocked’ about Golsoncott, Edwardian house of 1912 built for Capt Whitehead, secretary to Count Hochberg of Croydon Hall nearby, purchased by Norman Reckitt in 1922. Frank Norman Reckitt, No 1 Trafalgar Buildings, London, and Halsmede, St Albans, Herts, in WWinA 1914 and 1923. Had more or less retired when he moved to Somerset, personal wealth from Reckitt family polishes etc.
1912 ‘Studio at Rickmansworth’, Herts, exh RA 1912, ill AA 1912 1.
1923 Cottage and stables, Golsoncott, Rodhuish, Som; SRO D/R/wil/24/1/45; for the lodge at top of drive and the hipped stable to the rear of Golsoncott, with round stone piers; Reckitt bought Golsoncott, house by WJ Parker, 1912, in 1923; cf P Lively, A House Unlocked;
192? Adds Golsoncott, Rodhuish, Som; extension at N end, half-timbered, and a room over existing colonnade/loggia at W end overlooking canal garden; garden design by Beatrice Reckitt; inf Penelope Lively; house was built in 1912 by WJ Parker qv;
1926 reps Rodhuish ch, Som; church has needlework by Beatrice, carved wood and metalwork by Rachel, also metalwork by James Horrobin, 1970s and later;
1928 Roadwater Village Hall, Som; FS laid by FNR 24.5.28; designed by FNR acc to Penelope Lively’s daughter Josephine;
REDWOOD, REGINALD S.
1962 Bonham Auction Rooms, Old King St, Bath, Som; AFtext
REED HOLLAND ASSOCIATES Somerset House, Middle St, Taunton. Partnership 1985. John Reed RIBA qualified 1977, former Chief Architect West Somerset DC; Richard Holland RIBA qualified 1976, joined Reed in 1983, was consultant architect to Taunton Deane DC. Jonathan Scanlan joined 2004; David Drummond RIBA joined 2010 after being involved with master plan for Hinkley Point power stations;
1980 Applegreen Court, Bossington Lane, Porlock, Som; practice's first house; large hipped roof bungalow
2002 Flats, Magdalene St, Taunton, Som; trad with gabled dormers, brick;
2003 26 houses, North St, Williton, Som; trad
2003 Clarence St flats, Yeovil, Som, on brewery site, brick, four-storey, trad;
2004 17 new houses, Bower Hinton, Som; trad stone-clad;
2005 New house, Somerton, Som; trad, Blue lias;
2005 barns converted, Lower Washford, Som; three ranges around court;
2006 44 houses, Doniford Rd, Watchet, Som; rendered and brown brick;
2006 nine houses, Stogumber, Som, rendered;
2007 barn conversion Kittisford Barton, Som, three ranges;
2008 New house, Porlock, Som; white render on brick plinth, trad;
2008 Garage block, Chardleigh Green; stone to fit in with victorian house;
2008 barn conversion, Burnworthy, Som, three ranges around large court;
2008 Flats, Tancred St, Taunton, Som; neo-Geo, render and red brick;
2009 New house, West Bagborough, Som; large gabled red sandstone, trad/ Victorian style;
2009 Six houses, Kingsbury Episcopi, som; rendered trad;
2009 Flats, Compass Hill, Taunton, som; brick trad
20?? add Wake Green, Kingstone, Som; Georgian Gothic style to match house;
2010 Park Gate House, Ash Priors, Som; red sandstone, two gables w glazed lean-to between; LABC awards 2011/ 2012;
2010 new house, Taunton, Som; white render and red hipped roof, modern-trad;
20?? Housing, N of Marshfield Rd, Minehead, Som; LABC awards 2010;
20?? Office adj 29 Cranmer Rd, Taunton, Som; LABC awards 2010; trad;
(2010 Direct labour depot, Roundswell, Barnstaple, Devon; website)
2011 Detached house, Blagdon Hill, som; twin gables, stone and glass; website;
2011 barn conversion Wiveliscombe, Som;
2011 conversion Dorweeke Barn, ?where; corrugated-iron and ?cob shippen;
2012 Seven houses, Porlock, Som; in terrace, pair and singles, on link road;
2012 Shearwell Data, Wheddon Cross, Som; sheep-tagging premises, proposed 2012; large shed;
201? Meadow Close housing, Wheddon Cross, Som; LABC award 2012;
201? Red Lion Ct, High St, Taunton; LABC award 2012
2010 Cutcombe Livestock Market and business park, Cutcombe, Som; LABC awards 2011 2012; also 26 new houses?
2012 COACH, proposed community building, French Weir, Taunton, Som;
2012 regeneration project, High St, Taunton, Som; street paving, art-work etc
2012 proposed B chapel and sports hall, Watchet, Som;
2012 addition Enmore School, Som;
2013 Proposed village hall and sports centre, Wembdon, Som; £1.5 m;
2013 Highbridge Enterprise, proposed offices and two industrial units, Highbridge, Som, with SWH Build; website;
2013 adds Windmill Inn; West Quantoxhead, Som; trad;
2013 proposed autism unit, Preston Academy, Yeovil, Som; monopitch roofs, render and boarding;
2013 Broadlands, Staplehay, Trull, Som proposed 250-house estate; trad;
REED, HARBOTTLE Architect, 12 Castle St, Exeter. FRIBA 1907, died 1941, specialist in church restoration;
(1896 2nd pr St David ch, Exeter, Devon; RHH)
(1905-7 St Simon ch, Plymouth, Devon; his only new church, EH; ?also church hall 1900-1)
(1924 repairs Holy Trinity ch, Exeter, Devon DRO)
1925-7 reps Churchstanton ch, Som; ICBS;
REED, J. C. Contractor
1871-3 Contr Devon & Somerset Railway; Taunton to Barnstaple; engineer R Hassard; line through Norton Fitzwarren, Milverton, Wiveliscombe, Venn Cross, Brushford,
REED, JOHN Architect, Dunster. John Reed Associates. Later Reed Holland Associates qv, of Middle St, Taunton.
1980 Applegreen Court, Bossington La, Porlock, Som; Reed Holland website; large hip-roofed bungalow;
1983-5 alts Bartholomew Thomas Almshouses, Woolston, Bicknoller, Som; SRO A/DEP/2/1; dated 1987 on plaque; Stansell bldrs; almshouses of 1904;
REED, W. J. Architect to Co-operative Wholesale Society, Leman St,
1940s add of Chrome Tannery, Tannery, Middle Leigh, Street, Som; plan for plain industrial shed in Clark archive; dem;
REEVE, J. ARTHUR. London. Wiltshire works in WBR. Also did work of a Burges character to a late C13 canon's house at Ely, Cambs (inf Simon Bradley).
1877-8 rest Yarlington ch, Som; SRO cf/1877/12; WG 9.8.78
(1889 St Mark Infants School, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR possibly by JAR
(1890 rest Ramsbury ch, Wilts; DWG 8.5.90
(1892 rest Baydon ch, Wilts;
(1892-4 St Mark ch, London Rd, Salisbury, Wilts; BoE; consec 1899, completed 1915, WBR
(1910 add to St Boniface College, Warminster, Wilts;BoE;
REEVES DESIGN & BUILD
2011 Vicarage and two houses, Creech St Michael, Som; board;
REID, A(LEXANDER) & W(ILLIAM) Architects. Elgin and Inverness, Scotland. Alexander Reid 1816/17-97 set up in Elgin, William Reid 1825-93 joined c1843-4. They moved to Inverness mid 1840s, c1874-8 practice was A&W Reid & Melven with George Melven. In mid 1880s returned to Elgin and did much work for Cawdor and Moray estates. Scottish Architects website;
1887 attrib Elgin Tower, Burgundy Rd, Minehead, Som, built for John Christopher Kennedy, retired confectionery maker who may have come from Elgin, he may have died before house was complete. Scots Baronial, red sandstone. Attrib DCrighton; the architects were more probably Matthews & Mackenzie qv
REILLY, Sir CHARLES HERBERT 1874-1948 Son of Charles Reilly surveyor to Drapers’ company, pupil of John Belcher, 1900 partnership with Stanley Peach. 1904 Professor of Architecture Liverpool Univ, influential in teaching of architecture and town planning through C20. St Barnabas ch, Dalston, London 1910; RIBA gold medal 1943. ASG.
1930-2 consultant, alts Market House, Taunton, Som; new pediment and wings designed by HSW Stone qv; plaque;
RENDALL & EARL Carpenters, joiners Bath bankruptcy 1769 included two newly built houses not quite finished in Thomas St, in the Ambury, Bath and newly built messuage situate in Holloway, Bath in tenure of Thomas Rendall; BC 10.8.69;
RENDEL, PALMER & TRITTON engineers. Chelsea Bridge 1934; Thames Barrier 1974-82; became High Point Rendel in 1985;
1984 Bruton Flood Storage Scheme, Som; inf J Bishton; enlarged with concrete spillway 2008-9;
RENDELL or RENDALL. Masons. West Coker. George Rendell, Henry Rendell, Lot Rendell. Samuel did much later C18 mason’s work in village (Nathan 407), followed by Abraham. Samuel and Abraham Rendell were surveyors for first Bridge over main road at Coker Hill. Nathan 435: Abraham employed on new bridge 1796. William appears as mason 1821-5. Lot also ran New Inn. Joseph Rendell born 1736 owned Cross House, made canvas, Israel Rendell born 1777 sailcloth manufacturer 1848 dir, est twine works W of village 1828, lived at Millbrook House, adjoining.
RENDELL, - Taunton Builder, called late Rendell & Son in 1893
1893 bldr WM chapel, Wrantage, Som; A Lauder archt; TC 28.6.93;
RENNIE, LOGAN & MATTHEWS see Logan & Rennie. Contractors.
1863-6 contrs Taunton to Chard branch Bristol & Exeter railway; The Story of Donyatt 71.
RENNIE, JOHN Engineer 1761-1821. HC. Born Scotland, began 1783; Waterloo Bridge 1810-17; Southwark Bridge 1819; London Bridge 1821-31, exec by son Sir John Rennie (1794-1874) qv. Engineer to several canals, and to Admiralty: Plymouth Breakwater 1811ff. Worked with William Jessop. 1809 report on plans for Strand bridge by George Dodd.
1788 ?one of three engineers with Robert Whitworth qv appointed to survey Western Canal route joining Kennet Navigation, Berks, to Avon Navigation, Som; Rennie was appointed to make more detailed survey 1790, route via Marlborough and Chippenham, estimate £214,000, and given job of consulting engineer 1790 with Robert Whitworth as scheme engineer; Rennie's third survey 1793 recommended wholly different southern route via Devizes, with branch canal to Marlborough from Hungerford, estimate without branch £377,000; Act of Parliament 1794; Rennie appointed overall engineer 1794; advice taken from William Jessop qv on major changes at summit; work started at Bradford on Avon, Wilts, October 1794, going both east and west. Around same time work started at Newbury going W. Changes to route authorised by Acts of 1796 and 1798; Crofton Pumping Station, Devizes, Wilts authoirsed 1796; 15 miles from Bath to Bradford on Avon completed 1801 except Widcombe Locks, Bath; also from Bradford on Avon to Foxhangers (with horse railway to Devizes); section from Great Bedwyn, Wilts, to Newbury open 1803; section Pewsey to Great Bedwyn begun 1806, also Caen Hill locks to Devizes; whole canal open 1810; Avoncliff Aqueduct, Westwood, and Dundas Aqueduct, Limpley Stoke, Wilts, both c1796-9, HC; Claverton Pumping Station, Som;
1793 survey for Somerset Coal Canal, carried out by William Jessop and William Smith qqv, reported 1793. Act of Parliament 1794 but John Sutcliffe appointed engineer.
1794-1814 Grand Western Canal. Surveyed proposed canal between Bristol Channel and English Chanel, river Parrett to River Exe in 1794. H Harris The Grand Western Canal; approved 1795, Act 24.3.96, abandoned because of war until 1810; started with 2.5 stretch plus a nine mile branch to Tiverton, all in Devon, Exeter Flying post 16.4.1810, superintended by John Thomas, problems with money, decided to continue towards Lowdwells on summit on way to Taunton but not towards Exeter. Opened 1814, £244,505.
1800 approached over Axe Valley drainage to comment on proposals by Josiah Easton; Lewis 143 n 1;
(1808 Ladies Bridge, Wilcot, Wilts)
1810 Surveyed English & Bristol Channels Canal, unbuilt. Estimate cost £1.33m from Stoford Som to Beer Dorset. Revived by Telford qv 1825 unex;
1814 Proposed Floating Harbour for Bridgwater, Som; £113,450; following similar proposal 1811 by Josiah Easton
1819 drainage of Northern Levels, Som; Lewis 166; suggested new cut from Congresbury Yeo estuary w sluice and new rhyne into Congresbury Moor, exec 1819-27 £17,000; not clear whether father or son or both involved.
RENNIE, Sir JOHN Engineer. 1794-1874, son of John Rennie qv, engineer to the Admiralty. Completed London Bridge to fathers design 1824-31, knighted 1831; completed Great Breakwater at Plymouth; Retired c1862. President ICE.
1819 drainage of Northern Levels, Som; Lewis 166; suggested new cut from Congresbury Yeo estuary with sluice and new rhyme into Congresbury Moor, exec 1819-27 £17,000; not clear whether father or son or both involved.
1830 survey for drainage of Brue Valley, Som; Lewis 166; this was part of the Glastonbury Canal scheme proposed 1829 opened 1834 Lewis 223;
REPTON, GEORGE STANLEY. l786-1858. London. 4th son of Humphry Repton, pupil of Nash and later chief assistant. Assisted father and brother JA Repton in des for Royal Pavilion, Brighton. On own from c1820, retired c1845; HC;
(c1804 Thatched dairy, Blaise Castle, Bristol; SNB, perhaps designed by Nash, also a lodge on Henbury Rd, also assisted Nash on Blaise Hamlet 1810-11;
1835 Camerton Court, Som; BoE N; HGS 174 sketches RIBAD; 1838-40 for John Jarrett; HC; SNB; drawing RIBA exh RA 1937 exh;
1842 inv with rest of Camerton ch, Som; plans by John Pinch, but appl form and certificate signed GSR; ICBS;
REPTON, HUMPHREY 1752-1818 Landscape architect. Among his Red Books of designs for parks is one for Leigh Court, Som; father of John Adey Repton with whom he worked, qv, and George Stanley Repton qv;
1792 garden plan, Ston Easton, Som; ill HGS pl 24, p139, for Henry Hippisley-Coxe + 1795, part implemented. Proposed viaduct not blt p 140;
1797 garden plan Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Som, for Wm Gore-Langton; HGS 142; lodge and temple unex;
1802 garden plan Ashton Court, Long Ashton, som for Sir hugh smythe, unex; HGS 137-8;
1814 garden plan Leigh Court, Abbotsleigh, Som; ill HGS pl 26-7, pp 143-5;
Attr adds Bailbrook House, Bath, Som, RA 1937 exh;
REPTON, JOHN ADEY 1775-1860, son of Humphrey Repton, in office John Nash 1796; HC.
(1797-8 assisted John Nash at Corsham Court, Wilts; HC)
(c1802 Brentry Hill, Glos, exh RA 1802; with Humphrey Repton)
(c1803 Stapleton, nr Bristol, for Dr Lovell; HC, with Humphrey Repton;
c1805 unex des for Bailbrook House, nr Bath, Som; HC;
REYNOLDS, ALFRED Surveyor & builder Milborne Port. c1831-1910. Died 29.6.10. McKay 185 ‘probably did more than any other single person to establish the appearance of Milborne Port as it was from the later C19’. Also built Factory building at West Hill (called Reynolds Loft); built many houses for the Commonalty of Milborne Port; worked for Medlycotts on Sandford Orcas Manor and Sanford Orcas ch, Dorset;
1858 repairs bells, Milborne Port ch, Som; £162; McKay 178;
1858 Kingsbury Bridge, Milborne Port, Som; McKay 162; £30;
1867 ?bldr Stoke sub Hamdon C chapel, Som; RC Bennett archt;
1867-9 Bldr rest Milborne Port ch, Som, H Hall archt; McKay 182; wrote an account of the restoration?;
1871-2 Bldr Vicarage, Milborne Port, Som, H Hall archt; McKay 184; prob reerected porch from old vicarage as shelter at bottom of Gainsborough outside School;
1872 Gainsborough House and six villas, Gainsborough, Milborne Port, Som; McKay 185; ?house for himself.
1876 Pair of cottages, South Cadbury, Som, for Rev JA Bennett; double gable front; SRO D/D/Bbm/221
1891 Chapel of ease, Milborne Wick, Milborne Port, Som; McKay 186; opened 21.10.91;
1895 Shelter for Tapps Well, Milborne Port, Som; McKay 185, 257-9; Reynolds & Son; dem ill McKay 259;
1898 Paid £250 for cottages for Commonalty, Milborne Port, Som; McKay 185;
1899 Payment £461/16/0 for building for commonalty, Milborne Port, Som, prob to AR; McKay 185;
REYNOLDS, WILLIAM Architect, High St, Street, Som; 1864-1918 Kelly 1906; Nephew of WS Clark of C&J Clark shoe-makers. Office in Bridport, Dorset, 1885, then came to Street. Built most of Clark family buildings from 1890 until he retired in 1906 to become chicken-farmer; SCR; RL; GHS; lived at Leigh Nook, Street (1906) probably designed by him.
1886 Strode Cottages, High St, Street, Som; SCR; drawings in Clark archives. Row of four Nos 63-9 High St dated 1886 looks like GJ Skipper design, but is by WR, design is signed WR of Bridport; the second row, Nos 55-61 are undated, prob by WR c1890.
1887 add Clark’s Factory, High St, Street, Som, room above women’s machine room; plans Clark archives by WR of Bridport.
18?? Adds to Clark factory, High St, Street.Som; undated plans in archive, for toilets, and ? the end three S bays of C block up to clock tower, so post 1887.
1891 Lawson Terrace, Wilfrid St, Street, Som; RL; GHS51, contr F Huish; Reynolds may have redesigned a GJSkipper plan SCR 24.
1891 adds Bowling Green Mill, Street, Som; F Huish bldr; £975; McGarvie Bowling Green Mill 58; stockroom and offices facing street, and other adds; engine-house, enlarged drying-rm, new stiffener and machine rooms, offices entrance and gangway;
1892 adds Board School, 118 High St, Street, Som; GHS43; large rear additions on site of former entry and teacher’s house; ?WG 15.1.92 ref to heating and ventilation;
1892 The Limes, three cottages, around corner from Grange Road, Street
1892 The Acacias, semi-detached pair at head of Brutasche Terrace, Street;
1892 Cranhill House, Cranhill Rd, Street; single house;
1892 The Elms, Cranhill Rd, Street, four cottages, also row of three adjoining undated (?actually in Woods Batch);
1892-3 Brutasche Terrace, Street, Som; GHS5, contr F Huish; two terraces Nos. 1-25 and Nos. 2-24 facing each other; plans SCR pl 31; also two semi-detached pairs The Acacias 1892, The Chestnuts 1893 plans ill SCR pl 30;
1893 The Chestnuts, semi-detached pair at head of Brutasche Terrace, matching The Acacias of 1892.
1893 Park Terrace, Street, six cottages; SCR; where, ? Woodsbatch, truncated for bypass;
1894 The Bear Hotel, 53 High St, Street, Som; GHS15, for WS Clark, contr James Pursey, blt as a coffee-house, plans Clark archives; undated plan for large addn behind for WS Clark; adds 1929 by ST Clothier qv and 1938 by JR Edwards qv;
1896 The Lilacs, semi-detached pair opposite Grange Terrace (?also Nos. 2-4 Grange Road, a matching pair possibly The Laburnums.
1896 The Laurels, semi-detached pair around corner from Grange road;1895
SCR;
1896-7 adds Bowling Green mill, Street, Som; bldr F Huish; £487; water-tower £70, boiler-house & drying loft £375; McGarvie bowling Green Mill 63;
1897 Rectory, Vestry Rd, Street, Som; GHS41;
1897 Big Room, Clark’s Factory, High St, Street, Som; SCR 26; a very large open room, two-storey? with iron columns and five-bay north-light roof; now screened by 1933 More Light building.
1897 Water tower, Clark Factory, 40 High St, Street, Som; GHS13; SCR;
1898 Façade with archway to Clarks Factory, 40 High St, Street, Som; GHS13; created by linking gable ends factory of 1829 to Arthur Clark house of 1857 with storeyed pece over archway;
1898 Grange Terrace, Grange Rd, Street, Som; GHS5; two terraces, also two semi-detached pairs opposite Nos. 2-4 and The Lilacs 1896, also around the corner The Limes 1892, three cottages, and The Laurels 1896, two cotts; and ?the Lodge beyond.
1899-1900 Technical School, Leigh Rd, Street, Som; RL; GHS23; plans ill SCR pl 38;
1903 Village Hall, Walton, Som; Walton WI, Our Village Heritage, 1971, 49; now house; John Hartry of Street contr, £285;
1905 Dovecots/ Pigeoncots, Grange Ave, Street, Som; RL; semi-det houses;
1904-6 adds Bowling Green Mill, Street, Som; store, new engine ho and wagon shelter; £1220; bldrs Isaac Ford & Sons; McGarvie bowling Green mill 79-80, continuation of 1891 front, plans illustrated;
1905 minor alts Street ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1905
1914 adds Mill House, bowling Green Mill, Street, Som; Mc Garvie Bowling Green mill 82
Attrib: c1890 Nos 55-61 High Street, Street, next to Strode Cottages, SCR attribs original Strode Cotts to WR but they are 1886, more likely to be GJS; adds Greenbank, 44 High St, Street for WS Clark, but adds may date from 1880 and WS Clark moved to Millfield in 1889. Alts could be for James Clark;
RHIND, JONATHAN Jonathan Rhind Architects, founded by JR at Old Rectory, Shirwell, Barnstaple, Devon, 1986, office Powlett Ho 34 High St Taunton, 2004, moved to Rumwell Hall nr Taunton 2011. John Alexander joined 2000. Rest Bridport TH; Restormel Castle; South Molton TH; Chanter’s Ho Ottery St Mary (conservatory to Butterfield design); conservation report West Somerset Mineral Railway; Jo Hibbert qv formerly with English Heritage worked for firm on Whitestaunton Manor, then in private practice.
2006 rest Whitestaunton Manor, Som, inc rest of great hall hammerbeam roof for Stuart Moore; 2008 Wood Award for conservation/ restoration; project architect Jo Hibbert qv mostly involved;
2008 Rest farmhouse, Stawley, Som;
2009-10 conservation West Somerset Mineral Railway; commended 2010 RICS SW Awards;
2010 rest Rumwell Hall coach house, nr Taunton, Som, for own offices;
RICE, JAMES LACKINGTON Taunton. Builder and brickmaker. In 1821 laid out first sewers in Taunton; JT 62;
RICE, THOMAS. Wellington. Builder. Scott Lane, in Braggs 1840 dir.
1844 adds Runnington parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/90; minor rear adds;
RICH, THOMAS Mason. Paid for masonry work at Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som, for Gen Sir John Slade from at least 1824; worked on ha-ha at Maunsel 1828; SRO DD/SL/38/1-2; Francis Rich (a son?) is also named in 1843;
1820-2 Bldr Wolmersdon House, North Petherton, Som for Mrs Brice; bills in Slade papers DD/SL/38/1;
RICHARD OF FARLEIGH Mason, by 1334 in charge of steeple at Salisbury (design by Master Robert), also in charge of works at Reading Abbey. Possibly also tower at pershore Abbey. Probably from Monkton Farleigh, in 1363 he and wife disposed of land at Keynsham, som; attr little chapel of St anne above East Gate of Salisbury Close called recently blt 1354; TP 80-1;
1324ff repairs Bath Abbey, Som; dem; TPS 80
(1350s master of works Exeter Cathedral, Devon;)
RICHARDS, THOMAS, Wincanton. GS biography, born 1812 at Roundhill Farm, apprenticed to Stokes, grocer in Salisbury, 'ought to have been an architect, for that he was well adapted, and in the preparation of plans he took the greatest delight of his life'; started business as grocer 1837, took over ironmongery business also; 1842 overseer of parish; 1869-71 churchwarden, guardian of poor 1866-87, promoted water & drainage in town; 'many public and other buildings in this neighbourhood were designed by him and built under his direction', designed a circular cooking range; portrait placed in Town Hall; 1889 dir Richards & Son, auctioneers, land agents and surveyors, 18 High St; 1906 dir has George Richards, auctioneer.
(1866 alts Vicarage, Zeals, Wilts;)
RICHARDS, ISAAC
1834? House at South Petherton for – Nicholetts, solicitor, built by Isaac and John Richards, taken down when just completed and re-erected by Isaac Richards as New Cross House, West Lambrook, for portman estate in 1836; ashlar villa;
RICHARDS, MIKE Architect, Frome. see Inscape Architects.
RICHARDSON, Sir ALBERT 1880-1964 Assistant to Leonard Stokes, set up 1908, RIBA Gold Medal 1947, PRIBA 1954-6; knighted 1956; partnership 1906-39 with Charles Lovett Gill qv 1880-1960 (R&G); then with EAS Houfe (R&H); biography 1980 by Simon Houfe; 1931 rebuilt Eaton Socon ch, Hunts R&G;
1927 Alts Market Hall, Fore St, Dulverton, Som; 1930 DoE; added the outside steps to a first-floor iron porch converting Market Hall of 1866 to Town Hall; opened August 1927 picture in Old Dulverton, 1986, by Binding & Bonham-Carter;
1954-5 RC church, Dulverton, Som; for Mary Herbert of Pixton Park; present church opened 1955 converted from stables of The Retreat, Bridge St, plans by Richardson in SRO show that E half was former stable extended W with new front in brick; DoC says AR designed a church for Mrs Herbert of Pixton Park, 1945, but eventually stable conversion done in 1955 by AR; Book of Dulverton 123 says that AR design was not used, but plans in SRO D/r/dul/24/1/226 are definitely Richardson;
1956-63 rest Assembly Rooms, Bath, Som, after bombing; R&H; with Oliver Messel; SNB
RICHARDSON, LUTHER Architect, The Hill, Langport, 1931 dir. Called surveyor & architect, TC 23.12.31;
RICHMOND (MARK) ARCHITECTS, The Studio No 70 Wellington Rd, Taunton. 2009. Mark & Gill Richmond founded 1995. Inf from website.
2001 Housing development, Horton, Som;
2003 alts Pre-prep, Queens College, Taunton, Som;
2003 Visitor centre project, Exmoor National Park, Som;
2003 conv of hall to theatre, Queens College, Taunton, Som; £200k;
2006 South Block, Kingsmead Community School, Wiveliscombe, Som; £1m;
2006 Student/ worker housing project, Taunton, Som; £10m; ? not built, site nr French Weir.
2006-7 removal of pews and paving, Trull ch, Som;
2007 Art & Drama Dept, Queens College, Taunton; £1m;
2007? Inner porch, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton; engraved glass £45k
2007ff projects for West Somerset Community College, Minehead: campus 2007-8, land-based education bldngs at Conygre tower and Woodcombe Farm.
2009 sanctuary alts, Temple WM chapel, Taunton, Som; £220k;
2009-10 Sixth-form block, Huish Episcopi School, Som;
200? Garden room, Wrangway, Wrington, Som.
200? Own offices behind No 70 Wellington Rd, Taunton;
2010 prop redesign Priory Special School, Taunton, Som;
2011 proposed reordering St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som;
2012 Science Block, Kingsmead School, Wiveliscombe, Som; Mark RichmondArchitects, plans ay school;
RICHOLD, PAUL Architect. Peacock Cottage, Pightly, Spaxton. See Architecton. Peacock Cottage was repaired by PR for himself; inf John Schofield.
2009 rest Charlton House, Charlton Mackrell, Som for Architecton;
RICKARDS, EDWIN ALFRED 1872-1920 1893 Lanchester, Stewart & Rickards with HV Lanchester & James Stewart + 1904. Won Cardiff TH and Law Courts 1897, Godlaming TH 1899, Deptford TH 1903, Hull School of Art 1903, WM Central Hall Westminster 1905; Christian Science ch Curzon St London;
(1907 Fountain, Victoria Rooms, Bristol; ASG; also des plinth etc for Edward VII statue behind added 1913;)
RICKMAN, THOMAS 1776-1841 FSA. Pioneer of study of Gothic. ‘An attempt to discriminate the styles of English Architecture’ 1817. Self-taught architect, started c1812 and 1813-14 des ch at Everton with John Cragg, ironfounder. Office 1817 Liverpool, and 1820 second office Birmingham. Prolific ch architect. Partners Henry Hutchinson 1821-31, Edward S Rickman 1831-3, RC Hussey 1835-8, who continued practice when Rickman retired 1838. Office entirely in Birmingham from c1830.
(1829 Holy Trinity ch, Old Market, Bristol
(1833 St Matthew ch, Kingsdown, Bristol;
(1833 alts Baverstock ch, Wilts; HC; )
(1834 Blind Asylum, Bristol; dem;
(1836 rest Henbury ch, Bristol, and designed school; GJL;
1839 Christ Church, Clevedon, Som; Kelly 1906; opened 2.8.39; 1838-9 HC; GW Braikenridge of Bristol gave £850 of £1000 cost, his son was first vicar;
RIDER RICHARD Carpenter, builder worked at Wilton, Wilts, under Jones & Webb. Richard Ryder in HC +1683, works in London after 1660 inc to Bedford House, St Martin in the Fields, Clarendon House etc. Bromley college, Kent c1670-2.
(1647 W wing, Manor House, Cranborne, Dorset; BoE; HC refs to Captain Ryder;)
RIGBY, JOSEPH & CHARLES. Millbank, Westminster, and Prospect Pl. Swindon. Contractors much employed on Great Western Railway 1841, took contract to operate refreshment room at Swindon, Wilts, 1841 (sublet it), proposed a hotel and stables nr Temple Meads 1841-2, also refreshment room; J Binding, Brunel’s Bristol Temple Meads, 2001, 72.
1841-2 bldrs, Swindon station, Wilts; WBR2 north and south blocks;
1841-3 blt Locomotive works, Swindon, Wilts; WBR2, possibly early stages;
1841-70 Blt railway village, Swindon, Wilts, for GWR; WBR;
(1847-73 Contrs Great Breakwater, Holyhead, Ang;
(1848? Soldiers Point, Holyhead, Ang; house for himself by Charles Rigby; RHaslam)
(1848-52 Contrs NE & SW Martello Towers, Pembroke Dock, Pmbs; des ?by Capt Chater RE, engineer officer in charge of constructing fortifications, called away PH 31.3.48 before work started, succeded by Lt Col Tate)
1847-53 contrs Yeovil branch, Bristol & Exeter Rlwy, Som; open Yeovil to Martock 1849, did not reach Durston Junction with B&E until 1853. Stations at Langport and Martock and Yeovil Hendford, railway hotels Durston Junction and Martock,
1853-4 contractors, Somerset Central Railway, Som, from Glastonbury to Highbridge, Act of 1852, CH Gregory qv engineer, GC Ashmead qv surveyor; Dunning Glastonbury 76; started April 1853, opened August 1854, ILN 26.8.54;
1858-9 contractors Somerset Central Railway extension Glastonbury to Wells; WJ 5.3.59; P Fry, Railways into Wells; CH Gregory qv engineer;
RIGG, PERCIVAL BIRKETT Architect & surveyor, Frome. LRIBA. 8 Bath St, Frome, 1906 dir; Monmouth House, Cork St, Frome, WWinA 1926 and 1931 dir. LRIBA. In practice from 1905 according to Rodney Goodall, sold out in 1930s to Ronald Vallis qv, practice was Rigg, Vallis & Butler, with – Valllis qv and Arthur Stanley Butler, SAS. Was a Freemason.
1912 Picture Palace, Stars Lane, Yeovil, Som; SRO DD/SVN/7/12; dem for 1933 Gaumont;
1921-2 Memorial Hall, Frome, Som;
(1925 prop alts Masonic Hall, Church St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; rear stair addition and new floor in cross-wing; ?unex; plans WRO G13/760/???;
1934-5 Nos. 1-5 Riverside Terrace, Frome, Som;
RIGG, ROBERT F. Architect, Portishead, 1931 dir;
RIGLER GAMBLIN HAWORTH Bridgwater. see HA Derek Gibson. WJ Rigler, David Gamblin & Stephen Haworth. On retirement of Derek Gibson 1998 his practice became Rigler Gamblin Haworth, 26 Angel Cres, Bridgwater. David Gamblin and Stephen Haworth were previously Gamblin & Haworth Building Design Partnership; DG 9; Rigler retired 2000 practice now Smith Gamblin Haworth.
RIGLER, W. JOHN Bridgwater. see HA Derek Gibson. On retirement of Derek Gibson 1998 practice became Rigler Gamblin Haworth, 26 Angel Cres, Bridgwater, with David Gamblin and Stephen Haworth previously Gamblin & Haworth Building Design Partnership; DG 9; retired 2000 practice now Smith Gamblin Haworth.
RISING, H.W. Architect, Tottenham Place, Bristol
(1884 Catholic Apostolic ch, The Triangle, Clifton, Bristol; of iron; opened TC 17.12,84;
RITSON, - Railway contractor, Hutchinson & Ritson, see also Hutchinson.
1852-3 contr Martock to Durston line for B&E railway; awarded H&R 1852 £86K; BLJ 21-2;
1853 contr Sparkford Hill to Longford Lane Yeovil section of Frome-Yeovil line for GWR; Messrs Ritson, BLJ 35. Also to lay rails Castle Cary-Maiden Newton.
RIVERS, EDWARD GEORGE MICE. Architect, Post Office +1918;
(1887-9 addn Post Office, Small St, Bristol
1894 Sorting Office, Manvers St, Bath; BC 12.7.94; now Bayntuns Bookshop
ROBERT. Master mason, named as designer in contract with William Muleward, carpenter, for roofing the rebuilt choir at Glastonbury Abbey 23.9.1364 as 'mestre Robert mason' also mentioned is his deputy 'Robert son lieutenant'; Antiq J 88 2008 216-21; otherwise unknown unless he is Robert Lesyngham who worked at Exeter Cathedral 1377-94.
ROBERTS & WILLMAN Hammet St Taunton FW Roberts qv 1859-1932 partnership with John HH Willman. Willman joined Roberts in 1911, but was not a partner until 1919, all work is by FWR until 1920. Architects to Wiveliscombe UDC; practice continued by JHHW after death of FWR as R&W;
1920 bungalow for curate, Higher Moor Rd, Minehead; OD622;
1920 adds Gordon Mead, Minehead, Som D/U/M/ 22/1/631; OD 624; for Mrs Henderson
1920 adds Homeleigh, Minehead, for Col Hartley-Maud; D/U/M/ 22/1/632; OD628;
1920 alts Gordon Lodge, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/633, OD634 for Mrs Henderson
1921 War Memorial, Martlett Rd, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/637, OD684;
1922 adds Hagley, Alcombe Coombe, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/656 for CT Hay Esq;
1922 adds Minehead Hospital, The Avenue, Minehead, Som D/U/M/ 22/1/657
1923 minor alts Foresters Arms, Dunster, Som, to window and door on front and inside; D/R/wil/24/1/47;
1924 Newcombe’s West Somerset Stores & Restaurant, The Avenue, Minehead, Som; now Owl’s Restaurant; RL; on corner The Avenue and Blenheim Rd
1924 Nine cotts off Church St, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/665 WE Dewar bldr;
1925 adds Netherleigh, Blenheim Rd, Minehead for WD Ackland Esq D/U/M/ 22/1/678;
1925 Village Hall, Porlock, Som; D/R/wil/24/1/55; FS laid 1925 by Lady Lovelace, parallel range added later.
1925-6 Village Hall, Alcombe, Minehead, Som; RL; FS laid 1925 by Lady Cromer;
19?? Adds Halsway Manor, Stogumber, Som; WWinA 1926;
1926 The Parks House, The Parks, Minehead; builder JW Burt & Sons; OD, Burt archive, for FC Clifford 1856-1931, prev of Hacketty Way, Porlock;
1927 Wyndham Hall, nr Taunton Castle, Taunton, Som; incorporating door from Spread Eagle, North St, dem for 1911 Taunton Post Office; lecture room for SANHS; SC notes;
1927 Municipal Hall, Taunton; SRO A/CMY/457; ?not built;
1927 Cottage, Gladstone St, Taunton, for Somerset Sanitary Steam laundry; D/B/ta/1/66/1260
1927 Tea-room behind White’s restaurant, High St, Taunton D/B/ta/1/ 66/1265; in White’s Court;
1927 Four houses, Holway, Taunton for W Lawrence; two side-entry pairs near Holway Hill; D/B/ta/1/66/1277
1927 Bungalow, Kingston Rd, Taunton; D/B/ta/1/66/1278;
1927 survey drawings, Grammar School, Corporation St, Taunton, Som SRO
1927 minor adds Egremont Hotel, Williton, Som SRO D/U/wil/24/1/62, re-roof garage, add toilets;
1928 Shops and garages, Bampton St, Minehead for Staddon & Sons; D/U/M/ 22/1/702
1928-9 St James’s Baths, St James’s St, Taunton, Som; £11000; plaque;
1929 new corridor Plume of Feathers, Minehead; dem; D/U/M/ 22/1/703
1930-1 alts St Andrew ch, Taunton, Som; decoration? TC 14.1.31
1932-3 Parish hall, St George RC ch, Taunton, Som TC 21.12.32, £1374, Mr Willman archt, JV Baker of Broadway contr;
1935 plans Barley Store, Rowbarton Brewery, Taunton; Perfectly Pure 94 ?not built; site cleared 1982;
1935 RC church, Keynsham, Som; SNB; R&W;
1935-7 Conversion of St Mary’s, Totterdown Hall, Oldmixon Rd, Uphill, Som, to home for mental defectives, 1935; SRO D/D/wsm/24/1/6892; adds to chapel 1937 24/1/6907;
1936 Gymnasium, St Teresa RC School, Friday St, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/ 763
1936-7 RC church, Mantle St, Wellington, Som; conversion of 1833 almshouses, by JHW; DOC 208;
1938 RC church, Milton, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO D/B/ wsm/24/1/7154;
(1938-9 RC ch, Dursley, Glos;
(1939 Sacred Heart RC ch, Westbury on Trym, Bristol;
1939-40 RC church, Glastonbury, Som; opened 6.7.40; SCG 6.7.40 Corsham stone by JW of R&W, high altar side altars and reredos Bath stone, circular stained glass ws over side altars, bldrs HW Pollard & Sons Bridgwater;
(1939-40 RC ch, Grange Court Rd, Westbury, Bristol; SNB, R&W;
Entry for JHH Willman in WWinA 1926 lists: Chapel Cleeve; Oakfield Milverton; farmhouse, cottages, laundry and adds to Watts House, Bishops Lydeard for Sir D Boles; library and other buildings Queens College, Taunton; adds to Thorncombe nr Halsway; adds Halsway Manor; adds Staplegrove House; adds Combe Florey House; adds Easterlands Wellington; adds Wall House, Bagborough; new houses at Taunton, Minehead, Alcombe, Hatch Beauchamp and Bishop's Lydeard; boardroom and offices for Fox & Co Wellington; housing scheme Wiveliscombe; business premises shops and cafe Minehead; village halls Porlock and Alcombe; Garage Ilminster; hotels at Teignmouth Devon; Tiverton Devon; Minehead and Wellington;
ROBERTS, ERNEST A. Birmingham. Architect to Regal Cinema chain. Possibly Ernest S Roberts. Inf Hornby, 90 yrs of cinema in Somerset.
1934 Regal Cinema, Shepton Mallet, Som; dem;
1934-5 Regal Cinema, Priory Rd, Wells, Som; SC notes;
1939 Regal Cinema, Cheddar, Som; opened Sept 39;
(1939 Regal Cinema, Devizes, Wilts; dem; WBR, Ernest S Roberts;
ROBERTS, FREDERICK WILLIAM 2 Hammett St, Taunton. Northbrook Lodge, Staplegrove Rd 1906. MSA. FRIBA. 1859-1932 Born Manchester, articled HJ Snell Plymouth, came to Taunton as assistant 1881 to Samson & Cottam, Taunton. Worked for GWR as architectural engineer for nine years, set up 1892 in Taunton but did much work in Minehead after 1892 when asked to survey town sewers; OD; Chief architect for 25 years to Arnold & Hancock, brewers, Wiveliscombe, Som; partnership 1911 with John H Willman cf Roberts & Willman; Willman continued firm as Roberts & Willman after 1932 cf entry in WWinA 1926: Comp entries: Mount Nebo estate, Taunton; large elementary school Taunton with H Dare Bryan qv. Works: large & small country houses; adds The Manor, Staplegrove, Taunton; adds Watts House, Bishops Lydeard, Som; adds Bishopmead, Taunton; adds Halsway Manor, Som; adds Chapel Cleeve Manor, Old Cleeve, Som; numerous detached country cottages; elementary school Taunton; Askwith Memorial School, Taunton; alts and adds numerous country schools; hostels and other blocks Taunton School, Taunton; Chapel and Sunday Schools, Wellington; Hotel, Taunton; Hotel, Minehead; Electric Light Power-station, Taunton; lay-out of seven estates; 300 working-class dwellings, Taunton; 80 working-class dwellings Wellington; Masonic Hall, Minehead; Young Men’s Institute, Minehead; obit TC 27.7.32 well-known freemason and golfer; architect to Wiveliscombe UDC in 1913 and into 1930s;
1888 Victoria St WM chapel, Taunton, Som; TC 25.7.88; Rendell & Son of Obridge, Taunton, bldrs;
1890 minor adds Ashill parsonage, Som; D/D/Bbm/271;
1891 building for YMCA, Taunton, Som, J Spiller bldr; opened TC 4.2.91; not the YMCA gym Middle St as this is dated 1896;
1891-2 alts to ?, Taunton, Som, WG 26.2.92, £400, J Morse, Alma St, bldr;
1891-4 consulting engineer with James Taylor for Storage reservoir, Leigh Hill, Som for Taunton Corporation, H.T. Coles qv waterworks manager engineer and clerk of works, Bond & Hitchcock Taunton contrs; opened TC 28.2.94; near Blagdon Reservoir of 1879;
1896 Row of three houses, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, Som; between RC ch and Blair Lodge; plans SRO D/U/M/22/1/20; now Nos. 12-16 Townsend Rd, stone with some half-timber in gables;
1896 Six houses, Alcombe Rd, Minehead D/U/M/24/1/15; with bay windows rubble and ashlar with little ogee-pointed hoods on parapet of bay and over door; FWR of 2 Hammet St, Taunton; J Burgess bldr; OD13;
1896 Sewer, Bancks St, Minead for Luttrell estate; OD15;
1896 Eight houses, The Butts, Selbourne Place, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/22 for Mr Hurford; OD17 four houses Selbourne Pl for Hurford no date;
1896 Masonic Hall, Minehead, Som; OD; WWinA 1926; bldr John Burgess, carving on pediment by WJ Giles, Taunton; opened 18.6.96; new Masonic Lodge added at back 1923;
1897 Six houses, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, Som for J Burgess & Sons; D/U/M/ 22/1/29; villas Townsend Rd OD;
1897 Six houses, Glenmore Rd, Minehead for Burgess & Sons; OD24
1897 Alts Magdalene St, Taunton, Som; C: BJ 15.8.97
1898 ward at ?hospital, ?Taunton; TC 26.10.98
1898 plans footpaths etc and new street, Summerland Ave, Minehead, Som for Luttrell estate; FWR of Hammet St Taunton; D/U/M/22/1/37; OD32;
1898 villas, Bancks St, Minehead; for G Crocker, OD35; also pair in 1901
1899 York House, The Avenue, Minehead; OD; two houses The Avenue for J Burgess & Sons OD39;
1899 urinal, Wellington Inn, Minehead, Som D/U/M/22/1/61;
1899ff Swallowfield estate, Station Rd, Wellington, Som for Wellington Industrial Cooperative Soc; first house was Grangemount, No. 6 Station Rd, 1899 for FW Bowerman, then Station Rd and three streets named after Co-op heroes Owen St, Mitchell St, Holyoake St.
1899 two villas, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead; JBurgess bdr; OD79;
1900 Laid out Irnham St, Minehead, Som from Summerland St to Selbourne Pl for GF Luttrell; D/U/M/22/1/84; OD81;
1900 Laid out Tregonwell Rd, Minehead, for GF Luttrell; D/U/M/ 22/1/85; OD82;
1900 Laid out Northfield Rd, Minehead, for Minehead Land Co; D/U/M/22/1/ 86; OD83;
1900 Laid out Weirfield Rd, Minehead, for Minehead Land Co, D/U/M/22/1/ 95; OD91;
1900 workshop and stables, Bancks St, Minehead for W Harrison; D/U/M/22/ 1/110; Wm Harrison builder Bancks St 1906 dir
1900 sewers, Quay Lane, Minehead for Minehead Land Co; D/U/M/22/1/97; OD93; sewer Tregonwell Rd OD94;
1900-1 Sea-wall, Minehead, OD; and lay-out for pier cf JJ Webster;
1901 Highnam, Northfield Rd, Minehead, for Thomas Joyce; D/U/M/22/1/102; now Channel House, OD96;
1901 Pair of houses, Bancks St, Minehead, for Wm Harrison builder; D/U/M/22/1/116; OD111;
1901 Building plan for North Hill estate, Minehead, Som; Lamplugh, Minehead & Dunster, p88;
1901 House, Carhampton, Som for James Watts D/R/wil/24/1/3 across road NW of Butchers Arms;
1901 Offices, 21 The Avenue, Minehead, for JR Davis, D/U/M/22/1/117; OD112; JR Davis solicitor at 18 The Avenue 1906; also drainage, restaurant, sea-front for JDavis, OD113;
1901 sewer along Esplanade, Minehead for GF Luttrell; D/U/M/22/1/118;
1901-2 Alts and adds, B chapel, The Parks, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/129; enlarged but interior fittings removed 2001, OD123; chapel of 1831-2 by – Cocks qv;
1901 Stables, Back Lane, Friday St, Minehead for Mr Staddon; D/U/M/ 22/1/130; OD124; Wm Staddon & Son cab proprietors Friday St 1906;
1901 Red Lion, Quay St, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/131; OD125; now Inn on the Quay;
1902 Pair of houses, Martlet Rd, Minehead; lot 9 on North Hill estate; for JH Leather; D/U/M/22/1/133; OD127, first of Leather’s developments;
1902 Pair of houses, North Hill, Minehead, lot 3 on estate; for AJ Spiller qv Taunton bldr, D/U/M/22/1/137; probably Henley Villa and Mount Royal; OD131;
1902 Pair of cottages, Church Rd, Minehead nr church, for JH Leather D/U/M/22/1/147; OD140;
1902 Four cottages, Quay St, Minehead, for GF Luttrell; D/U/M/22/1/142; OD136;
1902 Sawmills, timbersheds, stables and offices, North Rd, Minehead for Kent Ridler; D/U/M/22/1/151; OD144; Thomas Kent Ridler timber merchant North Rd 1906 dir;
1902 Stables Quay St/ New Rd, Minehead for T Joyce; D/U/M/22/1/155; stables North Hill for T Joyce OD148;
1902 Sewer North Rd, Minehead for GF Luttrell; OD142;
1903 Sewer, Summerland Ave, Minehead for GF Luttrell OD162;
1903 Pair semi-detached houses corner Irnham Rd & Friday St, Minehead, Som for Francis Parker, D/U/M/22/1/163; Wallen House & Belvedere, OD156;
1903 Billiard-room, store and WCs, Wellington Hotel, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/173; OD165;
1903 Eleven cottages, Bampton St, Minehead, for John W Burt qv; D/U/M/ 22/1/177; OD169;
1903 House and stables Irnham Rd, Minehead, for Passmore & Derrick bldrs; D/U/M/ 22/1/179; OD171;
1903 Stables, Friday St, Minehead, for A Staddon; OD162a;
1903 House, The Parks, Minehead for Harold Cossins, ?developer; D/U/M/ 22/1/180; ?same as Lower Cleeve; OD172 says house for Mr Collins;
1903 Lower Cleeve, The Parks, Minehead, JW Burt & Sons bldrs; OD, for Harold Cossins; change of use to hotel 1946;
1903-4 C Sunday School, Bancks St, Minehead, Som; plans D/U/M/ 22/1/191 for Sunday school by FWR and church ?by FN Butler; OD185; TC 4.11.03, 8.6.04; church was not built and Sunday school became the C chapel now UR church, Bancks St built in 1904, added church hall by Edwin Gunn qv;
1904 Stables, Martlett Rd, Minehead for JH Leather; D/U/M/ 22/1/196; stables North Hill OD189;
1904 Four semi-detached houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/202 for J Burgess bldr; OD195;
1904 alts stables, Bilbao House, Dulverton, Som for Dr Collyns; D/R/dul/24/1/24; RJ Collyns, surgeon, Bilbao Ho 1906
1904 block of two houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead, Som for JB Marley bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/210; OD202;
1904 Four cottages, West St, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/213, for E Slade; OD205;
1904 Ten cottages, West St, Minehead for Francis Philps bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/214; OD206 Cottages, Pit Park estate, West St;
1904 Pair of houses and shops, Friday St, Minehead, for F Parker, bldr. D/U/M/ 22/1/217; OD210;
1904? New classrooms and corridor, Taunton, School, Som; AJ Spiller contr, £2500, undated advert by Spiller reproduced in Chipchase & Cole The Taunton Book 14;
1904-9 Upper part, Friday St, Minehead; OD;
1905 Laid out Pit Park estate, Bampton St, Minehead for GF Luttrell; D/U/M/ 22/1/225; OD218;
1905 Six houses, Glenmore Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/229 for J Burt, bldr; OD221;
1905 Three shops, Friday St, Minehead for F Parker & Sons bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/246; OD233;
1905 laid out Whitegate Rd, Minehead ,'new road between Alcombe Rd and Porlock road; plan shows Mr cox's site on SW corner White Lodge, and Dr Henry's site Kildare Lodge before Blair lodge; D/U/M/22/1/260; ?OD242 says road plan by A Cuthill;
1906 The Cottage, Coppleham, Exton, Som for Hon TH Watson; D/R/dul/ 24/1/32 large house by RQuarme/R Exe junction with coachmans cottage and long hipped stables; hipped red tiles, also D/R/dul/24/1/37 re drains;
1906 House and business premises, No. 3 The Parks, Minehead for J Webber; D/U/M/ 22/1/342; James Webber nurseryman The Parks 1906; The Vegetable Garden 1907 shop & house by FWR, for James Webber 1856-1932, later James, opticians, SB.
1906 Eight cottages Churr Steep, Minehead for F Parker & Sons bldrs; D/U/M/ 22/1/247; OD258;
1906 three shops, Friday St, Minehead, for Staddon; D/U/M/ 22/1/257; OD239; Wm Staddon & Son cab proprietors Friday St 1906; plan only, quite close to Wellington Sq on W, alts new shopfronts, addition of bay first floor right;
1907 sewer, North Rd, Minehead for GF Luttrell OD325
1907 House, The Parks, Minehead, for J Webber OD326
1907 laid out new road, Friday St, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/322 for GF Luttrell;presumably Quirke St, OD309;
1907 Slade’s monumental masonry shop, Friday St/ New Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/296; OD 307; D/U/M/22/1/321; is this No 24 Friday St on corner Quirke St? Cf also 22/1/319;
1907 Workshop and stable, corner Friday St and New Rd, Minehead, presumably Slade’s coner Friday St and Quirke St; D/U/M/ 22/1/319; for J Hurford bldr; OD308, ?OD306; cf above;
1907 Pair of cotts, Higher Town, Minehead, Som for JB Marley; D/U/M/ 22/1/316; OD304;
1907 Premises for A Staddon, Friday St, Minehead; OD285;
1907-8 North Town Board Schools, Taunton, possibly designed with HD Bryant qv; SAS; WwinA 1914;
1908 alts Pier Hotel, The Quay, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/239; new excursion bar and refreshment room above on end of stables;
1908 six pairs semi-detached houses, King Edward Rd, Minehead, Som for Passmore & Derrick bldrs D/U/M/ 22/1/285; OD275;
1908 ?adds The Manor, Staplegrove, Som for HG Turner; dated 1908; WWiA 1926; also cottage dated HGT 1908 N of junction with A358?
1909 Houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead; for JB Marley; OD276;
1909 Add Osborne House, Trull Rd, Taunton; SRO; D/B/ta/24/1/40/523; added bay on left end.
1909 No 16 Winchester St, Priory Av, Taunton, same des 2-16, plain terrace; D/B/ta/24/1/40/516;
1909 covered playground and adds around swimming-pool, Taunton School, Som; D/B/ta/24/1/40/494
1909 Headmaster’s House, Taunton School, Som; D/B/ta/24/1/40/493
1909 Alts house, Friday St, Minehead for J Staddon; D/U/M/22/1/302 OD290; and motor-house D/U/M/ 22/1/306 OD294, Friday St;
1909 Workshop, Stansell & Son, rear of East St, Taunton; D/B/ta/24/1/40/506;
1910 Furniture store, stables etc, Orchard St, Minehead, for A Staddon D/U/M/ 22/1/396; OD336 also furniture store off Friday St OD377;
1910 House, Friday St, Minehead for A Staddon; OD337;
1910 Pair of cotts nr St Michael ch, Minehead D/U/M/22/1/390 for A Staddon; St Michael's Rd OD371;
1911-12 Wills boarding-houses, Taunton School, Som; two semi-det hostels for 32 boys and 3-4 masters with house for married master in each; contr Potter & Sons Taunton, PC 116n; plans 1909 SRO D/B/ta/24/1/43/611;
1912 Askwith memorial chapel, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; SE chapel, proposed screens on 3 sides, dado panelling and similar reredos; SRO D/D/cf/ 1912/49;
1912 Villa, Martlet Rd, Minehead for Miss Allen OD421
1912 store, Quirke St, Minehead for JH Hurford, OD436; and stables and workshops Quirke St for Hurford OD440;
1912 stable, King Edward Rd, Minehead for Capt russell; OD442
1912 Det house and stable, Minehead for JH Hurford OD448;
1913 Det house, King Edward Rd, Minehead, for Mr Derrick; OD479;
1913 alts Wellington Hotel, Minehead; OD464
1913 Motor garage, Quirke St, Minehead; for A Staddon; OD467
1913 semi-det house, Quirke St, Minehead, for JH Hurford OD478;
1913 ref to FWR being architect to Wiveliscombe UDC, TC 8.10.13; housing scheme Wivleiscombe, WwinA 1926;
1913 new dining-room and alts, Blair Lodge, Townsend Rd, Minehead, for Miss Heather; OD501;
1913 alts and add The Avenue Hotel, Minehead, for H Westacott; OD503;
1913 additional shops, Quirke St, Minehead, for Slade Bros; OD514
1913 cottage, Quirke St, Minehead, for JH Hurford OD529
1913-14 large adds Chapel Cleeve House, Old Cleeve, Som, for GS Lysaght; adds mentioned in WWinA 1926; RL attributes adds to EV Harris qv; dated 1914 on porch and on plaster by George Bankart.
1914 Village hall, East Quantoxhead, Som, inf DCrighton; with bath-house and library;
1914 cotts, Watery Lane, Minehead, Som for Slade Bros OD517;
1915 adds Quay Lane Cottage, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/575, for Miss M Allen; 1916 OD556; and new dining-rm 1919 D/U/M/ 22/1/600 OD610;
1922 House, Staplegrove Road, Taunton, Som, for Charles Paul, next Hamdon Villa; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/890;
1922 Showroom, Marshalsea Bros Ltd, Wellington Rd, Taunton; single-st monopitch on roadside; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/885;
1922 rear adds Yondercot, Cheddon Rd, Taunton, Som, for EA Marshalsea; rear bedroom; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/884;
1925 Village hall, Porlock, Som; WwinA 1926; inf D Crighton; looks like a design of Countess of Lovelace qv who gave the hall;
Also des for movable market stall, SRO A/CMY/551;
Entry for JHH Willman in WwinA 1926 lists: Chapel Cleeve; Oakfield Milverton; farmhouse, cottages, laundry and adds to Watts House, Bishops Lydeard for Sir D Boles; library and other buildings Queens College, Taunton; adds to Thorncombe nr Halsway; adds Halsway Manor; adds Staplegrove house; adds Combe Florey House; adds Easterlands Wellington; adds Wall House, Bagborough; new houses at Taunton, Minehead, Alcombe, Hatch Beauchamp and Bishop's Lydeard; boardroom and offices for Fox & Co Wellington; housing scheme Wiveliscombe; business premises shops and cafe Minehead; village halls Porlock and Alcombe; Garage Ilminster; hotels at Teignmouth Devon; Tiverton Devon; Minehead and Wellington;
ROBERTS, HENRY 1803-76. Architect, GG Scott worked with him early in Scott’s career, and there met WB Moffatt. HC. Des London Bridge Station c1841-4, specialist in model dwellings for poor; James Stevens Curl, The Life and Work of Henry Roberts, 1983.
1842-3 Norton Manor, Norton Fitzwarren, Som; RA 1843; later officer’s mess Norton Manor Camp, RL; for C Noel Welman 1814-1907; Tudor Gothic; HC;
ROBERTS, HUGH D. Bath. Hugh Roberts & Partners, later Hugh Roberts, Graham & Stollar, with Harry Graham qv and – Stollar (HRG&S)
1948 rest No 2 Royal Crescent, Bath; C20 index;
1949 rest Royal Crescent Hotel, Bath; C20index;
1953 Phoenix house, Bath; 1953 HDA;
1955-8 SS Philip & James ch, Odd Down, Bath; HDR; 1957 H&F;
1961 Rosewell Court flats, Bath; AF text; HR;
1961-4 St Andrew ch, Walcot, Bath, Som; HR&P
(c1967 rest No 9 Barton Orchard, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR2,
(1969-72 alts Daubenys, High St, Colerne, Wilts; converted barn to part of house;
(c1970 ?rest Priory Barn, Newtown, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR2, for Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust; Hugh Roberts & Ptnrs;
1983 rest Ralph Allen Cottages, Widcombe, Bath; AFtext; HRG&S;
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM Builder, Bristol.
(1847-8 bldr Workhouse, Calne, Wilts; T Allom, archt, dem; WBR; Wilts Indep 20.3.48)
ROBINS, E.C. Architect, London, schools specialist.
(1880 Technical Schools, Bristol ill Br 30.1.97; alts 1906 by AWS Cross, SNB; Merchant Venturers Technical College, Unity St;
ROBINS, THOMAS Bath Painter. Advert Bath Journal 30.10.1752 offers art teaching and preparation of ‘perspects and prospective views of gentlemen’s seats’; HGS 99 thinks he may have done designs also and cites Davenport, Salop, where Robins painted in 1750s having Gothick features as at Painswick, Glos. He sketched Widcombe Manor, Bath, Som, ?des things there.
ROBINSON & GORDON London AW Robinson and George H Gordon qv
1891 alts Wambrook ch, Som, vestry, reseat and reps; inspection by Thomas Garner, ICBS rejected, no plans in archive; VCH says faculty 1892 to take down chancel exc S wall and renew nave roof??
1895 alts Wambrook ch, Som; reseating; rejected ICBS; by GHG alone; no plans.
ROBINSON, FRANK JAMES Architect, 26 Longfellow Av, Bath, LRIBA, WWinA 1926; at 20 High St Keynsham 1931 dir;
ROBINSON, G.E. Cardiff See Paull & Robinson
ROBINSON, G.T. Manchester. See Paull & Robinson
ROBINSON, WALTER Architect, London 1833-1918 born Over, Cambs, articled WG & ME Habershon, 1861 practice in Cambridge before joining CE Giles qv in 1866 in London when Giles fell ill and was living in Brentwood, practice lasted 1866-9, given up Giles claims because of Robinson's drinking; WR returned to practice in Ely, Cambs, FRIBA 1882; retired by 1901 to Hunstanton; see CE Giles.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM Architect gave evidence in case against arsonist John Butler BC 17.8.1780 in anti-popery riots that he had built the 'long-room called a chapel' for the RC priest john Brewer, in St James Place, Bath, ;
ROCHE, J. J. ?Architect Glastonbury, possibly error for J. J. Rocke, businessman in town who promoted station hotel;
1857 Hotel and three cottages, nr Station, Glastonbury, Som; BN 1857 319;
ROE, JOHN Carpenter
1825 alts Baptist chapel, Hatch Beauchamp, Som; new galleries, pulpit etc £40; masonry by Solomon Edwards £56; chapel history;
ROFE, LAPWORTH & KENNARD Engineers
1976-9 Wimbleball Reservoir, Brompton Regis, Som; contractor Bovis, landscape by Sylvia Crowe; inf John Willows, Wessex Water;
ROFE & RAFFETY Engineers
1956-9 , Clatworthy Reservoir and Dam, Somerset, and Maundown Treatment Works, Wiveliscombe; for Taunton water supply, S Colwyn Foulkes qv architect; opened 6.7.61; inf John Willows, Wessex Water;plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/ 183 allby R&R except one forsmall workmen's mess and garage by Foulkes;
ROGERS, HAROLD SYDNEY. 119 St Aldates, Oxford. Born 1877, was assistant to JT Micklethwaite and continued his practice; WWinA 1926; des St Luke ch, Cowley, Oxford; reredos in S aisle Oxford cathedral; reredos Chingford ch, Essex, 1923; may have been inv w WH Randoll Blacking’s 1938 screen at Bruton, Som (NADFAS inventory Bruton ch); WWinA 1926;
1920 War memorial chapel fittings, Bruton ch, Som; D/D/cf/1920/24: reredos and war mem panel in N aisle for King's School, Bruton.
(1930 alts Sherrington ch, Wilts; WBR)
ROGERS, J. MECHELEN. Architect, Bristol, pupil of Pope Bindon & Clark Bristol now of 51 Hungerford Rd, Camden Villas, London, AEBTD 1868. Died 1889 in Brighton aged 57, worked in design dept of War Office, ARIBA 1870. Br 14.12.89;
(18?? St Nicholas Chambers Bristol; AEBTD 1868)
(1873 carcase of warehouse, Bristol; T Br 8.2.73)
ROGERS, WILLIAM Cannon, Row, Westminster.
1854 Surveyed Culverhayes House, Chard, Som, to assess suitablility for purchase as parsonage; plans SRO D/D/Bbm/121
ROLFE, WILLIAM BENJAMIN Architect, Bath; 1868-1952, see Rolfe & Peto;
1909 bridge over lake, Royal Victoria Park, Bath; photograph RIBAD;
19?? mens club for St Paul's church in old Jewish synagogue; photo RIBAD;
1909 semi-detached villas, Claverton Down, Bath; photo RIBAD;
19?? semi-detached villas, Marlborough Lane, Bath; photos RIBAD;
ROLFE & CROZIER-COLE Architects, Bath; William Benjamin Rolfe qv and Alan Crozier-Cole qv; see also Rolfe & Peto
1946 Nursery Lodge, Oldfield La, Bath; bungalow; photos RIBAD;
ROLFE & PETO Architects, 1 Belmont Bath, 1931 dir. William Benjamin Rolfe & Gilbert Eyre Peto, continued WJ Willcox practice at 1 Belmont, continued by Alan Crozier-Cole. Alan Rome qv worked with Rolfe & Crozier Cole 1960s. Rolfe is called architect and surveyor to St John's Hospital, Bath, in 1909 BC 23.9.09;
1921 Weston Lodge estate, Bath, layout design road and 21 bungalows, design for one bungalow; RIBAD
1921 alts Old Dolemeads Schoolroom, Bath filed with Crozier-Cole papers RIBAD CrA/11/3
1922 bungalow, Charlcombe La, Bath for Mrs Sharpe; RIBAD;
1922 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath for MrsAdamson; RIBAD
1922 bungalow, Quarry Corner, Combe Down, Som for GE Baker; RIBAD
1922 conv of barn to house, Charlcombe, Som; RIBAD;
1922 alts The Garibaldi, Avon St, Bath; RIBAD;
1923 two bungalows, Richmond Park, Bath; RIBAD
1923 bungalow, Englishcombe La, Bath; RIBAD
1923 alts Fuller's Garage, Kingsmead St, Bath; RIBAD;
1923-4 house, Wellsway, Bath for Capt Ludlow-Wood; RIBAD; folder for house at Wellsway 1924-5 CrA/13/4 in Crozier-Cole papers RIBAD
1924 shop, 23 Wellsway, Bath; RIBAD;
1924 Church hall, Combe Down, Som design RIBAD;
1924 house, Van Diemens Lane, Bath; RIBAD;
(1924 housing scheme, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; RIBAD
1924 bungalow, Charlcombe Lane, Bath; RIBAD;
1924 house with integral garage, Charlcombe Lane, Bath RIBAD;
1924 Cottage, Upper Swainswick, Som; RIBAD;
1924 alts No 93 (actually No 9) Sydney Place, Bath; RIBAD;
1924 adds Whitings Garage, Barton St & Beaufort Sq, Bath; RIBAD
1924 bungalow, Hinton Charterhouse, Som; RIBAD;
1924 ceiling repairs St Matthew ch, Widcombe, Bath; RIBAD;
(c1925 unid stone house, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; photos RIBAD;
1924-5 reps St Matthew ch, Widcombe, Bath; ICBS;
(1925 alts Budbury Farm, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; RIBAD; plans WRO G13/760/162 for Misses Pearson Godwin;
1925 house, Charlcombe La, Bath for AE Knee; RIBAD;
1925 Northcote, Englishcombe La, Bath for JG Ponting RIBAD
1927 bungalow, Beacon Hill, Bath for Dr JS Carpenter; RIBAD;
1927 House, Freshford, Som for AE Bonner; RIBAD; ?same as house at Freshfords, Limpley Stoke file CrA/14/3
1927 house, Combe Down, Bath for Miss Rivington; RIBAD;
1928 garden layout, Widcombe Manor, Bath, Som; RIBAD; 1929-30 terrace gardens & conv of garden house, Widcombe Manor, SNB; plans RIBAD ?Widcombe Manor Farm c1929, C20text; ?farm gardens and alts?
1928 alts Ashwick Court, Oakhill Som RIBAD;
1928 adds Freshford Hall, Freshford, Som; RIBAD
192? alts No 38 St James Sq, Bath inc new shopfront for Hawes Whiston & Co; RIBAD;
1928 Pollard Ash, Greenway La, Bath for WJ Ainsworth; RIBAD;
(1928 alts Rudloe Hall, Box, Wilts; RIBAD; for Sir Felix Brunner;
1929 adds Glenavon, Lansdown Bath; RIBAD; Glenavon was James Wilson's house;
1929 Elm Lea, Englishcombe La, Bath; house for F Stevens; RIBAD;
1929 alts East Harptree Manor, Som for Mrs Wardell-Yarbrugh; RIBAD
1930 alts Poppleton's Garage, London Rd, Bath; RIBAD;
1930 house and garage, Hawarden Terrace, Bath; RIBAD, file CrA/14/4 1930-1;
1930 heating system, Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse, Som; RIBAD
1930 alts to houses and stables, Hazlegrove estate, Sparkford, Som; RIBAD;
1931 alts Seaborough Court, Crewkerne, Som alts terrace stairway and des for sawmill;
1931 house, Southdown Rd, Bath for C Langdon; RIBAD;
1932 semi-det pair, Bloomfield Rd Bath for FJ Amery & sons; RIBAD;
1932 Lansdown Park estate, Bath, layout plan and design for a house; RIBAD;
1932 alts Circus Tavern, Circus Place, Bath; RIBAD
1933 conv Nos 17-18 Norfolk Cres Bath into flats for Tenement Venture Trust; RIBAJ;
1933 sign, Widcombe Church Schools, Bath; RIBAD;
1933-4 alts Iford Manor, Wilts for Michael Peto RIBAD; added two storeys to single storey courtyard range;
(1934 reps Westwood ch, Wilts; WBR)
(1934 alts Martins Farm, Colerne, Wilts; RIBAD, now St Martins, Thickwood, Colerne)
1934 Water-tower, Lytes Cary, Som; RIBAD; in form of dovecote; for Sir W Jenner;
1935 solarium, Bewdley, Prior Park Rd, Bath for H Stanley Taylor; RIBAD;
1935 two houses, North Rd, Bath for CW Thring and GHS Rittner; RIBAD;
1935 alts Belvedere Wine Vaults, Bath; RIBAD;
1936 conv stables, Iford Manor for Michael Peto; RIBAD; building is partly in Wilts?;
1936 Lansdown Croft, College Rd, Bath, house for Sidney Robinson; RIBAD;
1936 semi-det pair, Greenway La, Bath; RIBAD;
1937 design for drive and forecourt, Ammerdown, Kilmersdon, Som and alts to hall; RIBAD; for Lord Hylton;
1937 Foxwitchen, Withypool, Som for FH Norton, house and lodge; RIBAD;
1937 design for Vicarage, Bathford, Som for AP Sturge; RIBAD;
1938 house, Fersfield estate, Foxhill, Bath for T Abbott & Son; RIBAD;
1957 Foxhill ch, Combe Down, Bath, Som; R&CC;
1960 Priest’s desk and stall, Wilton ch, Taunton, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1960/2/4; R&CC;
Also ?Twerton Higher Elementary School, Bath undated paers RIBAD;
ROLFE JUDD PARTNERSHIP
1988-9 reblt N side Bath St, Bath; AFtext;
ROME, ALAN MACKENZIE OBE FRIBA 11 Mayfair Ave, Nailsea. 1930-2010, worked with wife Mary L Rome ARIBA. Drawings in SRO and register of works. Worked at Wells Cathedral (JW);
1962 Altar frontal, St John ch, Taunton, Som w Michael Torrens, SRO D/D/cf/1962/3/21; carved and gilded timber. Gilding was done by Comper pupil Burchardt; AF note;
1963 reps tower Pitcombe ch, Som; SRO D/cf/1963/10/7 AMR w Rolfe & Crozier Cole
1964-5 rerender Wyke Chamflower ch, Som; AMR with Rolfe & Crozier Cole; SRO D/cf/ 1964/7/15 & 1965/12/8;
1965-7 repairs Bruton ch, Som; ICBS; restored gilding and colour to C18 chancel;
1966 Churchyard cross rest, also lectern, Backwell ch, Som; AF text;
1966-9 reps North Curry ch, Som; ICBS;
1968-9 SE chapel altar and fittings, Bishop’s Hull ch, Som; SRO d/d/cf/1968/12/2: altar, dorsal rod, cross, candlesticks, 5-branch chandelier;
1968-9 repairs Aller ch, Som; ICBS;
1969-70 reps Burrington ch, Som; ICBS
1969 reps Chillington ch, Som; ICBS
1969-70 reps Dowlish Wake ch, Som; ICBS;
1969-70 reps Kingston Seymour ch, Som; ICBS;
1970 chancel roof Bathford ch, Som; after fire; AFtext;
1970 reps Stogumber, ch, Som w Audrey Jenkins; SRO
1971 tower screen, Pilton ch, Som; SRO D/D/1971/2/6; alts to vestry in tower;
1971 reps Woodlands ch, Som; faculty SRO;
1973 reps Dowlish Wake ch, Som; ICBS;
1973 reps Hinton Blewitt ch Som; reject ICBS;
1973-6 repairs Templecombe ch, Som; ICBS Abbas;
1974 enlarged chancel, chapel, Kings College, Taunton, Som; organ moved here 1980;
1974-6 reps Butcombe ch, Som; ICBS; Stansell & Sons contrs;
1975-6 reps East Brent ch, Som; ICBS;
1976 reps Backwell ch, Som; ICBS;
1976 reps Chilcompton ch, Som; ICBS;
1976-7 reps Chipstable ch, Som; ICBS;
1977 reps North Curry ch, Som; ICBS;
1978-9 reps Marksbury ch, Som; ICBS;
ROOS, Colonel ALEXANDER c1810-81. Architect to the Bute Trustees, Cardiff, Glamorgan, 1851-68. Also landscape architect worked at Shrubland Pk Suffolk w Charles Barry. R Garnier in Georgian Group Journal 25 1996 11-68
c1839-50 garden alts Claverton Manor, Som, for George Vivian inherited 1828. Letters 1843-50 in Scottish Record Office, HGS 178. Drawing for a gatepier ‘at Mr Vivian’s Lodge, Claverton, 1839’ in Shrubland archives. Possibly Keeper’s or Alpine Lodge, Claverton, Som.
18?? Garden terrace, Tyntesfield, Som for William Gibbs; HGS 178, on W front; advised on top and lower terraces, Broad Walk, lake, and ‘Paradise’ arboretum;
(1850s Windsor Place, Cardiff, Glam ; BoW 217-8)
(1854-6 All Saints ch, Tyndall St, Cardiff, Glam, for Marchioness of Bute; Orrin 27-8; Br 26.4.56; £4000; Wm Griffiths of Cardiff contr; neo-Norman; built as the Welsh church closed 1901 dem 1980.
(1857-8 nave Hirwaun ch, Glam; BoW 365; Orrin 62-3; Cambr 27.4.57; £1680; ICBS grant refused for poor design; CMG 24.7.58; contr Wm Dork Cardiff; chancel and S chapel 1883-4 EM Bruce Vaughan; 1907-8 N aisle vestry and organch G E Halliday )
(1860? Dock Chambers, Bute St, Cardiff; BoW 269
(1860-2 West lodge, Cardiff Castle, Glam; BoW 200)
(1862-3 completed St Andrew ch, Cardiff, begun 1859 by Prichard & Seddon qv, to cheaper design; MD 49; Orrin 29; FS of Prichard church 21.6.60; Br 21.3.63; CMG 7.3.63; Roos did roof and chancel; Butterfield added transepts 1884-6.
(1867 planned St Margaret ch, Roath, Cardiff but foundations only, rest by John Prichard 1869-70; BoW 297; Orrin 37-8; old ch dem 1869, foundations laid by Roos but 3rd Marquess comng of age ordered demolition and new start w J Prichard)
ROUSSEAU, JACQUES 1630-95 Huguenot refugee in London 1685, worked on Montagu House, and as decorative painter. Howard Colvin attribs arch from Low Ham, Som, now at Hazlegrove House, Sparkford, Som, to Rousseau, possibly John Lord Stawell’s architect for abandoned great mansion of 1689-92; AH 44 2001 337;
ROW, WILLIAM Freemason, Bridgwater.
1708 Pier, Watchet Harbour, Som; WH Norman Tales of Watchet Harbour; agreed 1708 to build within two years for £1000, 550’ single pier in semi-circle; called William Rowe CL 28.3.1985 817;
ROWLEY, WILLIAM W. Engineer
1902 Organ loft, Wookey ch, Som; in tower, carried on iron columns and steel beam; oak front with neo-Renaissance gesso relief; £164; cf/1902/
ROWNTREE, FRED. Architect, 1860-1927, born Scarborough, Quaker, worked for Quakers. In practice in Scarborough, then 1890 with Malcolm Stark in Glasgow; partnership 1912 with sons Douglas & Colin Rowntree (FR&Sons); designed London office buildings; ASG.
1905 Headmaster’s house, Sidcot Friends School, Som; SNB; WWinA 1914;
ROWSELL, F. W. builder, Taunton
1892 contractor WM chapel, Rowbarton, Taunton; Br 1.10.92;
ROWSELL, JOHN Mason, Bickenhall.
1854-5 Manse, Baptist chapel, Hatch Beauchamp, Som; 1970 history by W Wigfield; carpentry by Samuel Blackmore; £254/19/9½d;
ROYDON COOPER ASSOCIATES Yeovil William Reginald Roydon-Cooper qv and S Lawson continued firm of Petter & Warren qv. David Young qv worked for firm.
1960-2 reps East Chinnock ch, Som; David Young of RCA; ICBS;
1963 Nos 57 and 59 Yew Tree Close, Yeovil; WRRC inf DM: No 57 an interesting house making ingenious use of a steeply sloping site, No 59 similar but altered. Terraced into hillside, incorporating series of interesting spaces that make dramatic use of the changes of level, clever use of shared light, spectacular views large roof-top terrace;
1963-4 Community of St Francis, Compton Durville, Som; buildings for community, hospital and chapel, FS 1963, opened 1964; VCH 4 182, ‘Royden Cooper’; reused bellcote from stable on site that had come from mill at Sandpit, Broadwindsor, Dorset, dated JS 1828, first placed on Compton Manor stables by Captain Firth, owner in 1931.
1966-7 reps Middle Chinnock ch, Som; RCA; ICBS;
1969 Maltravers House, Hendford, Yeovil, Som; offices for Somerset CC; inf Jack Sweet.
1973 Yeovil Crematorium, Som, RCA; AJ 1.8.73 226;
ROYDON-COOPER, WILLIAM REGINALD. Architect, Glenthorne Ho, Princes St, Yeovil, 1931 dir, ARIBA. Worked for Petter & Warren qv, continued firm as PW&C after war, later Roydon Cooper Associates qv.
1931 Upper storey, Vincent's Car showroom, Princes St and Court Ash, Yeovil, Som; letter CHAC 2105;
1932 Nobles Nap House, Combe Nap Lane, Yeovil, Som; for himself; SC notes; No 76 C20 index, by PW&RC
193? No 28 Swallowcliffe Gardens, Yeovil, Som; SC notes; 1930s C20index
1933-4 Nos. 78, 80, 82 & one other, Combe Knap Lane, Yeovil, Som, by WRRC, greatly altered. SC notes. Jack Sweet says formerly flat-roofed; by PW&RC C20 index
1947-8 reps Vicarage St WM, Yeovil, Som after bomb damage PW&C; centenary history 1970; windows by Hubert Blanchard of Exeter, furnishings by Raymond Bros, Yeovil, opened 2.12.48
1948-50 reps North Barrow ch, Som; ICBS; PW&C; ICBS;
1950-1 reps Middle Chinnock ch, Som; WRRC & S Lawson; ICBS;
1950-2 reps East Chinnock ch, Som; WRRC & S Lawson; ICBS;
Attr 193? No 175 Ilchester Rd, Yeovil, Som, flat roofed altered.
RUDMAN, WALTER Architect, Chippenham, son of Robert E Downing Rudman (1868-1938) of Downing & Rudman, builders, Chippenham; fought in WW1 bought out practice of TH Holloway of Chippenham c1921, died 1939, obit Wilts Gazette 16.11.39;
(1910? The Priory, Greenway La, Chippenham, Wilts; WBR)
(c1910? Greystones, Greenway Pk, Chippenham, Wilts; WBR)
(1910 and 1919 Arts and Crafts lettering in porch, Grittleton ch, Wilts, by WR, 'who died young'; BoE;
(1923 alts Chisenbury Priory, Enford, Wilts; WBR)
(c1925-39 Alts Cottage Hospital, Chippenham, Wilts, WBR)
(1930 Green Gables, Lowden Hill, Chippenham, Wilts, with owner Dr Hickson; WBR2)
(1934 Christ Church, Petherton Rd, Hengrove, Bristol; SNB; transepts and chancel 1939;
1934 moved facade of No 24 High St, Chippenham, Wilts, to Nos. 1-2 Sion Hill Place, Bath, Som, for Ernest Cook; WBR2; bldr Blackford & Sons of Calne; interiors of Nos 1-2 Sion Hill Place altered for Cook by Axford & Smith of Bath, facade was probably made for a house at Bowden Hill, Wilts, 1738 (1744 WBR), possibly designed by John Wood Sr qv, but was unfinished when owner died and was removed to c1749-77 to 24-25 High St, Chippenham,Wilts, moved to Bath 1934-6, SNB, house renamed Summerhill;
(1936 wk, St Mary's School, Calne, Wilts; WBR; BoE, reliefs by Mrs Birstingl;
RUMLEY, HENRY Queen Sq, Bristol, 1792-1855; Gomme 441; also did houses in Tenby, Pembs (see Wales Index), probably Frogmore Terrace, Lower Frog St; his nephew Charles Frederick Rumley practised in Bristol 1860-70; death of Eliza daughter of Mr Romley, architect of Bristol TC 29.1.1840; Tom Rumley, descendant, twrumley@; says two of Rumley's sons were listed as architects but died young, and probably never practised on their own; until c1835 employed Edwin Honeychurch who Landmark Trust consider designer of Millcombe House, Lundy Island, Devon;
1826 addition Sutherland House, Hutton, Som, inf Tom Rumley;
1832 Uphill Castle, Som; but SNB has adds or remodelling c1835 by HR for TT Knyfton Jr to a building called recently built in 1799 for Simon Payne; ?adds 1836 J Wilson; adds c1856 by James Wilson qv, SNB with interiors by JG Crace; ?by Wilson & Fuller; adds 1864 Wilson & Willcox qv for JJ Knyfton, plans RIBAD;
(1832-3 Frenchay ch, Glos; GJL; 1831-5 ICBS Henry Rumly;
(1833 Nos 1-9 Queen Sq, Bristol; GJL
(1835 repair steeple, Winterbourne ch, Glos: T: advert BM 10.7.35;
(1849 Gideon Chapel, Newfoundland St, Bristol; ABO 1849 280)
(1849 St Matthews School, Kingsdown, Bristol; ABO 1849 280
(1852 Nos 69-72 Coronation Rd, Bedminster, Bristol; GJL;
(c1854 housing in Bedminster and Southville, Bristol, including Southville Place and New Charlotte St; GJL;
Tom Rumley also mentions Royal Colonnade, Great George St, Bristol, and 116-118 York Buildings, York Rd, Bristol;
RUSSEL, JOHN Clerk of Works to E Vincent Harris in Taunton died WG 25.9.1936;
RUTHERFORD, JOHN. Architect in Office of Works qv London.
(c1907 Post Office, Walton on Thames, Surrey)
(1907 Post Office, Carmarthen, Carms;
(1907-8 Post Office, High St, Newport, Mon; Br 2.9.05; BoW 1905-7)
1911 Post Office, North St, Taunton, Som; Pollard & Son bldrs; Br 11.11.09; cf Julian Osley, Built for Service, 2010, 32;
(c1916 Post Office, Canterbury, Kent)
RYDER ARCHITECTURE Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow, London. Founded 1953 by Gordon Ryder recruited by Lubetkin to work on Peterlee New Town, Durham, set up with Peter Yates +1982 and later Ted Nicklin, major practice in the NE.
2012-14 Avon & Somerset Police Regional HQ, Express Park, Bridgwater, Som; PFI scheme with Bluelight Partnership and Miller Construction, with new Patchway police station, Gloucester Rd, Bristol, also by Ryder Architecture, and two projects by Haverstock Associates qv;
S & P ARCHITECTS London, Nottingham, Glasgow, Dublin. Keith Ashton Chief executive. Specialists in leisure pools eg Coral Reef 1987 Bracknell; Cardiff International Pool 2006-7; redev of Bristol Rovers FC ground 2007;
1998 Skyline Pavilion, Butlins Minehead, Som and also two others for Butlins at Skegness and Bognor Regis; 7,500 sq m, tensile roof of PVA coated polyester, made by Architen Landren at Chepstow;
SAINT ANNE’S GATE ARCHITECTS. The Close, Salisbury. Founded 2009 from Michael Drury Architects founded 1997 with Antony Feltham-King. Michael Drury in sole practice 1981-97 at St Anne's Gate having previously been with H. Dalton Clifford from 1976 at same address; worked for EH 1985-92, is cathedral architect at Salisbury from 1993 and Westminster RC from 1997; designed W front Portsmouth Cathedral, Hants 1984-2001; Salisbury work taken over from Alan Rome; rest of W front 1994-2000; Partner Antony Feltham-King cathedral architect to Gloucester and Arundel RC; designed visitor facilities at Salisbury Cathedral, temporary glass-roofed addition in The Plumbery, opened 2000, designed for ten-year life, involved with conservation of central tower 1994-6, conservation of cloisters 1993-5; new kitchen and WC at St Thomas ch, Salisbury, Wilts, 2004; reordered sanctuary St Martin ch, Salisbury 2006, with new mosaic altar; Michael Drury designed social housing Bower Chalke, Wilts, award, 1993;
20?? Oak-framed addition to village house in Som; website;
2011 reorder scheme St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; remove pews, stalls etc; relocate pulpit and monuments; remnant of a much larger scheme inc glass-fronted galleries;
SAINT AUBYN, FRANCIS WILLIAM Architect 1856-1920. See JP St Aubyn
SAINT AUBYN, JAMES PIERS l8l5-95. Church and country house architect. Born Worcs, pupil Fulljames of Gloucester. R Lloyd Williams and M Underwood were pupils of Fulljames also, later with JPStA before setting up in Denbigh. He practised in Devonport and London. ARIBA 1837, FRIBA 1856. Churches in Reading, Devonport, Plymouth and across Cornwall. St Mark, New Brompton, Kent, 1864-6; Cross in Hand ch, Sx, 1864; Christ Church, Erith, Kent 1874; Competitor Truro Cathedral; remodelled St Aubyn seat St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Polychrome interiors private chapel at Maristow l87l and Noss Mayo l882-5, Devon. Surveyor to Middle Temple 1851-85, retired 1885, but appears that continued works in Minehead until his death in 1895. Office 1893 Lamb Buildings, Temple, London EC; practice continued by his nephew, Francis William St Aubyn 1856-1920.
Retained architect of Dunster Castle estate, Som, from 1860s, first commission was for HF Luttrell +1867, then much more for GF Luttrell +1910, inc so much in Minehead, Som, that obituary said that he was ‘architect of more than three-fourths of the new houses in Minehead’; OD;
1846-8 alts Holbrook House, Wincanton, Som; GS, greatly enlarged house for Charles Barton, new stables and erected lodge; a board found was dated 21.2.48 inscribed saying seven carpenters from Cornwall and architect from London, 'JP St Amys architect', Thomas Way builder, - Francis, plumber, and – Goodfellow, painter, both from Wincanton, 'wee have a very dry job. No drink aloud, humbug and pirished' Vellei jowett, carpenter; sold in 1901 to JR Angerstein and rebuilt, possibly to design of Reginald Blomfield qv attributed VCH 7 173; BoE S says lodge by WE Nesfield qv;
(1848 Cerney Wick ch, Glos, BC 7.9.48 consec, E window by Rev A Moore former curate in parish, other glass by Mr Warde of London;
(1861-2 South Cerney ch, Glos; Oliver Estcourt builder Gloucester; WI 6.6.61, FS;
(1863 Pentre, Manordeifi Pmbs alts and repairs T: Br 19.9.63 £5000 for AH Saunders Davies, BN 18.9.63 £4,747 lowest.
1864-8 ?remodelled The Priory, Ditcheat, Som, for Rev WM Leir +1891; attributed by DoE, no evidence;
1865 alts Parsonage, Berkley, Som; SRO DD/Bbm/44; enlarged in gabled Gothic with sash windows;
1865-8 Midelney Place, Drayton, Som; Br 14.11.68 842; plan JF 160; for Edwin B Cely Trevilian of Midelney, Drayton, Som; 1865-6 bldr Maurice Davis of Langport, tender £5750, white Lias from site; Charles Fry clerk of works; trouble over contract letter from architect ‘Davis is the most unaccountable builder I have had to do with and I regret you did not eject him from the house 12 months ago .. I have written and spoken to Mr Davis until I am tire … you must act upon your agreement. I have noticed the condition of the hall floor – I fear your oak was not sufficiently seasoned’; completed 1870 £6013. Mounter 78-9;
1866-7 Parochial school & house, Middle St, Minehead, Som; RL; OD;
1867 ?pulpit, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; RL; no evidence for this in SRO cf/1867/1 and cf/1867/3 and Robin Bush JT 50-1 and 56 says pulpit is by Ferrey qv;
1868 vicarage, Dunster, Som; RL; OD; now Priory Court;
1868-9 Stuckeys Bank, No 8 The Parade, Minehead, Som; BMCS 1 p4 site leased from Luttrell estate 1868;
1870 tower, Carhampton ch, Som; VCH; SRO says plans by James Piess of Bristol D/D/cf/1868/1;
1870 ?Greenbank Villa, Blenheim Rd, Minehead for J Pearse, builder, attr OD; later was Carlton Hotel, dem 2003; may have been designed by Pearse qv;
(1870-81 St Mary ch, Woodland Rd, Bristol; SNB;
1871 Primary School, Dunster, Som; RL;
1871-3 ?Blenheim Terrace, Nos 7-17 Blenheim Rd, Minehead; attr OD, sim windows to Stuckeys Bank;
(1870-2 alts Chalcot House, Dilton Marsh, Wilts for C Phipps; BoE; WBR;
1872-3 rest Beckington ch, Som; 1872-80 ICBS; 1872-3 SNB: reredos by T Earp, decoration by Horwood Bros; repairs pews RL; Br 12.7.73 two windows by Horwood Bros also chancel ceiling; four chancel lamps by Singer of Frome; FP & G Brown contrs; £2146 estimate church history by M McGarvie 1990, stripped plaster, removed pews, W gallery and reopened W window, replaced tracery in clerestory and added pulpit, gave N aisle a pitched roof; tower restored 1896;
1875 attrib Esplanade Houses, Minehead, Som; attr OD; four houses, similar dormers to Pentre, nr Newchapel, Pmbs, altered by JPStA;
(1876-8 Holy Trinity private chapel, Pentre, Manordeifi, Pmbs; dem; PHist 7 l98l; W 17.1.79; Pulpit and font in Manordeifi new ch, some stained glass at Scolton Manor)
1877 Coastguard Station, The Esplanade, Minehead, Som; OD; house for chief coastguard and terrace of three houses backing onto North Rd.
