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Frederick Walters

Frederick Arthur Walters was a Scottish architect working in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches.

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Frederick Arthur Walters (5 February 1849–3 December 1931) was a Scottish architect working in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches.

Life

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Walters was born on 5 February 1849 at 6 South Terrace, Brompton, London, the son of the architect Frederick Page Walters—with whom he served as an articled clerk for three years.1

After working in the office of George Goldie for nine years, he formed his own architectural practice in 1878, taking his son, John Edward Walters, into partnership in 1924.1

Walters, a Roman Catholic,1 was responsible for more than fifty Roman Catholic Churches, including Buckfast Abbey and Ealing Abbey.2 He also designed the seminary building at St. John's Seminary (Wonersh), which is on the statutory list of buildings of architectural and historical importance.1

Walters died on 3 December 1931 at St Mildred's, Ewell.1

Works

Work Date Comments
St Joseph Church, Roehampton3 1881 Style:Gothic Revival
Sacred Heart Church Wimbledon4 1884–1887 Style decorated Gothic
Douai School – main entrance and tower5 1888 Style Tudor Gothic
Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne6 1890–1903 Style Decorated Gothic; Grade II-listed
St. John's Seminary (Wonersh)7 1891 Style Dutch Jacobean
The Holy Ghost, Franciscan Friary Chilworth8 1892 Grade II listed; style Late Gothic
Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark9 1892–1893 Style: Romanesque revival
The Sacred Heart, Trott Street Battersea10 1892–1893 Style: Romanesque revival
The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Bow Common11 1893–1894 Consecrated by Cardinal Vaughan 30 June 1894
Sacred Heart Church, Petworth12 1894–1896 Windows by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake
Clergy House, Church of English Martyrs Walworth13 1893–1894
St Joseph's Church, Dorking14 1895
St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll15 1895–1897 Consecrated by Bishop Peter Amigo 7 September 1904
St Thomas's Church, Sevenoaks16 1896
St Mary of the Angels, Worthing17 1897–1907 Originally built by Henry Clutton 1864 & 1873, extended by Walters
Ealing Abbey 1897–1935 Altered following bomb damage suffered in 1940
St Mary and St Michael, Lukin Street, London E118 1898 Originally built by William Wardell 1856; chancel altered by Walters 1898
Our Lady and St Peter's Church, East Grinstead19 1898
Church of St Anne, Kennington Lane Vauxhall20 1900–1903 Consecrated by Cardinal Bourne 26 October 1903; style: late Gothic
St Joseph's Church, Brighton – west front21 1900–1901 Grade II* listed
Church of Guardian Angels Mile End Road, London22 1901–1903 Style: Perpendicular Gothic
St Elizabeth of Portugal Church, The Vineyard, Richmond, London23 1903 Rebuilding of the chancel, presbytery and tower, originally constructed in 1824
St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon, London24 1904–1905 Style: Romanesque revival
St Edmund Church, Godalming25 1905–1906 Grade II listed building
St Augustine's College and Abbey School Westgate-on-Sea26 1905–1915 Grade II listed building
Buckfast Abbey 1905–1937 Consecrated 25 August 1932
Our Lady of Pity and St Simon Stock, Putney27 1906 Commenced by J C Radford and completed by Walters
St Mary of the Angels, Canton, Cardiff28 1907 Style: Romanesque revival; consecrated 30 October 1907
Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields29 1908–1909 On site of former Sardinian Chapel; style: Continental renaissance
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ashby-de-la-Zouch 1910
Chapel at Wimbledon College30 1910
St Joseph's Church, Grayshott, Hampshire31 1911 Grade II listed building32
St Wilfred, Kennington Park33 1914–1915 Style: Perpendicular Gothic; damaged by bomb November 1940, restored 1948–49
St Tarcisius Church, Camberley34 1923–1924 Windows by Paul Woodroffe
St Peter's Church, Jewry Street Winchester35 1926
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Harpenden36 1928
References

References

  1. Scottish Architects website
  2. The Return of the Benedictines to London, Ealing Abbey: 1896 to Independence by Rene Kollar, Burnes and Oates 1989, ISBN 0-86012-175-5, ps. 53 & 126
  3. Sacred Church Heart, Wimbledon from British listed buildings retrieved 16 March 2014
  4. "Sacred Heart Wimbledon Church History". Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  5. Douai Abbey website Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Historic England. "Our Lady of Ransom Roman Catholic Church (1385905)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
  7. "St John's Seminary website". Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  8. "English heritage review of diocesan churches". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  9. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.205
  10. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.244
  11. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.225
  12. "Parish of Sacred Heart Church Petworth and Ss Anthony and George, Duncton". Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  13. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.219
  14. Dorking from British History Online retrieved 1 May 2013
  15. "Diocese of Arundel and Brighton website". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  16. "Granville Road & Eardley Road Conservation Area Appraisal July 2000, p.13" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  17. "English heritage review of diocesan churches (including picture)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  18. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.226
  19. East Grinstead town website Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  20. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.184
  21. English heritage review of diocesan churches Archived 2007-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
  22. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.232
  23. Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1983). The Buildings of England – London 2: South. London: Penguin Books. p. 519. ISBN 0-14-0710-47-7.
  24. British listed builindgs retrieved 16 March 2014
  25. Godalming – St Edmund King and Martyr Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine from English Heritage, retrieved 8 February 2015
  26. "Westgate-on-Sea Conservation Area Appraisal 2006, p.27" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  27. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.249
  28. Parish of St Mary website (with pictures)
  29. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, ps.85–87
  30. "Merton conservation areas, p. 212 (with picture)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  31. "Grayshott – St Joseph". Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  32. "CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, Grayshott - 1179394 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  33. Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.212
  34. British listed buildings retrieved 7 February 2015
  35. "Hampshire Treasures, Vol 4 p. 48". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  36. Historic England. "Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, and associated gate piers and railings, Rothamsted Avenue, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2BZ (Grade II) (1430712)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 May 2017.

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