Frederick S. Waller

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Frederick Sandham Waller
Born 1822
Died 22 March 1905
Barnwood, Gloucs.
Nationality British
Practice Gloucester

Frederick Sandham Waller (1822 — 22 March 1905)[1] was a British architect and antiquarian of Gloucester, where he was the resident architect to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral.[1]

Career and family

Waller was articled to the civil engineer and county surveyor for Gloucestershire, Thomas Fulljames (1808–74), who proposed him as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1856.[1] Waller worked in partnership with Fulljames 1846–70 and with Walter Bryan Wood from 1852.[1] One of Waller's sons, Frederick William Waller (1848–1933) was articled to his father and was in partnership with him from 1873.[1]

Another of Waller's sons, Samuel Edward Waller, became an artist. Waller's grandson Noel Huxley Waller (1881–1961) also became an architect.[1]

Waller retired in 1900 and died at Barnwood, Gloucestershire on 22 March 1905.[1]

Architecture

Most of Waller's architectural commissions were in Gloucestershire. He also designed a Tudor Revival extension that was added to the house at Great Tew Park in Oxfordshire.[2]

Antiquarianism

Plan, transverse section and incomplete longitudinal section of a barn at Shilton, Oxfordshire drawn by Waller in about 1848

Waller applied his architectural training to antiquarianism. In 1848 he drew a plan and sections of an historic barn at Shilton, Oxfordshire that had stone walls and an aisled timber frame.[3] Later the barn was reputedly gutted by fire[4] and at the foot of his drawings Waller added "All now destroyed".[5] However, in 1971 the probable remains of the barn at Shilton with were identified the help of Waller's drawings.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Brodie et al. 2001, p. 902
  2. ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 627.
  3. ↑ Heyworth 1971, p. 52.
  4. ↑ Heyworth 1971, p. 53.
  5. ↑ Heyworth, 1971, plate IX
  6. ↑ Heyworth 1971, pp. 52–53.

Sources and further reading

  • Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan et al., eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, L–Z. London & New York: Continuum. p. 902. ISBN 082645514X. 
  • Heyworth, P.L. (1971). "A Lost Cistercian Barn at Shilton, Oxon". Oxoniensia (Oxford: Oxford Architectural and Historical Society). XXXVI: 52–54. ISSN 0308-5562. 
  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0 14 071045 0. 
  • Verey, David (1970). Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds. The Buildings of England 1. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0 14 071040 X. 
  • Verey, David (1970). Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean. The Buildings of England 2. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 
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