1877 ?Bond’s Corner, No 2 The Parade, Minehead, Som; OD; later Floyd’s Corner, but OD attribs this to CH Sansom qv c1876 in BMCS;
(1878 rest Stoke Abbot ch, Dorset, new N aisle Charles Trask qv contr; BN 21.6.78 to be reopened;
1879ff Houses on The Avenue, Minehead, Som; OD; last two houses Nos 54-6 1895 by FW St Aubyn OD, and plans for Nos 23-4 1899 in SRO; OD68 undated plan for No15 for JHHurford;
(l879-84 Llangyndeyrn ch, Cms nave rest £1,500 W 27.5.81; chancel rest 1888)
1882 Clanville, Minehead, Som; RL; for HA Bosanquet son-in-law of G Luttrell; dem 1969; big tile-hung gabled house, stables remain on corner to Holloway St.
1882 ?Nos 1-7 The Parade, Minehead, attr OD, but in BMCS No 1 1875 and Nos 3-7 1882 are attrib to CH Sansom;
1883-6 rest St Michael ch, Minehead, Som; SRO cf/1883/6; Br 1885a 86; 1886 RL;
c1884 ?Blair Lodge, Townsend Rd, Minehead, for Dr Thomas Clark; attr OD; now Minehead First School;
1885 work, ?where; TC 26.8.85, the committee consulted Mr St Aubyn …, possibly Watchet ch;
1886 rest St Decuman ch, Watchet, Som; SRO cf/1886/9; T Br 29.5.86 repairs Wall & Hook of Stroud bldrs, £1363; Br 1886a 802; 1885-7, RL, reps, pews;
(1886? ?Wincombe Pk, Donhead St Mary, Wilts; later St Mary's Convent School, Shaftesbury, est 1946; or is this the house for MH Beaufoy at Coombe nr Shaftesbury by E Towey Whyte archt ill in Br 4.12.1886
1888 ?repairs Court House, East Quantoxhead, Som; SC notes, for Alexander Fownes Luttrell +1944, the work done by R Thorne;
(1888 Llangyndeyrn ch, Cms, chancel rest CJ 6.7.88
1889-92 Minehead TH, The Avenue, Minehead Som; £4000; built as Public Hall; Gothic in red sandstone; was later a cinema, B Hornby, 90 yrs of cinema in Somerset; from 1920-2011 was Minehead Hospital; disused 2013;
c1890 ?Nos 12-14 The Parade, Minehead, attrib BMCS; No 12 was Robert Hunt grocer 1892, No 14 was Capron motor engineers c1895; red stone four gables;
1893 ?Nos. 16-20 The Parade, Minehead; built for PE Gane of Bristol, furniture dealer, No 20 was Kensington House, Wm Tarr house furnisher in 1896, then Henry Wood & Co 1903;
1893 ?Esplanade Family Hotel, Minehead, Som, later Hotel Metropole; OD; no evidence;
1893 ?Wellington Hotel, Wellington Sq, Minehead, Som; attr OD; rebuilt 1893 datestone on side; no evidence;
1893-6 Nos 13-21 The Parade, Minehead, Som; OD; plans 1893 D/U/M/ 22/1/51 apparently by JPStA; shops N side The Parade; Nos 13-17 built first by Hurford & Burgess bldrs, then 19-21 by JB Marley. Marley built an attached row behind in Blenheim Rd to his own design; BMCS; No 19 was Devon & Cornwall Bank, became Lloyds 1908;
1895 ?No 54-56 The Avenue, Minehead, last pair, by FW St Aubyn, OD; OD2 two villas JH Hurford bldr;
1898 Part of Glenmore Rd, Minehead, by FW St Aubyn; OD34 two villas Glenmore Rd for WHarrison, St Aubyn;
1899 Nos 23-24 The Avenue, Minehead, Som, for J Hurford; D/U/M/22/1/70 or D/U/M/22/1/69 a-d?; presumably FW St Aubyn;
Attrib office and shop of Cox (publisher West Somerset Free Press) and two houses, Fore St, Williton, Som, similar windows to Stuckeys Bank, Minehead;
SALISBURY, ROBERT Burnham on Sea;
1859 two monuments East Brent and Burnham for George Reed, both to be in French Gothic style; Br 7.5.59; made by Casentini & Co, Lambeth;
SALVIN, ANTHONY. London l799-l88l; leading country house architect from l828. cf Jill Allibone, Anthony Salvin, 1988. WE Nesfield was a relation and he and Richard Norman Shaw met working in Salvin’s office. Restored castles, notably Caernarvon 1844-8; Hon architect Wells Cathedral 1848-54.
(1844-6 rest Stratton St Margaret ch, Wilts)
1848-54 rest choir Wells Cathedral, Som; SNB; Kelly 06; moved Bp Beckington chantry 1850; rest pulpitum 1848 BoE N; Choir rest 1847-57, incl reseating, new pulpit, organ case. Building work by - Nowell, carving by James Forsyth; Allibone 129-30, 173; restoration of choir commenced TC 15.3.48;
1857 Organ, Wells Cathedral, Som, organ by Henry Willis, case built by James Forsyth with carved angels otherwise plain; decorations on pipes designed by Salvin opened TC 3.6.57 and 10.6.57 intended to decorate case further to harmonise with pipes;
1867ff alts and adds Dunster Castle, Som; assisted by JP St Aubyn and CH Sansom; RL; Allibone and NT guide-book date work to 1868-72, added Kitchen Tower, Drawing-room Tower, altered exterior, interior rearrangements and restored hall for GF Luttrell 1828-1910, who came into possession in 1867; George Smith contr; RIBA Salvin/7/1-11; SRO DD/L; NT yearbook 1976-7; cost £25,350, Salvin first estimate £35000 too expensive; entrance tower is plainer than design ill in guide-book, parapets each side are deeper, kitchen tower broader;
(1870-5 alts Longford Castle, Wilts; J Allibone 194)
(1871-4 alts Encombe House, Dorset; BoE)
(1872 adds Melbury House, Dorset, for 5th Earl of Ilchester; BoE)
(1878 stables, Longford Castle, Wilts; J Allibone 196)
SAMSON & COLTHURST Architects, Taunton and Bridgwater. Harold Samson 1873-1956 son of CH Sansom qv and William Bunter Colthurst (born 1881), partnership 1911 after death of AB Cottam, previously Cottam & Sansom from 1906, previously Sansom & Cottam from c1885; by 1948 was Samson, Colthurst and Steer.
1910 reblt Puriton School, Som; CMY/444
1911 alts School, Milverton, Som; CMY/483;
1911 Alts Norton Manor, Norton Fitzwarren, Som; SRO DD/X/AND/2 to gardeners cottages, laundry, new lodge, stables and drains;
1911 Masonic Hall, King Sq, Bridgwater, Som; RL; DG 15; plans 1911 CMY/ 190 and 108, but book on Freemasonry says plans by Brother AB Cottam;
1912 Infants School, Highbridge, Som; RL; AA 1914 i 92, photo and plan; CMY/479 drawings 1912-14;
1912 Electric Theatre, Old Taunton Rd, Bridgwater, Som; alts to former skating rink CMY/173;
1912 Special subjects centre, Wellington, Som; CMY/547 and 467;
1912-13 reps Withycombe ch, Som; faculty SRO cf/1912/59; ICBS 1911-13 repairs to roofs, Ralph Fry builder;CMY/493;
1912 James Cook memorial, Wembdon Rd Cemetery, Bridgwater, Som; French classical style, metalwork by Bromsgrove Guild; email Roger Bowdler EH; drawings CMY/151; DG 15;
1913-14 adds Bridgwater Hospital, Som; RL; front ext to Salmon Pde DG 15; CMY/175 1913; CMY/85 1914;
1913 Blake Coffee Tavern, Church St, Bridgwater; CMY/143
1913 Infants school, Princess St, Burnham on Sea, Som; CMY/441;
1914 bill re ?? school .. TC 5.8.14; ?Yeovil
1914 Parish room, Chedzoy, Som; CMY/413; brick
1914 alts 21 High St, Bridgwater for Chard Bros; CMY/1a
1914 New School, Curry Rivel, Som; RL; DG 15; CMY/496; ?not built, no obvious adds to C19 primary school;
1914 Art & Technical School and Pupil/Teacher centre, Blake St, Bridgwater; CMY 85, adds to 1899 building by S&Cottam;
1914 alts playground, Chillington school, Som; CMY/500;
1915 Empire Theatre, Penel Orlieu, Bridgwater, Som, RL; DG 15; later Palace cinema; CMY/132 and 159
1916 White Hart Hotel and Wembdon Brewery premises, Eastover, Bridgwater; CMY/35;
1919 alts 11 Castle St, Bridgwater for Young Mens Assoc; new billiard room; CMY 124 and 56;
1919 cottages, Burnworthy estate, Som; CMY/432;
19?? Village Hall, Bradford on Tone ill in Laurence Weaver Village Halls 1923; with Venetian window, inf D Crighton; and a rifle range;
1919 House, Wootton Courtenay, Som, for HP Hewett, D/R/wil/24/1/10; hipped w two half hips on garden front, veranda between; NE side half-hip to left and 3 hipped dormer gables;
1920 alts no 2 St Mary St, Bridgwater, add to shop for EJ Wadham, CMY 146
1920 Alts for A Peace Ltd, Chandos St, bridgwater, CMY 199;
1920 Add Westminster & Parr’s Bank, Priest St, Williton, Som, single-storey W addn, plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/11; addn to Stuckeys Bank of c1867, now Natwest.
1921 alts Cannington Court, Som, for Somerset CC College of Agriculture; not in DG book; extensive work incl new staircases etc for student accommodation;
1920s Council housing, Newtown, Bristol Road and Hamp, Bridgwater, Som;
1922 reps Stogursey ch, Som; RL 1922 and 1932-4, roughcasting;
1923 WM schools, King St, Bridgwater, Som; plaque; ill DG 16; CMY 165
1923 alts to restaurant, Fore St, Bridgwater for Delaney Hatch adjoining shop, CMY130;
1924 alts Shovel House, North Petherton CMY/471;
1924 alts school, Berrow, Som; CMY 515
1925 alts Arcade Hall, 43 Eastover, Bridgwater,conv to cinema for Mr hodgkinson, CMY 196;
1925 proposed chancel, N transept and vestry, St Michaeol ch, Alcombe, Minehead; D/U/M/24/1/686; not built until 1937 2.2.37 new Lady Chapel and chancel dedicated, Lady Chapel given by Lt Col W Hartley Maud of Periton Mead, stone from Alcombe quarry;
1926 adds, bakery, Edward St, Bridgwater, CMY 28;
1926-9 Newtown and Bristol Rd council housing for Bridgwater UDC; CMY156; also plans 1929 CMY/ 201 incl Rhode lane; and Rhode lane 1929 CMY 157;
1927 The Avenue Arcade, High St, Bridgwater, Som; ill DG 17; CMY 195 and 174, orig called Blake Parade, survey for J Squibbs, arcade for H Squibbs;
1927 alts Westminster Bank, No 9 The Parade, Minehead, Som; SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/694;
1927 alts Town Hall Bridgwater, Som inc balcony, CMY101 also des by Borough Surveyor; also CMY89; and CMY 99 alts to stage and CMY 69 alts to second floor of municipal offices;
1928 new classrooms, Taunton School, Taunton, CMY430
1929 alts No 1 King Sq, Bridgwater, conv for Bridgwater Building soc; CMY 172, also one plan of 1945;
1929 alts Westminster Bank, East St, Ilminster; email rbs archives;
1929 alts Brinnington Private Hotel, King Edward Rd, Minehead; plans SRO;
1930 alts electric light generating station, Mount St, Bridgwater, Som CMY/168;
1932-3 conversion of Big Schoolroom to Memorial Hall, Taunton School, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; new gallery, panelling etc; £2000; PC 150-1; contrs W Potter & Sons;
1934-5 reps Stogursey ch, Som; RL;
1935 offices Bridgwater Mercury, High St, Bridgwater; DG 16;
1940 alts Dene Cottage, Combeland Rd, Alcombe, Minehead, for Gen Incledon-Webber; D/U/M/ 22/1/788;
1948 Proposed clergy house, in grounds of Vicarage, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; Samson, Colthurst & Steer, neo-Georgian, entrance on Whirligig Lane; plans SRO D/B/ta/24/1/110/3803; not built?
1948 ext WJ Maynard & Son bakery, Upper Wood St, Taunton, Som; SC&Steer; plans SRO
Also DG 14-17 list miscellaneous for S&C and S&Colthurst: adds Bridgwater B chapel (S&Cottam); shop 21 High St Bridgwater; Billiard Room and alts Nos 11 & 16 Castle St for Bridgwater YMA; alts Shovel House, North Petherton; alts Bridgwater TH inc to stage; alts to various PHs inc Round House, High St, Bridgwater and Market House Inn, High St, Bridgwater; conversion No 1 King Square, Bridgwater, for Bridgwater Building Soc; house at Durleigh for WG Stilling; plans for shopping arcade Eastover, Bridgwater, with cinema; Drill Hall off New Rd (dem) Bridgwater; shop premises corner Cornhill & St Mary St Bridgwater for road imprs; Coffee house adj Church passage High St, Bridgwater;
SAMSON & COTTAM Bank Buildings, Hammet St, Taunton, Kelly 1906; Charles Henry Samson 1838-1925 & Arthur Basil Cottam 1861-1911 qqv; office also at 43-5 High St Bridgwater, Kelly 1906; Partnership 1885, CH Sansom retired 1906 and went to Rugby, Harold Sansom 1873-1956, pupil of his father, joined practice 1908 as partner with AB Cottam, (see Cottam & Samson) and after Cottam’s death 1911 joined by William Bunter Colthurst born 1881, see Sansom & Colthurst. Sansom was diocesan surveyor 1883-1903 and Cottam 1903-11.
1877 House, Cliff Rd, North Petherton, Som, for Mr Williams; 1 drawing by S&C; DG; A/CMY/484; ?error on date or by Edwin Down
1883 alts premises Eastover, Bridgwater, Som for Mr Babbage; E Down & Son and Samson & Cottam; CMY 92; DG; Edwin Babbage drapers 58-60 Eastover 1906;
1884-1902 Common Room, Harvey’s Almshouse, Chard, Som; SRO A/CMY/481 has plans 1884 new room, 4 tracings, 1 drawing; Tony Prior, Harveys, 2009, 19 says trustees decided 3.11.1894 to build common room, July 1895 Mr Samson asked to complete plans and estimates, resolved 17.6.98 to build it in garden; not done and 2.8.02 Mr Sansom asked again, estimate £290, tenders 2.10.02 £432/5/0d lowest; SRO has 1902 plans; Sansom asked for £43/3/8d offered less settled on £32/19/2d; 18.9.02 new plans requested from Mr Yeoman, approved, 13.3.04 Tender Harris & Woolcot £293/15/0d, opened 15/11/04.
1892 Somerset Trading Co offices, West Quay, Bridgwater; SRO A/ CMY/145; at 25 West Quay 1906;
1892 work at Bowerings Mill, Bridgwater, Som; also 1899; RL; DG 15 for Messrs Bowerings oil & cake merchants; not in 1906 Kelly
1895 reps Spaxton ch, Som; RL;
1897 toilets, Albert St School, Bridgwater A/CMY/103; dem;
1897 Saltlands estate, Bridgwater, Som for Mr Symons; CMY 54;
1898 houses, Camden Rd, Bridgwater, Som; RL; DG 15; new housing and roads for William Stilling; CMY 189; CMY 110 has designs for 8 houses for Mr Thorne by AB Cottam, 1897;
1898 Premises, Fore St, Bridgwater; CMY 210 inc des for serpent-head clay chimney ornament; Hamlin & Son grocers 4-6 Fore St, ill DG 13 as by ABC;
1898 Alts, premises King Sq/ Queen St, Bridgwater for A Kendrick, alts to entrance; CMY 22;
1898 Housing Camden Road, N end, Bridgwater, Som for Wm Stiling CMY 189;
1898 Alts The Elms, Wembdon, Som; CMY/68, for LW Hill;
1898 1st pr Taunton TH, Som; RHH; unex; DG 14; ill R Bush, Taunton Diary; ill BN 30.6.98 archiseek
1898 drainage, Crowcombe ch, Som; CMY/458;
1898 Offices, Bridgwater, Som for Bowerman & Sons; CMY/13; timber merchants Westonzoyland Rd 1906; ?unex;
1898-9 alts School of Art, Blake St, Bridgwater, Som; also classroom block 1908-9; alts for pupil teacher centre 1914 by Sansom;
1898 alts Holt Bros, Burnham Brewery, Highbridge Rd, Burnham on Sea, Som; CMY\410; dem;
1898-1900 Housing, Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater CMY/57;
1899 roads and sewers, Hamp Green Rise, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/121;
1899 Sixteen houses, Camden Rd, Bridgwater for Haysham & Ware (Wm Haysham bldr 31 Camden Rd Walter Ware carpenter 33 Camden Rd 1906); CMY/96
1899 three houses, Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, adjoining Park Rd for FF Whitby (insurance agent Ivelhurst, Durleigh Rd 1906); CMY/180;
1899 Thirteen houses Camden Rd, Bridgwater, Som for Mr Parker; marked ‘abandoned’; CMY/18;
1899-1900 Langford ch, Churchill, Som; SNB;
1899 Curate’s house, Langford, Som; CMY 530; and store at church;
1899 Shop and house St John St, Bridgwater, for WW Cummings; CMY 139;
1899 Manor House, Brean, Som for Mr Wethered; CMY/462; TO Wethered Brean Manor 1906; ?alts to C18 Manor house;
1899 Oil & cake mills, Bridgwater Docks, Som; CMY/25;
1899 House, Monmouth St, Bridgwater, Som, for Mr Collisman; CMY/140; ?James Collishaw 25 Monmouth St 1906;
1899 Work at Bowerings Mill, Bridgwater, Som; also 1892; RL;
1899 alts Burrowbridge school, Som; CMY 504;
1899 add Wyndcote, Martlet Rd, Minehead; OD57 by S&C for WL Evans; original house 1880 by CHS; addition prob the tile-hung tower to left.
1900 Board School, North Newton, Som; CMY 470; school 1877, enl 1884 & 1896 Kelly 1906;
1900 drawings, Goathurst ch, Som; CMY/ 502; misc tracings;
1899 Mansion House Inn, Bridgwater, Som; RL; by ABC CMY/26;
1900 alts Powlett House, Upper High St, Taunton; RL; DG 15; CMY/453
1900-2 rest Luxborough ch, Som, new windows, arcade, roofs, seats; E window stained glass by Powell; SRO cf 1900/10;
1900-5 School of Art, Corporation St, Taunton, Som; completed 1905; 1907 BoES; CMY/456;
1900 Cottages, Brymore, Som for Mr Bouverie; CMY/454; cf 1901;
1900 Cottages & shop, Nether Stowey, Som, for Mr Stacey; CMY/528; Stacey Bros bldrs 1906;
1900-1 ?alts Ruishton ch, Som, inc E window; by WB Colthurst; CMY/519; these may be just sketches;
1901 alts Combe Florey ch, Som; reseating of N aisle; SRO cf/1901/21 £300;
1901 alts Burtle parsonage, Som; not signed; CMY/437;
1901 No 8 Fore St, Bridgwater for Mr Villar; CMY 125
1901 screen, Wembdon School, Som; CMY/71
1901 Cottages, Brymore, Som; CMY/408; also CMY/416 for MMP Bouverie; cf 1900;
1901 shopfront, Constitutional Club, for H Ekers West Quay, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/87; HJ Ekers cabinet maker 4-5 West Quay 1906;
1901 Premises Eastover, Bridgwater, Som, for Mr Boys; CMY/129; WH Boys auctioneer at High St 1906;
1901 removal of buildings from glebe, Sampford Brett, Som; CHS of S&C; cf/1901/23;
1901 Alts Baptist chapel, St Mary St, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/170 and drawings to 1934 by S&Colthurst;
1901 Premises, King Sq, Bridgwater, Som for Drs Williams & Pringle; CMY/178;
1901-2 reseat chancel, Brompton Ralph ch, Som; D/D/cf/1902/33
1901 shop, North St, Bridgwater, Som, for Wills & Son; CMY/167;
1902 alts path St Mary churchyard, Bridgwater, Som; CMY 164;
1902 alts Down House (now Shapwick Manor), Shapwick, Som, for Hon HBC Strangways; CMY/546; rear three-storey addition with hipped roof w gablets.
1902 porch, Lindenhurst, Thurloxton, Som, for Mr Trevelyan; CMY/499
1902 adds Harvey’s Almshouse, Chard, Som; RL; DG 15; also 1884;
1902 Boiler house, Taunton Rd, Bridgwater for Bridgwater Sanitary Steam Laundry; CMY/191;
1902 Hotel, Berrow, Som; CMY/513 proposed;
1902 comp entry Taunton TH, Som; CMY/427;
1902 stables, Rectory, Burnham on Sea, Som; CMY/529;
1902 alts parsonage, Sampford Brett, Som; DD/Bbm/ by CHS of S&C;
1902 alts Over Stowey ch, Som; lengthen chancel by one bay, reusing E w, stalls and reredos, new mosaic floor; cf/1902/44;
1902-3 vestry St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som; ill DG 16;
1902-4 Alcombe ch, Minehead, Som; plans 1901 D/U/M/ 22/1/125 S&C; by CHS 1902-3 BoE S; nave only, chancel and N transept added 1937 to plans 1925 by Samson & Colthurst qv;
1903 Garden alts Enmore Castle, Som, for WB Broadmead, inc balustraded terrace and various entrance gates; CMY/452; still there
1903-5 alts Wilton ch, Som; CMY/411 inc tiling; faculty SRO D/D/cf/1905 alts to chancel and sanctuary;
1903 cotts, Clayhill, Som, for JB Gooding CMY436; piggeries and privies CMY 501;
1903 St Mary’s Church Rooms, King Sq, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/163; DG15;
1903 Ball Copse Hall, Brent Knoll, Som for WS Holt; CMY/142; William S Holt Ball Copse Hall 1906; dated 1903;
1903 rest premises Cornhill, Bridgwater, Som after fire for FC Foster CMY/147; Foster & Keirl straw & cake merchants 7 Cornhill 1906;
1903 Two houses, King Sq, Bridgwater, Som, for Alfred Silke; CMY83; Alfred Silke bldr Camden rd 1906; DG 15;
1904 adds Northmoor Green School, Moorland, Som; CMY/549 also drawings from 1894; school of 1857;
1904? Cloth & Collar Factory, Priory, Taunton, Som AJ Spiller contr, £2000, advert by Spiller reproduced in Chipchase & Cole The Taunton Book 14;
1904? Robin’s Close, Wellingon, Som for John Howard Fox; AJ Spiller contr, £5500; advert by Spiller in Chipchase & Cole The Taunton Book 14; large roughcast villa on edge of Wellington; cf Book of Wellington;
1904? Residence, Fons George, Wilton, Taunton; AJ Spiller contr, £3000, advert by Spiller reproduced in Chipchase & Cole The Taunton Book 14;
1904? New wing and stables, Amberd house, Trull, Taunton, Som; AJ Spiller contr, £4500, advert by Spiller reproduced in Chipchase & Cole The Taunton Book 14;
1904 adds West St School, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/202
1904 alts, drains, Middlezoy School, Som; CMY/443;
1904 comp entry Bridgwater Free Library, Som; CMY/138, unsuccessful;
1904 House, Bridgwater, Som, for Edwin Brown CMY/122; Edwin Brown, Hamp Green 1906;
1904 plans North Newton School, Som; CMY/448; School of 1877, enl 1884 and 1896 (Kelly 1906)
1904-5 Bishop Fox School for Girls, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; RL completed 1905; DG 15; addition 1907; AJ Spiller contr, £3000, advert by Spiller reproduced in Chipchase & Cole The Taunton Book 14; by AB Cottam acc to TC 29.3.05;
1904-9 alts and science classroom, Dr Morgans School, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/131
1905 Somerset College of Art, Corporation St, Taunton, Som; 1907 BoE S; completed 1905 RL; ill DG 15; drawings 1900 CMY/456;
1905 competition plans, Free Library, Bridgwater, Som; A/CMY/38; unsuccessful;
1905 Butchers shop, Nos 26-8 Eastover, Bridgwater, Som, for EH Foley; CMY/176 inc tiled stall-riser;
1905 rebuilt top of tower, Lyng ch, Som; RL; DG 15; CMY/435;
1905 reps, Chedzoy ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1905/110; repaired roofs;
1905 houses, Hamp Green Rise, Bridgwater, Som for R Ashton; CMY/21219??; DG 15;
1905 28 houses, Coronation Rd, Bridgwater, Som for Mr Bryer; CMY/117
1905 Village hall & Institute, Cannington, Som; RL; DG 15; CMY/548; also survey of adj buildings 1908; also CMY/522; by ABC acc to his obituary;
1905 Bramblecroft, Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, for ABC; CMY/134; cf AB Cottam;
1906 alts Glebe Cott, Kilve, Som for Rev James & Rev Sweet; CMY/505;
1906 alts Kingston Seymour ch, Som; RL;
1906 Tatworth School, Som; RL; CMY/40;
1906 alts Kingsbury Episcopi School, Som; RL; CMY/476 alts 1906-14 later drawings by S& Colthurst;
1906-7 house, Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, for WC Hiller; CMY/181;
1908 alts Chaffcombe School, Som; RL; new school DG 15; school 1878 (Kelly 06)
1908 alts Queens Head PH, St Johns Rd, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/192
1908 Plans Bridgwater Golf Course; by C&S; CMY/10
1908 Somerset Bridge Primary School, Bridgwater, Som; DG 15;CMY/474;
1908 alts Over Stowey ch, Som; plans A/CMY/478; DD/cf/1908/283 by Cottam & Samson: insertion of two nave S single-lt ws; cf also 1902 ext to chancel by S&C, SRO A/ADC/1 and cf/1902/44;
1908 survey drawing, WM chapel, Bridgwater, Som; CMY/17
` 1908 survey plan, churchyard, Durleigh, Som; CMY/ 521
1909 Vicarage, Wedmore, Som;CMY/403;
1909 alts School, Brompton Ralph, Som; CMY/440;
1909 alts School, North Curry, Som; CMY/494;
1909 alts School, Otterhampton, Som; alts to girls and infants; CMY/475
1909 work at Cannington, Som for Pleydell-Bouverie estate inc adds to Post Office and The Old Moathouse;
1909 survey for school, Holywell Lake, nr Wellington, som; CMY/526,
1909 Lychgate, Wilton ch, Taunton, Som; plans SRO D/D/cf/1909;
1909-10 Washford ch, Som; FS WSFP 7.8.09; Clifford Morse of Washford bldr, c. £1000;
1910 Vicarage, Stogursey, Som; RL; replacing vicarage by J Norton 1869 that had structural problems, S&C plans to remedy problems 1908 CMY/460, and for new vicarage CMY/492;
1910 alts Wembdon ch, Som; by C&S, CMY/424;
1911 Ashcott School, Som; now houses much altd;
Also School buildings at Lyng (?alts to school at West Lyng of 1875), Langport (cf. ABCottam); Ilminster, Ashcott (1911); Highbridge (1913);
Also DG 14-17 list miscellaneous for S&C and S&Colthurst: adds Bridgwater B chapel; shop 21 High St Bridgwater; billiard room and alts Nos 11 & 16 Castle St for Bridgwater YMA; alts Shovel House, North Petherton; alts Bridgwater TH inc to stage; various PH including Roundhouse, High St, and Market House Inn; conversion 1 King Square for Bridgwater Building Soc; house at Durleigh for WG Stiling; schoolroom for King St WM (ill DG 16); council housing Bristol Rd, Newtown and Hamp estates; plans for shopping arcade Eastover with cinema; Drill Hall off New Rd (dem); Avenue Arcade betw High St and Clare St (ill DG 17); shop premises corner Cornhill & St Mary St for road imprs; Coffee house adj Church passage High St, Bridgwater;
Attrib: buildings at Wellington Park 1902: gates, cottage, bandstand; Cheslton House, Wellington, is similar to Robin’s Close, see 1904, if slightly later, c1910, and also a Fox house;
SAMSON, CHARLES HENRY. Bank Buildings, Hammet St, Taunton and The Laurels, Staplegrove Road. Architect, of Samson & Cottam qv; Kelly 1889, 1906; 1838-1925, born Kent, worked with uncle William Gibbons builder & surveyor Buntingford Herts 1861 (cousin Charles Gibbons was architect), worked at Dunster Castle, Som, 1868-78 as building bailiff for Luttrell estate, assisted A Salvin qv on castle, remained with estate 1868-88 and was involved in development of Minehead with JP St Aubyn +1895 qv; RL; work in Minehead recorded from 1871; involved in the excavation of Cleeve Abbey for George Luttrell in the early 1870s. 1878 set up in Taunton, possibly took over George Strawbridge qv practice 1884. 1885 partnership with Arthur Basil Cottam 1861-1911 of Bridgwater, who kept office in Bridgwater (S&C). Retired 1906 and went to Rugby where he died 1925. Firm became Cottam & Samson, CHS son Harold Overell Samson 1873-1956 became partner 1908 and continued to 1911, then joined by W B Colthurst, see Samson & Colthurst. CHS was Diocesan Surveyor 1883-1903, followed by Cottam 1903-11.
1860 ?clerk of works Yeovil Cemetery, Som; RH Shout archt; Br 29.9.60 628 ‘Mr Samson’;
1868ff building bailiff, Luttrell estate, Dunster, Som;
c1868 ?No 6 The Parade, Minehead, Som; now Santander; two-storey stone, occ by G Woolcott tailor 1881, shopfront redone 1907 by WJ Tamlyn for L Batchelor, grocer; attrib BMCS
1871ff directed excavation at Cleeve Abbey, Som, for George Luttrell; guide book; 1874ff RL, paper on first works 1875 SANHS;
1873ff Park St, Minehead, Som; first half; RL; stuccoed terraces, including also present HSBC facing Wellington Square, built as shops;
1874 adds parsonage, Vicarage Rd, Carhampton, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/205; new dining-room and service rooms, hipped-roofed added to existing drawing-rm block, this then demolished, VCH; now Que House; by CHS of Dunster;
c1874-5 attrib Holloway St, Minehead, Som; block at bottom end; OD; inc Parade House no 1 The Parade, rebuilt for S&W Preddy c1875; Nos 3-7 The Parade added in sim style 1882, BMCS;
1875 No 10 The Parade, Minehead, Som, for W Chorley wine & spirits; BMCS; red stone with ashlar dorner gables; corner Bancks St, was Hayward wine merchant from c1890; gr fl alts 1922 inc new front to Bancks St;
c1876 ?Nos 2-4 The Parade, Minehead, Som; No. 2 three shops rebuilt in stucco for John Bond after 1875, No 4 three shops, in stone, prob enlarged for Edwin Palmer 1876. Attr BMCS ;
1875 ?Beach Hotel, The Esplanade, Minehead, Som; OD; built 1874-5 as railway hotel; JH Langdon bldr;
1876 ?Station Cottages, Minehead, Som; attr OD;
1877-80 exec archt, St Andrew ch, Minehead, Som; archt GE Street, bldr John Pearse; church guide FS 25.8.77;
1878ff Misc drawings for High St restaurant; 56 High St, Taunton; Adams Wyatt, High St Taunton by CHS and later Samson & Colthurst SRO A/CMY/455
1879 Highlands, Martlet Rd, Minehead, Som; for H Penn; OD;
1880 Hillbury, Martlet Rd, Minehead, Som; OD, for Dr TJ Ollerhead; now Wyndham House;
1881 Cottage, West Buckland, Som, on land of St Mary Magdalen ch, Taunton; plans SRO D/D/Bbm/251, replacement of pretty thatched house with utilitarian brick and roughcast one;
1881 add The Beach Hotel, Minehead; OD; refreshment rooms and smoking room; JH Langdon bldr;
1881 Coffee Tavern, Paul St, Taunton, Som, TC 16.3.81, adaption of existing building for Taunton & West Coffee Co Ltd; meeting re new premises to open in Fore St 1882 ?by CHS;
1882 ?Nos 3-7 The Parade, Minehead, Som; attr BMCS as sim to No 1 of 1875 and houses on bottom of Holloway St; No 3 Sarah Beckett milliner to 1896, then Passmore tobacco to 1976, No 5 Geo Brown jeweller, No 7 John Boddy baker, first fl was Boddy’s café w oriel of 1907;
1882-3 Rectory, Bicknoller, Som; £900 ill in OQ 21; mention in diary of Rev JB Wood 14.8.82 that CHS and 2 clerks at work all day measuring & making plans for the new house; FS laid 23.2.83;
1884 report on bells and belfry, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton; TC 20.8.84;
1884-7 int alts Withypool ch, Som; CB 1884 77; Kelly 1906 says altered 1887 £150; no plans in SRO;
1885 alts Bishops Lydeard ch, Som; SRO cf/1885/13; heating;
1885 alts vicarage, St Decuman ch, Watchet, Som; RL; SRO A/CMY/402; D/D/Bbm/263 large adds to hipped 3-bay house, gabled
1887 farmhouse and farm buildings, ?where; TC 16.11.87;
?1888 Wyndcote, Minehead, Som; OD for H Penn of Highlands; enl 1899 by CHS;
1888 alts Brushford ch, Som; interior; SRO cf/1888/14; 1887-90 alts RL;
1888 reseat, organ chmbr, Cleeve ch, Som; SRO cf/1888/8; presumably Old Cleeve ch new organ chamber on N 1885.
1888 Rowbarton Infants School, Taunton, Som; TC 7.3.88, Verrier & Son bldrs;
(1888-91 rest Yarcombe ch, Devon; reopened TC 23.9.91)
1891 alts B chapel, Silver St, Taunton TC 2.9.91, Mr Spiller bldr;
1891-2 organ chamber, Huish Episcopi ch, Som; SRO cf/1891/16; 1892 on rainwater head;
1892 St James vicarage, Elm Grove, Taunton; RL; SRO A/CMY/488; DG 14;
18?? Attrib summerhouse, The Laurels, 88 Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; his own house, RL, four stained glass windows ‘by Burne Jones’ are not by Burne Jones, Aesthetic Movement glass showing Four Seasons.
1894-6 Church Room, Huish Episcopi, Som; 1896 VCH 3; RL; drawing SRO A/CMY/459 by S&C 1894;
1898 Technical Institute, Corporation St, Taunton; TC 7.9.98
1899 enl Wyndcote, Martlet Rd, Minehead, Som, presumably the pyramid-roofed tower to left. OD57 plans by Samson & Cottam for WL Evans; house probably by CHS c1888;
1901 report on removing glebe buildings, Sampford Brett, Som; SRO cf/1901/25;
1902-3 Alcombe ch, Minehead, Som; BoE; only three bays of nave and aisles, his plans for chancel and N transept partly followed when built in 1937; plans for chancel and transept 1925 by Samson & Colthurst qv, prob as built 1937; FS 8.6.02 opened 3.5.03;
Also rest Dunster ch, Som, RL, but rest 1875-7 was by GE Street;
SAMSON, HAROLD OVERELL Taunton. 1873-1956 son of Charles H Samson of Taunton, articled to father 1891, joined Samson & Cottam, father retired 1906, practice then Cottam & Samson qv until AB Cottam retired then Samson & Colthurst qv.
1930-1 New health centre, Taunton, Som opened TC 27.5.31;
1932 ref to Castle Walk scheme, ?Taunton; TC 2.11.32;
1935 new YMCA, Taunton, opened TC 9.10.35;
1941 ref to plans, ?, by HOS; TC 12.7.41; fire-escape stairs and heating;
SAMUEL, GODFREY H. Architect, 1904-82 One of the members of the MARS Group and Tecton (1932), involved from 1932 in evacuation of Jewish children from Germany, for whom he built New Herlingham School, Kent. Post-war secretary of Royal Fine Arts Commission. Drawings 1932-40 in RIBAD. J Bettley in RIBA Trans 1985 82-91;
1934 Proposed Cottages off Southleaze Orchard, Street, Som; by Tecton AARIBA 57 Haymarket, London ill SCR pl 60 six pairs around a pond, flat-roofed rendered;
1935-6 Nos 1-27 odd Grange Ave, Street, Som; for Clarks; AF notes; GHS 47B says seven pairs of cotts by GHS, the rest by Jack Stock qv; MHB; plans SCR pl 61 signed GH Samuel ARIBA, 23 Haymarket; pitched roofs, catslide at rear;
1937 unex plans for further cottages, Grange Ave, Street, Som rejected by Bancroft Clark in favour of ones by Jack Stock; SCR 43-4;
SAMUEL, H. Builder 15 Prospect Buildings, Wells Rd Bath
1842 to be let, No 10 Lansdown Crescent Bath apply HS, builder BC 9.6.42;
SAMWELL LOCKE Architects Bath. Robert Locke joined Edward Nash qv in 1999.
SANDERS, J. H. Derby. Architect to Midland Railway, designed with JH Crossley qv the company engineer. Designed standard gabled stations on the MR.
1868-9 Green Park Station, Bath, Som; train shed by JS Crossley;
SANFORD, WILLIAM AYSHFORD Nynehead Court, Somerset 1818-1902, colonial secretary of Western Australia in early 1850s where he designed two schools, inc the Old Boys School, Perth. Palaeontologist, natural historian also (David Rabson email).
1869 alts chancel and new organ ch, Nynehead ch, Som; inf David Rabson, Nynehead Local Hist Soc; also Sanford Memorial chapel added to N transept. Ground plan 1867 SRO DD/SF/16/15/22; opened 24.10.69; also new pews; organ moved and rebuilt by John Toms of Wellington; RL Thorne, Nynehead, 1965, 6; WG12.11.69 just reopened, Mr Sanford, son of the squire of the parish;
SARELL, JOHN Montacute.
1842 Ilchester parsonage, Som; D/D/Bbm/88;
SARGENT & POTIRIADIS Architects, Charing Cross Road, London
1988-92 Goldenstones Swimming Pool, Yeovil, Som; inf SSDC;
SAUL, ROGER. Company director, founder of Mulberry furnishings and fashion company, 1971, owner of Sharpham Manor, Som, from 1977 but initially only one part, gradually acquired the whole, and renovated it to his own designs, rebuilding S section 1993 (dated on vane) onward with a great hall in rear with high arch-braced collar-truss roof, fitted with much reused woodwork including C17 staircase balusters and door pilasters brought from a demolished Edwardian house in Berks, C17 panelling from Wales, etc; converted open-bay barn to swimming-pool with new pyramid-topped lantern; also converted range at right-angles to separate unit with gallery reusing old beams etc;
Responsible also for conversion and reuse of Kilver Court, Shepton Mallet, Som;
SAUMAREZ-SMITH, GEORGE Partner of Robert Adam qv in Adam Architcture
2001-10 design advice, Croydon House restoration, Timberscombe, Som for Dr John and Pippa Prideaux; Louise Crossman qv involved as executant; Patrick Snow engineer; involved with design of ground floor colonnade with glass behind in new end wall (based on Godolphin, Cornwall)
SAUNDERS ARCHITECTS Southampton, est 1922, also Coventry since 1952. Designed office buildings in Bournemouth & Poole, much for Bournemouth University, Dorset; Purbeck Hall, Bournemouth; Friar St cinemas, Worcester, Worcs; 6th form block, Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, Wilts; adds Horfield Leisure Centre, Bristol; Salisbury Leisure Centre, Wilts; Malmesbury Pool, Wilts; specialists in swimming pools; David Lambert partner qv 1989-2013;
2001-2 Leisure Centre, King Arthur’s School, Wincanton, Som; Jenkins & Potter engineers; £2.7m; David Lambert architect;
2003? Markus Products food processing plant, Murray Way, Business Park, Wincanton, Som; £1.3m, website;
200? refurb, Goldenstones swimming-pool, Yeovil, Som; roof repairs, new health & fitness suite, £680K;
200? renov outdoor pool, Shepton Mallet, Som; website;
200? Flowerdown retail park, Aisecombe Way, Weston s Mare, Som; £10m; website;
SAUNDERS & WHEELWRIGHT Bridport, Dorset. Grahame Saunders & Robert Wheelwright, GS set up in 1978 as GM Saunders Design Ltd, RW joined 1987. Worked at Poundbury, Dorset; houses at Holcombe, Som;
2007-9 Tithe Barn, Haselbury Mill, Haselbury Plucknett, Som; RW architect, inf owners;
SAUNDERS, JONATHAN see Caroe & Partners.
SAUNDERS, W. H. WH Saunders & Son
1973 Shopping centre, Frome, Som; ill in RIBAJ 86 1979 287-92;
SAVAGE & PROCTOR Brian Savage & Proctor specialists in doctors’ surgeries
1990 Doctors’ surgery, Sedgemoor Way, Glastonbury, Som;
SAVERY, - Engineer.
1823-4 Employed on renewal of nave roof, Stogursey ch, Som, R Carver qv architect; ch guide;
SCALPING, JAMES Norton St Philip
c1798 alts Beckington ch, Som; ICBS; covered with a common ceiling the fine carved work of the roof, cut off busts of the 12 apostles from the walls … placed the stove in the centre … Thomas Bunn recollections quoted in M Mc Garvie St George's Church, Beckington, 1990, work done for Rev Henry Sainsbury by Christopher Bailey carpenter, John Lacey tiler, they agreed to do work for £84 in 1798; new oak beam inserted 25 ft 12x7; John Adams employed to repair roof, a gallery and brought deal and elm 'to kneel on round the font';
SCAPING, ZEBEDEE Surveyor
1823-5 enl SE chapel, Hinton Charterhouse ch, Som; ICBS;
SCHOFIELD, JOHN see Architecton.
SCOLES & RAYMOND see AJC Scoles
SCOLES, Canon ALEXANDER JOSEPH CORY. 1844-1920. Son of Joseph John Scoles qv architect 1798-1863, ordained RC priest 1878, practised as architect while parish priest in Bridgwater 1881-91 then Yeovil from 1891. Designed sixteen RC churches in West of England, RL; from 1903 with his nephew Geoffrey Raymond 1881-72 (S&R);
(1875-6 RC ch, Wingfield Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR; FS 11.11.75, opened 27.6.76; DoC;
1881-2 RC ch, King St, Bridgwater, Som; DoC 57, FS 24.10.81, opened 22.6.82, Father Scoles, rector and architect, £866/10/0d; Kitch, Bridgwater builder; high altar by AJCS 1881-2; N aisle altar given by AJCS in memory of his father, JJ Scoles +1863, also sexfoil window above of death of St Joseph; iron rood with figures 1890; pulpit ?1890s; Wilf Drum Bridgwater’s Catholic Past sjbwtr.; extended 1981 to W with former S door reset at new W end, by Terry Moody;
1883 RC School, King St, Bridgwater, Som; £300; Wilf Drum Bridgwater’s Catholic Past; built in 2 months, opened 27.3.83; additional living quarters built above 1884 for Sisters of charity; closed 1894, reopened 1940; dem;
1886-7 RC church, Clevedon, Som; SNB; on site of old Royal Hotel,
188? School, Tor House, Glastonbury, Som, for postulants to Missionaries of Sacred Heart order; DoC 132-3; house was next to Chalice Well gardens, dem;
1889-90 La Retraite convent, Oxford Rd, Burnham on Sea, Som; chapel built first opened 1890, BN 59 1890 144, at The Rookery purchased 1888, then boarding school; St Joseph primary school 1891; chapel and boarding-school now The Burnham nursing home; photo chapel interior DoC 97, it had lavish stencil decoration of 1902, all gone;
1888 Laundry, King St, Bridgwater, Som for Sisters of Charity; dem; Wilf Drum, Bridgwater’s Catholic past;
1888-9 Carmelite Priory, South St, Wincanton, Som; £2000; Kelly 1906, and temporary chapel; Mr Kitch, Bridgwater, builder; PB 77; GS FS 16.7.88, blessed 18.8.89;
(1889 RC ch, Wareham, Dorset, re-erected in Dorchester 1906-7; BoE)
1890 Swimming Baths, Bridgwater; HW Pollard builder; SAS; Squibbs;
(1893 RC ch, Sherborne, Dorset; BoE; SRO DD/X/BRG/2; 1893-4 OSS)
1893 adds St John RC, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO D/D/wsm/24/1/134;
1894-9 RC ch, Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Som; BoE S; Kelly 1906; RL and presbytery c1899; SRO DD/X/BRG/4 church and presbytery plans. Dedic 17.5.99. Letter at CHAC 203, 16.3.97 notifies intention to start building; opened WG 19.5.99;
1896 RC ch, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, Som, and presbytery; OD10; SRO D/U/M/22/1/10 plans church, D/U/M/22/1/21 plans for presbytery 1896, and D/U/M/22/1/89 add to church 1900, all AJS. FS church 9.4.96, Wm Harrison bldr, opened 15.9.96; ceiling of sanctuary painted by A.L. Cox, qv architect, parishioner; marble-topped rails matching the pulpit, statues of Sacred Heart and Our Lady in sanctuary, also statue of St joseph, choir gallery at rear; £737; high altar 1898;
1896 Presbytery, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, presbytery joined to RC ch by a sacristy; £610;
1898 high altar, Minehead RC ch, Som; consec 10.9.98 ch guide;
1899? Presbytery, RC church, Yeovil, Som; for his own use; SRO DD/X/BRG/4; RC church planned 1894 dedicated 17.5.99.
(1899-1900 and 1902-3 RC church, Westcliff on Sea Essex;
1899 ?RC Convent of Sisters of Charity, Minehead, Som; OD47 says plans 4.1.99 were by WJ Tamlyn qv for Rev Scoles; sisters came from Vannes in 1898, ‘original convent building was purchased in 1898 and opened 4.8.00, but new convent built 1903-10 by AL Cox qv; three-storey block with top floor chapel and range attached remain; ext 1911 by AL Cox, OD;
1900 aisle addition RC church, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/22/1/89; OD85a; matching altar rail, high altar with statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. Painted panels over sanctuary; £300
(1901 St Swithin RC ch, Portsmouth;
(1901-2 RC ch, Eastleigh, Hants;
(1902 RC ch, Basingstoke, Hants)
(1902 RC ch, Keyham, Plymouth, Devon; BoE)
(1903 RC ch, Newquay, Cornwall)
(1903-4 RC ch, Shepherds Bush, london)
(1904 RC ch, Swanage, Dorset; BoE)
(1905-6 RC ch, Kew Gardens, London)
(1905-6 St William RC ch, Reading, Berks)
(1906 completed Portsmouth RC cathedral; RL)
(1906-7 RC ch, Dorchester, Dorset; closed)
1907-8 RC ch, South St, Wincanton, Som; completed 1908, consec 1913, RL; VCH 7 229; S&R, Charles Bryer, Bridgwater, bldr; opened 19.11.08; pillars Bath stone, walls Forest Marble from Maperton;
(1907-9 RC ch, Dawlish, Devon; 1909 BoE;
(1907 adds Holy Cross RC ch, Plymouth, Devon; S&R; BoE;
(1908 adds Stella Maris convent, Bideford, Devon; S&R)
(1908 St Joseph RC, Portsmouth, Hants)
(1908 RC ch, St Ives, Cornwall)
(1909 chancel RC ch, Devizes, Wilts; S&R; WBR;
(1910 St Edward RC ch, Plymouth)
(1911 RC ch, Liphook, Hants)
(1911-12 RC ch, Eltham, London;
(1915 RC ch, Exmouth, Devon; S&R; BoE;
(1915 RC ch, Newton Abbot, Devon; S&R; BoE;
SRO DD/X/BRG/1-3 has plans by Canon Scoles of Yeovil and Basingstoke for churches at Eastleigh (Hants), Sherborne (Dorset) and Tisbury (Wilts), also Wilf Drum says Fr Scoles built Bridgwater Public Baths, dem;
SCOLES, JOHN JOSEPH 1798-1863 Architect, mainly for RC churches, apprenticed Joseph Ireland, a relation. Travelled Mediterranean 1822-6, employed by Nash. Sons both RC priests Canon AJC Scoles qv and Fr Ignatius Scoles both trained as architects. High altar and window above in Bridgwater RC ch are to his memory by AJCS;
(1820 conservatory, Knowsley Hall, Lancs exh RA)
(1831-3 St Peter ch, Great Yarmouth, Norf; HC)
(1832-3 RC ch, Holywell, Flints; HC;
(1841-3 St Mary RC, Duncan Terrace, Islington, London; HC)
1844-63 Chapel, Prior Park College, Bath; RA 1844;
(1846-9 Immaculate Conception ch, Farm St, London; HC)
(1848-50 The Oratory House, Brompton Rd, London)
SCOONES, T. J. Bristol and 15 Great George St, London. Engineer. AMICE. Colonel TJ Scoones VD, honorary colonel of 1st Devon & Somerset Royal Engineers (Volunteers) from 1889, cf Navy & Army Illustrated 14.9.1901;
1880-5 Sea-front, Weston s Mare, Som; FS 15.3.83, Archiseek illustration from BN 4.12.85; TJC already working in the area for GWR was appointed consultant engineer 1880, Weston View 2, 3, contactor A Krauss, Bristol; shelter kiosks of iron;
1886 engineer to Chew Valley Tramway, Som; SRO Q/RUp/420;
SCOTT & MOFFATT see Sir George Gilbert Scott
SCOTT BROWNRIGG. Architects, London, Guildford, Limassol. Founded 1910 in Guildford by AH Brownrigg +1935, son John Brownrigg joined by Newman Turner 1948 (B&T), and amalgamated with Duncan Scott of Guildford 1958 (SB&T);
20?? Portishead Quay development, Som;
2011-12 Chilton Trinity Technical College, Som; BAM contractors; Ove Arup engineers;
SCOTT, CAMERON timber-frame specialist, previously with Carpenter Oak & Woodland. Firm is Timber Design Ltd, Newton Abbot, Devon. Website has timber-framed extension to a modern house 'Harrington' in Somerset, design by Roger Hancock; also timber-framed two-storey balcony added to house in Somerset, 'Mead', designed by James Blair; and dining-room John of Gaunt School, Trowbridge, Wilts, circular, with Tim Hill-Baldwin of HB Designs; also numerous projects in Devon.
2002 constructed obelisk, Hadspen, Som, to Alison & Peter Smithson design;
SCOTT, Sir GEORGE GILBERT Architect, London. 1811-78. Worked for Henry Roberts and there met WB Moffatt qv and set up practice Scott & Moffatt 1835, fell out over Moffatt’scharacter cf Scott, Personal & Professional Recollections, 1879, and split c1846-8. S&M specialised in workhouses designed over fifty; Wrote Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture 1858. Knighted for Albert Memorial 1872. PRIBA, Gold Medal, Buried in Westminster Abbey 6.4.1878. Suffered stroke in 1870, wife Caroline Oldrid died 1872. Eldest son George Gilbert Jr 1839-97 was noted architect esp for RC church; second son John Oldrid qv kept practice going 1878-80 with GGS Jr but they fell out, GG Jr declared unsound mind 1884. Son Albert Henry 1844-65 died young; son Dukinfield Henry. List of works in David Cole biog 1980.
WORKS: Workhouses Brackley, Kettering, Oundle, Northampton and Towcester by GGS; then with Moffatt: 1837-9 Bedminster Union Workhouse, Som S&M also similar classical design at Boston, Bideford, Chesterfield, Edmonton (?), Gloucester, Guildford, Horncastle, Liskeard, Loughborough (?), Louth, Lutterworth (?), Newton Abbot, Spilsby, St Austell (?), St Columb Major, Tavistock, Tendring, Tiverton, Williton, and Witham; Tudor-Gothic at Burton on Trent (?), Chipping Sodbury, Dunmow, Lichfield, Mere, Newcastle under Lyne, Penzance, Redruth, Uttoxeter (?); Elizabethan at Amersham, Billericay, Windsor; Jacobean at Belper 1840, Macclesfield 1843-5; 1840-1 rest St Mary, Stafford; 1841-4 Martyrs Memorial Oxford; 1843-4 Christ Ch Dover S&M dem; 1843-5 Swindon Wilts St Mark ch S&M; 1843-5 Shropshire County Asylum, Shrewsbury S&M; 1845 rest Bingham ch Notts and built school for Rev Robert Miles (client at National School Cardigan) S&M; 1845 Zeals Ch Wilts Br 1845 464; 1847 Army & Navy Club, London unex competition entry; 1847ff Ely Cathedral, Cambs. Rest; 1847-50 Alderney, C.I., St Anne ch; 1848-9 Brighton College, Sx principal’s house 1854, chapel 1859, hall 1863; 1849 ff rest Westminster Abbey; 1851 Swindon, Wilts, Christ Church; 1853-61 Chippenham St Paul, Wilts; 1854-5 Hamburg Rathaus unex; 1854 ff Doncaster, St George reblt; 1856-7 All Souls, Haley Hill, Halifax; 1856-61 Government Offices controversy; 1856-60 Exeter College chapel, Oxford; 1857 ff Lichfield Cathedral, Staffs rest; 1858-61 Kelham Hall, Notts; 1858-60 Walton Hall, Warws; 1859ff rest Salisbury Cathedral rest; 1861-4 rest Pershore Abbey; 1862 Preston TH, Lancs; 1862-7 Ripon Cathedral, choir stalls; 1862-73 Foreign and India Offices, London; 1862 ff Chichester Cathedral tower and spire rebuilt; 1863-9 St Johns Coll chapel Cambridge; 1863-72 Albert Memorial, London; 1864 began Salisbury tower and spire rest; 1864-8 Leeds General Infirmary; 1865 Competition for St Pancras Hotel; 1866 Law Courts competition; 1868-71 Glasgow University; 1868-71 Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London; 1869-72 St Mary Abbots Kensington London; 1870-1 St Albans Cathedral tower rest; 1871 Rochester Cathedral rest; 1874-9 Edinburgh Episcopal Cathedral;
(1836-7 Amesbury Workhouse, Wilts; S&M; error, design by WBM alone acc to workhouses website;
1837 Clutton workhouse, Som; D Cole; not in SNB;
1837-8 ?Frome Workhouse, Som; S&M; RL; error this was a S Kempthorne hexagonal design;
(1837-8 Bideford Workhouse, Devon, S&M, £3645; also Devon workhouses at Newton Abbot, Tiverton, Tavistock all to same Commissioners ‘square’ design - as at Williton, but Bideford and Tavistock a storey lower)
1837-8 Bedminster Union Workhouse, Flax Bourton, Som; BoE N; S&M; dem; £6600; same as Williton;
(1837-41 ?St James ch, Gloucester, Glos with S Kempthorne qv; D Cole; BoE says by Kempthorne designed 1835, built 1837-41 completed by T Fulljames;
(1838-9 Workhouse, Mere, Wilts; S&M; 1840 WBR; 1838-9 ; Tudor, £3470; 1838 D cole;
1838-40 Workhouse, Long St, Williton, Som; S&M; 1836 RL; now Sir Gilbert Scott Court; 1836 D Cole; T: TC 1.2.37 Scott & Moffat, Carlton Chmbrs, Regent St,
(1838-40 Workhouse, Chipping Sodbury, Glos; S&M, James Chappell of Bath, bldr; £2090; Tudor style)
(18?? completed tower and added spire, Teffont Evias ch, Wilts; c1830-43 WBR2; ch 1824-6 by C Fowler)
(1839-40 Workhouse, Windsor, Berks, S&M; Elizabethan style, at Old Windsor;
1840 Rectory, Babcary, Som; S&M, RL; large gabled house with ashlar bays looks 1850s; RL thinks may be a ref in TC 1840, exchange of land 1839 acc to MS;
(1842 Rectory, Teffont Evias, Wilts, probably by Moffatt; WBR 1841; 1842 D Cole)
(1842-3 Swallowcliffe ch, Wilts; BoE, S&M; 1842 D Cole;
1843 Christ Church, Nailsea, Som; 1842-3 S&M, SNB; 1841-3 ICBS; 1843 D Cole;
(1843-5 St Mark ch, Church Pl, Swindon, Wilts; S&M; BoE; WBR; also vicarage and schools acc to D Cole and BoE; Sampson Sage worked as superintendent on church, set up as architect in Swindon, tried for bigamy WI 19.3.1846; 1845-6 D Cole;
1844 Christ Church School, Frome, Som; S&M, RL; by GGS, SNB
1844-6 Chantry ch, Som; 1846 SNB by GGS assisted by WG Brown qv of Frome; by S&M 1844-6 RL; Br 1844 383 built for James Fussell of Chantry House;
1844-6 Chantry Rectory, Som; RL; Br 1844 383; not in SNB;
(c1845 Vicarage, St Mark ch, Swindon, Wilts; S&M; WBR)
(1845-6 Zeals ch, Wilts; 1842-4 S&M, BoE, WBR; but FS Br 1845 464; 1845-6 D Cole
1845-8 Somerset & Bath County Asylum, Wells, Som; later Mendip Hospital; S&M; 1843-7 RL, work supervised by Richard Carver; chapel 1870, adds 1901 GT Hine; by Sir Gilbert Scott, estab 1848, Kelly 06; 1845 D Cole;
1849-50 alts Hinton Charterhouse ch, Som; ICBS;
1849-54 rest Buckland Dinham ch, Som; AFtext; s chapel 1849, rest 1850 and 1852-4;
1850 rest Norton St Philip ch, Som; 1847-50 SNB; 1849-50 D Cole; c1850 RL; chancel rest before 1847 by GP Manners qv;
(1850-1 Christ Church, Cricklade St, Swindon, Wilts; George Myers bldr; WBR; FS DWG 13.6.50; Br 1851 389; 1851 BoE; P Spencer-Silver, Pugin's Builder 1993, 209;
1851 ?rest Christ Church, Frome, Som; D Cole; SNB says 1851 alts by Manners & Gill;
1852 chancel Timsbury ch, Som; SNB; ch 1826-32 by GA Underwood qv; 1851 D Cole;
1852-4 inv w enl Castle Cary ch, Som; ICBS has 1st plans by GGS, 2nd by CE Davis qv, 3rd and as blt by B Ferrey qv;
(1854-60 St Paul ch Chippenham, Wilts; WBR; 1854-5 D Cole; 1853-61 BoE, consecr 1855; FS 23.1.54, Mr Jones bldr; tower and spire 1860, last stone of spire in place WI 20.12.60, Mr Jones bldr under superintendence of Mr Penton; 166 ft high
(1854-76 rest Gloucester Cathedral; D Cole; with Fulljames & Waller;
1856 ref to niches with statues of the Apostles designed by GGS from portions of the old pulpit, ?where; TC 9.5.56;
1856-60 rest St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; ICBS; font; RL; pulpit c1856 D Cole;
1857 Moorlands, Merriott, Som; RL; ?evidence from a sale catalogue of later C19; built for Mr Cuff of Moorlands Farm;
1857 involved with rest Charlcombe ch, Som; probably by James Wilson under supervision of GGS, 1857-61, SNB;
1858-62 rebuilt tower St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som, in facsimile, with Benjamin Ferrey; Kelly 1906; RL, GGS was consultant, Ferrey diocesan architect, Henry Davis builder; TC 10.3.58; FS 3.8.58; ILN 8.9.62; contract BN 1857 1184; ref to discussion in the Builder, TC 26.11.56; 1859-62 D Cole;
1858-63 St John Evangelist ch, Park St, Taunton, Som; Kelly 06; rest 1891 £290; FS TC 10.11.58; completed 1863 RL; to cost c£7000 paid for by Rev Frederick J Smith, Henry Davis qv builder; 1860-3 D Cole; cost £12000; font by Scott, pulpit, pews; glass E and W by Hardman;
(1859 report on Bristol Cathedral; D Cole;)
1859 rest Hemington ch, Som; 1859 and 1862, SNB; BN 1858 102 says by TG Scott, misprint; 1859-62 RL; 1859 D Cole;
1859-74 rest Bath Abbey, Som; BoE N; SRO cf/1868/4 repew; 1860-73 AFtext; 1860-77 D Cole;
1860-1 rest Shapwick ch, Som; D Cole; DoE 1861; Br 16.11.61 complete, taken 16 months, roof de-plastered and renewed, W door unblocked, old pews replaced, 2 windows in nave given by Warry family, chancel restored with coating of ashlar inside, new roof, and one old window reopened; five new st glass windows, E window memorial to Strangways, encaustic paving throughout; £900; John Spiller qv contractor, £962/6/6d on contract in vestry; wood for altar rails ordered by Mr Strangways from Australia;
1860-1 consulted over rest of Martock ch, Som rest by B Ferrey; ch guide;
1863 National School, by St John’s ch, High St, Glastonbury, Som; Br 1863 501; National School 1864-5 RL; design altered by builder F Merrick qv; c1862 D Cole;
1863 alts chapel, Partis College, Weston, Bath; AFtext;
(1863 report on St james ch, Bristol; D Cole; rest 1864 by Popes & Bindon qv
(1863-70 rest Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts; WBR; 1863-7 BoE; 1864 began Salisbury tower and spire rest; 1869 estimate accepted for Lady Chapel WG23.4.69; 1870 decided to proceed with rest of choir £4200 of estimated £15000 inc screens and organ WI 3.2.70; 1868-71 and 1877-9 D Cole)
(1863 Vicarage, Bratton, Wilts; WBR)
1864-6 proposed rest Pitminster ch, Som; plans prepared TC 31.8.64, ref to GGS being consulted TC 14.11.66, but see 1869
c1865 The Grange, Kingston St Mary, Som for – Steele-Perkins owner to 1872; RL; ref from Kelly’s Dir;
(1865-7 rest St Edmind ch, Salisbury, Wilts; BoE; 1866-7 D Cole)
(18?? rest Canon Swayne's house, Salisbury, Wilts; D Cole)
1867-8 rest Hatch Beauchamp ch, Som; RL; extended chancel; for Gore-Langton family; reopened TC 26.4.68 c£1400; 1867 D Cole;
1868 pews, Bath Abbey, Som; SRO cf/1868/4;
1869 report on W front, Wells Cathedral, Som, with B Ferrey qv; D Cole; restored by Ferrey 1870-4 SNB;
1869 ?rest Pitminster ch, Som; church guide; SC notes; 1869 D cole; TC 31.8.64 says plans prepared by GG Scott and 14.11.66 refers to him being consulted; SRO cf/1869/4 makes no mention of architect in papers and plans are unsigned; but ICBS plans 1869-70 are by JM Allen qv; S porch rebuilt, N aisle and arcade replaced, windows different design, pulpit moved to Hemyock Devon in 1952; clerestory windows replaced; new chancel arch;
1870-3 St Andrew ch, Bath; BoE N; dem; 1870-3 and 1879-80, D cole;
(1873 Savernake Cottage Hospital, nr Marlborough, Wilts; ill Archiseek from BN ?.?.73; also plan; 1871-2 D Cole)
1875 prop res North Curry ch, Som; Olivey North Curry, 1901; Vicar had seen GGS in London and had estimates for work £1385 roofs and repairs, £980 oak fittings, £620 repairs ext walls; £520 tower repairs; £135 vestry; £300 spire if desired; but GGS died and work done by JO Scott modifying GGS proposals, requested 1880, done 1881-2; E Christian qv did chancel restoration; WG 31.12.80 by Mr Scott son and successor of late Sir Gilbert Scott;
1877? pulpit, St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; RL; given by Charlotte Neville Grenville who died in 1877;
(1877 pulpit, Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts; BoE; works 1877-9 D Cole)
1878 rest Orchardleigh ch, Som; 1878-80 SNB works completed under JO Scott: Sporch 1878; 1878-81 D Cole;
(1878 chancel Christ Church, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, proposed 1876, opened 1878, exec JO Scott; GGS name on plans; WBR2, GGS designed eagle lectern acc to guide book, reredos by Farmer & Brindley also carving of chancel arch; ?transepts added slightly later by J.O. Scott,
SCOTT, Sir GILES GILBERT. Architect. 1880-1960. Son of George Gilbert Scott Jr and grandson of Sir GG Scott. Des Liverpool Cathedral, Battersea & Bankside Power Stations, Waterloo Bridge etc RC churches at Bournemouth 1906-7; Sheringham 1908-36; Bath 1925-9; knighted 1924, RIBA Gold Medal 1925, PRIBA 1933-5; practice continued by Richard Gilbert Scott born 1923, joined 1953, firm was Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Son & Partner;
(1902 lychgate, Steeple Langford ch, Wilts, WBR;)
(1906 RC ch, Bournemouth, Hants)
1907-13 Midsomer Norton RC, Som; converted from tithe barn; font c1920 Dom E. Seddon;
1923-5 nave, Downside Abbey ch, Som;
1925-9 Our Lady & St Alphege RC, Olfield Park, Bath; 1925-54 H&F; 1927-9 C20 RC churches survey;
c1930 tomb Abbot Ramsay +1929, Downside Abbey, Som; BoE
(1931-3 Friends Provident Building, 37-9 corn St, Bristol; facade only, rest by AW Roques, sculpture by Hermon Cawthra; SNB)
1932-9 Downside School, Som, completed S range E end and added similar but plainer Science block; BoE N;
1938 finished tower, Downside Abbey ch, Som; BoE N; RL;
1954? Presbytery, St Alphege RC, Bath;
(1961-2 RC ch, Armada Way, Plymouth, Devon; H&F)
SCOTT, JAMES. Architect, carpenter, builder, surveyor, Rupert St, Soho, London, died 1753, buried at Marston Bigot, Som.
1739-53 employed by 5th Earl of Orrery on garden improvements at Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som. McGarvie, Gardening at Marston House, 1987. First ref Aug 1739, called the Great Surveyor in letter of Countess in 1742; gap 1746-9 and work halted by financial problems 1754. Grotto built 1742-3, mount made, ice-house 1744, probably also Lady Cork’s Bath (first mentioned 1754); after 1749 extension to NW of gardens inc hermitage and rustic cottage and monument to Earl’s favourite horse (pedestal with urn) 1754; mention 1742 ‘Scott left us’ in middle of building grotto; probably in charge of repairs to Marston House 1749-52, assisted by – Hills and – Cook; 1749ff reblt rustic cottage at NW corner new garden; Scott died January 1753, works were still continuing in 1754
SCOTT, JOHN OLDRID, London. 184l-l9l3 Son of Sir G.G. Scott qv, entered practice 1860, succeeded to practice l878, and to St Davids Cathedral restoration. Assisted by his son Charles Marriott Scott (JOS&Son). Drawings in Pembs RO/HDX/894 deposited by Edwin Thomas qv. Drawings for St Davids that were with Caroe & Ptnrs given to NMR Swindon? SD/Ch/Misc 202-9 has drawings relating to Cathedral. 1874-82 St Sophia, Moscow Rd, London; 1875-1913, Slough St Mary; 1876 Chailey ch, Sx; 1876 St Paul, New Cross, Manchester; 1882 tower and spire Ryde ch, IoW; 1890-1 Bradfield College chapel, Berks; 1894-5 St Philip ch, Hove, Sx;
(1878ff chancel Christ Church, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR; WBR2 says plans signed by GGS, work overseen 1878-91 by JOS; lectern by GGS, 1878, JOS did S transept ?1884, stalls 1884, font cover 1884 made by Skidmore; pulpit 1889 carved by H Hems, screen 1891, chancel panelling 1892, N transept/organ chamber 1891-2, stencil decs by Burlison & Grylls, also some stained glass; E window 1879 by Clayton & Bell;
1880-1 rest North Curry ch, Som; SRO; lovely organ-case acc to Alan Rome; plans have proposed lead oct spire marked ‘not included’ also battlements to be left plain and cleresorey pinnacles omitted; rebuilt N aisle wall, rest N aisle roof, added vestry, new pulpit; Br 16.7.81 93 says C Trask contractor, carving by H Hems of Exeter, chancel restored by E Christian qv. Originally proposed as Sir GG Scott restoration, ICBS. Olivey, North Curry, 1901, says vicar had prices off GGS 1875, in 1880 asked JOS to carry out GGS plans slightly altered to limit cost to £3000, JOS estimate £3700, lowest tender C Trask £2850, work cost £4501/17/3d plus c£1000 for chancel and c£1000 for stained glass; TC 19.4.82; WG 31.12.80 by Mr Scott son and successor of late Sir Gilbert Scott; WG 7.7.82;
SCOTT, T.G. Error for GG Scott.
1858 rest Hemington ch, Som; BN 1858 102; error for GG Scott who restored it 1858 and 1862, SNB;
SEAL, MERVYN Architect Brixham, Devon, Colin Johns see Wilts Index, worked with him; designed a shopping precinct at Corsham, Wilts;
1956-7 Lyncombe Coach House, Lyncombe Vale Rd, Bath, Som; C20index;
(1962 Kaywana Hall, Devon for self; demolished and rebuilt on foundations by Stan Bolt, Guardian 11.7.2011)
1963 Hill Rise, North Rd, Bath, Som; C20index
(1973 Oakland Park Phase 1, Dawlish, Devon; MS & Partners; Housing Design Award 1973;
(1976 North Hill Close, Brixham, Devon; Housing Design Award 1976;
SEARLE, J. Builder
186? Northmoor Pumping Station, Moorland, Som; plaque;
SECCOMBE, HENRY EDWARD. ARIBA Architect in Office of Works qv, London. Harry Seccombe. 1879-1955
1931-2 Post Office, King George St, Yeovil, Som; A&BN 23.12.32; WG 9.1.31; Official Architect Jan 1938 134 ill;WDP 24.10.32; Hayward & Wooster of Bath contrs;
(1933 Post Office, College St, Lampeter, Cd; RA 1933;
1934 adds Post Office, Parkhouse Rd, Minehead, Som; SB; Nix Bros builders; not the Telephone Exchange behind which is 1932 according to OD; WMN 27.11.34;
1935 Telephone Exchange, rear of Post Office, North St, Taunton; TC 18.12.35, William Potter & Sons, Taunton, builders;
1935 Sorting office, Bath Som exhibited RA 1935; BC 23.5.36;
1938 Post Office, High St, Glastonbury, Som; RL2 66; Tudor style;
(1938 Bristol Sorting Office; WM 11.5.38;
also: Clevedon PO Som; attributed addition to PO Bradford on Avon Wilts 1935; Fishponds PO Bristol; attributed Axminster PO Devon; Brixham PO Devon; Westbury on Trym PO Bristol;
SEDDING & WILSON see JD Sedding
SEDDING, EDMUND 1836-68 Penzance. Brother of JD Sedding, died young, father of EH Sedding qv. Practice continued by JD Sedding.
SEDDING, EDMUND HAROLD Architect, Plymouth 1863-1921, son of Edmund Sedding of Penzance 1836-68, nephew of JD Sedding. Wrote Norman Architecture in Cornwall 1909 and Gothic Architecture in Cornwall, after 1921; RL 2 36; firm was Sedding & Stallybrass (S&S) in 1915
1901 Repairs Weare ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1901/28; seats,chancel panelling, reredos, rails, stalls, screen;
1903 Vicarage, Lympsham, Som; SRO DD/bbm/
1903-4 reps Mark ch, Som; RL; ICBS; Weston Mercury 18.5.04; reps to nave roof;
1908 rest chancel, Lympsham ch, Som; new paving, stalls, two new side windows; SRO cf/1908/276; £677/13/11d; in mem of Preb JH Stephenson qv.
1915 reps Pawlett ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1915/35; S&S; new chancel roof;
SEDDING, JOHN DANDO. Architect, London. 1838-91. Pupil GE Street 1858-65, partner brother Edmund in Penzance 1865-8, continued pr after Edmund died 1868 in Penzance and Bristol, precentor to St Raphaels House of Charity, Cumberland Rd, Bristol 1868-75 with office in Park St; in London 1875. Hon Architect to Wells Cathedral 1881-91 in succession to B Ferrey qv. Henry Wilson qv was assistant, then firm was S&W, and carried on under that name by Wilson alone after 1891. Died at Winsford, Som, and buried at his home churchyard West Wickham, Kent; Thesis by Dr Paul Snell (PS).
(1866 rest porch Plympton ch, Devon; PS)
(1867 Vicarage, Govilon, Mon; PS;)
(1869-70 Church and school, Low Marple, Ches; also cottage and vicarage 1873
(1869-70 rest Llanfwrog ch, Denbs; PS; N nave rebuilt, new windows, porch res,
(1870 rest Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd ch, Denbs; BoW; S porch, rest roofs, font, reredos, stalls, pulpit, lectern,N screen,
1871-2 rest Bicknoller ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1871/4, JDS of 11 Park St Bristol; 1870-6 first Somerset work PS, following scheme by GE Street 1868 rejected as too expensive. Ewan Christian engaged to rest the chancel, and JDS, friend of vicar, Rev Vernon, for the nave; Street protested in letter of 1872; 1872 £1500, Kelly; 1871-3 ICBS; RL; Br 29.6.72: nave rest by JDS, chancel by E Christian, contr Henry Davis qv; W gallery removed, new roofs, floors, seats reusing bench ends, gallery removed; £1400; WSFP 12.6.72 reopened rood-screen not yet done, and tower still roughcast. Chancel paved in Minton tile, nave in red Bridgwater tiles, oak stalls, communion table and rails (all replaced in 1930), new font on model of old one; new roofs on model of old, deal in nave, oak in chancel, old bosses replaced;
(1871-3 St Clement ch, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Hants;
(1872 alts Govilon ch, Mon; ICBS; 1871-2 BoW;1870ff PS; chancel, N aisle & vestry;
1873-5 rest Stogumber ch, Som; SRO cf/1873/7; 1872-5 RL; 1872-8 PS; ICBS plan shows minor alts new N porch doorway, NW window tracery and organ-chamber projection from S aisle, but chancel was restored for Rowcliffe family at same time with carved reredos and stencil painting to walls and roof, this by the vicar Rev Edward Jones; reredos carved by GW Seale of Brixton;
1874 ??rest, Selworthy ch, Som; not in PS; Ernest Gimson staying in Lower House Fm Bossington in letter 27.7.1891 mentions JDS restorations ‘It is poor old JDS who is (or was) responsible for spoiling all the churches. He did Porlock, Selworthy, Bossington and a host of others. Thank goodness they were all done after my time with him. I should’nt like to have made drawings for Porlock chancel.’ Unlikely that JDS did main restoration in 1874 for £1500; Gimson worked for him in 1886-8, more likely that he did N aisle restoration and reseating in 1891, £545;
1875 alts and rest Halsway Manor, Som, ill BN 10.12.75 on Archiseek site; for CE Rowcliffe +1877 continued for W Rowcliffe, BN illustration shows smaller N addition than actually made; interior roof of great hall Sedding’s but rooms otherwise altered in early C20;
1875 alts stables Whitestaunton Manor, Som, for Elton family, inserting Tudor windows and doors; possibly more work there; Michael Heaton archaeological report; PS adds to house and stables 1870-9;
(1876 Llanfair Kilgedin ch, Mon; ICBS; 1873-6 PS; BoW 1873-6 for Rev WJ Coussmaker Lindsay, pulpit, reredos 1875, screen brought in and rest; tiles; churchyard cross rest; Heywood Sumner murals added 1888-90;
1877-8 Knowle Manor, Timberscombe, Som; ?for James Hole, but James Hole +1876; ill BN 1884 archiseek; William Bone & Sons, Liskeard, builders; PS; also stables and probably the South Lodge;
1877-9 rest Whitestaunton ch, Som; ICBS plans show rebuilt chancel E end, new roof, ?new ws E and one each side, blocked nave N door; 1877-82 PS;
1878 reredos & screen, Batheaston ch, Som; SRO cf/1878/3; not in PS;
1878-9 rest Axbridge ch, Som; SRO cf/1878/4; 1877-8 PS 65-6; survey 1877; see also 1888;
1878 prop reredos Crowcombe ch, Som; PS 57-8 note 94;
1881 plans for ?? prepared by JDS diocesan architect, meeting called to consider under G Canning, mayor, TC 13.4.81;
1881-2 inv with rest of East Harptree ch, Som; GE Street had done plans but died, JDS got job, quarrelled with Rev Nutt over replacement of E window and resigned involving SPAB and ICBS; PS; work done to Nutt's satisfaction by Micklethwaite & Somers Clarke
1881-2 reblt clerestory, Shepton Mallet ch, Som; RL; not in PS;
1881-9 rest Ilminster ch, Som, PS; in stages; see 1887-9;
1881-2 rest Timberscombe ch, Som; SRO one new S window; 1882 Br 1882a 595; Br 6.5.82 Pearse & Son Minehead contrs, windows restored, new tracery in bell-lights, roofs almost all new, gallery removed, pitch pine seats, some bench ends kept and new ones follow designs; font rest; screen repaired and decorated by Jeboult Taunton, one window by Wailes & Strang to S Kent, Ew by Clayton & Bell; £1130; 1879-82 RL; 1878-81 PS;
1881-2 rest Ashill ch, Som; ICBS; RL; 1881-2 PS; 1882 ch guide (all except chancel already restored by E Christian in 1862): local architect Mr Jerboult (Edward Jeboult of Taunton qv) had prepared plans to cost £700 but Speke of Jordans offered half on condition that Sedding got job; ‘His work at Ashill, with Mr HJ Spiller (?), was carried out with a restraint rare for those times’ … New tower arch, plaster removed from nave ceiling, walls replastered, windows reglazed, wooden flooring; Jacobean pulpit repaired and refixed; porches restored (rebuilt acc to ICBS plan); tower parapets and roof rest; new pews; font repaired; reopened TC 11.10.82, by HJ Spiller under direction of JDS;
1881-4 rest Chard ch, Som; ICBS 1881-8; 1881-2 PS; SRO 1882; CB 1882 2-3 also the pulpit; WG 6.5.81 £5000 required; enlarged 1881-8 RL; reredos by Harry Hems 1883 PS; completed BN 12.9.84; C Trask qv contractor;
1882 crozier for Wells Cathedral, Som; PS;
1882-4 alts Canons Barn, The Liberty, Wells, Som adapted as a school; RIBA biogr file postcard JB Weller ARIBA 30.6.1988;
(1883 Grey’s Lodge, Torquay, Devon; BN 29.6.83)
1883 ?rest Ilton ch, Som; plans submitted by Diocesan architect; WG 9.11.83
1883 ?rest Ilminster ch, Som; plans submitted by JDS, WG 16.11.83;
1883-4 alts Burrington ch, Som; ICBS; SNB; PS;
1883-93 ?rest Langridge ch, Som; restoration report 1883, PS 61-2, criticised apse already added to ch;
1884 rest St Benedict ch, Glastonbury, Som; SRO cf/1884/7; CB 1884 105; plans prepared WG 16.5.84; 1884-7 PS; added S aisle rebuilt N aisle N wall, pews dated 1885, ?stone pulpit;
1884 Knowle Manor, Timberscombe, Som ill archiseek from BN?; ?built in 1878
1885-6 proposed High altar alts, Wells Cathedral, PS 79ff; proposed triptych not done and work given in 1888 to Bodley & Garner qv;
1885 rest Emborough ch, Som; SRO cf/1885/11; RL; 1884-8 PS;
1885 prop rest Crewkerne ch, Som; TC 23.9.85, Mr Sedding has just presented … cf 1887-9;
1885? attrib rest of Lynch chapel, Selworthy, Som for Sir TD Acland. Chapel had been a barn, became church for Bossington; Ernest Gimson staying in Lower house Fm Bossington mentions JDS restorations ‘It is poor old JDS who is (or was) responsible for spoiling all the churches. He did Porlock, Selworthy, Bossington and a hos of others. Thank goodness they were all done after my time with him. I should’nt like to have made drawings for Porlock chancel.’ Not in PS;
1885-9 rest tower, St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som; PS;
1886 reredos St Saviour ch, Walcot, Bath, Som; BoE N; 1882 PS, made by Harry Hems;
1886 alts chancel Langport ch, Som inc sedilia with credence shelf made by Charles Trask qv, reredos carved by GW Seale of Coldharbour La, Brixton; also proposed low stone chancel screen w gates and wooden screens chancel N & S but these not exec; M McDermott, All Saints Ch Langport, ch guide 1998; SRO cf/1886/3; Br 12.3.87 409 Caen stone, Ham stone; 1887 RL; reredos 1886 PS; WG 25.3.87; TC 4.5.87;
(1886-8 Brynmawr vicarage, Mon; Br 10.3.88; c1881 BoWPowys; BoW Mon;
(1887 Holy Redeemer ch, Clerkenwell, London;
1887 reredos Aller ch, Som; RL; VCH;
1887 repew and heating, Shepton Mallet ch, Som; SRO cf/1887/17;
1887-9 rest Ilminster ch, Som; Br 1889b 464, floor. Br 28.12.89 reopened, refloored, vaults filled in, new heating, intended to replace old pews; A Poole contr c£1500; did JDS do chancel roof?; 1881-9 PS;
1887-9 rest Crewkerne ch, Som; CB 1887 81; RL; 1885-90 PS; ICBS; SRO cf/1887/8; new S doorway, vestry doorway; major repairs, reopened S porch (converted to private pew 1840s) restored S transept S wall removing a doorway, inserted new one in S tr W. Did he remove central section of 1809-11 gallery and relocate organ? Repaired stonework, new pinnacles aisles, baffles in tower windows, proposed stone fan-vault for tower unex;
1887-9 rest Wincanton ch, Som; RL rebuilding works consecrated 1889; D/d/ cf/1887/7; almost complete rebuild apart from tower; VCH 7 228, nave kept as inner S aisle its S arcade extended and used as pattern for new nave S and N arcades of 5 bays beyond line of former arcade; S aisle all but rebuilt, 1736 doorway reused, eastern parts, chancel, S chancel and N organ chamber vestry all new; Julia Chafyn Grove paid for restoration; 1885-9 PS; FS WG 12.8.87; GS 47 has Sedding's report on church, cost £6500, consecrated 15.8.89, bells rehung by Llewellin & James of Bristol qv, contractor Vallis of Frome, contract £4307, cost £5638 for building alone, total £6076/8/5d; tower stained glass window to CJ Shaw; E w 1891 Clayton & Bell also Te Deum window in chancel gift Mrs Sowler who gave E w in morning chapel, Resurrection; S window in morning chapel to Rev Grant-Dalton; S aisle window to Mr Goodfellow;
1887-9 rest tower Burnham on Sea ch, Som; PS;
1888 rest Axbridge ch, Som; 1877-87 ICBS; in 1879 whole of exterior was rest for £3192, chancel afterwards for £856, further £140 spent on rest of N transept when new organ for £245 was placed there, and in 1877 (sic) the work was completed at cost of nearly £1300 when st gl E w given; In 1888 beautiful low metal screen (made by Henry Longden) and four carved oak screens from des of JDS were reected £280, total cost over £5500, Kelly 1906; RL; nave and chancel rest 1877-80; screen, and rest completed 1888 PS;
1888 ?rest Crewkerne ch, Som, resolved to ask JDS to visit, WG 10.2.88
1888 rest Shepton Mallet ch, Som, reseated and reredos; RL; 1887 PS;
(1888-9 St Dyfrig ch, Cardiff; Orrin 31; CB 1888 25; Doulting stone; dem 1969; £6000; Consec CT 18.11.93; reredos 1904 by Henry Wilson NLW LL/F/201; enlarged 1907 by Arthur Grove; 1886-93 PS;
(1888-90 Holy Trinity ch, Sloane St, London; 1887-91 PS)
(1888-90 rest Pucklechurch ch, Glos PS)
1889-90 rest Chewton Mendip ch, Som; RL; 1888-91 PS;
1890-1 rest Porlock ch, Som; RL; SRO D/D/cf/1890/9, reopened 28.5.91 James Huish & John Cooksley bldrs, plaque in church, added choir vestry and organ chamber; Book of Porlock; 1892 £1614 (Kelly); Ernest Gimson staying in Lower House Fm Bossington mentions JDS restorations ‘It is poor old JDS who is (or was) responsible for spoiling all the churches. He did Porlock, Selworthy, Bossington and a host of others. Thank goodness they were all done after my time with him. I should’nt like to have made drawings for Porlock chancel.’. Choir stalls, 1895, acc to Kelly: ‘from designs of late Mr JDS’; 1889-95 PS;
(1890 Pastoral staff, Bristol Cathedral; BoE N;
1890-1 rearrange chancel St John ch, Taunton, Som; PS; marble paving, excellent stalls carved by Trask, iron and brass chancel screen 1892, possibly by Henry Wilson qv, made by Henry Longden of Sheffield; TC 10.6.91 plans by late JDS for decoratin revised by Mr Wilson;
1890-3 rest Vicars Close Chapel, Wells, Som; PS rest and furnishing;
1890-1 rest Winsford ch, Som; Kelly; JDS died while work was in progress at Winsford vicarage; plans SRO cf/1890/4; £1300; Joseph Steer bldr; 1889-93 PS;
1890-2 rest Charlton Adam ch, Som; ICBS; report 1889 WG 8.11.89; BoE S rest 1892 by Henry Wilson; S&W, plans by JDS, SRO D/D/cf/1892/3, ?pews, restor of roofs, repair nave & aisles, removal of gallery; £903; Spec by JDS 11/1/92, but ?dead by then; C Manton, Henry Wilson, 2009 40 mentions ‘Wilson’s frank but inconspicuous repairs of 1892 to the choir-stalls and pulpit'; 1889-92 PS; TC 21.9.92;
(c1890-5 House of Charity, Redcatch Road, Bristol; refectory added ?by HW before 1904, chapel by GF Bodley c1900; BoE N; Industrial Schools later St Agnes Retreat House 1890-3 PS;
1891 attrib rest N aisle roof, Selworthy, Som, also reseated; Ernest Gimson staying in Lower House Fm Bossington 27.7.1891 mentions JDS restorations ‘It is poor old JDS who is (or was) responsible for spoiling all the churches. He did Porlock, Selworthy, Bossington and a host of others. Thank goodness thet were all done after my time with him. I should’nt like to have made drawings for porlock chancel.’ Gimson worked for JDS 1886-8. Did JDS do main restoration in 1874 for £1500??; not in PS;
1891-2 N porch, Wincanton ch, Som; JDS reblt ch in 1887-9, porch added ? in memory of Julia Chafyn Groves who paid for restoration; rest 1885-9 PS;
(1891-2 Lynton ch Devon; PS; adds by HW 1903-6)
1892 Screen, St John ch, Taunton, Som; S&W, SRO cf/1891/12, by HW, made by C Trask; ch guide; wrought iron; PS work by Trask 1891-2;
1895 choir stalls, Porlock ch, Som, ABrooks; Kelly: from designs of late Mr JDS; cf ch rest 1890-2 JDS, SRO cf/1890/9;
1895 reps tower South Petherton ch, Som; S&W; RL; by HW;not in PS;
Letter from Ernest Gimson, who worked for JDS 1886-8 on holiday at Bossington 27.7.1891 says ‘It is poor old JD who is, (or was) responsible for spoiling the churches. He did Porlock, Selworthy, Bossington & a host of others. Thank goodness thay were done after my time with him. I shouldn’t like to have made the drawings for Porlock chancel. I trust I shall never have to support a wife and family by spoiling churches.’ Selworthy was restored 1874 and 1891 (Kelly), Bossington (West Lynch) in 1883-4, acc to Kelly 1906.
