William Wilkinson (architect)

For other people named William Wilkinson, see William Wilkinson (disambiguation).

William Wilksinson
Born	1819^[1]
Died	1901^[1]
Nationality	British
Work
Practice	Wilkinson & Moore (from 1881)
Buildings	Randolph Hotel, Oxford; Shelswell Park, Shelswell, Oxfordshire
Projects	St. Edward's School, Oxford; Norham Manor Estate, Oxford

William Wilkinson (1819–1901) was a British Gothic Revival architect who practised in Oxford, England.

1 Family
2 Career
3 Works
4 See also
5 References
6 Sources

Family

Wilkinson's father was a builder in Witney in Oxfordshire.^[2] William's elder brother George Wilkinson (1814–1890) was also an architect, as were William's nephews C.C. Rolfe (died 1907) and H.W. Moore (1850–1915).^[1]

Career

Wilkinson practiced entirely within Oxfordshire. His major works include the Randolph Hotel in Oxford, completed in 1864. He was in partnership with his nephew H.W. Moore^[1] from 1881.^[3] In his long career Wilkinson had a number of pupils, including H.J. Tollit (1835–1904).^[4]

Works

Churches

In 1841, at the age of only 22, Wilkinson designed a new Church of England parish church, Holy Trinity at Lew, Oxfordshire.^[5] His other work on churches included:

St. Leonard's parish church, Eynsham: restoration, 1856^[6]
Witney Cemetery: lodge and two chapels, 1857^[7]
Witney Workhouse: chapel, 1860^[8]
All Saints' parish church, Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire: Horton family monument, 1866-67^[9]

St. Andrew's parish church, Headington, Oxford: added north aisle, 1880^[10]

Police buildings

Wilkinson moved to Oxford in 1856 and succeeded J.C. Buckler as architect to the local police committee.^[2] Oxfordshire County Constabulary was formed in 1857, and Wilkinson designed several buildings for the new force.

Watlington police station, 1858-59^[11]
Witney police station, 1860^[7]
Woodstock police station, 1863^[12]
Chipping Norton police station, 1864-65^[13]
Burford police station, 1869^[14]
Magistrates' room at Deddington Court House, 1874^[15]

Houses

Wilkinson built Home Farm on the Shirburn Castle estate in 1856-57.^[16] From 1860 he laid out the Norham Manor estate in north Oxford.^[17]^[18] The estate was slowly developed with large villas, a number of which Wilkinson designed himself.^[19] Wilkinson also designed town houses and small country houses elsewhere in Oxfordshire:

Hollybank, Wootton, 1862-63^[20]
10, Broad Street, Oxford, 1863^[21]
Whittlebury, Northamptonshire: farmhouse, 1864^[22]

The Holt, Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, 1864^[9]

60 Banbury Road, Oxford, 1865-66^[23]
Bignell House, Chesterton, 1866 (later demolished)^[24]
23 & 24 Cornhill, Banbury, 1866^[25]
Astrop Park, Northamptonshire: lodge, pheasantry and cottage, 1868^[26]

Brashfield House, Caversfield, 1871-73^[27]
Shelswell Park, Shelswell, 1875^[28]
Cowley Place (now St Hilda's College, Oxford): extension, 1877-78^[29]^[30]

In 1868, Wilkinson restored Witney Almshouses, which had been built in 1724.^[31]

Clergy houses

A number of the houses that Wilkinson designed were for clergy. Most were for the Church of England, but he also built a presbytery for the Roman Catholic Church.

Ramsden parsonage, 1862^[32]
Chadlington parsonage, 1863 (now Chadlington House)^[33]
Duns Tew rectory, 1864 (now Priory Court)^[34]
Godington parsonage, 1867 (now the Old Vicarage)^[35]
Upper Heyford parsonage, 1869^[36]
St. Aloysius' presbytery, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 1877-78^[37]
Combe vicarage and Institute (with H.W. Moore), 1892-93^[38]

Educational establishments

In 1863 Wilkinson built a library for the Oxford Union.^[39] He built a number of schools, of which the largest was St Edward's School, Oxford, whose buildings he completed in phases from 1873 until 1886.^[40]^[41] His other schools include:

Minster Lovell School, 1870-72^[42]
Burford Elementary School, 1875-77^[43]
Thame Grammar School, 1877-79^[44]
Salesian College, Crescent Road, Cowley, 1880^[45]

Industrial buildings

Late in his career Wilkinson undertook one industrial commission: a new smith shop and foundry for William Lucy's Eagle Ironworks in Jericho, Oxford. This single-storey building was completed in 1879.^[46] It was demolished after Lucy ceased production in England in 2005.^[47]

Publications

Wilkinson, William (1875) [1870]. English Country Houses: Sixty-one Views and Plans of Recently Erected Mansions, Private Residences, Parsonage-Houses, Farm-Houses, Lodges, and Cottages; with Sketches of Furniture and Fittings; and a Practical Treatise on House-Building (second ed.). London: James Parker and Co.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Brodie et al. 2001, p. 994.
^ ^a ^b Tyack 1998, p. 234.
^ Tyack 1998, p. 267.
^ Woolley 2010, p. 71.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 682–683.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 600.
^ ^a ^b Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 846.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 851.
^ ^a ^b Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 306.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 336.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 830.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 857.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 539.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 509.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 572.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 763.
^ Tyack 1998, pp. 234-235.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 317.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 318.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 860.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 313.
^ Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 461.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 319.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 618.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 440.
^ Pevsner & Cherry 1973, p. 529.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 524.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 753.
^ Tyack 1998, p. 323.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 245.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 847.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 734.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 525.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 591.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 613.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 821.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 289, 332.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 553.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 273.
^ Tyack 1998, p. 238.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 332.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 710.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 510.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 809.
^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 343.
^ Woolley 2010, pp. 85, 86.
^ Woolley 2010, p. 87.

Sources

Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan et al., eds (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, L-Z. London & New York: Continuum. p. 994. ISBN 082645514X.
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (1973) [1961]. Northamptonshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Saint, Andrew (1970). "Three Oxford Architects". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) XXXV: 53 ff. http://www.oahs.org.uk/oxo/vol%2035/Saint.doc. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford An Architectural Guide. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-817423-3.
Woolley, Liz (2010). "Industrial Architecture in Oxford, 1870 to 1914". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) LXXV: 67–96. ISSN 0308-5562.

Persondata
Name	Wilkinson, William
Alternative names
Short description	Gothic Revival architect
Date of birth	1819
Place of birth	United Kingdom
Date of death	1901
Place of death