SEDDON, Major H. C. Royal Engineers. Head of War Office design at the time of the Cardwell reforms, the depot reorganisation of the 1870s that led to county regiments being based in local barracks: eg Bury St Edmunds, Brecon 1877-9; Devizes, Dorchester, Reading Brock Barracks 1875-8, Taunton Jellalabad Barracks 1879-81, Worcester. Taunton is said to be by T Berry, Army Divisional Surveyor qv with Major Crozier RE; cf Douet English Army Barracks book for EH;
SEDDON, JOHN POLLARD, 1827-1906 London, Llandaff. Pupil of TL Donaldson, partner of John Prichard from 1852-62, and John Coates Carter 1884-1904, cf M Darby, JP Seddon. Cathedral Architect, Llandaff, after JP 1886; Surveyor to Archdeaconry of Monmouth to 1904; extensive practice in SE Wales.
(1875 rest Upavon ch, Wilts, nave only; tenders WG 12.3.75; WBR;
(1878 parsonage, Chirton, Wilts; WBR; TBC;
(1878 alts Stanton St Bernard Vicarage, Wilts; WBR;
(1885 St Barnabas ch, Swindon, Wilts; WBR;)
(1902 alts Red Lodge, Braydon, Wilts; WBR2 says by Seddon of Warminster with Jones of Gloucester, prob JPS with D&C Jones, bldrs;
SEDGEMOOR DISTRICT COUNCIL. RA Brown Chief Technical Officer 1980s, Chester Smith RIBA 1990s
1986 Barnett House and Coles House, Albert St, Bridgwater; opened 27.11.86; RD Samuel proj archt;
1994 Alts MH, Princess St, Burnham on Sea, Som; conversion to The Princess public hall; Pollard & Sons contrs; plaque inside, Chester Smith chief archt SDC;
SELBY, WILLIAM Engineer & surveyor, Radstock. Chaired meeting WG 29.4.1870;
1870 adds and stables, parsonage, Radstock, Som; SRO DD/Bbm/ 170 addn of service wing;
SELWAY, R.J. Shepton Mallet. RJ Selway Associates.
2010 Stockwood Buildings, Pylle, Som; commercial building; Mendip awards 2011;
2010 A&M Building, The Briars, Chilcompton, Som; Mendip awards 2011;
SERJEANT, - Architect Wimborne Dorset; daughter married Henry Sutton, clothier of Salisbury BC 22.1.1789;
SETH-WARD, CHARLES MELVILLE. 104 Victoria St, London. 1869-1946. WWinA 1926. Originally practiced as Melville S Ward, practice continued in Rickmansworth, St Albans, Harpenden as Melville Seth-Ward & Partners. Designed houses in Mayfair, pubs, and Heatherden Hall, Iver Heath, Bucks, the large house where the Irish Free State treaty of 1921 was signed and later became nucleus of Pinewood Studios; inf Gwrych Castle website;
(1903 Lodge, Forty Hill, Enfield, Mx; archiseek website;
(1905 Old Orchard House, Parsonage Lane, Farnham Common, Bucks; for himself; Gwrych Castle website;
(1912 House at Wimbledon; AR 1912)
(1912 Golf-club, Denham, Bucks, AR 1912?)
1914-16 rest & adds to Cadbury Court, North Cadbury, Som; WW in A 1926;
But James Lees-Milne, in autobiog Caves of Ice says hall was by HA Tipping qv for Sir Archibald Langman;
(c1916 Denham Golf Club, Bucks; BoE)
SEVERNSIDE ARCHITECTS
1979 Fitzjames Hall, Kings School, Bruton, Som; named in Kings School Bruton Remembered; J Bishton thought first designs were by R Vallis;
SEWARD, CHARLES THOMAS Bath, builder and surveyor.
(1839-40 alts Lydiard Tregoze ch, Wilts, paid £5 for plan and spec in May 1840; Friends of Lydiard Tregoz 38 28;)
1840 Parsonage, Camerton, Som; hipped, plain; SRO BBM/79;
SEWARD, DEREK Architect, trained with Farmer & Dark, worked almost entirely for Somerset county planning dept, oversaw resurvey of listed buildings in county in 1980s; ?not same as DJ Seward author Understanding structures: analysis, materials, design, basic textbook for engineering students;
1970 Domus, Churchway, Curry Rivel, Som; for self;
2005-7 ext No 2 Mount Hey, Parsonage Hill, Somerton, Som a house by Steel & Coleman qv; inf Derek Seward;
(2012 House for self, Verwood, Dorset; inf D Seward)
SEWARD, J. Builder, Frome
(1901 T alts Wiltshire Reformatory, Warminster, Som; not accepted; WBR2;
(1909 Gym, Wiltshire Reformatory, Warminster, Wilts; WBR2;
SEYMOUR, JOHN Mason, Taunton
1862 restored screen, Carhampton ch, Som; painting by Stansell, architect CE Giles; VCH;
1863 Churchyard cross, Monksilver, Som; Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset;
SEYMOUR, ROBERT Architect Robert Seymour & Associates, The Merchants House, 10 High St, Totnes, Devon; 01803 868568 seymourarchitect@
2000 Rest Somerton Mill, Som, for Graham Deane; RIBA sector review 2004; ?award 2004;
SHACKLE, G. H. Architect, 7 Alexandra Terrace, Marlborough, Wilts. In Kelly 1907-15, WBR; ?in 1903 dir;.
1919 War memorial screen, Wincanton ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1919/166;
SHARP, THOMAS WILFRED Town Planner, 1901-78, famous for plan for Oxford and post-war plans for numerous towns.
(1946 plan for Exeter, Devon, published as 'Exeter Phoenix';
1948 Plan for Taunton, Som. Outer ring road from Ruishton Lodge on line of present M5; inner ring road from Shoreditch Rd to Station via Silver St, Tancred St, Priory Bridge Rd;
(1949 plan for Salisbury, Wilts, published as 'New Sarum';)
SHAW, HENRY Bristol. Architect. Designed houses in Leigh Woods, Bristol 1876-8; GJL;
(1877 Ecclesbourne, Stoke Bishop, Bristol;
SHELDON, ANTHONY (TONY) GRAHAM CLEESE. Architect, c1930-93. Papers SRO A/DFC. Worked for Loughborough College, Somerset County Council, Vallis of Frome; Hoskins of Shepton Mallet; Imrie Porter & Wakefield of Warminster; Kendrick Finlay & Partners of Bath (Unity Structures); Roydon Cooper Assocs Yeovil; SWEB; Taunton Borough Council; Wells City Council; work also in Devon, Essex, Wilts, Yorks, and Aberystwyth.
SHELDON, FRANK. AMICE Engineer West St, Wells; Kelly 06;
SHELLARD, IVOR F. Borough Surveyor Taunton
1921-2 War Memorial, Vivary Park, Taunton, Som; unveiled 16.3.22; Som CC war memorials website; Bush Taunton Diary 99;
1926 Concrete council-houses, Wellington Rd and Lambrook Rd, Taunton, Som; R Bush Taunton Diary 96;
SHELMERDINE, THOMAS Liverpool
1875 2nd pr. Langport & Huish Schools, Som; Arch 22.10.75 ill;
SHENBROOKS, S. Taunton Error for Samuel Shewbrooks qv;
1866 2nd pr West of England Dissenters College, Taunton; RHH
SHEPHERD, EDWARD. London +1747. Builder architect who worked for Duke of Chandos at Canons, Mx, 1723-5, and on two houses in Cavendish Sq London for the Duke; he was acc to HC ‘in charge of the Duke’s building operations at Bridgwater, 1721ff, and Bath, though, except in one of two cases, he does not seem to have been responsible for the designs executed by the local master builders; C&M Collins, James Brydges Duke of Chandos 1949;
SHEPPARD ROBSON Architects, London. Sir Richard Sheppard 1910-82 born Bristol, Sheppard Robson & Partners founded 1958, specialists in schools and universities, Churchill College, Cambridge. Knighted 1981.
(1997 Motorola, Swindon, Wilts)
(201? Finzel’s Reach, Bristol)
(201? Mathematics Building, Bristol University)
(2013 Biological Sciences Building, Bristol Univesity)
SHEPPARD, LEWIS Worcester.
1895 alts, heating; Flax Bourton ch, Som; SRO cf 1895/1;
SHEPSTONE, WILLIAM H. Architect, Nailsea, 1931 dir
SHEW, T. Bath. Brought back model of Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, and was to direct building of a copy at Brockley Hall, Som, for JH Smyth-Pigott; HGS 175-6; unex; inf from J Rutter, Delineations, 1829, 30-1;
SHEWBROOKS, SAMUEL. Taunton. Builder, son of William Shewbrooks qv. Samuel Shrewbrooks acc to RL and Christopher Stell, but also Samuel Shewbrook and Samuel Shrewbrook; a Charles Shewbrooks, architect to the Duke of Devonshire was father of Samuel BD Shewbrooks 1856-1957 who practiced in Vancouver, Canada from 1912
1853-5 bldr rest Dulverton ch, Som, by Edward Ashworth; RL; reblt exc tower; ?more likely to be William;
1866 reps Otterford ch, Som; Wm & Sml Shewbrooks; SRO DD/DP/72/3;
1866 2nd pr West of England Dissenters College, Taunton, Som, S Shenbrooks; RHH; ?error, 2nd prize won by William Shewbrooks, 1865.
1867 Tenders for ? SCG 22.6.67;
1868-9 rest Creech St Michael ch, Som; ICBS; S Shrubrook, SRO cf/1868/8; floor tiles by Maw;
1869 alts WM chapel, Taunton, Som by SS, Mr Webber contr; TC 18.5.69; chapel originally by James Wilson qv dem exc facade and new chapel built at right angles keeping old front as a side-wall feature;
1871 bldr rest Tolland ch, Som; CE Giles archt; Shewbrooks & Son bldrs and stonework by Mrs Stagg, Taunton, SCH 15.7.71; WSFP 15.7.71;
1872? WM chapel, West St, Dunster, Som; C Stell, S Shewbrooks; more likely to be 1878 RL; 1878 BoE ‘odd rather Flemish Baroque façade';
1875 adds WM chapel, Mantle St, Wellington, Som; new schools in front; WWN 11.2.75 FS laid 5.2.75, cost c£700; Mr Shewbrooks, bldr Alfred T Morse of Wellington; chapel behind of 1851;
1876 alts terrace Canal Road, Taunton, Som, addn to No 1 and new ho next No 4; signed ‘S Shrewbrook’ plans SRO D/B/ta/24/1/331
1876 Showroom and workshop next Rose Cottage, Station Rd, Taunton, Som, for J Manning; D/B/ta/24/1/344, S Shrewbrooks;
1876 add Taunton School, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; rear addn for kitchen with additional room for headmaster above; D/B/ta/24/1/350; S Shewbrooks;
1876 East Chinnock National School, Som; Br 1876 1082 – Shewbrooke;
1878 WM chapel, West St, Dunster, Som; BoES; C Stell says 1872, error; BA 1879 77 mentions stained glass window by Fouracre & Watson of Plymouth to design of architect; Tender SCG 31.1.78 Mr Shewbrooks 52 Bridge St, Taunton.
1878 for sale, building land, South St, Taunton apply Mr Shewbrooks, South St or 52 Bridge St, Taunton; SCG 2.2.78
1878 ? near the college, Taunton, plans and spec with architect S Shewbrooks, South St, Taunton, SCG 19.10.78;
1879 Wrantage School, Som; A Dix North Curry 162; £308/4/7d and £327/0/9d fittings, John Blackmore bldr, plans by ‘Shrobrooke’; bombed 1940;
1880-1 Bldr, rest Brompton Ralph ch, Som; by Henry Parsons qv; RL; DoE;
SHEWBROOKS, WILLIAM. South St, Taunton, builder, surveyor. Also called William Shewbrook. Father of Samuel Shewbrooks and also Edward Shewbrooks architect who practised in Newcastle, made FRIBA TC 12.4.1892. Edward Jeboult qv apprenticed 1848; died before 1892;
1844-7 alts Elworthy ch, Som; ICBS;
1847-8 add West of England Dissenters’ Proprietary School, Wellington Terrace, Wellington Rd, Taunton; PC 18 n1; school bought recently completed terrace, WS added a dining-room/school-room to the W; £1300, 2 st 7-bay; but see also James Pollard;
1849-51 carpenter, rest St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som; ICBS; WH Brakspear archt, David Bradfield mason;
1849 Builder, St Audries, West Quantoxhead, Som; JT 13 mentions that WS was working on the new mansion after Edward Jeboult qv joined him as apprentice in 1848; architect for these works possibly John Norton qv;
1849-51 builder Nether Stowey ch, Som; architects Carver & Giles; plaque in church; consec 10.9.51;
1854-5 builder Rectory, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som; for Rev SH Unwin; SRO DD/DP/72/2; William Shewbrooks; plans are by Edward Ashworth, D/D/Bbm/
1855-6 contractor St Mary Magdalene Cemetery, Wellington Rd, Taunton, E Ashworth architect; consec TC 20.2.56
1862 misc plans by Edwin Down qv for churches and plans for a gallery witnessed by W & S Shrobrooks, possibly Bridgwater C chapel, Som; CMY/554; DG;
1863-5 builder Town Hall, Bridgwater, Som, C Knowles qv archt; WS&Son; letter SCG 4.6.64 re grossly inaccurate quantities given by Mr Knowles;
1863-4 contractor rest Middlezoy ch, Som; Charles Knowles architect; spec SRO;
1865 2nd pr Independent College, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton; PC 56;
1866 reps Otterford ch, Som; Wm & Sml Shewbrooks; but contract dated 14.1.1860 with William Shewbrooks SRO DD/DP/72/3;
1867 ?Almshouses, Magdalene Lane, Taunton; undated plans for rebuilding ill in JT31 signed WS may be misidentified by Robin Bush as these almshouses are 1845 by Carver & Giles qv; is WS signing the plans as builder?;
1868 Stable & outbuildings, West Newton, North Petherton, Som, for JH Warre; contract 6.6.68, SRO DD/DP/72/3
1871 builder rest Tolland ch, Som; CE Giles archt; Shewbrooks & Son bldrs and stonework by Mrs Stagg, Taunton, SCH 15.7.71; WSFP 15.7.71;
1871-2 ?builder rest Bicknoller ch, Som; vicar’s diary reports Shewbrooke bldr came and examined roof 5.8.1870; rest under JD Sedding 1871-2, but Henry Davis qv may have been builder;
Also unsuccessful tender for WM chapel, Watchet, Som 1870 by ‘Shewbrook Bros’, architect R Williams qv;
SHIPP, NICK Architect Bath Nick Shipp Architects; formed from arcc architects, Fulham London, formed 1988, with offices in London and at Haugh Farm, Winsley, Wilts;
(1995 renov Dodington Park, Glos)
(1998ff alts Haugh Farm, Winsley Wilts for self; inc 2004 swimming-pool, 2011 conv of barn:
2006 refurb and ext of house, Newton St Loe, Som for offices;
(2008 prop Village Hall, Burbage, Wilts; not built;
2009ff masterplan and adds Monkton Combe School, Som, inc single-st addn to boarding house, 2009, boathouses 2011, music school 2012;
(201? Monkgarron House, Ebbesbourne Wake, Wilts; new house, butterfly plan;
2011 boathouses, Monkton Combe School, Som;
(2012 Wilsher Group HQ, Waterhouse, Limpley Stoke, Wilts conv and ext of Gde 2 house;
2012 Music school, Monkton Combe School, Som
2013 block of five flats, Frome Rd, Combe Down, Bath; plans made 2005;
(2013 ext house, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts; boarded side addition to end-terrace ho;
(2014 prop ext to house, Winsley, Wilts;
SHIPWAY, EDMOND Twerton Villa Bath. Construction consultants, project management, cost consultancy, building surveying, BREEAM assessment; not necessarily designers;
20?? Heywood Surgery, Pill, nr Bristol, Som;
(20?? A&E addition, Southmead Hospital, Bristol )
(20?? Coronary Care Centre, Bristol)
20?? Dyson Neo-natal Intensive care Unit, Bath;
SHIRLEY-SMITH & GIBSON Taunton. From 1967-70, then Shirley-Smith, Gibson & Rigler 1970-85 see Robin Shirley-Smith
SHIRLEY-SMITH, ROBIN Taunton ARIBA c1917-88, from Birmingham. After WW2 trained Liverpool, planning officer in Liverpool and Lancs then joined Samson, Colthurst & Steer 1950, practice then became Steer & Shirley-Smith qv. from 1950 to 1962, then Steer, Shirley-Smith & Gibson (SSSG) with Derek Gibson; and from 1967-70, was Shirley-Smith & Gibson (SSG); then Shirley-Smith, Gibson & Rigler 1970-86 (SSGR). Bought out Roberts & Willman qv of Taunton c1950. Retired 1985 died 1988. Stained glass window to him in Cheddon Fitzpaine ch, Som, by Mark Angus; DG 7, DG 17: good relations with RO Harris county architect and Joseph Woods arch to SW Regional Hospital board led to work for Bridgwater Butleigh & Minehead Hospital Management Ctee: works at Bridgwater General Hospital and Mary Stanley Maternity Unit Bridgwater and Butleigh Hospital. Works at Quantock Sanatorium, Over Stowey; minor works for Taunton Hospital Management Ctee at East Reach, Trinity and Cheddon Rd hospitals. Did alts to PHs and private houses. Derek Gibson joined practice as assistant 1955, partner 1962.
19?? House for self, Gotton, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som;
19?? Bridgwater Building Soc, Corporation St, Taunton; DG 17; ground floor car showroom; ceramic heraldic panels; ill DG 18;
19?? Walpamur Paint Co, The Mount, Taunton; DG 18; now Crescent House, corner Mary St.
19?? House for T Saul solicitor, Taunton, Som; DG 18; conical tiled roof; where?
19?? Works for WT Maynard Son & Co, inc bakery and alts to North St restaurant, Taunton, Som, and int alts to restaurant, High St, Bridgwater; DG 18;
1963 School hall and gym, St Joseph Convent School, South Rd, Taunton, Som; ill DG 19; by SSS&G;
1966 St Georges RC School, The Mount, Taunton, Som; ill DG 18; SSS&G
1967 George Williams YMCA, Friarn Walk, Bridgwater, Som, opened by Duchess of Kent; DG19; £50000; ?dem for new YMCA
1967-73 Summerlands Hospital, Preston Rd, Yeovil, Som; SSG&R; WG 5.1.73; FR Bartlett Ltd bldrs; dem most of Yeovil workhouse, 1837, for Geriatic Hospital;
1967-9 reps Dulverton ch, som; SRO d/d/cf/1969/9/2 renovate bell-cage;
1970-1 reps Cutcombe ch, Som; ICBS; RSS of SSG;
1973 Iron Tree of Life, N aisle E, Staplegrove ch, Som, by RSS made by Jim Horrobin of Roadwater; ch guide; to Rev Cresswell-Higgs + 1969, dedicated 1973;
1977-9 West Monkton Village Hall, Som; W Monkton then & now 42-3; RSS archt; blt 1979;
1980-2 repairs Brompton Regis ch, Som; ICBS; RSS of SSGR;
Also DG 18-19: ?all by SSSG: adds Huish Episcopi Secondary School; School Hall, Langport Junior School; adds Huish Grammar School Taunton; also various school meal kitchens and hutted classrooms. House at The Green Pitminster. Houses for Alford Bros of Hambridge developers; private estate South Petherton; street improvement scheme Crewkerne; improvement scheme Wellington; minor alts for cash dispensers Midland Bank premises Bridgwater, Glastonbury and three in Devon; Village hall Puriton, Som, and later extension; adds 1 King Sq Bridgwater for Bridgwater Building soc; new YMCA off Friarn Ave; upgraded houses Wellington Rd estate Taunton;
By SSG minor adds Musgrove Pk Hospital, Taunton; A&E Centre, East Reach Hospital, Taunton; alts Casualty dept and new outpatients, Bridgwater Hospital; new dental surgery Ilminster praised in AR; for same dentist, converted Moolham Mill, Dowlish Wake, nr Ilminster; acted for London architects on Nuffield Private Hospital, Staplegrove Elm, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, and did landscaping;
By SSGR: adds Musgrove Pk Hospital, Taunton; dayrooms Bideford Geriatric Hospital, Devon ill DG 20; Bideford Ambulance Station, Devon; village hall Edington, Som, very cheap; cottages behind Post Office, Puckington, Som; cottages Lower Rd, Woolavington, Som; old peoples dwellings at Crossacre, Wembdon, Som; housing estate at Burnshill, Norton Fitzwarren, Som, ill DG 21, for Taunton Deane BC; fitted out starter units in former British Cellophane, Bridgwater, Som; similar project at Vennland for Somerset CC; car-showrooms Autorama, East Reach, Taunton, Som, dem, and Saab, East Reach, Taunton, Som dem, Gliddons, Wellington Rd, Taunton, ill DG 21 dem; listed bldng work: conversion Somerset House, Middle St, Taunton; Dampiet St, Bridgwater; Christ Church U chapel, Dampiet St, Bridgwater, Som; rest Bridgwater Library after fire ill DG 22; restored Angel Crescent, Bridgwater, Som, ill DG 8 & 22 1987 ;
SHOPLAND, J. & W. Builders Clevedon, brothers John and William, later John & Edmund Shopland; Lilly; ?same family as James Rew Shopland 1842-97 engineer and architect, Swindon, born Exeter, came to Swindon 1870, engineer to Swindon Marlborough & Andover Rlwy 1875, to Swindon & Cheltenham Extension Rlwy c1881, to Midland & South Western Junction Rlwy 1884, in partnership with TS Lansdown of Swindon as L&S c1870-3 who designed schools, King William St, Swindon, 1871; JRS alone designed Cottage Hospital, Purton, Wilts, 1878, and Lower End Fm, Compton Bassett Wilts 1880; WBR2;
1876-82 Houses, Victoria Rd, Clevedon; Berwick Lo, Dalwood, Margency, Mt Pleasant, The Holms, Wargrave; D&J Lilly The builders of Clevedon, 2000;
188? Highdale Villa & Hillview, Sunnyside Rd, Clevedon;Lilly;
1880? Houses in Queen's Rd, Clevedon, Som, by W Shopland; road built up by 1881-2;
1880 Brighton Terrace, Ken Rd, Clevedon, Som, by Wm Shopland; Lilly; dem 1967;
1881-3 Meadow Rd, Clevedon orig Temperance Row, off old St; Lilly;
1890s houses on St John's Rd, Clevedon; also by WA Green, Norman, and Hardwidge & Tanner;
1896 two pairs houses, Highdale Av, Clevedon, one by John, one by Edmund dated 1896; Lilly;
1899 two terraces Ken Rd, Clevedon; Lilly;
SHOUT, ROBERT HOWARD. Yeovil. 1823-82. Architect, surveyor, builder. Son of Charles Lutwyche Shout of London +1855, descendant of family of masons from Helmsley Yorks (HC), pupil of William Tress and Lewis Vulliamy. Commenced practice in W of England c1852, successively in Bristol, Sherborne, Yeovil & Dorchester, applied for County Surveyor post 1857. Advertises for articled pupil SM 12.10.1852 from Kingston, Yeovil; AEBTD 1868 lists Yeovil Cemetery, St John ch, Yeovil, churches at Evershot, Melbury Bubb and ‘schools, parsonage-houses, mansions, and agricultural buildings, chiefly in the West of England.’ In partnership with Thomas Austin of Bristol to 1853 GJL 430; address 35 Colemen St, Ealing London in 1868. Obit Br 1.4.82.
(1849-51 rest Leigh ch, Dorset; RJ Withers drew up schedule of works; ICBS, Austin & Shout sign certificate)
(1850 cottage and dairy, Thornford, Dorset for Earl Digby; BoE;
(1852 C schoolroom, Long St, Sherborne, Dorset; British School; BoE; OSS)
(1852 Parsonage, Dilton Marsh, Wilts; plans ?at house; WBR says WRO plans by Austin, Shout & Withers, conflates Austin & Shout with RJ Withers qqv;
(1852-3 alts Evershot ch, Dorset; BoE, also chancel 1863-4)
(1853-4 Rest Melbury Bubb ch, Dorset; BoE AEBTD)
1854-5 Re-erected the Chantry, Yeovil ch, Som, on W side of churchyard; Western Flying Post 29.5.55, Mr ‘Short’, Mr Harwood mason; also repairs to tower SW buttress; B & M Gittos, Yeovil the hidden history, 58;
1856 Police Station, North St, Wincanton, Som; nd RL; ?SRO Q/AP 62;
(1856 Cemetery Wimborne Monster Dorset BoE;
(1857 Caundle Marsh ch, Dorset; BoE)
1858 surveyed house Hendford, Yeovil, Som for use as vicarage for St Johns ch; SRO D/D/Bbm/132 plans and elves of house, erected about 20yrs ago, large rear adds built in last two years; dem;
1858-9 remodelled Barwick Park, Barwick, Som for Thomas Messiter; Br 2.4.59 alterations and additions, drawing exhibited in London 'showing something of the more eccentric features of the Jacobean style', Br 2.4.59; RL 2 37 ‘remodelled Mr Messiter’s residence near Yeovil’ nd;
1859-60 rest St John ch, Yeovil, Som; SRO cf/1859/4, reseat; ICBS; AEBTD; rest under way Br 19.3.59, nearly complete Br 3.3.60 141;
1860 Cemetery, Preston Rd, Yeovil, Som; Br 29.9.60 828 Yeovil stone with Ham, two chapels, intended for central tower, foundations laid, RHS of London, Wellspring of Dorchester contr, Mr Sansom clerk of works; AEBTD 1868; Foster & Wood won comp 1858, cemetery built 1860; purchase land 1859. Two matching chapels, lodge and gates.
1861 Manor Farmhouse & buildings, Chiselborough, Som, for Earl of Ilchester;
1862-4 rest Preston Plucknett ch, Som; SRO cf/1862/6; RHS of Dorchester & Yeovil; repairs and reseating, RL;
(1863-4 rebuilt chancel Evershot ch, Dorset; BoE, see also 1852-3)
1875-7 Manor Farm, Horsington, Som, for WM Dodington of Horsington House; house and farm buildings, RL; copy of Manor Farm, Chiselborough;
SHREWBROOKS, SAMUEL. see Samuel Shewbrook.
SHRIMPTON & SALMON, 54 Broad St, Ludlow. Stuart Norman Shrimpton;
(1960 Orchard Ho, Bromfield Rd, Ludlow, Salop;
(1976-7 reps Aston ch, Herefs; ICBS)
(1976-7 reps Linley ch, Salop; ICBS)
1987-8 Barcroft Hall, South Petherton, Som; plans at house; for – Crocker.
SIBLEY, THOMAS Crewkerne. Carpenter, joiner, in 1822 and 1833 dirs.
SIDELL GIBSON PARTNERSHIP 13 Spencer Ct, 7 Chalcot Rd, London NW1. London, Berlin & Birmingham (took over Crouch Butler Savage partnership Birmingham). RD Sidell and PA Gibson. Rest of Windsor Castle CTA 1999; Grand Buildings Trafalgar Sq CTA 1994; Woolgate exchange CTA 2002; European Bank for Reconstruction London 1996; Sir John Lyon House 2007; 30 Gresham St London; Paddington Central, London; One New Change, London 2010; adds 31 Tite St, Chelsea; over 40 schemes for English Courtyard association inc St Lukes Ct, Marlborough, Wilts; Reuters office, Geneva;
(1983 Manor Ct housing for elderly, Pewsey, Wilts, HDA 1983)
(1987 Walpole Ct, Puddletown, Dorset; HDA 1987, for elderly;
1988 Conversion and adds Hayes End Manor, South Petherton, Som for English Courtyard Assoc, retirement development; W Coombs & Sons Ltd ilminster contrs; Corresp from Guy Greenfield job archt, SVBRG;
1991 Ashcombe Court, Ilminster, Som; Stone Federation Award.
(1993 Earls Manor Court, Winterbourne Earls, Wilts; CTA commended 1995; proj archt Richard morton)
(1993-7 reconstructed Windsor Castle, Berks after fire; Giles Downes archt;
(19?? Fifteen houses and shops, Poundbury, Dorset; first phase of village;
(200? Dorchester First School, Poundbury, Dorset;)
SILCOCK & REAY. Architects, 47 Milsom St Bath, Kelly 1906. Thomas Ball Silcock qv +1924 and Samuel Sebastian Reay +1933 qv. Partnership c1897-c1911;
1896 Board Schools, Twerton, Bath published in Brit Architect acc to BC 26.11.96;
1896-7 Gospel Hall, Claverton Down Rd, Bath; SNB, S&R; ill Br 11.9.97, Mannings & Mould of Bath contrs;
1897 Rainbow Wood House, Widcombe Hill, Bath for Walter E Mallett. EH listing says by S&R, but possibly first designed c1895 by TBS; listing says plans in Bath RO BC/761/2/1412 are dated March 1897 and for coach house BC/761/2/1856 June 1897;
1897 Clock Tower, Churchill, Som, for S Hill of Langford House; S&R;
(1897 Technical College, Victoria Rd, Swindon, Wilts; WBR S&R;
1897 adds No 20 Bathwick Hill, Bath, Som, S&R; SNB;
1899 Factory, Bath Cabinet Making Co, Bath, Som; ill on Archiseek website;
(1899 Holy Rood RC School, Groundwell Rd, Swindon, Wilts; WBR2;
1899 Chapel and school, Moorfields, Bath, to be built, ill BN 15.12.99 archiseek;
1900 Façade, 46 Milsom St, Bath; S&R; SNB, for their own offices;
(1900 Newtown Junior School, Trowbridge, Wilts; British Schools by S&R ill BN 14.6.01, Archiseek website; TBS BoE 535;
(1899-1902 Llandudno TH, Lloyd St, Llandudno, Caerns; built by S&R to orig des of 1894 by TBS)
1902 shopfront, No 32 Milsom St, Bath, Som; S&R; SNB;
(1902 Winsley House, Winsley, Wilts; WBR S&R for Arthur Lee of S Kensington; WT 12.4.02;
1902-3 B chapel, The Triangle, Oldfield Pk, Bath, Som; SNB; B chapel and schools, Twerton, Bath, ill Br 15.3.1902
(1903-4 Winsley Chest Hospital, Winsley, Wilts; WBR S&R; architect TBS WG 12.6.03; built as sanatorium, closed 1980s, altered as Avon Park geriatric village, but main range survives;
1905 Hayward & Wooster offices, addition to 108 Walcot St, Bath; S&R; SNB;
(1905 Marlborough Grammar School, Wilts; WBR;
1906-7 Wesleyan Cottage Homes, Churchill, Som, for Sidney Hill of Langford House; S&R, SNB;
1906 alts WM chapel, Churchill, Som for S Hill of Langford House; new porch; C Stell; SNB; chapel by Foster & Wood qv 1879-80;
1907 Sunday school, B chapel, Manvers St, Bath, Som; S&R; SNB;
(1907 Ivy lane Schools, Chipenham, Wilts; WBR; possibly also similar schools in Wood Lane;
1909 Golf Club house, Lansdown Golf club, Bath £900; Howrd, son & Parsons buuilders; BC 29.4.09
1910 Sunday school, B chapel, Widcombe, Bath, Som; S&R; MF;
SILCOCK, THOMAS BALL. Architect, 46 Milsom St, Bath. 1854-1924. Partner with Samuel Sebastian Reay (S&R) from c1897. Mayor of Bath, 1900-1 and 1910-11, Liberal MP for Wells 1906-10, then lost to Conservative, did not stand again. Son of Thomas Ball Sillcock Sr, millwright, born Rode, Som, in 1797, of Staverton, Wilts, later of 6 St Margaret's Pl, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, deacon and treasurer of C chapel Bradford on Avon; WBR2; memoir Thomas Ball Silcock, by Nathaniel Micklem, 1924; Arthur Fare qv was a pupil;
1887-8 YMCA, Broad St, Bath, Som; TBS;
1891 3rd prize, Municipal Buildings competition, Bath, Som; TBS; RHH; Arch 1.1.92;
1891-2 adds Lansdown Grove Hotel, Bath; TBS; billiard room T: Br 23.11.89
1892 2nd prize Shepton Mallet public offices, Som; RHH; TBS;
1894 entrant Pump Room extension, Bath, competition, RHH;
(1894 C chapel, Sanford St, Swindon, Wilts; ?dem; TBS designed Sunday School 1898 WBR2;
(1894-5 1st pr Municipal Buildings, Llandudno, Caerns; RA 1895 TBS; ill AA 1895; blt 1899-1902 by S&R;
(1895 Pew Hill House, Chippenham, Wilts; by TBS, BN 8.11.95; but by S&R WBR;
(1895-7 Technical School, Junction Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR; later Fitzmaurice Grammar School, now flats; plans WRO G/13/760/5; opened Feb 1897;
189? Walden, North Rd, Combe Down, Bath for himself;
1897 Rainbow Wood House, Widcombe Hill, Bath for Walter E Mallett. EH listing says by Silcock & Reay, but probably designed c1895; plans in Bath RO BC/761/2/1412 are dated March 1897 and for coach house BC/761/2/1856 June 1897, S&R;
(1898 Sunday school, C chapel, Sanford St, Swindon; dem; WBR2;
SILLEY, GEORGE MICHAEL. Architect to Wilts & Dorset Bank, 17 Craven St, London. Cf RIBAJ 7.11.1908 32 article on John Gibson by SF Clarkson: born 1843, four years from 1863 with Habershon & Pite qv, principal assistant to John Gibson qv 1869-73, won competition for Wilts & Dorset Bank branch in Bath, 1873, left Gibson for private practice and 'has since acted as architect for that bank (W&D), having built or altered most of their numerous premises'. Also designed St Paul church and vicarage, Harringay, London, and 'numbers of other buildings'; Percival G Silley qv presumably a son or relation, practised from same address in 1920s;
Lloyds archives: I can confirm there was an architect George M Silley, who designed Shepton Mallet branch in 1877 and Corn Street, Bristol in 1880 for Wilts & Dorset Bank (this branch merged with the Lloyds branch at 55 Corn Street in 1918). Also, according to our records, Wilts & Dorset Bank opened a branch at 3 High Street Glastonbury in 1864. The building was next door to the George & Pilgrim Inn and incorporated some fine stone carving, including a frieze of animals and gargoyles. This Gothic style was not like the usual designs chosen by the bank for its buildings. In 1914 Wilts & Dorset was absorbed by Lloyds Bank.
1873-5 Wilts & Dorset Bank, 23 Milsom St, Bath, Som; SNB; won in competition in 1873 when GMS was still with John Gibson;
(1876 Wilts & Dorset Bank, High St, Chippenham, Wilts; WBR;
1877 Wilts & Dorset Bank, Shepton Mallet, Som; Lloyds archives
(1879-80 Wilts & Dorset Bank, Corn St, Bristol; dem;)
(1883 Savings Bank, St Stephen’s Ave, Bristol; dem; )
1885 Wilts & Dorset Bank, 3 High St, Glastonbury, Som; BoE S ‘GM Tilley’; Gothic; Lloyds archives say that branch opened in 1864; next door to medieval George Inn;
(1899 Wilts & Dorset Bank, Burlington Rd, Redland, Bristol; Gomme;
1910 alts Public Hall, The Avenue, Minehead, Som for Wilts & Dorset Bank; OD347; plans SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/367; this was Town Hall by JP St Aubyn qv, built as a public hall by a private company, bankrupt 1910. Sold to W&D Bank. Silley inserted an attic floor in first-floor hall, with numerous small rooms, and subdivided ground floor left room; ground-floor right room was the bank; also inserted strong-rooms etc.
(1913 adds Manor House, Great Durnford, Wilts; WBR;)
SILLEY, PERCIVAL GEORGE. Architect, 17 Craven St, London. Presumably son of GM Silley qv, born 1873, articled GM Silley, commenced practice 1899, WW in A 1914; ;
1924 addn to servants hall, The Beacon, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/ 22/1/663 for Mrs Fleming;
SIMON, FRANK LEWIS WORTHINGTON Architect, 1862-1933, articled J Cotton of Birmingham 1879, worked with J Corrins in Birmingham 1882, then Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts 1883; 1887 practice in Edinburgh with SH Capper; 1889 merged with RR anderson's practice as Anderson, Simon & Crawford, 1903 moved to Liverpool partnership with Huon matear designed Liverpool Cotton Exchange 1905; 1912 won competition to design Manitoba Parliament Buildings, Winnipeg.
SIMPSON (W.B.) & SONS, decorators, tile makers 110 St Martins Lane, London. William Butler Simpson 1798-1882 founded firm 1833. Sons became partners 1860, 1868 built new premises 100 St Martins Lane specialists in tiles and mosaic, agents for Maw & Co, used their blanks for hand-painted tiles;
1878 rest St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som, no architect used, £700, repairing chancel, new tile floors by Maw, mosaic floor in chancel, mosaic panels in dado; Derbyshire marble chancel steps; Mr Weston in charge; reopened SCG 3.8.78; stonework repairs £300 by Bradfield & Son, Bridgwater; heating £250 by Murch & Culverwell, Bridgwater; lighting £450 by Jones & Hudson of Bristol; total over £2000;
SINGER, JOHN WEBB. Frome, metal-worker. 1819-1904. JW Singer & Sons founded 1847 as Frome Art Metal Works, produced art metalwork for churches all over Britain. Work in Westminster Abbey, Gloucester, Ripon, Madras Cathedrals. Started as bronze-founders after 1888 cast Boadicea, Westminster Bridge, General Gordon Melbourne Australia, lions for Cecil Rhodes Cape town, Victoria Memorial London, King Alfred winchester, Justice Old Bailey London; Firm survives as general engineering company, since 1999 making only sprinkler frames for fire protection; sons were Walter Herbert singer born c1853 and Edgar Ratcliffe Singer born c1858, WHS was amnager, ERS was designer c1881-91, they took over c1899, took over Spital & Clarke of Birmingham, 1914, bronze founding in London taken over by William Morris & Co of Westminster and renamed Morris Singer, 1927.
18?? brasswork St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; SNB;
1860? fittings, chancel, Dunkerton ch, Som; SNB;
1865 iron balconettes, Lit and Sci Inst, Frome, Som; J Hine qv archt; SNB;
(1876 brasswork in chancel, Seend ch, Wilts; WBR2)
(1877-8 chancel rails, Christ Church, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR2)
1879 iron screen, Kilmersdon ch, Som; SNB;
(1885? brass to J Palmer-Palmer, Bristol Cathedral; SNB;
1887 altar rail, Barrow Gurney ch, Som; SNB;
1901 Iron screen, South Stoke ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1901/26;
1903 Screen, Holy Trinity ch, Frome, Som; SNB;
1906 Crucifix, All Saints ch, Clevedon, Som; des by Sir Edmund Elton qv; SNB;
1909 screen and gates, St John ch, Clevedon, Som des by C Hare qv; SNB;
SINGLETON & SON Builders Yeovil. D Singleton & Son est 1903
193? Burtol Cleaners, Princes St/ Park Rd, Yeovil, Som; L Brooke, Yeovil A Pictorial History, 31; D Singleton &Son;
1949 reblt chancel & third of nave, North Barrow ch, Som; £2207/10/0d; SRO D/P/bar.n/6/3/1; ?William Singleton & Son.
19?? Blt Sutton Bingham Reservoir Som for Yeovil RDC;
SIPKE, A.J.R. Architect, 80 Campden Rd, London W8;
1920 plans house, Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater; ?SHC; inf Diana Crighton;
SISSONS, FRANK P. City Engineer, Bath; designed council estates in Bath at Southdown, Rudmore park and Odd Down acc to Robin Pakes thesis 2015 Bath Univ;
1932 Kingsmead Flats, Bath opened 11.10.32, Robin Pakes; AW Wills, The Kingsmead Flats, 1932, celebratory brochure, three blocks around a square;
1936 proposed neo-Georgian bus station, Walcot St, Bath BC 31.10.36;
1936-7 rebuilt North Parade Bridge, Bath; AF text;
SKENE CATLING DE LA PEÑA 44 Lexington St, London W1F 0LW. Charlotte Skene Catling (CSC)
2007 adds Dairy House, Shatwell Farm, Hadspen, Som for Niall Hobhouse of Hadspen; British Home Award 2008; Wood Award 2008; RIBA award; design by CSC;
SKIDMORE, FRANCIS ALFRED Metal worker, Coventry, 1817-96, made iron and brass screens by GG Scott for Salisbury, Hereford and Lichfield Cathedrals, iron roof of Oxford Museum, started as silversmith, exhibited 1851; long working relationship with GG.Scott
1857 ironwork, St Thomas ch, Wells, Som; SNB;
(1863? Screen, Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts, des GG Scott; dem)
187? Gasoliers, Bath Abbey, Som, design GG Scott; SNB
(1884 Font-cover Christ Church Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR2)
SKINNER BROS
1937 Hall, Monkton Combe School, Som; BoE N;
SKINNER, W.S. Architect, Bristol later WS Skinner & Son;
(1911 adds Winsley Sanatorium, Wilts;
(1934 adds Winsley Sanatorium Wilts; WSS&Son)
SKIPPER, GEORGE JOHN. Architect, FRIBA, Norwich. 1856-1948. Set up in 1880; 1889 1st pr Cromer TH Norf; 1899 1st pr Norwich Savings Bank; firm was leading turn-of-century firm in East Anglia; GJ & FW Skipper c1892-9 but 1889-91 at Bruton. Des Sennowe Hall Norfolk for Thomas Cook; Norwich Union, Norwich, 1904-7; wikipedia says he worked with a son called Edward??;
1879-80 Cottage Hospital, Princes Rd, Shepton Mallet, Som; SNB; de Viggiani, Two Estates, 1988, 87-8 FS 25.10.79
1881-1901 Estate cottages, Paget estate, Doulting, Som; SNB; for Sir Richard Horner Paget of Cranmore Hall;
1882 Butleigh Hospital, Butleigh, Som; VCH; FS 6.3.82, endowed by Gen Sir George Bowles, FS laid by Julia Neville Grenville of Buteigh Ct; dem 2014;
1883 1st pr Sexey’s County School, Bruton, Som; RHH; Br 44 365; but not built until 1891-2?;
1884-6 Coffee Tavern & Temperance Hotel, Street, Som; Br 7.8.86, design changed to Crispin Hall qv;
1885 Club & Institute, 83 High St, Street, Som; GJS; £6000; opened by John Bright MP 12.10.85; Kelly 1906; large hall called the Crispin Hall at back, smaller room at front left called Crispinian Room, Reading Room at front right; RL; GHS19 undated ill from Br on display in Shoe Museum; gymnasium added 1890 ?not by GJS; cross-section of public hall SCR pl 12;
1885 Wilfrid Terrace, Wilfrid St, Street, Som; RL; twelve houses; plans 7.2.85 on display in Shoe museum; GHS51; plans ill SCR pl 14 for WS Clark of Greenbank;
1887 Clock Tower, Clark Factory, Street, Som; GHS, said to be based on a tower at Thun (not Thun Castle); plans SCR pl 19; plans in Clark archive, Frederick Huish builder;
1887 Vestry Room, Leigh Rd, Street, Som; inc fire-engine house, RL; GHS21; plans SCR pl 16 Street Jubilee Memorial; TC 19.10.87, F Huish & Son bldrs;
1889 Cobden Terrace, Wilfred St, Street, Som; RL; 20 houses; GHS51; plans Feb 1889 SCR pl 22-3;
1889 Millfield House, Street, Som, for William Stephens Clark; became Millfield School 1935; RL; SC; VCH; Illustrated as Residence, Street, Som, in Br 13.12.90, both elevations; SCR pl 20; GHS71 says completed 1889;
1891-2 Sexey’s School, Bruton, Som; RL; GJ&FWS; see 1883; ill & plan BN 62 22.4.92; Sexey’s Trade School founded 1889 from old Sexey’s hospital; school bldngs by GJ & FWS of Norwich, br with stone, Jac style, central boys schoolroom w double gable and cupola w vane and turret, headmaster’s house on r. and on the l. a spacious porch, a lecture room, chemical lab, physical lab, workshops, museum & reading rm, gymnasium & offices; Kelly 1906; buildings 1891 by GJ&FWS, RL;
1892 1st pr Public Offices, Shepton Mallet, Som; RHH; Br 63 300; GJ&FWS;
1897-9 attrib Sexey’s School, Blackford, Wedmore, Som;
SLADE, BASIL ALFRED. Architect, London. One of the Slades of Maunsel House, ?brother of Sir Alfred 3rd Bt. He designed Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Gt George St, London, 1896-9. He may have had some work at Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som. Inf Sir Benjamin Slade. RIBA has file fl 1873-1914;
SLADE, BENJAMIN Lawn Villas, Chard Rd, Crewkerne, architect & surveyor & inspector of nuisances to Crewkerne UDC; Kelly 1889, 1906, 1931.
SLATER & CARPENTER Architects, 4 Carlton Chambers, Regent St, London. William Slater (1818-72) (WS) in practice with RC Carpenter +1855 as Carpenter & Slater (C&S), then joined by Carpenter’s son Richard Herbert Carpenter (1841-93) (S&C). Firm continued after 1872 as Carpenter & Ingelow qv w Benjamin Ingelow.
(1849-51 rest nave & transepts Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; C&S; BoE;
(1856-8 rest choir Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; S&C; BoE; ?C&S, ?WS; stone screens 1856;
(1856 organ case, Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; organ by Gray & Davison; by RCC acc to Abbey guide;
(1858 rest St John almshouse, Sherborne, Dorset; WS; BoE; To be restored, BN 1857 1233
(1859 School, Steeple Langford, Wilts; WS, WBR; also rest chancel of ch c1857;
(1860-1 School House, Sherborne School, Dorest; S&C; BoE; FS TC 4.7.60, William slater architect;
(1861-2 rest St John ch, Devizes, Wilts; W front WS, WBR; plans 1858 DWG 8.4.58; by WS, Tender Wilts Indep 4.6.61;
1862 Parsonage, Brompton Ralph, Som; SRO DD/Bbm/139-40; moulded cambered headed windows in twos and threes;
1863 rest Charlton Horethorne ch, Som; WS; ICBS; E 1864 182; Br 5.12.63, contr Clarke of Bruton, two ws by Clayton & Bell N aisle E and one in chancel, reredos seats and pulpit carved by Forsyth
(1863 St Thomas School, Salisbury, Wilts; by WS; WBR)
(1864 Parsonage, Cherhill, Wilts; WS, WBR;
(1864 alts Calne ch, Wilts, WS, WBR; S porch and rebuilt transept;
(1864-5 Yeatman hospital, Sherborne, Dorset; BoE;
(1865 rest Bromham ch, Wilts; S&C, WBR; chancel reblt by WS 1876 acc to BoE
(1865 lengthened chapel, Sherborne School, Dorset; added cloister, S&C
(1866-7 St Peter ch, Devizes, Wilts; S&C, WBR;
(1868 Quemerford Schools, Wilts; WBR; S&C;
(1869 The Digby Hotel, Sherborne, Dorset; BoE; S&C;
(1869-71 Hannington ch, Wilts; S&C, WBR;
1870 reredos, Nettlecombe ch, Som; design SRO D/p/net/8/3/2 gabled centre with cross flanked by HIS and XP in roundels; removed 1935 for board altar back by Martin Travers qv;
1871-2 rest Bruton ch, Som; 1st plans by RHC, 2nd by S&C, 3rd by C&I; ICBS; Thomas Court, surveyor, was clerk of works; Clarke & Son contrs; reopened after rest by S&C: Bristol Times & Mirror 21.6.72; Shepton Mallet Journal 28.6.72; but VCH says by RHC 1872-7; John Bishton in church history says roof was repaired by Pepper & Sons, Brighton and dates restoration 1866-82, first scheme 1866 by Slater & Ingelow (??) begun 1868 (but see below for start dates 1870 and 1872??) with Messrs Clarke contractors; nave roof and N aisle done first, N aisle rebuilt, pinnacles added which were not there before, n tower underpinned and given pinnacles and battlements in place of a pyramid roof; nave pinnacles added, not there before, nave niches given statuary; proposed new fan-vault in tower (not done), chancel rebuild proposed (not done); p 86 says work began 1870 also that 'initial rescue works' began in 1872; N wall prob not entirely rebuilt, but new cornice moulding; nave repairs £1488 by Sept 1872, Clarke paid £1935 by 1876 for nave and £850 for n aisle; 1873 new plinth for pulpit; 1876 restor of crypt and tower W window reopened £197/17/1d; S aisle restor 1876 £550; 1877 chancel arch uncovered; total cost £4530 over ten years;
1871 rest Podimore ch, Som; SRO Podymore Milton cf/1871/8 S&C;
1871-2 rebld chancel, Yeovilton ch, Som; S wall & E wall, ogee tracery. Plans SRO D/D/Bbm/184; S&C, spec by RHC; Br 29.6.72 513 removed gallery, pine ceilings nave & chancel w oak ribs and bosses imitating old ones; pine seats nave; oak stalls; early Perp ws of same character as old ones except two which are facsimiles. Freestone work by Trask of Stoke & Doulting; glazing by Croad of Sherborne;
(1873 Digby Mortuary Chapel, Sherborne, Dorset;
SLATER, WILLIAM Architect, London, 1818-72, partner of RC Carpenter had left him just before RCC died in 1855, returned to complete unfinished works and continued practice on own until 1863 when joined by R Herbert Carpenter (born 1845), see Slater & Carpenter; obit Br 1.2.1873 mentions restor of Bruton and Calne chs.
(1858 rest St John almshouse, Sherborne, Dorset; WS; BoE; To be restored, BN 1857 1233
(1859 School, Steeple Langford, Wilts; WS, WBR; also rest chancel of ch c1857;
(1860-1 School House, Sherborne School, Dorest; S&C; BoE; FS TC 4.7.60, William slater architect;
(1861-2 rest St John ch, Devizes, Wilts; W front WS, WBR; plans 1858 DWG 8.4.58; by WS, Tender Wilts Indep 4.6.61;
1862 Parsonage, Brompton Ralph, Som; SRO DD/Bbm/139-40;
1863 rest Charlton Horethorne ch, Som; WS; ICBS; E 1864 182; Br 5.12.63, contr Clarke of Bruton;
(1863 St Thomas School, Salisbury, Wilts; by WS; WBR)
(1864 Parsonage, Cherhill, Wilts; WS, WBR;
(1864 alts Calne ch, Wilts, WS, WBR; S porch and rebuilt transept;
(1864-5 Yeatman hospital, Sherborne, Dorset; BoE;
SLOCOMBE, WILLIAM Builder, Bristol, died before 11.2.1847; WBR2;
(1845-6 works for IK Brunel qv at Swindon, Wilts, two blocks of shops and cottages, Emlyn Sq, 1845, and three blocks with six shops 1846;
SMALL, F. & E. Builders Taunton
1927 Pair of houses, Clifford Ave, Taunton, Som, for F Small, hipped; backing onto Kingston Rd, D/B/ta/1/66/1268;
SMITH GAMBLIN, 26 Angel Crescent, Bridgwater. Successor to practice est 1830s of Richard Down, Edwin Down, AB Cottam, Samson & Cottam; Samson & Colthurst, Steer Shirley-Smith & Gibson, Smith Gamblin Haworth, now Smith Gamblin with Alan Smith and DJ Gamblin. HA Derek Gibson, retired partner, wrote A Somerset Architects’ practice in the C19 & C20 2007; website shows
(200? Boscombe Technology Centre, Bournemouth, Dorset;)
200? Early Years Centre, HGV training centre, Business & Media Centre 2002, Bridgwater College, Som; also ?St Marks Centre 2005, Heath & Fitness Centre 2008;
200? conversion Franciscan Convent, South Rd, Taunton, Som, to apartments;
200? repairs Chedzoy ch, Som;
200? reps Staple Fitzpaine ch, Som;
(200? reps Steeple Aston ch, Wilts;)
200? Willow Bank residential dev, Frome, Som;
200? farmhouse at Steart, Som;
200? private houses, The Gardens, Taunton;
200? new house Monkton Heights, Taunton;
200? proposed dockmaster’s office, Bridgwater Docks, Som; not built;
2004-5 Castle Moat social housing, Bridgwater, Som; Bridgwater Civic Society Award 2005
200? alts Sterling Hydraulics factory, Crewkerne, Som;
200? Minehead Eye youth centre, Minehead, Som; but ?designed by Mark Kingsley
2006 renov Market Hall, Cornhill, Bridgwater, Som; SBPT award 2008;
2008-10 YMCA, Friarn Walk, Bridgwater, Som; social block with studios etc and accommodation block;
2011 rest tower, Bishops Lydeard ch, Som; stone conservation Sally Strachey Historic Conservation;
20?? Construction and motor vehicle building, Somerset College (SCAT), Taunton, Som;
Also reps unid English Baroque ch and unid Eng Baroque house; Barton Lodge rest and residential dev, Cerne Abbas, Dorset; West of the Green dev, Bristol; residential dev Lewdown, Okehampton, Devon; garden room at Grange Cottage?; add The Vine Surgery?; apartments Duporth, St Austell, Cornwall; involved at Maunsel House, St Michael Church, Som, with Donald Insall Assocs (inf Sir Benj Slade); work at Barford House, Enmore, Som; work at Woodlands, Ruishton, Som for Sir B Slade inc proposed 'woodland pavilion' in grounds;
SMITH, ALAN see Smith Gamblin
SMITH, ANDREW Architect Totnes. ASA, Andrew Smith Architects, Eastgate Ho, Totnes;
2011 Firepool Lock housing, Taunton, Som; selected as one of six worst in Britain 2012 ‘Carbuncle Cup’ award, BD 14.9.12;
SMITH, DOUGLAS Glastonbury. Was with Barry Hudson as Hudson Smith qv, then Douglas Smith & Partners; inf J Gould; practice continued as Collier Reading qv by Steve Reading after 2004;
c1975 Indoor riding-school, Millfield School, Street, Som; inf Jeremy Gould; ‘On the Somerton Road, the Riding School indoor arena c.1975 is by Douglas Smith of Glastonbury, but actually designed by rather a good architect (name??) who went to work for Rock Townsend in London’.
1989-90 Mission church, Vestry Lane, Street, Som; Caroline Gould says possibly by HS possibly by DS&P;
SMITH, FRANCIS Warwick 1672-1738
(c1720-30 attr wings Sandywell Pk, Glos; HC)
(1724 alts Stanway Manor, Glos; HC;
(1729ff Badminton Ho, Glos reblt for 3rd D of Beaufort; HC)
(1735-6 Netheravon House, Wilts for 3rd D of Beaufort,HC; alts 1791;
SMITH, FREDERICK HUGH. CE Architect, surveyor & sanitary inspector to Portishead UDC; Kelly 1906
1903 drainage, Portishead parsonage, Som; DD/Bbm/?;
SMITH, F. W. BERESFORD. Architect, Bath see BERESFORD-SMITH, F. W.
SMITH, H. G. Contractor Taunton
1909 Blt Headmaster’s house, Taunton School, Som; archt ? PC112 £1784 tender;
1910-11 Blt Thone boarding house, Taunton School, Som; PC114; archt?; £2625/19/0d tender;
SMITH, J. H. WOOLSTON Town surveyor, Minehead Urban District Council, 1906 dir, AMICE; appointed 1899 after Isaac Cribb was dismissed;
1899 plan for Market Hall, The Parade, Minehead, not used; competition 1900 won by WJ Tamlyn; BMCS;
1900 Photographic studio for Mr Davidson, Glenmore Rd, Minehead; plans D/U/M/ 22/1/88; OD85;
1901 minor alts Queens Head Hotel, Minehead, Som; WC in yard behind in Market Place Lane; D/U/M/22/1/114;
1902 Cartshed and carpenters shop, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead, Som for J Burgess qv; D/U/M/22/1/148; OD141;
1903 Shop, Summerland Rd, Minehead, for C Shattock boot maker; D/U/M/ 22/1/166; OD159;
1903 Stable yard, 28 loose-boxes, North St, Minehead for J Ridler; D/U/M/ 22/1/171; OD163;
1903 lavatory, Wyndcote, Martlett Rd, Minehead for WL Evans D/U/M/ 22/1/183; OD175
1903 Sewer, North Hill, Minehead OD186;
1904 Scullery, Blenheim Rd, Minehead for JRidler OD184 and another for Mr Kille OD188;
1904 Lavatory, North Hill, Minehead for Mr Ridler; OD207
1910 alts house, Blenheim Rd, Minehead, for Mrs Kille; OD345; Clement Kille apartments, No 7 Blenheim Rd, 1906;
SMITH, JAMES HENRY. Borough Surveyor Taunton; in Kelly 1906 Henry James Smith consulting engineer at Roseneath Cottage, Taunton; JHS there in 1917;
1866 reps Ruishton ch, Som, £200; reopened TC 17.10.66;
1868 – Horse Inn, East Reach, Taunton, Som to be rebuilt after fire; TC 18.3.68 for Mr Goodman owner;
1868 two houses, Hoveland's Park Terrace, Taunton, Som; tender of Manning & Giles accepted, JH Smith archt, TC 26.2.68; for Messrs Hewer and Brannan, William smith bldr, £1715, TC 22.4.68
1870 reblt B chapel, Silver St, Taunton, Som; BoE S; new facade ‘horrid in a debased round-arched Italian trecento’; TC 25.5.70 to open 1.6.70;
1877? Roseneath Cott, Wellington Rd, Taunton for self; ref in dispute over noise from adjacent skating rink TC 12.9.1917 to having built cottage and lived there forty years;
1880 Water supply for Taunton Town Council, from Forches Corner, nr Pitminster, new works and tunnel, with HT Coles, engineer and waterworks manager; TC 28.2.1894;
1881 drainage, Holford parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/bbm/247;
1888 vestry, St John ch, Taunton, Som; SRO cf/1888/9
1895 Tone Bridge, Taunton, Som; £7000; Kelly 1906;
1897 clk of works, colonnade around Roman Bath, Bath, JM Brydon archt; opened Br 23.10.97;
SMITH, MONTAGUE Taunton. not in 1906 dir;
1907 Won competition for shelters around green, The Esplanade, Minehead; altered and renamed Jubilee Gardens in 1933; OD; shelters were erected in 1912, rustic style;
SMITH, PETER BROOKLAND Architect, Bristol; Peter Smith & Partners;
1962 Brookland, No 14 Hallam Road, Clevedon, Som; C20index; for himself?
(1976 Fernleigh Court, Bristol, PS&Partners; HDA 1976;
1976 House, Church Rd, Abbots Leigh, Som; C20index; for himself;
SMITH, W. BASSETT
(1885 aisles Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol; BoE N;
(1894 St Bartholomew Ch, Sommerville Rd, Montpelier, Bristol; BoE N;
SMITH, WILLIAM Surveyor, engineer, geologist. 1769-1839. The ‘father of English geology’. Worked for Edward Webb, surveyor of Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos. Came to Somerset, 1791, to do survey work on Sutton Court estate, following on from John Strachey, lived 1791-5 at Rugburn, High Littleton, Som, working for Webb then Somerset Coal Canal until dismissed by John Rennie 1799. Studied underlying geology to determine coal measures. First geological map 1799 of area around Bath. 1815 geological map of England. Bankrupt 1817, imprisoned, released 1819, became itinerant surveyor. Rehabilitated in 1830s appointed to commission to decide on stone for Houses of Parliament.
1803 Hinton Mill, nr Chilton Cantelo, Som, for Maria Goodford. Inf owner Stephen Bartlett; inserted mill into late C18 brick barns, water brought by underground tunnel leat and similar escape.
(1824-6 ?The Rotunda, Scarborough, Yorks, wikipedia, but by RH Sharp 1828-30, HC.)
SMITH, WILLIAM Builder
1863-4 alts Elm Field, Taunton, Som; for Dr JH Pring; contract SRO DD/DP/72/3 contr 25.8.63 £187;
SMITH, WOOLSTON see JH Woolston Smith
SMITHSON, ALISON & PETER. London. Alison 1928-93, Peter 1923-2003. Practice together from 1950, worked together in LCC schools division 1949 and married. See also Peter Smithson, the Bath Univ buildings designed while he was professor of architecture there 1978-90.
(1952 Won Hunstanton Sec Mod School, Norfolk; pioneer modern school)
(1952 Fonthill Folly, Upper Lawn, Tisbury, Wilts for themselves; ?1962 AR 1963)
(1959-64 Economist Building, London)
1964 Plan bypass, Street, Som; line and layout, built in 1969, inf Caroline Gould; but also told that Smithson line was unworkable and different one was used;
(1966-72 Robin Hood Gardens, Tower Hamlets, London; flats
(1968 Garden Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford;)
1978-80 Bath University Staff Assoc building, Som; AFtext; extended 1980;
1978-81 One West North block, Bath University; AFtext;
1982-8 Six East block, Bath University
1989-90 Arts Theatre, Bath University;
SMITHSON, PETER. 1923-2003, born Stockton on Tees, studied Newcastle, joined LCC schools 1949 with Alison. 1978-90 visiting professor Bath University.
200? Sculpture, Hadspen House, Som, for Niall Hobhouse version in oak of design made for square in Siena, to have been made in Corten steel; removed when Hadspen sold 2012, ?for re-erection at Shatwell Farm, Hadspen.
SMYTH, WILLIAM Mason +1490. Master of building at Wells Cathedral from at least 1475, a William Smyth took freedom of Wells 1475, ‘the chief figure in the W of England in the last stage of the Perpendicular style’ JHPS 204; at Wells paid £1/6/8d p.a. and had a house rent free;
(c1475 Nave aisles and clerestory, Sherborne Abbey, Dorset; attrib JHPS 202, 208;
1477-88 Cloister Lady Chapel, Wells Cathedral,Som; attrib JHPS 202; dem 1552 except W wall; SNB;
14?? Works at St John ch, Glastonbury, Som; ‘named in an undated account of middle orlater part of the century’ JHPS 204; along with other men took contract as a group perhaps after fall of pinnacles from central tower in 1465;
(14?? Crossing vault, Milton Abbey, Dorset; attrib JHPS 203-4
c1475-90 Nave and W front, Crewkerne ch, Som; attrib JHPS 203;
c1475-83 Alts The Deanery, Wells, som, for Dean Gunthorpe; attrib JHPS 204; fan vault in in oriel resembles crossing-vault and fan-vaults at Sherborne; c1472-83 SNB;
c1480 fan-vault, crossing-tower, Wells cathedral, Som; SNB 656-7;
1490 Sugar’s chantry, Wells Cathedral, som; Treasurer Hugh Sugar +1489; SNB; JHPS;
SMYTHSON, ROBERT c1535-1614 Architect of Wollaton Hall 1580-8, Worksop Manor c1585, Hardwick Hall 1591-7;
c1601 ?Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som; CTA report 1992; house was built probably for John Symes who purchased manor in 1601 from James Orange, granted it 1596. Symes sold to Sir John Hippisley by 1620 and Hippisley sold to the Great Earl of Cork in 1641; twice recessed centre resembles Ham House of 1610, but no other evidence for Smythson except that Sir Thomas Vavasour of Ham House owned land at Marston in 1606-11. McGarvie, History of Marston Bigot, 17-19; Symes was married to Amy Horner of Cloford;
SNAILUM & PICTOR see WW Snailum, AJ Pictor, and Terence Snailum
SNAILUM, LEFEVRE & QUICK Architects, see Terence Snailum.
SNAILUM, TERENCE WALTER. Architect Bath, ARIBA 1926, FRIBA 1941, son of WW Snailum qv of Trowbridge died 1934, firms of Pictor & Snailum or Snailum & Pictor may be connected with either WWS or TWS; firm was Snailum, Huggins & Lefevre c1957, Snailum Lefevre & Quick c1972;
c1936-7 House, Vention La, Putsborough, Devon; John Stafford and TS A&BN 11.2.38; totally altered;
1954-61 Snow Hill housing estate, London Rd, Bath; AF text; first two blocks Dover Ho and Walcot Ho1952-6 won RIBA award 1957; 11-storey Berkeley Ho 1958; CTA 1960; planned 1949, built by SH&L,
1972 Beaufort Hotel, Northgate St, Bath; SL&Q; AFtext;
SNAILUM, WALTER WADMAN 5 Church St Trowbridge, Wilts. +1934. In 1903 dir. Firm fl 1893-1938; son of George Snailum, auctioneer, Trowbridge; firm or a son restored several Wilts churches 1934-8 (WBR). Some involvement with AJ Pictor of Bruton qv in Bath firm called Snailum & Pictor (S&P), father of Terence Snailum qv.
(1893 G Snailum auction rooms, Church St Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR2;
(1927-9 Trowbridge Hospital, Wilts, with AJ Taylor & AC Ford of Bath; WBR; alts to Adcroft House a villa of 1857;
(1930-1 Bethesda B chapel, Gloucester Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR; Wilts Times 21.3.31, Herbert Isley bldr, £3700;
1933 rest Hinton Priory, Hinton Charterhouse, Som; SNB, S&P
SNELL, ABRAHAM Builder Clevedon
1853 Brunswick House, the Beach, Clevedon; on spare land of Clarence Ho;
1863 Two houses in Copse Rd, Clevedon, Som, these were shops and houses in Brighton Place at rear of his beach plot; Lilly Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
,
SOANE, Sir JOHN. Architect, London. 1753-1837. cf Dorothy Stroud biography; HC; 1768 office of George Dance, 1772-8 assistant to H Holland; in Italy to 1780, set up practice 1781; 1784 m neice of George Wyatt, builder. 1788-1833 surveyor to Bank of England. Professor of architecture RA 1806. Leading public architect from 1788, knighted 1831, RIBA Gld Medal 1835.
1786-9 Cricket Lodge, Cricket St Thomas, Som for Admiral Alexander Hood, Lord Bridport 1794; house enlarged by Soane 1801-14 (see below)
Drawer 77 set 4
16-17 1788 Design for a house for Sir Alexander Hood Bart & copies of working drawings for the portico,c.1788.
16 Recto: 1788 Portico details, 16 Verso: Principal elevation of house, 17 Plan, front & side elevations & section of portico 16 Recto & 17 Insc: a Copy of the Drawing sent
May 13th 1788
Vol 60 215-23 plans undated probably 1780s: 215 Plans and elevations of offices; 217 Plan and laid-out elevations of kitchen; 219 Plan, elevation and sections of Hall portico; 221 Details of Hall portico; 223 Plan of an H-shaped house;
Drawer 81 set 1
30 1787 Working drawing for a Chimney Piece to Eating Room for Admiral Hood. Elevation & details Oct 3rd 1787
68-69 1789 Working drawings for chimney pieces for Viscount Bridport, 1789; 68 Recto: Elevation & detail for the Chimney/pieces on the Bedchamber Floor in the West front rooms March 17th 1789 68 Verso: Outline elevations, dimensions & notes for chimney pieces for the South Chamber, West Chamber & West Dressing Room, North Dressing Room, Sir Alexander’s Room & Ladies Library.69 Recto: Elevation & detail for chimney piece in Sir Alexander Hood's Room Feby 28th 89. 69 Verso: Elevation & detail for chimney piece in Ladies' Library Feby 28th 89.
IR 873-4 says mason James Nelson’s accnt bk 1786-96 has payments for chimneypieces for Sir A Hood, so he probably made them.
(1787 gallery Fonthill Splendens, Wilts, dem 1807; HC)
(1788 alts Bemerton rectory, Wilts; HC; designs for Dr Wm Coxe)
(1788-90 enl chapel, Wardour Castle Wilts, BoE; CL 10.10.68; and a boudoir on W side, n.d. BoE)
(1789 alts Tawstock Court, Devon; HC;)
(1791 alts Netheravon House, Wilts; HC; enlarged for Michael Hicks Beach, much altered since)
c1794 alts Mells Manor, Som; dem; AFtext;
(1795 enl Bagden or Savernake Lodge, Savernake, Wilts for Lord Bruce, son of 1st E of Ailesbury, burnt 1861; dem; HC;)
1795-7 unex plans Hinton House, Hinton St George, Som, for 4th Earl Poulett; partly exec RL; not in HC;
VCH 4 43: employed 1796 for plans to remodel house, creation new stable-court to NE, W front of hall range to be replaced by octag entrance hall w staircase on S, C18 stair to be moved so as to enlarge hall. Surveyor called Felton employed to supervise work which began 1797 but 1797 plans to remodel S front not adopted; Soane Mus Drawer 6 file 3; Yale British Art B1975.2.420; bill £163/9/6d January 1798. But possible that nothing by Soane was exec, the work had already begun by Felton qv 1791-3 and Soane’s plans represent an attempt to improve work in progress. Soane’s Memoirs state unequivocally that James Wyatt deprived him by suggesting (as he had at House of Lords and Sheerness Lazaretto) that ‘good taste required that the exterior of the new structure should be of a character to harmonize and unite with the adjacent buildings’ i.e. Gothic. Something may have been begun - Account book 26.5.97 refers to 2 designs for further alts, consisting of 2 plans, 2 elevations, 2 perspective views … estimate of £1540, ‘which was directed to be carried out into immediate execution’, bill £163/9/6d. Not paid until 12.7.98. Colin Winn, 1995, 132-3;
1801-4 reblt or altered Cricket Lodge, Cricket St Thomas, Som for Viscount Bridport; RL; extensive plans at Soane museum; see also 1786;
Drawer 4 set 5 42-43 1801 Preliminary designs, perspectives Nov. 1801 Verso inscribed in pencil Two drawings of Cricket Lodge.
Drawer 81 set 2 59 Verso: 1802 Design for alterations for Viscount Bridport Front elevation Insc (across elevation): Useless June 28th 1802
Vol 60 215-23 plans undated: 215 Plans and elevations of offices; 217 Plan and laid-out elevations of kitchen; 219 Plan, elevation and sections of Hall portico; 221 Details of Hall portico; 223 Plan of an H-shaped house; could be 1780s
Drawer 4 Set 5 Designs for Viscount Bridport, 1790-1804, interiors library, elevations offices and plans chamber floors:
1 Sectional perspective of Library
2 Plan & laid-out wall elevations of Library
3 Sketch of Library ceiling in Soane's hand
4 Plan & elevations of Library in Soane's hand
5 Plan & elevations of Library
6 Plan of Library ceiling in Soane's hand
7 Plan of Library ceiling
8 Plan & elevations of offices
9-10 Plans of chamber floors
Drawer 13 set 5
8 Unfinished perspective of the Library. 9 Line perspective of the Library. 10 Pencil perspective of the Library.
Volume 60 50 (66)Preparatory sketch perspective of Library by Joseph Michael Gandy for perspectives in Drawer 13, Set 5, 8-10; (JM Gandy worked for Soane from 1798)
Volume 57 28-29 Details of plaster work for Adml. Hood
Drawer 13 set 5 66 (86)Sketch of the Hall: perspective, undated.
Vol 65 88 3 plans of designs for enlargement of Kitchen for Lady Bridport, undated.
Volume 43 sketches for chimneypieces to 1821. 1-6 Designs for 3 chimney pieces for 1st Viscount Bridport, c.1786-1802 cf 1786 for list of chimneypieces also 1805 and 1813.
1805 Chimneypiece, Cricket Lodge, Cricket St Thomas, Som, Lord Bridport
73 Working drawing for a chimney piece Elevation & detail d: Dec 30th 1805.
1807 Granary with dovecote over for Lord Bridport, Cricket Lodge, Cricket St Thomas, Som; Soane Mus;
Drawer 65 set 1 5-6 Designs for a granary, with columbarium over for Viscount Bridport, Plans, sections & elevations Copy/Augt 8th 1807
18?? Des or survey of house & malthouse, Cricket Lodge, Cricket St Thomas, Som for Lord Bridport; Soane Mus;
Drawer 64 set 6 15 Survey drawing of house & malthouse on Ld Bridport’s estate. Plan, elevation & section. Also 45 Survey or design for a malt-kiln for Ld Bridport.
1810-24 alts Mells Park, Som; RL; HC; for Col TS Horner, dem after fire 1917, reblt by Lutyens; 1810-15 alts to house HGS 121, also Bridge in park built before 1814 when TSH wanted it widened, destroyed by flood 1824; AFtext says wk c1794 and 1804-24
1813 Chimneypiece for Lord Bridport, Cricket lodge, Cricket St Thomas, Som
74 Working drawing for a chimney piece Plan, elevation & section June 17th 1813
1815 Mon to 1st Visc Bridport +1814, Cricket St Thomas ch, Som; RL; HC; designs Soane Museum, first unex dated 8.5.15, signed J Soane RA; made by Thomas Grundy 1816, IR 559; £250;
66(85)1815 Proposed design, not executed. Elevation 8 May 1815 – For Lord Bridport
Vol 65 89 3 designs for a Monument to Lord Bridport.
(1829 alts Hardenhuish Ho, Wilts; BoE; HC says by HE Goodridge qv incorporating suggestions from Soane;
SOMERSET COUNTY ARCHITECTS
CS: County Surveyor (CS): Richard Carver qv (c1792-1862) CS 1832-46, appointment in Taunton Courier 21.3.30; A Whitehead qv was CS in 1876; WJ Willcox qv was CS for East Somerset c1886, CS all Somerset 1894-1910, then first County Architect 1910. Edward J Stead CS 1915-38
CA: County Architect (CA): WJ Willcox CA 1910-24; then Major AJ Toomer (AJT) CA 1924-39; office was at Lloyds Bank Chmabers Weston s Mare until Taunton County Offices built; R Oliver Harris (ROH) CA 1939-60 personally designed very little; then Bernard Charles Adams (BCA) CA 1960-80, personally designed nothing, instituted the Method system of design, to one-foot grid,Vice President RIBA; George Hill (GH) CA 1980-8, came from Kent, son of Lancs county architect, designed little, retired 1986, department reorganised 1987 and lost its identity.
DPS: Director of Property Services. Department reformed 1987 as Somerset Property Services Dept under Harvey Cox, former County Valuer, as DPS, with Stuart Drysdale, Deputy Valuer, and P Bennett Smith, Deputy for Buildings. Cox and Smith retired c1990. Stuart Drysdale then became DPS with Mike Greaves as Deputy for Buildings, no senior architect for some time. Drysdale was a valuer not an architect.
CE: Chief Engineer (CE): Archie Richardson retired 1974, then John Williams was CE retired 1991
CQS: Chief Quantity Surveyor (CQS): Geoff Sadgrove c1982
CBS: Chief Building Surveyor (CBS): Mike Greaves c1982
DCA: Deputy County Architect (DCA): James Hurst was deputy county architect c1947-50, then county architect of Dorset; then no deputy until 1957-9 when John Redpath held post, he joined Donald Gibson at Ministry of Pub Bldngs & Works in 1959; Martin Kenchington DCA 1959-74, became Avon county architect 1974; Bernard Adams adopted multi deputy structure from 1974 with George Hill as First Deputy, with George Swindale and John Morgan as Deputies. John Morgan became First DCA under George Hill from 1980-3, then retired. George Swindale retired 1982. Peter Bennett Smith DCA 1983, became Deputy for Buildings in 1988 reorganisation, retired c1990;
ACA: Assistant Count Architect (ACA) Leonard Mew assistant to Oliver Harries designed much 1930s to early 50s, continued as ACA until 1966 (1960 JF); Douglas Simpson ACA in charge of General County Projects and Ralph Clay also ACA both retired c1966; BC Adams apppinted three ACAs in 1961 George Hill and George Swindale in charge of education projects (Swindale came from Derbyshire CC, was much involved with Dept of Ed & Science in dev of design in educ buildings), and John Foden ACA 1961 to 1982, and in 1962 John Morgan appointed ACA, both JF and JM in charge of General County Projects inc fire and police. John Morgan became DCA 1974, First Deputy 1980-3; Jeff Davey ACA 1982;
Dennis Tabert there c1959-65; Richard Samuel architect, later in private practice with HBS qv; John Williams there from 1949, mechanical and electrical services, became chief engineer; G Michael Morris architect there from 1960s;
Under Bernard Adams the Method system of building instituted 1964-6 similar to CLASP and SCOLA, Jeff Sneasby of Acland Baron Smith consultant, had been with Vic Hallam Ltd qv the prefabricated-building firm much involved with schools in late 50s and early 1960s (John Foden does not remember Sneasby, but John Rice was the Vic Hallam architect). First pilot scheme was at SCAT, Taunton. Method was used by a string of councils inc Cornwall, Devon, Wilts, Berks, Oxon, Northants, and ?Leeds (JF does not remember Leeds: ‘Havering & Northants were associate members of the Method Consortium. Wilts and Bristol was also full members). Bernard Adams wanted Method to be a philosophy, different to CLASP or SCOLA system building methods used by other local authorities e.g. Hants was a SCOLA authority, repeated same design over several sites, overthrew it when Colin Stansfield–Smith came in as County Architect there in 1974. Method used a 300mm grid where other systems used a 600mm or 900mm, no interchangeable products between the systems. Geoff Fullman head of Method team later went to Wilts. Method system could be put to frame and load-bearing structures. Canonsgrove Police Houses, Trull was Method building, two-storey by Michael Morris, since spoilt; so was Glastonbury Heath Centre, by John Foden & Peter Cooke, 1969.
JD: METHOD A few words about Method Building. Very much the creation of Bernard Adams which he brought to Somerset for its launch, working closely with Martin Kenchington and in collaboration with Jenkins and Potter Consulting Engineers.
Geoff Fullman led a small design team from early days of around 63-64. John Foster Turner in the group. Early Method was imperial and based on 12" grid. The design aim to achieve a wide vocabulary of structure and material choice and dimension. As more LAs joined and with the conversion to metric around 1970, a Central Team established in Taunton led by Brian Macmillan. A full size 'design rig' built at SCAT to illustrate the wide vocabulary of metric method. As the costs of financing the central team were challenged and changing attitudes to architecture, Method was wound up in around 1982.
Architects who worked for Somerset County post-war:
P Abraham; David Bate; Bill Boucher; Alan Burnett; Ralph Clay; PC Cooke; Jeffrey Davey; Stan Dawson; Alan Dickens; John Foden; Gerald Fogwill; Geoff Fullman; FJ Gibbs; Charles Hall; Jack Ham; Bob Harris; Richard Guise; George Hayman; George Hill; Rod Hillson; Peter J Hirst (had been w Richard Sheppard and LCC as had Jenny Hirst his wife); John Hodges; James Hurst; Mike Jones; Martin Kenchington; Peter Kirkham; Alex Lane; Tony McKay; Leonard Mew (or Meux); Dennis Misseldine; Godfrey Morgan; John Morgan; G Michael Morris; Ian Parsons; Peter Pearce; John Pegram; GA Pettingell; George Pittendreigh; John Poole; CW Ransom; John Redpath; Derek A Rutherford; Richard Samuel; John Sheppard; Ken Sherry; Douglas Simpson; Ken Smith; Peter Bennett Smith; Dudley Sparkes; Freddie Swan; Clive Sweet; George Swindale; Dennis Tabert; Dennis Taunton; Stephen Taylor; Clement George Toy (see Stone & Partners); John Foster Turner; Mike Walsingham; Guy Ward; Sam Webb; Dick West; Graham Whiteley; Peter Yardley;
M = information from meeting at John Foden’s house Nov 2012 attended by Jeff Davey, Mike Morris; Richard Samuel and John Williams. JD inf Jeff Davey; JF inf John Foden
1924 Police station, Stogumber, Som; AJT, drawn by ‘PM’; D/R/wil/24/1/52; on W side of Vellow road.
1926-9 Secondary School, Ponsford Rd, Minehead; plans SRO C\CA/1/191 1926 by AJT, drawn by WHW;
1927 proposed police court, Burnham on Sea, Som; TC 6.4.27, County Architect directed to prepare plans
1930 Secondary School, Shepton Mallet, Som; SRO PSCS/5/1 moderne with curved faced tower, perspective by L Mew; ?not built, Whitstone School is 1960-65;
1931 muniment rooms adapted for county records, ?, TC 22.4.31, AJT;
1932 Central School, Higher Backway, Bruton, Som; £15,189, AJT; Hobbs & Son, Bruton bldrs;
1934 Police Station and police cottages, Station Road, Weston s Mare, Som; AJT; SNB; plans SRO PSCS/5/1 for neoclassical bldng w recessed Ionic centre signed Leonard Mew nd;
1934 prop conversion of Grand Jury Room, Shire Hall, Taunton t o Council Chamber TC 3.1.34;
1935 School, Milton Park Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; AJT; SRO D/B/ wsm/24/1/6214; extension and new Council School; TC25.12.35 new County School at Weston, by AJT;
1936 exts Secondary School, Alcombe Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/760 and 768; this is to school in Ponsford Rd; C/CA/1/192;
1935-7 Boys Grammar School, Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater, Som; now Haygrove School;
1936 New Police Station next new Victoria WM church which opened Jan 1936, TC 6.5.36; ?Taunton
1936-8 Police Station, Townsend Rd, Minehead; C/CA/3/26;
1936-8 Police Station & Magistrates Court, Petter’s Way, Yeovil, Som; by Leonard Mew; TC
1936-8 Yeovil School, Mudford Rd, Yeovil, Som; AJT; elev ill in centenary history pamphlet 1945; thirties modern, flat-roofed, brick; WT Nicholls, Gloucester, bldrs; dem; ?Leonard Mew; begun TC 22.8.36
1937-8 Police Station and court, Alcombe Rd, Minehead; plans stamped AJT; D/U/M/ 22/1/769; now Townsend Rd; ?opened 1936, 28.3.1936
1938 Senior School, Williton, Som; ROH; moderne brick with canted fronted tower and flat roofs;
1939-40 Police Station, Shuttern, Taunton; ROH; drawings by Leonard Mew; two different styles offered moderne and stripped Georgian; SRO PSCS/5/1; stripped Georgian used;
1940 Ansford School, Som; Castle Cary & Ansford 2002 says blt during WW2 for £32,000, first pupils came in 1940 before it was completed; v similar to Huish Episcopi, Ilminster and Stoke sub Hamdon, so to plans c1932-6 by AJT? Or by Leonard Mew;
1940 Secondary School, Huish Episcopi, Som; similar to Ansford; attr to L Mew;
1940 Secondary School, Ilminster, Som; similar to Ansford; now Swanmead; possibly by L Mew;
1940 Secondary School, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; sim to Ansford; now Stanchester School; attr L Mew;
1940 New school, Weston super Mare; RO Harris architect, JO Hinton assistant; TC 11.1.41;
1941-2 Gold Corner Pumping Station, East Huntspill, Som; inf D Crighton; Times 10.6.42; A&BN 16.2.45; JM Hitchen MICE MIME deputy chief engineer to SRCB designed and supervied the complete installations inside
1944 L-plan house, Som; signed L Meux del 1944; brick house with gabled dormers, the windows outlined in red brick; perspective SRO PSCS/5/1
1946-50 Two police Houses, Hillview Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/810, site plan 1946; plans 1948 22/1/826 and 1950 839 and 841;
1947 proposed conv of workhouse to old peoples home, Exmoor House, Dulverton, Som; plans SRO; D/r/dul/24/1/212; ROHarris;
1948 Proposed Junior & Infants Schools, Wellsprings, Taunton, Som; modernist brick; ROH, Leonard Mew asstnt architect; plans D/B/ta/1/110/3625; TC 21.2.48;
1948 Primary School, Bournville estate, Weston s Mare, Som; ROH; D/B/wsm/24/1/8535;
194? Alts Strapp Farm Cottage, Chiselborough, Som; SRO PSCS/5/1 mullioned cottage heavily modernised;
194? Thatched agricultural workers cotts, Dulverton, Som; ROH, n.d.; similar pair w asymmetrical rear, signed L Mew; PSCS/5/1; not found;
1948 two police houses, Wellsprings estate, Taunton; plans to be drawn up, TC 9.10.48
1948 Agricultural workers cottages, Cannington, Som; two pairs nr Court Farm; perspective signed L Meux; PSCS/5/1
1948 Westfield Junior School Yeovil, Som, by Alex Lane; M; plans SRO
1949 Westfield Infants School, Yeovil, Som; plans SRO;
1949 Police HQ, Frome, Som; proposed TC 2.7.49;
1949 Holway nursery & infant school, Keats Rd/Byron Rd, Taunton; plans by CW Ransom; SRO D/B/ta/…;
1948-50s Primary Schools to ORLIT system, at Westfield Infants, Yeovil; Wellsprings Taunton, and Priorswood Infants, Taunton; M;
1948-9 Priorswood Infants School, Taunton; ROH with GAC Hayman and Leonard Meux; TC 30.4.49
1949-51 Priorswood School, Taunton, Som; ROH; BoES; by Rod Hillson, M; now Taunton Academy; ?same as 1953-4 Taunton St Augustine by Rod Hillson, JD.
1950 Hamp Infants/Junior School, Bridgwater, Som; SRO C/CA/1/32; by Guy Ward, M;
1950 Farm buildings, Somerset Farm Institute, Cannington, Som; TC 29.4.50 County Architect is finalising plans;
1950 Milford School, Yeovil, Som; by Alex Lane; M; plans 1950 SRO
1950s Preston School, Yeovil, Som; plans SRO;
1951 Leonard Mew led a special design group on Wiveliscombe, Backwell, Monkton Heathfield, Wellington Courtfield, Kenyon (Blue School), Wells, all Secondary Schools; architects in the group were Stan Dawson, Dick West and Dennis Taunton, JD;
1953 West Monkton Secondary School, Monkton Heathfield, Som; designed by special group under Leonard Mew see 1951; many additions: hall, gym and library 1958, merged w Priory School, Taunton; 1979-81, science wing, sports hall drama studio; 1985 became Heathfield Community School, maths/computing block, staff block, English block; Tacchi-Morris Theatre by Kensington Taylor qv, 2000, classroom block, 2006, by Boon Brown qv; The Space Theatre by Kensington Taylor qv, 2008-9;
1953 Somerleaze Park School, Yeovil, Som; plans SRO;
1953 Backwell School, Som, designed under special group led by Leonard Mew see 1951, JD; like Wiveliscombe designed as a village college?, M;
1953 Courtfield School, Wellington, Som; designed under special group led by Leonard Mew see 1951; built 1952-9, opened 1959?
1953 Kenyon School, Wells, Som; designed under special group led by Leonard Mew see 1951; later Blue School
1953 Kingsmead School, Wiveliscombe, Som; ROH, Leonard Mew involved, not job architect, designed under special group led by Mew, see 1951; JD; designed as a village college with theatre included, like Backwell; M;
1953-4 St Augustine School, Taunton, by Rod Hillson, JD; ?same as Priorswood School 1949-51 now Taunton Academy.
1953-4 Whitstone Sec Modern School, Shepton Mallet, Som by Guy Ward, JD; cf also Whitstone 1960-65 by Peter Hirst?
1953-4 Crewkerne Scondary Modern School, Som by Charles Hall; JD; cf also Wadham School 1971 by Jeff Davey;
195? Sydenham Junior and Infants Schools, Parkway, Bridgwater; BoES;
1954 Fire Station, Minehead, plans SRO D/U/M/22/1/856 and C/CA/4/14;
1954 Elmwood Special School, Hamp St, Bridgwater, Som; SRO C/CA/1/38;
1954-5 Writhlington School, Som; dem; by ROH, SNB
1954-7 Blake Secondary Modern School, Hamp, Bridgwater, Som; C/CA/ 1/25; ?to be demolished 2013, replacement school by NVB qv;
1954-8 Churchill Secondary School, Williton, Som; plans SRO 1954, ?bult 1957-8; now Danesfield Middle School; but cf also 196? Suggestion that school is 1960s by Guy Ward to steel frame by Hills of West Bromwich used also at Sydenham Bridgwater;
195? Holyrood School, Chard, mid 50s acc to JD;
1956 Dulverton Secondary Modern School; plans SRO D/r/dul/24/1/238 re site drainage; ? by Bob Harris;
1955-7 Alcombe Secondary School, Minehead, SRO C/CA/1/193, now West Somerset Community College; sim to King Alfred, Highbridge, by Godfrey Morgan, JD;
1957 Technical College, Broadway, Bridgwater, Som; SRO C/CA/1/34; dem; built in Hills of West Bromwich steel frame construction, JD;
1957 Ladymead Secondary Modern School, Taunton, by Godfrey Morgan, JD;
195? Broadoak? School, Weston s Mare (sim to King Alfred, Highbridge); ? later Wyvern Community School, later Hans Price Academy, to be rebuilt 2012?
1957-8 King Arthur Sec School, Wincanton, Som; by Jack Ham; mid-50s JD;
1957-8 King Alfred Sec School, Highbridge, Som; £98000; similar to West Somerset School Minehead and Broadoak School Weston s Mare; adds 1972 C Block Method type; 1976 Teaching & Art block; 1977 Sports Centre; 2001 6th Form centre; 2003 new hall kitchens etc £500k; mid-50s JD;
1958-9 Somerset College of Technology, Wellington Rd, Taunton, Som; initial four-storey building by Dennis Tabert, end on to site; M; extended by Dennis Misseldine; big additional building 1969-72 for College of Art, AJ 22.11.72; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; BCA, project archs Peter J Hirst and Derek Rutherford, assistant FJ Gibbs; sloping windows with small openers beneath sim to Stirling & Gowan at Leicester? J Foden mentions student accommodation inc common rooms etc, since demolished, at SCAT influenced by Ahrends Burton & Koralek student housing at Chichester, 1958-9 or 1969-72?;
1957-61 Sydenham Secondary Modern School, Bridgwater; mid-50s by Guy Ward, taken over by others at contract stage, inf John Williams; three-storey steel frame by Hills of West Bromwich; mid-50s, architect unknown, JD;
1958 St Dunstan’s Secondary School, Glastonbury, Som; science block and sports hall added 1998; performing arts and special needs additions 2004; 1957 by Godfrey Morgan, JD;
1958-9 Girls High School, Stiby Rd, Yeovil, Som; now part of Westfield Sch; SRO plans;
1959? Blue School, Wells, Som; by Freddie Swan, but he left and Peter Hirst took over; M; c1959 SNB; but cf 1951 is this same as Kenyon School designed with Minehead, Wiveliscombe, West Monkton by group under L Mew?
1959? alts Beech Grove Primary School, Wellington, Som, by Geoff Fullman; M; possibly 1964;
1959 Training Centre and Hostel, Yeovil, Som; plans SRO; ?built;
1959-63 Huish Grammar School, South Rd, Taunton; ROH, job architect Dennis Tabert; report in library Richard Huish Academy; Tabert was an old boy of school; M; additions by Steer Shirley-Smith & Gibson (?), music room 2002 by NVB qv; 1959-64 Huish Grammar School, South Rd, Taunton, Som; for Somerset CC; document on project given by DT to school, now College, held in library there; in grounds of Elmfield, house and trees kept. Bison structural frame low-pitched roof w aluminium interlocking sheeting; pale buff London Brick Co. bricks; intended for aluminium panels, too expensive; plan to 1.5 m or 5ft frame as used at Strode and Taunton Technical College; classroom block runs E-E 2st double row of classrooms with clerestory ws for N facing room, gr fl classrooms mostly faced S; 2nd 6th form block had smaller rooms and library and access to school hall, staff room on n side and 2 language labs above, head and secretary offices adj library; entrance hall and dining hall behind staircase music-room changing-rm to one side was to be a drum, rejected by Ministry; craft block on E end of classroom block; paving carefully considered; pavilion on field; four assistants were all ex-Huish Robert Matthews, Robert Harris and Clive Sweet; plastered concrete block inside but brick feature wall at back of entrance hall, vinyl floors, work started 1961 by then county team under BCAdams and Martin Kenchington deputy architect, Stanley Mockridge, ex-Huish, clk of works; pavilion design was competition among assistants, won by Robert Matthews; new library 1979-80;
1960-2 Library, Bancks St, Minehead, plans SRO C/CA/1/189; CTA 1962;
1960-3 Strode College, Crispin School and Strode Theatre, Street, Som; ROH job architect Dennis Tabert; school and college open 1962, theatre added 1963 funded by Clark family; GHS; theatre altered externally 1997 by Steel, Coleman & Davis qv; M; Library and Science blocks added to College, library with lozenge shape by George Swindale (concept), design by Dudley Sparkes, JD; but 196? science block, Strode College (or School?), Street, Som; by Alan Dickens of SCC Architects; M; two laboratories Strode College by Derek Gibson qv of Gibson Rigler, 1980s?
196? Dulverton Secondary Modern School, by Bob Harris, early 1960s JD; see 1956;
1960-5 Whitstone Secondary School, Shepton Mallet, Som; by Peter Hirst; M; JD says Whitstone was 1953-4 by Guy Ward; SNB first parts complete 1960, opened 1965, slightly retardataire;
1962 Youth Centre, Kilve Court, Kilve, Som; SRO; BCA; flat-roofed single-storey buildingsnear C18 house;
1962 Kings of Wessex Secondary School, Cheddar, Som; flat-roofed prefabricated timber system evolved by Vic Hallam Ltd but design by SCC architect, Jack Ham; JF; languages block 2006;
196? Churchill Secondary Modern School, Williton, Som; also steel-frame three-storey like Sydenham School Bridgwater, steel frame by Hills of West Bromwich; Guy Ward archt; early 60s, inf John Williams; early 1960s, JD; but SRO has plans for 1954 and history says built 1957-9; glass-walled gym/hall and three-storey classroom block;
196? Castle School, Wellington Rd, Taunton, Som; about 1960, JD, about 1963 JFoden; behind SCAT site; by Geoff Fullman; M; addn to West 2003-5 by Stone & Partners;
196? Preston Secondary Modern School, Yeovil, Som, by Charles Hall, early 1960s, JD;
19?? Popham House home for blind, Wellington, Som by Charles Hall, JD
19?? Fletcher House, Wells, Som, by Charles Hall, JD;
1962-70 Technical College, Knightstone Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; now Weston College; BCA; by Alan Dickens & Jeff Davey; SNB: ‘eight storeys of Brutalism’, S addn 1997 by Stride Treglown qv;
196? rest Abbey Barn, Glastonbury, Som, now Rural Life Museum; George Swindale archt; M; early 1960s JF;
1962 Calway House, Taunton; next to Bishop Fox School, an old peoples’ home, David Lewis of Minehead did the original, completed 1962, then replaced about 1970; JF
196? Series of ‘doughnut-plan’ primary schools to a prototype by Clive Sweet, to maximise area on strict cost formula from the DES, reflecting open-plan teaching, JD; includes Wellesley Park Primary, Wellington, 1976;
1963 Junior Training Centre, Albert St, Bridgwater, now Penrose School, by John Foden; M;
1963 Old People’s Home, Williton, Som; built to replace workhouse; John Foden architect; derelict 2013; M;
1963 Technical College, Yeovil, Som; six-storey block; Rod Hilson designed it and then left, Charles Hall worked on it; M;
1963-4 Parkfield Primary School, Parkfield Rd, Taunton, Som; M; JF thinks by Lady Ann Acland of Acland Baron & Smith
1963-5 Somervale School, Midsomer Norton, Som; SNB long two-st block occasional 3-st sections, concrete frame, exposed corner posts and water-tank on stilts, sim to Smithsons at Hunstanton, Norf; by Derek Rutherford; M; initially by Freddy Swan, who left, taken over by Derek Rutherford; JF;
1964 Chilton Trinity Secondary Modern School, Bridgwater, Som; C/CA/ 1/26; being replaced by new school by Scott, Brownrigg, Turner qv 2012
1965 Council Offices and Library, Keynsham, Som; by John Hodges; SNB;
1965-6 Police Station, Bridgwater, Som; by Ian Parsons; concrete external frame failed and was later replaced in steel; M;
1965-6 Primary School, North Petherton, Som; Method system; by Richard Samuel and Michael Morris; M;
1967-9 Health Centre, Park Rd, Frome, Som, job archt PC Cooke; SNB; AJ 21.10.70 944-62 (covers also Health Centre, Glastonbury, 1966-70); 1967-8 £52,270; proposed in 1966, site nr Victoria Hospital;
1968 Worle Comprehensive School, Weston s Mare; Som; BCA and Jeff Davey; SRO D/B/wsm/24/4/222; Method building on new site; M; ?Vic Hallam involved;
1968 Library, Union St, Wells, Som; by Derek Rutherford; M; won a CTA; extended 1992; SNB;
196? Library, Strode College, Street, Som by Dudley Sparkes to concept by George Swindale ACA; JD lozenge shape
196? Science block, Strode College (or School?), Street, Som; by Alan Dickens; M;
196? Brookside Primary School, Brooks Rd, Som same site as Avalon Special School; ‘probably on the MACE system used by SCC in 1960s’ acc to J Gould; flat-roofed; mistake for Method, SCC did not use MACE system, JF;
196? Avalon School, Brooks Rd, Street, Som; ?a special school, flat-roofed; adj Brookside School;
1968-9 Health Centre, High Street/Wells Rd, Glastonbury, Som; design c.1966, John Foden asstnt county architect, PC Cooke job architect; won CTA 1971; ‘rather good, now being demolished for something very nasty (a new surgery)’ Jeremy Gould 2012; AJ 21.10.70 944-62 covers also Health Centre, Frome, 1967-8; M; two-storey dentists surgery on corner may remain, doctors surgery on Wells Road dem; £42,467;
19?? Dining-hall, Cannington College by Alan Dickens, JD;
1969-72 Somerset College of Art, SCAT, Wellington Rd, Taunton, Som; AJ 22.11.72; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; BCA, project archs Peter J Hirst and Derek Rutherford, assistant FJ Gibbs; sloping windows with small openers beneath sim to Stirling & Gowan at Leicester? JF mentions student accommodation inc common rooms etc, since demolished, influenced by Ahrends, Benson & Koralek student housing at Chichester - ? part of 1959 SCT buildings;
1970? Calway House, Taunton; next to Bishop Fox School, an old peoples’ home, David Lewis of Minehead did the original completed 1962, then replaced about 1970; JF;
1970 add Bridgwater Library, Som; plaque inside;
1970 Divisional Police Headquarters, Weston s Mare, Som; BCA, John Foster Turner job architect, M; SNB;
1970-1 Public Buildings, Nailsea, Som; Library by John Foden and Richard Samuel; octagonal; SNB; Town Centre around library, by BGP Architects qv with Somerset County Architects, RIBAJ 1979 287-92; Health Centre next to library by Alan Burnett and John Foden, now empty and boarded-up, Police Station by GM Morris;
1971 Wadham School, Crewkerne, Som, to replace Grammar School; Jeff Davey architect, large secondary school to campus system; M;
1971 Police housing, Canonsgrove, Trull, Som; built to Method system, Michael Morris architect; also conversion of Canonsgrove House; RIBA Regional Award, 1970; Brick Bulletin Sept 1971; JF;
1971 Construction Training building, SCAT, Taunton, Som; steel cladding from Italy, by Sam Webb and John Foden; M; JF;
1972? Public Swimming Pool, Backwell School, Som by G Michael morris and John Foden; JF
1973 Sixth-form block, Frome College, Frome, Som; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; Method system; Frome College by Michael Morris and John Foden, Sports Centre also Michael Morris and john Foden, Merlin Theatre by David Bate and John foden; JF;
1973 Divisional Police Headquarters, Horsey Lane, Yeovil, Som; Richard Samuel; similar to 1970 police station at Weston s Mare, Som, but here structural pre-cast concrete cladding;
1974 Divisional Fire HQ, Lisieux Way, Taunton, Som; BCA, proj archts Peter Yardley & G Pettingell; CP Unwin & Sons contrs; RIBA award 1974; RIBAJ Aug 1974 29; brick monopitch-roof accommodation block fronting steel-frame shed, brick-clad, AJ 16.10.74 904;
1974 house block, Clevedon Comprehensive School, Som; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; Method system; by Stephen Taylor (JF);
1976? Several Primary Schools to ‘donut’ plan under Method system, incl Wellesley Park Infants, Wellington, Som, 1976; M;
1978 Public Library, Crewkerne, Som; RIBAJ 86 1979 287-92; by Ken Smith
1978 Moorhaven old people’s development, Normandy Drive, Taunton; RIBAJ 86 1979 287-92; by Mike Walsingham and John Foden; broke new ground.
1978 Police Station and houses, Exford, Som; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; by M Walsingham;
1977-9 Bridgwater College, Bridgwater, Som. First phase completed 1979 library, drama, music, admin and dining, schools of language and science; second phase to be completed 1982: business studies, crafts, home management and sports facilites; project archt Jeff Davey, contrs Melhuish & Saunders, Wells; BD 14.9.79; red Ibstock brick; numerous additions by Shirley-Smith & Gibson qv
1978 outbuildings rest, Abbey Barn, Glastonbury, Som; by John Poole and John Foden; JF; for Rural Life museum;
1980 Church Hill housing, Exford, Som; HDA 1980;
1982-3 Coombe House dormitory, Sexey’s School, Bruton, Som; by Alan Dickens, JD;
1985 Library, Princess St, Burnham on Sea, Som;
1986-96 Primary Schools by Jeff Davey: ‘a family of schools’ at Milverton, Walton, Evercreech, St Cuthbert Wells, and later Baltonsborough 1997-8; JD;
1986-7 Library, King George St, Yeovil, Som; Bartlett Construction Group bldrs; BJ Dyer project manager; Alan Dickens architect, JD;
c1990 Library, Justice Lane, Frome, Som; SNB;
c1990 Primary School, Evercreech, Som by Jeff Davey; JD
1990-2 Magistrates Courts, St Johns Rd, Taunton, Som; Building 15.10.93 32-40; brick steep gables, four courts and first floor and axial hall; CS Williams Taunton contr £2.5m; proj archt Graham Whiteley;
199? Library, Langport, Som, by George Pittendreigh, JD
199? Library, Williton, Som;
199? Library, Somerton, by George Pittendreigh, JD;
1993-4 Bishop Fox’s School, South Rd, Taunton, Som; by Somerset Property Services, Jenkins & Potter engineers for site drainage etc; Gerald Fogwill architect;
1996-7 Primary School, Norton sub Hamdon, by Graham Whiteley, JD
1997-8 Primary School, Baltonsborough, by Jeff Davey; JD;
2003 Primary School, Cotford St, Luke; JD; twice extended since?;
2006 Primary school, Montacute by Graham Whiteley, JD
200? Primary School, Dulverton; JD;
2007 Oakland School, Parfields, Yeovil, Som; inf SSDC; project leader P Abraham;
20?? add First School, Cheddar, assembly hall, classrooms etc; Biggs contractors website; £1.1m;
2011 Brookside Primary School, Street, Som; Mendip DC awards 2011;
SOPPITT, JAMES Architect, Touthill, Shaftesbury. Pupil of Smith & Brown of Norwich, numerous works in Dorset and Wilts; WBR2; appears as witness in murder case WI 24.3.1860; court case Shaftesbury WG 17.10.1879 v a builder. Son died WG 28.9.1883;
(1859 Parsonage, Tisbury, Wilts; WBR;)
(1863 Two school houses, Tisbury, Wilts; WBR)
1868 Bratton St Mawr, Som; AEBTD; this is The Hall, Bratton Seymour, Som, 1868, built for Charles Penruddocke to his own design acc to BoE S, work continued to 1888; VCH;
(1874 School, Marnhull, Dorset; TB Miles bldr; WG 19.6.74)
(1875 Chickgrove School, Sutton Mandeville, Wilts; BA 3 1875; WBR)
(1877 rest Compton Chamberlayne ch, Wilts; WBR)
SOUTAR, A.J. Architect. Archibald S Soutar 1879-1951 was an architect with the LCC as was his brother JCS Soutar +1951, then in independent practice with him in London to c1941, DSA.
1936 Factory, Taunton, Som, TC 5.12.36
SOUTH WEST ONE Architects
2012 Add of four classrooms, Somerset Bridge Primary School, Bridgwater; Sally Walton proj archt; Melhuish & Saunders bldrs; £470,000;
SOUTHEY, HENRY J. Taunton. Possibly builder, signs various plans in D/B/ta/24/1/300-50 for minor works
1875 New front, house of Henry North, East Reach, Taunton, Som; D/B/ta/24/1/312 with shopfront;
SOUTHEY, JOHN Builder
1880 alts Leycroft Farm, Taunton, Som, for Edward Liddon; then in West Monkton parish; SRO DD/DP/72/3; dem;
SPARKES & SON Architects ?Wellington. S Sparkes & Son.
1876-7 Alts B chapel, South St, Wellington, Som; by SS&Son architects, Mr Berry builder, £1240; line of chapel changed with pulpit against South St wall, two galleries removed, one original kept on left and new one to match opposite; AL Humphreys, Wellington Baptists;
SPARKS & CO, Stembridge.
1828-30 Blt Holyrood Mill, Chard, Som; guidebook; ?were they builders.
SPARROW, WILLIAM Bower Hinton, engineer. Born c1834, worked for George Parsons of West Lambrook Mill, moved to Bower Hinton c. 1860, advert for millwrights Pulmans Weekly 8.3.63 and 2.1.66, foreman at Parsons’ Parrett Works, 1866, made engineering manager 1867 when Parsons bankrupt. 1869 set up Somerset Wheel & Wagon Co. at Bower Hinton, employed 38 by 1871.
1866-7 involved with Schoolroom and alts, C chapel, Bower Hinton, Som; WS given testimonial 1867 for ‘gratuitous professional services in connection with the building of the schoolroom and restoration of the chapel premises’, R Maber, More Martock Memories 108.
1888 Public Hall, Church St, Martock, Som; design by WS hanging in Martock public library; Yandle & Son Martock, bldrs, £642, R Maber, Martock Memories 40. WG 4.1.89; ?designed similar 1893 Gospel Hall adjoining.
SPENCER & DEJARDIN
1904 Mill and house for wheelwright, Exford, Som, plans signed F Spencer & C Dejardin, badly drawn; D/R/dul/24/1/20; on lane from Edgcott to Downscombe Farm;
SPENCER, HENRY
c1744-9 attr vicarage, Vicarage St, Frome, SNB, or possibly by N Ireson qv; 1744 by Henry Spence (sic) or Ireson acc to PF book on Ireson; inf from M McGarvie
SPENCER, JOSEPH HOUGHTON Architect, 8 Hammet St, Taunton Kelly 1889; 5 Hammet St, Taunton, Kelly 1906; 1844-1914, son of vicar of Wilton, articled London, returned to Taunton, prominent member of SANHS from 1871, for whom surveyed Taunton Castle 1874ff, wrote Ancient Trackways of England, 1889, and book on registers of Wilton ch, 1890; structural notes on Taunton Castle, PSANHS 1911; lived at Brookside Cottage, Corfe, 1906. Race between a dandyhorse and Mr Spencer, architect, on a velocipede TC 9.6.1869; probably related to J James Spencer qv of Wedmore, as together for one project in 1878;
1870 rest Wilton ch, Taunton, Som; SRO cf/1870/6, repew & internal alts; RL; ?vestry; ? S porch; TC 4.5.70, Mr Spencer requested to provide plans; reopened TC 9.11.70, reseated, organ moved to N chancel aisle, new pulpit and font, N & S chancel windows rebuilt, porch rebuilt, Henry Davis bldr;
1870 Attr E wing, Taunton & E Somerset Hospital, Taunton, Som; JHS designed the W wing 1873; further work in 1902 with George Oatley as consultant;
1870-5 rest St James ch, Taunton, Som; tower taken down and rebuilt in facsimile, Kelly 1906; 1871-5 RL; JHS appointed TC 16.3.70; old tower taken down 1870-1 and rebuilt; builder John Spiller. FS laid 26.7.71 by Lady Anna Eliza Mary Gore-Langton [d of 2nd Duke of Buckingham & Chandos and wife of William Henry Powell Gore-Langton MP of Newton Park and West Hatch]. New tower formally opened by Lady Gore-Langton 9.6.75. Stone given by Sir Alexander Acland Hood, Bt (see also St Mary Magdalene). Total expenditure was £4,002/5/5d. E window gift of the Liddon family, W window was in memory of the Yea family, formerly of Pyrland Hall; SC notes; BN 28 1875 705 reopened: entirely rebuilt from foundations, begun by John Spiller who died and completed by his son Henry J Spiller, facsimile except parapet and pinnacles which were not in keeping and later addition, new external masonry Williton stone with Ham and Hambdon dressings; new figures on S of SS James & Mary Mag; stone carving R Frost, clerk of works W Biss;
1868 plans sanatorium, Weston s Mare, Som; Mr Spencer archt, TC 4.11.68, for 20 patients; ?outline plans;
1870 work at Taunton & East Somerset Hospital, Taunton; ?the E wing; several plans submitted by Mr Spencer TC 9.3.70, TC 26.10.70 in progress;
1870 Lodge, Henlade House, Som; TIB 30.7.70; Lower Lodge is dated 1871, presumably also near-identical upper lodge, cf also stable block 1872; for JE Anderdon;
(1871 entr Board Sch comp, Aberystwyth, Cd; CN 16.2.71;
1872 Norton Fitzwarren School, Som; Br 1872 354; RL;
1872 Stables, Henlade House, Som; TIB 4.5.72; for JE Anderdon; RL;
1872 exec archt, adds St Mary Magd Parsonage, Taunton, Som; adds in half-timber to design by JC Buckler qv; builder Henry Davis; SRO D/D/Bbm/194;
1873 W wing, Taunton & E Somerset Hospital, Taunton; ?also E wing 1870;
1873-4 rest Ash Priors ch Som; ICBS; RL reps repewing; Rev Baynham, Memorials of Ash Priors, 1908, 76ff: full desc by JHS, reopened 8.10.74; reopened N door, added N porch, new W door and Ww, chancel lengthened w new vestry, new roofs, new buttresses, many ws renewed; squinf found; stalls altar, rails and standards of American walnut; reredos of Ham, Corsham, white lias and marble w centre marble cross; pulpit os similar materials on a clustered col of Devon marble; Minton tiles; chancel Nw 1-lt by clayton & Bell; seats copied from fragment of one bench end, mouldings of roof ribs and bosses copied from fragments; £1500; John Spiller contr, stone carving by Mr Frost, wood carving by Spiller Jr
1873 School, Creech St Michael, Som; Br 17.5.73 393, £800 for 170 pupils, Domestic Gothic, Monkton stone w grey brick dressings; J Dinham contr; WG 9.5.73;
1874 survey, Taunton Castle, Som for SANHS; RL; 1874ff work for SANHS; RL; cf article 1911 SANHS: incl removing partitions in Great Hall for museum, restoring entrance to the ‘Norman keep’ and putting in Ham stone windows to replace modern ones; two more windows elsewhere; arched entry formed into Somerset Room; 1882 rebuilt stair turret of inner gatehouse paid for by col. Pinney; 1884 new roof Geological room (Somerset Rm) when attic in old roof removed and bedrooms made for curator by subdividing the drawing-room now library over the Coin room; two EE windows in N wall of Geology Room were restored; E entrance of Ham stone made at cost of Mr Surtees; new roof on the Exchequer 1895; Great Hall repaired 1899-1900; 1908 Castle House repaired and improved for the curator; 1910 former curator’s rooms improved by inserting 2 additional windows corresponding to the 1874 one, stone stair substituted for wooden one, strong-room formed, boiler-chamber blt outside, stone staircase against inner wall of w tower shows that tower was reduced; illustrates arch to Norman keep;
1875 2nd pr St James cemetery, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; RHH; RL;
1875 St Andrew’s School, Rowbarton, Taunton, Som; Br 1875 285;
1876 rest Kingston St Mary ch, Som; new aisle roofs, boarding replacing plaster in nave, roof, square-head windows N and S replaced w pointed ones, renew S aisle parapet; Church commissioners rest chancel ?using Spencer, encaustic tiles, choir-stalls;
1875-6 Schools, North St, Wiveliscombe, Som; schoolrooms, classrooms & teachers residence; T: Br 31.7.75 p 618; plans SRO; addition 1904 by JHS plans SRO; a central fleche removed after fire 1925;
1876-9 Board School, Wedmore, Som; NWC;
1877-8 Schools, North Petherton, Som; George Properjohn of N Petherton contr; opened 11.2.78; school history;
1878 Teacher's house, Venn Bridge school, Oake, Som T: SCG 27.4.78, 25.5.78;
1878 farm buildings, Wedmore, for Joseph Edwards by J Houghton Spencer and J James Spencer of Wedmore T A 5.1.78;
1878 rest Lydeard St Lawrence ch, Som; adv for tenders rest of portions of the church, SCG 26.10.78; prev restored by CE Giles qv 1869-70;
1879-81 St Andrew ch, Rowbarton, Taunton, Som; Br 17.9.81, glass by Hardman, chancel E & S and 10 clerestory quatrefoils; Beer stone font & pulpit; ch of Westleigh stone with Doulting dressings, brick inside; ?replaced church proposed in 1847 by WB Gingell qv; bldr Henry Spear acc to RL but probably HJ Spiller; consec TC 20.7.81; TC 26.9.83;
1881 Stables, St James vicarage, Taunton, Som; SRO D/D/bbm/249;
1881 rest Mary St U chapel, Taunton; TC 29.8.81; presumably the new stucco front;
1882 design of caps and label terminals in ??ch restoration, where?; TC 17.1.83;
1883-4 rest North Petherton ch, Som; SRO cf/1883/4; CB 1883 39; 1878-84 RL reps & repewing;WG.6.7.83, HJ Spiller contr; TC 13.2.84; work carried out, ? N Petherton by JHS, HJ Spiller contr, TC 6.2.84
1884 New buildings, Huish Boys Grammar School, East Reach, Taunton; ?not built until 1891-2, TC 25.11.91, Mr James of Exeter is clerk of works; Huish School history; dem;
1884 rest Goathurst ch, Som; RL, gallery, removed wall between Halswell chapel and chancel, recut chancel arch and added parapets to tower; WG 25.4.84, 14.11.84; TC 23.4.84, to be restored; reopened TC 12.11.84 Charles Green, Bridgwater, stonemason;
1884 Alts Wilton ch, Taunton, Som new windows above chancel arch, 3-lt with stained glass by Clayton & Bell; Br 47 1884 876; John Pearse Minehead bldr, TC 24.12.84;
1885 alts ?Staplegrove ch, Som; TC 15.7.85;
1885 rest Berrow ch, Som; about to begin TC 1.7.85;
1887-8 rest Stoke St Gregory ch, Som; added statues around tower; vestry & alts, SRO cf/1887/11; about to be restored TC 17.8.87, HJ Spiller contr, plaster to be scraped from tower, opening blocked archway from N aisle to transept, building buttress to support arch, enlarge vestry; TC 18.7.88, reopening, carving by E Harding, Bristol, redecoration of reredos by Stansell & Son; WG 13.7.88;
1887-8 Victoria Jubilee Nursing Institute, Taunton & E Somerset Hospital, East Reach, Taunton, Som; opened TC 24.10.88, of Bishop's Hull bricks made by Colthurst & Colthurst; Wm Templeman of Taunton contr; carving by E Harding of Bristol, G.C. Strawbridge clerk of works;
1887 alts Burrowbridge ch, Som; 1884-7 ICBS; SRO cf/1887/3 two des for inserting chancel and flanking arches, screen from Jones & Willis catalogue; CB 1887 81; WG 12.8.87; TC 17.8.87, John Clatworthy of N Petherton bldr; tiles by Maw;
1887 rest Chelvey ch, Som; SRO cf/1887/14; floor tiles by Maw, minton in chancel N&Q 1994 340;
1887 reredos, Wilton ch, Taunton, TC 26.10.87, E Harding of Bristol carver;
1888-91 All Saints ch, Rockwell Green, Wellington, Som; RL; plans 1897, T £2765 without tower; FS 10.9.88, consecr 18.2.91; orig design with tower ill in Bush etc Book of Wellington, built without tower, tower and spire added, tower to slightly different design 1906-08; 110’ tower with spire; tower stone from Burn Hill Quarry; font and pulpit by WJ Giles, 1889, glass by Mayer, inc Ew 1904; reredos opus sectile by Powell’s 1889; tenders received TC 30.5.88; TC 12.9.88 and 19.2.90;
1889-90 rest Trull ch, Som; TC 26.2.90, Pollard of Bridgwater bldr;
1891 repairs to house ?for Taunton Board of Guardians TC 18.11.91, proposed;
1891 new building corner St James St Taunton to be designed in harmony with Mr Goodland's new buildings (?by Messrs Howard & Pollard) on approach to Tone Bridge, TC 12.8.91.
1891 proposed alts to market for new street (Corporation St) from Park St, Taunton; TC 12.8.91;
1892-3 Rectory, Beercrocombe, Som; T Br 17.12.92
1894 E wall arcading, Corfe ch, Som; newspaper cutting 30.11.94 in S Dugdale, Corfe Scrapbook; carved by WJ Giles, Wellington; presumably also the similar reredos 1890;
1894 organ chamber, Spaxton ch, Som; SRO cf/1894/4;
1897 rest Beercrocombe ch, Som; SRO cf 1897/6
1897 alts Wilton ch, Taunton, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1897/4; interior alts inc chancel;
1897 Six almshouses St James St, Taunton, Som for Taunton Town Charity; T. Moggridge bldr £1070/10/0 T: BJ 25.8.97;
1900 Westholm, Atlantic Rd South, Weston s mare, Som; D/B/wsm/24/1/781;
1901 rest Manor House, Bishops Hull, Som; for Col Rawlins; accnt of visit by SANHS 1912;
1902 W porch, Staplegrove ch, Som; SRO faculty 1902
1903-4 adds to school, Wiveliscombe, Som, TC 22.4.03
1906 rest Gray’s Almshouse, Taunton, Som; £240; inf F Kelly HBC report;
1906-8 Tower and spire, Rockwell Green ch, Som; consec 10.12.08; church leaflet;
SPENCER, J. JAMES. Wedmore. Apparently a relation of Joseph Houghton Spencer qv; presumably same as J James Spencer of Bath who restored two Monmouthshire churches;
1878 farm buildings, Wedmore for Joseph Edwards by J Houghton Spencer and J James Spencer of Wedmore T A 5.1.78;
1878 Stonesteps, Church St, Wedmore, Som; Solomon Wall qv builder, for himself; NWC;
(1886-7 rest Llanthony ch, Mon; BoW; JJS of Bath;
(1887 rest Cwmyoy ch, Mon; Abergavenny Chronicle 22.7.87; BoW;
SPENCER, W. J.
1882 Coach-house & stable for John Banwell, Weston s Mare, Som; T Br 29.4.82; £118;
SPERRING, JOHN. Surveyor, Keyford Terrace, Frome, 1844 dir.
1831 attr Coleford ch, Som; BoE N, GR; 1829-36 ICBS seating plan; but SNB and HC says des was by GP Manners, 1830-1; SRO D/P/coleford/8/3/2;
1836-9 surveyor Holy Trinity ch, Frome, Som; HE Goodridge archt; ICBS;
SPILLER, ALFRED JOHN. Contractor, builder. Taunton. Builder 12 Magdalene St in 1906 dir.
1880 mortgage site of two new houses, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som to H Sweet; DD/DP/72/3; DD/DP/68/4 has mortgage of building land AJ Spiller 1881;
1901 contractor Maltings, Canon St Brewery, Priory Av, Taunton; £4000; Bradford & Sons architects; Perfectly Pure 82;
1901-3 ?contractor , Stuckeys Bank, No 9 The Parade, Minehead, Som; George Oatley qv architect; builder given as RJ Spiller in Sarah Whittingham list of Oatley works;
1902 builder pair of houses, North Hill estate, Minehead, Som, lot 3, archt FW Roberts; D/U/M/22/1/137;
1909 blt Gymnasium, Taunton School, Som; £1547/8/9d tender; FW Roberts architect?; PC112;
An undated advertisement, reprinted in Chipchase & Cole, the Taunton Book, 1984, 14, lists work recently executed: Bishop’ Fox’s School, Taunton, for Samson & Cottam £3,000 (1904-5): new wing and stables at Amberd House, Trull, for Samson & Cottam £4500; classrooms and corridor, Taunton School for FW Roberts £2500; Robins Close, Wellington, for Samson & Cottam £5500; Malthouse, Priory, Taunton for Bradford & Sons £4000 (1901); residence Fons George, Wilton, Taunton, for Samson & Cottam £3000; Cloth & Collar Factory, Priory, Taunton, for Samson & Cottam, £2000; alts and adds Leigh Court near Taunton for W Harvey of London (is this Leigh Court, Angersleigh?);
SPILLER, HENRY JAMES Contractors HJ Spiller & Son, 31 Bridge St, Taunton 1906. Died ?in 1919; son of John Spiller qv. Alderman, mayor 1910, photo Bush, Taunton Diary, 91. Lived at Hatfield, The Avenue, large tile-hung house dated 1899. Wilfred Henry Spiller also at 31 Bridge St in 1906 ?the son in HJ Spiller & Son.
1875 completed rebld of tower St James ch, Taunton, begun by his father; JH Spencer archt; BN 28 18.6.75 705; John Spiller died while job was in progress;
1881 Alts Hewett’s Brewery, Norton Fitzwarren, Som, designed by Scammell & Colyer, brewery engineers, London; Perfectly Pure 51; T: Brewers Journal August 1881;
1881 unsuccess T restor North Curry ch, Som; Olivey N Curry, 1901;
1881 bldr, St James ch, Rowbarton, Taunton; JH Spencer archt; TIOP;
1882 Bldr rest Ashill ch, Som; JD Sedding architect; ch guide;
1882 wk carried out ?where, by HJ Spiller, JH Spencer architect; TC 6.2.84
1892 bldr adds St James ch, Rowbarton, Taunton; E Buckle architect; TIOP
1893 ?Ruishton Court, Ruishton, Som; DoE gives ‘Mr Spiller’ architect; for R Somerville owner of Creech St Michael paperworks;
1899-1901 contr new wing King’s College, Taunton, Som; Walter Tower architect;
1899 ?Hatfield, The Avenue, Taunton, Som, for himself; there in 1906 dir;
1901-2 Police Station and court room, Lady St, Dulverton, Som; £2360; Book of Dulverton p 92;
1902 Mount Royal, Minehead, Som, by Mr Spiller of Taunton acc to minehead online chronology; large pair of villas on Weirfield Rd, possibly by FW Roberts qv;
1904 Bldr, raised unfinished chapel, Kings College, Taunton, by 10’ and added temporary roof 1907; W Tower architect;
1909 prop C chapel, Kingston Rd/ Cheddon Rd, Taunton; corrugated iron by Ginger Lee & Co of Manchester; ?not built; D/B/ta/24/1/40/522;
1913 Bldr Lyceum Cinema, Bridge St, Taunton, Som, TIOP 115 Spiller & Browne; architects Stone & Lloyd; dem;
1915 reredos St James ch, Taunton, Som; oak gothic, SRO D/D/cf/1915/48;
Drawing for new bay window, Squirrel Hotel, Fore St, Wellington in Wellington museum is marked HJS & Son;
SPILLER, JOHN Contractor North Town, Taunton. Father of Henry James Spiller qv died before 1875.
1857 carpenter, rest Staplegrove ch, Som; archt CE Giles; mason Macey of Bishops Hull; SCG 22.8.57;
1857 Bldr Wheatley toll-house, Hovelands Lane, Taunton, Som; LSYH 100: for Taunton turnpike Trust, tender JS £55 accepted 5.5.57; dem;
1861 bldr Isle Brewers ch, Som; CE Giles archt; RL 2 23;
1860-1 contr, restoration Shapwick ch, Som; GG Scott; contract in church vestry 1985;
1864 bldr, Stuckeys Bank, Fore St, Wellington, Som; Kellys dir 1866;
1865 unsuccessful T to build Independent College, Taunton, Som; given to H Davis qv; PC 56; J James archt;
1866-7 bldr Huish Homes, Magdalene St, Taunton, Som; contract 22.6.66 DD/DP/72/3; archts Giles & Robinson qv;
1867-70 contr Taunton College School, South Rd, Taunton, Som; archt CE Giles qv; later Kings College; JT 74;
1871-5 rebuilt tower St James ch, Taunton, Som; JH Spencer qv archt; BN 18.6.75 contr late Mr John Spiller after his death completed by his son H Spiller.
1873-4 contr rest Ash Priors ch, Som; JH Spencer archt, wood carving by Mr Spiller Jr, stone carving by Mr Frost; Baynham, Memorials of Ash Priors, 1908, 80;
SPILLER, R. G. Contractor Taunton, succeeded to business of HJ Spiller qv;
1923-5 contr Memorial Science Bldng, Taunton School, Som £10,670; PC142; EV Harris architect;
1927-8 contr Music School, Taunton School, Som £3095; PC 148; gr fl practice rms, 1st fl concert room;
1928 proposed to bld chapel, Wellington School, Som; C Biddulph-Pinchard archt, FS 10.2.28, but J Twyford employed;
1928-38 alts Tivoli Cinema, Weston super Mare, Som; WS Wort archt; D/B/wsm/24/5/32; 24/1/3783 and 3734;
SPILLER, W. J. Hatfield, The Avenue, Taunton. Hatfield was the house of HJ Spiller qv. A Wilfred Henry Spiller at 31 Bridge St in 1906 directory maybe the same.
1909 Cottage for FJ Spiller, Wellington Rd, Taunton; between Wellington Terr and Stepswater Terrace; D/B/24/1/40/512; plans only; WJS of Hatfield, Taunton;
SPIRE, JAMES ?error for Joseph Spire.
1908 WM chapel, West Camel, Som; VCH 3 80;
SPIRE, JOSEPH Architect, land surveyor, estate agent, valuer & accountant, Ivydene, Wells Rd, Glastonbury, 1906 dir. Surveyor to Upper Brue Drainage Board; See Budd & Spire.
SPOONER, CHARLES SYDNEY, Architect, 1862-1938 cf biog by A Hamilton Charles Spooner. Articled AW Blomfield 1881-5, assistant to JD Butler architect to Metrop Police 1886, friend of Voysey and other Arts and Crafts architects, lived at Chiswick. Did much church work also cottages at Westmill Herts,
1904 Beech Hanger, Pardlestone, Kilve, Som; for Greg family owners of Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Ches; CL 29.7.1911 suppl 7-8 Better Country Houses of Today; Scottish Architects website mentions ‘country cottages’ at Kilve;
SPRANKLING & PRICE Architects, 16 Hammet St, Taunton; Kelly 1906; Ernest Sprankling (1871-1960) Brooklands Cottage, South Rd, Taunton & Francis H Price qv born 1878, partnership from 1905; Sprankling & Son, 7 Hammett St, 1931 dir; DBA;
1909 Minor add The Chestnuts, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton; office between house and garage; D/B/ta/24/1/40/517; also motor-shed 507; for George Gibbs;
1909 Houses, Wedlands Terrace, Cheddon Rd, Taunton, Som D/B/ta/24/1/40/501;
1909 Temporary iron mission hall for WM congregation, Greenway Rd, Taunton; D/B/ta/ 24/1/40/500;
1909 assoc architects with Naylor & Sale for proposed vestry addition to NE of St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, not built; see 1912 below;
1912 assoc architects with Naylor & Sale of Derby, choir vestry St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; faculty; SRO has plans 1909 by same for a NE vestry not built;
SPRANKLING, ERNEST Taunton LRIBA see Sprankling & Price. Brooklands Cott, South Rd, 1906. 1871-1960 DBA, partnership with FH Price qv from 1905, WW in A 1914;
191? Skating rink, Wellington Rd, Taunton, Som; ref to in dispute over noise of barrel organ TC12.9.17
1922 Shop addition, Station Road, Taunton, Som for Reed & Giles; 2-st addition to side of premises; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/891;
1927 Two houses, Shuttern, Taunton, Som, pair of plain brick cottages on N, E of Cann St; D/B/ta/24/1/66/1271;
1927 House, Cheddon Rd, Taunton, Som, for Mrs Mockridge, hipped with bay window, opp Isolation Hospital, D/B/ta/24/1/66/1274
1927 Bungalow, Stoke Rd, Taunton, Som, D/B/ta/24/1/66/1275
1927 House and shop, South Rd, Taunton for JH Tearle; L-plan hipped, on corner Freemantle Rd; D/B/ta/24/1/66/1276
SPURWAY, TREVOR J. Architect. Trevor J Spurway Architect Ltd, 55 Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, 2011. Established 1988
1991 Action Aid HQ, Chard, Som; brick;
1998 nine houses, Ashill, Som; trad;
1999-2000 VW car showroom, Silver St Motors, Taunton, Som;
2000-2 Veterinary Centre, Martock, Som; conversion of carpet warehouse;
2000-8 new house, Kingston St Mary, Som; large, red brick with pyramid-roof tower.
2000-8 conv College of Art, Corporation St, Taunton, to restaurant etc;
2002 flats, Chard, Som; four 2-bed flats;
(2002-4 Eight town houses and 16 flats, site SE edge of of Exeter, Devon
2002-4 Grandstand, Taunton Racecourse, Orchard Portman, Som; 3 storey, brick, glass front;
2002-4 renov and extension No 1 East Reach, Taunton, Som;
2002-5 renovation Triscombe House, West Bagborough, Som, after 2002 fire;
(2002-5 flats on site of Rockham Bay Hotel, Mortehoe, Devon)
2002-7 remodel Taunton Audi car showroom, Taunton, Som;
(2003-4 British Red Cross offices, Exeter, Devon; new site nr M5)
(2003-5 Padbrook Park Golfing Hotel, Cullompton, Devon)
2005-7 Town-house development, Taunton, Som; three-st brick townhouses;
2005-6 flats, Eastbourne Rd, Taunton; brown brick, 6 one-bed flats;
2005-9 conversion Blorenge, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton to flats; with extension;
2006-7 conv car showroom to dental surgery, Chard, Som;
2006-8 new hospice building, St Margaret's Hospice, Heron Dri, Bishop's Hull, Taunton, Som; original hospice by Steel, Coleman & Davis qv
2006-9 Grandstand, Rugby Football Club, Wellington, Som;
2007-8 alts addn, Stoke Court, Stoke St Mary, Som;
2007-11 add Selworthy School, Taunton, Som; new entrance and admin for special needs school; firm had previously worked on school;
2007-11 terraced houses, North Curry, Som; trad style;
2008-10 additional hall, Village hall, Bishop's Lydeard, Som;
SQUIRE, - Shepton Mallet
1874 building at ?chapel, Shepton Mallet, Som; WG 5.6.74 building will occupy the same site as the old school to rear and side of chapel, Mr Squire of SM architect, Messrs Emery ?bldrs;
SRA Architects, Bath, see Stubbs Rich;
STADDON, ROBERT C. Land agent, surveyor, auctioneer, Castle St, Dulverton and Bampton, 1906 dir, Robert Staddon & Son with Ernest J Staddon.
1902 House, Weir Cleeve, Dulverton, Som, for Matthew Chanter; D/R/dul/24/1/10; 2st 2w;
1902 House, Lady St, Dulverton, Som, for JW Page; D/R/dul/21/1/8; bad;
1903 Cottage, Lady St, Dulverton, for JW Page; D/R/dul/24/1/17; dull
STAFFORD, EDWIN Architect, Taunton
1875 alts J Goodman premises, Bath Place, Taunton, Som; minor rear adds; D/B/ta/24/1/304; signed ES architect;
STAHL, MAX EDWARD Architect, 6 College St, Burnham on Sea, ARIBA; 1931 dir
STALLWOOD, SPENCER SLINGSBY. Architect, Reading, Berks. 1842/3-1922, partner of Joseph Morris qv 1875-86 Morris & Stallwood.
1884-5 rest chancel Chedzoy ch, Som; Br 1884a 529; tiles by Carter, Johnson & Co. Lynn Pearson, Tile Gazetteer (2005); very elaborate scheme, stained glass by Gibbs & Howard; reopened 2.6.85, TC 3.6.85;
STANCLIFFE, MARTIN. York. In practice 1976, Martin Stancliffe Architects from 1994. Firm merged with Purcell, Miller, Tritton in 2004. Cathedral Architect to St Paul’s, Lichfield and Southwell; Geoffrey Holland and Christopher Cotton partners
1992-3 Add St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; NE first floor meeting-rm; RL, much diminished and redesigned larger scheme for a new chapter house;
2003 Add Wells Cathedral, Som; new visitor entrance SW, and Thomas Ken Centre visitor facilities; Christopher Cotton project architect;
STANLEY, WILLIAM HENRY. Architect Trowbridge; WBR in dirs 1889-1923
(1898 Villa, Box, Wilts, for JP Martin C: BJ 5.1.98)
(1899 alts Lackham House, Lacock, Wilts inc new porch, alts to first floor and service rooms to E of main house; WBR2;
(1899 Post Office, The Shambles, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR2; plans 1899 WRO G13/760/16; extended 1935-6, monogram of Edward VIII added to orig building;
(1902-3 St Mary ch, Temple, Corsley, Wilts; WBR)
(1904 Stable, Poulton, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; plans WRO G13/760/31
(1907 rest St James ch, Trowbridge, Wilts)
(1920 alts Old Priory, Bradford on Avon, Wilts WRO G13/760/131 and 133;
STANSELL & SON, East St, Taunton. Builders. Specialists in conservation work. William Stansell founded company 1823, Alfred Stansell painted the medieval screen at Carhampton in 1862 and did stencil decoration for Benjamin Bucknall at Pontargothi ch, Carms, c1870; William (Bill) Stansell head of firm late C20, daughter Liz trained as architect; Stansell & Son church & house decorator 65 East St, 1906. William Alfred Stansell lived at Willowbourne, Wellington Rd, Taunton, 1906; firm became Tauntfield Ltd. Lease of premises 1870 to Alfred Stansell on S side East St in SRO, DD/DP/72/3.
1862 painted decoration, screen, Carhapton ch, Som;
1869-70 Painted decoration, chancel roof, St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Som; Br 5.2.70
1953 builders Heathfield School, West Monkton, Som; Somerset County Architects qv; West Monkton then & now 54;
1958 builders St Teresa RC ch, Priorswood, Taunton, Som; EC Francis archt;
STANTON WILLIAMS, Architects, London, founded 1985 by Alan Stanton & Paul Williams. Des University of the Arts, Kings Cross, London; Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge Univ; Musee d’Art Nantes; Stringfellow Hall Cranfield Univ Beds;
(2009 House of Fraser store, Cabot Circus, Bristol; AJ 21.5.10;
(2010 Salisbury District Council offices, Bourne Hill, Salisbury, Wilts;
STARK (JOHN) & CRICKMAY Architects Dorchester successors to GR Crickmay qv; Anthony Jaggard born 1936 partner;
20?? 16 houses, grounds of former RC Priory, Wincanton; neo Georgian;
2012 restored RC church, Wincanton, Som; website; new glass screen around font, reordered altar; having already done outside repairs;
STARR, WILLIAM
1705 paid £9/17/3d for mending Witham Friary ch, Som; Mc Garvie, Witham Friary, 1989, 14.
STEAD, EDWARD J. AMICE. Somerset County Surveyor 1915-38; RL2 67; built twenty-four reinforced concrete bridges 1909-14 when assistant to Herbert Chapman qv; SIAS 98; 40 more bridges blt in 1920s to relieve unemployment.
1910 Hartlake Bridge, Som; three-arch;
1912 Hornshay Bridge, Som; single-arch;
1914 Marston Magna Bridge, Som; plaque says EJ Stead AMICE Co Surveyor. Single arch.
1914 Carhampton Bridge, Som; small single arch; plaque;
1927-8 Vicarage Bridge, Winsford, Som; plaque, GB Fisher & Sons bldrs;
Also signs bridge at Withypool,
STEEL, COLEMAN & DAVIS. Taunton. One of more interesting firms of architects in Taunton at time acc to RL; founded 1953 by Kenneth J Steel and John Hadley Coleman +2012 aged 84, SCG 26.7.12; Peter Davis joined later, was also an artist.
c1955 Bungalow with view over Culm valley, Som; by KJS; C20index;
c1955 Bungalow, Som by KJS ill Modern homes and homemaking; C20index;
1960 The Platts, No 4 Northside, Rockwell Green, Som; S&C; 1963 House Plans;
1965 Octagon Chapel, East Reach, Taunton, Som;
1965 Bridgeway, Burgundy Rd, Minehead, Som; S&C; ill in 1966 Houe Plans;
c1965 House, Taunton, Som by K Steel ill Modern Homes; C20index;
1966-7 Library, Wincanton, Som, part of development inc old peoples home by the Bristol firm that did BRI (?Whicheloe Macfarlane qv), off to N of High St; inf retired Som CC architects;
1968 Goathouse, Church La, West Hatch, Som; C20index; in 1976 Bungalow Plans;
1969-71 Mount Hey, Parsonage Lane, Somerton, Som; five houses with monopitch roofs, only No 2 was two-storey, approved 1968-9, No 2 sold off plan to Cmdr Brian Magee and extended 2005-6 for their daughter and son-in-law by Derek Seward qv; inf D Seward and Niall Connoll, garded 2005-7 by Laurence Maunder;
197? Block of flats, Priorswood, Taunton, Som, two-storey, by Kenneth Steel; not a County Council project, JF;
197? Day Nursery, Holway/ South St, Taunton by John Coleman; J Foden inf;
1970-1 St Michael ch, Galmington, Taunton, Som; altered church hall; dem; new church 1987 by Stone & Partners qv.
1970? Houses, Bridgwater, Som; SC&D ill in 1972 House Plans
19?? Series of fire-stations for Somerset CC inc Porlock, Dulverton, Bridgwater, Wellington; inf retired Som CC architects;
19?? Series of classrooms for Somerset County Council occasioned by raising of school leaving age (RSLA), called RSLA blocks (J Foden inf)
c1985 Headmaster's house, Som; ill in 1988 House Plans SC&D;
1986 Village Hall, North Petherton, Som;
1997ff refurb Strode Theatre, Street, Som; new foyers etc;
2004-5 Platform canopy Minehead Railway station;
2008-9 rest of Combe Hill, ?where; country house of 1789, rebuilt after fire
2009-10 Graphics and media bldng, Richard Huish College, Taunton;
Also bungalow for Peter Clothier, Street, Som, inf J Gould; community hall, Stoke St Mary Som; Derek Seward thought Kenneth Steel designed the estate of five houses at Mount Hey, Somerton, Som, but Anthony Pretor-Pinney said that they were by Stout & Litchfield qv;
Website 2012:
conversion Alexandra Mews, Minehead;
rest All Saints Cottage, Langport;
rest and new dev, Fullands Court, Taunton;
house and swimming pool Parsonage Farm, Kingston St Mary;
Drawbridge House flats, Bridgwater Docks;
Eastgate Gardens, Taunton, 97 flats & hos for Summerfields developments;
Jubilee Court flats, adj UR church, Mantle St, Wellington;
Headmaster’s house, sports hall, SAT Building, & Middle School for Taunton College at Taunton College Junior School;
New buildings and adds Trinity CofE school, Taunton;
Stawley School;
Nightingale House - conversion of East Reach Hospital Taunton;
St Margaret’s Hospice, Bishop's Hull, Taunton, Som, and adds;
Vivary Park Bowling Club Taunton;
Wedmore Bowls Club;
proposed new church for Martock Christian Fellowship, Martock; unex;
Milton B chapel, Weston s Mare;
adds Silver St B chapel, Taunton;
rest U chapel, Mary St, Taunton;
new house South Rd Taunton for Mr & Mrs Rayne;
new house Fons George Rd, Wilton, Taunton, for Mr & Mrs Lowson;
CDT Building, Queens College, Taunton;
North Petherton Village Hall 1986;
conference hall and adds Rumwell Hall, Bishops Hull;
Additions Woolavington Prim School;
additions under New Deal for Schools to primary schools at Curry Rivel, Compton Dundon, Middlezoy, North Newton, and Otterhampton;
enlarged Coleford Primary School;
enlarged special needs facility Galmington Primary School, Taunton;
enlarged Bishops Hull primary school;
Business resource centre, Bishop Fox School, Taunton;
25 hos Kingston St Mary for Summerfields developments;
48 flats and houses Victoria Gate, Taunton for Summerfields developments;
22 houses at Martock for Summerfields developments;
23 hos at Cheddar, for Summerfields developments;
36 houses at Chelston, Wellington, for Summerfields developments;
6 hos at Stawell for Cloden homes;
19 hos at Langport for Highgrove homes;
STEEL, BENJAMIN surveyor
1838-9 N aisle, West Bagborough ch, Som; ICBS;
STEEL, KENNETH see Steel, Coleman & Davis
STEER & SHIRLEY-SMITH Taunton. See LG Steer. S&S-S 1950-67, Steer, Shirley-Smith & Gibson 1962-7.
STEER, SHIRLEY-SMITH & GIBSON. See LG Steer and Robin Shirley smith
STEER, LOUIS G. Bridgwater and Taunton. FRIBA c1907-67. ?articled to and then joined Samson & Colthurst practice 1930s, partner 1946, firm then became Samson, Colthurst & Steer qv. In 1950-62 firm was Steer & Shirley-Smith (S&SS), with Robin Shirley-Smith, bought out Roberts & Willman of Taunton c1950. Taunton office above Lloyds Bank until dem in 1959 then 1 Cheapside, then 1 Billetfield. 1962-7 Steer, Shirley-Smith & Gibson, with HA Derek Gibson (SSS&G); DG; Also DG 18-19;
1953 alts Ermington, Trull Rd, Taunton, to flats; plans SRO; S&S-S
1956 layout chalet park in grounds Chapel Cleeve Manor, Old Cleeve, Som; 120 chalets; SRO D/R/wil/24/1/179; S&S-S;
19?? Bridgwater Building Soc, Corporation St, Taunton, Som; by RS-S;
196? Crescent House, The Mount, Taunton for Walpamur Paint Co; by RS-S;
19?? House for solicitor T. Saul, Taunton, Som w conical roof; by RS-S
19?? Works fro WT Maynard & Co inc new bakery Taunton, alts to restaurant, north St, Taunton, and refitting of restaurant High St, Bridgwater; ?SS-S&G
19?? adds Huish Episcopi Secondary School, with Somerset County architects;
196? School Hall, Langport Junior School, Som; hoop-roofed hall behind Huish Primary School, North St, Langport; for Somerset County;
19?? Add accommodation, Huish Grammar School, Taunton, Som; ?to the old school behind East St, dem, or to new school South Rd, blt 1961-3 by Somerset County Architects.
1963 School hall and gym, St Joseph’s Convent School, South Rd, Taunton, Som ill DG 19; SSS&G acc to Rosemary Berry history of convent; also various school meal kitchens and hutted classrooms.
1966 St George’s RC School, The Mount, Som; DG 18;
19?? House at The Green, Pitminster, Som.
19?? Houses, Som, for Alford Bros of Hambridge, developers;
19?? Private estate, South Petherton, Som;
19?? Street improvement scheme Crewkerne; by RS-S based on a scheme in Norwich; DG 19; only limited number of the house improvements actually done by firm;
19?? Improvement scheme, Wellington;
Minor alts for cash dispensers, Midland Bank, Bridgwater, Glastonbury, and three in Devon;
19?? Village hall, Puriton, Som, and later extension;
19?? adds 1 King Sq, Bridgwater, for Bridgwater Building soc, to rear;
1967 YMCA, George Williams House, by canal off Friarn Ave, Bridgwater, Som; opened by Duchess of Kent; ?dem for new YMCA;
19?? upgraded houses Wellington Road estate, Taunton, Som for Taunton BC;
19?? House for self, 40 Quantock Rd, Bridgwater, Som;
19?? House in Pawlett, Som; DG 6, LS later bought it and moved here from his house in Bridgwater.
STENT, BENJAMIN. Builder, Orchard St, Frome 1830 Somerset Dir.
STENT, FREDERICK WARBURTON London fl. 1868-94. cf AESD;
STENT, THOMAS Hendford, Yeovil. 1822-1912 born Warminster, Wilts, son of John Stent, builder (see Wiltshire index), and brother of WJ Stent qv 1815-87, architect in Warminster; Hunts dir 1850, Slaters dir 1852-3, adverts in SM as successor to late George Bennett qv 17.2.1844 and in SM 20.2.1855 as architect, surveyor & auctioneer; acc to D Mindenhall biography of Thomas Fuller, TS was articled in Bath, knew Thomas Fuller and emigrated to London, Ontario, where he was established in 1856 then moved to Ottawa in partnership with Augustus Laver 1834-98 who had come from Folkestone, pupil of Thomas Hellyer of Ryde. Laver had spent two years in USA before moving to Ottawa; S&L partnership lasted until 1865, then Laver on own moved to Albany NY and joined with Fuller on New York state capitol project 1867; practice on own in Newark, New Jersey, USA c1870-4, then New York City 1879-83, where he designed a great deal for Astor family, by 1886 practice was Stent, Dixon & De Saldern, lastly in Los Angeles as Strange & Stent?; long list of Stent's work in BDAC;
1845-6 National School, Huish, Yeovil, Som; named on 1845 engr; SJ 23.4.46 gives James Rawlings & Mark Thomas builders and Thomas Harwood mason; now part of Tesco store, missing centre ornament.
1847 Mudford School, Som; plans SRO, dated 27.10.1863 in another hand;
1847-9 TH, High Street, Yeovil, Som; Thomas Stent awarded design prize 14.4.47; 1st prize RHH, Br 1.5.47; T: Br 25.9.47 463; Br 2.10.47 tender accepted; Br 6.11.47 533, Br 4.12.47 581, TH & Markets to be built by Davis of Yeovil, letter from Stent 4.12.47; contract Feb 1848 £3600, opened 19.6.49, John Rawlings builder; £4000; SDTJ 5.4.49, railings by Hammon & Gillett, Yeovil; acc to RL builder was James Davis of Frome; Corn Exchange added Br 26.3.1859 adjacent Cheese Market at back; burnt 1935, dem, ill L Brooke, The Book of Yeovil 40-1; LC Haward, From Portreeve to Mayor, 1987, 95;
1848-9 Police Station, Union St, Yeovil, Som; town commissioners minutes; now Town House;
(1853 School, Barford St Martin, Wilts; WBR;)
1856 Wilts & Dorset Bank, The Borough, Yeovil, Som; now Lloyds; Chant of Hendford, Yeovil, builder; LC Hayward, From Portreeve to mayor, 1987, 57;
(1857 Maple Grove, Delaware township, Ontario, Canada for Dean Tiffany; Free Press (London Ont.) 1.8.57, BDAC; Thomas Stent
(1859 1st prize departmental buildings, Government of Canada, Ottawa and 2nd prize for parliament buildings; S&L; D Mindenhall Thomas Fuller 2015 71; Fuller & Jones were 1st for parliament and second for departmental buildings; BC 22.9.59; BN 8.3.61; financial problems led to S&L losing the commission for the departmental buildings in 1863. Departmental buildings were the East and West blocks attached to the Parliament; BDAC;
(1859 competition entry Governor-General's house, Ottawa, Canada; BDAC;
(1859 Hunterston, Gloucester township (now Rockcliffe) Ottawa, Canada, house for Dr R Hunter, Br 12.2.59; BDAC; S&L;
(1860 Central School, Ottawa, Canada; BDAC)
(1861 2nd prize New South Wales Houses of Parliament, Sydney, Australia; BDAC; Br 25.1.62; S&L; firm submitted Greek and Gothic desifgns, Gothic won prize; WH Lynn won 1st prize;
(1862 Canada Military Hospital, Quebec City, Br 5.7.62; dem; S&L)
(1863 Bank of Upper Canada, Ottawa 1863)
(c1863 house for himself Maria St/Percy St, Ottawa; BDAC)
(1870 Merchants Insurance Building, Newark, NJ, USA; dem; BDAC)
(1872-99 City Hall, San Francisco, California, USA; completed 1898, won in competition by S&L, destroyed in 1906 earthquake;
(1879-81 addition Astor Public Library, Lafayette St, New York; S wing 1849-53 by Alexander Saeltzer, centre 1856-9 by Griffith Thomas, N wing 1879-81; 1880-1 BDAC)
(1874 North Baptist ch, Newark, NJ, USA; dem)
(1887 portable timber house exhibited at American Exhibition London ill BN 15.7.87)
(1896 3rd prize, State Capitol, Helena, Montana, Strange & Stent of Los Angeles;
STENT, WILLIAM JERVIS. Architect, The Close, Warminster, 1868 AEBTD. Architect & surveyor in 1875 dir. 1815-87, son of John Stent builder who added outbuildings to Warminster workhouse c1836-7, and brother of Thomas Stent qv; WBR; chapel specialist; son Sydney 1845-98 practised in South Africa from 1869, FRIBA 1880, architect in public works dept Cape of Good Hope from 1880, DoBA.
(1847 Chapel, Lymington, Hants; nd C Stell; 1847 WBR2)
(1852 Savings Bank, Warminster, Wilts, WBR;
(1852 ??C chapel, Mere, Wilts; unlikely he did design the successor in 1868)
(1857 C chapel, Ebbesbourne Wake, Wilts; WBR;
(1858 Athenaeum, Warminster, Wilts; WBR; opened WI 4.11.58, £1793, Jacobean style; Mr Stent gave back his fee of £70; J Barnden contr;
(c1860 refronted C chapel, Endless St, Salisbury, Wilts; dem;
(1860-1 WM chapel, George St, Warminster Wilts; BoE; opened WI 2.5.61, Parsons & Strong bldrs; FS WI 9.8.60;
(1862 classrooms, vestry, New Meeting House, Common Close, Warminster, Wilts; of 1720 rebuilt 1798; ,
1862 adds C chapel, Rook La, Frome, Som; SNB set back entrance adds and probably the gatepiers; the schoolroom acc to RL;
(1862-3 C chapel, Broad Chalke, Wilts;
(1863 Temperance Hall, Foghamshire, Chippenham, Wilts, on site of White Hart inn; Kelly 1867)
(1865-6 C chapel, Victoria St, Swindon, Wilts, dem 1940s; WBR2; John Phillips contr; )
(c1867 C chapel, Westport, Malmesbury, Wilts; BoE;
1867-8 C chapel, Fore St, Chard, Som; BoE S; Kelly 1906; Pulman Book of the Axe, 1875, WG 23.8.67; FS 31.10.67, contrs James Hawker & James Harbour qqv; opened 28.11.68; dem;
(1867-8 Free Ch, Calne, Wilts; 1st pr 1867 RHH; Light & Smith of Chippenham bldrs; BoE 'terrible'; opened WI 30.7.68 £5000)
(1868 C chapel, Mere, Wilts; WBR; Frome times 23.9.68;
(1869 ?adds Bitham Mills, Westbury, Wilts; WBR; KH Rogers: factory 1803, ext 1829, with 3-storey range of 1860s, and a four-storey 14-bay block, since reduced to 2 storeys 1869 'probably by WJS'; also a range added at back of spinning shops)
(c1869 Prospect Sq, Westbury, Wilts, workers housing for Abraham Laverton +1886; WBR; 1870 acc to KHRogers; WJS was probably architect for most of Laverton's buildings, Laverton occupied Angel Mill from 1850, Bitham Mill from 1856, and Boyers Mill c1875-80; Laverton added wing at Angel Mill 1856 matching original of 1806, also weaving-shed dated 1869)
(1869-70 chapel, Sutton Veny, Wilts; FS DWG 16.9.69; (1870 enlargement B chapel, Tisbury, Wilts, reopened WG 3.6.70
(1870 C chapel, Stalbridge, Dorset; FS WG 10.6.70
(1872 Newtown WM chapel, Trowbridge, Wilts; BoE;
(1873 Laverton Institute, Westbury, Wilts; WBR;
1873 1st pr Frome Markets Som; Br 15.3.73;
1874 refronted Lloyds Bank, Market Pl, Frome, Som; SNB; orig building c1840;
(1880 C chapel, Holt, Wilts; BoE;
(1881-2 B chapel, Brown St, Salisbury, Wilts;
(1884 Laverton Infants School, Westbury, Wilts; WBR
(1884 gave circular window to chapel, Wareham, Dorset; ?designed chapel WBR2;
STEPHENS, - Bristol, contractor; to build RC ch Devizes, Wilts for CF Hansom and restored St Peter ch, Marlborough, Wilts, acc to DWG 30.6.1864; perhaps same as Stevens of Bristol who did masonry at Dundry ch for SB Gabriel, 1861, Br 2.11.61;
STEPHENS, EDWARD WILLIAM. Architect, Week St, Southgate, Maidstone, Kent. +1890. Pupil of CE Giles in Taunton, lived with him at Stoke St Mary c1853-6, ‘a slow heavy youth’ , in offices of Ashpitel & Whichcord, G Somers Clarke, and then 1857-62 joined with Giles’ chief assistant Frederick Peck in firm of Peck & Stephens and ‘succeeded pretty well in his career’. Went on tour to France with Giles 1855 (CE Giles autobiography). Peck & Stephens entered competions for Chatham Workhouse (1st) 1857, Ashford Cemetery (2nd) 1858, East Grinstead workhouse (2nd) 1859, Maidstone church (1st) 1859, Cambridge Guildhall (1st) 1859; Heyham church (1st) 1860; RIBA DoBA;
STEPHENS, GILBERT. Architect Polden View, Mark see Thomas C Stephens.
STEPHENS, THOMAS C. Builder Mark. See P Slocombe, Mark pp 313-15 ff. In dir 1875 at Southwick, Mark carpenter & bldr. Aged 84 in 1934. Sons Tom and Clem were bldrs, Clem Stephens blt Model Cottages, Southwick, Mark, 1924. Son Gilbert Stephens +1951 was architect in London for breweries altering pubs, retired 1925 to Polden View, Mark, which he altered, also altered The Gables, Mark, 1928, designed addn to West Mark School 1932 and minor extensions to Porch House and Wayside c1935.
STEPHENSON, GEORGE Railway engineer 1781-1848, leading railway engineer of the early C19, born Wylam, Nhumb, buried Chesterfield. Father of Robert Stephenson engineer, 1803-59;
1836 Prop South Western Railway, unex, from the London & Southampton line at Worting westward via Overton, Stockbridge, Salisbury, Tisbury, Gillingham, Stalbridge, Yeovil and Martock to Bathpool nr Taunton; BLJ 13-14;
STEPHENSON, Prebendary J. H. Manor House, Lympsham, Som. 1819-1901. Son of Rev JA Stephenson +1837. Probably designed all the estate buildings in Lympsham built between 1863 and 1895, may also have designed alterations to Lympsham church in 1845, reroofed chancel, alts to N aisle; Thomas Cox, Manor Farm, Lympsham, 1823-1903 steward to Preb Stephenson was builder for most of estate buildings, the designs though said to be by Stephenson. James Counsell at Manor House thinks Preb JHS may have refronted Manor House built by Rev JAS c1815-19;
1845 ?rest Lympsham ch, Som; new chancel ceiling;
1863 Manor Farmhouse, Lympsham, Som; his own house; now Holm Farmhouse;
1865 Grange Cottages, Lympsham, Som
1866 Old Rectory Farm, Lympsham, Som; refaced early C18 house;
1867 Manor Cottage, Lympsham, Som;
1868 Hope Farm, Lympsham, Som;
1869 Millfield Cottages, Lympsham, Som;
1869 South Farmhouse, Lympsham, Som;
1872 Sycamore House, Lympsham, Som;
1873 The Lodge, Lympsham, Som;
1873-5 Manor Hall and School, Lympsham, Som; opened 5.7.75; stained glass by Joseph Bell; heraldry painted by Benjamin Cox (brother);
c1874 Manor Lodge, Lympsham, Som;
1881 North Farmhouse, Lympsham, Som;
1888 School House, Lympsham, Som;
1895 addn to School, Lympsham, Som;
STEVENS, - Mason Bristol, see Stephens.
STEVENS, H. J. Architect, of Maynard, Froud & Stevens
1962 Ascension ch, Keedwell Hill, Long Ashton, Som;
STOCK, EDWIN JOHN. Builder, Blagdon
(1907 The Bungalow, Ditteridge, Wilts for George Northey of Manchester; plans WRO G3/760/267;
STOCK, JACK H. Company architect/builder to Clark’s of Street. Articled to District Surveyor in Street, joined the Clark’s buildings department in 1926 with Karl Hinde, engineer. Worked on buildings by ST Clothier qv inc Library, 1924. Worked with Bancroft Clark, in charge of Buildings Department from 1934.
c1930 House in Vestry Lane, Street, ill SCR pl 56;
1933 More Light Building, Clark’s Factory, High St, Street; Som; name from Goethe’s last words suggested by Bancroft Clark qv; SCR 46-7;
1934 Semi-det cottages, Southleaze, Street, Som; design pl 58 SCR; ‘proposed cottages Type A’ with side entry 2 rm plan; ?at E end of street;
1937 Semi-det cotts, Grange Ave, Street, Som; GHS47A; plans SCR pl 63, type B2 cottages for Street Estates Ltd; sim to Nos 1-27 by Godfrey Samuel but simpler, chosen by Bancroft Clark over Godfrey Samuel;
1937 Changing-area & filter-room, Greenbank Pool, Street, Som; D Crighton, Time for Somerset, 98; pool design by AJ Taylor & Fare qqv; partly designed by Bancroft Clark qv who went to Bath architects who had designed open-air pool at Wookey Hole, Som, but disliked design; engineering by Karl Hinde; SCR 45-6; heated by cooling water from factory generators;
Attrib: other semi-det houses in Southleaze Orchard: GHS47A suggests the hipped-roofed group in centre; 1937 dated addition to Clark Factory, Street;
STODGELL, N. G. Taunton Builder
1984 contr Primary School, Monkton Heathfield, West Monkton, Som; £205,341;
STOKES, LEONARD ALOYSIUS 1858-1925, pupil of SJ Nicholl 1874-7, then James Gandy, then clerk of works for Street qv at Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, then with TE Colcutt qv, then JP St Aubyn qv, then Bodley & Garner qv, before setting up in 1883. PRIBA 1910-12, RIBA Gold Medal 1919. Firm continued under former pupil George Drysdale (1881-1949), head of Birmingham School of Architecture from 1924; ?Drysdale was a partner until 1911 then on own acc to C20 RC churches survey)
(1908-10 RC ch, Lynton, Devon completed 1931 by Drysdale)
1910-12 adds Downside Abbey School, Som; SNB; commission for two quads S and SE of Old School, 1907, parts of which built 1910-12, Jacob Long qv of Bath bldr, RL; BoE N; Bellenger, Downside Abbey, 2011;
1910 unex Gymnasium & science block, Downside Abbey School, Som; RL;
1911 unex toilets, Downside Abbey School, Som; RL;
1914 unex temporary dormitory, Downside Abbey School, Som; RL;
1914 unex monastery library, Downside Abbey, Som; RL;
1914 unex RC church, Radstock, Som; for Downside Abbey; RL;
1916 unex wing running E from boys refectory, Downside Abbey School, Som; RL;
1919 unex revised des for wing and infirmary, Downside Abbey School, Som; RL;
1926 Allen Swimming-bath, Downside Abbey school, Som; no doubt by Stokes firm under George Drysdale, RL;
STONE & FRANCIS. Taunton, Chepstow & Minehead. HSW Stone qv & Eric Francis qv. Practice founded by HSWS, later Stone & Lloyd qv, then S&F, then Stone & Partners qv from 1925-35. Russell Lillford says archives back to 1908 still in office.
1925 Petrol Station, The Avenue, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/673;
1925 House, Hopcott, Minehead, for Mrs Lethbridge D/U/M/ 22/1/675; for site near former Hopcott Hotel, Hopcott Rd (A39), not apparently built; Mrs Lethbridge owned Gordon Lodge further E, the former Ravenscourt, by Parker & Unwin qv
1925 Wootton Lodge, Wootton Courtenay, Som, plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/54 and at house; thatched, picturesque; canted front with centre loggia, also garden terrace with patterned circular paving; for AG Fuller; plans at house 'house at Timberscombe' 1923
1925 adds Greenhaven, Whitegate Rd, Minehead for Mrs Bishop D/U/M/ 22/1/676; side and rear adds to a good red sandstone house of ?c1910-14;
1925 Clouds, Wootton Courtenay, Som; Cape Dutch style, plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/53 at house by S&F of Minehead for GR Firbank of Newport, Mon; called St Julians until 1936; JW Burt of Minehead, builder; pencilled on plans ‘Allercott’ for Mr Salaman.
1925 attrib Merrifield, Bossington Hill, Porlock, Som, similar to Wootton Lodge;
1926 proposed house, Manor Farm, Worsworth Drive, Taunton; SAS;
1926 alts Harefield, Parks Lane, Minehead, Som, for AH Bligh; D/U/M/ 22/1/688; house 1908 by AL Cox, later called Amberley House, now Laurence House; 1927 acc to OD for Algernon Stuart Bligh +1952
1927 Two pairs of houses, Priory estate, Taunton, Som, for H Taylor & Sons builders, D/D/ta/1/66/1259; semi-det with bay windows.
1927 Barclays Bank, The Parade, Minehead, Som, conversion of shop into bank; D/U/M/ 22/1/693; see also 1929;
1927 Layout for building, S side of Ilminster Road, Taunton, E of Leybrook House, not built; D/D/ta/1/66/1267
1927 Shop, for Co-operative, Lambrook Rd, Taunton, Som; single-storey flat-roof; D/B/ta/1/66/1261
1928 Motor showroom, North Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/697 for Metropole Garage;
1929 remodel Lodge Farmhouse, Washford, Som for JW Peck, new upper floor, windows, hipped roof and ramped wings; D/R/wil/24/1/67;
1929 Barclays Bank, Friday St, Minehead, conversion of premises to bank; D/U/M/ 22/1/710; see also 1927 and 1930;
1930-2 adds and alts Market House, The Parade, Taunton; plans by HSW Stone with Charles Reilly qv as consultant,
1930 conversion premises Friday St, Minehead, Som, for Barclays Bank inc former Minehead Building & Construction Co offices; D/U/M/ 22/1/714; see also 1929 and 1927
1930 Long Meadow, West Monkton by ECF as house for himself; builder Potter of Taunton, AR Dec 1931; CL 27.4.1935; exhibited RA 1937;
1931 adds Taunton Castle, Taunton, Som; plans still at S&P office. New building along N side of Great Hall, two-storey in style of 1700, as Schools' museum and workroom, with loggia each side; plans SRO; prob designed by Eric Francis', RL inf; TC 8.6.32, RW Fox Taunton bldr; TC 29.6.32 paid for by Mr Wyndham on condition of there being children's museum on first floor, intention had been to restore Jury Rooms on site but ravaged by dry rot;
1931-3 Leycroft Almshouses, Hamilton Rd, Taunton; Penny, Some more memoirs, 1999, 17-18; RL; large brick neo-Georgian group around St Margarets Almshouses, built for Taunton Town Charity;
1933 Tithe Barn, Crowcombe, Som; house based on old barn on corner A358; SRO D/R/wil/24/1/75 plans by HSWS;
1934-5 Fairmile, No. 1 Highlands, Taunton, Som, for Mr Farmer (?); MHB, modernist flat-roofed; Highlands has a group of flat-roofed 1930s houses nos 1, 2, 3 and 5.
Also two Dutch gabled houses of late 1920s, the Dutch House, Milverton, Som, and The Orchard, Charlton, Creech St Michael, Som; inf RL from Alan Rome;
STONE & LLOYD Taunton. Partnership from 1911 of HSW Stone FRIBA qv and John Williatt Lloyd (1882-1947). Stone, Lloyd & Bruce briefly to 1922 with John Clayton Collingwood Bruce ARIBA (1889-c1967), then Stone & Lloyd to 1925 then Stone & Francis qv.
1912 Priory Council School, Taunton, Som; 1919 FRIBA forms; SL&B
1912 Somerset County Club, The Crescent, Taunton; 1919 FRIBA forms; SL&B;
1913 House, Haines Hill, Taunton; 1919 FRIBA forms; SL&B
1913 House, Dodhill, Kingston St Mary, Som; 1919 FRIBA forms, SL&B
1913 Estate cottages, West Bagborough, Som; 1919 FRIBA forms, SL&B
1913 Lyceum Cinema, Bridge St, Taunton, Som; B Hornby, 90 yrs of cinema in Som; opened 18.8.13; bldrs Spiller & Browne TIOP 115; £3500 on site of George Inn; S&L; dem 1998;
1913-15 operating theatre and alts, Taunton & Somerset Hospital, East Reach, Taunton; SL&B acc to RL, S&L acc to Derek Gibson; SRO A/CMY/449;
1921-2 Bungalow and cottage, Milton Hill, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO D/B/wsm/24/1/ 2580, 2657, and 2606; SL&B for Percy Caple;
1922 Bungalow, Cheddon Rd, Taunton SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/910; SL&B
1922 Engine shed, Priory Laundry, Gloucester St, Taunton, SRO D/B/ta/24/1/ 53/907; S&L acc to RL
1922 alts for National Provincial Bank, Bancks St, Minehead SRO D/U/M/ 22/1/659; S&L acc to RL; NPB took over former Stuckey’s Bank, No 8 The Parade on corner Bancks St, in 1919 from Hallidays Antiques, alts inv moving front door; BMCS;
1922 Shopfront, No 7 North St, Taunton, for Harris, tailor; SRO D/B/ta/ 24/1/53/ 902; S&L acc to RL;
1922 Dellers, Bridge St, Taunton, Som; remodelled keeping shell of previous; SL&B; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/897;
c1925 Village Hall, Kingston St Mary, Som; S&L; RL, drawings still with S&P;
STONE & PARTNERS, Saxum House, 4 Billetfield, Taunton. 2009. Firm founded by HSW Stone qv, later Stone & Lloyd qv and Stone & Francis qv to 1935, then in 1936 HSW Stone & Partners formed with Reginald Maurice Hewlett (1909-86) and Clement George Toy (1905-89). Hewlett was articled to HSWS 1927-31, then assistant, partner 1936. Toy was articled to PB Houghton of Chesterfield, and worked for local authorities Birmingham, Derby, and Somerset CC. Was HSW Stone's son-in-law. With Browning & Hayes of Derby 1933-4, then returned to Somerset CC, then joined HSWS in 1936. Stephen Bartleet involved in 1980s, Peter Moat in 1990s,
1938-9 alts and adds Monteclefe Primary School, Somerton, Som; SRO C/CA/school plans; RL;
1938-9 Electricity Showrooms, Taunton ?SWEB showroom on Castle Bow;(FRIBA forms for CG Toy 1947, inf RL);
1938-9 Little Court, West Bagborough, Som; (FRIBA forms for CG Toy 1947, inf RL); ?alts to former rectory, now Little Court, or the new house now Hillside House further S.
1938ff Council housing, Ilminster for Ilminster UDC; (FRIBA forms for RM Hewlett and CG Toy 1947, inf RL);
1938ff Council housing, Curland, for Taunton RDC; (FRIBA forms for RM Hewlett and CG Toy 1947, inf RL);
1938ff Council housing for Wellington RDC; (FRIBA forms for RM Hewlett and CG Toy 1947, inf RL);
c1938 alts Whitestaunton Manor, Whitestaunton,Som; FRIBA forms for RM Hewlett, inf RL;
1948 minor alts No 20 The Crescent, Taunton, Som; for Masonic Hall; plans SRO D/B/ta/24/1/110/3724; S&P;
1948 Temporary church, Halcon estate, Taunton, Som; Nissen hut; SRO D/B/ ta/24/1/110/3766
1949 alts to Old Meat Market, Castle Walk, Taunton, Som for offices for SSW Electricity Board, HWS&P; behind SWEB showrooms on Castle Bow; plans SRO D/B/ta/24/1/110/4059;
1949 alts Deane Manufacturing, Magdalene Lane, Taunton, Som SRO D/B/ ta/ 24/1/110/4003
1952 Hatch Park, Hatch Beauchamp, Som, for Gore-Langton family to replace house burnt in 1942. New site just S, neo-Georgian; plans SRO HSWS & Partners.
1953 All Saints ch, Halcon, Taunton, Som; HSWS&P; front addition 1980s;
1958-63 St Francis ch, Saxon Green, Bridgwater, Som; HSWS&P
1960 plans for demolition of cemetery chapels, Ilminster, Som; SRO faculty;
1962-4 reps Puriton ch, Som; HSWS&P; ICBS;
(1968 adds Waldron almshouses, Tiverton, Devon; BoE;
1972-3 reps Puriton ch, Som; ICBS; HSWS&P; ?1974 nave roof replaced
1979 reps Puriton ch, Som; HBC report; by ST Bartleet of S&P; tower roof;
1987 St Michael ch, Comeytrowe Centre, Galmington, Taunton; S&P on FS; proj archt Stephen Bartleet inf R Dunning; £239,979; Bartleet was also architect for the adjacent Comeytrowe shopping centre, Community Hall and the original medical centre;
1990 involved Science Building, Wellington School, Som; design and build by Miller Construction with input from Stephen Bartleet;
1991-2 Renov and ext, Northside, Wellington School, Som; Peter Moat proj archt; Stansells bldrs; WS172; orig building Royal Jubilee Warehouse of 1887 by ET Howard qv extended 1910;
1999 Junior School, Wellington School, Som; initially Stephen Bartleet then Peter Moat job archt; E side of South St;
2001-2 Princess Royal Sports Centre, Wellington School, Som; Miller Construction with Stone & Partners;
2008-9 Alan Rogers Centre, Wellington School, Som; Katie Lewis proj architect; Spillers of Chard bldrs; adjacent Sports Centre;
2003-5 adds Castle School, Taunton, Som; Pollard contrs;
2006-7 Robert Wiseman Dairy factory, North Petherton, Som; website;
Attrib: Telephone Exchange, The Crescent, Taunton, 1941;
Website 2011 also lists: Jetty Pavilion, Burnham on Sea, Som; Memorial Hall, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Som; Public Library and Orchard Ct offices, Glastonbury, Som; WM church, Lisieux Way, Taunton; Lisieux Way shopping centre, Taunton; Village Hall, Shipham, Som; Worle B chapel; A&H Gadd offices, Taunton; Fire Station, Chard; Charity Commission Offices, Gas Works site, Taunton; Coates Electrographics, Radstock, Som; W Gadsby basketware offices, Bridgwater; community bldng rear of Huish Homes, Magdalene St, Taunton, and adjacent Bernard Taylor Homes; alts Lyngford House, Lyngford Lane, Taunton, Som, for SWRHA conference centre but interiors by Brewer Smith & Brewer;
STONE, ANDREW Little Gunville, Buckland Newton, Dorset. Est 2006.
2008-9 Summerhouse, Hatch Court, Hatch Beauchamp, Som, for Philip Gibbs, designed with the owner; inf Mrs Gibbs;
STONE, HENRY SPENCER WALCOTT. Architect, Taunton. 1879-1951. Born Taunton, pupil FW roberts from 1897, then in london with Augustus E Hughes, then 1903-6 with CE Bateman in Birmingham, 1906-8 chief assistant with William Martin & Sons, Birmingham, and John Randall agent to Earl of Dunraven. Set up in Taunton 1908-9, in 1911 partnership with John Williatt Lloyd (S&L qv) (1882-1947), joined by John Clayton Collingwood Bruce (1889-c1967) as Stone, Lloyd & Bruce (SL&B) to 1922, then Bruce resigned, S&L again, then Lloyd resigned c1925, HSWS joined with Eric Francis qv in 1925 (S&F qv), offices in Taunton, Minehead, and Chepstow. Partnership dissolved 1935. Stone & Partners (S&P qv) 1936 with Reginald Maurice Hewlett (1909-86) and Clement George Toy (1905-89); S&P continues in C21, at Saxum Ho, 4 Billetfield, 2009; partners 2011 Peter Moat & John Upsher, David Brown consultant;
1902 presentation drawings for country inn; SRO A/CMY/551; signed H Walcott Stone;
1909 House for FS Dobson, Wellington Rd, Taunton, Som; site set back after Wellington Terrace; ?not built; D/B/ta/24/1/40/519; plans only;
1909 Alts and adds, No 54 East St, Taunton, Som for Taunton Motor Co; D/B/ta/24/1/40/509;
1910 remodelled Kibbear House, Trull, Som; RL from 1919 FRIBA forms;
1910 remodelled Stallenge Fm, Tithill, Bishops Lydeard, Som; RL from 1919 FRIBA forms;
1912 Priory Council School, Taunton, Som; 1919 FRIBA forms; SL&B
1912 Somerset County Club, The Crescent, Taunton; 1919 FRIBA forms; SL&B
1913 House, Haines Hill, Taunton; 1919 FRIBA forms; SL&B
1913 House, Dodhill, Kingston St Mary, Som; 1919 FRIBA forms; SL&B
1913 Estate cottages, West Bagborough, Som; 1919 FRIBA forms; SL&B
1913 Lyceum Cinema, Bridge St, Taunton, Som; B Hornby, 90 yrs of cinema in Som; opened 18.8.13; bldrs Spiller & Browne TIOP 115; £3500 on site of George Inn; S&L; dem 1998;
1913-15 operating theatre and alts, Taunton & somerset Hospital, East Reach, Taunton; SL&B acc to RL, S&L acc to Derek Gibson; SRO A/CMY/449;
1921-2 Bungalow and cottage, Milton Hill, Weston s Mare, Som; SRO D/B/wsm/24/1/ 2580, 2657, and 2606; SL&B for Percy Caple;
1922 Bungalow, Cheddon Rd, Taunton, Som; S&L; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/910
1922 Engine shed, Priory Laundry, Gloucester St, Taunton, Som; S&L; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/ 53/907
1922 Shopfront, No 7 North St, Taunton, for Harris, tailor; S&L; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/ 902;
1922 Dellers, Bridge St, Taunton, Som; remodelled keeping shell of previous; SL&B; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/897;
1923 Wootton Lodge, Wootton Courtenay, Som, plans S&F SRO and at house; thatched, picturesque; canted front with centre loggia, also garden terrace with patterned circular paving;
1925 Clouds, Wootton Courtenay, Som; Cape Dutch style, plans S&F at house; for CN Firbank of Newport, Mon; riginally called St Julians.
1925 Houses for Taunton Borough Council?, Wellington Rd, Taunton; TC 12.8.25;
1927 Two pairs of houses, Priory estate, Taunton, Som, for H Taylor & Sons, by S&F, plans D/D/ta/1/66/1259; semi-det with bay windows.
1927 Layout for building, S side of Ilminster Road, Taunton, E of Leybrook House, not built; S&F; plans D/D/ta/1/66/1267
1927 Shop, for Co-operative, Lambrook Rd, Taunton, Som; single-storey flat-roof; S&F, plans D/B/ta/1/66/1261
1928 Chapel, St Katherine’s School, Heatherton Park, Bradford on Tone, Som; now converted to house, Heatherton Park website; HSWS; TC 8.6.27 W Stone;
1930-2 Alts Market House, Taunton, Som; BoE S; HSWS with CH Reilly consultant, dem of market houses each side, replacement w 2-st wings, removal of parapet and clock replacement w overall pediment;
1931-2 Taunton Town Charity Almshouses, Hamilton Rd, Taunton; Penny, Some more memoirs, 1999, 17-18; TC 27.4.32;
1933 Priory School, ?Taunton, TC 5.4.33;
1933 Tithe Barn, Crowcombe, Som; hipped neo-Geo house on corner to A358, based on an old barn D/R/wil/24/1/75;
1934-5 Fairmile, No. 1 Highlands, Taunton, Som, ? for Mr Farmer; by S&F, SC notes, but partnership may have ended then, modernist flat-roofed, and in group of such houses in Highlands Nos 1, 2, 3 and 5; ?all by HSWS, cf Stonegallows Ho, 1935; not in MHB;
1934-5 Corfield Hall, St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som TC 6.3.35 opened;
1935 Stonegallows House, Jeffreys Way, Comeytrowe, Taunton, Som; HSWS SC notes; for JT Brent; modernist flat-roofed, not in MHB;
1935 alts Hatch Court, Hatch Beauchamp, Som, for Lt-Col Hamilton Gault; internal, new attic staircase NW; HSWS plans in 2006 Donald Insall report;
1935 Shelters on The Parade, TC 10.7.35; ?Taunton ?Minehead
1936 completed chapel, Kings College, Taunton, Som; HSWS, Stansell bldrs; dedic 3.7.36; TC 4.7.36; chapel begun 1908 by Walter Tower, completed much simpler;
1936 new wing, King’s College, Taunton, Som; HSWS, Stansell bldrs; RL; Pedlar, A Prep School in Somerset, 2007, 66;
1936 Houses at Milverton, Som, for Wellington RDC; TC 18.3.36;
1938-9 alts and adds Monteclefe Primary School, Somerton, Som; SRO C/CA/school plans; RL;
STONE, JOHN Yarcombe, Devon. Died at Taunton 1856.
1818-19 repaired Marsh Bridge, nr Dulverton, Som; DoE C18 bridge, repaired 1818-19, alts 1866-67 by AN Whitehead when iron centre replaced one of piers;
1819 widened Barle Bridge, Dulverton, Som; plaque;
1826 Contr, Burrow Bridge, Burrowbridge, Som; named on plaque; SRO design by Philip Ilett q.v.
1829 repair Exe Bridge, Exebridge, Brushford, Som; DoE;
(18?? Yarty Bridge, Marsh, Devon; Burrowbridge ch guide);
STONE, RICHARD Yarcombe, Devon
1833 Hawker’s Bridge, Wincanton, Som; dem; R Legge, The Book of Wincanton, 2005, 45;
STONE, WILLIAM Buckland St Mary. Not in 1906 dir.
1902-3 chancel, St Barnabas ch, Ham, nr Chard, Som; orig church converted 1848 from barn; ch leaflet;
STONEWOOD DESIGN, Architects, Corsham; practice grew out of building firm Stonewood Builders joined as their architect in 2010 by Nicola du Pisanie and then by three other principals all formerly of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios qv, her husband Matt Vaudin, 2012, Adam Chambers 2013, London office run by Ross McDonald; inf RIBAJ April 2020;
(2010 Woodland Trust HQ Grantham Lincs designed by Matt Vaudin while at Feilden Clegg Bradley, 2017 Stonewood Design made proposals for possible extension;
(2011-12 The Granary, conversion outbuildings, Neeld este farm, North Wiltshire for Laura Morris
(2011-12 conversion barn, Wine Cellar Farm, Upper Kilcott, Hillesley, Glos; with Stonewood Builders and Felbrigg Design;
(2014 garden studio, Myrtle Cottage, Conkwell, Winsley, Wilts; RIBA award 2015;
(2014 Pod Gallery, within Home Farm Barn, West Littleton, Glos; £250K; RIBA award 2015)
(2017-18 conversion, Delicious House, 67 High St, Corsham, Wilts, own offices; former Chinese take-away;
(2017 85 houses, Heron's Water, Canalside, Wichelstowe, Swindon, Wilts with architects Metropolitan Workshop; adjacent Waitrose supermarket
2018 hall and pre-prep and nursey classrooms, Kingswood School, Bath, Som; RIBA award 2019; £5m; won in competition;
201? premises for Matter Studio, 2 Lansdown Mews, Bath, Som; interior refit
2019 Story of Gardening Museum, The Newt, Hadspen, Som; CTA 2020; Nicola du Pisanie;
2019-21 Roman Museum, The Newt, Hadspen, Som;
201? Three Cottages, village house near Malmesbury, Wilts;
201? new house, Charlcombe, Som near Bath;
201? single-storey addition to villa, Camden, Bath, Som;
201? renovation, Spring Farmhouse, ?where, Som;
(2019-20 Somerbrook, development 38 houses, Great Somerford, Wilts, WT 19.10.20, for Stonewood Partnerships)
(20?? 88 passivhaus-type houses, Severell's Field, Siddington near Cirencester, Glose for Countryside Properties;
(201? Timber Mill workspace, Real World Studios, Millside, Box, Wilts
(201? Apple Tree Studio, where?, garden studio for private house;
(201? Timber Mill housing, for Real World Studios, Box, Wilts, 20 houses and workspaces for creative work;
(201? new house, Sennen, Cornwall;
201? outdoor classroom, St Stephen's primary school, Bath, timber-framed open structure;
(2020 housing, Kingston, Surrey)
(2020 aviation museum, Surrey, 10K sq m;
(2020 proposed small museum, Cornwall, in gardens of historic house)
201? proposed museum of cycling and velodrome;
2020 mixed use development, The Creamery, Castle Cary Stationm, Som, showcasing cheese production;
STOODLEY, SMITH & PATTEMORE, archts, surveyors. W. J. Stoodley.
1971-3 reps Kingstone ch, Som; ICBS;
1972-3 reps Cricket Malherbie ch, Som; ICBS; with AAW Pudduck surveyor;
STOTHERT & PITT, engineers, Bath.
STOTHERT, GEORGE, engineer, Bath. George Stothert Sr (1755-1818) born Shaftesbury, came to Bath in 1785, as agent for Abraham Darby, set up own foundry in Horse St, Bath, in 1815, when joined by son George Jr (1786-1856), Robert Pitt, apprentice, 1834-40, partner 1844 with - Rayno, Stothert, Rayno & Pitt, exhibited hand crane at 1851 exhibition; Stothert & Pitt in 1855; moved to Newark St Works Lower Bristol Road (works by Thomas Fuller qv) 1857, then Victoria Works in 1890s off Lower Bristol Rd; made name building cranes from 1840s, earliest surviving is at Carmarthen c1850 marked Stothert, first seam crane 1851, crane formerly at Clift Quarry, Box, Wilts marked Stothert & Pitt probably 1864, to be restored 2020 and returned to Box; firm closed 1989; cf H Torrens Stothert & Pitt; 1978; Edward Snell 1820-80 engineer was apprenticed c1836-43 to Henry Asprey Stothert at Newark Works, Bath;
1800c two iron canal bridges, Kennet & Avon Canal, Bath; marked Stothert;
STOTHERT, HENRY, engineer, brother of George Stothert Jr qv; founded firm in Bristol 1837, joined in 1841 by Edward Slaughter as Stothert, Slaughter & Co. of Avonside Works, St Philips, Bristol. Made swivel bridge over River Frome, Bristol, and engines for GWR, B&E and Brighton & South Coast Railways; made two Firefly class engines for Brunel's GWR in 1840; in 1851 took over shipbuilding yard which was run by Henry Stothert; main firm became Slaughter, Gruning & Co 1854, changed name to Avonside Engine Co in 1864, closed 1934; George Kelson Stothert (1833-1908) presumably related, son of John Stothert, articled Stothert, Slaughter & Co set up shipbuilding firm in Hotwells, Bristol, GK Stothert & Co in 1852, Graces Guide; Edward Snell 1820-80 engineer was apprenticed c1836-43 to Henry Asprey Stothert at Newark Works, Bath;
STOUT & LITCHFIELD London. Roy Stout born 1928 & Patrick Litchfield 1930-2000, practice formed 1962. Not photographer Patrick 5th Earl of Lichfield 1939-2005.
(1964 New House, Shipton under Wychwood, Oxon; BoE)
(1971 conversion 50 Winchester St, Pimlico, London; BoE Westminster 775;)
1972-4 Somerton Erleigh, Somerton, Som, for Anthony Pretor-Pinney; AR Jul 1975 27; commissioned c1968; EH listing report 2012; J Gould: House at Somerton Erleigh by Stout & Litchfield of London. Listed II* and a good example of their eccentric work. Included among best 1970s buildings JC20Soc 2012 172;
1969 ?Five houses, Mount Hey, Somerton, Som; for Pretor-Pinney estate; inf Mr Pretor-Pinney; but Derek Seward who extended No 2 says that they were definitely by Kenneth Steel of Steel & Coleman qv;
Also Pyramids, South Harting, W Sussex;
STOWE, PATRICK Historic buildings engineer. Involved with Great Bow Wharf, Langport; Croydon House, Timberscombe; Montacute;
STOWEY & JONES see James Stowey
STOWEY, JAMES Exeter In partnership with Thomas Jones, as builder architect. Philip Stowey c1742-1804, a son or brother, exh plans for James Stowey bldngs in London in 1775, then went out to Madras, returned c1790 wealthy, became JP, Deputy Lieutenant Devon, died at Kenbury Ho, Exminster, which he may have designed (dem) ;
1771-3 alts Dunster Castle, Som, and other works for HF Luttrell; HC; JS charged for 22 visits;
1772-5 General Hospital, South Rd, Taunton, Som; by Stowey & Jones; plans exhib at Soc of Arts by PS, 1775; Toulmin Hist of Taunton 1791 42; abandoned unfinished by 1790, after 1805 part of Franciscan Convent, RL;
(1773-5 Sessions House, Exeter Castle, Devon; plans exh Soc of Arts by PS 1775; by PS & TJ 1774 BoE; plans of façade revised by James Wyatt 1773;
(1776 House for Master, Exeter Grammar School, Devon)
Attrib Ashley House, Tiverton, Devon, as sim to Kenbury House, Exminster; BoE;
STOWEY, PHILIP Exeter see James Stowey
STRAHAN, JOHN +1740. Appears at Bath and Bristol c1725, possibly earlier, may have worked at Kings Weston for Vanbrugh c1725; RL; HC; GJL: IR records a lost bust of John Straughan surveyor of Bristol by Rysbrack;
(1726 Organ gallery in stone, St Mary Redcliffe ch, Bristol; GJL; dem; 1717 acc to HC;
1726-31 attrib Earnshill House, Hambridge, Som; C Hussey CL 13 & 20.10.1960; RL; HC 1731; almost certainly not as house not built for Henry Combe of Bristol but for Francis Eyles of Devizes;
1727 laid out Kingsmead Square and adj streets for John Hobbs, Bath; BoE N; HC; Beauford Square 1735-7, Kingsmead St, Monmouth St, Avon St and New Quay part of scheme;
(1728 attr Nos 66-72 Prince St, Bristol, GJL; for John Hobbs Nos 68-70, HC;
c1730 Garden house, Woodchester, Glos, re-erected 1938 at Bodnant, Denbs; attr HC;
c1730 attr Combe Hay Manor, Som; BoE N; not HC;
(1731-3 attr Frampton Court, Glos, for Rd Clutterbuck; HC;
(c1735 Redland Court, Bristol; HC for John Cossins; 1732 GJL)
1735-6 New bridge, Weston, Bath; AFtext, not in HC; replaced late C18 and widened 1831-2; but cf also Newton Bridge by R Jones 1751-2 acc to HC;
1735-9 Beauford Square, Bath; for John Hobbs; SC notes;
1736 attrib Rosewell House, Kingsmead Sq, Bath;
(1740-3 attrib Redland Chapel, Bristol; HC, exec Wm Halfpenny; GJL;
STRANGE, HUGH. Formerly with Panter Hudspath, project architect for Lincoln Museum; house for self at Deptford, London;
2012-14 office and archive, Shatwell Farm, Hadspen, Som, for Niall Hobhouse, BD 24.8.12; BD 28.2.14 within shell of single-storey barn;
STRAPP, JOHN Engineer to London & South Western Railway
(1859 Market House, Salisbury, Wilts, built with terminus of Market House Railway from Fisherton Station in left aisle; Maybone & Co Manchester ironwork, Bull & Son Southampton bldrs; WI 2.6.59 opened;
STRATFORD, FERDINANDO 1719-66 Engineer, surveyor. Gloucester, Bristol from 1760; HC;
(1758-62 Bromsberrow House, Glos; dem;)
175? Scheme to make River Avon navigable from Bath, Som, to Chippenham, Wilts; HC;
(175? Involved with rebuilding of Bristol Bridge; published account in 1760)
(1765 Newtonards MH, Co Antrim; HC)
STRATTON, ARTHUR
c1910 alts Nailsea Court, Som; BoE N;
STRAWBRIDGE, GEORGE CHARLES. Architect, surveyor, 25 Alma St, Taunton. +1912. Kelly 1906. George E Strawbridge was contractor in Swansea c1849-55 and JN Strawbridge of Bristol was contr for St Elvan ch, Aberdare, Glam, 1851. Derek Gibson suggests that GCS practice was taken over by CH Samson as some GCS plans are in the Sansom & Cottam firm archive SRO A/CMY, this seems unlikely; DG; Superintendent of Sunday School & churchwarden of Holy Trinity Church (plaque).
1881-2 rest Holy Trinity ch, Taunton, Som reopened TC 20.9.82, HJ Spiller contr; new pulpit, reredos embellished by Miss Fisher, reseated, £746;
1884 toilet, Three Cups Inn, Wellington, Som SRO A/CMY/418;
1883-4 rest West Monkton ch, Som; SRO cf/1883/5; added chapel and organ chmbr each side of chancel, chancel roof, reredos, pulpit, font, pews, £1000; BN 1884 ?? refers to new E window of crucifixion; church guide says that he moved medieval tracery of Ew into tower W window. Reopened TC 4.6.84;
1887-8 clk of works, Victoria Jubilee Nursing Inst, East Reach, Taunton, archt JH Spencer qv; TC 24.10.88, opened;
1888 ref to, WG 26.10.88;
1889 Holy Trinity rectory, Trinity Rd, Taunton, Som; Br 1889a 366;
1890 ref to services of Mr S to a chapel, ? Kingston C chapel; TC 4.6.90;
1890 alts Stables, Ashcott Inn, Som; SRO A/CMY/491;
1891-2 Board Schools, Gipsy Lane, Bishop’s Hull, Som; Br 1891, 2, 453; TC 3.6.91; 1893 £2000 acc to Kelly 1906;
1892 appointed architect for the complete ??? TC 7.11.92
1893 organ, Holy Trinity ch, Taunton TC 6.9.93 ref to organ fund;
1895 toilet and bar, Cottage Inn, Monkton Heathfield, Som; A/CMY/503;
1895 toilet and alts, George Inn, Axbridge, Som; A/CMY421;
1895 Stable & trap shed, Old Ship Inn, Combwich, Som; A/CMY 420;
1901 organ chamber, Cothelstone ch, Som; in NE chapel, SRO cf/1901/22;
1902 rebuilt Parke House, Dowlish Wake, Som as parsonage; SRO DD/Bbm/
1909 Shopfront, No 24 Locking Rd, Weston super Mare, Som; SRO D/B/ wsm/24/1/ 1717;
1909 Marshalsea Bros, 55 East St, Taunton; D/B/ta/24/1/40/502; workshops behind; D/B/ta/24/1/40/521; tall brick gabled front;
1909 Store-room, offices Somerset Manufacturing Co, South St, Taunton, Som; D/B/ta/24/1/40/510; behind factory;
1909 Kings Arms PH, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton, Som; D/B/ta/24/1/40/520;
1909 Nos 22-3 East St, Taunton, Som, brick Jac style premises for E Love; D/B/ta/24/1/40/511;
1910 a;ts Queen's Head Hotel, Holloway St, Minehead, Som; OD343;
Also Hotel & shops, Bridgwater, Som, in list of works by Gleed Bros, Bldrs, £3000;
STRAWBRIDGE, GEORGE E. Builder, Swansea. JN Strawbridge of Bristol was contr St Elvan ch, Aberdare, Glam, 1851-2 by A Moseley; and George C Strawbridge qv practiced in Taunton;
(1849-50 Penclawdd ch, Glam; Orrin 125; no archt named; NLW SD/C/179; Cambr 31.8.49 & 20.12.50; ICBS refused grant; £700; rest 1886 by JB Wilson;
(1851-2 contr St Elvan ch, Aberdare, Glam, 1851-2; (A Moseley); by JN Strawbridge, Bristol, Orrin;
(1854-5 plans rest Penmaen ch, Glam, rejected ICBS; RK Penson chosen, GES contractor; Orrin 28-9;
STREATFEILD, GRANVILLE EDWARD STEWART Architect London, 1869-1947, name Streatfeild not Streatfield, did churches around Sussex, his brother was vicar of Eastbourne; pupil TG Jackson;
1913 refit chancel Loxton ch, Som, for HJ Tiarks; AFtext; woodwork by H Hems qv;
1928-9 vestry, Winsham ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1928/?; no plans;
STREET, ARTHUR EDMUND. Architect, 1855-1938, son of GE Street qv, completed several of his works.
18?? plans for an unbuilt addition to St Andrew ch, Minehead, Som, are with the church; inf OD; ch built 1877-80;
STREET, GEORGE EDMUND London l824-8l. Leading High Victorian architect. Worked for GG Scott 1844-9, practice in Wantage 1850 and Oxford before London from 1856. RIBA Gold Medal 1874; PRIBA 1881
1847-8 Par ch, Cornwall; 1863-8 Crimea Memorial Church, Istanbul; 1859-65 SS Philip & James ch Oxford; Law Courts London 1866-7 and 1874-82; St James the Less ch, Vauxhall Bridge Rd 1859-61; All Saints ch, Boyne Hill Maidenhead 1854-5; Convent East Grinstead 1865-90; American Church, Rome 1872-6; Kingston ch, Dorset 1873-80; 1880-7 All Saints ch, Rome etc etc. List of works from Paul Joyce (PJ). Some works completed by his son AE Street.
(1849-50 chancel, Stoke ch, Plymouth, Devon, BoE)
(1855 rebuilt Upton Scudamore ch, Wilts)
(1856 Vicarage, Collingbourne Ducis, Wilts; PJ; ?des only)
1857-8 Pitcombe ch, Som; SRO cf/1857/1; rebuilt except tower; 1858 BoE N, GR; E 1858 127;
1857-8 ?rest Whatley ch, Som; see also 1869-70;
(1857-8 rest St Thomas a Becket ch, Salisbury Wilts oak screens of elaborate design, encaustic tiles, fine reredos with Crucifixion in alabaster; Wilts Indep 23.1.1858 reopened; BoE says 1866-7;
1860 new church, where? By GES of London, nave chancel and N aisle; TC 7.11.60;
1861 rest Whitchurch ch, Som; SNB; SRO cf/1861/8; Br 23.11.61, Hughes of Bristol builder;
(1861-2 Schoolroom, Pewsey, Wilts DWG 2.10.62 opened;
(1862 School, Lyneham, Wilts DWG 26.6.62; CE Pinnegar bldr;
(1861-73 St John ch, Torquay, Davon; BoE; completed 1884-5 by AES;
(1863 designed new church ?Wilts DWG 19.2.63
1864-5 rest Shepton Beauchamp ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1864/1; widened S aisle added vestry changed clerestory windows, new nave and chancel roofs; pulpit, stalls; plans by GES of 51 Russell Sq, March 1864, show arcades and chancel arch unchanged, only S aisle and N vestry new; SAS suggests CE Giles qv was executant architect, WG 2.6.65; ICBS;
(1864 All Saints ch, Clifton, Bristol; dem)
(1865 Boreham ch, Warminster, Wilts consecrated DWG 28.9.65)
(1866 reredos, Down St Mary ch Devon; BoE)
(1867-77 nave Bristol Cathedral; GJL; completed by JL Pearson;
(1867 ref to new church SCG 7.9.67 for Mr Horsfall of Grassendale, Liverpool, and Edenhurst, Torquay; Robert Horsfall was patron who built St Margaret church in Liverpool 1868 to tempt Rev WR Clark away from St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, and when Clark did not come sold it to a RC convent, acc to JT 51;
1869-70 reredos St Mary Magdalene ch, Taunton, Som; SRO cf/1869/3; reredos 1869-70 when E end was renewed, BoE S; Kelly 1906 1869-72 raising of chancel and erection of reredos by GES for John Marshall Esq of Belmont; reredos 1869-72 RL; Street may have only designed the reredos, correspondence is unclear, the faculty involved removal of fittings, raising floor 1 ft, removal of monuments. A meeting SCH 14.8.69 considered two plans, account refers to previous reredos ?by Carver ‘Even the architect who put it there had condemned it’. 'Anonymous but well-known' donor of reredos had requested that Street should design it; other work to chancel involved raising walls, clerestory windows, new roof, new piscina and sedilia. Br 5.2.70 opening of chancel and unveiling of reredos, floor raised 2 ft and reredos with sculptured wall behind were gift of John Marshall, and after it was accepted became evident that the four arches of the chancel needed to be raised correspondingly, for which funds given by Dr Edward Liddon, the work done by Henry Davis qv; encaustic floor tiles, brass standards for gas light; chancel roof redecorated by A. Stansell qv; a large choir vestry constructed paid for by Miss Bampton & Dr Kelly; reredos of yellow Mansfield stone w altarpiece of white Caen shows Agony in Garden in high relief from designs by GES executed by T Earp of Lambeth, together with standing figure of BVM and four Evangelists (? is it not all of Caen, with one big panel of Agony, and six small statues?); protest about closing of access into chancel from N and S, Br 9.4.70, N and S entries into chancel entirely closed, and that on W obstructed by a wall and gates; consistory court Br 23.4.70 after 420 parishioners signed petition, churchwardens ordered to remove the gates; Br 12.11.70 final compromise: case was over setting up of two gates between chancel and nave framed of iron ornamented in brass between the N and S portions of the chancel screen, effecting the exclusion symbolic or actual of laity, court decided that gates could be erected on condition of having no bar or fastening and being kept open during divine service; Paul Joyce on visit in 1969 noted good choir-stalls and best item the iron and brass gates in low chancel wall (all since removed);
1868 prop rest of Bicknoller ch, Som rejected as too expensive, 1870 Ewan Christian chosen for chancel and JD Sedding for nave; Street protested 1872; Paul snell thesis on Sedding p 54;
1869 rest Whatley ch, Som; SRO cf/1869/7; ?also work in 1857-8;
1870 rest Yatton ch, Som; SRO cf/1870/4, 3 plans incl reredos, GES of 14 Cavendish Place, Jan 1870; 1870-2 SNB;
(1870 Vicarage, Lydford, Devon; BoE)
1872-4 rest Backwell ch, Som; ICBS; SRO cf/1872/2; SNB N wall reblt;
(1873 reblt Huish ch, Devon, exc tower; BoE;
1874 enl St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath; SRO cf/1874/1; SNB new chancel;
(1875-8 rebuilt tower Corsham ch, Wilts; crossing tower taken down and rebuilt on S side with new spire;
1875-7 rest Dunster ch, Som; RL; inc rest of timber-framed churchyard lodge; SRO D/D/cf/1875/3; repaired roofs, new E end to chancel with lancet windows, based on fragments found by CH Samson qv; Norman W doorway reconstructed; new encaustic tile paving in crossing, choir and eastern chapels; new stalls, parclose screens to chancel, screen formerly in E arches of tower moved to S transept E arch; new stone pulpit, pews carved by Harry Hems, glass by Clayton & Bell in E window, and SW, S1 and SE Brit Arch 1876 203, heraldic glass in SE and NE chapels by Drake; cost c£11000; CH Samson exec archt; H Binding, Discovering Dunster, 47;
1877-80 St Andrew ch, Wellington Sq, Minehead, Som; ch guide: FS 25.8.1877, consec 26.8.80; bldr John Pearse, exec archt CH Sansom; local Staunton stone with Doulting; c£4000; E window 1888 by Kempe; addition 2004-5 has reset end window of S aisle; questionable if a tower was ever intended; orig pews, stalls, pulpit, font;
1881 rest East Harptree ch, Som; SRO cf/1881/7; ICBS plans GES exec 1880-4 by Micklethwaite & Somers Clark; new porch w and repairs; PSnell thesis on JD Sedding says that on GES death work was offered to Sedding who quarrelled with vicar Rev Nutt and resigned; being carried out by JD Sedding WG 24.3.82;
(1882-3 rest Ashburton ch, Devon, BoE;
Also pulpit by Street from Cuddesdon ch, Oxon, is in Furnham ch, Chard, Som.
STREETER, E. Builder, Bath.
(1854 blt Mechanics Inst, Swindon, Wilts, E Roberts archt; WBR2;
1861 bldr restor Chelwood ch, Som, John Norton archt; Br 12.10.61;
STRIBLING, ROBERT. Builder, Exeter. Signed an agreement in 1780 w Benjamin Hammet to build houses that may relate to Hammet St, Taunton, built 1780; SRO; inf M Mc Dermott;
STRIDE TREGLOWN PARTNERSHIP Bristol, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Reading, Plymouth, Abu Dhabi; inf from website;
1982-4 rest Bath Green Park Station; added supermarket behind; AFtext;
1988-90 Refurbished Shire Hall law courts, Taunton, Som; £2.5m.
(2000 2 Rivergate, Temple Quay, Bristol;)
(2004 3 Temple Quay Bristol
2004-7 Great Bow Yard housing, Langport, Som; RICS award 2008; two blocks of houses, one ‘ecological’; ?also restoration of Great Bow Wharf warehouse, with Patrick Snow engineer;
2006-7 Loxton Road site, Weston College, Weston s Mare, Som; 6th form and further education blocks; complete May 2007; ISG Pearce contr;
(200? Bodmin Police Station, Cornwall;
200? Adds Winford School, Som;
(2007 ND8, No 1 Glass Wharf, Bristol; 2008 Marble Mosaic Co website;
2008 Marina Healthcare Centre, Portishead;
2009 Block M, Portishead Marine
(2009 Sainsburys, Gloucester Quays, Bristol; AJ 21.5.10)
(2010 Cardiff Library; 2010 RSAW award)
(2010 Harbourside, College Sq, Bristol)
(2010 One Glass Wharf, Bristol)
(2010-11 National Composite Centre, Bristol;
2010-11 Primary School, Winford, Som;
(20?? Junior Ranks Dining Hall, Bleachley Barracks, Chepstow, Mon; ISG Pearce contractor;
2011 Millbrook Surgery, Castle Cary, som;
2012-13 Housing, Portishead Marine, Som: Sixty8 and 110 At the Quay;
(2012-13 new entrance etc County Hall, Trowbridge, Wilts; Kier Western construction;
2012-13 Somerset Bridge Primary School, Bridgwater;
2012-13 Taunton Academy, Som, rebuilding of existing school;
2013-14 housing, Firepool Lock, Taunton; 236 apartments for Crest Nicholson;
2014-15 Houndwood development, Street, Som; for Barrett Homes;
2014-5 Locking Parklands housing, Weston s Mare;
2014 Sainsbury store, Portishead;
2015 housing, Houndwood, Street, Som;
20?? conversion of stable block, Tyntesfield, Som to flat and volunteer centre; Biggs contractors website; £229K;
2015 Twerton Mill student housing, Bath, Som, 330 beds;
2015-17 refurb and addition School of Art & Design, Taunton, Som; £12m:
2016 Haywood village primary school, Weston s Mare, Som;
2016 Green Park House, Bath neo-Geo addition to Georgian terrace;
2017 refurb former Bath & Portland office (of 1972), Manvers St Bath
2017 Hampton Hotel, Bristol Airport, Som, using shipping containers as modular bedrooms;
Also:
Penrose Special School, Bridgwater;
Bridwell Primary, Long Ashton, Som;
Law and Business Faculty, UWE, Bristol;
STRIDE, HENRY Builder Parbrook, East Pennard
1890 alts Withial Fm, East Pennard, Som; Longleat 14/3 19/0 10/4/1890; also John Swearse of Cheddar involved; spec for dairy and cheese-room;
STRIK, HENK Architect worked for Caroe & Partners qv.
2004-9 rest Merchants House, 8 Market Place, Shepton Mallet, Som; CTA 2010; with Jonathan Saunders, for Caroe & Partners;
STUBBS RICH Architects, Bath. Founded by Nick Stubbs and John Rich; David Beckett, Mike Rolfe partners; now SRA; specialists in car showrooms;
20?? completed Wellsprings Centre, Taunton, Som, following failure of original contract;
20?? masterplan Bristol University Veterinary School, Langford, Churchill, Som;
20?? refurbishment Quay House, Bath;
20?? refurbishment Forum Cinema, Bath for Bath Christian Trust centre, and further work later;
2007 Audi showroom, Bath Business Park, Bath;
20?? proposed Freedom Centre church, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath;
20?? refurbishment Beau Nash Cinema, Bath, as Komedia club;
20?? redesigned neo-Georgian housing scheme, Newbridge, Bath, for Crest Nicholson homes;
20?? Three West North, University of Bath, Som;
20?? extension, Bridgemead old people's home, Bath; Emma McDermott architect;
2007-8 Komedia Bath, refurbishment of former Beau Nash Cinema, 22-3 Westgate St, Bath as comedy venue; originally Bath Electric Theatre, 1910 by Bertie Crewe qv, reconstructed as cinema 1920 by AJ Taylor qv and enlarged 1929;
(20?? new buildings, Hereford College)
2010 alts Student Union, Bath University, Som;
201? Flourish House, Wells, Som; offices for Flourish Homes;
2011-12 Cathedral Park development, Wells, Som; Mendip DC award 2012;
2012 regeneration project, Boden Mill, Chard, Som; BD 23.3.12 won competition to regenerate Chard centre with shops housing and town square, part of masterplan by LDA Design for developer Henry Boot. Plan to resite 1901 mill archway;
(20?? proposed development Silverthorne Lane, Bristol Docks)
2013 Horseworld, Whitchurch, near Bristol; new equestrian centre;
(2012-13 Inchcape VW dealership, Junction 16 M4, near Swindon, Wilts;
2014 Apley House, IT and medical records building, Royal United Hospital, Bath;
(2017 AB Dynamics factory, Holt Road, Bradford on Avon Wilts, by SRA)
STUDIO ARCHITECTS, Bath. Stephen Brooks qv founding director;
2004 residential wing, Marchant-Holliday School, North Cheriton, Som; BD 12.11.04; £800K;
STURDY, PHILIP FSA. Hon architect to Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, ?founder of Guild (founded 1933). ?same Philip Sturdy who bought Sydenham Manor, Bridgwater, in 1921, restored it, selling to British Cellophane in 1935. Wrote articles on Sydenham Manor in BM 25.5.1927 and 22.6.27 and 6.7.27;
1920s ?restoration Sydenham Manor, Bridgwater: new staircase, fireplaces etc;
1953 Screen, Fivehead ch, Som; plans SRO, made by Somerset Guild;
STURGE, J. R.
1836 attr villas, Woodlands Rd, Portishead, Som; neo Tudor, 'e.g. Woodside, 1836, probably by and for JRS'; SNB;
STURGE, THEODORE Surveyor, Quaker.
1925-6 remodelled QM house, Sidcot, Som; SNB;
STURGE, WILLIAM Surveyor, Bristol. Quaker.
1854 surveyed Walton House, Walton in Gordano, Som, for use as parsonage; plans SRO D/Bbm/118;
(1862 rebuilt Llawhaden ch, Pmbs; Mr Sturge from Bristol acc to Tom Lloyd)
STURGE, YOUNG Surveyor Bristol.
1817 certifies plans by Charles Knowles for Stockland Bristol parsonage, Som; D/D/Bbm/44; dem?
STUTCHBURY, Dr HOWARD Chief Planning Officer, Bath, wrote book on William Chambers.
1969-73 Balance St flats, Bath; AFtext;
SUMMERS, ROYSTON. Royston Summers Associates.
1986 Conversion of Redlynch Court, Som, to flats; ?succeded original 1983 architects John Tilley Associates of New Malden. Plans with Mrs Wightman, Discove House, Redlynch;
SUMNER, JOHN Carpenter. ICBS calls him John Summers.
1827 Gallery, Staplegrove ch, Som; ICBS; removed 1857; ch guide;
SURBEY, THOMAS engineer
1701 plan to extend Quay, Minehead, Som; Book of Minehead 35-6; sent to Minehead by – Dummer, a London engineer; TS plan in SRO; work was done 1704-5 by Daniel Dennell qv;
SUTCLIFFE, JOHN Engineer
1794-8 engineer to Somerset Coal Canal; contr Houghton & Son, Shropshire, began work at Paulton 1795, opened 1798.
SUTTON GRIFFIN ARCHITECTS, Newbury. Firm founded 1910 by Basil Sutton, joined by John Griffin 1947 and Patrick Griffin 1975;
200? Waitrose supermarket, Wells, Som; website
SUTTON, PEARCE & DICK Nottingham
1962 Van Heusen offices, Victoria St, Taunton, Som; plaque; contr Thos Bow Nottingham;
SWAIN, ROBERT
1872 Crowcombe School, Som; Br 1872 574;
SWALLOW, EDWARD. Castle Cary, mason, +1672, tomb chest in Castle Cary churchyard.
1670 work on Rectory, Ditcheat, Som, for Rev Coward, for £7 to lay hall and entrance floor with Keinton flags, also two hearths in hall and parlour; McGarvie architectural history Ditcheat Priory;
SWANNE, RICHARD Architect to Bishop Beckyngton of Wells acc to Rev AH Bell Some account of the parish of Yeovilton, 1949. Probably an error Richard Swan was rector 1458-87, appointed by Bishop Bekyngton;
143? Yeovilton ch, Som, rebuilt after fire in 1430, acc to Rev AH Bell; no mention of fire in VCH; guide and BoE say Swan left money 'to the fabric of the new tower at Yeovilton' in 1486; VCH just says tower was new in 1486;
SWEET, HENRY Mason Widcombe Bath
1807 inv Parsonage, Dunkerton, Som, with Charles Davis architect qv; SRO D/D/Bbm/26, no plans;
SWITZER, STEPHEN 1682-1745. Landscape gardener, from Hampshire, living at Pewsey, Wilts, 1725-6.
(1720 employed at Stourhead, Wilts, to prepare design for gardens for Henry Hoare;
c1723-32 employed at Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som by 4th Earl of Cork & Orrery c1714-32. Paid £20 23.3.1723, dedicated ‘Practical Fruit Gardener’ to 4th Earl in 1724. And commended Earl in ‘Introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks’, 1729. Employed by 5th Earl after 1732, in England 1732-4 and 1738-9. Thereafter gardens by James Scott qv; McGarvie, Gardening at Marston House, 1987;
SYMES & MADGE Architects & surveyors. Somerset House, 40 Fore St, Chard Kelly 1906. Edmund James Symes 1843-1915 and John Madge 1862-1944, met working as stonemasons in Bristol, SAS;. Symes died in 1915 but firm continued under same name joined after 1919 by former pupils John Francis Madge 1892-1952 and Douglas R Nicholls; 1931 dir John Madge FSI and Douglas R Nicholls FSI; firm dissolved 1933, SAS;
1892 alts school buildings, Chard, Som; WG 27.5.92, by EJS, A Poole contractor;
1896 The Beehive, Silver St, Chard, Som; acc to L Hoskins, Chard in old picture postcards, by EJS;
1896 attrib Co-operative Society, Fore Street, Chard; Hoskins;
1897 Nos 50-6 Fore St, Chard, Som; attr L Hoskins card index and Chard in old picture postcards;
1898 repairs Seavington St Michael ch, repairs and reseating, ICBS; by EJS; rejected, no plans.
1899 attrib Jubilee Cottages, Crimchard, Chard, Som; Hoskins;
1899 alts C chapel, Winsham, ceiling repairs, pews and pulpit, 1899, builders Bowerman & Son, Ilminster; Church meeting minutes, SAS;
1900 Somerset House, No. 40 Fore Street, Chard, 1900, practice offices, county courts, SAS;
1904 proposed B chapel, Perry St, Tatworth, Som; schoolroom only built; plans at Chard B chapel;
1913-14 alts school, Winsham, Parson Bros builder, C/CA/School plans, SAS;
1919 War Memorial, Chaffcombe, builder H Bishop, Chard, C&IN, 27.9.19;
1922 replaced chimneys, Harveys almshouses, Chard, Som; Tony Prior, Harveys, 2009, 25; new chimneys in coloured concrete; by JM, but S&M thanked for services without fee; William Tucker contractor, £102/7/8d; replaced again 2008
1929-30 lavatory, courtyard W side, Harveys almshouses, Chard, Som; T Prior, Harveys, 2009, 26; JM of S&M; £168/12/6d Taylor builder; copy of one on opposite side.
1931 Infirmary, Chard, Som, builder Foster, Radstock; TC 6.5.31;
1933 Memorial Village Hall, Shepton Beauchamp, Som, builder JV Baker, Broadway; Pearce, Where the Cider Apples Grow, 1983, 129; SAS;
SYMES, EDMUND JAMES, architect, 1842-1915, Somerset House, Fore St, Chard, and Park View, Chard, cf Symes & Madge. Originally a stonemason, son of Matthew Symes, stonemason of Ilton (1817-80), born Combe St Nicholas, joined with John Madge qv, also a stonemason originally, as Symes & Madge qv architects and surveyors, 1906 dir, EJS also in 1906 dir as collector of taxes & assistant overseer for Chard.
1892 alts school buildings, Chard, Som; WG 27.5.92, A Poole contractor;
1896 The Beehive, Silver St, Chard, Som; Chard in old picture postcardssays by EJS, later a boarding house for Chard School.
1898 reseating reps Seavington St Michael ch, Som; EJS; rejected ICBS, no plans.
SYMES, SIMEON Fore St, Chard. Builder; carpenter & joiner 1844 dir, 1848 dir;
1827-9 contractor alts Chard ch, Som; gallery in aisles; ICBS; John Pinch architect; since removed; ?guide suggests E w also 1829;
1830-1 alts Combe St Nicholas ch, Som; ICBS; W gallery (removed) and plans for ?addition of baptistery or conversion of N porch to baptistery; work removed in 1862-3 rest by Wm White qv.
1841-2 builder Harvey’s Almshouses, Chard, Som; Richard Carver qv architect; T Prior, Harveys, 2009, SS owned adjacent plot of land, now Symes Close.
SZLUMPER, Sir JAMES WEEKS Engineer, architect. l834-l926 born Liverpool, Railways: l859 asstnt to H Fulton, eng Manchester-Milford Rlwy, in l86l succeeded Fulton. Eng Pembroke-Tenby railway from 1869. Built Lampeter-Aberystwyth line for Manchester & Milford Rlwyu, Barry Rlwy, Cardiff Ogmore Rlwy, Plymouth, Devonport & SW Junction Rlwy 1890; prop Lynton & minehead Light Railway 1898; Vale of Rheidol Light Railway cl900. l863 Bridge surveyor Cards; l864-87 County Surveyor Cards, resigned 1887, High Sheriff Cards 1887, moved to Surrey cl890, mayor of Richmond three times, knighted l894, died 1926, buried Richmond Cem; Obit Times 27.10.26;
Owned Sandmarsh Cottage, Queens Rd, Aberystwyth, used when he visited, assoc w Aberystwyth for 40 years Cambrian News 19.8.04; Partnership w TW Aldwinckle architect in 1860s and 70s (S&A), firm was Sir James & W Szlumper in 1898. Son CD Szlumper was an engineer; AW Szlumper, eng to SER in l920s, designed Waterloo station façade and Victory Arch.
(1890 Tavistock Viaduct, Devon, with WR Galbraith; BoE;
1898 Proposed Lynmouth & Minehead Light Railway; Sir JW & W Szlumper; SRO Q/RUP/505; not built;
(1898 proposed Lynton & Barnstaple Rlwy, Devon, extension of Lynmouth & Minehead scheme, narrow-gauge; not built)
TABERT, DENNIS Architect with Somerset County Council. Pupil huish school Taunton 1938, trained Welsh School of Architecture, worked Harlow and Stevenage new towns before Somerset CC under RO Harris and deputy John Redpath, previously at Herts. Worked on Strode College and Theatre, Street, Som, blt 1960-3;
1959-64 Huish Grammar School, South Rd, Taunton, Som; for Somerset CC; document on project given by DT to school, now College, held in library there; in grounds of Elmfield, house and trees kept. Bison structural frame low-pitched roof w aluminium interlocking sheeting; pale buff London Brick Co. bricks; intended for aluminium panels, too expensive; plan to 1.5 m or 5ft frame as used at Strode and Taunton Technical College; classroom block runs E-E 2st double row of classrooms with clerestory ws for N facing room, gr fl classrooms mostly faced S; 2nd 6th form block had smaller rooms and library and access to school hall, staff room on n side and 2 language labs above, head and secretary offices adj library; entrance hall and dining hall behind staircase music-room changing-rm to one side was to be a drum, rejected by Ministry; craft block on E end of classroom block; paving carefully considered; pavilion on field; four assistants were all ex-Huish Robert matthews, Robert Harris and clive Sweet; plastered concrete block inside but brick feature wall at back of entrance hall, vinyl floors, work started 1961 by then county team under BCAdams and Martin Kenchington deputy architect, Stanley Mockridge, ex-Huish, clk of works; pavilion design was competition among assistants, won by Robert Matthews; new library 1979-80;
TAIT, C. J. Architect Exeter, Tait & Harvey (T&H);
(1893 and 1899 adds Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Br 8.7.99; by T&H)
(1899 house nr Exeter for self by CJT; Br 8.7.99)
TALMAN, WILLIAM Architect 1650-1719 Born West Lavington, Wilts son of Wm Talman of Eastcott. Comptroller of Works 1689.
c1702 des for Witham Park, Witham Friary, Som for Sir Wm Wyndham; HC, Talman made designs for remodelling front of C16-C17 house of the Hoptons with a columnar screen, these ideas taken over by James gibbs whose design is illustrated in Vitruvius Britannicus; McGarvie, Witham Friary, 34 suggests that it was built by Talman in 1717; cf Colvin, Cat of Archit drawings Worcester Coll, Oxford, 1964, pls 119-21 wrongly suggested as being for Eastbury;
TAMLYN, WILLIAM JOHN Architect & surveyor, The Parade Minehead (1906); 1870-1933; RL: born Stoke Rivers nr Barnstaple, in practice at Minehead from 1896. Lived at Eden Lodge, Minehead, 1931 dir, a house he designed for himself; BMCS;
1896 Two villas, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, Som; plans SRO D/U/M/22/1/19; for J Hurford; two gables, two gr fl canted bays; apparently site between RC church and Blair Lodge, and not built, as row of three now Nos. 10-16 Townsend Rd are by FW Roberts D/U/M/ 22/1/20 1896;
1896 three houses, Alcombe Rd, Minehead for W Harrison; OD 16; now Townsend Rd;
1896-7 Nos. 105-113 Bampton St, Minehead, Som; OD21; plans 1896 D/U/M/ 22/1/27 six cottages for J Phillips bldr;
1897 adds Victoria Tea Co, Summerland St, Minehead, Som for Mr Holly; D/U/M/ 22/1/32; OD28;
1897 Diamond Jubilee fountain, The Avenue, Minehead, Som; RL; BMCS; dem c1935;
1898 Stables rear No 3-4 Blenheim Gardens, Minehead, Som, for Joseph Paramore; D/U/M/ 22/1/48, OD43;
1898 Stables, Friday St, Minehead, Som, for G Crocker, D/U/M/22/1/49; OD44;
1898-9 Infant School, Middle St/ Holloway St, Minehead, Som; RL; D/U/M/ 22/1/47, OD42; but ‘an infant school now building’ acc to Kelly 1889;
1899 Shops and flats, Holloway St, Minehead, Som; RL; for Annie Siderfin, D/U/M/22/1/50; the tall block of 3 on left, middle one was Miss Siderfin’s house; ?Nos 1-3;
1899 Ten houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead, Som, for Charles Passmore;
D/U/M/22/1/53;
1899 ?Convent school, Minehead, for Rev Scoles, OD47; but did Rev Scoles qv design convent school;
1899 Two cottages and coal cellar, Quay West, Minehead, Som, near Gas Works; for Wm Martin; D/U/M/22/1/53; OD58;
1899 Three villas, Martlet Rd, Minehead, Som near Shute Farm, for JH Hurford; D/U/M/22/1/60; now St Michael’s Rd; OD59 has two villas, Martlett Rd for JH Hurford;
1899 Drainage plan, Plume of Feathers tap, Holloway St, Minehead, Som;
D/U/M/22/1/73;
1899 Two villas, Blenheim Rd, Minehead, Som for JB Marley qv; D/U/M/ 22/1/75; ?the first two of Nos 33-41 Blenheim Rd; ?OD74
1899 villa, Summerland Ave, Minehead for J Burgess bldr OD62
189? Smithy, Market House Lane, Minehead for J Hurford bldr; OD64;
1899 workshop, Market House Lane, Minehead; for Mr Capron; OD70
1899 Shop, Hope Villa, Park St, Minehead for Mrs J Smith; D/U/M/22/1/79;
1900 Twelve cottages, Bampton St, Minehead, for J Hurford bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/90; OD86;
1900 Stables, Blenheim Rd, Minehead, for JB Marley qv builder; D/U/M/ 22/1/91; OD87
1900 alts rear Post Office, Park St, Minehead for G Kinnersley; D/U/M/ 22/1/92; OD88;
1900 Shop & bakery, alts to No 1 cottage, Bampton St, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/93; for Mr Sedgebear
1900 alts No 86 Bampton St, Minehead, for JH Hurford; OD89;
1900 three villas, Blenheim Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/94; for JB Marley; the last three in terrace of five, Nos 33-41, blt by JB Marley, cf 1899; 1900-01, OD90;
1900 Penrhyn, St Michaels Rd, Minehead, for JH Hurford bldr, OD; but cf AL Cox;
1900-3 Market Hall and council chamber, The Parade, Minehead Som; RL; now Town Hall; BMCS, plans 1899 by Isaac Cribb and 1899 by JH Woolston Smith rejected before competition advertised Sept 1900, competition terms criticised by HDare Bryan, to cost £1500; Alcombe stone w Bath dressings, Passmore & Derrick bldrs; opened March 1903; has lost iron gates, balcony around the clock turret removed 1941 and pediment truncated in 1980s;
1901-9 most of Tregonwell Rd, Minehead; OD;
1901 Eight cottages, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/22/1/101 for JB Marley;
1901 New shop and alts to house, Summerland Rd, Minehead, for Holly & Co; D/U/M/22/1/103; OD97;
1901 two shops, Friday St, Minehead, for G Crocker; D/U/M/22/1/104; G Crocker builders merchants Bancks St and Friday St 1906 dir; 1901 Shops and flats, Friday St, Minehead, Som; OD98;
1901 Stables, Park Lane, Minehead for JB Marley; D/U/M/22/1/105; ?stables, Tythings Court, for JB Marley OD99;
1901 Pavilion, Recreation Ground, Irnham Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/109; OD103; OD mentions demolished Grandstand 1901;
1901 Villa near Shute Farm, Martlet Rd, Minehead, Som; J Hurford bldr; D/U/M/22/1/111; OD105; now St Michael’s Rd; ?Penrhyn 1900 acc to OD;
1901 alts to Holly & Co store, Summerland Rd, Minehead D/U/M/22/1/119;
1901 Stables and mews for – Holly OD 114;
1901 Two cottages, Summerland Rd, Minehead for Messrs Hole and Martin; D/U/M/22/1/121; OD116;
1901 Row of five houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead for JB Marley bldr; D/U/M/22/1/122; OD117
1901 Six cottages, Bampton St, Minehead, Som; D/U/M/22/1/123 for Passmore & Derrick, bldrs; OD118;
1901 Workrooms and stable at back of shops, Blenheim Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/127; for JB Marley, bldr; OD121;
1901 Stables, North Hill, Minehead, for Mr Boddy D/U/M/22/1/128; J Boddy built Northmoor, North Hill Rd, 1902, by WJT; OD122;
1901-9 Shops with flats, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead, Som; RL; OD says WJT did most of Tregonwell Rd;
1901-2 ref to old house pulled down and new one built, Minehead, to plans by WJT, TC 17.2.02
1902 Kennels, nr Coombe Farm, Exford, Som for Morland Greig; cottage & kennels; D/R/dul/24/1/13;
1902 scullery, Bancks St, Minehead, for G Crocker; D/U/M/22/1/134; OD128
1902 alts BW Bagley hairdressers, No 8 Park St, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/136; OD130; ?did WJT design Bagley’s Bakery building behind 7-8 Park St, facing Bampton St;
1902 Northmoor, North Hill Rd, Minehead, additions ‘1242’ D/U/M/22/1/144; for J Boddy; villa North hill OD137; Northmoor for J Boddy baker, 1902, by WJT;
1902 Electricity Station (Engine room and Electric Light Station), Quay Lane, Minehead, for JH Leather; D/U/M/22/1/152; Electricity generating station later drill-hall, skating-rink and Minehead Brotherhood Hall, dem, OD145;
1902 alts Park St, Minehead, for – Stacey, workshop, cycle store, scullery; D/U/M/22/1/159; OD152 George Stacey No 6 Park St watchmaker 1906 dir;
1902 Stables, Park Lane, Minehead, for J Philips & Sons; D/U/M/22/1/153, OD146;
1902 Stables, Irnham Rd, Minehead for JB Marley; OD150;
1902-3 Stabling block, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead, Som, for JB Marley bldr; D/U/M/22/1/157;
1902 Block of three houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead for JB Marley bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/158; OD151;
1903 Four semi-detached villas, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead, Som, for J Burgess bldr; D/U/M/22/1/162; OD155;
1903 alts workshop to boot-shop, Summerland Rd, Minehead for Chas Shattock (bootmaker Summerland Rd 1906); OD158; D/U/M/22/1/165;
1903 Boarding-houses, Seafront, Minehead, Som, for JH Leather; D/U/M/ 22/1/172; OD164; row of four houses on Esplanade, orig Iddesleigh, Holmleigh, Southernleigh, and Eversleigh; all altered and one, now Harbour Court, has castellated extension from c1928 when it became Minehead Bay Hotel;
1903 adds to stables, North Rd, Minehead, for L Bligh; D/U/M/ 22/1/178; OD170; probably behind 1-4 Esplanade, as LE Bligh was at Cambria House, one of the Esplanade houses, 1906 dir;
1903 Harness room, Park Lane, Minehead, for Phillips & Sons; D/U/M/ 22/1/182; OD174; Phillips & Sons auctioneers, seed merchants, millers, Town Mills
1903 Four terraced houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead for JB Marley bldr D/U/M/ 22/1/186; OD179;
1903 Two shops, Friday St, Minehead, for Hawker confectioner D/U/M/ 22/1/248; Hawker baker Friday St 1906; ?row of three shops on N dated 1905;
1903 The Beacon, North Hill, Minehead, house for EA Saunders; D/U/M/ 22/1/187; Saunders was prop of the Beach Hotel, OD; Edmund A Saunders The Beacon 1906; ?OD180 villas North Hill;
1903 Pair of cotts near Electric Light Works, Quay La, Minehead for JH Leather; D/U/M/ 22/1/188; OD181;
1903 Detached residence, North Hill, Minehead, for JB Marley bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/190;
1904 stables and outbuildings, North Hill, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/198 for EA Saunders; OD191; presumably The Beacon, Beacon Rd; EA Saunders at The Beacon, 1906 dir;
1904 shopfronts, The Parade, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/200; OD193; for W Preddy (harness-maker 1b The Parade, 1906)
1904 alts and adds stables, No 19 Blenheim Rd, Minehead, Som for Mr Sale; D/U/M/ 22/1/201; OD194 for Messrs Sale & Marley;
1904 Stables, Blenheim Rd, Minehead for JB Marley bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/201; OD194 for Messrs Sale & Marley;
1904 Stables, Blenheim Mews, Minehead for H Bosley; D/U/M/ 22/1/204; OD197; Henry Bosley fly-proprietor Summerland Av 1906;
1904 Pair semi-detached villas, Alcombe Rd, Minehead for Miss A Hughes; D/U/M/ 22/1/206; OD199;
1904 pantry, Blenheim Rd, Minehead, for Dr Sanguinetti; D/U/M/ 22/1/209,
1904 Five cotts, Bampton St, Minehead, for Passmore & Derrick bldrs; D/U/M/ 22/1/216; OD209;
1904 Block of five houses, Summerland Ave, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/218 for JB Marley bldr; OD211
1905 Three houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/222 for JB Marley bdr; OD215;
1905 Cottage at Brushford, Som, for W Goff; D/R/dul/24/1/26; plan only, with shop;
1905 shops, Friday St Minehead for Mr Hawker; OD229; ?D/U/M/22/1/236
1905 Temporary shop, Friday St, Minehead for Mr Hawker OD230;
1905 Semi-detached pair, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/255 for J Burgess bldr; pair second from E on S side, plans, no elevs, four canted bays and a veranda; OD237
1905 Cartref, Weirfield Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/258; for JB Marley builder; large, between new road and Church Path, pyramid roof over entry and veranda; Cartref was JB Marley’s own residence, one of Tamlyn's most elaborate houses with timbered pyramid roofed front tower;
1905 addn Electric Light Works, Quay Lane, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/223
1905 Alts Floyds shop, The Parade, Minehead, for J Bond; D/U/M/ 22/1/228; Floyd & Co No 2 The Parade 1906; for Mr Floyd OD219;
1905 Victoria Memorial Reading Room, Bancks St, Minehead, Som; RL, now British Legion; D/U/M/ 22/1/230; OD222;
1905 temporary shop, Friday St, Minehead for RJ Hawker; D/U/M/ 22/1/250;
1905 Shopfront, The Parade, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/231, Mr Newcombe’s for I Floyd; Wm Newcombe grocer Wellington Sq 1906; OD223 shop, Friday St for Mr Newcombe; plate glass recessed entry, and house door to right;
1906 villa, Northfield Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/238, for JB Marley bldr; OD266; probably Kilburn, single storey square bay on SW corner under veranda and 2-st gable on right;
190? detached residence Mr Marley, no address no date; OD 240;
1906 No 2 Northfield Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/243; for JB Marley bldr;
1906 Eden Lodge, Northfield Rd, Minehead, Som; det house on North hill for Wm Tamlyn (self) D/U/M/ 22/1/277; OD260; WJ Tamlyn Summerland Ave 1906; later at Eden Lodge, Northfield Rd; canted bay on left of front and right side; gabled porch on left at angle; now called Southlands;
1906 Conservatory & smoking lounge, Beach Hotel, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/263; OD245; between 1875 and 1881 buildings;
1906 Pair semi-det houses Irnham Rd, Minehead, Som for Passmore & Derrick bldrs; D/U/M/ 22/1/264; OD246
1906 Pair semi-det houses, Northfield Rd, Minehead; for JB Marley bldr D/U/M/ 22/1/266; OD247;
1906 Stables, North Hill, Minehead for JB Marley; OD252;
1906 Det house, Northfield Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/295, for JB Marley bldr;
1906 villa Northfield Rd, Minehead for JB Marley; OD267
1906 House North Hill Minehead for WJ Tamlyn OD260; presumably Eden Lodge;
1906 Shops and flats, Friday St, Minehead; OD;
1906 alts stable, Tythings Court, Minehead, for A Brocklehurst; D/U/M/24/1/ 272; dull; OD254;
1906 stables, Summerland Ave, Minehead for JB Marley OD255;
1906 alts Mentone Villa, No 18 The Parks, Minehead, for Arthur Brocklehurst; OD; house built 1879-80 for Edwin Palmer +1897; OD270
1907 alts No 6 The Parade, Minehead, shopfronts and other alts for E Batchelor, grocer; D/U/M/ 22/1/276 no elev of shopfront; BMCS; building c1868-70 possibly by CH Samson, occ by Santander 2013; OD259;
1907 Shed, Market Place Lane, Minehead for Mr Capron OD261;
1907 Shed at stables, Metropole Hotel, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/242; stables OD269;
1907 Six cottages, Dugdale St, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/293, Passmore & Derrick bldrs; OD281
1907 Greenhouse, Northfield Rd, Minehead for JB Marley OD268;
1907 Stables, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead for JB Marley D/U/M/ 22/1/299 OD287
1907 Three houses, Northfield Rd, Minehead, two for JB Marley, centre one Eden Lodge for himself; OD; Eden Lodge now Southlands;
1908 Shed for Mrs Bruce Steer, Minehead OD306a;
1908 Block-plan for G Tarr, Minehead; OD308a;
1908 Sitting-room, The Parade, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/294; OD282; for G Tarr; George Tarr, china, No 4 The Parade 1906.
1908 alts Hotel Metropole, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/284; lavatory OD273;
1908 Steam laundry, garage & stable, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, Som D/U/M/ 22/1/289; OD278
1908 Villa, Northfield Rd, Minehead for JB Marley; OD283;
1908 Six houses, New Rd, near Tregonwell Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/317, for Burt & Sons; OD305 Houses Tregonwell Rd for Burt & Sons;
1908 Four houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead; OD277 for J Burgess
1908 Two cottages, Dugdale St, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/315; OD279 houses The Parks/Dugdale St for Passmore & Derrick; OD303 houses Dugdale St for Passmore & Derrick;
1908 Cartshed, Selbourne Pl, Minehead for Parker & Sons D/U/M/ 22/1/314; Parker & Sons builders Townsend 1906; OD302;
1908 Stables, Blenheim Rd, Minehead for – Bosley; OD274;
1909 Stable, Irnham Rd, Minehead; OD300 for C Passmore bldr;
1909 Office, Friday St, Minehead, for G Crocker & Co D/U/M/ 22/1/309 OD297;
1909 Pair semi-detached houses, North Hill, Minehead for G Brown D/U/M/ 22/1/310; OD298;
1909 Villa, North Hill, Minehead, for JB Marley bldr; D/U/M/ 22/1/389;
1909 Adds Coteleigh, Northfield Rd, Minehead, for JH Leather, D/U/M/ 22/1/346;
1909 Two detached houses, Tregonwell St, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/311 for J Burgess bldr; OD299;
1909 Villas, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead; for JB Marley; OD310;
1909 Garage, Netherleigh, Minehead, for JH Leather; D/U/M/22/1/331; OD312; Netherleigh, Blenheim Rd, of 1905 by F Tugwell qv, now Little Stoke;
1909 Villa Northfield Rd, Minehead, for Mr Marley bldr, plan of attics, D/U/M/ 22/1/334;
1909 adds premises, Summerland Rd, Minehead for Mr Holly; OD312a;
1910 stores, Northfield Rd, Minehead for JB Marley; OD318;
1910 repository, Bancks St Minehead, for Henry Wood draper etc; D/U/M/ 22/1/354; OD320; now The Courtyard flats. Built as repository, never used as such as altered to Central Hall when Public Hall went bankrupt Feb 1910, Central Pavilion 1912, Cozy Cinema 1923, alts to gallery stairs by WJT 1913 D/U/M/ 22/1/532; reverted to repository when Regal Cinema blt 1934;
1910 alts Seaview, Blenheim Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/22/1/353, for Mr Stevens; OD319;
1910 alts house on seafront, Minehead for JH Leather OD338
1910 adds to stables, Minehead for A Brocklehurst; OD339
1910 ten houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead for J Burgess; OD340
1910 WC and lock-up, The Parade, Minehead for Mr Batchelor OD341
1910 Houses, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead for JB Marley; OD359; D/U/M/ 22/1/
378 two pairs each with outer canted bay and inner veranda;
1910 House, Tregonwell Rd, Minehead for J Burgess; OD363
1910 Pair of houses, Higher Town, Minehead, for Mr James OD366;
1910 Two detached houses off Alcombe Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/399;
1910 Houses, Elgin Rd, Minehead for J Boddy; OD360; D/U/M/ 22/1/379; two detached houses ?Nos 6 and 8 Ballfield Rd below St Michaels Rd, which drawings mark as Elgin Rd;
1910 Garage, Normanleigh, Minehead for JH Leather; OD362
1910 House, Blenheim Rd, Minehead for JB Marley OD379
1910 new store, The Parade, Minehead for G Tarr; OD381
1911 Porlock, Martlet Rd, Minehead, Som for T Pearce Esq D/U/M/ 22/1/408;
1911 House, Martlet Rd, Minehead, for Mr Harrison; D/U/M/22/1/375; OD356; pair of houses Dalkeith House/ Avondale were built by Harrison, one of them for himself;
1911 villa, Martlet Rd, Minehead for JB Marley OD384;
1911 proposed villa, new road next to Martlet Rd, Minehead, for JB Marley; OD385;
1911 villa, Martlet Rd, Minehead, for T Pearce; OD387
1911 Pair of houses, Elgin Rd, Minehead for JB Marley OD388; Elgin Rd is St Michaels Rd;
1911 Booking office, The Avenue, Minehead for E Stoate; OD368
1911 Bathroom, The Avenue, Minehead for Mr Hobbs; OD378
1911 adds Iddesleigh, Esplanade, Minehead, for JH Leather; OD391
1911 alts to stables, Minehead for C Rose; OD393
1911 new store, Central Hall, Bancks St, Minehead for H Wood; OD394;
1911 store, Bancks St, Minehead for Haywood? or Hy Wood; OD418;
1911 Group of houses, E side of Ballfield Rd, Minehead; OD;
1912 Stables and cottage, Higher Town, Minehead for TE James D/U/M/ 22/1/444;
c1912 Sunday School, Baptist chapel, The Parks, Minehead; also 1920; OD; SRO has 1920 plan;
1912 offices, The Parade, Minehead for G Brown & Sons; OD425;
1912 stables, Higher Town, Minehead for TE James; OD426;
1912 coal and cycle sheds, Irnham Rd, Minehead for J Croote; OD429;
1912 House, Alcombe Rd, Minehead for Mr Slade; OD435;
1912 Workshops, Friday St, Minehead for Phillips & Son coachbuilders; D/U/M/ 22/1/462; OD444;
1912 Shop room and alts, The Parade, Minehead for Messrs Boddy; D/U/M/ 22/1/485;
1912 greenhouse, Minehead for Mr Boddy; OD452;
1912 alts Northmoor, North Hill, Minehead for EO Langham & W Arthur; OD438;
1912 eight cottages, Dugdale St, Minehead; OD 439 for C Passmore;
1912 Pair houses, Irnham Rd, Minehead for JB Marley, OD441;
1912 addition to pair of houses Irnham Rd, Minehead for JB Marley OD445;
1912 pair of houses, Irnham Rd, Minehead for JB Marley OD447
1912 pair of houses Irnham Rd, Minehead for JB Marley OD449
1912 coalshed, Irnham Rd, Minehead for JB Marley OD450
1912 Shopfront, Park St, Minehead for Mr Wheelock; OD443; Tilt & Wheelock grocers 18 Park St 1906;
1913 office, Park St, Minehead for Mr Wheelock; OD462; Tilt & Wheelock grocers 18 Park St 1906;
1913 Shopfront Summerland Rd, Minehead for Mr Holly OD458; also shop windows and shed 1913 OD473;
1913 pair of houses, Summerland Ave, minehead for C Tudball OD460
1913 Shopfront, next Town Mills, Minehead for Mrs Woodward D/U/M/ 22/1/510; OD506; WJT in 1914 replaced a saddlery and Webber’s Nursery Shop on N side of The Parks for Miss Woodward, OD;
1913 Field House, The Parks, Minehead, for JW Burt & Sons, plans Burt archive; OD486;
1913 Broadmeadows, The Parks, Minehead; for Burt & Sons; OD496; Burt archive;
1913 Four houses, Dugdale St, Minehead for C Passmore; OD466
1913 shed, Bancks St, Minehead for Henry Wood; OD469;
1913 shed and shopfronts, Bancks St Minehead for H Wood OD502
1913 scullery and bathrooms, Summerland Ave, Minehead for T Webber OD470;
1913 Lock-up shop, The Parade, Minehead for W Shrives; OD477;
1913 small shop, Summerland Rd, Minehead for Mr Shattock OD480;
1913 plan of alcove, Central Hall Co, Bancks St, Minehead; OD485; gallery stairs OD515;
1913-14 Cranwell, later Hollytrees, The Parks, Minehead, Som; small house for Misses Hole OD509;
1913 office, Irnham Rd, Minehead for F Aplin; OD487
1913 House, St Michaels Rd, Minehead for AE Parminter probably Danesbrook; D/U/M/22/1/511; OD507;
1913 porch etc Martlet Rd, Minehead, for Mr Parminter OD488; coal and cycle shed for Mr Parminter 1914 D/U/M/ 22/1/555 OD537;
1913 Two det houses, Alexandra Rd, Minehead for E Foy; OD490; amended plan OD513 for Mrs E Foy;
1913 coal shed, Summerland Ave, Minehead for G Tudball; OD493;
1913 Pair houses, Queens Rd, Minehead, for G Tudball; OD495
1913 Shop and sheds, The Parks, Minehead, for Mr Pugsley OD508
1913 office and scullery, The Avenue, Minehead for M Ridler; OD499;
1913-14 Queen’s Hall, Warren Rd, Minehead, Som; RL, on seafront; bldrs JB & SB Marley; opened 6.6.14;
1914 Bay-window, house, Northfield Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/551, OD533, for Mr Marshall; glass roof 1914 for Mr Marshall D/U/M/ 22/1/562, OD540;
1914 New shops, Bancks St, Minehead, for Hayward & Co; D/U/M/ 22/1/553; OD535; G Hayward wine & spirits 10 The Parade 1906;
1914 Shop and sheds, No 8 The Parks, Minehead, OD plan No 508; for JC Pugsley painter and decorator;
1914 Bay window, house, Tregonwell St, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/554 for Miss Lewis;
1914 Pair of houses, Queens Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/558, OD542; with note plan resubmitted 1922, for C Tudball;
1914 glass canopy, shops Bancks St, Minehead for H Wood; OD527 and 528;
1914 Eleven hos, Parks Lane, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/559 OD543; for C Passmore;
1914 Walcott, Western Lane, Minehead SRO D/U/M/24/1/561; between Western Lane and footpath, two canted bays gr fl; plans, no elevs; now called Bridgedale Court, OD545; Burt & Sons bldrs, Burt archive;
1914 Two det houses, Alexandra Rd, Minehead for Mrs E Foy; OD519;
1914 Auvergne, Whitecross Way, Minehead, for EJ Foy ironmonger; bldrs JW Burt & Sons; OD511, Mr & Mrs David Segar;
1915 Brooklands, The Parks, Minehead; SB
19?? Beechfield, ?The Parks, Minehead; SB; dem 2013
1915 Central Garage, The Avenue, Minehead D/U/M/22/1/568, Hardy & Co; flamboyant terracotta arch to narrow workshop; OD says 1919, dem;
1915 Pair of cottages, Hawkcombe, Porlock, Som, for T Pearce of Glen Close, opp turning to Glen Close; D/R/wil/24/1/8;
1915 Two houses, Worthy road, Porlock Weir, Som for W Pollard; two half-hipped detached houses above road; D/R/Wil/24/1/7
1915 Strand café, Minehead, Som; RL, seafront next to Queens Hall; plans unsigned D/U/M/ 22/1/349 for extension to Queens Hall, shops and premises on seafront with ironwork, plans stamped by Macfarlane, ironfounders, Glasgow; Marley bldr;
1915 Stables Holloway St, Minehead, for Boddy & Co D/U/M/ 22/1/569; OD550;
1915 Shopfront, Parks Lane, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/572, OD553, for A Wheelock; cf 1919;
1916 House, Glenmore Rd, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/583, for Derrick, bldr; office at house for Mr Derrick, OD564
1916 porch, The Firs, Minehead, for Hon Mrs Pomeroy; D/U/M/22/1/584; OD565
1916 alts Southernleigh, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/586; for Maj Hartley-Maud; corner house BlenheimRd and The Esplanade, now Promenade Hotel, orig house of 1905 by Frank Tugwell qv;
1916 lavatory, Park St Minehead for Messrs Lennard; OD559;
1916 shed and wall, The Mews, Minehead for Mrs langdon OD562;
1919 Central Garage, The Avenue, Minehead; dem, adds OD572; for Hardy & Co; plans SRO 1925;
1919 Grosvenor Hotel, Minehead, Som; OD, on seafront, next Queens Hall; later Merlins Magic City;
1919 Shopfront, Friday St, Minehead for Slade Bros D/U/M/ 22/1/592; OD574;
1919 Booking-office, Friday St, Minehead for AStaddon; D/U/M/ 22/1/604; OD578;
1919 small garage & porch or fern-house, The Avenue, Minehead for F Ellis; D/U/M/ 22/1/605; OD579;
1919 Bay-windows, No 30 The Avenue Minehead, for Sir Justice Channell; D/U/M/ 22/1/606 OD580; also coal shed and lavatory for Sir AM Channell OD576 1919;
1919 Bungalow, Middlecombe Water, Minehead, Som D/U/M/ 22/1/616 for G Cooper; OD590;
1919 adds Mr Wheelock’s premises, Park Lane, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/622; cf 1915;
1919 House & shop, Friday St, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/617 for Messrs Slade; OD591;
1919 Shop and premises, Church St, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/624 for F Bawden; OD598
1919 workroom, rear of Summerland Ave, Minehead for Miss Freud; OD607;
1919 shed, Mart Rd, Minehead for Mr Hobbs OD 608;
1919 cow-shed, Periton Mead, Minehead for R Orwin; OD599;
1919 adds premises Minehead for Mr Wheelock; OD596;
1919 scullery, Blenheim Rd, Minehead for Miss Ross OD582;
1919 scullery, The Avenue Minehead for Mr Ellis OD585;
1919 ext to motor garage Quirke St, Minehead for A Staddon; OD581;
1919 conv of stable to garage, Minehead for A Staddon OD586;
1919 cartshed, rear of Friday St, Minehead for Mr Staddon OD601;
1920 classrooms, B chapel, The Parks, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/629; OD618 adds to Baptist schools; OD says Sunday Schools c1912 and 1920 both by WJT but plans only 1920;
1920 Semi-detached pair subsidy houses, Queens Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/634 for WE Dewar bldr; OD646;
1920 conv of stables to cottage, Hawkcombe, Porlock, Som for W Brown & Sons; D/R/wil/24/1/12; backs onto quarry;
1920 conv stables, Hotel Metropole, Minehead, to servants quarters; D/U/M/ 22/1/638; OD686 1921;
1920 alts Iddesleigh, seafront, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/635; OD660 for Mitchell Innes; ?St Aldwyns School;
1920 ten houses, Glenmore and Ponsford Rds, Minehead, for Burgess bldrs; D/U/M/ 22/1/636; five pairs OD676;
1921 servery, Plume of Feathers Hotel,Minehead OD712; dem;
1921 Bandstand, sea-front, Minehead, rustic oak; D/U/M/ 22/1/639; OD687;
1921 Mortuary and sheds, Hospital, The Avenue, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/642 and 644; OD708 and 729;
1922 Two houses, Ponsford Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/645; semi-det pair for H Harrison & Sons 1922 OD738; altered plan Nos 9-10 Ponsford Rd 19?? by WJT OD 689 for Burgess & Sons;
1922 Semi-det villas Ponsford Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/650; OD738
1922 alts Britannia Inn, Alcombe, Minehead; OD743;
1922 Nurses quarters, Hospital, The Avenue, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/658; large hip-roofed building at the back, dated 1923;
1923 Bungalow, Redway, Porlock, Som, for Major Scarfe; large hipped with corniced chimneys and squat columned porch, also a cottage and stables; D/R/wil/24/1/29;
1923-4 extra bedrooms, Hotel Metropole, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/661, large addition of 2nd and 3rd floors under hipped mansard roof;
1924 Shops, corner Alcombe Rd and Fownes Rd, Alcombe, Minehead for – Batchelor; inf OD; the plain block with iron veranda; WJT also did the more florid block to the W also w iron veranda, occ by Co-op 2012;
1924 Twenty cottages for Minehead UDC; D/U/M/ 22/1/664, prob Meadow Rd, Alcombe;
1925 House, Hopcott, Perriton Rd, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/677 for J Hatchett; corner Parkhouse Rd and Alcombe road (A39) half-hipped with hipped dormers, veranda right and square bay left;
1926 extra rooms, Hospital, The Avenue, Minehead, D/U/M/ 22/1/684; ?the additions to two wings at back of 1880s Town Hall, raised with hipped roofs;
1926 Meeting-hall, Bancks St, Minehead, for The Minehead Brotherhood; D/U/M/ 22/1/686; also 1932 D/U/M/ 22/1/731; not built, OD says meeting hall was in old Electricity generating station, Quay Lane;
1927 WM chapel, High St, Porlock, Som; W Brown & Sons, Porlock, bldrs; £4600; Book of Porlock 51; D/R/wil/24/1/65; schoolroom at rear;
1927 house, corner Ponsford and King George Rds, Minehead for J Burgess bldrs D/U/M/ 22/1/689;
1927 Semi-detached pair, Lower Moor Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/695
1929 extra rooms Hospital, The Avenue, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/706;
1932 dairy, Lower Moor Fm, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/730
1932 extra rooms, Sandcombe Hotel, Minehead; D/U/M/ 22/1/732
1932 St Valentines, Millbridge Rd, Minehead; now Hafod, inf OD, owner, plans survive; one of Tamlyn's last works;
TAPPER, Sir WALTER JOHN. Leading early C20 church architect. 1861-1935, born Bovey Tracey, articled Rowell & Sons Newton Abbot, worked for B Champneys 1882, chief assistant and manager Bodley & Garner; ASG; RL; Started 1901. 1901-4 Malvern Link ch, Worcs; 1905-11 St Erkenwald ch Southend dem; 1908 alts Bicton Hall, Devon; 1913 Annunciation ch Old Quebec St London; 1919 Whiteley Village ch Surrey; 1928 Surveyor Westminster Abbey; PRIBA 1927-9 knighted 1935;
1908 rest chancel Milborne Port ch, Som; RL; ch guide; drawings for choir stalls and altar canopy, SRO cf/1908/277; E window glass by Bainbridge-Reynolds; stalls since dismantled;
TAPPLIN, ERNEST C. Portman Estate Office, Station Rd, Taunton. Possibly called Ernest C Trepplin cf Kelly 1906, FSI, estate surveyor and agent to Lord Portman.
1910 Portman chapel, Orchard Portman ch, Som and resiting S porch on N side; SRO D/D/cf/1909/
TARR, HENRY builder Clevedon
189? houses Highdale Ave, Clevedon, all but three pairs on even number side of road; Lilly;
TARRING, JOHN London. Noted architect of nonconformist chapels.
1865 3rd pr Independent College, Staplegrove Rd, Taunton; PC 56;
(1868 C chapel, Exeter, Devon; Wilts Indep 2.4.68, ref to WM chapel Malvern, Worcs)
TAUNTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. Borough architect 1938-46 AG Jury qv then Clarence Bacon c1946-65.
1948 Estate of ‘Orbit’ houses, Keats Rd etc, Holway estate, Taunton, Som, plans SRO;
1948-57 King Street redevelopment, Taunton, Som; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/ 110/3804, 1949, and 112/4654, 1951 and 119/5007, 1952; but no plans for the curving block on Duke St.
1951 Flats, Shakespeare Av, Holway, Taunton, Som; C Bacon; plans SRO, plain two-storey pitched roof;
1952 Flats, Hamilton Rd, Taunton, Som plans SRO 5003, flat-roofed;
1953 Flats, Hamilton Rd, Taunton, Som; plans SRO, hipped neo-Georgian with two pedimented doorways, just W of Post Office Repeater Station;
1964 Pavilion, Priorswood Playing Field, Taunton, Som; opened 30.4.64; Mr Bacon architect; inf from M Cull film of opening by Billy Butlin;
1965 Three-storey flats, Duke St, Taunton (adjoining earlier Duke St block); D/B/ta/24/1/170/10250;
TAYLOR, ALFRED JOHN. Architect, 18 New Bond St, Bath, Kelly 1906. FRIBA. 1878-1938. Worked with Arthur C Fare perspectivist (T&F) later joined by Taylor’s daughter Mollie (later Mollie Gerrard) and son A Rowland Taylor and AW Hind as AJT&P. Later firm was called Gerrard Taylor & Ptnrs qv; 4-5 Bridge St Bath 1931 dir
1907 canopies, Empire Hotel, Bath; AFtext;
1909 architect to the Baths, Bath; involved with proposed new baths, Bath Street, BC 4.3.09 and made alts to Pump Room/ Baths complex new oak and walnut screen for ticket sales and offices for Director and clerk BC 26.8.09;
1913 add Lansdown Grove Hotel, Bath; Aftext;
1920 twelve semi-detached council houses, Dolemeads, Bath, Robin Pake theis 2015
1920 council housing The Oval, Englishcombe Park, Bath; Robin Pakes thesis, 2015, 90;
1920 and 1926 alts Beau Nash Cinema, 22-3 Westgate St, Bath; AFtext;
1922 shopfronts 1-2 Bridge St, Bath; AFtext;
1924-5 add 1-2 Manvers St, Bath; AFtext link to Blenheim House.
1925 shopfront 14 Cheap St, Bath; Aftext
1926 Hatt & Billings furniture depository, London Rd, Bath; SNB
1925-7 alts Hot Bath, Bath; AF text; architect to baths, Bath, Som ref TC 5.4.31;
1925-9 Nos 5-6 Cheap St, Bath; AFtext, and other Georgian facades in area;
192? Beau Nash Cinema, Westgate St, Bath; SC notes;
1927 Canopy, The Corridor, Bath; Afnotes;
1927 No 12 Northgate St, Bath; C20index;
(1927-9 Hospital, Trowbridge, Wilts, T&F with WW Snailum qv; WBR)
(1929 alts, St Margaret St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, plans WRO G13/760/190)
1932ff Royal United Hospital, Bath, with HP Adams; SNB;
1935-6 Kilowatt House, North Rd, Bath by Mollie Taylor of AJT&P; MHB, for Anthony Greenhill, Br 27.10.39 618;
1936-8 St Bartholomew Ch, Lyncombe, Bath; ICBS; AFtext T&F, bombed, repaired by 1951.
1937 Greenbank open-air swimming-pool, Street, Som; D Crighton, A Time for Somerset, 98: Jack Stock des the changing area and filter room, Mr AJT of Bath the pool itself; but DoE listing says design was by Bancroft Clark and Jack Stock;
1938 Museum and shop, Wookey Hole, Som; Taylor & Fare, plans Bath Record Office 0323/22/3, for Wookey Hole Ltd;
(1939 Christian Science ch, North view, Bristol; H&F)
1946 N. 5-9 Lansdown Pl East, Bath; C20index, AJT&Ptnrs;
TAYLOR, CHARLES Merthyr Tydfil. In 1868 AEBTD he claims ‘Northwood’s Asylum, Bristol Cemetery, Fine Arts Academy, Queen’s Hotel’; ‘Clifton Park, etc.’ but asylum (at Brislington) and Fine Arts Academy are by Charles Underwood qv.
TAYLOR, G. Long Acre, Bath. advertises BC 15.6.1837 as engineer, architect, builder, carpenter joiner and undertaker; announces that he intends to continue his father's business;
TAYLOR, HENRY Civil engineer, surveyor, 16 Lower Queens Rd, Clevedon, 1906 dir.
TAYLOR, J. J. Architect, FSI. No 11 Little College St, London, 1922, 11 Gayfere St, London 1930.
1922 Northanger, Dunster, Som, for AH Preece; D/R/wil/24/1/26, large house N of vicarage with 3-st gabled N porch, big E end chimney; rear wing by JJT 1930 D/R/wil/24/1/33;
1923 Pair of cottages, Toll-gate, Toll Road, Porlock, Som for RW Blathwayt; D/R/wil/24/1/32;
1923 Cottage, West Porlock, Som, for J Sutherland; D/R/wil/24/1/37; on S side of road towards W end, casements and timber gable, red tile;
1930 rear wing, Northanger, Dunster, Som D/R/wil/24/1/32
TAYLOR, JAMES Engineer
1891-4 consulting engineer with FW Roberts qv for new reservoir, Blagdon, Pitminster, Som for Taunton Town Council; HT Cole engineer and clerk of works qv;
TAYLOR, MOLLIE see AJ Taylor and Gerrard Taylor
TAYLOR, STEPHEN. Stephen Taylor Architects, Shoreditch, London. Est 1993.
(2002-4 Refectory for Holton Lee charitable trust, Dorset; website, and barn conversion and guest-house 2006)
(2004 private house, Wilts; website)
2012 Cowshed, Shatwell Farm, Hadspen, Som for Niall Hobhouse; BD 24.8. and 21.12.2012; colonnade in front of cast concrete round columns between square end piers, these attached to end-wall arches; Paul Rawson contractor; AJ 21.2.2013, project archt Sam Holden, £175,000; also development strategy for farm 2008-12, but redevelopment of single-storey barn as offices proposed 2012 by Hugh Strange Architects qv;
2009-12 Four Oaks, Wilts by ZMMA for Crispin Kelly, from 2006 concept by Stephen Taylor Architects AR June 2012;
TAYLOR, WILLIAM Surveyor, London. HC. Worked for Sir Robert Clayton, surveyed ground for his new house Old Jewry, London, 1671-2, supervised industrial work at Brownsea, Dorset and wrote about farmhouse at Rossall, Salop, to Alderman Morris, Clayton’s partner;
(1668-70 des for Pewterers’ Hall, London; HC;
1675 attrib rebuild Nynehead Court, Nynehead, Som, for John Sanford; the Book of Nynehead, 40, attrib as Taylor probably des nearby Chipley Pk;
(1678 alts The Friars, Aylesford, Kent; HC;
1681 Chipley Park, Nynehead, Som, for Edward Clarke Jr; built after death of Edward Clarke in 1679; Book of nynehead 64-5 says ‘research has shown that EC commissioned a London surveyor called WT, who may have been introduced to him by john Locke or John Sanford, to design and supervise the building work; dem 1840s; ill 1837 by Buckler; 100’ by 96’ square, basement 2 st and attic; ‘built of brick and faced with white ashlar’.
(1682ff alts Longleat, Wilts for 1st Visc Weymouth; chapel in W wing, gallery in E wing, and alts to offices
1683-4? ?alts Orchard Portman, Som for Sir William Portman; letter 1684 refs to ‘I must be at sir William Portments’s and Sir Haswell’s before I come to London’; HC; dem;
(1687-8 ?alts Kedleston Hall, Derbys; HC;
(1688-9 Minsterley ch, Salop for Visc Weymouth;
1689 attrib N range, Halswell House, Goathurst, Som; RL; HC; for Sir Halswell Tynte +1702; letter 1684 refs to ‘I must be at Sir William Portments’s and Sir Haswell’s before I come to London’; CL 21.11.1908; SSCH says letter March 1683;
1689-92 attrib Low Ham Manor, Som for Lord Stawell; church guide; two arches back-to-back removed to Hazlegrove House c1875; but cf also Rousseau.
TECTON Architects London, see Godfrey Samuel.
TELFORD, THOMAS, Engineer 1757-1834. Born Glendinning, Dumfries, mason, worked in Edinburgh before going to London 1782. Employed by Wm Pulteney MP at Westerhall; blt Commissioner’s House Portsmouth Dockyard (S. Wyatt) 1784-6. Moved Shrewsbury to fit up Castle for Wm Pulteney, made plans for imps Shrewsbury; Bridgnorth ch 1792-4; Madeley ch 1794-6; warehouses St Katharine Dock London 1827-8; County surveyor of bridges Shropshire 1788. Over thirty Highland churches Scotland 1825-34; Bridge builder over a thousand bridges, inc major works in iron (Buildwas, Menai, Conway, Craigellachie) also roads canals and harbours; HC. A5 route London to Holyhead 1815-30; L.T.C. Rolt, Thomas Telford (LTCR).
1825 revived English and Bristol Channels Canal proposal of 1810 by John Rennie qv, from Stoford Som to Beer Dorset through Ilminster & Chard; Act 1825, unex; BDRP 12;
1826 Employed to improve Shaftesbury-Honiton road, recommended new road S of Milborne Port Som, £4116/14/5d; too expensive, SJ 18.5.27; McKay 151;
TEULON, SAMUEL SANDERS Craigs Ct, Chaing Cross, London. Architect 1812-73, pupil George Legg & George Potter, set up c1840, churches and country houses. Matthew Saunders, The Churches of S. S. Teulon, Ecclesiological Society 1982. Matthew Saunders, ‘Samuel Sanders Teulon, 1812-1873’ in The Architectural Outsiders, 1985.
(1854-6 Fosbury ch, Wilts; WBR; consec WI 9.10.56; BoE probably also vicarage 1854-6;
1856-7 St Thomas ch, Wells, Som; SRO; RL inc Vicarage and St Thomas Terrace; 1856-7, for Troth Jenkyns, widow of Richard Jenkyns, Dean of the Cathedral and former Master of Balliol whose idea the church had been but who died in 1854. After her death in 1857, the completion was overseen by Revd Henry Blisset. Reredos (coloured by Fisher) and font, 1857, by Forsyth, altar rails by Skidmore, chancel windows by Wailes, south-west window by Clayton, the rest by Wilmshurst. South aisle added 1864. Also by Teulon, Vicarage, 1859, Church school 1859, and St Thomas’s terrace; Peter Howell & Ian Sutton (eds.), Victorian Churches, 1989, 121. consecrated Bn 1858 27 five two-light ws in chancel presented by a fellow of Balliol in mem Dean Jenkyns;
(1857-8 Alderbury ch, Wilts; WBR;
(1857-8 Oare ch , Wilts; WBR; DWG 23.9.58 and WI 30.9.58 consecrated, Norman style, stained glass by Powell, Mitchell of Pewsey cont; £1100)
1859 Vicarage, St Thomas ch, Wells, Som; SC notes; RL;
1859 Church school St Thomas ch, Wells, Som; SC notes; TC 2.11.59 £1565, Mr Davis of Langport bldr;
1859? St Thomas Terrace, Wells, Som; SC notes; RL;
1864 S aisle, St Thomas ch, Wells, Som; SC notes;
TEW, POPE & OLIVER. Bath E.F. Tew qv, - Pope, - Oliver.
1950 Fosseway School, Odd Down, Bath, Som; BoE N;
1951 Nos 11-12 Westgate Bldngs, Bath, Som; C20index
TEW, ERNEST FREDERICK. Architect, Bath, 1905-81, articled to AN Paterson of Glasgow 1922-7, worked for Birkenhead, Exeter, Blackburn, Bristol architect's departments before war, private practice in Bath 1945, FRIBA 1951; DSA;
1955 shopfront No 14 Old Bond St, Bath; SNB;
1958 Nos 1-7 Norfolk Cres, Bath, Som; C20index:
1962 restored Beauford Square, Bath;
1964ff rest Ston Easton Park, Som; SNB; for Stephen Clark who bought house in 1958;
(1967 re-erected medieval porch from The Priory, Bradford-on-Avon, at back of Cold Bath, Corsham Court, Wilts; DoE)
THATCHER, JOHN Midsomer Norton
1836 Parsonage, West Camel, Som, large 5-bay house £771/17/5d but keeping part of medieval house; SRO D/D/Bbm/?
1845-7 builder, Clandown ch, Som; GP Manners architect, FS BTM 4.7.46
THATCHER, THOMAS
1830-1 Rectory, Coleford, Som; SNB; but see JE Halliday;
THOMAS, (ALAN & ANN) Henley Barn, East Horrington, Wells. Architects. Alan & Ann Thomas.
1986-7 alts Wellington ch, Som, by A&A Thomas of Wells with RH Sellers of Wrington; ch guide; reordered, repaved, pews removed, chancel carpeted, new central altar, rails and pulpit and lectern removed to N aisle;
1998 chancel furnishings, Wrington ch, Som; AFtext;
200? Alts and new staircase, The Deanery, Wells, Som; with Beech Tyldesley qv;
2010 report on Badgworth ch tower, Som;
THOMAS (CHARLES) & SONS Builders Castle Cary. Kelly 1906. Their name is on tiles on stall front of former ironmongers No 1 Fore St. CT Jr set up in 1880, joined by father 1883. Built West View South Cary; houses Park Ave South Cary; council houses, The Rockeries, Stotting Way, all South Cary; War Memorial Castle Cary 1920; 32 hos and flats Victoria Park 1949; blt hostels at North Cadbury Court (run by YMCA as agric training for delinquent boys); Memories of CC & Ansford;
1898 Wesley Villa, Ansford Lane, Castle Cary; VCH;
1920 War Memorial cross, Castle Cary, Som unveiled 11.11.20; Castle Cary & Ansford 2002 108;
THOMAS, FRANCIS INIGO. Architect, articled Bodley & Garner, travelled 1889-94, leading Edwardian garden designer, illustrator for R Blomfield Formal Garden in England 1892; D Ottewill The Edwardian Garden; HGS 189;
(1891 gardens Athelhampton, Dorset for A Cart de Lafontaine;
1893-7 Gardens, Barrow Court, Barrow Gurney, Som; screen wall with busts of the months by A Drury 1898; AFtext; 1892-6 HGS 189-92; Ionic gateways, Palladian gazebo, exedra, 2nd exedra, gatepiers etc;
(l902-7 Ffynone, Manordeifi, Pmbs remodelled house and new gardens for JV Colby; CL 12.11.1992, plans at house)
THOMAS, JOHN Queen Camel. Builder of family of builders in Queen Camel; VCH; a John Thomas mason & plasterer Kelly 1906; an account book survives.
1852ff works at Hazlegrove House, Sparkford, Som; VCH; stables 1852, ha-ha 1853, gardener’s cottage 1860, lodge 1870-1 (prob Sparkford Lodge to des of H Hall), stables & kennels by Sparkford Lodge 1871; entrance arch by Sparkford Lodge (two C17 arches from Low Ham set back-to-back, H Hall archt); 1876 removed boy statues from house front; SRO DD/X/MOO;
THOMAS, JOSIAH Bristol. Architect & surveyor. +1897. Partnership of Armstrong & Thomas fl 1859-72 may have been continuation of William Armstrong qv +1858 practice; when employed 1890 in valuation case brought by C&T Harris of Calne, Wilts, bacon curers DWG 10.4.90 described as City Surveyor, Bristol
1872 adds Wrington parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/190;
(1878 Magistrates Court, Bridewell St, Bristol; Gomme)
(1887 Hotwells Public Baths, Jacobs Wells Rd, Bristol; Gomme)
THOMAS, MARK. Builder, Kingston, Yeovil. Somerset Dir 1830, Hunts Dir 1850.
THOMAS, MARK HARTLAND Bristol. Son of Percival Hartland Thomas qv; secretary of MARS Group;
(1935 No 7 Avon Grove, Sneyd Pk, Bristol, also No 30 Old Sneed Pk; SNB;
193? Add, Priston New Farm, Priston, Som; MHB; ill in Thomas, Building is your business, 1947; 1930s C20index;
THOMAS, PERCIVAL HARTLAND Bristol; LRIBA; 1879-1950; GJL; one of surveyors of dilapidations to Bath & Wells diocese 1912-19. Son Mark Hartland Thomas designed modern movement houses. Partner in C & C Thompson qv Architects, land agents, surveyors with Charles E Thompson LRIBA.
(1908 Nos 10-19 Percival Rd, Clifton, Bristol; GJL;
1912-14 reps Othery ch, Som; ICBS; reps to tower;
1913 E window, Holy Trinity ch, Bridgwater, Som; SRO cf/1913/15; dem;
1921 Chancel Holy Trinity ch, Blackford, Som; ICBS; PHT of C&C Thomson of Bristol, surveyors; plan SRO D/D/cf/1920/18; but ICBS plans 1913-14;
(1927 St Oswald ch, Bedminster Down, Bristol; H&F;
(1932 St Cuthbert ch, Brislington, Bristol; GJL; 1933 H&F
(c1934 rest Oaksey ch, Wilts; WBR;
(1937 All Saints ch, Southbrook, Swindon, Wilts; WBR; H&F; Blackford & Sons, bldrs, WBR2;
(1939 tower, St Michael ch, Two Mile Hill, Bristol; GJL;
1950-1 inv reps Congresbury ch, Som; ICBS; Burrough & Hannam also involved;
THOMAS, Sir PERCY, Cardiff. Architect. With Ivor Jones 1911-c1932 (IJ&PT)(?WX Jones & PT Kelly l9l0); 6-7 John St, Cardiff, Kelly 1926; Leading firm in Wales from l920s: cf Cathays Pk (Welsh Office), Swansea University 1950s and later, Aberystwyth University from l935-57 when replaced briefly by Sir William Holford, 1964 Dale Owen appointed. Norman Thomas (son) joined and firm became Percy Thomas & Son (PT&S), then Sir Percy Thomas & Son before 1950 (SPT&S). Bill Marsden and later Dale Owen partners, Dale Owen in charge of latter stages at Aberystwyth. Firm became Sir Percy Thomas & Partners (SPT&P) in 1964 and from 1971 Percy Thomas Partnership (PTP), latterly c2002 Capita Percy Thomas (CPT) and c2007 Capita Architecture (CA) part of conglomerate of nine UK offices, inc Bristol & Plymouth. Projects at Timberscombe, Wheddon Cross & Luccombe for West Somerset Housing Assn 1987-92 were by three architects from PTP who left 2004 to form EHSA Architects qv, Willie Harbinson, Neil Embleton & Peterjohn Smyth;
(1928 Bridewell Police & Fire Station, Nelson St, Bristol; AF 143; IJ&PT)
(c1952 Masterplan, Bristol University, SPT&P;
(1955-7 Lewis’s store, Broadmead, Bristol; SPT&S; AF 177)
(1957 King St WM chapel, Plymouth, Devon; H&F)
(1965-73 Clifton RC Cathedral, Bristol; PTP, job architects Ronald Weeks, FS Jennett & A Poremba; commissioned 1965, built 1970-3; AF)
1964-8 attr Maternity Hospital, Yeovil, Som; next District Hospital;
1969-73 Yeovil District Hospital, Som; PTP Frederick Jennett partner in charge, Dennis Poole job architect; AJ 21.3.73 670; Dudley Coles Ltd contrs, nine storey, four storey and 2 storey blocks in situ concrete-cased stanchions, precased steeel beamsand prestressed joists, system developed by SWRHB. PTP probably designed the Maternity Hospital 1964-8, the boiler house, the two courtyard blocks of nurses’ flats.
1987-8 Eight houses at Timberscombe, Som; Peterjohn Smyth proj archt; inf N Embleton; hipped dormers; for West somerset Rural Housing Assn
1988-9 Six houses, The Beeches, Cutcombe, Som; proj archt Neil Embleton, for West Somerset Rural Housing Assn;
1992 Three houses for elderly, Stoney St, Luccombe, Som; commendation CTA 1992; PTP, Willie Harbinson proj archt; email from Neil Embleton; single storey, L-plan; CTA says Timothy Harbinson proj architect, WG Reynolds & Son contractor; for West Som Rural Housing Assn;
(2009 Centre for Nanoscience, Bristol Univ AJ 20.5.10)
(2009 Mayflower Community School, Plymouth, Devon; AJ 20.5.10:
THOMPSON, C. & C. Architects, land agents, and surveyors Athenaeum chmbers, St Nicholas St, Bristol. Charles E Thompson LRIBA and P Hartland Thomas LRIBA qv partners.
1913 Alts Holy Trinity ch, Bridgwater, Som; dem; new E w glass, sanctuary steps, piers and arch; SRO cf/1913/15;
THOMSON, JAMES. 1800-83 London. Born Melrose, pupil JB Papworth, worked on Nash terraces at Regents Park 1827-54, Polytechnic Regents St 1838 enlarged 1849. APSD lists also Union Bank, Argyle Pl, London; bldgs Clements Inn; Polygraphic Hall, K William St; Architect to Grittleton estate, Wilts of J Neeld 1845 ff: Alderton village 1845, Leigh Delamere church, Sevington school, farms and cottages, Grittleton House begun in 1830s completed 1851-4 to Henry Clutton qv designs exh RA 1853, stable yard designs by JT at Courtauld WBR2; alts Derbyshire Bank, Derby; houses at Derby for W Baker; laid out Roy estate Notting Hill; built houses at E end Hanover Terrace, Ladbroke Grove; Russo-Greek chapel Welbeck St 1863; 1870 staircase Charing Cross Hospital; obit Br 1883 44 705; also school house at Chippenham (?National School, St Mary St 1837), almshouses Leigh Delamere 1848; rectory Leigh Delamere;
1827 School, Norton St Philip, Som; for J Neeld of Grittleton; AEBTD; exh RA 1830; plans Wilts RO;
(1833-4 TH, High St, Chippenham, Wilts; Mr Lewis of Bath bldr DWG 8.5.34 opening; ground floor market;
c1835 Tower House, Kelston, Som; for J Neeld of Grittleton; SNB;
(1848-50 adds Chippenham TH, Wilts; for J Neeld dated 1833 and 1850; ?TC 19.4.48 new hall 120 ft long, 40 ft wide, now Neeld Hall, and side entry to market yard;
(1853 Grittleton House, Wilts, now in course of erection, DWG 12.5.53;
(1856 adds Grittleton House, Wilts for J Neeld; DWG 10.4.56 after fire;
THORNHILL, Sir JAMES 1675-1734. Came from Thornhill, Dorset, apprenticed as painter, became leading decorative painter in baroque style, painted dome of St Pauls and Painted Hall, Greenwich. Knighted 1720. Sought practice as architect, 1719 tried for Surveyor of Kings works, asked for des for St Martin in the Fields 1720, MP 1722-34 for Weymouth;
(c1720-8 Moor Park, Herts; HC)
(1720ff Thornhill House, nr Sturminster Newton, Dorset; HC; for himself; obelisk in grounds 1727;
1723 chapel, Dunster Castle, Som; commissioned by Dorothy Luttrell widow of Col Alexander Luttrell; NT guide; interior for Margaret Luttrell, HC; SRO DD/L MR.2/43.1; Portland stone, Baroque, dem c1867 for Salvin's drawing-room tower; altarpiece painting Moses and Burning Bush presumably by Thornhill now in Dunster ch;
(1733 designed TH, Blandford, Dorset; HC; Thornhill was one of commissioners for rebuilding Blandford after fire of 1731;
THORPE, JOHN EGERTON. 68 Holywell St, Oxford. 1874-1957. Pupil and assistant of Walter Edward Mills of Banbury +1910, then firm became Mills, Thorpe & Openshaw (MT&O) with Frederick E Openshaw 1881-1957, then T&O;
(1911 adds library, Oxford Union Society, Oxford; M&T; BoE)
1914-15 rebuilt Redlynch Park (former service range) for WF Pepper after fire of 24.2.14 burnt out the Lutyens qv work. Alfred Groves from Oxfordshire who worked on Pepper’s previous house Shipton Court, Oxon, was the builder; £20.000; probably designed the East Lodge, gatepiers to Home Farm, and minor garden works. WF Pepper bought Redlynch estate in 1912. EP Thompson, Portrait for a grandson, 1947.
1916 rest Redlynch ch, Som inc S vestry, chancel S add for seats and pulpit recess; new reredos, pews and Pepper memorial cinerarium at W end; D/D/cf/1916/?;
1920 War Memorial, churchyard, Cheddar, Som; T&O, SAS;
(1935 Longwall Annexe, Magdalen College, Oxford; BoE)
1936 alts National School, Cheddar, Som; SAS; built 1836-7, TC 26.9.36;
THURLOW LUCAS & JANES Architects, High Wycombe. Set up office in Melksham, Wilts in 1956 under Aubrey H Winter to work primarily for Avon Rubber Co; papers Wilts RO, c1960-1995; brochure of c1973 on website lists works; they did industrial buildings for Avon Rubber in Melksham and Bradford on Avon, and for Bowyers, Trowbridge, Wilts, domestic conversions in Wilts, some commercial work;
(c1959 Porte-cochere, Savoy Hotel, London, in Lenscrete concrete, undulating wave form, referred to in advert for Lenscrete;
(19?? much work for Avon Rubber Co, Melksham inc three-storey research building; ext of mixing-shop, ext of car shop, new Rubber Products factory c1973, despatch and tyre-test building being bult c1973;
(1968 New workshops for Avon Rubber, Kingston Mills, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WRO; ?the riverside building, all dem;
1962? offices, Bridgwater Building Soc, King Square, Bridgwater; neo-Georgian to the square; c1973 booklet;
(1965-70 office block, Avon Rubber, Kingston Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WRO; dem;
(1968-72 conversion Abbey Mills, Church St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; to offices and restaurant for Avon Rubber, BoE; plans 1967-9 WRO; later converted to retirement flats by BBA Architects qv;
197? Bindery building, Butler & Tanner printers, Frome, Som; single-storey bindery and two-storey offices; c1973 booklet;
(1972-3 Moulding hall for Avon Rubber, Kingston Mills, Braford on Avon, Wilts; BoE; dem; ?the 'new shop 30', plans 1972-6 at Wilts RO;
1976 Office conversion, King Sq, Bridgwater, Som; RIBAJ 1979 287-92;
TILDEN, PHILIP. Architect to Winston Churchill at Chartwell, Kent; autobiog True Remembrances, 1954.
1917 A cottage to be erected in Somerset, ill BN 18.7.17, 57, Ham Hill stone, thatch with barrel ceiling of Hyrib; looks like Priests House, Muchelney;
1925-6 High Ham village hall, Som; VCH 8; for Dr Hugh L Bellot; SRO D/D/X/BLT/11/3;
TIMMINS, THOMAS. Surveyor, White Rock Cottage, Simonsbath. Originally from Staffs, employed by John Knight who took over Royal Forest of Exmoor 1818-20, his cottage probably first house of Simonsbath village. Presumably oversaw early improvements, Pinkworthy Pond, abandoned canal and railway to Porlock Weir. Wife (from Sedgeley, Staffs) died 1828, he still resident 1830, back in Kingswinford, Staffs by 1834; RA Bruton, Simonsbath, 24ff; perhaps involved with the first Knight estate farms: Cornham, Honeymead, Barton;
TIPPING, H. AVRAY. Architect, wrote for Country Life, +1933. Helena Gerrish owner of High Glannau, Tipping’s house in Trelleck, Mon, is researching.
1913? Rest Cadbury Court, North Cadbury, Som, for Sir Archibald Langman; James Lees-Milne, Caves of Ice, 195, gives passing ref to good work by Avray Tipping in the hall; but Melville Seth-Ward of Rickmansworth qv claims restoration and additions in 1914-16 in Whos Who in Architecture 1926.
(19?? Alts int Brinsop Court; inf Helena Gerrish)
19?? Garden alts Wootton House, Butleigh, Som, for Acland-Hood family; HGS 205;
TITE, Sir WILLIAM 1798-1873. HC. Pupil of David Laing, worked with him on St Dunstan-in-the-East ch, London 1817-20, des Mill Hill School Mx 1825; National Scotch ch, London, 1827-8; Royal Exchange London 1842-44; Brookwood Cemetery Sy 1853-4; Gerrards Cross ch Bucks 1858-9. Career much involved with railways particularly the L&SWR 1838-40 for which he designed termini London Nine Elms & Southampton 1840; Carlisle Citadel Station; Perth Station 1848; Windsor Station 1850; architect to Caledonian Rlwy, Scottish Central Rlwy; Exeter & Yeovil Rlwy; Le Havre-Paris railway. PRIBA 1861-3 and 1867-70, Liberal candidate for Barnstaple 1854, MP for Bath 1855-73; knighted 1869. Wikipedia suggests his architectural practice ceased about 1853 but Gerrards Cross ch was 1858-9. BLJ has him as architect for LSWR 1860-1 and for stations on associated Yeovil & Exeter; obit Br 3.5.73 says that Tite was partnered by Edward N Clifton for more than twenty years by 1873 and lists railway work on Yeovil-Exeter line in 1860 also says that Tite gradually abandoned work after he became MP in 1855;
1856-60 ?stations on Salisbury & Yeovil Railway. No clear evidence but LSWR was involved as was their engineer Joseph Locke qv; BLJ: S&Y passed well S of Yeovil, Som, opened 19.7.60. 1st sod Gillingham 3.4.56, nearly folded for lack of money, 1856 assent given for S&Y Yeovil & Exeter Rlway, an extension from Yeovil to Exeter. Open Salisbury-Gillingham 2.5.59, the stations are built of brick and are neat and pretty erections, SWJ 7.5.59; Gillingham-Sherborne May 60, Yeovil Junction June 60, ?joined to GWR at Yeovil Hendford. LSWR bought S&Y in 1878. Sherborne station looks similar to Crewkerne see below. Stations: Salisbury Fisherton Station 1859, by Tite, next door to GWR station, Wilton, Dinton, Tisbury, Semley, Shaftesbury, Gillingham 1859 Templecombe, Milborne Port, Sherborne 1860, Bradford Abbas, Yeovil Town 1861;
1860 stations on Yeovil & Exeter Rlwy; according to obit Br 3.5.73 the stations were executed in conjunction with Edward N Clifton with whom Tite had been working since before 1853; stations at Crewkerne, Axminster & Honiton. 1856 assent to S&Y for Y&Exeter extension, opened 18.7.60. LSWR involved. Axminster Station, Devon, 1859, Gothic, brick (BoE); Crewkerne Station, Misterton, Som, opened 19.7.60; Nicholas & Reeve, Main Line to the West, 3, 2009, 13; BLJ51: Act 21.7.56, JJ Errington, overall LSWR engineer, WR Galbraith resident engineer, William Taylor of Manchester contr, William Tite architect. Tite designed main stations at Crewkerne, Som, and Axminster & Honiton, Devon. Other stations were at Yeovil Junction, Sutton Bingham, Chard Road, Colyton, Feniton, Whimple, Broad Clyst & Exeter Queen St. Exeter Queen St just begun March 1860, Crewkerne almost complete when first train came through 11.4.60. Evidence still lacking for Tite as architect. Crewkerne is similar to Sherborne station, Dorset, on Salisbury & Yeovil Railway, 1860-1.
1860-1 Yeovil Town Station, Som; joint station for Salisbury & Yeovil Rlwy (LSWR) and Bristol & Exeter (GWR) opened 1.6.61; dem c1973, brick Tudor. S&Y railway opened 1860 crossed Wilts Somerset & Weymouth Rlwy (GWR) which had station at Yeovil Pen Mill and was joined to GWR Bristol & Exeter Rlway Hendford terminus (opened 1.10.53) by a standard gauge link alongside B&E and another from S&Y line to Pen Mill. Yeovil Town Station was actually joint between B&E and LSWR, not S&Y, LSWR to build station, BLJ 57, design by William Tite with WR Galbraith consulting eng for LSWR. Ground plans agreed between JJ Errington qv for LSWR & Francis Fox qv for B&E, William Taylor contract 9.7.60, work began under WR Galbraith. Station had residences each end for LSWR & B&E station-masters. MT Shaw of London built two train sheds. Taylor in trouble 1861, work completed by Messrs Bull of Southampton. Yeovil Yeoman 15.6.61.
TITLEY, P. EDWARD Architect, Upton, nr Wiveliscombe
1957 alts Hartnell Cottage, Skilgate, Som; add of nasty dormers;
TOKLOVE, BRIAN Architect Taunton.
1981 Beech House, Wellington School, Som; BT was old boy of school; WS 172 174; on S side of South St, nondescript;
TOMKINS, GEORGE Surveyor, Wells.
1864-5 National School, Theale, Som; SRO DD/EDS/1
TOMLINSON, NICK see Tonic Architecture
TONIC ARCHITECTURE The Paintworks, Bristol; founded 2012 by Tobias Fielding-Crawley and Nick Tomlinson. TFC worked for Alec French qv before set up design and build in Cotswolds. NT worked for Martin Blake Associates and later for Simon Morray-Jones (on spa at Babington Ho, Som and Gibbs Barn at Longbridge Deverill, Wilts, 2004);
20?? refurb and ext, Birdcombe Ct, Som; website
2013 proposed refurb and ext Islay Lodge, Bath, Som; website
TOOMER, Major ALBERT JOHN. Somerset County Architect 1922-38, previously chief architect to the Smallholdings Sub-Ctee. FRIBA. Articled to Hippisley & Sons qv, Wells, then chief assistant to JH Money, Newbury, government architect from 1897 to Northern Command, York, acc to WW in A 1914; his successor R Oliver Harris presumably oversaw schools at Ansford, Stoke sub Hamdon and Huish Episcopi. See Somerset County Council;
1922 adds Local Taxation Office, Shuttern, Taunton; SRO D/B/ta/24/1/53/ 906, minor rear adds;
1926-9 Boys Grammar School, Ponsford Rd, Minehead, Som; SRO plans 1926 drawn by WHW;
1929-32 Central School, Higher Backway, Bruton, Som; £15,189, Hobbs & Son, Bruton bldrs;
1934 Police Station, Weston s Mare, Som; BoE N;
1935 Council School, Milton Park Rd, Weston s Mare; D/B/wsm/24/1/6214
1936 Police Station, Alcombe Rd, Minehead, Som;
1936-8 ?Police Station and Magistrates Court, Petter’s Way, Yeovil, Som;
1936-8 Yeovil School, Mudford Rd, Yeovil; elev ill in centenary history pamphlet 1945; thirties modern, flat-roofed, brick; Wm T Nicholls, Gloucester, bldrs; dem;
1940ff attr Ansford School, Som; Castle Cary & Ansford 2002 says blt during WW2 for £32,000, first pupils 1940 before it was completed; v similar to Huish Episcopi and Stoke sub Hamdon. ?plans 1932-6;
1940 attr Secondary School, Huish Episcopi, Som; similar to Ansford;
1940 attr Secondary School, Stoke sub Hamdon, Som; similar to Ansford; now Stanchester School.
TORRENS, RICHARD MICHAEL. 10 The Crescent, Taunton. Firm was Ellis & Torrens 1947; FRIBA; known as Michael Torrens, related to Hugh Torrens industrial archaeologist? Lived in Trull, Alan Rome worked with him acc to Robert Dunning;
1946 reps Beercrowcombe ch, Som; ICBS;
1946-8 reps Lympsham ch, Som; E&T; ICBS;
1947-50 reps Hatch Beauchamp ch, Som; inspected by JEM MacGregor; ICBS; RMT of E&T
1948 minor alts Broadlands, Trull Rd, Taunton, Som for NFU county HQ; plans SRO D/B/ta/24/1/110/3697; E&T;
1948 alts St Andrew’s Vicarage, Kingston Rd, Taunton, Som to two houses; plans SRO 3696; RMT;
1949 Three shops and offices, Corporation St, Taunton, Som for RJ Spiller; Michael Torrens; neo-Goergian brick w paired columns on gr floor; middle section remodelled by ?Robin Shirley-Smith as Bridgwater House; plans SRO D/B/ta/24/1 … 4030;
1949 outpatients dept, Minehead Hospital, The Avenue, Minehead, Som, by Donati & Torrens of 31 Bridge St Taunton; D/U/M/ 22/1/834; with Edward Donati qv;
1956 St Peter ch, Lyngford, Taunton, Som; Dunning, Som churches & chapels; new church for Priorswood and Lyngford estates;
1958-9 reps West Camel ch, Som; ICBS;
1959 alts Hagley, Alcombe Rd, Minehead conv to YHA hostel; SRO
1959 Squash Court, Wellington School, Som, conv of 1905 Fives Court by HH Humphreys; incorporated into Corner Building 1986 by Julian Hannam; WS 173
1959 Office, Wellington School, Som; single-storey; first floor added by
Mary Ewing of Brittain Hadley Rose Ptnrship, 1991; WS 173;
1960 adds to Overside, Wellington School, Som; orig villa called Dorreen, South St, of c1900, bought 1918, extended 1919 by ETHoward & Son; WS 173;
1961-2 Parsonage, Bicknoller, Som; plans SRO D/r/wil/ .. ;
1963 New Block, Wellington School, Som; WS 173;
1965-6 reps Curry Mallet ch, Som; ICBS;
1966 reps Creech St Michael ch, Som; ICBS;
1967-9 adds The Willows, South St, Wellington, Som, for Wellington School; WS 173;
1978 reps Mudford ch, Som; HBC appl 1978;
TOTTENHAM, HUGH Consulting engineer to Timber Development Association, designed conoid shell roofs famously used at Oxford Rd Station, Manchester, 1959-60. J Holder & S Parissien, The architecture of British transport, pp 87-8, also about 100 other roofs;
1960 Yeovil Cattle Market, Som, roofs; Holder & Parissien, 88; ?with another architect for quadrant shaped auction room at upper end; derelict 2010.
TOWER, WALTER ERNEST 1873-1955 Nephew, partner and successor to CE Kempe qv in stained glass firm. Trained under Sir Aston Webb, joined Kempe v young. Tower did not design stained glass but ran Kempe & Co until it closed 1934 and his tower rebus appears on the firm’s glass;
1899-1908 Chapel, King’s College, Taunton; BoE S; 1898-1903 RL; incomplete; Kempe suggested Tower to chief backer HM Gibbs of Barrow Court and Prebendary Henry Meynell, decided to lay out v long chapel and start at W end and also SE Lady Chapel, this partly designed by Gibbs. 1904 HJ Spiller raised walls 10’. W half built up to springing of W window by 1907 then temporary roof by HJ Spiller qv, E half not built, Lady Chapel built 1904 as memorial to Meynell. Nave E end not built until 1936 by HSW Stone qv connecting the two. Crucifix designed by Kempe himself, made in Oberammergau by Zwinck, given by Tower. Stuckey Coles gave a Fra Angelico in 1908, Gibbs gave Flemish triptych 1904 for lady Chapel altar; organ from St Michael Bassishaw, London, C18 much rebuilt in transit;
1899-1901 North Wing connecting chapel to school, King’s College, Taunton; RL; with cloister walk on W side of cloister; plans completed before 1899, bldr Mr Spiller; Bishops Lydeard stone dressings;
c1900 attrib alts to cottages, Barrow Gurney, Som; for HM Gibbs; AFtext
1914 ?inv w new rooms, Kings College, Taunton built at rear of main school in angle to NE wing allegedly to designs of HM Gibbs of Barrow Ct; called Gibbs’ Corner;
1920 War memorial cross, Cloister, King’s School, Taunton; designed with HM Gibbs; possibly also the war memorial plaque in the cloister designed by Kempe & Co, made by Farmer & Brindley;
1926-7 Headmaster’s house, King’s College, Taunton; BoE S; RL;
TOWNESEND, GEORGE 1681-1719 Mason and carver in Bristol, one of the family of Oxford masons; HC;
1697 memorial to Sir Hugh Smyth, Long Ashton ch, Som; signed;
(1701-4 inv with Bristol Tolsey, dem 1824; w John Jones carpenter
(1711-19 mason, Kings Weston House, Bristol; des by J Vanbrugh;
c1715 mem to Lady Smyth + 1715, Long Ashton ch, Som;
(1716 completed tower All Saints ch, Bristol; HC, with Wm Paul mason)
TOWNING-HILL RICHARD Architect Towning-Hill & Partners;
(1977 Druid Woods housing, Bristol; HDA 1977; with Building Partners Bristol Ltd;
19?? No 57 Providence Lane, Long Ashton; modern houses index;
TOWNSEND, ROBERT Architect, The Studio, Bulford Rd, Durrington, Salisbury, Wilts, worked with F Gibberd and FRS Yorke before war, trained at AA; became a RC deacon 1965; did interesting modernist timber weaving shed at Wilton Royal Carpet factory, Wilts; all his papers are in Wiltshire Record Office; he had an office at 15 Belmont, Bath;
1950 ext paper mills, Bathford, Som 2806/122
1953 alts Bath & County Club, Queen Square, Bath 2806/115
(1954 house for Prof McKeown, 23 Hintlesham Ave, Edgbaston, Birmingham; 2806/86, built 1955; A Foster, Birmingham City Guide;
1956 House for AL Munro, Sion Rd, Bath, 2806/116;
1960 alts La Retraite Convent, Burnham on Sea, Som 2806/118;
1960 house, Cleveland Walk, Bath for Mr & Mrs Scott 2806/113
1963 alts Old Rectory, Berkley, Som 2806/123
1965 Farmhouse for Duchy of Cornwall, Wilmington, Som 2806/121
1970 alts Our Lady of Lourdes RC church, Milton, Weston s Mare 2806/120
1972 reordering, Corpus Christi RC ch, Weston s Mare 2806/119
TOY, C.G. See Stone & Partners;
TRAPP, WILLIAM mason and builder, East St, Warminster, 1842 dir; WBR2;
1834 take down and rebuild part of steeple, Woodlands ch, Son; Longleat 14/3 2/12 11/4/1808;
(1835 bldr, tollhouse, Upton Lovell, Wilts; architect John Pinch Jr; WBR2;
(1856 unsuccessful T to bld Wiltshire Reformatory, Warminster, Wilts; WBR2
TRASK, CHARLES. Courtfield, Norton sub Hamdon. 1830-1907. Carver of stone and wood, involved with Ham Hill stone quarry, sec. 1906 of Ham Stone & Doulting Stone Co. 1906 Kelly has Charles Trask of Courtfield and Charles James Trask of Broadshard; 1889 Kelly has CT of Courtfield; a window in Norton ch by Wilson commemorates golden wedding of Charles & Susan Trask 1904. Trask had one of best carver’s workshops in Britain, used by Sedding, Wilson et al. Sedding used him at Stamford, Lincs, for pulpits at Melplash & Staplegrove, the screen at Weston Zoyland (no screen was 1935-6 by Ralph Fry for Caroe, carved by Archie Osborne of Norton sub hamdon), rest chancel Barrington ch (Penny Cudmore in The Nortonian 2). CT author of History of Norton sub Hamdon. Paul Snell has evidence that Trask designed as well. WE Micklewright former manager took over workshops, only lasted two years. Micklewright probably made furniture at Trasks to Wilson designs, he made the gates for Tonbridge School Chapel, the wooden patterns for the bronze letters made by Trasks to be cast by Singer in Frome. Micklewright had own workshop later at The Yews, NsH closed 1923. WEM made oak chest in Norton s Hamdon ch. ?Employed an Italian called Venai who carved two 10ft stone figs in armour ?for Weybridge, also a 2’ oak crucifix, Penny Cudmore article in The Nortonian, 2. Cyndy Manton, Henry Wilson, 2009 stresses only Trask woodwork, says firm were Charles Trask & Son.
1862 carving, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; AW Blomfield archt; Br 1862 624;
1869 new vicarage being built, Stogursey, and new wing to be added to the school, Mr Trask of Shepton Mallet contractor WG 11.6.69;
1871-2 masonry, rest Yeovilton ch, Som; Br 29.6.72, Slater & Carpenter archr qv; ‘freestone work by Messrs Trask of Stoke and Doulting’;
1873-4 bldr rest Middle Chinnock ch, Som; JM Allen architect; WG 17.4.74;
(1878 bldr rest Stoke Abbott ch, Dorset to be reopened BN 21.6.78 JP St Aubyn architect;
1880 base for screen, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; for iron screen by AW Blomfield, cf Penny Cudmore;
1880-1 contr rest North Curry ch, Som, chancel rest by E Christian, rest by JO Scott, carving by H Hems; Br 16.7.81 93; Olivey: Trask of Ilminster lowest tender £2850, cost £4501/17/3d and £1000 for chancel and £1000 for st glass;
1882 rest South Barrow ch, Som; Kelly 1906, £800; but plans are by H Parsons of Misterton qv, SRO;
1882 bldr N aisle, Highbridge ch, Som; J Norton archt; prop WG 25.8.82
1884 bldr rest Chard ch, JD Sedding architect BN 12.9.84;
1886 alts chancel Langport ch, Som, to designs by JD Sedding, inc elaborate stone sedilia w credence shelf. But the reredos by Sedding was carved by GW Seale of Brixton; M McDermott, All Saints Ch Langport, ch guide 1998; SRO cf/1886/3;
1889-90 blt West Chinnock ch, Som; des by C Kirk qv; note in church;
1892 Screen, St John ch, Taunton, Som; by HW, made by C Trask; ch guide; wrought iron;
1894-5 rest tower Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som to des by H Wilson qv;
1894-5 Font and tower screen, Norton Sub Hamdon ch, Som, intended for Welbeck Abbey (by Wilson), carved by Richard A Gillman; Manton;
(1895-6 made altar and rail, Lady Chapel, Marple ch, Ches for Wilson; Manton 64;
(1894-8 Fittings, Brithdir ch, Merioneth, for Henry Wilson; M Saunders book on Friends of Friendless Churches; woodwork inc stalls, rails;
(1896 reredos chapel, Douglas Castle, Lanarks, des by Wilson, painted triptych by C Whall; Manton 51, also organ-case;
1897 made tower screen, pulpit & lectern, in oak, Drayton ch, Som; ch guide; design looks like Wilson;
1897 contr Jubilee Memorial, Queen Sq, North Curry, Som; E Buckle archt; Olivey, N Curry, 1901, 114; £250;
(1907 furnishings Lady chapel, Holy Redeemer ch, Clerkenwell, London; des by Wilson; Manton 27;
1909 W doors, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; des by Wilson, carved by Arthur Pantin;
1909 Pulpit and five bench ends, Staplegrove ch, Som for HG Turner; carved by Arthur Parkin of Norton sub Hamdon ; ?looks like H Wilson
(1910-13 ?work on pulpit, Ripon Cathedral, Yorks, by Wilson ‘finally installed by Charles Trask in 1913’, Manton; but CT was dead.
TRASK, THOMAS Mason
1795 The Monument, Market Square, Ilchester, Som; £35/10/3¾d
TRAVERS, H. MARTIN OTTO. Architect, designer of church fittings and glass. 1886-1948. Book by Warrener & Yelton.
1913 E window glass, Chesterblade ch, Som; v fine Nativity, signed and dated HMOT 1913. Warrener & Yelton, 55; AF notes; masonry by FB Bond & Anderson
1935ff ?rest Drayton ch, Som faculty SRO D/D/cf/1935/58 for rest of Lady chapel and chancel may relate; signs N aisle E window 1935; ?designed rood figure on iron beam chancel arch and two supporters in niches in chancel arch: faculties include ‘cross for chancel arch’ 1935/66 and ‘rood and altar ornaments’ 1947/109; also ?iron screen to Lady chapel c1935 and iron altar rails 1937/165; also chancel chandelier 1935;
1934-5 E window, Nettlecombe ch, Som; also wooden reredos beneath; D/D/cf/1934/61;
1941 Cross & candlesticks, Martock ch, Som; ch guide;
1943 reps Wyke Champflower ch, Som; create vestry of a room to W in manor house, replace reredos; new rails, oak top to altar table, reading-desk, restore oak acorn finials to pews, new font, new doorway to W room, two silvered candlesticks, embroidered hanging around sanctuary above panelling, altar frontal; Charles Hill of Bruton bldr; D/D/cf1943/11;
Also window Chrtist Church, Swindon, Wilts post 1927; WBR;
TREHEARNE & NORMAN, PRESTON & PARTNERS, London. Prime London commercial architects, founded by T&N pre WWI. Harold Mortimer, Leslie Norton, worked for them; did UK Atomic Energy HQ, Lower Regent St c1960; Kett House Cambridge 1960;
1959-60 Lloyd’s Bank Chambers, North St & Hammett St, Taunton, Som; inscribed plaque;
TRENT, WILLIAM E. Architect to Gaumont-British Cinema chain ?succeeded W Benslyn qv.
(1930-1 Gaumont later Odeon, New Canal St, Salisbury behind medieval Hall of John Halle; assisted by Ernest F Tulley; Gothic interior;
1933-4 Gaumont Cinema, South St, Yeovil, Som; assisted by Ernest F Tulley; BH; WG22.6.34;
(1936 Gaumont Cinema, Fore St, Trowbridge, Wilts; cf Falconer The Trowbridge Movies;
1939 Palace Cinema, Cork St, Frome, Som; with son WS Trent and HG Payne; BH;
TREPPLIN, ERNEST C. FSI Agent to Portman estate, estate office, Station Rd, Taunton 1906.
1910 Portman chapel and alts, Orchard Portman ch, Som; letters SRO D/D/cf/1909/ signed ?EC Tapplin; moved S porch to N side and replaced it with chapel.
TREW, A.R. F. Architect, Bristol
(1908 thirteen houses, Kingswood nr Bristol C Br 8.2.08;
TREW (J.M.) & SONS Architects Broad St, Bristol;
(1886 rest and adds house at Hallen, Bristol for HW Case T Br 19.6.86;)
TRICKEY, ROBERT H. Bristol plasterer. Reputedly involved at Banwell Castle built 1845-7 for JD Sympson AFtext;
1829 reredos, Banwell ch, Som; AFtext;
TRIMEN, A. Architect;
(1862 Shaftesbury C chapel, Dorset; CYB 1862)
TROLLOP, PHILIP mason
1773-84 paid for repairs at Woodlands ch, Som; Longleat 14/3 2/12 15/6/1774; also among same vouchers Stephen Trollop and John Ford masons 1783; William Wiltshire mason 1775; James Singer mason 1783; John Hart tiler and plumber 1780 paid for putting up cornice; painting cherub heads and letters over E window 1775; estimates for plaster cornice 1779 from James Brown of Bath who recommends Mr Chubb as best ornamental plasterer in Bath 14/2 27/0 7/12/1779;
TRUEFITT, GEORGE London
1853 Thorne Coffin Rectory, Som; Br 1853 348; SRO D/Bbm/114, reusing materials from Governor’s House, Ilchester Prison.
TRUMP, THOMAS Builder
1827 gallery West Monkton ch, Som; ICBS;
1833 alts North Curry ch, Som; Richard Carver architect; repewing, repairs and alts; Olivey North Curry 1901, 196; £360 lowest tender accepted;
TUBBS, CYRIL BAZETT Architect, surveyor in Reading and Woking, nephew of HO Wills III of the tobacco family. c1858-1927. Practice Webb & Tubbs, Reading, with George William Webb born 1853. Bought Croydon Hall, Rodhuish, Som, in 1892 (or 1901). Altered and enlarged it before selling in 1907 to Count Konrad von Hochberg, also built thatched club-house for servants at top of drive c1905; possibly to his own designs; practiced in Reading c1881-6 and in Woking from 1898 with AA Messer, des Lodge Grove, Craven Arms, Salop, 1886, RC Chapel, Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, 1899. As general manager London Necropolis Co from 1887, des their offices cum railway station, Westminster Bridge House, Westminster Bridge Rd, London, 1900; Tubbs & Messer had office at Bexhill, Sx doing houses at Cooden and for Larkin builders c1930-6.
(1882 Parsonage Froxfield, Wilts; Webb & Tubbs; WBR;
1901-7 ?alts Croydon Hall, Rodhuish, Som, for himself, also thatched club-house for estate workers;
TUCK, E. Bath
1875 1st pr Weston s Mare ch, Som; RHH;
TUCKER, - Architect, Taunton, died before 1785. Married at Walcot ch Bath, Ann daughter of late Mr Tucker, architect Taunton to Captain Slocomb of the brig Diligence of Minehead, BC 8.9.1785;
TUGWELL, FRANK A. Architect, 102 Westborough, Scarborough Yorks.
(c1890 Newcastle Packet PH, Scarborough, Yorks)
(1900 Grand Opera House, Harrogate, Yorks;
1905 Southernleigh, now Promenade Hotel, Blenheim Rd, Minehead, Som corner of Esplanade, dated 1905; sim to two adjacent houses, all three built by Tugwell for JH Leather of Normansleigh; marked as already built on plan for Normansleigh 1905, D/U/M/ 22/1/256; OD236;
1905 Netherleigh, now Little Stoke, Blenheim Road, Minehead, D/U/M/24/1/251; OD231; second from sea-front, Arts-and-crafts roughcast;
1905 Normansleigh, now Blenheim Lodge, Blenheim Rd, Minehead, Som; for JH Leather Esq; D/U/M/22/1/254; third house in group of three running back from seafront; this one on corner of North Road was Leather’s own house, Normansleigh OD236;
1906 Beverleigh and Farleigh, two semi-detached houses, North Hill, Minehead for JH Leather; D/U/M/ 22/1/256; non-matching outer gables, left one coped, 2 gabled dormers centre, oriel each end; OD253 villas North Hill estate;
1906 Semi-det pair, North Hill, Minehead, for JH Leather; D/U/M/ 22/1/271; big hipped roof with gable to right and veranda across rest to a canted porch on left; for site next to Beverleigh/Farleigh; not there, not built?;
(1908 Royal Opera House, Scarborough, Yorks; dem 2004;
1908 Large house and outbuildings, Minehead, for Charles E Coles D/U/M/ 22/1/348;
1910 Detached house, North Hill, Minehead for JH Leather, D/U/M/ 22/1/318
1910 House, 'Weirfield', Minehead for Mr Leather OD370
1911 Garage etc Blenheim Rd, Minehead for Mr Leather OD373;
1911 Stable, Beverleigh, Beacon Rd, Minehead D/U/M/22/1/ 377 for Mr Leather; small hip-roof outbuilding
1914 new wing, Netherleigh, Minehead for trustees of late JH leather; OD521;
(1921 Futurist Theatre Scarborough, Yorks)
(1929 Savoy Theate, London, interior, ext by Easton & Robertson)
TULLY, GEORGE Bristol 1688-1770. Carpenter & surveyor; HC; Quaker; laid out Dowry Square and Chapel Row, Bristol, after 1720. Prob des King Square pre 1740. Laid out Brunswick Sq 1766. Native of Surrey, free burgess of Bristol 1715, son William Tully +1763, architect, GJL.
(1720 laid out Dowry estate, Hotwells, Bristol; GJL; Dowry Sq laid out from 1721 by GT with Thomas Oldfield; SNB;
(c1721 attr Clifton Wood Ho, Clifton, Bristol; SNB
(c1722-4 reblt Goldney House, Clifton, Bristol, for Thomas Goldney; SNB
(1727 Nos 7-9 Dowry Sq, Bristol; Nos 10-11 1746; GJL; Nos 6-9 attrib SNB c1721-5;
(c1727 attr Nos 65-7 St Michaels Hill, Bristol; SNB
(1727 Chapel Row, Nos 262-6 Hotwell Rd; GJL
(1737 laid out King Square, Kingsdown, Bristol; GJL; also attrib Somerset St c1737-8, SNB
(1741 design for Bristol Exchange and Markets; unex; GJL
(1746 Dowry Chapel, Bristol; dem; Hotwells Chapel Hotwells Rd dem 1872;
(1747 QM house, Quakers Friars, Bristol; GJL; architectural detail by Thomas Paty acc to survey of QM houses, 2017;
(1749 part of Infirmary, Bristol, dem;
(1748 Wesley’s Chapel, Bristol; attr HC; Wesley's New Room 1739 enlarged 1748 attrib by GJL; with William Tully)
(1759 attrib houses on SW side College Green, Bristol; GJL
(1769 laid out Brunswick Sq, St Pauls Bristol; GJL; also Cumberland St, but did not design houses, SNB;
TURNER, Rev. J.F. Probably Rev James Francis Turner, rector of North Tidworth, Wilts, in 1868 Crockfords, though WG 4.5.66 gives architect of Walton church as the Rev W. Turner, inf Canon Hopewell;
1865-6 Walton ch, Som; VCH; CSG 2.6.65 and 5.5.66 gives Rev JFT as architect, and F Merrick contractor; font Caen stone with Cork marble shafts; patterned glass throughout by the architect Rev JFT, Lavers & Barraud did picture glass, Ew gem-like, not archaic, better than German glass, chancel S 2-lt Salutation of BVM and Anointing of X; Nave S 3-lt X in 3 characters; near font another 2-lt two types of Baptism, gift of Rev JF Horner; carving by Seymour of Taunton; ironwork by Hart & Son; WG 4.5.66 says window at W end N aisle given by Mr Horner of Mells; DoE says church designed with John Norton qv, probably from BoE 1958, but this seems to be confusion with Walton in Gordano; Turner was not the vicar of Walton.
TURNER, LAURENCE A. Sculptor, carver. 1864-1957, brother of Thackeray Turner, much used by Arts and Crafts architects eg Bodley, Eden, Tapper, Schultz and T Turner; worked for HT Hare on Bangor Univ; carved Morris tomb at Kelmscott des by P Webb;
19— Memorial, Martock ch, Som, to Preb AP Wickham and tablet to W & E Brooks, Lady Chapel. Church guide; painted wood dull;
TWISDEN, Captain JOHN FRANCIS RN, 1767-1853, Rock House, Halberton, canal engineer; naval career from 1780, in charge of signal station on Golden Cap, Dorset, 1796-1814, retired to Halberton, Devon, in 1815; raised to Commander in retired list 1823; 1834 RSA award for improvements applicable to inland navigation, from 1841 de jure 7th Baronet as Sir John Twisden Bt of Bradbourne House, Kent, gafter a succession dispute disinherited his uncle and cousin, buried Maidstone, Kent; his house at Halberton, Rock House, was reputedly designed by John Rennie, engineer to Grand Western Canal in 1814, EH listing;
1836-8 completed Grand Western Canal, Lowdwells to Taunton section after dismissal of James Green qv, to Green designs, modified; had been associated with canal from 1829, said to have loaned the company money. James Easton employed to survey Green’s machinery, WA Provis qv to do report on necessary works, Thomas Maddicks qv and Isaac Westwood engaged as additional engineers; canal opened 28.6.38; H Harris The Grand Western Canal;
TYLER, WILLIAM London. Sculptor and architect +1801. Studied under Roubilliac, one of original forty Royal Academicians; HC;
1776 Fireplace, Nettlecombe Court, Som; inlaid with Sicilian jasper as per drawing, black marble covings and vein slab, £68/5/0d; SRO DD/WO/40/10/1; not found in house;
(1779-80 Ordnance Office. Westminster, dem 1805; HC;)
(1784-5 County Gaol, Dorchester, Dorset; superseded by new gaol 1789-95 by William Blackburn; HC;)
(1786-7 TH, Bridport, Dorset; HC)
(1800 Villa Maria, Kensington, London for Duchess of Gloucester; RA 1800)
TYNTE, Sir CHARLES KEMEYS, Halswell Park, Goathurst, Som. +1785. Improvements at Halswell largely designed by Tynte himself, owner 1740-85 incl monument to a neice +1744, redesign of the canal and rockwork dam (1754), Rotunda to miss Busby (1755), Druid’s Temple (1756), grotto similar to a des in Thomas Wright’s Book of Arbours, 1755, an ornamented bridge in Mill Wood (1755, though this may be the background to a portrait by Hogarth 1753 which shows Sir Charles with drawing board, book of garden plans and dividers; menorial to a horse (1765),
The banqueting house, 1765-7, called Robin Hood’s Hut was loosely based on drawings by Henry Keene qv who made des for a temple at Halswell, now at V&A; RL; cf also JJ de Wilstar, Henry Keene, Thomas Wright; friend of CW Bampfylde qv, commemorated by Banpfylde, with Hoare of Stourhead, in the Friendship Urn at Hestercombe, Som.
UNDERWOOD & BILLING. Clifton
(1862 entr Macclesfield Cemetery comp, Ches; RHH)
UNDERWOOD, CHARLES Architect, 4 St Michaels Terrace, Bristol; c1791-1883. In Cheltenham, bankrupt 1821, est by 1830s in Bristol; brother of George A Underwood c1793-1829 of Cheltenham and Henry Underwood of Bath 1787-1868. 1st chairman of BSA 1851; employed by developers Savery & Clark on several schemes;
(1836-40 Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol; BoEN; HC; GJL; lodges and chapels; T: BM 7.7.38 for two chapels; T: BM 29.12.38 registrar's house, two lodges and two entrance gates;
(c1836-8 attr Promenade House, The Promenade, Clifton, Bristol; SNB by CU or by GA Underwood; c1845 GJL;
(1838 Burley ch, Hants; GJL;
(c1840 attr Edgcumbe Hall, 89 Queens Rd, Clifton, Bristol; GJL
(c1840-5 attr No 40 Eastfield, Bristol; SNB)
(1840-9 Canynge Square, Bristol; completed by WB Gingell qv; SNB
(1842 Nos 1-4 Kensington Place, Clifton, Bristol; HC; SNB; elevation ill in Avon Past 11 dated 10.9.42, Joseph Hall builder;
(1842 attr Nos 132-4 Queens Rd, Clifton; GJL;
(1842-5 attr Lansdown Place, Victoria Sq, Clifton; usually attrib to Thomas Foster & Son but developers were Savery & Clark; SNB;
(1844 sale five villas, Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol BM 23.3.44
(1849 Mansion for Mr Gibbs, Clifton, Bristol; ABO 1849 93;
1849 No 5 Clifton Park, Bristol for Edward Clark, developer; SNB
(1849 Dr Fox’s Asylum, Northwood, Brislington, Bristol; ABO 1849 93; but SNB says refacing of 1850-1 was by SC Fripp qv
(1851 Worcester Terrace, Clifton, Bristol; HC; GJL;c1848-53 SNB;
(1852 Christ Church Schools, Princess Victoria St, Clifton, Bristol; SNB; now library; alts 1877
(1853 Stoneleigh House, Nos 10-11 Clifton Park, Bristol; GJL; also attrib Nos 1-4 c1853 but SNB says 1-2 1836 and 3-4 1845 probably both by Charles Dyer);
(1857 interiors Royal West of England Academy, Queens Rd, Bristol; GJL
(1862 Home Mills, Court St, Trowbridge, Wilts; WBR; the previous mills of S Salter & Co were burnt; top floor removed after another fire in 1931; now Trowbridge Museum; did Underwood design Salter's offices at No 5 Fore St, 1864, built by Taylor?;
(1868 National School Clifton, Bristol; dem; GJL
Also possibly No 16 Cotham Park;
UNDERWOOD, GEORGE ALLAN c1793-1829 Bath, brother of Charles and Henry Underwood qqv; HC, as in office Sir John Soane 1807-15 before setting up in Cheltenham and then moved to Bath where he died aged 36; County Surveyor, Somerset, 1818-29; Also County Surveyor Dorset. Surveyor to fabric Wells Cathedral c1816-29, RL2 68;
1816 ?inv at Ston Easton, Som, from where he wrote to Sir John Soane. But may have been involved only with Sir JC Hippisley’s villa at Cowes by John Nash; RL says he designed indoor plunge pool;
(1817 Montpelier Spa, Cheltenham, Glos; HC)
1817-18 Christ Church, Frome Selwood, Som; new ch, reject ICBS; 1817-29 RL; 1818 HC;
1818 House of Correction, Shepton Mallet, Som; 1818-23 RL; Cheltenham Chron 2.9.19 proceding well, entirely labour of prisoners;
1818 alts Nunney ch, Som; RL 1818-26; SNB c1818-26 with John Crocker;
1819 recommended by Soane to RC community at Downside, Som; HC;
1819-21 attr Assembly Rooms, Frome, Som; possibly by John Pinch who made unex des in 1813, possibly by Wyatville, possibly by Underwood; SNB
(1820 Holy Trinity ch, Cheltenham, Glos; HC.
1821 Town Bridge, Frome, Som, BoE Som; RL;
(1822 Manor House, Beaminster, Dorset; HC)
(1823 Kingsmill Bridge, Marnhull, Dorset; HC;
1823-5 Royal Literary Inst, Bath, Som; HC; retaining portico of Lower Rooms added W Wilkins 1808-9; dem;
1823-5 Ashwick ch, Som; ICBS; 1825 AFtext, RL; HC; rebuilt 1876-81 by Gill & Browne;
1824 cottage, Finger Gate, Mells Park, Mells, Som; RL 2 41;
1826-32 Timsbury ch, Som; GR; HC 1826; ICBS;
Unex plans for Downside Abbey, Som; RL;
UNDERWOOD, HENRY. Architect, Bath. 1787-1868; elder brother of George Allan Underwood c1793-1829 of Cheltenham and Charles Underwood c1791-1883 of Bristol; Charles went bankrupt in Cheltenham in 1821 and his contracts were taken over by brother Henry, then of London, later in Bath c1830. George was pupil of Soane, County Surveyor of Somerset by 1822 in Bath in 1820s died young. Henry moved to Bath c1830; advert for claims on estate of HU of 10 Pierrepont St BC 19.3.68; not same as Henry Jones Underwood qv of Oxford who committed suicide in Bath 1852;
(1829 alts Penpont, Betws Penpont, Brec, for Penry Williams; HC, add of colonnade, conservatory and alts to dining-room; RH in CL 18.6.1992)
1843-4 New Chapel, Henry St, Bath; MF 212 also manse now Blenheim House; HC; he may have designed 1-2 Manvers St, Bath adjoining, AF text
Attrib Ralph Allen House, Railway Place, Bath, c1840, AFtext;
UNDERWOOD, HENRY JONES Architect, Oxford, 1804-52 native of Bristol but not apparently related to three Underwood brothers Henry, Charles and George qqv born 1787-93; HJU was pupil of HH Seward, and Sir Robert Smirke, settled in Oxford 1830, designed much in Oxford inc St Paul ch, and in much in Oxon; committed suicide in White Hart Hotel, Bath, while on way to visit brother in Bristol, DWG 25.3.52;
(1837 vicarage, Lower Swell, Glos; HC)
(1839-41 Llangorwen ch, Cards; HC)
UNSWORTH, W.F. Architect
1884 Blair Mount, Minehead Som ill BN 21.11.84; half-timbered;
UNWIN, Sir RAYMOND 1863-1940, trained as engineer, partner with cousin and brother-in-law R Barry Parker qv; Unwin was planner in garden village movement, from New Earswick, York, 1901-3, Letchworth,1904, Hampstead Garden Suburb 1907-14, chief planner to Ministry of Health from 1919, PRIBA1931-3, knighted 1932; RIBA Gold Medal 1937; ASG;
1903-6 Haygrove Cottage, No 3 Durleigh Rd, Bridgwater; Mervyn Miller says designed by Unwin for a relative connected to Sully family of Bridgwater; plans at house by ?Parker & Unwin;
(1922-39 laid out Pinehurst estate, Swindon, Wilts; WBR; BoE says Parker & Unwin from 1919;
VALLIS & BIRD, VALLIS & BUTLER, VALLIS & VALLIS, VALLIS ASSOCIATES see Ronald Vallis
VALLIS, JOHN Frome
1882 Station-master’s house, Frome Station, Som; FSYB 3 45-54;
VALLIS, RONALD W. H. Architect, Frome. Worked with Percy Rigg qv and AS Butler, took over practice in 1930s as Vallis & Butler, in Monmouth House, then North Parade. Firm was Vallis & Bird (V&B), Vallis & Vallis (V&V) with William VR Vallis, Ronald’s son, Vallis Associates (VA), finally Nugent Vallis Bryer (NVB) qv with - Nugent, William Vallis and Mike Brierly. Ronald Vallis was architect to Sunny Hill Girls School, Pitcombe (now Bruton School for Girls), from c1951 and Kings School Bruton from c1959; cf D Parsons’ history of Sunny Hill (DP); information on girls’ school from A Harvey-Kelly bursar;
(1935 development, Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WRO G13/760/267; also house Frome Rd 1935 G13/760/275;
1935 Knoll House, Whitemill Lane, Frome, Som; MHB;
(1938 rest Winterslow ch, Wilts; V & Butler?, WBR;
(1938-9 rest No 21 Tory, Bradford on Avon for Guy Underwood; GA;
1946 unex Memorial Hall, Churchfields, Wincanton, Som; SRO D/DC/s.som 24/1/1;
194? proposed alts Hadspen, Som for – Hobhouse; corresp seen by Robert Dunning, nothing done as permission to proceed not given; there are also letters from Clough Williams-Ellis from whom owner wanted ideas;
(1947 repairs Court House, Bratton, Wilts; WBR; T Holdoway & Sons, Westbury, bldrs)
1951 adds Gardener’s cottage, Sunny Hill Girls School, Pitcombe, Som; DP;
1956-8 St Andrew ch, Bournville, Weston super Mare, Som; V&B;
1956-62 reps Laverton ch, Som; ICBS;
1957 New House, Sunny Hill Girls School, Pitcombe, Som; DP; add to Sanatorium of 1916 by AJ Pictor qv;
1957 reps Woodlands ch, Som; V&B; SRO faculty;
1959-61 reps Berkley ch, Som; ICBS;
1959-60 Blackford House, Kings School, Bruton, Som; inf Alan Rome;
1960 alts Christ Church, Frome, Som; removed galleries; AFtext;
1960 reps Pilton ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1960/5/2; also 1964;
1961 reps Yarlington ch, Som; d/d/cf/1961/2/3
1963 unex proposal to lower roof and bellcote, Witham Friary ch, Som; D/D/cf/1963/7/13;
1965 reps Castle Cary ch; SRO D/D/cf/1965/9/3; V&V;
1969 Library, Scott Rd, Frome, Som; V&V; AFtext, now shop.
1975 Dining Hall and art school, Kings School, Bruton, Som; behind New House; inf J Bishton;
1978 Music school, Sunny Hill Girls School, Pitcombe, Som; DP; hipped imitation stone;
1981 Cumberlege House, Sunny Hill Girls School, Pitcombe, Som; DP by Pamela A Lea, of V&A; brick gambrel roofs;
1982 Dormitory block, Old House, Kings school, Bruton, Som; inf J Bishton;
1983 Science Building, Sunny Hill School, Pitcombe, Som; banded brick and blockwork; 3 storey;
1985 Hobhouse Building, Sunny Hill School, Pitcombe, Som; DP; modified for studio theatre 2007-8 by Pamela Lea;
1989 Thomson Building, Sunny Hill School, Pitcombe, Som; by Pamela Lea; library & classrooms; single storey w clock turret;
2007-8 Studio Theatre, Hobhouse Building, Bruton School for Girls, Pitcombe, Som; by Pamela Lea of NVB;
VALLIS, WILLIAM V. R. Architect, Frome, see Ronald Vallis
VALPY & GIBBS, Architects, 58 Old Broad St, London. Henry Valpot Francis Valpy & AH Gibbs.
1858 Rectory, Biddisham, Som; SRO D/Bbm/131; gabled, seg-pointed ws;
1859 School, Biddisham, Som; SRO D/D/EDS/1, plans signed AH Gibbs, 18.2.59.
VANBRUGH, Sir JOHN 1664-1726 Soldier, Playwright, Architect from c1699.
(c1710-19 Kings Weston, Bristol for Edward Southwell; HC;
(1718ff Eastbury Park, Dorset; HC; dem;)
VEITCH, JOHN Killerton, Devon. Builder, landscape architect
1792 estimate for landscape work, Nettlecombe Court, Som for Sir John Trevelyan, making sunken fences (ha-has); levelling ground around house and stables, planting around stables; SRO DD/WO/40/12/4
1803 Parsonage, Runnington, Som; curious cruciform plan, no elves; SRO D/D/Bbm/24; minor adds 1814 by James Parsons qv
VEITCH, Lt ROBERT Royal Engineers. 1841-1916, in charge of defences of Bristol Channel 1864-7, of Plymouth 1867, of Malta 1872;
1864-6 supervised Brean Down Fort, Brean, Som, John Pollard of Totterdown, Bristol contr; SANHS 145; acc to N van der Bijl, Brean Down Fort, 2000, overall design of Palmerston forts was under Major William Jervois; John Perry of Weston s Mare also contractor;
VERRIER, -. Mason employed by Rev William Holland of Over Stowey in repairs alts to the Vicarage, Over Stowey, Som, cf Diary 31.1.1809; 13.3.1810;
VERRIER & SON Builders
1888 Bldrs Rowbarton Infant School, Taunton, CH Samson archt; TC 7.3.88;
VIALLS, GEORGE Architect London ARIBA. 1848-1912, from Northampton, articled EF Law, then with Sir MD Wyatt, set up on own 1871, lived in Grange Park, Ealing, in 1880s, had important work in Lyme Regis 1883-1902, moved to Yeovil in 1894 and Crewkerne 1897 and Priorswood Southampton by 1901 census, then with housekeeper and 3-year old son, they were married and in Heavitree, Exeter by 1911 census; had much work from William Pinney (1806-98) MP for Lyme Regis to 1865, in Somerton and in Lyme Regis; article by Max Hebditch on Lyme Regis museum website;
(1881 arcades, Christ Church, Sambourne, Warminster, Wilts; BoE, WBR; WG 20.5.81, 18.11.81 J Gaisford bldr)
(1883 Marshwood ch, Dorset for W Pinney MP; Max Hebditch)
1884 loggia, lodge gates, tennis court, Somerton Erleigh, Somerton for William Pinney; max Hebditch;
1885 Fountain, Merriott, Som WG 3.7.85;
(1885 stables, wagon-house and cottages, Racedown, Marshwood, Dorset for W Pinney MP;
1886 Drainage plan, vicarage, North Perrott, Som; plan at house, GV of Ealing
1887-8 alts Montclefe National School, Somerton; Max Hebditch;school built 1851 by Pinney family;
1887 summerhouse, Somerton Erleigh for W Pinney MP; Max Hebditch;
(1887-8 TH, Lyme Regis, Dorset)
1889-90 rest Somerton ch, Som; Br 1890b 274; report after survey 29-30.10.1885 on condition of roofs and arcades, clerestory, Som; SPAB report 1886 against removal of gallery, porch and raising floor levels; reopened TC 1.10.90 Merrick & Sons contrs; WG 3.10.90;
(1892 rest Membury ch, Devon; BoE;
(1892? Discussion re ch at Allington, Dorset, WG 29.4.92)
1897 additional block Chubbs Almshouses, West St, Crewkerne, Som; VCH 4 37 'GV of Crewkerne'; Max Hebditch;
(1901 Philpot Museum, Lyme Regis, Dorset)
VICKERY, -. builder, Clevedon
1869-70 bldr baths, Rock House Pier Hotel Clevedon, designed by Hans Price qv; Lilly, Builders of Clevedon, 2000;
1878 Bickley House, Alexandra Rd, Clevedon, Som; Lilly, Builders of Clevedon, 2000, from planning files;
VICKERY. F.C. Holloway St Minehead
1935 Bungalow, North Hill, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/748 and 749
1936 Two pairs of houses, Paganel Rd, Minehead D/U/M/ 22/1/761
1936 conv WM chapel, Combeland Rd, Alcombe, Minehead to house; D/U/M/ 22/1/762
VICKERY, THOMAS SIDNEY FRIBA 50 Gresham St, London; firm was G & TS Vickery, George Vickery died in 1922 (RIBA online). Both Vickerys listed in WWinA for 1914, 1923, and TS in 1926. TS became FRIBA in 1925. The DBA says there is a list of his works in his nomination papers. However they are not on the RIBA CD rom. The DBA also mentions some unpublished drawings in BAL but no trace on the microfilmlist. George was articled to Charles Hide and an improver in the offices of FA Dixon and Mr Fawcitt, surveyor. Became ARIBA1882. Thomas Sidney was responsible for the National Provincial Bank, Aldersgate, London (Br 13.1.1933 ‘the front was conceived along modernist lines and will be faced with Portland stone’). Also with JJ Joass responsible for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Old Jewry, London, A&BN 1931.
1924 restored Halswell House, Goathurst, Som, after fire 27.10.23, for Lord Wharton; SC notes; SSCH 71, Interior of N block including collapsed W wall rebuilt in replica; J Long of Bath contractor, £41,534/10/0d; by G&TSV;
VINCENT, - Southampton. See Newby, Vincent & Findlay Smith.
1912 hall, Baptist chapel, South St, Yeovil, Som; BoE S;
VINER, CHARLES. Architect of Bath family of masons inc Richard Viner carpenter and Gabriel Viner mason. Exhibited design for a triumphal monument RA 1838.
18?? unex design for a colonnade Gay St to Gravel Walks, Bath; HC;
VINER, JOHN Architect, Bath. A mason named C. Viner, Morford St, Bath, signs memorials c1779-1817, in Walcot, Weston, Norton St Philip, Newton St Loe, Devizes, and to – Taunton in Holy Trinity, Bradford on Avon, 1819; he was paid for black marble for staircase hall at Doddington Park, Glos, 1814 and for chimney-pieces 1816;
1821 Parsonage, Priston, Som; SRO DD/Bbm/55; hipped three bay with mullion and transom windows;
VINING, CHARLES. Yeovil. Master mason & builder;
c1810-15 Swallowcliffe House, Kingston, Yeovil, Som; L Brooke, Yeovil Pictorial History 67, ?error for Kingston House, Kingston, Yeovil, also early C19 and adjoining (now Park School), owned by JT Vining, solicitor, son of CV, there by 1842; LC Hayward, From Portreeve to mayor,1987, 43. Swallowcliffe House was built for George Mayo, father in law of JTV, but JTV only married Mayo’s daughter in 1842.
VINING, EDWARD. Architect. Picket Witch, Yeovil in 1892, not in 1906 Kelly but Mrs Vining at Pickettwitch, Ilchester Rd. Of family of Charles Vining (see above) as Picket Witch owned in 1842 by Charles Vining occ by R Vining. J Randall Vining was in practice in Chancery Lane London 1897;
1896-7 St John’s Schools, Church St, Yeovil, Som; plaque; Bartlett & Sons Bldrs; £3131/14/3d; opened 10.2.97;
VIVIAN & MATHIESON Bath. See also Vivien & Mathew
1975 rest shopfronts Pulteney Bridge, Bath; MF
VIVIEN & MATHEW. ?error for Vivian & Mathieson qv.
1976-7 alt St Bartholomew ch, Bath, Som; ICBS;
VOISEY & WILLS Bristol - Voisey and Frank Wills qv
(1877-8 Vicarage, Westwood, Wilts; WBR;)
VOYSEY, CHARLES FRANCIS ANNESLEY. 1857-1941 Leading Arts and Crafts architect. Articled JP Seddon 1873-8, set up in London 1881, RIBA gold medal 1940. cf Wendy Hitchmough, CFA Voysey, 1995, (WH); several commissions came from friendship with Mary Countess of Lovelace qv who married 2nd Earl (then Lord Wentworth) in 1880, and who herself designed in Voysey style. Malcolm Scott Exmoor Review 1999 48ff; Duncan Simpson CFA Voysey 1979 ;
(1893 cabinet for Lady Wentworth, later Countess of Lovelace; ill Duncan Simpson 35; another version ill Studio May 1896; ?Lady Wentworth became Countess in 1892;
(1895 house, Ockham Park, Surrey, for 2nd Earl of Lovelace, unex; WH 233;
(1895 alts Ockham Park, Surrey, for Earl of Lovelace +1906, further adds for Dowager Countess to 1932; WH 233; burnt 1948;
(1896 Wortley Cottages, Elmesthorpe, Leics, for 2nd Earl of Lovelace; BA 47 1897 24; Dekorative Kunst 1 1897 246; six cottages for estate workers, some rebuilding by CFAV 1914 after thatch roofs burnt; WH 231;
(1899 Winsford Cottage Hospital, Beaworthy, Halwill, Devon for Mrs Medley of Winsford tower; BoE;
c1907 ?memorial & seat, to Lord Lovelace +1906, Culbone ch, Som; BoE Som; RL; not in WH; in SW corner of churchyard, three pieces of stone set in wall, centre inscription, outer verses from Benedicite, no record of when it was erected; photo Malcolm Scott 53; cf 1927
(1907 mausoleum for 2nd Earl of Lovelace, Ockham ch, Sy; WH 234; for Countess of Lovelace;
(1908 Grille for tomb, Kirby Mallory, Leics, for Countess of Lovelace; WH 234:
1909 St Winifred’s Quarry, Combe Down, Bath, for TS Cotterell, gen manager of Bath & Portland Stone Companies; now called Lodge Style; ASG; RA 1909; BA 72 1909 111 & 114; Br 98 1910 264; Studio Yearbook 1910 82; BA 77 1911 361; Arch 101 1919 54; WH 232; bungalow nr Bath, RA 1937 exh;
1911-16 inv with alts Worthy Manor, Porlock Weir, Som, BoE S, RL, but possibly all by Lady Lovelace who took long lease in 1911; Malcolm Scott says CFAV planned restoration, added new entrance hall with staircase to newly formed bedrooms with typical Voysey window frames and distinctive iron glazing bars and catches. He put in new chimneys. After completion in 1916 was leased by Lady Mary to the Arkwright family.
1912 design for village hall, Porlock, inf Diana Crighton, for Lady Lovelace, not built, drawings ?in RIBAD; hall was built 1925 to design of F Roberts qv;
1912-14 inv at Lillycombe House, Oare, near Porlock, Som; WH 232, CFAV altered design by Countess of Lovelace and supervised construction; RIBAD; BA 78 1912 60; Anne Anderson, ‘The Countess of Lovelace and CFA Voysey’, Victorian Society Annual (1995), 38-41. Malcolm Scott says Lady Lovelace offered Edward MacDermott author of History of Royal Forest of Exmoor (1911) a new house on lease, and CFAV designed it, completed 1914 and MacDermott was summer visitor to 1921 then permanent; some furniture made either to CFAV or Lady Mary’s designs at her workshop at Ockham, Sy.
1925 ?Village Hall, Porlock, Som; attr BoE S; error as plans in SRO are by Roberts & Willman qv, FS laid by Mary Countess of Lovelace qv
1927 Reredos & repairs, Culbone ch, Som, for Countess of Lovelace; WH 234; RIBAD; 1927 alts and reredos, Culbone ch, Som, Harwood & Foster; 1928 RL; Lady Lovelace asked CFAV for report on repairs inc reconstruction of nave roof, replacing Welsh slate with Treborough, new reredos replaced Victorian alabaster one, wooden, Gothic tracery, painted, made by Huish of Porlock, cf Malcolm Scott p54; was chancel roof by Voysey?
1936 ?estate cottages, Anstey Combe, Porlock Weir, Som, for Lord Lovelace; BoE; not in WH; RL; error for Ashley Combe, cottages may be Lovelace Bungalow c1932 acc to Malcolm Scott, built for Lady Lovelace, perhaps designed by her;
Also: Malcolm Scott says that CFAV designed furniture for Ashley Combe, Porlock Weir, made repairs after storm in 1910, altering and restoring Ashley Combe, extended Gatehouse Lodge by addition of a cottage, and converted nearby stables into cottages, and restored cottages near Culbone church; around 1932 CFAV and Lady L blt Lovelace Bungalow, new cottage in the combe beyond the lodge, with Voysey features but perhaps by Lady L; stables cottages are called Wentworth and Milbanke after King titles. Plans for alteration to one end of stables below Gatehouse Lodge in Voysey style SRO 1901 are unsigned, almost certainly by Lady L, and it is quite possible that all the other works are by her.
VULLIAMY, LEWIS. 1791-1871 Pupil of Sir R Smirke, set up c1822, worked with nephew George Vulliamy qv until 1861. 1834 Hickey’s Almshouses Richmond; 1838 Royal Instution, Albemarle St, London added colonnade; 1846-7 All Saints ch, Ennismore Gardens, London; 1848-63 Dorchester House, Park Lane, London for RS Holford dem.; 1864-72 Westonbirt, Glos for RS Holford; Colvin; list of works Br 29 1871;
1837-40 ?Knowle St Giles ch, Som; BoE S; RL; but ICBS says 1839-41 by James Lockyer qv; not in HC; chancel added or reblt 1849 by JM Allen qv; RL says Br obit lists design for a new ch at Knowle, no proof it is Knowle St Giles;
(1838 Sturminster Newton workhouse, Dorset; HC; also did workhouses at Epping & Brentford.
(1839-40 Winterbourne Clenston ch, Dorset; HC;
1845-52 Attrib alts Montacute House, Som for William Phelips, his father John Phelips +1834 acc to JP Neale Views of Seats 1828 spared no expense in restoring house, but drawings surviving are post-1845 when William came to reside, for new service court and offices; all that was done was lowering old service court bldngs before 1853, prob no archt; NT guide book; also plans to remodel library, and Eliz style ceilings for library, hall, parlour and drawing-room; some work was done, library ceiling, N entrance, Long Gallery ceiling, and alts to bedrooms; also the orangery; not in HC;
c1850 adds Dinder House, Som; RL; not in HC;
WADMAN, WILLIAM Martock c1792-1857; Land surveyor, Church St, Braggs 1840 dir; Architect, Hunt’s Dir 1848. HC; surveyor and architect. Wadmans were carpenters in West Coker, John Wadman carpenter paid 19/4d for wk on West Coker ch roof 1745 (Nathan 383), James Wadman recorded to c1792 (N406), George Wadman his son, then c1802 John Wadman who bought land off Baker family 1803 at NE end of village (Nathan 433) became landowner, churchwarden 1818-25. William lived at Church Lodge Martock, his widow Elizabeth kept a school there (Kelly 1861)
1834 S aisle West Coker ch, Som; HC; plans ICBS; SANHS 196? article on enlargement of W Coker church 1833-4 says John & William Randall, West Coker, masons, George & Charles Lane, West Coker, carpenters, work assessed by John ?Pater of Crewkerne, builder, surveyor, auctioneer & appraiser. Freestone work by John Staple of Stoke sub Hamdon.
1835-6 enl South Cadbury ch, Som; ICBS; alts to S aisle add SE family pew and vestry.
WAGSTAFFE, RICHARD G. Architect, Bitton, Glos;
2011 Walled Garden, Claverton |Manor, Som; new house; C20index;
2013 Prop conv, outbldngs, walled garden, Kelston Manor, Som;
WAINWRIGHT Shepton Mallet. See Wainwright & Heard, Wainwrights & Heard and individual family members. HC lists Pylle Rectory; N front Croscombe Rectory; Wells Workhouse (but BoE N says by ST Welch 1845); Shepton Mallet Workhouse; Shepton Mallet Police Station (1857 W&H) as by the Wainwright family; inf David Wainwright ARICS;
WAINWRIGHT & HEARD Shepton Mallet, firm was Wainwright & Sons to 1852 when Charles W Sr died. CR Wainwright Jr 1823-92 and Richard Heard were Wainwrights & Heard (Ws&H) 1867, 1876. In Kelly 1906 CR Wainwright FSI surveyor and Herbert Heard FSI land agent;
1848 Workhouse, Shepton Mallet, Som; RL;
1855-62 Surveyors to East Somerset Railway, branch of GWR from Witham Friary to Wells, open to Shepton Mallet 9.11.58, to Wells 1.3.62; IK Brunel was a dirctor of the company in 1855.
1856 No. 27 Waterloo Rd, Shepton Mallet, Som; RL;
1856 Cemetery, Shepton Mallet, Som; AFtext;
1857 Police Station, Shepton Mallet, Som; 1858 RL suggests possibly with WB Gingell;
1857 Police Station, Axbridge, Som; RL; T: BN 1857 366; BN 1857 468 £1365 accepted;
1858 Cemetery, Shepton Mallet, Som; two chapels and approach bridge, RL;
1860 rest Croscombe ch, Som removed W gallery; TC 31.10.60 reopened; by C Wainwright of W&H, Walter Rawlings of Darshill nr Shepton M contr; £100 and another £100 spent on organ;
1862-4 exec Oakhill ch, Som, to des by JL Pearson; RL;
1867 alts Yeovilton parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/157 additions on S side for enlarged stairs, add to hall and bay to drawing room, alts stables etc; CRW of Messrs Ws&H, £750;
1867 plans rebld chancel S wall Yeovilton ch, Som; with parsonage plans SRO D/D/Bbm/157; CRW of Messrs Ws&H
1876 National School, Glastonbury, Som; Br 1876 176, Ws&H; Merrick & Son bldr;
1876 Axbridge School, Som; RL;
1876 Broadway parsonage, Som; CRW of Ws&H; gabled; Bbm/218;
1877 Board School, East Pennard, Som; RL;
1892-3 Converted model farm at Home Farm, Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Som into bailiff’s house and cottage; de Viggiani, Two estates, 1988, 71; dated 1893, £498/13/0d, HS Cook of Shepton Mallet contr;
1922 alts Honibeare fm, Stogursey, Som for Fairfield estate; D/R/wil/24/1/23 Ws&H; new windows, roof raised;
1923 drainage plan, Fairfield House, Stogursey, Som for lord St audries; D/R/wil/24/1/39;
1930 furnish side chapel, St Thomas ch, Wells, som SRO D/D/cf/ 1930/103;
1930-1 reps Charlton Horethorne ch, Som; ICBS;
19?? Alts Castle of Comfort Inn, Dodington, Som, for Lord St Audries,plans undated SRO DD/AH/5/3; Ws&H; internal and some altd windows; c1930?
WAINWRIGHT & SON Shepton Mallet. Charles Wainwright Sr + 1852 with Charles Wainwright Jr, ie before 1852.
1850 Kilmersdon parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/106; gabled m&t;
WAINWRIGHT, C. & J. Shepton Mallet. Presumably CRW Jr and JWW.
1877 East Pennard Board School, Som; Br 1877 620; BN 1.6.77 555 Blue Lias w Box Ground dressings, £1000+;
WAINWRIGHT, CHARLES RAWLINSON Sr. 1790-1852. Son of John Wainwright; Surveyor to Dean and chapter of Wells 1830-52; died at Christon Court. Firm was Wainwright & Sons 1850 qv. Father of Charles Rawlinson Wainwright Jr 1823-92; named after CR architect of Lostwithiel to whom his father was apprenticed. Applied to be County Surveyor 1818. Firm was Wainwright & Sons 1850, Wainwright & Heard, Wainwrights & Heard 1867
1823-5 Ansford Bridge, Som; VCH; John Stone builder;
1825 gallery, Pilton ch, Som; ICBS; dem; in N aisle; also prop NW vestry, unex?
1826 Waterloo Bridge, Waterloo Rd, Shepton Mallet, Som; RL;
1827 Rectory, Dinder, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm 54; designed by George Basevi acc to SNB, RL, and TBC; enl 1846 by Jesse Gane qv; design in SRO is not signed or dated, with bargeboarded gable and mullion windows.
18?? Pylle rectory, Som; RL; HC;
1828-31 enl & pews Croscombe ch, Som; ICBS; RL;
18?? Alts Croscombe rectory, Som’ RL; HC; new N front;
1830-1 reps Charlton Horethorne ch, Som; RL;
1837 aisles Shepton Mallet ch, Som; JE Farbrother, Shepton Mallet 1859 54; alts done 1835-7 with R Carver qv acc to RL, reblt aisles, enl and alts;to open Dorset County Chron 22.6.37;
1837-9 surveyor Downside ch, Som; for John Pinch archt; ICBS; Christ Church, Stratton on the Fosse, Som, with John Pinch, RL, erroneous date 1829-31, correct in entry under Pinch;
1850 Kilmersdon parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/106; W&Sons; gabled m&t;
WAINWRIGHT, CHARLES RAWLINSON (II) Shepton Mallet. Born 1823. Son of CRW Sr, grandson of JW; pupil GP Manners. In partnership with Richard Heard cf Wainwright & Heard.
1848 Workhouse, Shepton Mallet, Som; W&H; RL;
1855 involved w farm buildings at Cothelstone Manor, Som; Mr Wainwright came as clerk of works and erected cattle-sheds; possibly also inv with rebuild of manor but architect was Joseph Clarke of London
1856 No 27 Waterloo Rd, Shepton Mallet, Som; W&H; RL;
1857 Police Station, Axbridge, Som; W&H;
1858 Cemetery, Shepton Mallet, Som; W&H; RL;
1860 rest Croscombe ch, Som; by CW of W&H, Walter Rawlings of Darshill nr Shepton contr; Br 3.11.60 708; TC 31.10.60 reopened, W gallery removed, other woodwork cleaned and repaired £100 and another £100 spent on organ;
1867 alts Yeovilton parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/157 additions on S side for enlarged stairs, add to hall and bay to drawing room, alts stables etc; CRW of Messrs Ws&H, £750;
1867 plans rebld chancel S wall Yeovilton ch, Som; with parsonage plans SRO D/D/Bbm/157; CRW of Messrs Ws&H
1868 proposed ?, Shepton Mallet, Som Mr Wainwright given services gratuitously; WG 6.3.68
1876 Broadway parsonage, Som; CRW of Ws&H; gabled; Bbm/218;
1877 alts East Chinnock parsonage, Som; add of wing; Bbm/228;
1878 convert oubldng on glebe, Charlton Adam, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1878/7;
WAINWRIGHT, CHARLES RAWLINSON (III), Shepton Mallet One of surveyors of dilapidations to diocese 1891-1919. CRW FSI, surveyor, Summerleaze, Shepton Mallet, Kelly 1906, of Wainwrights & Heard, Estate Offices, Shepton Mallet;
1899 remove bldngs from glebe, Bruton, Som SRO D/D/cf/1899/1;
1902 minor works and drains, Canonical House, Wells, Som; SRO DD/Bbm/1902
1905 acted for Claude Neville in buying The Abbey, Charlton Adam, Som, from Thring family; ?any involvement in 1902-5 restoration; letters at house;
1930 rest Shepton Mallet ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1930/82;
WAINWRIGHT, JOHN 1762-1828, appr to Chas Rawlinson, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, 1774, moved to Bruton then Shepton Mallet where he died. Father of Charles Rawlinson Wainwright 1790-1852 qv. and John Westlake Wainwright b 1793 qv, grandfather of CRW Jr 1823-92;
WAINWRIGHT, JOHN WESTLAKE born 1793, 2nd son of JW, see C&J Wainwright
1828-9 N transept Chilton Polden ch, Som; dem; HC; ICBS; VCH;
1833 unsuccess tender alts North Curry ch, Som; Rd Carver archt; Olivey North Curry 1901 196;
1833 involved Cutcombe Parsonage, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/60, £1020, signs ground plan but correspondence makes clear this is by R Carver qv;
c1836 attrib Chilton Priory, Chilton Polden, Som, for William Stradling as museum for antiquities; J Holt Somerset Follies gives attribution, but cf Pevsner attribution to William Halliday qv; Stradling’s guide 1839 only mentions Halliday’s woodcarving and that he occupies the cottage there; possibly a confusion w work at church.
WAINWRIGHTS & HEARD Architects and surveyors, Shepton Mallet, 1931 dir. see Wainwright & Heard.
WAKEFORD (K.), JERRAM & HARRIS Architects, Bristol. Kenneth Wakegord
1959-61 Arlington House, Bath; on site of Grand Pump Room Hotel; AFtext; plans 1959 for Ravenseft Properties;
(1965c proposed redevelopment Lewins Mead Chapel site, Bristol; BRO; chapel demolition refused;
(1973 Greyfriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol)
(1975 Castlemead, Old Market, Bristol)
WALDEGRAVE, SAMUEL Yeovil. Not in 1852-3 dir.
(1853 National School, Barford St Martin, Wilts; WBR;)
WALEYS, NICHOLAS Bristol
1367 Spire, St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som; BoE;
WALKER, WILLIAM Cannington. Surveyor.
1813 repairs parsonage, Cannington, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/36; demolished for new parsonage 1879
WALKER, WILLIAM Carpenter, Lottisham
1749-51 rebuilt Withial Fm, East Pennard, Som for Longleat estate; Longleat 14/3 2/12 22/8/1745; also 19/0 28/9/1748 mentions George Phelps mason 1748 and Thomas Spinks mason 1749-50;
WALKER, WILLIAM Architect, Shaftesbury c1789-1843; HC;
(1836 enl and alts Workhouse, Tisbury, Wilts; T SWJ 8.8.36;
(1838-40 Shaftesbury Workhouse, Dorset)
(1838 alts Donhead St Andrew ch, Wilts; HC;
(1839 Chapel, Charlton, near Donhead St Mary, Wilts; BoE; HC neo-Norman)
(1839 RC ch, Poole, Dorset; HC;
(1839-41 rebuilt Norton Bavant ch, Wilts; WBR; 1840 HC;)
(1840 Cann ch, Dorset; HC;
WALL, EDWARD Architect, South Bank, Grants Lane, Wedmore; NWC 173; not in 1906 Kelly but Frank Wall builder in Grant St, also John Wall, builder, and Solomon Wall qv builder and contractor.
1895-6 Sunday School addition, WM chapel, Sand Road, Wedmore, Som; John Larder builder (stonemason in 1906 Kelly), E&G Strickland carpenters (GC Stickland builder in 1906 Kelly); opened 10.4.96;
WALL, SOLOMON Builder, Wedmore. 1844-1936. Said to have built over fifteen houses and farms around Wedmore. Builder & contractor Kelly 1906.
1878 Stonesteps, Church St, Wedmore, Som, for himself; design by JJ Spencer qv; NWC; p28
1879 Speke Close, Cheddar Rd, Wedmore, Som for Dr Tyley, in 1903 became the vicarage; ?Wedmore Past p30;
1900 Townsend Farmhouse, nr Wedmore, Som; NWC;£500;
THE WALLACE & HOBLYN PARTNERSHIP;
1995 Hunters Moon housing, Clevedon, Som; HDA 1995;
WALLER, FREDERICK SANDHAM Gloucester architect, 1822-95, became partner of Thomas Fulljames (1808-74) in 1846 (Fulljames & Waller, diocesan architects Gloucester 1832-70), Frederick William Waller (1846-1933) joined in 1868 and practice became Waller & Son (diocesan architects Gloucester 1875-1923), Walter Bryan Wood partner 1882-8 (Waller, Son & Wood) then left to set up own practice. Continued with NH Waller +1961, then called Astam Design; BoE Glos;
(1884-5 Marston Hill, Marston Meysey, Wilts for Rev Bulley, president of Magdalen Coll, Oxford; plans WRO, Waller Son & Wood;
1886 N wing, Hadspen House, Som; plans at house by Waller, Son & Wood; inf R Dunning;
(1905 Lloyds Bank, High St, Swindon, Wilts; W&son; WBR2)
(1922 ?alts Lloyd's Bank Bedminster, Bristol; Messrs Waller appointed to replace Mr Williams who has died; Lloyds archive 2.8398 23.06.22;
(1922 plans ext Lloyds Bank, Corn St, Bristol; Lloyds archive 2.9144 17.11.22;
(1923 Lloyds Bank, Ferndale, Glam; Waller & Son appointed, Lloyds archive 2.9291 5.1.23;
(1924 alts Lloyds Bank, Swindon, Wilts; Lloyds archive 3.1841, no date; W&Son;
WALLIS, CHARLES
(1836-7 Cerne Abbas Workhouse, Dorset)
WALLIS, J.
1891 Parsonage, Chilton Polden, Som; VCH from CofE Record Centre E2655; 1894 for £2000 acc to Kelly 1906; now Priory House;
WALLIS, JOHN Bristol +1777. Apprenticed to carpenter 1724.,
(1758 des circular stables Stokes Croft, Bristol; HC)
WALTERS, FREDERICK ARTHUR, London. 1849-1931 Leading Roman Catholic church archt. Articled to father FP Walters, in practice from 1880, practice was FA Walters & Son from 1924 with Edward John Walters 1880-1947 and was Walters & Kerr Bate from 1931; Sydenham RC 1882 dem; Deal RC Kent 1885; Wimbledon RC 1886-1901; Plumstead RC 1893; Petworth RC Sussex 1896; Herons Ghyll RC Sx 1897; Sevenoaks RC 1896; East Grinstead RC 1898, Dartford RC Kent 1900 Dem; Buckfast Abbey 1907-32;
1915 Sacristy and chapel of St Sylvia, Downside Abbey, Som; RL;
WALTON, JAMES B. Engineer Gt College St, Westminster. See JJ Webster. Engineer North Pembs & Fishguard Railway 1878-93 for section Rosebush-Goodwick Pmbs; engineer Whitland & Taf Vale Rlway Wales 1879-86 in succession to JW Szlumper Crymych to Cardigan section; .
1894 Proposed pier and harbour, Minehead, Som SRO Q/RUP/459 with JJ Webster qv;
WARBURTON, MESSRS Bristol Contractors
1869-70 Telescopic railway bridge over River Parrett, Bridgwater, Som; Warburton probably contrs for masonry, ironwork by Lloyds Foster & Co of Wednesbury; BDRP 30-1, £8000; consent given Jan 1867, opened March 1871;
WARD, R. J. Railway engineer. Engineer to Wilts, Somerset & Weymouth Railway after taken over by GWR. At meeting 1.8.45 IK Brunel qv appointed engineer with Ward resident as engineer for Thingley Junction to Salisbury section (Wilts), also the branches to Frome and Radstock (Som), and J Peniston qv resident engineer for Frome to Weymouth. But Ward may have built this too as Mr Ward was present with Mr Ritson the contractor at opening of Yeovil to Weymouth GWR line 20.1.1857; BLJ 36; and he was present as engineer to WS&W at a meeting in Sherborne 23.8.60 BLJ 50. WBR suggests that he designed stations at Devizes (dem), Marlborough and Malmesbury. Devizes was 1857 on a branch of WS&W, Marlborough GWR, 1864, Malmesbury 1877 (unlikely);
1850-1 attrib stations on the Wilts, Somerset & Weymouth line inc Warminster 1850-1), Frome (1850-1) Dorchester and Weymouth, but the drawings for Frome are by Thomas Hannaford qv and Warminster was very similar (and attrib to otherwise unknown JH Bertram); (1862 Stations on Berks & Hants Extension Railway at Great Bedwyn, Savernake Forest, Pewsey (all Wilts) and Perry's
Corner (where?), T: DWG 5.6.62;
WARD MELVILLE SETH see Melville Seth-Ward
WARD, WILLIAM HENRY 1865-1924. Assistant to Lutyens, 1894-8; ASG; commenced practice 1898 with WG Cogswell, son WH Ward Jr practiced in Birmingham from 1904; WW in A 1914;
19?? Boys’ preparatory school, Weston super Mare, Som; ASG; St Peter's School, Weston s Mare, acc to WW in A 1914;
WARE, ISAAC 1704-66
(1746-50 Clifton Hill House, Bristol; HC)
WARE, PETER JOHN WALLACE. Architect, Bristol, ARIBA, 1929-99.
1966-7 RC ch, Burnham on Sea, Som; Harwood & Foster; RC ch of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Highbridge Rd; A&BN 31.5.1967 p938;
(c1990 refurb houses, Christmas Steps, Bristol, w Richard Pedlar; SNB)
WARR, JOSEPH Surveyor.
1828 Signs plans for churchyard wall, South Petherton, Som in churchwardens accnts SRO D/P/pet.s/4/1/2
WARREN, EDWARD PRIOLEAU 1856-1937 Oxford. Artic GF Bodley, wrote his biography;
(1899 rest Ebbesbourne Wake ch, Wilts; WBR)
(1898-9 Bryanston ch, Dorset; RA 1899; ill Br 10.2.1900, completed Aug 1898)
(1899-1900 Eastgate Hotel Oxford ill Br 10.2.00;
(19?? Adds Clifton College, Bristol; ASG;
(1901 Bedales School, Hants Br 7.9.01)
(1904 A Becketts, Littleton Pannell, Wilts; WBR;
(1905 West Lavington Manor, Wilts; ASG; ?alts for T Holloway ?1908)
WARREN, PERCEVAL FRANCIS Architect, Yeovil see Petter & Warren
WARRY, GEORGE WILLIAM Ditton St, Ilminster. Civil engineer. Surveyor to Ilminster UDC, 1906 dir;
1906 church room, St Peter ch, Horton, Som; Dd/cf/1906/178; across W end of church;
1911 chancel E addition, Horton ch, Ilminster, Som; w rose window. Plans SRO D/D/cf/1911/439; 12’ x 6’ addition, £75;
WATERHOUSE, ALFRED Architect 1830-1905 Manchester. Manchester Assize courts 1859; Manchester TH 1868-77; Liverpool Lime St Hotel 1868-71; Eaton Hall Ches 1870ff; Reading TH 1872-5; Natural History Museum 1873-81; Leeds University 1877ff; National Liberal Club 1884; Kings Weigh-house Chapel London 1889-91; University College Hospital London 1897-1906; Colin Cunningham & Prudence Waterhouse, Alfred Waterhouse, 1992 (C&W).
1855 entr Assize Courts & Judges Lodging comp, Taunton, Som; C&W;
1857 alts Swallowfield, Station Rd, Wellington,Som; for Henry Fox; C&W 210; not obvious;
(1860-5 Alts Goldney House, Clifton, Bristol; GJL;
1864-7 The Cleve, Wellington, Som, house and stables for Joseph H. Fox; also alts by Waterhouse, 1868-9, and 1878. Contractor W Brock; tiles W Godwin: stained glass Heaton, Butler & Bayne; chimneypieces W Wilson; Lizard Serpentine Co; iron work Hart Son Peard & Co; C&W 223;
(1878 Iwerne Minster House, Dorset;
1878-80 Blagdon House, Som, alts for Thomas R Hetherington; contractor LC Webster; iron work R Jones; C&W 252;
(1889 Prudential Assurance, 17 Clare St, Bristol; GJL;
WATERHOUSE, MICHAEL
1922 adds New Place, Porlock, Som; DoE; original house 1890s for Charles Chadwiyck-Healey +1919;
WATERHOUSE, PAUL W. Architect, 1861-1924, son of Alfred Waterhouse, articled to father, his partner 1891, continued practice. PRIBA 1921-3. Des Whitworth Hall Manchester Univ 1902; Maurice Hostel Hoxton, London 1902; Buildings for Leeds Univ 1907; National Pensions Fund for Nurses, Buckingham St, London 1908 dem; Chemistry Schools, Oxford Univ; Prudential Ass Aberdeen 1908; War Memorial St Stephen ch, Bournemouth Br 8.10.1920;
1922-3 District Hospital, Yeovil, Som; £26000; dem; Yeovil town guide c1925; plans for adds at CHAC 10.12.23, not seen.
WATERS, W.H.C. Building surveyor, Highbury, The Avenue, Yeovil. Called architect to Langport RDC TC 10.10.1936;
1908 alts Northover ch, Ilchester, Som; proposed rebuild of N transept; SRO cf/1908/279;
WATKINS GRAY & PARTNERS Architects Bristol see WH Watkins; later Watkins Gray Group. Watkins Gray International
(1965 Hanbury Court, Bristol; HDA 1965; WG&P)
(1965-73 Queens Building, Bristol Royal Infirmary; by Watkins Gray Group I, AF Bristol; façade proposed for re-cladding AJ 14.3.2013;
WATKINS, WILLIAM HENRY Architect, Clare St, Bristol 1878-1964 artic FB Bond, with whom designed Handel Cossham Mem Hospital, Kingswood, Bristol, 1901. In pract 1903, designed cinemas in 1920s & 1930s for PCT and Gaumont British Picture Corp: at Plymouth, Exeter, Barnstaple, Bristol, Bath, Coventry, Truro, Chippenham. Successor firms Watkins Gray & Partners, Watkins Gray International; ASG; bought Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon, Wilts in 1935, there to c1953, WBR2 with portrait; cf WH Watkins A Bristol architect, in Picture House, 5, 1984 3-32;
1908 ext Springfield, Entry Hill, Bath for GE Spear T Br 11.1.08 £1674;
(1908 Bank, St Stephens St Bristol T Br 8.2.08;
1908 House, Saltford, Som for GL Vere T Br 22.2.08;
(1910 Pringle’s Picture Palace, Cromwell Rd, Montpelier, Bristol; Gomme;
(1911 United Counties Bank, Clare St, Bristol;
(1911 adds Capital & Counties Bank, St Stephens Av, Bristol (dem);
(1912 Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co garages at Avonmouth & Westbury on Trym, Bristol;
1912 Regent St Picture House, Weston s Mare, Som; opened 22.3.13; B Hornby, 90 yrs of cinema in Som;
(1913 Eastville Hippodrome, Stapleton Rd, Bristol; Gomme;
1913 Knowle Picture House, Wells Rd, Knowle, Bristol; Gomme; B Hornby, 90 yrs of cinema in Som;
(1914 Picture House, Cheltenham Rd, Bristol; Gomme:
(c1925 ext No 40 Corn St, Bristol; Gomme;
(1933 Savoy Cinema, Shirehampton, Bristol; Gomme
(1934 Concorde Cinema Stapleton Rd, Bristol; Gomme
(19?? Regent Cinema, Bristol destroyed WW2)
1933-4 Forum Cinema, St James Parade, Bath, Som; ASG; with E Morgan Willmott; SC notes; Aftext; opened 19.5.34, Robin Pake thesis Bath U 2015 says that exterior elevations were by A Stuart Gray (ie ASG author of Edwardian Architecture) and interior planning by Cyril Smith & Curno Cooke; colourwash drawing by AS Gray in RIBAD, ill in Robin Pake;
1937 Cinema, The Esplanade, Watchet, Som; plans SRO D/U/m/22/1/786, for T Barton Peel; next to library, now Mariners café;
(1938 Avery’s Bar, Park St, Bristol; interiors from RMS Mauretania; Gomme;
(1938 unex plans remodel Fitzmaurice School, Bradford on Avon, Wilts)
WATSON, BERTRAM & FELL Bath cf also Bertram & Fell. Mark Watson.
2010 plans renov The Aviaries, Redlynch, Som; inf SSDC;
WATSON, -. Possibly John Watson of Glashampton, Worcs +1707, HC, who worked at Wroxton Abbey, 1680-5, for Roger North, architect. Georgian Group journal 8 1998 1-11; PSANHS 148, 2005;
(1692-8 remodelled Melbury House, Dorset, for Thomas Strangways; W&D 79, ‘an otherwise unknown provincial architect’; BoE 275. Portrait at the house)
1698-9 Alts Chipley Park, Nynehead, Som, for Edward Clarke Jr, and new farm buildings; SC notes; PSANHS 148 2005 44 letter 1697 from John Spreat steward to Edward Clarke, Mr Watson ye architect to visit … to sort out leaks. Also building barns 1698.
WATSON, -
1817 Clerk of Works, Cothelstone House, Som, house by CH Masters for EJ Esdaile, cf DJ Hinton, Bishops Lydeard Revisited;
WATSON, JOHN Architect, Torquay. BoE lists Watcombe Park (now Brunel Manor) c1870, and Holy Trinity ch, 1894-6, both in Torquay, Devon; court case over work in Somerset WG 5.6.1874 re late Samuel Yandell, builder, of Bishop's Hull.
c1860 Cutsey Farm, Trull, Som, for Thomas Blake, model farm buildings; contractors Call & Pethick of Plymouth; bricks from brickyard at Nynehead owned by Blake; DoE;
WATSON R. A. Borough Engineer Bridgwater
1912 alts Eastover Parochial School, Bridgwater, Som, five drawings by R Watson Borough Engineer A/CMY/512;
1931 Victoria Road Bridge, Bridgwater, Som, opened 22.10.31; E Ireland, Bath, contr; plaque;
193? Plans for Secondary School, Wembdon Rd, Bridgwater, Som, undated, SRO C/CA/1/36
1938 Water-treatment works, Durleigh, Som, plaque inside; inf DCrighton; built to provide water for British Cellophane;
WATTS, - builder, Clevedon
1902 houses Old Church Rd, Clevedon, between Beach Ave and Knowles Rd; Lilly;
WATTS, CHRISTOPHER. Bristol, freemason, witnessed bargain for St Augustine ch, Bristol, 1648, probably made pink stone chimneypiece at Ashton Ct, worked at Sherborne Castle, Dorset, and Stalbridge, Dorset;
1633 ?SW wing at Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som, for Sir Thomas Smyth; SNB; CW went with Smyth to quarries at Rodney Stoke, 1633;
1642 tomb of Sir Thomas Smyth; lost; SNB;
WAY, THOMAS Builder,
1846-8 builder, rebuilt Holbrook House, Wincanton, JP St Aubyn architect qv; GS 196-7;
WEBB, - . Surveyor, Possibly Richard Webb of Salisbury. Mr Webb is mentioned in a letter from Col Horner of Mells mentoning landscapework at Mells and Marston Bigot.
1825 Enlarged lake at Mells Park, Som, for col Horner; McGarvie, Book of marston bigot, 123;
1825 Laid out Marston Pond, Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som for Earl of Cork & Orrery; Mc Garvie, Book of Marston Bigot, 123.
WEBB, Sir ASTON 1849-1930 Architect, London. Artic Banks & Barry, partner w E Ingress Bell (1837-1914); PRIBA 1902-4, knighted 1904, RIBA Gold Medal 1905. Rest St Bartholomew Smithfield London 1885-97; Birmingham Assize Courts 1886-95; Christs Hospital School Horsham 1893-1902; Victoria & Albert Museum front range 1893-1909; Royal Naval College Dartmouth Devon 1899-1905; son Maurice Webb qv worked with him as Sir AW&Son; E Doran Webb qv who worked with him at Stourhead, was in practice in Salisbury in 1889-1915 dirs, was not apparently related;
(1902ff reblt Stourhead, Wilts after fire, with ED Webb qv
1910 SE wing, Manor House, West Coker, Som for Matthew Nathan; SirAW&Son; BoE says by Maurice Webb qv quoting CHussey in CL 1922; Matthew Nathan in his book on West Coker says by SirAW&Son.
(1910-11 footbridge Marlborough College, Wilts between gymnasium and N block; WBR;
WEBB, CHRISTOPHER East Grinstead. Stained glass artist, numerous works in Somerset eg West Lynch ch;
1931 Painted triptych on reredos by WHR Blacking, Porlock ch, Som; D/D/cf/1930/71;
(1936 work at Nunton ch, Wilts; WBR)
(1939 work Chiseldon ch, Wilts; WBR)
1943 Painted reredos, Wootton Courtenay ch, Som for Dr FC Eeles; SRO D/D/cf/1943/24;
WEBB, EDWARD W. DORAN Architect, Salisbury, 1864-1931. Son of Mr & Mrs Doran Webb of Ramsbury, Wilts. Lived at Tisbury from c1890 to death in 1931. In dirs 1889, 1915; obit WG 18.12.31; designed The Oratory Rc ch, Birmingham, 1909;
(1874 County Hotel, Salisbury, Wilts WBR2
(18?? adds Kings House, The Close, Salisbury, Wilts, addition of Gothic wing with dining room and chapel; WBR2;
(1894 N aisle, St Osmund RC ch, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR)
(1895 cross for Salisbury Cathedral, Wilts Br 14.12.95; old cross with new ornament;
(1902ff rebuilt Stourhead, Stourton, Wilts, after fire, with Sir Aston Webb qv; WBR2 says Doran Webb may have been dismissed and replaced by Aston Webb;
(1905 Holy Rood RC ch, Swindon, Wilts. WBR; and ?presbytery, WBR2;
WEBB, JOHN Architect 1611-72. Came of Somerset family, born in London, buried in Butleigh ch, Som; HC; pupil Inigo Jones from 1628 and his executor and successor. Worked at Wilton, Wilts in 1630s and rebuilt S range after 1647 fire, in 1648-50 (1649-52 WBR), Amesbury Abbey Wilts completed 1661, Greenwich Palace 1663-9.
16?? Alts Butleigh House, Som; all dem after a fire, post 1837, replaced by Butleigh Court 1845-51; John Webb acquired it in 1653 from Thomas Symcox as his main creditor and lived here 1654-72; alts shown in a drawing of early C18 by Grace Webb; SC;
WEBB, JOHN c1754-1828 Lee Hall, Armitage, Staffs. HC.
1814 Warleigh House, Bathford, Som; HC; for – Skrine; Tudor; HC.
WEBB, LOUIS FREDERICK. Frome. Architect. Arrived after WW1, practice until 1970, in the beginning with J Coles who ran the Auction & Mart in Vicarage St, inf Rodney Goodall, Buildings of Frome; Lou Webb;
(1943 cottages for Mere & Tisbury RDC, Wilts; WG 9.4.43; two in Mere and two in Tisbury;
WEBB, MAURICE. Son of Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) qv, worked with father as Sir Aston Webb & Son. Maurice designed Bentall’s department store, Kingston, Sy, and altered Army & Navy Stores, Victoria St; ASG 379.
1910 SE wing, Manor House, West Coker, Som; BoE S; from C Hussey in CL 1922. For Sir Matthew Nathan who says by Sir Aston Webb & Son in his book, but Hussey writing when Nathan was alive says by MW.
(1931 Sebright's School, Wolverley, Worcs;
(1935 Guildhall, Kingston, Surrey; RA 1937 exh;
(1936 Government House, Nicosia, Cyprus; RA 1937 exh)
WEBB, PHILIP SPEAKMAN Architect 1831-1915, worked for GE Street as chief assistant, set up in London 1856, designed Red House, Bexleyheath for Wm Morris 1859-60; worked for Morris & Co; founder of SPAB with Morris;
(1879-86 Clouds, East Knoyle, Wilts for Percy Wyndham; BoE; burnt 1889, WG1.2.89
(1893 rest tower, East Knoyle ch, Wilts; BoE
WEBBER, GEORGE Architect, surveyor. 7 East Reach, Taunton. Kelly 1889; Several plans by him in SRO D/B/ta/24/1 300-50 for misc minor alts c1875-6. TC 30.8.1882, advert for new business as auctioneer; TC1.11.1882; plaintiff in court case TC 9.8.86; ref to him as James George Webber TC 25.10.82;
1867 plaintiff re house GW had built for Mr Symes, of Mount House, Taunton, Som SCG 5.1.67. Mr Webber had done repairs to Mount House for Mr Symes for £267, but in 1865 Mr Symes employed architect, Mr Pollard, who behaved vexatiously;
1875 Shopfront, SH Hitchcock stables, Castle Green, Taunton, Som; D/B/ta/24/1/307
1876 Nos 2-4 Richmond Road, Taunton, Som; plans two villas at Fairwater, D/B/ta/24/1/324;
1884 rest St James ch, Taunton, Som; SRO cf/1884/6; signs plans for extensions of chancel and eastern chapels. Three chancel screens, two E windows, new chancel, 2-bay S chapel and N organ chamber and vestry, new tracery between N aisle and organ chmbr. ? some old tracery reused. But work is also said to be by EB Ferrey acc to Kelly 1906 ‘chancel entirely rebuilt and a side-chapel and organ chamber added at a cost of £2200, from designs by Mr EBF’;
1887 plans for ?? already prepared by Mr Webber TC 23.3.87;
WEBSTER, JAMES Architect, builder, surveyor. Blandford Forum, Dorset, 1859 dir.
WEBSTER, JOHN JAMES Engineer, MICE, 39 Victoria St, London. Designed pier at Bangor, Caerns, 1896.
1894 Plans new pier and harbour, Minehead, Som, by James B Walton and JJW SRO Q/RUP/459 dated 28.11.94; see 1901;
1899 Harbour wall and slipway for Minehead Pier Co; plans D/U/M/22/1/70;
1901 Pier, Minehead, Som; cast-iron and steel; 700’ long, 24’ wide, £12000, also part of harbour-wall and landing slip reconstructed; sea-wall and esplanade 500’ long £3500; Kelly 1906; demolished 1940; drainage plan 1900 D/U/M/22/1/96;
WEEDON, HARRY. Architect to Odeon cinema chain. NMR has John Maltby colln of photographs of Odeon chain 1930-9 MAL02. Later HW Weedon & Partners, and Harry Weedon Partnership, Birmingham.
1937 Odeon Cinema, Court Ash, Yeovil, Som; WG 30.4.37, opened 8.5.37, £70000; John Knox (Bristol) contractors (advert WDP 16.7.38); became Classic Cinema 1967, doubled 1973, closed 2002, furniture shop;
(1957-62 Pressed Steel factory, Swindon, Wilts; BoE, HWW&Ptnrs)
(1975 proposed exts Civic Offices, Swindon, Wilts, with J Winter (controller Environmental Services, Swindon BC); BoE, HWP;
WEIR, JAMES Architect.
(1878-80 London & South Western Bank, 47 Corn St, Bristol, SNB, T: A 18.5.78;
WEIR, WILLIAM London Architect to SPAB, assistant to Philip Webb qv.
1908 oversaw reps Barrington Court, Som, on behalf of SPAB, work done by AH Powell qv; Pat Creed 1999 report on Barrington Court for NT.
1912 tower repairs Langport ch, Som; inf Philip Hughes, papers at SPAB.
1931 advice re repair St James ch tower and windows, Taunton, Som, TC 18.3.31;
1934 proposed rest Pitminster ch, Som; TC 28.2.34
WELCH & HOLLIS Architects, 7 New Sq, Lincolns Inn Fields, London. Herbert Archibald Welch and – Hollis, AARIBA. HAW was partner in Welch, Cachemaille-Day & Lander (WC-D&L), c1931-5, with Nugent F Cachemaille-Day and Felix J Lander, from c1937 into 1960s firm was Welch & Lander (W&L). Jack A Coia was employed by W&H in 1924-7. WC-D&L did churches from 1931-5: Burnage Manchester 1931-2, Middle Park Ave, Eltham 1932-3, Swaythling Southampton, 1933, Bognor Regis, Sx, 1933, Whale Island, Hants 1933-4, Chingford, Ex, 1933-9, Dagenham, Ex, 1934-5; W&L did Methodist ch, Hendon, Mx, 1937-8, St Luke Mission Ch, Watford, Herts, 1938; FJ Lander & EAD Tanner did Holloway House, Stallard St, Trowbridge, Wilts for the Wiltshire Working Men's Conservative Society, 1920s;
1923 Brownwich House, Tower Hill, Williton, Som, plans SRO D/R/ wil/24/1/49, W&H, for HD Tatton; good red brick hipped w centre oriel;
WELCH, SAMUEL T. Bristol. AEBTD 1868 lists workhouses at Clifton, Wells & Axbridge and Horfield church. GLJ says later associated with JA Clark qv, disappears 1868; advertises from 15 Park St as architect of long experience looking for articled pupil BC 21.5.63;
1836-7 Workhouse, Wells, Som; £4850; ; sim to Axbridge; 1845 acc to BoE N; AEBTD; David Wainwright lists it among works by Wainwrights of Shepton Mallet qqv, ?exec architects; now Priory Hospital;
1836-7 Workhouse, Axbridge, Som; AEBTD; £4496/17/6; ; AFtext;
(1843 St Luke ch, Barton Hill, Bristol; Gomme;
(1843 St Barnabas ch, Ashley Rd, Bristol; Gomme;
(1847 Clifton Workhouse, Eastville, Bristol; AEBTD;
(1851 Nos 1-6 Camden Terrace, Clifton Vale, Bristol; Gomme;
(1854 Fielding House, Regent Rd, Clifton, Bristol; Gomme;
(1858 St Mark’s School, Lower Easton, Bristol; Gomme;
(1862 St Michael ch, Bishopston, Bristol; with JA Clark;
WELLS, OWEN & ELWES Engineers
1888-90 Engineers, Bridgwater Railway Co branch line off S&D line from Glastonbury to Highbridge, to Bridgwater; Eckersley & Bayliss contractors, contract rescinded, then GE Harvey, project collapsed, new contract Morris Woolley & Young, opened 1890. ?blt by S&D; station at Bawdrip;
WENSLEY, JAMES Builder Mark, also agricultural engineer with works opposite Mark church, P Slocombe, Mark, 299ff, in directories from 1866; invented the first muck-spreader exhibited c1870, made carts and wagons, cider presses etc. Died 1907.
1874-5 Bldr, West Mark School, Mark, Som; tender £275; SRO has documents, Wensley did not design it;
1876-9 Bldr, Board Schools, Blackford, Wedmore, Som; £1100; NWC 163;
1876-9 Bldr, Board Schools, Wedmore, Som, £1925; JH Spencer architect; NWC 154;
WEST, CLIFTON JOHN London. Born c1830;
1867-79 rest Butcombe ch, Som; ICBS; 1868 Clifton J West, SNB,
WEST, D.
19?? Electricity generating station, Mount St, Bridgwater, Som; plans A/CMY/168;
WEST, WILLIAM Builder.
1761-2 House, Babcary, Som, for Caleb Dickinson of Kingweston; VCH notes on Yew Tree Farmhouse, a C16 thatched house: Caleb Dickinson’s tenant paid a penalty for injuring the property in 1760 and in 1761 Caleb pd for the house to be demolished and rubbish taken away. William West appears to have built the new house, completed May 1762 [DD/DN 406, 413] for the new tenant Henry Cannon to whom Dickinson sold it in 1773. Are there 2 parts to the house or were there two houses on the farm?’ M Siraut email. NB Cannon family later owned Broadclose House, Babcary, dated CC 1895.
WESTMACOTT, Sir RICHARD Sculptor, 1775-1856 son of Richard Westmacott Sr sculptor, studied in Italy with Canova, set up studio 1797. Knighted 1837. Leading British sculptor of early C19. Numerous monuments in Somerset inc James Bernard +1811 at at Crowcombe, 3rd Earl Poulett 1819 at Hinton St George, Louisa Boyle +1826 at Marston Bigot, Earl Nelson +1835 at Cricket St Thomas; WBR says that he designed at Wilton House, Wilts: oversaw completion of cloisters 1815, door replacements, new bridge over Wylye, loggia in Italian garden 1826, reset marble fountain; son Richard Westmacott III 1799-1872 also sculptor;
WESTMACOTT, RICHARD S. Architect, ARIBA; 27 Dark La, Backwell.
1980s Church hall, Backwell, Som; SNB;
1989-92 Church hall, Chilcompton, Som; SNB;
WESTWIND OAK BUILDINGS Ltd Laurel Fm, Lower Claverham, nr Bristol. Builders timber-frames
2000? House, Mendips, Som featured in Homebuilding & Renovating 2001;
(20-- Broom cottage, East Sussex, design by Wilf Burton qv)
(2010? Hexagon, S Wales featured in Homebuilding & Renovation 2011)
(20-- Cafe etc Cotswold Water Park, Glos)
20?? Riverside, Bath, Som, by Wilf Burton qv;
20?? Keats, Mendips, Som architect-designed large extension;
20?? Golf-club, Farrington, Som;
WH ARCHITECTS, Dyrham Lodge, Clifton Park, Bristol; Brian Woodward and Louise Hambly;
200? new boathouses, Saltford rowing club, Som; website;
200? offices on cattle-market site, Winford,
20?? farmhouse and barn conversion, Wickwar;
20?? two houses, Old Farm, Cleeve;
20?? seventeen houses, Elton Lane, Bishopston;
20?? remodelled The Walnuts, Easton in Gordano;
20?? The Bungalow, Wraxall, new semi-trad;
2012 completion of works Sand House, Wedmore, inc negotiations over alts previously done without planning permission;
Also new house, Wrington, stone, pitched roof; replacement house Cadbury Camp Lane, butterfly plan; conv of barn at Urchinwood Manor; alts and exts Dibden's Farm;
WHATLEY, JOHN
1981 conv School, Hardington Mandeville, Som, to village hall; T Carter, Stories of HM, 1994, 57;
WHEELER, BERT Clerk of works, Wells Cathedral, for 43 years
1936 Bower House, North Rd, Wells, Som, for himself, plans allegedly given him as a wedding present; inf Diana Crighton
WHEELER, G. Architect, Frome. Practiced from Nunney Rd for some years after WW2, acc to R Goodall, Buildings of Frome;
WHEELER, ROBERT Architect, London
1858 2nd prize Yeovil Cemetery, Som; RHH; CEAJ May 1858;
WHEELER, W. H. Engineer, wrote report on R Parrett improvements 1896. Had experience of outfall improvements in the Fens; nothing done;
WHICHELOE MACFARLANE PARTNERSHIP. Bristol. Norman Whicheloe 1927-2002, and Stephen Macfarlane. Merged with BDP qv in 2002.
1962-4 twelve houses, Frome, single-storey, competition AJ 23.5.62; AJ 10.3.65; staff houses for Butler & Tanner, East Hill/ Styles Hill, Frome, Som; C20 index; HDA 1965 Easthill, Frome WM with R Towning Hill qv;
1971 William Penn House, Redcliff hill, Bristol; Botticino marble by Marble Mosaic Co;)
(1971-5 High Kingsdown housing, Bristol; SNB pl 120, Housing Design Award 1974; ? by Whicheloe Macfarlane & Towning Hill, andrew Mackay architect;
(1974 Phoenix Assurance, Redcliff Hill, Bristol; SNB)
1977-8 No 1 High St, Taunton, Som; SRO D/DC/tau.d/24/2/32; shops;
19?? House for Mr Pittard, Chilthorne Domer, Som; inf J&C Gould; by Stephen Macfarlane;
(1992-2001 Bristol Royal Hospital for Children; SNB)
WHINNEY, SON & AUSTEN HALL. London. TB Whinney qv, HGD Whinney and Henry Austen Hall qv. Worked for Midland Bank. Partnership from 1920s, TBW + 1926. Herbert Austen Hall 1881-1968 was articled Philip Tree 1897, then w Silcock & Reay of Bath 1901, Treadwell & Martin 1902, and LCC 1903. Partnership with Septimus Warwick W&AH 1905-13 had competition successes inc Lambeth TH 1905; Holborn TH 1906; Berkshire County Hall 1909; in 1922 HAH did Peter Robinson store Oxford St with TP & E Clarkson; ASG;
(1921-3 Midland Bank, Corn St, Bristol, TBW of WS&AH;
(192? Bankers Clearing House, 10 Lombard St, London; ASG)
1932 shopfront, Nos. 18-19 Old Bond St, Bath; AFtext;
(1935 Bristol Gas Co offices, Bristol;
(1939 Adds Midland Bank, Mostyn Ave/Queens Rd Craigydon, Llandudno, Caerns; Br 14.7.39)
WHINNEY, THOMAS BOSTOCK Architect 8 Old Jewry, London 1860-1926. Articled EA Gruning 1877. Diocesan Surveyor Rochester and Southwark. Worked for the Midland Bank. Obit br 2.7.26; ASG; partnership with son HGD Whinney and Henry Austen Hall (see WS&AH) in 1920s.
(1896 Midland Bank, Newport, Mon; ASG;)
(1898 Midland Bank, Temple Gate, Birmingham; ASG;)
(1900 Midland Bank Gloucester; ASG)
(1903 Midland Bank, Margate, Kent; ASG)
(1904 Midland Bank Brighton, Sx; ASG)
(1906 Midland Bank, Watford, Herts; ASG)
(1906 Midland Bank, Torquay, Devon; ASG)
(1907 Midland Bank, Abertillery, Mon; R Scourfield inf S Kinsey;)
(1910-11 Midland Bank, Pontypool, Mon; Gwent RO D454.778;
1914 Midland Bank, Middle St/ The Borough, Yeovil, Som; plans CHAC 930;
1914 alts Midland Bank, Bampton St, Minehead, Som; lavatory block; SRO D/U/M/22/1/550 for London City & Midland Bank; ?same as present HSBC, Wellington Sq, if addition is on back of Wellington Sq building to Bampton St;
(1915-16 Midland Bank, Cheltenham, Glos; TBW with VA Lawson qv)
(1921-3 Midland Bank, Corn St, Bristol; TBW of WS&AH; by THW, SNB
WHITCOMBE, B. FORD London
1897 reredos and window, Holy Trinity ch, Peter St, Yeovil, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1897/3; window by GW Oshemam; ch now youth club;
WHITE, - Architect Asked in ?1860 to look over plans by Robert Hart, son of chapel landlord George Hart for enlarging WM chapel, Mark, Som, with Mr Brice, builder of Weston s Mare; P Slocombe, Mark p 175-6; new chapel FS 15.7.1869 not clear to whose plans; £1041; metalwork from Mark Foundry; dem;
WHITE DESIGN ASSOCIATES Architects, Stokes Croft Bristol; founded 1998 by Craig White, Joe Edgard, Tim Forster project architect 2009-14;
20?? Catering & hospitality, St Katherine's School, North somerset;
20?? STEM centre, Hayesfield School, Bath;
20?? St Gregory & St Mark sixth form centre, nr Bath;
20?? Eco-house near Bath; website;
WHITE, JOHN. John White Sr c1747-1813 was London surveyor who laid out Portland estate, London, 1787ff and was involved in plans for Regents Park 1809; des Glevering Hall, Suffolk 1792-4, alts Weston Pk, Staffs 1802-8, The Square, Buxton, Derbys 1806-7, St John ch, Buxton 1811-12 this by John White & Son. John White Jr +1850 worked with father on Portland estate and was DS for Marylebone 1807-50, designed Eyre Arms, St Johns Wood, competed for London Bridge 1823 and Houses of Parliament 1835.
1809-11 Taunton & Somerset Hospital, East Reach, Som; Mr White architect TC 4.7.11 and 26.12.11; prob John White Sr; ill in Bush Book of Taunton 134 pre 1840s alterations;
1818 ?roof of former General Hospital, South Rd, Taunton, redone for Franciscan convent by Mr White builder £262/11/10d; convent history;
WHITE, WILLIAM, Architect 1825-1900, FSA, in practice 1847 Truro, then 30A Wimpole St, London. 1849 Rectory St Columb Major Corn; 1852 All Saints ch, Notting Hill, London; 1855 shops Audley Staffs; 1855 St Michaels Home Wantage Berks; 1858-69 Lyndhurst ch Hants; 1860-62 Bishop’s Court, Sowton Devon; 1865 Winscott, Torrington, Devon; 1866-70 Humewood Co Wicklow; 1873 St Mark ch Battersea Rise, London; biography 2010 by Gill Hunter (GH)
(1851 des Westbury Leigh ch, Wilts, not built until 1876-80; BoE;
(1856 Axford ch, Wilts; WBR;)
185? Rest roof Meare ch, Som; before 1859, W White FSA acc to Kelly 1906; not in GH;
(1857-9 School and house, Chute, Wilts; WBR; opened WI 13.10.59)
(1860 Vicarage, Chute, Wilts; WBR;)
1860 School, Hinton Charterhouse, Som; GH 275;
1861 Ruishton School, Som; FS Br 4.5.61 306 Dec Gothic small 32x17 by 25ft high, Monkton stone and Bath dressings. Present school 1861 is larger and not Gothic and accords with plans signed WW in SRO DD/C/EDS/1, purple stone w Bath dressings with house at right-angles; not in GH;
1861 ref to buildings TC 30.10.61 ?Ruishton School
1862-3 rest Combe St Nicholas ch, Som; reseat; ICBS; SRO; Br 8.8.63 572 aisles extended W, pews and gallery removed, open benches, choir stalls, tiles by godwin, open roofs; simple stone reredos; perspective in church shows much more elaborate proposal, roofs with angels, pews, screen right across; GH 277 £1830; reopened TC 26.7.63, Hawker & Keetch bldrs;
(1862-3 Master’s Lodge porch and adds, Marlborough College, Wilts, also sick-room 1862-3, Barton Hill and Elmhurst houses;
1875 rest Witham Friary ch, Som; SRO; GH; dem 1828 tower by Charles Long, removed gallery, remove plaster, added W bay and narthex and bell-gable, 10 flying buttresses, floor, benches, lectern, stalls and notice board; old font found in foundations of tower restored; SANHS 24 1878 25-32 account by WW; McGarvie, Witham Friary, 1989, also refaced walls, restored curve to the apse; £3600;
(1876-7 Westbury Leigh ch, Wilts; nave and chancel 1876-7, S aisle and tower added 1888-90;
(1886 Tower lychgate, Great Bourton, Oxon; Br 7.8.86
(1888-90 tower and S aisle Westbury Leigh ch, Wilts;
(1894-5 School, Westbury Leigh, Wilts; WBR2; William White of 30A Wimpole St, London; dem;
WHITE, WILLIAM Surveyor, Sand House, Wedmore. Died 1816. Made map of Wedmore. Made map of Longleat East Pennard estate 1786; mentioned as Land Surveyor, Sand, in connection with sale of manor of Brent Knoll SWJ 1.6.89; Nephew William White Tucker 1793-1867 became Rev William White, first vicar of Theale, moved into Sand House 1831, resigned living 1835.
1774 Sand House, Sand, Wedmore, Som, for himself
1791 gave advice on King’s Sedgemoor Drain, built 1791-5, with Josiah or William Jessop; MW 147; SIAS 7 13-14;
1801 Improvements to R Axe from Weare to sea, proposed; plan SRO Q/RUP/17 dated 30.9.01, inc dam and lock nr Bleadon and sluice and drain in Lympsham parish;
1801-2 Surveyed River Brue 1801, made Western New Cut, Highbridge, Som, 1802-4; MW 138-9; White had already prepared a map for similar scheme in 1794, MW 134, 137n;
WHITE, W. HENRY
1911 Living-hall, The Lodge, Portishead, Som, exh RA; AA 1911;
WHITEHEAD, ARTHUR N. Clevedon. County Surveyor 1859-82, retired 1882; Diocesan Surveyor 1872; ref in SCG 9.4.1864 Whitehead had been county surveyor??
1864 examined Mr Austin's house ?Somerset House, Magdalene St, Glastonbury as suitable residence for Chief Officer of Somerset Police; SCG 9.4.64;
1866-67 alts Marsh Bridge, nr Dulverton, Som; new iron span made by Hennet & Spink, Bridgwater; DoE list;
1873 alts Dulverton parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/196 AW diocesan surveyor;
1873 stables, Blagdon parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/197;
1873 minor alts Yatton parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/198;
1876 Court Room, Police Station, Somerton, Som; plans SRO D/PI Box 11 1; AW county surveyor; on Market Place, by West St.
1876 Chipstable parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/219; large bargeboarded gabled, quoins.
WHITLING, HENRY JOHN London. Architect, designed workhouses: Beaminster and Bridport, Dorset, 1836, competed for Bideford, Devon; des Rhayader, Rad, 1839;
(1836-8 Beaminster Workhouse, Dorset; HJW and Edward Mundey; Richard Warr bldr;
(1836-8 Bridport Workhouse, Dorset; ;)
WHITMARSH-EVERISS, ERNEST Architect, Bristol
(1956-7 RC ch, Charlton Kings, Glos;)
WHITTINGTON, J.S. Architect, Manchester and London
1889 Grand Atlantic Hotel, Weston S Mare converted from private school of 1854 with adds; SNB;
1896 proposed hotel on site of Sydney House, Sydney Gardens, Bath BC 5.11.96; to cost £22-23K;
WHITWORTH, ROBERT Engineer.
1788 appointed engineer to Western Canal joining Kennet Navigation to Avon Navigation at Bath, then in 1790 named scheme engineer with John Rennie qv as consulting engineer; project renamed Kennet & Avon Canal 1793
1793 Surveyed Dorset & Somerset Canal from Kennet & Avon through Mells and Wincanton to Poole; act 1796, started with branch to Frome and with William Bennett qv as engineer;
WHYTE, E. TOWEY Architect;
(1886 House at Coombe nr Shaftesbury, Dorset for MH Beaufoy now building ill Br 4.12.86 spelled also E T White; local green sandstone with red Farleigh dressings; Dart of Crediton bldr; tower for water; this is Wincombe Park, Donhead St Andrew, Wilts now Shaftesbury Convent School for Girls;
WIGHTMAN, JOHN Ironfounder, Chard. Wightman & Dening with Charles Dening, JW retired 1867, firm then Dening & Co. W&D in 1848 dir. Roger Carter thinks the Gothic iron churchyard gates at Chard, ?1842, were made at Wightman’s foundry opposite the church. Wightman & Dening stamp on gates to Hatch Park, Hatch Beauchamp, Som;
1874 South End Board School, Ivy Green, Chard, Som; by JW of W&D, bldr James Hawker qv; £930; stone from Chard Quarry; Gosling & Berry, Around Chard, Crewkerne & Ilminster, 2002, 28;
WIGLEY FOX PARTNERSHIP Architects, Cardiff. Set up 1997 – Wigley and Brian J Fox;
WIGLEY, V.J. Architect, VJ Wigley & Associates; ?same as Wigley Fox Partnership
1978 Hoyles Farm housing, Taunton, Som; HDA 1978;
WILCOX, J. Architect, Terry Hill, where??
1890 ? Hemington, Som, residence, lavatories etc fitted with latest sanitary appliances, Mr JW of Terry Hill was the architect, WG 3.10.90;
WILCOX, J(OHN) & U(RBAN). Builders, Leigh on Mendip. John & Urban Wilcox, builders, smiths, wheelwrights and limeburners in 1906 dir, also Hugh Wilcox mason.
1897 Repairs to foundations, Cranmore Tower, East Cranmore, Som for Sir RH Paget Bt; de Viggiani Two Estates 1988 65, £277/15/4d;
WILDE & FRY Architects, Boulevard Chambers, Weston s Mare; Kelly 1906; Sydney J Wilde & Peter George Fry qqv; see also JJ Wilde.
1900 Library & art gallery, Weston s Mare Som; Hans Price and W&F joint architects, Br 15.9.00 opened, two figure groups by Harry Hems, other carving by Hillman of Weston s Mare; Charles Addicott contractor;
1900 nave, St Saviour ch, Locking Rd, Weston s Mare, Som; E end 1890-2 by SJ Wilde, SNB;
1900 Alts Bleadon ch, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1900/2
19?? Shop premises Burnham on Sea, Som; in list of works by Gleed Brod bldrs; £1000;
1908 joint architects with Price & Jane, Masonic Hall rear of Victoria Hall, Weston s Mare T Br 15.2.08;
WILDE, J. J. Weston super Mare. ?error for SJ Wilde.
1894 1st pr Pigott Memorial Clock Tower, Weston s Mare, Som; RHH
1894 2nd pr Weston s Mare MH, Som; JJW & Bryan; (? H Dare Bryan qv);
WILDE, SYDNEY JOHN. Architect Boulevard Chambers, Weston s Mare; Kelly 1889; Northcote, Stafford Pl, Weston s Mare; Kelly 1906; partner with PG Fry qv see Wilde & Fry.
1890-2 St Saviour ch, Locking Rd, Weston s Mare, Som E end 1890-2, nave 1901-2 by Wilde & Fry;
1894 1st pr Pigott Memorial Clock Tower, Weston s Mare, Som; by JJ Wilde acc to RHH
1894 2nd pr Weston s Mare MH, Som; JJW & Bryan; (? H Dare Bryan qv); by JJ Wilde acc to RHH;
1897 Laundry buildings, Moorland Rd, Weston s Mare, Som C: BJ 28.9.97, for WsM Sanitary Laundry Co T: BJ 6.10.97 Keen & Keen of WsM contrs;
1897-8 Two pairs of cottages, Uphill Drove Rd, Weston s Mare; C: BJ 24.11.97
WILKES, J. H. H. Somerset County Surveyor c1965.
WILKINS, WILLIAM 1778-1839. Leading architect of Greek Revival, set up in Cambridge 1805, Downing College, Cambridge, National Gallery London, Kings College Cambridge etc; HC;
1808-9 Portico, Lower Rooms, Bath; HC; dem;
(1815-17 Lodge at Stourhead, Wilts; HC; RA 1817, Grecian;
1817-19 Masonic Hall, York St, Bath; BoE N; Ison; later Friends Meeting House; ?the row opposite
c1824 alts Kingweston House, Som for W Dickinson; porch only RL & HC from Neale Seats 2nd ser, 4, 1828; but drawing found by John Townson suggests that whole house was remodelled c1824 as shows house with pedimented centre and is inscribed ‘Kings Weston The seat of William Dickinson Esqr Before 1824; interior passage w Gk key plaster suggests 1820s also.
1833 attrib Kingsdon House, Som; RL; not in HC;
WILKINSON, GEORGE, FRIBA 1814-90. Witney, Oxford, later Dublin. Architect to Poor Law Commissioners, first work was Thame Workhouse Oxon, designed many more incl Witney and Chipping Norton. Bampton TH Oxon 1838. Moved to Ireland c1840 as archt to Poor Law Commissioners; Harcourt St Station, Dublin, 1858-9, in Ireland to 1888; Colvin; brother William Wilkinson 1819-1901, architect, Oxford.
Nicholas Cooper & Kathryn Morrison, ‘The English and Welsh Workhouses of George Wilkinson’, Georgian Group Journal, XIV (2004), 104-30 (GGJ).
1836-8 Chard workhouse, Som; dem 1974; SC notes; GGJ; , £5000; similar to Devizes; ?James Pollard builder;
(1836 Dorchester Workhouse, Dorset)
(1836 Devizes workhouse, Wilts; Young & White bldrs; WBR)
1836-7 Wincanton workhouse, Som; Maurice Davis builder; dem; RL;
(1837 Cricklade & Wootton Bassett Workhouse, Purton, Wilts; WBR)
WILKINSON, J. G. City Architect & Chief Planning Officer Bath
1961 Bath Crematorium, Haycombe, Bath; AFtext;
1962 Police Station, Manvers St, Bath; AFtext
WILKINSON, WILLIAM Architect, 5 Beaumont St, Oxford 1819-1901, designed much in North Oxford, practice continued by nephew H Wilkinson Moore;
(1859-60 Farms on Longleat estate, Wilts, BoE; Stalls Farm 1859, ill ILN suplement Dec 1859; and Park Farm 1860, no evidence of work at Park Farm Horningsham)
(18?? farm at Fifield Bavant, Wilts; in AEBTD 1868;
1870 addn Rectory, West Huntspill, Som; SRO Bbm/180; VCH 8;
(1872 two lodges, Warneford Place, Sevenhampton, Wilts; BoE)
WILLCOX & AMES Bath name of firm after Wilson, Willcox and Ames (WW&A) qv. WJ Willcox and Thomas Ames in 1886 Bath Directory; Henry Marcus Brown LRIBA born 1868 was articled to Willcox & Ames, practiced in Wolverhamnpton, WwinA1926;
(1884 Woodlands, Limpley Stoke, Wilts W&A RIBAD)
(1885 Adds Lucknam Park, Colerne Wilts – service wing W&A RIBAD)
1885 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Yeovil, Som; W&A; RIBAD; probably demolished, if on site of 1924 Westminster Bank by Petter & Warren;
1885 alts No 1 Union St, Bath; AFtext;
1885 rest Barwick ch, Som; WW&A; SRO cf/1885/2;
1885 rest Englishcombe ch, Som; W&A; reject ICBS; new nave roof;
1886 adds St John ch, Weston, Bath; SRO; W&A; SRO cf/1886/14;
1886 minor adds Abbe Villa, Lyncombe, Bath, W&A; RIBAD;
1886 alts Waldegrave Arms, Radstock, Som; W&A; RIBAD;
1886 Reseating, New Church, Henry St, Bath W&A RIBAD
(188? Shooting Lodge, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland RIBAD undated
WILLCOX, - builder, Clevedon, owner of brickyard, bought out Shopland Bros brickyard in 1898
1865-9 Twenty houses or more, Stroud Rd, Clevedon, called the 'brick houses';
WILLCOX, WILLIAM JOHN Architect 1838-1928 1 Belmont, Bath. Artic James Wilson qv 1853, worked with WE Nesfield before returning to Bath c1865, then partner James Wilson as Wilson & Willcox qv from 1865, Wilson, Willcox & Wilson qv, c1872; Wilson, Willcox & Ames qv c1884, Willcox & Ames qv c1886, and c1888-1924 WJ Willcox. County Surveyor East Somerset 1886 held County Surveyorship jointly with Charles E Norman (previously W division Surveyor) to 1891, and singly 1892-1908. Acc to RL never County Architect, as post not created until 1922. Lived at Hampton Hall, Bathampton, Som (Kelly 1906). Obit RIBAJ 36 82. ARIBA 1863 resigned 1892.
1862 WM schools, master’s house and minister’s house, Christchurch Rd West, Frome, Som; Br 1862 924; 1st pr RHH; Br 20 336; by ‘JW Wilcox of Bath, now of London’ ?BN 1863; RL;
1871 drawing of Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath in Victoria Art Gallery is apparently by WJW; Hotel was by Wilson & Willcox;
1878 rebuilt TH, Wincanton, Som; RL; BoE Som; RIBAD has drawings said to be dated 1871 by WW&W but old MH burnt in 1877;
1879 N aisle Ilchester ch, Som; WG 26.9.79 Mr Wilcox the architect attended opening
1879 Radstock ch, Som; 1878-9 by WW&W, SNB; by WW&W, SRO;
1882-3 chancel St Stephen ch, Lansdown, Bath; vestry & organ ch; Bath Guide 1897; MF 266;
1883-5 rest Holton ch, Som; added N aisle 1887-8;
(1883 prop rest Purse Caundle ch, Dorset, estimate received from Mr Willcox; WG 13.4.83;
1883 chancel, St Mark ch, Lyncombe, Bath; by W&A acc to Peach Rambles;
1884 Enlarged Combe Down Ch, Bath; aisles, chancel and two porches; Bath Herald 5.4.84; ICBS WW&W; ?W&A;
1884-5 Horsington ch, Som; RL; reblt whole church exc tower; large with S aisle and N porch.
1884-8 High Littleton ch, Som, reblt; ?W&A;
1886 ext Holton Rectory, Wincanton, Som; RIBAD; SRO D/Bbm/267;minor adds behind.
1886-7 alts St Stephen, Lansdown, Bath; Roof rebuilt and decorated; Bath Chron 10.3.87, painted by H&F Davis.
1887 N aisle, Holton ch, Som; RIBAD; SRO cf/1887/6; RL, 1887-8, vestry reblt and organ chmbr added;
1887 Police station, Leigh road, Street, Som; RL;
1887 ?Police Station, Radstock, Som; WG 7.10.87 by County Surveyor;
1887 St James Parish Room, Lower Borough Walls, Bath; BChron 28.4.87)
1887 adds St John ch, Upper Bristol Rd, Bath, N tr; BChron 29.9.87)
1888-9 Pitman offices, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath; Bath Graphic 1897 166. Design for new front 1888 RIBAD;
1888 adds 14 Charles St, Bath; bay ws, RIBAD;
1888 alts No 5 Milsom St, Bath; RIBAD;
1889 adds Westwood, Lansdown, Bath; RIBAD;
1889 pulpit Radstock ch, Som; RIBAD; memorial pulpit, WG 11.10.89, consulted Mr Willcox architect of the church;
1889 reseating St James, Stall St, Bath; RIBAD; Dem; SRO cf/1888/1;
1889 adds St Marks Schools, Lyncombe, Bath; RIBAD
1890 alts Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath; dem; spec RIBAD;
1890-2 Oak St Schools, Wells Rd, Bath; BN 24.10.90; opened Br 2.7.92 competition victory;
1890 Alts 4-5 Milsom St, Bath; RIBAD;
1890 adds Nethersole, North Road, Bath, for Bath College; RIBAD)
1891 Repairs St Swithin ch, Walcot, Bath; Bath Guide 1897; SRO cf/1891/9;
1891 interior alts Old Bank, High St, Bath; RIBAD)
1892 cottage near Christ Church, Montpelier, Bath; RIBAD)
1893 alts Stanley villa, Weston, Bath; RIBAD
(1893 attrib add School, Colerne, Wilts; for Richard Walmesley of Lucknam Park;
(1893 attrib Walmesley Memorial, Market Place, Colerne, Wilts;
1894 Bathampton Schools, Som; RIBAD)
1894 adds Infants School, Somerton, Som; plans SRO D/PI/16/1;
1894? Bachelor’s staircase, Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Som; for Sir RH Paget Bt MP; design ill M de Viggiani Two Estates 1988 89, where architect is wrongly called WS Willett, date is hard to read;
1895 ext 19 Camden Crescent, Bath; RIBAD)
1895 minor alts 10 Henrietta Villa, Bath; RIBAD)
1895 minor alts 6 John St Bath; RIBAD
1896 iron screen, St Andrew ch, Walcot, Bath between chancel and chancel aisle; E part of screen stood alone for several years BC 9.1.96
1896 organ ch & vestry, St Matthew ch, Widcombe, Bath; SRO cf 1896/5;
1897 Victoria Hall, Radstock, Som;
1897 vestry, Bathampton ch, Som; SRO cf 1897/9;
1897 Electric light station, Dorchester St, Bath; RIBAD; Forsyth213
1898 Cemetery, Wellow, Som; RIBAD;
1898 Police Station, Blenheim Rd, Minehead; behind Public Hall; OD;
1899 alts Weston Schools, Bath; RIBAD)
1899 alts 7 Union passage, Bath RIBAD)
1899 alts 17 Union St, Bath RIBAD)
1899 alts Bailbrook House, London Road, Bath; proposed attic storey not exec RIBAD;
1899 New buildings, Shepton Mallet Grammar School, Som; AFtext;
1900 Writhlington schools, Som; RIBAD;
(1900 ?reblt Manor House, Colerne, Wilts, for Mrs Walmesley of Lucknam Park WBR, but plans in WRO are by the Lucknam Park agent )
1901 Oak St Schools, Wells Rd, Bath; RIBAD
1901 extension Pitman Press, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath RIBAD)
1901 PM chapel, Radstock, Som; RIBAD
1901 Memorial Hall, Somerton, Som; RIBAD;
1902 ?alts Newbridge Hill Ho, Weston, Bath; RIBAD;
1903 adds Charlton House, Charlton Musgrove, Som; inc neo-Jacobean porch, RIBAD; porch copy of one at Manor Farm, Charlton Horethorne, BoE S;
1903 Trossachs, Warminster Rd, Bathampton, Som RIBAD;
1903 No 9 Bridge St, Bath; AF text;
1904 Stables, Penn Hill House, Weston, Bath RIBAD)
(1905 remodelled Derriads, Chippenham, Wilts; RIBAD.
1906 Cottages for General Allen, Bathampton, Som RIBAD;
1907 int alts 10 Beaufort Place Bath RIBAD)
(1907 road scheme for Beaminster RDC, Dorset RIBAD)
1907 alts Nos 7–8 Milsom St Bath RIBAD)
1907 Paper shed, Pitman Press Lower Bristol Rd, Bath RIBAD)
1910 minor alts Glastonbury Police station Som RIBAD)
1914 Police cottages, Taunton Gaol, Taunton, Som RIBAD; dated 1915;
1920 Wincanton Court, Wincanton, Som; RIBAD; not found; RL says court house at Wincanton, perhaps alts to police station by RH Shout qv;
Obituary lists work at Radstock ch Som (pulpit 1889); Wincanton TH (1878); Horsington Ch Som (reblt 1885); Barwick ch, Som (rest 1885); Coleford ch, Som (reseated 1885); adds Bathampton ch, Som; adds Colerne Ch Wilts (firm worked there in 1876-7); new buildings Shepton Mallet Grammar School, Som, ?1899. RIBAD include Duck-shelter Victoria Park, Bath ?the one dated 1881; Homestead, Combe Park, Bath.
Attr Police Station, North St, Langport, Som 1904;
WILLIAMS, EDWARD Tiverton
18?? Plans National School, Dulverton, Som; not built?; SRO D/P/dul/18/8/7
WILLIAMS, HENRY. Corn St, Bristol fl 1874-1907; GJL, superb draughtsman, without stylistic principles;
(1872 Taylor & Tucker warehouse, Broadmead, Bristol; dem;
(1874 Wills & Wills warehouse, Victoria St, Bristol; A 6.11.75; dem;
(1876 Nos 7-8 Silver St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; WBR, T Jones bldr;
1878 conv of bank to tradesman's shop, Chard, Som, by Mr Williams of Bristol, SCG 9.11.78;
1878 Malthouse for S Toms of Chard Brewery, by the station, Chard, Som; T SCG 22.6.78, HW of 5 Clare St, Bristol
(1882 Nos 7-9 Baldwin St, Bristol; Gomme;
(1883 alts Christ Church, Broad St, Bristol; GJL, remarkably insensitive;
1883-4 Corn Exchange, Chard, Som; add to rear of TH, Fore St; Br 1883b 573; opened C&IN 27.10.84; TC 24.10.83 ?refers, ref to stage, fittings and wood floor; WG 19.1.83; WG 26.10.83, Mr Poole of Ilminster contr;
(1884 Friends Meeting House, Hampton Road, Cotham, Bristol;
1887-8 Jubilee Lamp, where?; WG 12.10.88; Mr Williams Bristol;
(1888 Lloyds Bank, Temple Gate, Bristol; dem;
(1888 2-14 Manilla Rd, Clifton, Bristol; GJL
(1894 67-79 Baldwin St, Bristol; Gomme;
(1900 Everard’s Printing Works, 38 Broad St, Bristol; façade tiles by WH Neatby; GJL;
(1903 Stock Exchange, St Nicholas St, Bristol; Gomme;
(1907 alts 47 Corn St, Bristol; Gomme;
WILLIAMS, MICHAEL J. see MJW Architects
WILLIAMS, MORRIS Architect, North Curry, ref TC 14.1.1931;
WILLIAMS, ROBERT Surveyor Minehead. Possibly same as Robert Williams of Weacombe.
1861 adds Parsonage, Minehead, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/138, late Geo style hip-roofed 3-bay block;
WILLIAMS, ROBERT Weacombe, West Quantoxhead. Builder, possibly same as Robert Williams qv of Minehead. RW, farmer, aged 60 is in 1871 census at Higher Weacombe Fm, but not in 1861 or 1881 census, inf DS;
1870-1 WM chapel, Harbour Street, Watchet, Som; minutes of Building Ctee in SRO reveal that a design by Alexander Lauder qv was rejected and Williams, one of the trustees, volunteered himself; John Pearse Jr of Minehead bldr tender £1540;
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM A. Architect, PASI, 25 Queen Sq, Bath, 1931 dir;
1926 rear adds No 12 Green St, Bath; Aftext;
1931-3 Bath Corporation electricity Dept, Dorchester St, Bath, drawing ill in Robin Pake thesis 2015; BC 26.8.33; BC 28.10.33; on site of Full Moon pub; dem 2007; neoclassical quadrant facade;
1956-7 alts Pavilion Music Hall, Bath; AFtext; as Regency Ballrooms;
WILLIAMS, W. E.
1876 Withypool School, Som; Adams & Bushen bldrs; inf Sarah Villiers;
WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Sir BERTRAM CLOUGH. Architect. 1883- . Plas Brondanw, Llanfrothen, Mer. Son of Rev JC Williams-Ellis of Glasfryn, Caerns. Partner with James Scott (W-E&S). Lived at Plas Brondanw, created Portmeirion nearby from 1920s. Author: Architect Errant 1971; catalogue of works RIBA by R Haslam; entry Whos Who in Wales 1920 532; worked with Lionel Brett c1950; knighted 1972;
1906 Pair of cottages, Cricket St Thomas, Som; Architect Errant 277; RIBAD PA484/20 (1-4), for FJ Fry; roughcast first floor with two gables; now Longmoor Cottage, the windows spoiled and extra ones inserted.
1920 alts Steart House, Burnham on Sea, Som; RIBAD PA431/9 1-6; Steart House is former Baths & Spa c. 1830, on the Esplanade; alts to garden front inc two bay ws; dormers both sides’. Probably not the ‘House near Burnham, Som’ in list of works in Architect Errant p280;
19?? ‘House near Burnham, Som’; list of works in Architect Errant p280;
1920 Alts Kilve Court, Som; Architect Errant; RIBAD PA/441/9 (1-2); added porch and inner screen wall; new dining-room French windows; remove dining-room stack; minor alts inc servants hall fireplace.
(1921 and 1925 adds Oare House, Wilts; James & Yerbury Modern English Houses, 1925 p xxx 111, two exterior two interior photos, built-in library bookcases and a corridor; for Geoffrey Fry; also several sets of cottages in the village;
19?? Alts Manor House, Curry Mallet, Som; inf owner Sheridan Tandy; RIBAD PA485/8 (1-2) shows alts to outbuilding, remove boundary wall to make entry to a service court, plans for covered way around an inner courtyard entered through a hall from the main courtyard. From opposite side go out 3 radiating paths to an upper terrace which ‘the garage is under’ but appears as if parapeted terrace is over upper end of outbuilding (coal store etc); for Mrs Stackafine; builder Vile of Puckington; mason Wallace Taylor; c1939 SAS;
1947? proposed alts Hadspen, Som for – Hobhouse; drawings at house undated by Clough Williams-Ellis & Lionel Brett of Watlington Park for alterations to first floor; inf Robert Dunning; correspondence seen by Robert Dunning shows nothing done as permission to proceed not given; the architect initially consulted was Ronald Vallis qv of Frome but there are letters from Clough Williams-Ellis from whom owner wanted ideas; minor adaptation of one wing then done in 1948-9 by Lionel Brett;
1950-2 House off Stafford Place, Weston s Mare, Som; house for a doctor, Architect Errant 282, by CW-E and Lionel Brett; SNB; SW bedrooom 1954; kitchen c1954;
1956c unex proposal to move Temple of Harmony, Halswell, to Portmeirion; SAS;
WILLMAN, JOHN HENRY HILARY. Architect, Taunton of Roberts & Willman, articled Sharman & Archer of Wellingborough, joined FW Roberts in 1911 and firm became R&W in 1919, continued firm with AP Stoner still as R&W after death of FW Roberts in 1932; WwinA 1926
1935 RC ch, Keynsham, Som R&W;
1936-7 Converted Popham Almshouses, Mantle St, Wellington, Som, to St john fisher RC church, reputedly designed for free; opened March 1937;
(1937-8 St Gregory ch, Salisbury, Wilts; H&F;
(1938 adds RC ch, Boreham Rd, Warminster Wilts; transepts, chancel and presbytery; plans WSHC R&W;
(1938-9 RC church, West End, Melksham; plans WSHC;
(1938-9 RC ch Dursley, Glos;
(1939 RC ch, Westbury on Trym, Bristol;
1939-40 RC church, Glastonbury, Som; HW Pollard contrs;
Attrib RC church, Westbury, Wilts 1937-8; RC church, Chippenham, Wilts, 193?;
WILLMENT (JOHN and JAMES) Masons who worked for Sir John Slade of Maunsel, St Michael Church, Som, in bills DD/SL/38/1-2
1824-5 minor work at Athelney Farm, Lyng, Som;
WILLMORE ILES Architects. Bristol. Paula Willmore and Andrew Iles. Founded 1999 specialists in student housing; Designed eco-house types called Skydeck and The Barn for Lower Mill eco-estate, Somerford Keynes, Glos, c2010; also masterplan for Beaumont Village, Silverlake, Dorset, lakeside holiday village similar to Lower Mill; new farmhouse Brynamlwg Uchaf, Nantgaredig, Carms; Stembridge, conversion of pumping station near Pembs Coast Nat Park;
20?? Crown Medical Centre, Taunton, Som;
20?? add to North Curry Health Centre, Som;
2015-17 conversion of outbuildings North Bradon Farm, Somerset;
WILLMOTT, ERNEST Architect, London 1871-1916 originally Ernest Wilmott Sloper, educ Taunton School of Art, articled FW Roberts, office manager Thomas Garner qv, started practice 1897 won comp for Carnegie Library Hawick 1903 with S Adshead; partner with Ambrose Poynter, then 1902-6 joined Herbert Baker & Masey in South Africa, partner 1903; returned England 1907, changed name, wrote English House Design 1911; ASG; WW in A 1914 lived Bramleys, Little Kingshill, Great Missenden, Bucks, designed orphanage, All Saints Convent, St Albans; house at Lympne, Kent with Herbert Baker; All Saints Home, Margaret St, London; Shorne Hill, Totton, Hants;
19?? alts Burton Pynsent, Curry Rivel; WW in A 1914; garden was by Harold Peto qv for his ?sister;
WILLS, ALFRED HENRY. Architect, ?Exeter, bankrupt, TC 10.9.1884; WG 1.4.1887;
WILLS, CHARLES JAMES. Manchester, Contractor.
1903-6 Contractor, Castle-Cary to Taunton line for GWR; line went from Castle Cary to Durston opened 1.7.06; N Langmaid ed Castle Cary to Durston,
centenary history 2006; works included Somerton Viaduct, Somerton Tunnel, Langport viaduct, Skew Bridge nr Somerton, and stations at Charlton Mackrell, Somerton, Langport East; AW Armstrong qv was new works engineer GWR; PA Anthony was GWR engineer in charge; George Bertrand Sharples born c1883 Lancashire believed to have des Skew Bridge worked for Wills; Edward Percy Wooldridge was also an engineer for Wills, born 1883 Meonstoke Hants;
WILLS, Sir FRANK WILLIAM. Bristol. Trained in office of Foster & Wood, Voisey & Wills qv or Wills & Voisey 1874-81; son of HO Wills; Lord Mayor 1911-12, knighted 1912; GJL; president Taunton School 1922; son John Bertram Wills was also architect; WwinA 1926 also Acton Turville Hotel, Glos
(1873 Bedminster Hotel, Bedminster Parade, Bristol; Gomme;
(1876 rest St Michael ch, Two Mile Hill, Bristol; W&V; Gomme;
(1880 Seaman’s Ch & Inst, Prince St, Bristol; dem;
(1881 adds Swiss Villa, Durdham Pk, Bristol; W&V; Gomme;
(1884-7 Wills No 1 Factory, Bedminster, Bristol; BN 1887 53, 824; West range c1888; East range 1902;
(1888 enlarged Leighton House, Westbury, Wilts DWG 12.7.88 for WH Laverton;
(1889 Morley C chapel, Fishponds, Bristol; Gomme;
(1894-5 adds school buildings, Blagdon, Som; T Br 8.9.94
(1901 C chapel, Brislington, Bristol; Gomme;
1902 Pair labourers cottages, Northmoor estate, Dulverton, Som; for Sir Frederick Wills; D/R/dul/24/1/11; in curve of R Barle;
1902 Labourers cottages, Marsh Hill, Dulverton for Sir Frederick Wills; pair, possibly bungalows; D/R/dul/24/1/7
1902 Gamekeeper’s bungalow, Marsh Hill, Dulverton for Sir Frederick Wills D/R/dul/24/1/6
1902 Two workmen’s cottages, Mountsey Hill, Dulverton, for Heber Mardon of Ashwick;
(1902-6 Wills Factories, Bedminster, Bristol. No 1, East range, in East St, and Nos 2-3 in Raleigh Rd, No 1 1902, No 2 1904, No 3 1906; SNB;
1903 Ashwick, Dulverton, Som, for Heber Mardon JP; large hipped with 2-storey porch and gables; D/R/dul/24/1/16
1904 Three cottages, Guildhall Terrace, rear of Fore St, Dulverton, for William German; hipped with sash windows; D/R/dul/24/1/10;
1904 Two cottages, Baron's Down, Brompton Regis, Som, for Misses Bere of Baron's Down; plain 4-bay, hipped; D/R/dul/24/1/22;
(1904-6 City Art Gallery, Bristol; 1899 Gomme; 1900-5 by FW with Houston & Houston of London, sculpture by WJ Smith, glass by Joseph Bell & sons 1908, rear hall 1925-30 by JB Wills qv
1904 adds Blagdon School, Som; AFtext;
1905 Two cottages, Hinam Cross, Dulverton, Som, for Sir Frederick Wills Northmoor estate; D/R/dul/24/1/29;
1905-7 Chapel, Taunton School, Staplegrove Rd, Som; BoE S; ill Archiseek, 1906; lancet Gothic; stained glass by Powell’s 1906-21; PC 183ff gift of Sir WH Wills (Lord Winterstoke) in mem of wife; FS 12.5.06, opened 16.2.07; screen at W end, organ chmbr N vestry S under a gallery, chancel apsed; EE style. Rubble walls w Guiting dressings. Sicilian marble floor, boarded barrel roof; mosaic in apse; apse glass given by Lord Winterstoke nave ws figures in pairs New Testament N, Old Testament S, W w 1913 memorial to Lord Winterstoke; war memorial S w 1921; all glass by Powell
1906 adds Burrwalls, Leighwoods, Bristol; GJL;
1906 WM chapel, Blagdon, Som; AFtext;
1906 St Andrew ch, Blagdon, Som; GJL; 1907-9 for Sir WH Wills 1st Lord Winterstoke + 1911, SC notes; 1907 WwinA 1926;
1907 Kennels Farmhouse, Northmoor Hill, Dulverton, Som and buildings for Sir Frederick Wills; D/R/dul/24/1/39
1908 Wills Factory, Lombard St, Bedminster, Bristol;
1909 Rhodyate Hill, Som; GJL;
(1910 North British Ass, 9-11 Broad St, Bristol; Gomme;
1911 estate buildings ?for Wills family at Blagdon & Burrington, Som; GJL;
1911-12 Winterstoke Library, Taunton School, Som; add to E of main school; PC116-7; Cowlins of Bristol builders; Westleigh stone;
(1913 Trinity North Almshouse, Old Market St, Bristol; Gomme;
(1913-14 Imperial Tobacco factory, Colbourne St, Swindon, Wilts; WBR2, dem;
(1922 RC church, Boreham Rd, Warminster, Wilts, nave; E end added 1938 by JHH Willman qv)
(1923 National Provincial Bank, 216 Cheltenham Rd, Bristol; Gomme;
(1923-5 RC ch, Fishponds, Bristol)
1925-6 English Martyrs RC church, Fore St, Chard, Som; The Diocese of Clifton 1850-2000; FS 24.9.25, opened 22.6.26, consecrated 27.9.1966 with new altar; church hall 1933;
(1928-9 adds RC ch, Shirehampton, Bristol)
1938 Manor House, Abbotsleigh, Som; Gomme;
Also Hotel, Acton Turville, Glos WW in A 1926;
WILLS, GERALD Architect, Miles & Wills
1962 Clergy vestry, Porlock ch, Som; faculty SRO D/D/cf/1962/3/4; but the E sacristy was converted to a clergy vestry in 2009-10?;
WILLS, H. O. London.
1897 alts Redhill ch, Som; enlarge, reseat; SRO cf 1897/17; organ ch and vestry, SNB;
WILLS, JOHN BERTRAM. Architect, Bristol, born 1883 son of Sir Frank Wills qv, trained in his office, list of work in Bristol in WwinA 1926;
(1925 rear adds City Art Gallery, Bristol; SNB; original 1900-5 by Frank Wills; )
WILLS, JOHN. Architect. FSA cl845-l906 Victoria Chambers, St Peters Churchyard, Derby. Began in Kingsbridge, Devon, 1868, in Derby by 1883. Prominent chapel architect, firm later John Wills & Sons (W&S) of Derby and 166 Piccadilly, London, continued first half of C20. Wrote ‘Hints to Trustees of Church Property’ for WM church, 6th ed. 50th thousand 1896.
1885 Ceylon Pl B chapel, Eastbourne, Sx Elleray 58 Gothic; 1886 Brasted B chapel Kent £750 ‘old english’; 1886 Sevenoaks B chapel, Kent Gothic £3120 R Homan 86; 1888-9 Northwich WM chapel Ches WCC?88; 1889 New Brompton B chapel, Kent £3800 Gothic R Homan 77; 1890 Hartford WM chapel, WCC90; 1891 Mareham le Fen WM chapel WCC91 Gothic; 1892 Yalding B chapel, Kent £760 Gothic R Homan 103); Eastleigh WM chapel, Hants WCC92 Ital arch in ped; 1895-6 Ulverston WM, chapel WCC Gothic; 1896 Portland Rd WM chapel, Hove, Sx Gothic- Romanesque; 1897 St Lawrence WM chapel, Kent £1480 Gothic; 1899 Steyne Gdns WM chapel, Worthing Sx; 1899 Borrowash WM chapel, WCC Gothic; 1899 schools, Cavendish B chapel, Ramsgate, Kent; 1902 Kirkton WM chapel, Boston, Lincs WCC02; 1903 Trinity P chapel, East Ham, London, BoE 5 272; 1907 Sutton on Sea WM chapel, Gothic WCC07 W&S; 1909 Northmoor WM chapel, Oldham, Lancs W&S; 1939 Cleobury Mortimer WM chapel, Salop W&S BoE;
(l875 WM chapel, Dartmouth, Devon, dem. Ital; BoE;
(1878 chapel, Hawkchurch, Devon; FS SCG 1.6.78, £450, Heal of Axminster contr;
(1881 Victoria B chapel, Deal, Kent BH1882; £3300 Gothic;
(1882 Shortwood B chapel, Nailsworth, Glos ‘Mr Councillor John Wills of Derby’ £3300 BH1882;
(c1890 Bar Lodge, Salcombe, Devon, for self; BoE)
1892 Boden Institute, Boden Mills, Chard, Som; £1415; F Hill Chard bldr; Br 3.9.92;
WILLS, WILLIAM Exeter Surveyor
1856 adds Hemington parsonage, Som; SRO Bbm/122, rear and wings to a five-bay C18 house;
WILMOTS Wellington. Builders. Not in 1906 dir.
1888 Barn, Middle Green Farm, nr Wellington, Som; DoE;
WILSON & ALDWINCKLE, Architects London. James Wilson of Bath and TW Aldwinckle of London, later Wilson, Son and Aldwinckle, with JB Wilson qv.
(1870-1 1st pr Metropolitan Railway Surplus Land – Barbican site; RHH;
(1877 Public Baths, Aberystwyth, Cd; Br ?6 1194;
(1881 1st pr St Pancras Workhouse, London; RHH
(1883 Lewisham Public Baths 1st pr, London; RHH WS&A;
(1886 adds St George-in-the-East workhouse, London BoELondon5, WS&A)
(1891 Camberwell Workhouse, London; 1st pr; RHH; WS&A
WILSON & DYER Architects London and Swansea. ?James Wilson or James B. Wilson and ? Charles E Dyer of Plymouth
(1884 2nd prize Llanelli Hospital, Carms; RHH; Br 46 285; EM Bruce Vaughan winner; Exh RA 1884;
WILSON & FULLER Bath. James Wilson qv and Thomas Fuller Jr qv architects; In Bath Directories 1852 and 1854. Fuller was a pupil of Wilson’s, then in 1847-50 had been with W Gingell in Bristol as Fuller & Gingell, then returned to Wilson in Bath;
1850-2 Cranwells, Weston Park, Bath villa for Jerome Murch, mayor Peach Street lore of Bath 1891 Exh at RA 1850 Forsyth 295-6 copy of Wilson's 1840 facade to Widcombe Manor)
1851 engineering works Bath Waterworks, Weston, Bath; RIBAD Crozier-Cole has specification;
(1852 Des for Cambridge Military Asylum, Kingston upon Thames, Sy; RA;
(1852-4 Assembly Rooms, King St, Carmarthen, Cms (also attrib just Wilson)
(1853-4 WM chapel, Pontypool, Mon; Br 14.5.53)
(1853 WM chapel, Bristol Rd, Birmingham, corner Benacre St, FS Br 1853 216 £4400, Mr Upton bldr;
(1854 Henllan, Llanddewi Velfrey, Pembs house for JLGP Lewis. BoW247.
1854 Trinity National Schools, James St West, Bath; APSD; Dem;
Undated drawings in Crozier-Cole collection at RIBA:
185? Cumberland Villa, Bathwick, Bath, extensions;
185? Red Post Inn, Peasedown St John, Som;
185? stables Ringwell House, Ditcheat, Som; probably also the similar Italianate villa, built for R Leir, barrister, became rectory in exchange for The Priory in 1893;
185? extensions Uphill Castle, Uphill, Som.
18?? undated plan of the churchyard and glebe land, Westwood, Wilts, WRO 782/109 possibly re building a school.
Chapel in ?Camberwell London;
WILSON & GRAY FR Wilson FSI and BD Gray FAI advertise in 1913 Yeovil town guide as Auctioneers, estate agents, valuers and architects; also at 14 Mount St London and 20 Princes St Yeovil;
WILSON & HOOLE Architects James Wilson of Bath and Elijah Hoole. Hoole designed tenements at Jacobs Well, Bristol 1875; Crick, Vic bldngs of Bristol, 1975
1883 rear additions Kingswood School, Lansdown, Bath; BoE N; Tunstall 1889 ed says 1885; 1882-3 MF;
WILSON & WILLCOX, 1 Belmont, Bath Architects James Wilson qv and W. J. Willcox, c1865-72, then Wilson, Willcox & Wilson qv (WW&W). Willcox first appears, on his own, des WM schools, minister’s house and master’s house, at Frome, Som, 1862, ‘J.W. Wilcox of Bath now of London’ Br 1862 924. Probably pupil of Wilson joined c1864-5 for Grand Pump Room Hotel competition 1865. Joined c1872 by JWs son James Buckley Wilson see Wilson, Willcox & Wilson. Office also at 17 King William St, London;
1864 Alts Uphill Castle, Som for JJ Knyfton; RIBAD; Uphill Manor rebuilt c1835 by H Rumley for TT Knyfton Jr, extended by JW c1856 with fine interiors by JG Crace; also lodge by JW 1859, SNB;
1865 National Provincial Bank, 24 Milsom St, Bath; N of B; Br 1865 473, crit as imitation Woodism; survey drawings prior to works in RIBAD c1864; extended along York Buildings 1884 by WW&A
(1865-6 Corn Exchange and markets, Swindon, Wilts; RIBAD 1865; adds to Swindon TH of 1853, inc tower and Corn Exchange; T Swindon Advertiser 17.4.65;
1865 alts Sunnylands, Park Villas, Bath, RIBAD;
(186? new church, Thorncliffe, near Sheffield, Yorks ill Examples of Modern Architecture 1870;
1865 2nd prize Forum House - hotel and baths, Bath; won by CE Davis but disputed Br 1865 23, 26, 99, 299. W&W built it to their design 1866-9 as Grand Pump Room Hotel 1866-9 qv;
1866 Entrant West of England Dissenters Public School, Taunton, Som; won by Joseph James Br 24 628; 27 186; RHH;
(1866-9 Stroud ch, Glos; reblt exc tower, W&W; BoE; FS Swindon Advertiser 12.11.66 £7000; BoE GlosC; RIBAD 1866)
1866 N aisle St Stephen ch, Lansdown, Bath; attrib MF;
1866-9 Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath; Arch 26.6.69, 1867 RIBAD; adds 1872 RIBAD; adds 1890-1 acc to Neil Jackson; cf 1865 Forum House hotel & Baths comp; drawing of 1871 in Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, is apparently by WJ Willcox; dem;
(1866 WM chapel, Priory Rd, High Wycombe, Bucks)
1866 rebuilt Hope Chapel, Lower Borough Walls, Bath reblt, drawing called Friends Meeting House in RIBAD;
(1866 Rough perspective sketch of chapel for £620 dated 3.1.66; RIBAD
1866-9 New Royal Baths, Bath St, Bath; ?same as Corporation Baths Stall St, RIBAD 1867-8;
(1867 WM chapel, Tondu, Glam; BoW627)
1867 Alts inc bay windows, The Moorlands, Englishcombe Lane, Bath; for F Barnitt, RIBAD
(1867 House, Trumpington, Cambs for Robert Sayle RIBAD; red br and stone gabled
1867-8 Corporation Baths, Stall St, Bath; RIBAD;
(1867 WM College, Headingley, Leeds, Yorks; RIBAD
(1868 1st pr, chapel, Melbourne, Derbys; RHH)
1868 Corporation Baths, Bath St, Bath; RIBAD
1868 Somerset St chapel, Bath; dem; RIBAD with alt designs;
c1868 Parkfield, Park Gardens, Bath; RIBAD)
1868-9 ??adds Temple WM chapel, Upper High St, Taunton, Som; BoE S says JW; WM chapel and schools 1868 W&W, RL; but JW designed 1846 original, the new chapel and schools keeping only façade of 1846 chapel were acc to TC 18.5.69 by Samuel Shewbrooks qv, Mr Webber contr;
(1868-9 Hungerford WM chapel, Bath Road, Hungerford, Berks; BoE169)
(1869-71 TH and MH, Abergavenny, Mon. W&W; Arch 16.1.69; RIBAD)
1869-70 B chapel, Hay Hill, Bath; NofB 1875)
(1869 2nd pr. South Metropolitan Infant Schools, Sutton, Surrey Br 1869 27)
c1869 Des for repainting Assembly Rooms, Bath; RIBAD ‘Assembly House’)
1869 alts The Beech, Richmond Hill, Bath; RIBAD unex des for alts and adds; ill NJackson 221
187? Villa at Weston, Bath, for Mr Browning; RIBAD)
187? Houses at Weston, Bath, for Browning Esq RIBAD)
(1870 Adds WM chapel, Hall St, Llanelli, Carms; transepts and chancel; LG 3.3.70
(1870 Public Hall, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; RIBAD says drawings 1804?)
1870 School and residence, Wookey Hole, Som; RIBAD;
1870-1 C chapel, Batheaston, Som. Arch 13.5.71; CYB 1872;
1871 plans TH, Wincanton, Som; WW&W; RIBAD; ?? 1878 by WJ Willcox acc to BoE Som, old TH burnt 1877;
1871 Schools, Uphill, Som for JJ Knyfton; RIBAD;
1871-2 alts The Grove, Bathwick hill, Bath for Col Deshore; RIBAD; see also 1875;
1871-2 B chapel, Manvers St, Bath; RIBAD;
(1871-2 WM chapel, High St, Melksham, Wilts; NofB)
(1872 Oddfellows Hall, Devizes, Wilts; RIBAD has specification;
1872 Adds Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath; RIBAD;
1873-4 St Paul ch, Monmouth Place, Bath; ext. 1880-1, BGuide 1895; T Br 15.2.73 is by WW&W;
(1874 Cardiff Club, St Mary St, Cardiff, Glam; RIBAD)
1875 alts The Grove, Bathwick Hill, Bath; for Mrs Mackenzie; RIBAD;
Unsigned undated RIBAD material prob. by W&W: Design for a public bldng or bank; design for Gothic dining hall; design for a Gothic hall; two schemes for a church, school and master’s house; cemetery chapel; Nantmel Schools, Radns; Flimby Schools, Cumberland; Briton Ferry Schools, Glam; Stoke Church Institute, Devonport, Devon; Neath Union Industrial Cottage Homes, Glam; Denholme ch, Yorks c1860s; church c1860;
WILSON, WILLCOX & AMES Architects Bath. James Wilson, WJ Willcox and Thomas Ames fl 1883-4, then Willcox & Ames (W&A) in 1886 Bath Directory. Practice had been Wilson, Willcox & Wilson until Wilson Jr left.
(1883 drainage plan The Rocks, Marshfield, Glos; RIBAD)
1883 chancel St Mark, Lyncombe, Bath; BC 13.12.83; W&W SRO cf/1883/7;
1884 New room, Castle Hotel, Northgate St, Bath; RIBAD)
1884 Ext National Provincial Bank, 24 Milsom St, Bath, ext onto York Buildings, Bath; RIBAD;
1884 Alts 13-15 Stall St Bath, Som, for Messrs Gardiner Bros; RIBAD
1884 add Pitman Phonetic Institute (Abbey Chambers) Abbey Churchyard, Bath, unex RIBAD
1884 Holy Trinity ch, High Littleton, Som reblt; WW&A, SRO cf/1884/5; ICBS 1884-8 rebld exc tower; RIBAD for Rev EC Streeten;
1884 alts No 9 Lansdown Cres, Bath for Dr Irvine; RIBAD
(1884 outbuildings, The Woodlands, Limpley Stoke, Wilts for JG Foley RIBAD; ?W&A)
(1885 Adds Lucknam Park, Colerne, Wilts – service wing W&A RIBAD)
1885 alts Stuckey’s Bank, Yeovil, Som; W&A; RIBAD
1885 rest Barwick ch, Som; WW&A; SRO cf/1885/2; rebuilt chancel, new nave and s aisle roofs.
1885 rest Englishcombe ch, Som; W&A; reject ICBS; new nave roof;
1886 adds St John ch, Weston, Bath; SRO; W&A; SRO cf/1886/14;
1886 minor adds Abbe Villa, Lyncombe Bath, W&A RIBAD;
1886 alts Waldegrave Arms, Radstock, Som, W&A RIBAD;
1886 Reseating, New Church, Henry St, Bath W&A RIBAD
(188? Shooting Lodge, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland RIBAD undated
WILSON, WILLCOX & WILSON, architects Bath James Wilson, WJ Willcox and J Buckley Wilson. Fl c1872-83, Bath Directory 1874-82, drawings date 1871-82 then Wilson, Willcox & Ames qv.
1872 adds Mount Rose, Oldfield Rd, Bath for H Lucas; RIBAD)
1872 Shopfronts 11-12 George St and Gay St, Bath for H Simms; RIBAD)
1872 adds Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath inf Neil Jackson; cf 1865 W&W
(1872-3 1st pr Devizes Oddfellows Hall, Wilts Br 15.2.73. RIBAD 1872)
(l872-5 Highfield House, Ty-isha, Llanelli, unex adds for J Tregoning, WW&W; RIBAD plans 1872 seven drawings inc Italianate tower PB 513/3 1-7;
1873 Stables and glass-houses for H Cossham, Weston Park, Bath RIBAD)
(1873 unex design Box Schools, Wilts; c1874 RIBAD; unex; schools 1874 by J Hicks)
(1873 2nd prize Palmers Endowed Schools, Grays, Essex RHH Br 31 110 says W&W)
(1873 Plans for Pontyates Board School, Carms, too expensive, cheaper plans by Morgan and WW&W to be submitted W 5.9.73 (?blt by G. Morgan)
1873 Unex comp des Wilts & Dorset Bank, Milsom St, Bath; RIBAD; des by G. Silley qv was built;
(1873 des and alternative design for ch, Pembrey, Cms and reredos: this is Burry Port, ch, Cms; RIBAD
1873 2nd pr Frome Markets, Som; 1st pr WJ Stent qv; Br 15.3.73;
1873-4 St Paul ch, Monmouth Place, Bath; T Br 15.2.73; FS Br 3.5.73, bands of Bishops Lydeard red sandstone; extended 1880 Bath Guide 1895;
1874 Storage reservoir, Purlewent waterworks, Weston, Bath; RIBAD;
1874 Shopfront, 2-3 George St Bath reusing cols from No 1, demolished for Wilts & Dorset Bank at corner Milsom St; Forsyth161)
1874 Villas, Hayesfield Park, Wells Rd, Bath RIBAD)
1874-5 Villa, The Hayes, Wells Rd, Bath, Som; RIBAD
1874 WM chapel, Clandown, Som; RIBAD;
(1874 County Club, St Mary St, Cardiff, Glam; RIBAD ?unex comp design;
(1874 enlarged Castell Gorfod, Llangynin, Cms. for James Buckley. Unsigned perspective was in house and was by Wilson who was married to a Buckley, acc to Kemes Buckley. Presumably the gabled wing of 1874.
(l874 Plans for schools, Llanelli School Board, Glam; W,W&W; incl ?Park St School l874 dem; Pontyates School l874; ?unex Spitty School cl874
(1875 unex adds Maplecroft, Bath Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; RIBAD)
c1875 Poolemeade, Twerton, Bath, for Mr Carr; plans nd RIBAD c1874-82, and plans 1878 for alts adds and stables)
(1875-7 Burry Port ch, Cms WW&W LCG 13.12.77, drawing RIBAD
1875 adds Firsleigh, Lansdown, Bath, brood stables and stud grooms cottage; RIBAD, for Miss Strangeways; ?error for Endsleigh
(1875 entr Penarth schools competition, Glam RIBAD)
(1875 entr Bridgend schools competition, Glam RIBAD)
1876 alts and adds shopfront, 20 Milsom St, Bath, for Mrs Hick; dem; RIBAD
1876 reseating All Saints ch, Lansdown, Bath; RIBAD;
(1876-7 rest Colerne church, Wilts, rest; RIBAD 1874-6 inc new vestry and heating vault;
(1876 Cottages, Lucknam Park estate, Colerne, Wilts, RIBAD; ?Euridge Manor Cottages, Euridge;
1876 Bay windows and stable, St Annes, Burnham on Sea, Som RIBAD for Elliot Armstrong; ?St Anne’s Villa, Berrow Rd, Burnham;
(1877 Euridge Manor Farmhouse, Thickwood, Colerne, Wilts; RIBAD; for R Walmesley of Lucknam Park;
1877 alts and adds The Grove, Bathwick Hill, Bath; spec RIBAD Crozier-Cole colln;
1877-8 Wincanton TH, Som; RIBAD 1877 by WW&W; old TH burnt 1877; RL by WJ Willcox; VCH says MH of 1768-9 had lock-up added 1791, upper floor enl by extending over adj premises for concert hall 1867, burnt 1877, rebuilt 1878; 1893 gr fl infilled; SMJ Sept 1877, Nov 1878; SCG 12.1.78;
1878 adds Poole Meade, Twerton, Bath; RIBAD adds, alts and stables for Thos Carr;
(1878 3rd pr. London Pavilion, Tichborne St, London; RHH; W&W;
(1878 Alts St John ch, Pembroke Dock, Pmbs;.NLW SD/F/54; WW&W; N porch, seating, pulpit, screen; RIBAD;
(1878 Board Schools, Colerne, Wilts, £2296 BN 17.5.78; A 4.5.78 £2290;
(1878 Manor Farm, Thickwood, colerne, Wilts £1500; BN 17.5.78
1878 stables and cottage, Lansdown, Bath £516, WW&W, Bird of Radstock tender accepted; A 4.5.78;
1878 twelve cottages, Waterloo, Radstock, Som for F Parsons BN 24.5.78; £1050;
1878 twelve cottages, Waterloo, Radstock, Som for SH Worgers £1050;
1878 residence and shop, Radstock for F Parsons Esq £811 BN 24.5.78;
(1878 Sunday Schools, Pembroke Dock, pmbs for Rev FGM Powell; RIBAD; ?unex;
1878-80 Adds Vellore, North Rd, Bath, for Bath College; MF 186; RIBAD c1880;
1878-9 organ chamber, Bathampton ch, Som; SRO cf/1878/13, WW&W;
(1878 Ebenezer WM chapel, Brock Rd, St Peter Port, Guernsey; letter heritage Ctee States of Guernsey 1994;
1878 cott & stable, Home Lea, Lansdown, Bath; RIBAD for WC Jolly;
1878 rest Radstock ch, Som; SRO cf/1878/5; 1879 by Willcox BoE N; pulpit by Willcox 1889; BN 17.5.78; Wall & Hook of Stroud contractors;
1879-81 rest Ilchester ch, Som; RIBAD; SRO cf/1879/4; 1878-81 RL; added N aisle; 1877-80 for Rev EF Hopkinson RIBAD; WG 26.9.79, Mr Wilcox, the architect, attended;
1879 pair of cotts, Pennsylvania Fm, Newton St Loe, Som; RIBAD for W Gore-Langton;
1879 alts coachmans house, Combe Down Vicarage, Bath; RIBAD;
1879 coachman’s house, Claverton Rectory, Som; RIBAD
1879-80 Clutton Rectory, Som for Rev A Boudier; RIBAD
1879 add of small ante-room, Assembly Rooms, Bath; RIBAD; spec RIBAD
1880-1 Aisle, St Paul, Monmouth Place, Bath;
1880 Assembly-room Bell Inn, Radstock, Som RIBAD
1880 alts Saltford Rectory, Som; WW&W; RIBAD alts for Rev Fenwick;
1880 alts and adds inc bay windows, Rochford Place, Bathford, Som for FH Shoobridge RIBAD)
1880 Billiard room, Royal Hotel, Manvers St, Bath for FC George RIBAD)
1880-1 alts Marlborough House, Weston, Bath for JS Ransom; RIBAD
1881 adds villa, Oldfield Park, Bath for Mr Andrews; 1881;
1881 alts 16 Milsom St, Bath for FW Milsom; RIBAD;
1881 alts to shopfront, Margerets Buildings, Bath, Som for JS Ransom; RIBAD
1881 stable-block, Glencot, Wookey Hole, Som; spec RIBAD, for WS Hodgkinson;
(1881 organ chmbr and seating, Brimscombe ch, Glos; RIBAD; WJW BoE;
1881 Duck Shelter, Victoria Park, Bath; RIBAD; ?WJW;
1881 adds to School, Wookey Hole, Som; spec RIBAD; ?infants school add; for WS Hogkinson)
1882 Shopfront and alts 15 Milsom St, Bath; RIBAD;
1882 attrib rest chancel and ext W of S aisle, Bathampton ch, Som; AF text; Kelly says new S aisle & porch £1373 no archt;
1882 alts St Stephen ch, Lansdown, Bath; SRO cf/1882/1, WW&W;
(1883 nave Purse Caundle ch, Dorset; RIBAD; Mr Willcox estimate WG 13.4.83;
1883 Stuckeys Bank, 5 South St, Wincanton, Som; RIBAD; bombed 1944; photo P Bowden, Wincanton, 1985, 74; brick and stone Ital;
1883 minor ext Cliff House, Widcombe, Bath; RIBAD dining-rm and office for C Baker)
(1883 The Woodlands, Limpley Stoke, Wilts; RIBAD, for JG Foley;
(1883 drainage plan, The Rocks, Marshfield, Gols; RIBAD
1883 adds Combe Down ch, Bath, Som; SRO cf/1883/2 W&W;
1884 rear add No 1 Lansdown Crescent, Bath; RIBAD;
Undated or unlocated material in RIBAD: St Anne’s ch, Derby 1870s; villa Bathampton Som 1870s; four-bedroom villa c1870s; chapel c1875-85; village schools 1875; village school c1875-85; pair of villas Weston, Bath, for Mr Browning, c1870s; villa at Weston, Bath, c1870s for Mr Browning; competition entry University College Bristol c1875; comp entry Briton Ferry Schools Glam c1875-85; adds with tower Elmsleigh, Oldfield Rd, Bath; alts to shop Margarets Buildings, Bath; chapel in – gate St with twin towers and narthex possibly Westgate St, Chapel Bath; school in Erskine St; compet design for school Stoke Church field, Devonport, Devon c1875-85; school Flimby Cumb c1875-85; school at Nantmel, Powys c1875-85; comp design Neath Industrial Cottage Homes, Glam c1870s; Bath Athenaeum c1890s; Bristol school c1880s;
WILSON, C. A. Surveyor to Yeovil RDC;
1951-5 Sutton Bingham Reservoir, Som;
WILSON, DAVID Architect David Wilson Partnership
2012 Acland Room, Calvert Trust, Exmoor, Som; bought farmstead next Wistlandpound Reservoir 1996; Pearce Construction contrs;
WILSON, HENRY 1864-1934 Architect, Arts and Crafts, pupil E.J. Shrewsbury of Maidenhead, joined J. D. Sedding in London (S&W) and HW took over practice when JDS died in 1891 completing several Sedding wks with assistance of Charles Nicholson: inc Holy Redeemer Clerkenwell; St Peter Ealing; St Clement Bournemouth; Holy Trinity Sloane St; and chapel Welbeck Abbey Notts. Won comp for Public Library Ladbroke Grove 1890 w TP Figgis. Concentrated on arts and crafts from 1890, opened his workshop for metal and jewellery 1898. Reredos Holy Trinity Sloane St, London 1893; fittings St Bartholomew, Ann St, Brighton 1895-1910; exterior figures on All Saints Convent London Colney 1899; bronze door St Mary Nottingham 1904; Elphinstone tomb Kings College Aberdeen 1912-25. cf ASGray. Office 17 Vicarage Gate, London. First editor Architectural Review 1896-1901. Left England for France 1922. Biography by Cindy Manton, 2009.
(1892 des for tower Lynton ch, Devon; unex;)
(1893-4 nave Lynton ch, Devon; S&W; BoE)
1892 Screen, St John ch, Taunton, Som; by HW, made by C Trask; ch guide; wrought iron; not in CM;
1892 rest Charlton Adam ch, Som, inc nave ceiling; BoE S; 1890-2 by S&W, RL; SRO D/D/cf/1892/3 plans are by Sedding;
1894 rest tower, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som, after fire from lightning strike, new baffles upper bell-lights, new pinnacles nave N; work done by Charles Trask & Co; also new tower screen made by Trask (?1904); alabaster font made by Trask & Co carved Richard A Gillman (?1904); S aisle E window 1904; Charles Trask + 1907 memorial cross c1908; W door 1909;
(1894 vestry and lychgate, Ilfracombe ch, Devon, BoE)
1895 tower reps South Petherton ch, Som; RL;
(1904 adds refectory etc, House of Charity, Redcatch Rd, Knowle, Bristol; Gomme;)
1904 S aisle E window, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som, for golden wedding of Charles Trask, made by Shrigley & Hunt, Lancaster; for iconography see Cyndy Manton 222;
1904 ?Tower screen & font, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; made by Trask & Co, font carved by Richard Gillman; Penny Cudmore, The Nortonian 2; Wilson also des a chalice w Signs of the Zodiac?; Cyndy Manton suggests 1894 date;
(1905 chancel, Lynton ch, Devon; BoE)
1909 W doors, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; carved by Arthur Pantin; Penny Cudmore, The Nortonian 2; memorial to Charles Trask; Cyndy Manton does not know date;
19-- ?Memorial to Charles Trask +1907, Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; similar to one by HW at Much Hadham acc to Paul Snell via Penny Cudmore;
(1919 E window, West Ashton ch, Wilts; BoE, made by Powell & Sons;
1921 War Memorial, Martock chyd, Som; made by W Micklewright of Norton sub Hamdon; ch guide; unveiled 23.4.22;
(1923 Silver cross for Exeter Cathedral Devon; now in Kenton ch, Devon)
WILSON, JAMES. Architect, Bath. l8l6-l900. m Maria Buckley of Llanelli brewing family +1858, and then Elizabeth +1891. Father of James Buckley Wilson (q.v.) and two other sons and one daughter, + 17.5.00 at Woodville, Lansdown, home of his son John H. Wilson (BC 24.5.00). Competitor Nelson Memorial 1838, Ashmolean Museum 1839. Leading architect for Wesleyan Church (assoc w the Rev. F. Jobson in `leading the Methodist Church into the path of the Gothic Revival'). In Bath Directories from 1851-50 as JW, 1852-4 partnership with Thomas Fuller of Bath (pupil 1844) cl854(W&F) qv, 1856-64 as JW, 1866-72 with W.J. Willcox (former pupil) as W&W; J.B. Wilson joined cl872 and firm was Wilson, Willcox and Wilson in directories 1874-82 to 1883 (WW&W); Wilson, Willcox & Ames in directory 1884; then Willcox & Ames 1886. Continued by W. J. Willcox to 1920s, and finally ended with Alan Crozier-Cole c1975. WF Gingell was a pupil 1844. London office at 16 Bridge St West 1850, 20 Leicester Square 1851, 38 Parliament St 1854. Bath office 6 Argyle St? and 15 Argyle Bldngs 1839; 6 Alfred St 1841, from 1846 onward 1 Belmont, Bath until 1970s death of Alan Crozier-Cole qv, papers in office then given to RIBA. Buried Lansdown Cemetery. Son John Henry Wilson was solicitor and hon sec of Bath Law Society. Wilson wrote article on Bath for APSD. Exhibited RA 1841-55. Built Glenavon, Lansdown for himself.
WM Chapels: Abingdon 1845, Taunton 1846, Bath 1847, Poplar 1847-8, Clerkenwell 1848, Buxton 1849; Southampton 1849, Newport Mon 1849, Witney 1850, Risca 1852, Pontypool 1853 (W&F), Bristol rd, Birmingham 1853 (W&F), Chepstow 1855, Cardiff 1855, Llanelli 1856, Cranmer chapel Boundary Rd Liverpool 1856, High Wycombe 1866 (W&W), Tondu 1867 (W&W), Melbourne 1868; Hungerford 1869, Melksham 1871 (W&W), Clandown Som 1874 (WW&W), St Peter Port 1878 (WW&W),
WM colleges at Taunton 1846-7, London 1849, Bath 1851, and Leeds.
I/C Chapels: Stockwell Green 1850, Surbiton 1854, Batheaston 1870. Sheffield nd.
B Chapels: Ramsgate 1838; Hay Hill Bath 1869 (W&W), Manvers St Bath 1871 (W&W)
Moravian Chapel: Bath 1845,
Friends Meeting: Hope Chapel Bath 1866 (W&W)
Unknown: Somerset St Chapel Bath 1868 (W&W);
Chapel schools: Frome 1862 (WJW); Llanelli 1848 British School; Wigan WM 1855; DarlingtonWM 1857; Madeley Wood WM 1858;
1831 ?des for Bellotts Hospital, Bath; attr but unsigned RIBAD; ?too early;
c1834 unex design for a column, Laura Place, Bath; RIBAD;
1836 ?adds Uphill Castle, Uphill, Som; adds and lodge; RIBAD; but SNB says remodelled c1835 by Henry Rumley qv for TT Kinyfton Jr and alts by JW c1856 with interiors by JG Crace, and lodge 1859 by JW; RIBAD has plans 1864 by W&W;
(1838 unex competition entry, Nelson Memorial, Trafalgar Sq, London)
(1839 unex competition entry Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, RIBAD; Peter Howell quotes letter 19.10.39 saying that Wilson's plans approved by Wm Beckford;
1839-40 unex Queen’s College, Bathampton Down, Bath; RIBAD;
1840 unex Athenaeum & Mechanics Institute, Charlotte St, Bath; CtoA 1840, RIBAD;
1840 Catacombs and screen wall, St Swithin's graveyard, Walcot St, Bath; NofB, associated design for cemetery and school at St Swithin's in RIBAD, two designs c1841-6;
1840 Walcot Parochial Schools, Guinea Lane, Bath; RIBAD;
1840-1 Garden front, Widcombe Manor, Bath; RIBAD, for Gen Clapham;
(1840 Cavendish B chapel, Ramsgate, Kent; RIBAD; Norman
1840-1 warehouses, stables, offices, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath T: BC 10.12.40
1840-5 St Stephen Church, Lansdown, Bath; Gothic; ICBS docs 1837-57 and report by GP Manners on plans, engraved view; £98/6/0d paid by Manners in 1840 for plans and specifications; - Watson builder 1840; FS 1841; exh RA 1841; controversy over orientation Br 1843 541; Mr Birth contractor 1840-4; drawings RIBAD; accounts BC 16.1.45 £3912 paid of contract £4800, £434 to be saved by not building top to tower; adds chapel 1866, chancel 1886 by WJW;
1841 Uphill ch, Som; RIBAD; chancel 1892 by GF Burr qv; 1841-4 SNB)
1841 unex design Shipham ch, Som; RIBAD;
1841 Wadbury House, Mells, Som; Ital; RA 1841; for T Fussell; RIBAD; ? exh 1862 Exhibition;
(1842 church ??, ref to credit to the architect JW, DWG 13.10.42)
(1841-3 Cheltenham College, Glos; BoE 249; Br 1843 257; Tudor)
1842-5 Redhill ch, Som; altered designs 1842 RIBAD; FS BTM 24.9.42, to cost under £750; built 1844-5 Br 1845 50
1842-3 Shipham church, Som; RIBAD has unexecuted drawings 1841, and executed drawings 1842; 1841-3 RL;
1842 rest Bruton ch, Som; ICBS; RL; reseated, repaired C17 pews ?designed pulpit to match, VCH;
1842 Prews Terrace, Esplanade, Burnham on Sea, Som; RIBAD lithograph perspective; much altered;
(1843 Crescent of sixteen houses, terrace of twenty houses, Mill Hill, West Cowes, Isle of Wight; proposed Br 27.5.43)
1843 Stables and coach-house, No 7 Royal Crescent, Bath, RIBAD c1842;
1843 Cemetery chapel, Walcot St, Bath; Bath Guide 1853 88; Norman; 1842 MF;
1843 St Swithin’s Almshouses, St Stephen’s Place, Lansdown, Bath; only part of large scheme; RIBAD; ill Jackson 200-1; Now St Stephen’s Villas MF 265 Tudor
1844–5 ?Chapel and house, Female Penitentiary, Walcot St, Bath; T alterations Bath Penitentiary BC 1.8.44; house was enlarged, chapel new, APSD sub Bath, Br 1845 552. But NofB1871 says was by Manners & Gill and T adv in Br 1844 41 gives GP Manners as does MF 226.
(1844-5 Holy Trinity ch, Milton, Gravesend, Kent; ILN 25.5.44; Br 1844 275; Br 1845 365; Eccl 1845 4 187; Eccl 1857 18 333-4; BC 23.5.44 tower and spire will be 130'; Dem.
c1845 House, Keynsham Som; RIBAD;
c1845 villas Mount Road, Bath; attr MF; Heathfield, Lonach & Bella Vista
(1845 WM chapel, Abingdon, Berks; BoE 54 Gothic)
1845 Moravian Chapel, Charlotte St, Bath. Classical; 1844-5 MF 255; £2700)
1846 proposed WM chapel, Weston s Mare, Som a beautiful Gothic design accepted from Mr Wilson architect of the much admired new church at Uphill, Mr Palmer to be the builder; WSMG 16.3.46;
1846 attr Temple WM chapel, Upper High St, Taunton, Som; replacing chapel of 1808, typical Wilson gable front; remodelled by W&W 1869 keeping only façade with new chapel behind and new schools; 1869 work also attributed to JW
(1846 3rd prize Blackburn Exchange, Lancs; RHH)
1846 design WM college, Lansdown, Bath approved BC 24.9.46, not built until 1850-2 see Kingswood college;
(1847 entrant Army & Navy Club, London, comp; RHH;
1846-7 WM College, Trull Road, Taunton, Br 1846 220; FS DWG 30.4.46; opened Br 6.11.47 533; CtoA 1847; est 1843 (Kelly) renamed Queens College 1888; Tudor; tower like Kingswood school. John Mason of Exeter bldr; JT 74; Pevsner says buildings 1874 by Giles & Gane error.
(1847-8 WM chapel, East India Dock Rd, Poplar, London; Br 1848 82;
1847 WM chapel, New King St, Bath; Bath Guide 1853 96. dem. Gothic)
(1848 WM chapel, St Johns Sq, Clerkenwell, London Tender Br 1848 347 Dem)
(1848 Market St British School, Llanelli, Cms. Dem. CRO 276
(1849 WM chapel and schools, East St, Southampton ABO 1849 412; Br 1849 521)
(1849 WM chapel, Commercial Rd, Newport, Mon; BoW 436)
(1849-51 WM Normal College, Horseferry Rd, London dem Br 1849 238; Br 1850 236; ILN 8.2.51. Exh RA 1850, Principals Residence Exh RA 1851)
(1849? WM chapel and schools, Buxton, Derbys; RIBAD n.d; Presumably the WM chapel Eagle Parade, 1849, no archt, BoE 117)
(1850 WM Central Hall, Charles St, Cardiff, Glam; Hilling, Cardiff & the Valleys, 144;
(1850 Independent Chapel, Stockwell Green, London; Tender ABO 11.5.50)
(1850 WM chapel, Witney, Oxon; BoE; ?attacked in Br 1857 654 as very pretentious details piled up in surprising manner, rivalling Cologne, but gable with flowing tracery fairly conventional.
1850-2 Kingswood School (WM), Lansdown, Bath; Tudor; MF; RIBAD New Kingswood College, 1850-1; design approved 1846 BC 24.9.46;
(1852 WM chapel, Risca, Mon; Mon. Merlin 7.5.52)
(1852 Alts, Vicarage, Lampeter Velfrey, Pmbs; inf T Lloyd)
(l852-5 Assembly Rms, King St, Carmarthen, Cms; W&F CJ 1.10.52. but James Wilson design Welshman 24.11.54, minor alts 1855 CJ 30.3.55. Wholly altered as Lyric Theatre in 1935; Italianate.
(l852-4 Henllan, Llanddewi Velfrey, Pmbs, for JLGP Lewis; W&F; Lost Houses of Wales 2nd ed. p123) Dem. Ital.
c1852 alts Heathfield Rectory, Som; RIBAD PB 498/2 (1-6); also lodge design for Rev E Spurway c1859 PB 498/3;
(1853 WM chapel, Bristol Rd, Birmingham; W&F; £4400; FS Br 1853 216;
(1853-4 WM chapel, Pontypool, Mon; W&F, Br 14.5.53)
(1854-8 Athenaeum, Church St, Llanelli, Cms: drawings received 31.3.54. Opened 2.10.57 or opened CJ 29.1.58, Inaugural ball 5.2.58; ‘funds were raised 1856 GHughes 156; cf below 1857 competition for Nevill Hospital and addition, and 1864 Nevill Memorial Hall qv; Now Public Library, Italianate.
1854? Adds Uphill Castle, Uphill, Som; W&F; RIBAD; c1856 by JW acc to SNB, with interiors by JG Crace;
(1854 C chapel, Surbiton, Surrey; BoE)
(1855 WM schools, Wigan, Lancs; RIBAD)
(l855 alts St Peter ch, Carmarthen, Cms, designed new pews.
(1855 WM chapel, Chepstow, Mon; Mon Merlin 23.3.55)
(1855 WM chapel, London Sq, Cardiff, Glam; Br 1855 544, 1859 716 Dem; Gothic; RIBAD design 1850s;
(l855-6 WM chapel, Hall St, Llanelli, Cms; Carmarthen Journal 20.2.57; opened 30.5.56; Gothic
1855 Cholwell, Temple Cloud, Som, for W Rees Mogg; RIBAD; SNB Jacobean;
1855 Italian villa near Bath; exh RA 1855;
1856 add of tower, Uphill Castle, Som; RIBAD, for JJ Knyfton; SNB says alts Gothic style c1856 and interiors by JG Crace, to Uphill Manor; lodge by JW 1859, SNB; ?adds 1854 W&F; alts Uphill Castle W&W 1864, ?RIBAD;
1856-7 Lansdowne Proprietary College, Lansdown, Bath; BE 28.6.56; BN 1857 667, Mr Streeter, Railway Pl Bath bldr; Illustrated Times 25.7.57; Gothic, later Royal School for Daughters of Officers;
1856 TH, Weston super Mare, Som. 1856 BoE N; 1859 The Book of WsM;
(l856-7 Pembrey Ch, Cms, repairs. RIBA papers, Carm Journal 3.4.57 W gallery removed, new W window, new font; St Illtyd’s Church, Pembrey, 1898 (ch history).
c1856 Villa, Weston s Mare, Som, for Mr Kerslake RIBAD;
1857 Villa at Weston ?Bath or Weston super Mare, Som; T: BN 1857 199;
(1857 WM school & house Bondgate WM chapel, Darlington; BN 1857 295)
1857 Wadman’s Factory, James St, Bath; ‘to be built’ BN1857 436)
1857 St Mary ch, Charlcombe, Som, rest; Bath Express 21.3.57; ?JW exec plans by GG Scott, SNB, 1857-61)
1857 unex Crystal Palace, Victoria Park, Bath; Bath Expr 22.11.57; BN 857 243, illustrated in Haddon, Bath; RIBAD c1856)
1857 Police Station, Temple Cloud, Som; Br 1857 199; RIBAD; SNB, Jacobean;
(1857 One of three finalists Nevill Memorial Hospital Hospital, Llanelli, Cms competition: 2 storey mansion, Cor pils, pediment and balustrade. CJ 20.2.57, refers to Hall St church but not Athenaeum. Was this for Athenaeum or not built andwhat was relation to the Nevill memorial Hall cf 1864?
(1858 WM schools, Lincoln, Lincs; RIBAD; entr RHH)
1858 house, White Cross estate, Weston s Mare for Henry Davies; spec RIBAD; ? Same as villa at Weston super Mare, Som; RIBAD
1858-60 Glen Avon, Sion Rd, Lansdown, Bath; for himself; MF 267;
c1858 Parkfield Villa, Park Gardens, Bath, Som; RIBAD house and stables;
c1858 Villa, Lansdown Rd, Bath for Mr Kerslake; RIBAD; cf also villa at Weston s Mare, Som, for Mr Kerslake c1856;
(1858 WM schools, Madeley Wood, Ironbridge, Salop; Shrewsbury Chronicle 7.1.59)
1858 House, White Cross estate, Weston super mare, Som, for Henry Davies, RIBAD;
c1859 lodge, Uphill Castle, Uphill, Som, for JJ Knyfton; RIBAD; SNB;
1859 rest Norton Malreward ch, Som; SRO; JW;
1859 lodge, Heathfield Rectory, Som, for Rev E Spurway; RIBAD;
(1859 vestries and minister’s house, WM Central Hall, Cardiff, Glam, Br 1859 716; RIBAD)
(1859 Police Station, Cardiff, Glam, Br 1859 716 design approved)
(1859 entr Tabernacle chapel, Newington, London comp; RHH)
(1859 Butcher’s Market, Pontefract, Yorks; RIBAD says ‘market-hall’;
(1860 2nd pr Observatory, Stockdale Park, Br 18 591; J Stevens Manchester 1st)
1860 villa, Weston super Mare, Som, unsigned, RIBAD)
1860 Villa, Keynsham, Som; RIBAD says c1845;
(1860 design for villa RIBAD, unsigned)
1860 Schools, Long Ashton, Som; BE 17.11.60;
1861 reblt Norton Malreward ch, Som; RIBAD;
1861 Plinth for Jupiter head, Victoria Park, Bath; MF 240; head by John Osborne;
(1861 entrant Mechanics Institute, Lincoln, Lincs comp; RHH)
(1862 entrant Albert School, Framlingham, Suffolk, comp; RHH,)
(1863 ?1st pr Public Hall, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; or Hooker & Wheeler of Brenchley Kent; RHH; Br 20 571, 753, and 21 174 but ?des RIBAD for Public Hall 1870 W&W;
(l864 Nevill Memorial Hall, Vaughan St, Llanelli, Cms; addition to Assembly Rms; FS CJ 22.7.64;
1865 alts Sunnylands, Bath, Som; RIBAD;
(1866 2nd pr Stockdale Park Observatory; RHH; see also 1860
1866 entr comp West of England Dissenters Proprietary School, Taunton, Som; RHH; Taunton School, won by J James qv;
1868-9 ?adds Temple WM chapel, Upper High St, Taunton, Som; BoE S; WM chapel and schools 1868 by W&W, RL; JW des 1846 original chapel but new chapel and schools 1868-9 were not probably by JW but by S Shrewbrooks qv of Taunton , keeping only façade of 1846 chapel;
Unsigned and undated drawings in RIBAD: Neo-Norman Church c1840; Perp. Gothic church c1840; church or chapel 1842; church or chapel c1842; chapel c1842; monument c1844 (?des for Nelson’s Column); small church c1845; church in Dec style with spire c1845; three-storey house c1845; chapel like New King St c1847; a public building c1845 (?Ashmolean design 1838-9); pair of semi-det houses c1845; pair of Jacobean style villas c1845; chapel c1847; church c1850; entrance to a cemetery 1850s; des for churches 1850s; des for chapels c1850s; public building c1855; competition des for church c1855-65; church c1858; chapel c1860s; church c1860s; church 1860s; church c1860s; churches c1860s; interior of church c1860s; chapel or church c1860s; church with flanking towers and narthex like WW&W design for ch in –gate St c1875; twin cemetery chapels c1860s; cemetery chapels and lodge c1860s; WM chapel c1860s; chapel interior c1860s; interiors c1860s; church, school and schoolteachers house c1860s; chapel and school 1860s; design for church or chapel w porte-cochere c1870; church in brick w tower and spire c1870; church with bell turret c1870; church with octagonal spirelet; Denholme Church Yorks; Sheffield C Chapel interior c1860; Corn Market for Lord Tredegar, S Wales, RIBAD suggests at Tredegar, 1860s; town hall or market hall c1860s; Athenaeum corner Nicholas St and Cypher Lane; alts to Bishopstrow vicarage, Wilts c1858; minor adds Iford Manor, Wilts, for Capt Rooke c1857; extensive alts Mugmoor House, Som, for Rev G Williams, c1860; Seaman’s Hall, Seaham harbour, co. Durham ‘harbour, design and alt design for workshops’ c1860; Whitley church ?Wilts or Yorks, c1858; alts Charlcombe Grove, Charlcombe, Bath, Som - with alternative designs for a tower ill in N Jackson, c1860; Design for a Welsh Market Hall (?Tredegar); Stanley Villas, Weston, Bath, 1840s; Villa at Weston Park for Mr Hulbert c1860; villa, Weston, Bath, Som, for Mr Browning; semi-detached pair, Weston, Bath, Som, for Mr Browning; house at Keynsham, Som, c1845; Parkfield Villa, Park Gardens, Bath c1858; villa Lansdown Rd, Bath, for Mr Kerslake c1860; University type building c1865-75; villa Weston s Mare Som for Mr Kerslake c1858; lodge, Uphill Castle, Uphill, Som c1859;
Wilts RO has undated plans for Bishopstrow vicarage.
Attrib: Lodge to Lucknam Park, Colerne, Wilts, look like Wilson Italianate design. Numerous villas on Lansdown, in Weston Park, and in Oldfield Park, Bath, look like the firm’s work.
WILSON, JAMES BUCKLEY, 1846-1900, son of James Wilson of Bath, practiced with father in Bath as partner in Wilson, Willcox & Wilson cl872-82 qv, later practice in Swansea with Glendinning Moxham (cf Wilson & Moxham) l887 Deacons Directory: MRIBA, Castle Bailey St, Swansea. RIBAJ 8 101. He was presumably the son in Wilson, Son & Aldwinckle;
(1878 Reconst Wiltons Music Hall, Wellclose Sq, London E1; Curtains, 1982 p 162; BoE London 5 484 says probably by WW&W of Swansea;
(l884 Vicarage, Swiss Valley, Felinfoel, Cms; Arch l2.4.84
(l885 Bryncaerau Castle, Llanelli, Cms; now Parc Howard; remodelled Arch 25.4.85, ill BN l9.ll.86
(1885 Loughor church, Glam BoWGlam 415)
(1886 alts to spire Penclawdd church, Glam BoW 498)
(1886 chancel Penllergaer ch, Glam BoW 502)
1886 Unex plans ch Pontyberem, Cms; ICBS; £1560; too expensive
(c1887 Vicarage, Cwmbwrla, Swansea; BoW Glam 610)
(l888 W window Llanelli St Elli ch, Cms; ?lost in l905-6 rest; Cambr 27.1.88
(l888 Parish Church Hall, Church St, Llanelli, Cms; W 29.6.88)
WILSTAR, JOHN JACOB see JJ De Wilstar
WILTSHIRE, KENNETH Salisbury. Partner in Potter & Hare later Brandt Potter Hare. Born 1929;
1961-71 reps etc Crewkerne ch, Som; faculties; inc reordering 1967;
1962 Pews, Batcombe ch, Som; ch guide; made by Noyes & Green, Salisbury;
1965-6 reblt Shepton Montague ch, Som after fire; VCH;
1969 alts Norton sub Hamdon ch, Som; boiler house D/D/cf/1969/2/8
1973-4 rep West Buckland ch, Som; ICBS; Brandt Potter Hare, KW job archt.
1978 Cooper chapel, Ilminster ch, Som; reordering area under W gallery, ch guide;
1979-82 reordering South Petherton ch, Som; plaque in church;
WILTSHIRE, WILLIAM Architect, Stowey
1816-7 Parsonage, Stowey, Som, SRO D/D/Bbm/43 and 46. Crude drawing of wing with Gothick ws for brewhouse and bedroom;£110, second file for completing work £125/3/9d;
WIMPERIS, SIMPSON & GUTHRIE. Edmund Walter Wimperis 1865-1946 surveyor to Grosvenor estate London from 1913, joined 1913 by William Begg Simpson 1889-1959 & Leonard Rome Guthrie 1880-1958; RL2 62;
1932-3 BBC West Regional Transmitting Station, Washford, Williton, Som; BoE S; same des as London Regional at Brookmans Park, Herts, 1929, North Regional at Moorside Edge (Yorks), 1931, Scottish Regional at Westerglen, Falkirk 1932, Droitwich 1934. Designs for Brookman’s Park were by Guthrie, plans for successors modified by MT Tudsbery AMICE, the chief BBC engineer, ie by adding octagonal rooflight to transmitter hall; £150,000, WT Nicholls of Gloucester contrs; engine room had four 420BHP Crossley engines; plans SRO D/R/wil/24/1/70 1931 and alts 1933 24/1/73;
WIMPEY (GEORGE) & CO LTD Building contractors Hammersmith
19?? Cedar Grove, Yeovil, Som, several types Type G half-timber M-gable; Type B two curved bows with gables, Type F two curved bows under one hip; brochure for Cedar Grove;
WING, W.M. Architect Henley on Thames
(1877 Three cottages, Mere, Wilts, for Meyrick Bankes; T: BN 13.77)
WINMILL, CHARLES. Architect, prominent with London County Council
1932 proposed as architect to restore Westonzoyland ch, Som, but resigned and WD Caroe appointed instead; report on rood by Jerry Sampson;
WINSTONE, JOHN Architect. Court Farm, Wookey, Som. Restored Court Farm, former bishop’s grange of Wells C12 and C15 c1995-2009 for self;
2012-14 Little Court, Preybrook Rd, Wookey, Som for self;
WIPPELL (JAMES) & CO. Church furnishers, Exeter and London. Also made stained glass.
(1908 Reredos Trowbridge ch, Wilts; plans WSHC; WH Stanley archt)
1908 Tower screen, St Decuman ch, Watchet, Som; SRO cf/1908/287;
1912 Altar and Reredos, Wedmore ch, Som; SRO cf/1912/54
WITHERS, ROBERT JEWELL, Sherborne, then London. Architect. l823-94. Built churches in Cds and N Pmbs also London, Surrey, and Lincs. RJW articled to T Hellyer, Ryde, IoW, 1843, member Cambridge Camden Soc 1844, started in Sherborne in l848 (advert TC 16.2.1848), partnership with William John French SWJ 26.2.1848; partnership in Bristol 1850 with Thomas Austin of Bristol and RH Shout of Yeovil, (AS&W); elected ARIBA SM 12.5.49; London l85l, office Doughty St c1859, later 11 Adam St. RIBAD Catalogue. FRIBA 1871, obit Br 67 1894 518 ‘a large proportion of his church restoration practice was in S Wales where he imparted to many a barn-like structure some semblance of artistic life and feeling’. Died at his residence in Schubert Road, Putney, of cancer. Used Lavers & Barraud for stained glass and designed their studio, Covent Garden, London. Brother Frederick Clarke Withers l828-l901, was pupil of TH Wyatt, emigrated USA 1853, worked with AJ Downing and married Downing’s sister-in-law. FCW designed First Presb ch, Newburgh, NY, noted in Ecclesiologist, and wrote Church Architecture 1873. RJW married daughter of FCW’s partner Calvert Vaux, also English emigrant who des Jefferson Market Courthouse, 6th Av, New York, 1874-6. Two daughters, several sons, one practiced in Shrewsbury, 1894. mention of a Sherborne surveyor Robert Withers SM 20.3.1847, possibly related; Richard Jewell designed Perth C chapel, Australia, 1865, CYB65. Thomas Jerram Bailey 1844-1910 was pupil 1859 aged 15 (ASG97) and GH Fellowes Prynne 1853-1927 was chief assistant in late 1870s (ASG). James Cubitt qv also worked with RJW (C Binfield biog);
(1846-8 rest Hillfield ch, Dorset; ICBS; Sherborne Mercury 8.4.48, chancel added, font designed by RJW; bench ends carved by Mr Halliday of Chilton Polden, som;
(1848 National School, Poyntington, Dorset FS SM 27.5.48;
(1849 involved w rest of Sherborne Abbey SM 14.5.49, vestry meeting discussion re state of church, Mr Carpenter also mentioned;
(1849 farmhouse, Hermitage, Dorset; T: SM 26.5.49, small farmhouse;
(1850-2 Parsonage, Dilton Marsh Wilts; to be built by RJW ABG 1850 118; dated 1850; but plans, spec and bills are signed by T Austin qv of AS&W of Bristol;
(1855-6 rebuilt Buttermere ch, Wilts WI 1.5.56 opened, W window kept and font bowl; parsonage probably by RJW as similar to Tremain vicarage, Cered;
(1864 adds and alts Draycot House, Draycot Cerne, Wilts, plans WRO; not build until 1870-1 and uncertain if to RJW plans;
(1868-71 rest Bodmin ch, Cornwall; briefly JD Sedding involved around 1870; P Snell thesis on Sedding;
(1874 proposed restoration Avebury Ch, Wiltshire Museum has drawings elevations sections and restoration proposals of Avebury ch dated Nov 1874 by RJW; cf also the set of drawings of 1874 in WSHC by EJ May;
1878 rest Upton Noble ch, Som; SRO DD/cf/1878/8; floor tiles by Godwin; rebuilt nave and chancel entirely, extended slightly E and W; kept SE chapel and S tower; WG 8.11.78; WG 6.2.80; also school 1882 according to VCH;
(1878-81 restored Avebury ch; plans WSHC D/1/61/29/8 rebuilt chancel; restore and refit, remove galleries, build organ chamber; survey plans 1874 by EJ May qv PR/1569/13; RJW did chancel 1879, then delay before S aisle in 1881; RJW was superseded by CE Ponting for the N aisle nave and tower in 1882-3 according to ICBS files; plans included design for pews, spec to remove whitewash and plaster and re-plaster; lower side walls of chancel to original height, insert three new clerestory windows in each side of nave, reconstruct the E window, restore chancel and tower arches, take down and rebuild S porch; refit reconstruct pulpit, screens and stalls, provide and fix rails and reredos; rood screen to be taken down portions to be retrieved from modern gallery, parapets to be repaired and renewed, new corbels for roof;
1879 Salisbury School, Bourne Ave, Salisbury; now Chafyn Grove School, for Rev Walter Baker; decorative brickwork by Harry Hems; Salisbury Times 6.12.79;
(1879 rest Shipton Bellinger ch, Hants; TC 27.8.79; new font; singular oaken spirelet;
1882 School, Upton Noble, Som; VCH;
WITNEY, THOMAS Mason. Thomas of Witney. Architect presbytery at Winchester Cathedral, then at Exeter built nave, prob central porch. Worked at Wells Cathedral from shortly after 1306 (SNB) replaced at Wells by 1329 by William Joy qv.
(c1310-20 Choir, Bristol Cathedral, attrib SNB:
1315-22 in charge, central tower, Wells Cathedral, Som; ‘master Thomas’; attr SNB;
c1319 Vault, Eastern Lady Chapel, Wells Cathedral, Som; attr JHPS 81-2; called newly constructed in 1326, SNB; also retrochoir and ‘novum opus’ of 1325 probably the E extension of choir and presbytery;
(c1322 Pulpitum, Exeter Cathedral, Devon; SNB 664, completed 1324)
(1329ff work at Exeter Cathedral, Devon, SNB 640)
WOLLEY, E. ?Monumental mason, Frome;
(1920 won competition for War Memorial, Lacock Rd, Corsham, Wilts; Corsham Spotlight Nov 2020; unveiled 1921;
WOLSTENHOLME & PARTNERS Surveyors, Frome. Established 1973.
2003 reps Feather Factory, Frome, Som; architect Bruce Yoell qv
2006-7 reps and add Old Rectory, Frome, Som;
(2008 reps Parsonage, Rampisham, Dorset)
2009-10 new houses, Mells, Som;
2010-11 repairs Wookey House, Wookey Hole, Som;
2011 Village hall, Wanstrow, Som; Mendip awards 2012;
WOMERSLEY, PETER Architect 1923-93, influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, designed Farnley Hey, near Huddersfield, for his brother, 1952-4 as first work, RIBA Bronze Medal 1958; lived near Melrose, Scotland from 1957, most of works are in Scotland,
1968 ??Valley Spring, Horcombe Vale, Bath, Som, for himself;
WOOD, HENRY Bristol Architect and statuary, Roscoe says HW moved from London to Bristol in 1796 when he bought William Paty qv yard, designed numerous memorials and was succeeded c1830 by son Henry Wood Jr. In London he had done carved work for Henry Holland, and probably was the Wood who designed Thorpe Market ch, Norfolk, 1796; advert 16.3.1801 announces himself as architect and statuary from London continuing business of late William Paty. Numerous memorials all over England, Wales, Ireland and West Indies; firm's copybook 'Wood's Monumental Masonry' survives.Firm continued as late as 1923 in same premises as Patys.
Henry Wood Sr also had a son George Wood statuary partner of John Bryan Jr of Gloucester from 1802 as Bryan & Wood, Gloucester Journal 12.4.1802, married Bryan's daughter in 1807, bankrupt 1820;
1802 Lower Lodge, Ashton Court, Long Ashton, Som; HC soon after 1802;
(1806-8 Merthyr Mawr, Glam; for Sir John Nicholl; HC)
1813-15d Rich monument, Over Stowey Som IR;
1815d Clement Tudway mon, St Cuthbert ch, Wells,Som IR;
1815? Francis Smith mon, Shepton Mallet ch, Som; IR;
1818d Samuel Norman mon, Shepton Mallet ch, Som; IR;
1824d Sir Hugh Smyth mon, Long Ashton, som; IR
1829d Aaron Wood mon, Kingsdon Som;
1835d James May mon, Worle ch, Som; IR;
WOOD, JOHN Bath 1704-54. HC. Father of John Wood Jr in London and Yorkshire before returning to Bath 1727. Wrote: The origin of building 1741; Essay towards a description of Bath 1742; Description of the Exchange at Bristol 1745; Choir Gure (Stonehenge) 1747; Dissertation upon the orders of columns 1750;
(1723-30 five houses Oxford St, one Margaret St, some Edward St, London; HC; also worked for Lord Bingley in Cavendish Sq.
(c1724 worked for Lord Bingley at Bramham Pk, Yorks; HC 1722-4:
1725 plan for NW part of Bath, Som for Robert Gay; HC; agent to Gay 1726;
1727-30 court of houses, St John’s Hospital, Bath for D of Chandos; HC;
1727 Navigation scheme R Avon, Bath; HC;
1727 abandoned plan for rebuilding old town, Bath; HC;
1727-8 Ralph Allen’s town house, Lilliput Alley, Bath
1728-30 Lindsey’s Rooms, Bath; dem;
1729 De Montalt Place cottages, Combe Down, Bath; AFtext; built by Richard Jones qv for Ralph Allen’s quarrymen, also built Ralph Allen Cottages at foot of tramway for rough masons c1737;
1729-36 Queen Square, Bath, developed by self on lease from Gay; also John St, Wood St and Old King St;
(1731 repairs St Nicholas ch, Bristol; HC)
1732-4 St Mary Chapel Queen Sq, Bath; dem;
(1734 Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; HC; for Francis Yerbury enlarging on a house and factory built for John Yerbury +1728 after 1722)
(1734-52 Llandaff Cathedral, Glam; classical church within ruins; dem; N Pevsner AR June 1954; JHSCIW 6 1956 and 16 1966; Art History 6 3 1983;
1735-48 Prior Park, Bath for Ralph Allen; completed by Richard Jones clk of works after JW fell out with Allen; also lower and upper lodges;
c1737 Ralph Allen Cottages, Widcombe, Bath; AFtext; for Ralph Allen’s workers;
1738 Lilliput Castle, Lansdown, Som, for Dr Jeremiah Pierce; HGS 103; rebuilt as Battlefields House 1802 by CH Masters qv.
1738-42 General Hospital, Upper Borough Walls, Bath;
(c1738 ?house at Bowden Hill, Wilts, incomplete when owner died then moved sometime between 1749 and 1777 to Nos 24-5 High St Chippenham, Wilts, then 1934-5 facade re-erected at Nos 1-2 Sion Hill Place, Bath, by Walter Rudman of Chippenham with Axford & Smith qqv for Ernest Cook; 1744 WBR2, uncertain if by JW;
1740-3 North & South Parades, Bath; begun 1739 as part of the Forum scheme for Bath;
(1741-3 Bristol Exchange; HC;
1746 The Spa, Bathford, Som; dem; HC;
1748-9 Titanbarrow Lodge, Bathford, Som; 1748 AFtext, John Ford mason; house for Southwell Piggott, Bathford, 1749, plans exh RA 1937 exh;
(1749-54 Liverpool Exchange; HC;
c1750 ?Shockerwick House, Som; doubtful attribution acc to SNB more probably c1775-85 by John Palmer who signs an elevation in the Bath records. Probably enlarged by Palmer in the late 1790s.
c1750 Gay St, Bath, continued by John Wood Jr;
1754 The Circus Bath begun 1754 erected by John Wood Jr;
Atrrib Eagle House Batheaston Som c1724 embellished 1729 because John Wood II lived there 1781, dismissed by AF; Eagle House Bathford, Som c1750 attr AF;
WOOD, JOHN Jr. Bath. 1728-81. Architect, assisted father John Wood Sr +1754, worked on his Liverpool Exchange 1749-53, continued father’s work in Circus and Gay St, Bath after 1754. Died at Batheaston, buried Swainswick.
(1755-8 Buckland House, Berks; HC)
(1760-1 reredos etc Bitton ch, Glos; HC;
1761 attr Woolley ch, Som, for Mrs Eliz Parkins; BoE N; evidence lacking, HC;
1761 attr stables, Mells Park, Som; AFtext, not in HC;
1765 advert for tenders from masons plasterers etc for new intended Assembly Room and Theatre, Bath; BC 25.7.65;
1765-9 York House Hotel, George St, Bath; BoE N; not HC;
(1766 wings Standlynch, House, Wilts; HC)
(1767-71 Salisbury Infirmary, Wilts; HC;
1767-75 Royal Crescent, Bath; BoE N; HC;
c1767 Brock St, Bath; HC ref Ison;
1769-71 New Assembly Rooms, Bath, Som; HC; FS BC 25.5.69; description BC 29.8.71 cost near £10000;
c1770 Rivers St, Bath; HC ref Ison;
1772-6 Streets surrounding New Assembly Rooms, Bath: Bennett St, Russel St, Alfred St, Rivers St, BoE N; HC attrib Walter Ison;
c1773 Margaret Chapel, Brock St, Bath; HC, mostly dem;
(1773-4 Tregenna Castle, St Ives, Cornwall; HC)
1773-7 Hot Bath, Bath, Som; J Wood, Description of the Hot Bath, 1777;
(1778-9 Hardenhuish ch, Chippenham, Wilts, consecr 1779 for Benj Colbourne; HC; actually for John Colborne
1774 proposed card room at New Rooms Bath by their eminent architect BC 8.12.74 160' long 26' wide;
(c1780 Almshouses, St Ives, Cornwall; ill in J Wood, Plans for Labourers Cottages, 2nd ed, 1792; HC)
Attrib Southill House, West Cranmore, Som: no evidence. House before the present 1820s façade said to date from 1720, but looked 1760s, of 1-3-1 bays with Palladian windows to main floors of outer bays and plain corniced centre with pedimented door; Hardenhuish House, Wilts, 1774 for John Colborne, attr WBR2; Old Palace, 10 Market Place Chippenham refronted 1777; Monkton house Chippenham possibly rebuilt 1778 for E Edridge; 17?? No 45 St Marys St Chippenham, canted end bays like Hardenhuish House;
WOOD, THOMAS Oxford. Master mason c1644-95. HC;
(1683-5 tower Deddington ch, Oxon; HC;)
1685 repairs nave roof Wells Cathedral, Som; HC;
WOODBRIDGE, C. J. Ministry of Works
1953 Shepton Mallet Telephone Exchange, Som; BoE N
WOODHOUSE, ALFRED. CE, engineer to Somerset Drainage Commission formed 1877, replaced before 1886 when Cyrus Coombes qv was engineer; Miles SIAS 7 28
1884 works at Highbridge, Som, completed £13,000 BN 28.11.84;
1886 Waterworks, Highbridge, Som, August Krauss contractors; dem, plaque remains in centre of Highbridge.
WOODS, JOSEPH Architect to SW Regional Hospital Board, Bristol, 1960s; DG 17;
WOODYER, HENRY. Guildford. 1816-96 Major Victorian church archt, pupil W Butterfield 1844. Churches at Dorking 1866-77, Clewer 1853-96, Greenham, Highnam 1847-52, Tenbury 1854-6, Wokingham, Hascombe, Grafham. Worked for Vivians of Swansea and Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Cf Elliott & Pritchard, Henry Woodyer, 2002 (E&P);
1850 unex des for Kingweston ch, Som; ch blt 1851-5 by CE Giles qv; VCH; spec and letters SRO D/P/kingw/8/3/2; for F Dickinson;
(1860 St Edmunds School, Salisbury, Wilts; WBR;
(1861 rest Berwick St John ch, Wilts; WBR;
(1866 rest Compton Bassett ch, Wilts; WBR; DWG 8.2.66;
1867 alts Cloford ch, Som; chancel & fittings; for Preb JS Horner; E&P; ?new longer chancel or old chancel rebuilt; reredos of stone marble and alabaster; 1867-9;
1869-70 rest Doulting ch, Som; E&P; 1869-71 SNB almost entirely reblt;
1870 alts Whatley ch, Som; E&P; SNB disagrees ,rest 1859 and 1869-70, latter by GE Street;
1878-80 rest Mells ch Som; RL2 66; 1878-80 E&P; SNB refaced chancel and porch, fittings; Sir GG Scott wrote privately to SPAB 6.2.79 complaining that Woodyer was to throw out all the Jacobean fittings which Scott had been told by his brother were very fine and asks – Stevenson if he could intervene; letter SPAB files;
c1883 rest and alts Charlton House, Wraxall, som for gibbs family; SNB;
1883-4 alts Barrow Court, Barrow Gurney, Som; for HM Gibbs; SNB; 1882-91 E&P;
1886-91 rest Barrow Gurney ch, Som; BoE N; for HM Gibbs of Barrow Court; SNB, chancel and vestry 1887, tower, nave & S chapel 1888-91;
1887 almshouses, Wraxall, Som; E&P; not in SNB;
1887-90 alts Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Som; JF; Arch 51 1894 208; CL 11 1902 624-9; 1888-9 E&P; 1887-90 SNB for Anthony Gibbs, stable court 1889;
Uncertain: alts Vobster ch Som c1870 acc to BC but no evidence, not in SNB; adds Baltonsborough ch, Som: acc to Gordon Barnes HW added vestry and organ chamber when his brother-in-law was curate, but no doc evidence;
WOOLER, WALTER HERMANN Weston s Mare, partner w Hans Price qv c1877-98 as Price & Wooler. Quentin Alder says he practiced as William Henry Wooler but appears in directories as Walter Hermann and Walter Hernaman Wooler; lived at 71 South Road, Weston s Mare, designed by him.
1894 addn to Boys Grammar School, Wharf Lane, Ilminster, Som; by Mr Wooler of WsM, bldr Alexander Poole £1514/0/10d; W range along street. History of Ilminster Grammar School;
WOOLEY, EDWIN Architect, 1891-1974;
1920 War Memorial, Rode, Som; SAS; AG Oram stonemason;
WOOLFALL & ECCLES. Architects, Castle St, Liverpool. John Woolfall & ? Eccles. Architects to N & S Wales Bank, then Midland Bank. TM Alexander associated in 1920s. Designed Midland Bank branches across Britain.
(1919-20 Midland Bank, High St, Melksham, Wilts; plans WRO)
1924 remodelled Midland Bank, 2 Fore St, Wellington, Som; HSBC archives;
WOOLWORTH & CO ARCHITECTS DEPT. NMR has archive of all stores.
1925 alts Woolworth store, 8-9 Middle St, Yeovil; plans CHAC 1446 for large rear store and alts to fascia. N side Middle St.
WORSKETT, Professor ROY. Chief planning officer Bath c1975ff, Professor at Bath University, responsible for some new council building Julian Road area, ?designed it.
WORT, WILLIAM S. Cardiff
1928-38? Reblt Tivoli Cinema, The Boulvard, Weston s Mare; D/B/wsm/24/ 5/32-3; contr RG Spiller;
WORTHINGTON, (Sir) JOHN HUBERT 1886-1963. 9 Gray’s Inn Square, London. Architect, half-brother of Sir Percy Worthington 1864-1939, son of Thomas Worthington 1826-1909. Worthington practice was Thomas Worthington & Sons qv, where Hubert Worthington was articled, rejoined it 1919 after war service, designed much for Oxford university, professor of architecture at Royal College c1923-8, designed WW2 war-grave commission cemeteries in N Africa and Malta, inc El Alamein, knighted 1949.
1919-22 Housing estate, Severalls Park, Crewkerne, Som, intended as a war memorial, aerial view ‘proposed war memorial recreation grounds and housing scheme’ by ‘Worthington, Healey & Grice’ but signed HW 1919; ?? firm was Thomas Worthington & Sons qv in 1919??;
1922 War Memorial, Severalls Parkk Ave, Crewkerne, Som; DoE list; unveiled June 1922, infantryman figure carved by F Worth or F Wood of Oxford City School of Art, des based on memorial at Lelant Cornwall, horrible little tripod dolmen with underscaled soldier.
1923 Middle Croft, Bossington Lane, Porlock, Som, for EW Hendy; D/R/wil/24/1/34; TW&Sons; red sandstone, gabled, with hipped dormers; almost certainly by Hubert Worthington
WORTHINGTON (THOMAS) & SONS Architects, 178 Oxford Rd Manchester, Thomas Worthington 1826-1909, firm continued after his death still as Thomas Worthington & Sons (TW&Sons) with (Sir) Percy Scott Worthington 1864-1939 and (Sir) John Hubert Worthington qv 1886-1963; Percy became partner in 1891, RIBA Gold Medal 1930, knighted 1935; Hubert was half-brother, articled to Percy, worked with Lutyens 1912-14, war service, rejoined family firm in 1919, became principal in 1939, knighted 1949.
1923 Middle Croft, Bossington Lane, Porlock, Som, for EW Hendy; D/R/wil/24/1/34; TW&Sons; red sandstone, gabled, with hipped dormers; built as Hope Anstice, inf D Crighton, almost certainly by Hubert Worthington
WRATTEN, JOHN Architect, Wratten Chartered Architects or John Wratten Associates, Waggon Shed, Flax Drayton Farm, nr South Petherton; website.
2006 alts Stoneleigh House, Curry Rivel, Som; added second storey; inf owner.
2010 adds Ragget House, Bowdens Lane, Huish Episcopi, Som, for Robert & Lou Hobhouse, inf owners;
Also Denman’s Dairy, Barrington, new trad ho; Hamdon View, Over Stratton; Crockett Artists Retreat, Stoke sub Hamdon; garages Roundwell St, South Petherton; Pumphouse, Durnfield; ext house, Yeovil Rd, Montacute; ext house Compton Rd, South Petherton; conversion C chapel schoolroom, Stoke sub Hamdon; conv George Lane, South Petherton; conv & new build commercial Bowdens Farm, Hambridge; conv outbldng Heatherton Park Farm, Bradford on Tone; alts Newton Surmaville mansion; conv to flats of schoolroom, C chapel, South Petherton; repairs barn, Home Farm, Wiltown, Curry Rivel; Shepton House, Shepton Beauchamp, boarded commercial bldng; ancillary office Normans, Taunton; specialist care home, Taunton (pink render and boarding);
WRIGHT, CRAWFORD Architect 2 Park Cotts, Hammets Walk, Taunton
WRIGHT, JOHN A Surveyor, Bristol.
(1904 rebuild side wall No 42 Mary le Port St, Bristol T Br 5.12.03)
(1904 Warehouse etc, Albert Rd, St Philips, Bristol for C Vaughan & Sons; T Br 5.12.03)
WRIGHT, THOMAS. Durham, 1711-86. Designed garden buildings, two collections of six designs ‘Arbours’ 1755, and ‘Grottos’ 1758. Embellished grounds at Berkeley Castle c170-5; Badminton c1750-6, Beckett Pk Berks; Culford, Oaklands, Stoke Gifford; Shugborough, Wallington & Wrest. Retired to Bishop Auckland 1762. Also laid out garden Netheravon House, Wilts, WBR2;
175? suggested that rockwork screen at Halswell, Som, imitates Wright but screen probably pre-dates 1758. HGS 72-3; also thatched timber Druids Temple (dem) was sim to the Arbours frontispiece, though built by Jacob de Wilstar qv;
(17?? Bladud’s Temple, Stoke Park, Bristol; cf BoE Glos. Wright may have embellished a windmill tower at Linden House, Stapleton Grove as eyecatcher, SNB)
WYATT & BRANDON see TH Wyatt
WYATT, JAMES 1746-1813; HC; 1762 went to Venice pupil of Antonio Visentini, then Rome, returned c1768. Worked w father & brother Samuel. Made his name with Pantheon, London, 1772; JMR; 6th son of Benjamin Wyatt of Weeford, younger bro of Samuel & Benjamin II, father of Benjamin Dean Wyatt +1852, sculptor Matthew C Wyatt +1862 and architect Phillip Wm Wyatt +1835;
1788-93 Ammerdown House, Som, for TS Joliffe; BoE N; RL, Joseph Towsey, Blandford Forum, bldr; SC 1789-95 used dressed stone from Robert Adam house for Alderman Beckford at Witham Park; HC 1789-93, alts 1857 by Manners & Gill, 1877 by Manners & Gill (? presume Browne & Gill), c1910-12 by Lutyens, SNB; also by James Wyatt the stables c1788-95, Kilmersdon Gate, & lodges;
(1790-5 Hartham Park, Corsham, Wilts; HC;)
(1792 New Hall, Nunton, Wilts; HC)
(1793 Design for Crescent, Tyndalls Pk, Bristol; HC)
(1794? memorial to 10th E of Pembroke +1794, Wilton ch, Wilts; made by Westmacott;
(1796 Bowden House, Wilts; HC)
(1796-1812 Fonthill Abbey, Wilts; dem;)
(1798-1813 Doddington Pk, Glos; HC)
c1800-5 alts Hinton House, Hinton St George, Som for 4th Earl Poulett; drawings dated 1801 and 1804; HC; Wyatt ousted John Soane cf Soane’s Memoirs by suggesting Gothic rather than Classic more appropriate; Soane paid off 12.7.98 so Wyatt may have begun in 1798. JW reconstructed Grand Saloon in Gothic and turned the front octagonal entrance hall into a long picture gallery. Added the windows and octagonal outer turrets to W front. He also probably planned the long entrance hall from the N and the Gothic corridor linking this to Saloon. Also neo-classical staircase to serve W wing; drawings of staircase 1804 at Yale. The entrance hall possibly incomplete 1813 as John Kempshed qv or Kemshead produced alternative plans; further work 1814-16 by Wyatville qv; Colin Winn, The Pouletts of Hinton St George, 1995, 133-4;
1801 ?Poulett mausoleum & pew, Hinton St George ch, Som; RL; unfinished at his death 1813 and completion attrib to Wyatville qv; not in HC; mausoleum has 1814-15 dates.
(1801-11 alts Wilton House, Wilts; HC)
(1814 Market Cross, Devizes, Wilts; WBR2, erected by BD Wyatt)
Also ?Pembroke Hotel, Wilton, Wilts to accommdate men working at Wilton House, WBR2;
WYATT, JOHN DRAYTON Architect, 1820-91, draughtsman with Scott & Moffatt from 1841, then GG Scott qv, architect to Bath & Wells diocese 1867-91 acc to SAS; some drawings of details of Wells Cathedral by him are in RIBAD;
WYATT, SAMUEL (1737-1807). 3rd son of Benjamin Wyatt + 1772, of Weeford, Staffs, brother of Benjamin, James, William. Cf JMR and HC. Master carpenter 1759, first architecture 1769 drawing rm Blithfield Hall, Staffs; with brother James involved in Pantheon London 1769-71; in London 1774 as architect, bldr and timber-merchant; Albion Mills Blackfriars 1783-6; Notable for farm-buildings, over 50 at Holkham 1780-1807. Experimented with slate-cladding using Penrhyn slate, also with cast-iron. NT Penrhyn Castle guide mentions agreement w Penrhyn estate before 1800 for James and Samuel to have Penrhyn slates, used at Holkham stables and Shugborough. Surveyor to Trinity House 1792; clerk of works Chelsea Hospital 1792; surveyor Ramsgate Harbour 1794; des Trinity House 1793-6; Ramsgate Harbour 1794-1805 w lighthouse etc;
1776-7 wings Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som; CTA 1992; HC, work for 7th E of Cork & Orrery prob incl new wings dated 1777; PSANHS 118 1974 19; W wing includes library, E wing contained kitchen and offices;
WYATT, THOMAS HENRY. 1807-80. 77 Great Russell St, London, and Weston Patrick, Hants. Son of Matthew Wyatt, magistrate of Rowdeford House, Wilts, brother Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt qv, nephew and son-in-law of Arthur Wyatt, agent to Duke of Beaufort in Mon. Leading Victorian architect, pupil PC Hardwick, set up 1832, District Surveyor Hackney 1832-61. Numerous works in Wilts and Mon, in partnership with David Brandon (1813-97) qv (W&B) from 1838-50, then on own; PRIBA 1870, RIBA Gold Medal 1873; architect to ICE, Athenaeum, Middlesex Hospital, ICBS, Commissioners in Lunacy, & Salisbury Diocese. Sons Matthew 1840-92 and Thomas Henry II 1841-1920 architects; Marble Halls 30; cf J.M. Robinson The Wyatts, 1979 (JMR); obituary Br 14.8.80 (obit); numerous drawings sold by Mrs J Don at Sothebys 8.11.1976; Edmund Harris suggests that Joseph Peacock was a pupil as resident at 75 Great Russell St, David Brandon's address in 1851 census and suggests his hand in detailing belfry of East Cranmore ch, Som; ;
(1835 Assize Court, Devizes, Wilts; WBR; abandoned c1985, derelict,
(1836-8 Shaw ch, Wilts; WBR;
(1839-40 Derry Hill ch, Wilts; W&B; WBR;
(1841 St Andrew ch, Bethnal Green, London; W&B;
(1841-5 Wilton ch, Wilts; W&B; BoE £20,000 for Rt Hon Sidney Herbert; WBR; D&C Jones bldrs; Wilts Indep 21.6.1849 work continues under Mr Wyatt, marble pavement in front of chancel;
(1841-50 Cholderton ch, Wilts; WBR; ?W&B, THW acc to JMR;
(1843 lodge and coach-house and stables, Bishops Palace, Salisbury, Wilts WBR2;
(1843 Crockerton ch, Wilts; W&B; BoE; neo norman;
(1843 Worton ch, Wilts; W&B; BoE;
(1843 Codford ch, Wilts; W&B, JMR; THW, WBR; ?restored Codford St Mary ch)
(1844 Dilton Marsh ch, Wilts; THW, BoE; Brown of Frome bldr DWG 3.10.44
(1844-5 rest Melksham ch, Wilts; W&B 75 Gt Russell St, Tenders WI 6.6.44
(1845 Chittoe ch, Wilts; THW, BoE
(1845-6 National Schools, Warminster, Wilts; DWG 22.1.46; Wilts Indep 5.2.46, THW, Mr Hale of Warminster bldr; £2000 inc house for teacher and rooms for committee;
(1845 Gates & three houses, Kensington Palace Gardens, London W&B;
1845-6 East Cranmore ch, Som; W&B; RL; now house; alts c1866 by THW acc to RL, ?error for alts to house; M de Viggiani Two Estates 1988 36-7: FS 8.5.45, consec 18.8.46, Jesse Gane qv bldr, £1250, for JM Paget (no mention of Wyatt); Edmund Harris suggests that Joseph Peacock was a pupil as resident at 75 Great Russell St, David Brandon's address in 1851 census, and suggests his hand in unusual detailing of belfry of East Cranmore with nook-shafts;
1847-9 alts Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Som for JM Paget; de Viggiani, Two Estates, 1988 quotes from JMP’s diaries: dining-room chimney and chimney in room above replaced; 1848 new porch and arches into the hall, plans for new drawing-room behind dining-room, Mr Wyatt advised; summerhouse resited and new one built; 12.3.49 THW came to approve work, then making arrangements for interior and new chimney stack to the oriel drawing-rm and green room over it; 11.6.49 went to Brown’s scaglioe works and selected Red Brocatello mantelpiece for drawing-room; 13.11.49 new part occupied for 1st time by maid in far W garret; 29.11.49 re-inhabited dining-room; dated 1848 on rainwater heads; Jesse Gane bldr, Two Estates p 65;
184? House near Crewkerne, Som, for Mr Hoskins; W&B; JMR from list of works that David Brandon provided for RIBA; ?North Perrott House for William Hoskins, demolished when new house called North Perrott Manor built for HW Hoskyns 1878;
(1848 lodge, Rood Ashton House, West Ashton, Wilts; WBR2; Young & White bldrs;
(1848-9 Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Gifford, Wilts, new house using part of W service range of Beckford's Fonthill Abbey, for James Morrison; WBR; BoE; dem; W&B;
(1849-51 Wiltshire County Asylum, Roundway, Devizes, Wilts; WBR; add of Female ward T WI 22.4.1858;
(1850 parsonage, Woodborough, Wilts; W&B; WBR; adds 1858 by Whitley B Clacy of Devizes T WI 3.6.1858;
(1850 chancel, Woodborough ch, Wilts, nave and chancel added 1861-2; BoE)
1855-8 Orchardleigh House, Som; BoE N; RL; RA 1858; Daniel Jones qv bldr; WI 9.11.58 dinner for workmen as work nearly complete, G.A. Howitt former clerk of works now at Bowood Park Wilts; in WA Duckworth's diaries clerk of works is Mr Hewitt qv, landscaper Mr Page qv, and a pupil of Wyatt's Mr Purchass is there in 1858 supervising workmen and drawing plans of the two churches at Orchardleigh and Lullington.
(1856 Wiltshire Reformatory for Boys, Warminster, Wilts; design only half built, J Barnden bldr; WBR2; THW;
(1856 proposed covered corn market, Devizes, Wilts; WI 24.1.56; not built, Corn Exchange 1857 by W Hill of Leeds.
(1856 militia stores, Bath Rd, Devizes, Wilts; report WI 16.10.56 to cost £7250 though estimated at £6000; became constabulary HQ 1879, closed 1962, demolished;
(1856 rest Chilmark ch, Wilts; THW BoE; W&B, WBR)
(1857 Berwick Bassett ch, Wilts; kept W wall, windows and chancel walls, new roofs, vestry and tower. Stained glass E and S windows. Major of Swindon bldr; £900 WI 29.10.57;
1857-8 School, Lullington, Som; 1857 Kelly 1906; 1862 AF text; but diary of WA Duckworth TrAMS 27 1983 records opening 13.9.1858;
1858-60 alts Sutton Court, Stowey, Som; BoE N; for Sir Edw Strachey;
(1860 Bratton ch, Wilts rest, walls raised, new roofs, seats, Minton tiles under tower, pulpit E & W windows by Gibbs also small window over font; J Barnden of Warminster bldr; £700; WI 22.11.60;
(1860 rest chancel, Bishops Cannings ch, Wilts, B. mullings contr; WI 24.1.61 opened; Minton tile floor, oak stalls; stained glass E window by Wailes one of richest he has ever done; three lights, medallions; restoration of nave and transepts begun
(1859-60 Bemerton ch, Wilts, FS WI 21.4.59; opened WI 20.12.60 E window by O'Connor exec by Lavers & Co, Miles of Shaftesbury bldr, gave font cover, THW gave pulpit, William Howitt clerk of works; Minton tiles chancel;
(1860-1 Savernake ch, Wilts, chapel of ease for Tottenham House estate FS Wilts Indep 5.4.60, THW; Mr Jones bldr; WI 26.9.61 flint banded with Sarsen, relieving arches of grey and red; N arcade responds Devonshire marble; similar shafts in chancel; screens to transepts w red marble shafts; Reredos five-sided of maiolica tiles; Minton paving throughout; oak altar; credence of alabaster on red marble shafts and dove marble base; rail on white alabaster base, green marble cols and alabaster capping; Caen stone pulpit with cols of red and white marble with inlaid marble panels, brass lectern by Potter of London; font of Caen stone on green and red marble shafts; cover of oak and brass with iron finial supplied by Hayward of Devizes; organ by Bevington & Sons, London in carved screen illuminated in gold; thirteen windows by Lavers & Barraud, three by Heaton & butler, two by alexander Gibbs, one by O'Connor; Daniel Jones qv Bradford on Avon bldr, William England of London arranged tiles; carving by George Armstrong Howitt of Devizes;
(1861-2 Woodborough ch, Wilts FS WI 25.4.61, £1600, Mr Jones bldr; BoE says chancel 1850 by THW;
1862 rest Lullington ch, Som; RL; SNB; Daniel Jones qv of Bradford on Avon builder; TrAMS 27 1983; 1861-3 SAS;
1862 School, Lullington, Som; SAS; RIBAD; SNB;
c1862 ?remodelled Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Som; RL, date almost certainly wrong cf 1847-8 and 1868-9;
1863-4 Cranmore Tower, East Cranmore, Som, for John Moore Paget; SC notes; folly tower 1862-4 45m high, William Witcombe of Leigh-on-Mendip contractor, Somerset Follies; de Viggiani, Cranmore Chronicle, 1985, site chosen 14.9.63, FS 29.2.64, finished 30.9.64; Two Estates 1988 62-5 gives full story; iron railings made at Dean Foundry; cottage for tower keeper built 1866 dem;
(1863 Woolwich Garrison ch, London; bombed)
(1865 Liverpool Exchange; dem)
(1866 rest Bower Chalke ch, Wilts WG 23.3.66; Henry Hughes, Bristol, involved?;
(1866 Semley ch, Wilts, WG 28.9.66; TB Miles bldr;
(1866 Fonthill Gifford ch, Wilts; BoE)
c1866 alts East Cranmore ch, Som; RL; ?error, ch 1846 by TH Wyatt, no obvious 1860s work;
1866ff ?work in Doulting, Som, for RH Paget. JM Paget bought estate in 1864 but died 1866. RHP rebuilt centre of village with cottages, school, public house (now The Abbey Barn), de Viggiani Two Estates 1988 64; p70 says block of five cottages built 1866; SNB says estate cottages date from 1881-1901 and are by GJ Skipper qv;
(1867 home and buildings on Miss Nightingale's plan, Bournemouth, Hants WG 13.9.67;
(1867 proposed alterations Salisbury Infirmary, Wilts DWG 28.11.67, addition of a wing;
1868-9 adds Cranmore Hall, East Cranmore, Som, for RH Paget: verandah on E and across front of new S range with billiard-room and orangeries, billiard-room with dado tiles by ‘H Wyatt of Gt Russell St’ (de Viggiani Two Estates 89), orangery by Henry Ormison of Chelsea qv, horticultural engineer, 1868. Veranda W range is dated 1869 with RHP initials; c1866 for Sir Richard Horner Paget Bt, SC notes;
(1870 chancel, Christ Church, Warminster, Wilts; £722 add of chancel, vestry organ chmbr WI 14.7.70; WG 17.11.71, congratulations to Mr Wyatt architect, Mr Parsons bldr; 1871 BoE;
(1871? rest Iwerne Courtney (Shroton) ch, Dorset WG 19.1.72;
1878-80 ?Manor House, North Perrott, Som; BoES; RL; for Henry W Hoskyns; AF notes; SC notes has House near Crewkerne for Mr Hoskins by W&B from a list of works that Brandon made now at RIBA so c1838-50; JMR; this is probably a short-lived predecessor North Perrott House for William Hoskins demolished according to Hoskyns family when HW Hoskyns built Manor House 1878. No evidence that by THW, but THW is given as architect inter alia by M Girouard, Vic Country Houses; JMR; SAS says complete after 1880 by George Vialls for successor practice of Matthew Wyatt and WL Spiers;
18?? Minor alts, Pixton Park, Dulverton, Som for 4th E of Carnarvon; SC; JMR from THW obit; prob 1870s; ?the new entrance hall and adds to side;also new staircase? All done in photo of 1893;
(1878-9 Knightsbridge Barracks, London; dem;)
WYATVILLE, Sir JEFFRY l766-l840, son of Joseph Wyatt & nephew of Samuel & James; Colvin; Biog by Derek Linstrum 1972, Henry Ashton was assistant, pupils included Richard Carver qv, WJ Donthorn, Edward Haycock, Charles Parker. Son George Geoffrey Wyatt 1804-33 was architect, died young. Works in HC from 1799; changed name to Wyatville 1824, knighted 1828;
(1800-13 alts Longleat, Wilts; WBR; work done 1806-13 HC major work on house inc N front, staircase and state rooms; also stables, orangery, boathouse and triumphal-arch Horningsham Lodge; drawing for thatched cottage 1802, probably for County Cottage, the W lodge, on Wilts/ Som boundary.
(1802 alts Stockton House, Wilts; WBR2, not in D Linstrum)
(1808 Rood Ashton House, West Ashton, Wilts; WBR; HC, exh RA 1808; alts 1836 T Hopper; dem; c1808 for RG Long BoE)
(1812-16 Philipps House, Dinton, Wilts for William Wyndham; WBR; Dinton House 1814-17 HC;
1814 Forecourt screen, St John ch, Frome, Som; SNB; built for Lord Bath of Longleat;
1814 refaced W front, St John ch, Frome, Som, RL; HC; design in Frome Museum;
1814 Porte-cochere, Hinton House, Hinton St George, Som; RA 1814; RL; Gothic entrance and other works 1814-16, HC; this is addition at NE corner of stable yard comprising porte-cochere, attached wall and gateway for 4th Earl Poulett.
1814 Poulett Mausoleum, Hinton St George ch, Som; church guide; begun 1801 by James Wyatt, apparently incomplete when James Wyatt died 1813, RL; not in HC; this is the rebuilding of Poulett Chapel with vestry, dated 1814 on rainwater head and 1815 on vestry door, together with remodelling of N transept as Poulett pew with crypt beneath a raised floor, also dated 1814 on rainwaterhead. ?what evidence that work began before 1814.
c1817 Ionic loggia, Marston House, Marston Bigot, Som; RL; HC, 8th Earl of Cork is listed as a client of JW and JW wrote of going to Lord Cork’s 1817; PSANHS 118, 1974, 20; shown in Neale’s view 1822; McGarvie Book of Marston Bigot 122: also two ranges of offices one behind E wing and the other contiguous to it; c1819-20 ?Assembly Rooms, Frome, Som; unex des 1813 by John Pinch differs, building may have been by Pinch, Wyatville or GA Underwood qv, SNB; cost £1300 completed by 1821; a watered down version of Pinch plans of 1813 for the George Hotel, McGarvie, Book of Marston, 123; now Natwest;
1819-20 Claverton House, Som, for John Vivian; SNB, HC;
(1821 unex plans Kingston Lacy, Dorset; HC)
(1821 unex plans Tottenham Park, Wilts; HC)
(1823 Allendale House, Wimborne Minster, Dorset; HC
1834-5 ?School, East Woodlands, Som; John Ralphs qv tendered to build school to plans by Sir JW; Longleat archive has unex plans by HE Goodridge qv 1834; and two sets of unsigned plans c1834, Longleat 14/3 32/0 01/1/1831 but none of these by Wyatville and none of school as built; 14/3 32/0 2/6/1835 has estimates by William Brown qv for building school according to plans by Sir JW; and 32/0 28/6/35 has similar estimate from John Ralphs qv;
WYLSON & LONG
1894-6 Lyric Theatre, Sawclose, Bath, Som; MF; Curtains!!! 1982: theatre opened 1886 as Pavilion Music Hall, rebuilt as Lyric 1895, renamed Palace Theatre 1903, interior completely altered in 1930s, converted to ballroom 1955. Present front is of 1895;
WYNFORD, WILLIAM Mason architect +1405, born c1330-35, active from c1360, granted life pension of £10 p.a. 1372. Worked on royal works with Henry Yeveley. JHPS
(1360 worked at Windsor Castle, Berks, succeded John Sponlee in 1361)
1365 master mason Wells Cathedral, Som;
c1375 Possibly involved or influenced tower Shepton Mallet ch, Som, c1375 JHPS 233; c1380 or shortly after, SNB;
(1378 paid for work on tower at Southampton, Hants JHPS 118)
1370s N chapel, Cheddar ch, Som; called ‘novo fondata’ in 1380; SNB; attrib John Harvey
(1380ff attr Arundel ch, Sx with H Yevele; JHPS pl 60, nave c1390)
1382ff attr St John ch, Yeovil, Som; JHPS 135, pl 5; probably completed work begun for rector in 1362
c1385-95 SW tower, Wells Cathedral, Som; JHPS 58; SNB, paid for by Bp Harewell +1386 in his lifetime
c1385-1400 attrib tower, St Cuthbert ch, Wells, Som; SNB; heraldry gives dates c1385-1400 and c1435-50;
(1380-6 Hall and chapel, New College, Oxford; JHPS 133 pl 12, pl 57-8; also bell-tower and cloister 1394-1400
(1386 Gatehouse, Donnington Castle, Berks attrib JHPS 118)
(1387-94 Winchester College, Hants; JHPS 61, pl 79-80)
(1389-99 attr hall, Dartington Hall Devon; JHPS 118)
(1392 attrib Old Wardour Castle, Wilts; JHPS 118)
(1394-1405 Nave and W front Winchester Cathedral, Hants; JHPS 84
(1396 cloisters, New College, Oxford; JHPS pl 59
(1396-1400 tower, New College, Oxford JHPS pl 81)
(1396-8 chancel, Harmondsworth ch, Mx attr JHPS 135)
WYVERN DESIGN GROUP Architects Swindon founded January 1965 from RJ Beswick & Son of Swindon and Edwards & Webster of Chippenham, acc to WBR2, later Wyvern Partnership (WP);
1959 St Peter ch, Clevedon, Som; by RJ Beswick of Swindon, SNB;
1965 rest Blue House, Frome, Som; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; the former Bluecoat School
(1965 flats, Corsham, Wilts; WBR;
(1967-8 Calne & Chippenham RDC offices, Bewley ho, Chippenham, Wilts; AD Kirby job architect; BoE)
1976 Town centre, Shepton Mallet, Som; Wyvern Partnership; RIBAJ 1979 287-92; including Academy Theatre; 1974-5 SNB;
(1981 Combe Bank housing for elderly, Brixham, Devon; WP; HDA 1981;
YEOMANS, ARTHUR WILLIAM, MSA Architect, Chard, 1860-1929, born Nottingham pupil Fothergill Watson of Nottingham, set up in Kegworth Notts 1886 and moved to Chard 1889, still in practice there 1914, living at Derwent Villa, died in London;
1902 Reredos, Good Shepherd ch, Furnham, Chard, Som; SRO D/D/cf/1902/39;
1902 Coronation Hotel, Middle St, Yeovil dem. 1965; SAS;
1902-4 Common-room, Harvey's Almshouse, High St, Chard, Som; Tony Prior, Harveys, 2009, 20; original plans 1894 by CH Sansom rejected as too expensive 1902; Yeomans' design built by Harris & Woolcot for £293/15/0d;
YEOVIL BOROUGH Surveyor 1830 Henry Etheredge; 1849 Alfred Etheredge; Arthur Oddy 1906; AJ Price 1920;
1959-62 Swimming Pool, Huish, Yeovil, Som; dem 1993; T: WG 18.3.60;
YEVELEY, HENRY Mason, died 1400, freeman of city of London 1353. Worked for Black Prince from c1357,in charge of Kings Works at Westminster from 1360
1373 attr Nunney Castle, Som; TPS 107;
YOELL, BRUCE ALISDAIR, Architect Chelynch, Shepton Mallet; RIBA; born 1945;
(1996 plans Maplecroft Farm, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; not followed, much worse scheme done; Guardian Angel 47 2005;
(2001 alts Euridge Manor Farm, Colerne, Wilts for John Robinson, with I&J Bannerman garden designers;
2003 conv Feather Factory, Frome, Som; SBPT award 2004;
2011 The Orchard, Trudoxhill, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
2011 conversion, Wards Silk Mill, Queen St, Evercreech, Som; Mendip DC awards 2012;
20?? proposed new house at Chantry, Som; plot offered for sales with plans by BY
YOUNG, KEITH DOWNES Architect 1848-1929 ?connected with Henry Hall qv, firm of Hall & Young??
1887 Sanatorium, Sherborne School, Dorset; OSS;
YORK, CLEMENT Builder, Litton.
1841 surveyed old parsonage, Litton, Som; design for new by AJ Beloe qv of Chilcompton; SRO D/D/Bbm/88;
YOUNG, DAVID. Yeovil. Architect, quite a prominent figure on radio and television in the SW on architecture. Inf Jack Sweet. Worked for Roydon Cooper Associates RCA in early 1960s. David Young & Partners;
1960-2 reps East Chinnock ch, Som; David Young of RCA; ICBS;
1968 Nave altar & rails, St John ch, Yeovil, Som; SRO d/d/cf/1968/ 7/1; timber moveable, octagonal coffee-table altar. Gothic.
1968 House nr Yeovil, Som; in 1972 House Plans;
1970? Penn Park House, No 6 Penn Hill Pk, Yeovil, (facing S over Brunswick Rd), for himself; inf Jack Sweet; C20index.
1970 House nr Wells, Som; in 1973 House Plans; DY&P
c1972 Castle Mead, Church Hill, Sutton Montis, Som; DY&P C20index;
YORKE ROSENBERG & MARDALL Architects London. FRS Yorke 1906-62, Eugene Rosenberg 1907-90 & Cyril Sjostrom Mardall 1909-94. FRSY wrote The Modern House, 1934, practice founded 1944, major London practice over decades, called YRM by 2009, in financial trouble 2011 and sold to RMJM. Director 2009 Iain Macdonald. Firm did schools, housing, offices, St Thomas Hospital London, Gatwick Airport, Warwick University.
1966-7 Bath Cabinet Makers factory, Lower Bristol Rd, Bath, Som; SNB; Mero space-frame roof structure.
(c1970 garden pavilion to house in Great Bedwyn, Wilts, by Brian Henderson of YRM for self HMGI)
(1970-4 Project architects, Wills HQ, Hartcliffe Way, Bristol; with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; SNB); factory demolished c1999; offices conferted to flats by Ferguson Mann qv; JC20Soc 2012 list of best 1970s bldngs;
1990-2000 Terminal, Bristol Airport, Lulsgate, Som; design 1990, built 1999-2000; SNB;
2009 Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station, Som; designs for EdF; 1630 MW station adjacent the A and B power stations; BD 27.2.09, BD4.11.11; design taken over by Grimshaw qv;
AA Academy Architecture
AF Andy Foyle, Pevsner City guide, Bristol, 2004;
AFnotes notes from Andy Foyle provided for Somerset S revision.
AFtext Andy Foyle draft gazetteer for N Som & Bristol (published version see SNB)
AH Architectural History
AJ Architects Journal
AR Architectural Review
Arch The Architect
ASG AS Gray, Edwardian Architecture, 1985
B Baptist
BC Bible Christian
BC Bath Chronicle
BClarke Basil Clarke, Church Builders of the C19, 1938
BD Building Design
BDAC Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada
BDRP BJ Murless, Bridgwater Docks & the River Parrett, 1983
BE Bath Express
BH Bath History
BH B Hornsey, 90 years of cinema in Somerset;
BLJ BL Jackson Yeovil 150 years of Railways 2003
BM Bridgwater Mercury
BM Bristol Mercury
BMCS Bulletin of Minehead Conservation Society 1 2004
BN Building News
BNHFC Bath Natural History & Field Club
BoE Buildings of England series
BoEN Pevsner, Buildings of England Somerset N and Bristol, 1958
BoES Pevsner, Buildings of England Somerset S&W, 1958
BoS Buildings of Scotland series
BoW Buildings of Wales series
BPOB British Post Office Buildings website
Br The Builder
BS M McGarvie the Book of Street 1987
BSA Bristol Society of Architects
BTM Bristol Times & Mirror
C: contract
C Congregational
C20index Spreadsheet of C20 houses compiled by Hugh Martin, searchable at modern/
C&IN Chard & Ilminster News
CCV The Castle Cary Visitor.
CHAC Community Heritage collection for S Somerset, Lufton. Holds deposited plans of former Yeovil UDC;
Chronicle. Chronicle - Journal of Yeovil Arch & Local History Soc.
CSG Central Somerset Gazette
CTA Civic Trust Awards
CtoA Companion to the Almanac
CYB Congregational Year Book
DBA RIBA Directory of British Architects 1834-1914
DG H.A.D. Gibson A Somerset Architects Practice in the C19 & C20 2007
DM inf David Martyn, GCP Architects, Willsbridge, Bristol
DOC JA Harding The Diocese of Clifton 1850-2000;
DS Duncan Stafford personal inf or from The book of St Audries and West Quantoxhead, 2006
DSA Dictionary of Scottish Architects website
DWG Devizes & Wilts Gazette
EH English Heritage listing
FRIBA Fellow of RIBA also ARIBA Associate
FS Foundation stone
FSA Fellow of Soc of Antiquaries
FSYB Frome Society Yearbook
FT Frome Times
GG Grace's Guide, online biographies of engineers;
GHS Michael McGarvie, Guide to Historic Street, 1986;
GJL Gomme, Jenner & Little, Bristol, 1979;
GM Gentleman’s Magazine
Gomme Andor Gomme typescript of architects working in Bristol;
GR Goodhart-Rendel index of churches at RIBA
GS George Sweetman History of Wincanton 1903
Gunnis Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851
H&F Harwood & Foster Places of Christian Worship 1914-90 in SAH?
HC Howard Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1998;
HDA Housing Design Award;
HGS Mowl & Mako Historic Gardens of Somerset 2010
HMGI Hugh Martin, Great Index of modern houses in Britain, online
HS High Sheriff
ILN Illustrated London News
IR Ingrid Roscoe, A biographical dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, 2009
JF Jill Franklin, The English Gentleman’s House and its plan;
JHPS John Harvey, Perpendicular Style 1978
JMF Jenny M Freeman, WD Caroe 1990
JMR JM Robinson, The Wyatts, 1979
JT Robin Bush, Jeboult’s Taunton 1983
JW Information John Winstone
Legg R Legg, the Book of Wincanton, 2007
Lilly D. & J. Lilly, The Builders of Clevedon, 2000.
LSYH R Dunning, Local Studies for Young historians 1973
McKay SG McKay Milborne Port in Somerset 1986
MF Michael Forsyth Pevsner City guide to Bath
MH Market Hall
MHB Jeremy Gould, Modern Houses in Britain;
Mounter AO Mounter A social history of Curry Rivel in the C19, 1987
MS information Mary Siraut of VCH
Nathan Sir Matthew Nathan, The Annals of West Coker 1957
NMR National Monuments Record Swindon
NofB R Peach, Notabilia of Bath 1876
NWC Hazel Hudson New Wedmore Chronicles, 2002
OD Notes by Oliver Davies on Minehead streets and architects
OD1-500 list of plans with numbers used by Minehead UDC, made by Oliver Davies, numbers unfortunately not same as D/U/M/22/1/- sequence in SRO;
OQ The Old Quantocks by David Worthy 2010
OSS Old Shirburnian Society The Architects of Sherborne online
P Presbyterian
PB Puffy Bowden, Wincanton 1985
PB Plymouth Brethren
PC SP Record, Proud Century, 1948. History of Taunton School
PF Peter fitzgerald, Nathaniel Ireson
PH Information from Peter Howell
PM Primitive Methodist
PP Miles, Perfectly Pure, directory of Somerset brewers, 2007;
PS Peter Stanier Somerset in the age of steam 2003
QM Quaker Meeting
RA Royal Academy
RA 1937 exh; Catalogue of the 1937 RA exhibition of modern British architecture
REDA Recent English Domestic Architecture, 1929, ed H de C Hastings. Published as supplements to AR 1908, 1909, 1911, ?etc;
RHH RH Harper Victorian Architectural Competitions1983
RIBAD RIBA Drawings collection now at V&A.
RIBAJ Journal of Royal Institute of British Architects
RL Russell Lillford typescript of Somerset architects 2009
RL2 R Lillford, Notes on some architects & surveyors working in Somerset between 1720 and 1939, 2010.
SA&WQ Stafford, Book of St Audries & West Quantoxhead 2006;
SAS Somerset Buildings Trust, Somerset Architects & Surveyors 1720-1939,
SB Sally Bainbridge typescript inf on Minehead
SC Stephen Croad notes on country houses and notes for Pevsner revision
SCAT Somerset College of Art and Technology, Taunton
SCC Somerset County Council
SCG Somerset County Gazette: incomplete entries are taken from British Library newspaper search, as full report available only to subscribers
SCH Somerset County Herald
SCR SC Robertson thesis The Clark Family and their contribution to the development of Street 1883-1939;
SDTJ Sherborne Dorchester & Taunton Journal
SF Jonathan Holt Somerset Follies 2007
SHC Somerset Heritage Centre
SIAS Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society
SJ Sherborne Journal
SL Somerset Life
SM Sherborne Mercury
SMJ Sweetman's Monthly Journal 1871-9
SMJ Shepton Mallet Journal
SNB Andrew Foyle, Buildings of England Somerset North & Bristol 2011
Squibbs PJ Squibbs, Squibbs’ History of Bridgwater, 1982;
SRO Somerset Record Office (later Somerset Heritage Centre)
SS Somerset Standard
SSCH R Dunning Some Somerset Country Houses,
SSDC South Somerset District Council
SSW Buildings of England Somerset S & W 2014;
SWJ Salisbury & Winchester Journal
T: tender
TBC Tim Britton-Caitlin, The English Parsonage in early C19;
TC Taunton Courier, incomplete entries taken from British Library newspapers on line as subscription not paid for full viewing;
TDDC Taunton Deane District Council
TH Town Hall
TIOP N Chipchase, Taunton in old photographs 1989
UBD Universal British directory 1794-7
UM United Methodist
VCH Victoria County History Somerset
W&D Joanna Martin, Wives and Daughters, 2004
W&DCB Wilts & Dorset Contemporary biographies 1906
WBR Wiltshire Building Record, Architects and building craftsmen with work in Wiltshire, 1996; WBR2 second volume; WBR/WSHC indicates files of WBR kept at record office, Chippenham;
WFP Western Flying Post
WG Western Gazette (for Wiltshire Gazette see DWG)
WGS Wilts & Glos Standard
WI Wiltshire Independent
WJ Wells Journal
WM Wesleyan Methodist
WMN Western Morning News
WRO Wilts Record Office now WSHC
WS LF Isaac, the story of Wellington School, 1993
WSFP West Somerset Free Press.
WSHC Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, new name for WRO
WSMG Weston super Mare Gazette
WT Wiltshire Times
WWinA Whos Who in Architecture
WWN Wellington Weekly News
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