Frederick Walters

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

Life

Buckfast Abbey

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, Roehampton[3]1881Style:Gothic Revival
Sacred Heart Church Wimbledon[4]1884–1887Style decorated Gothic
Douai School – main entrance and tower[5]1888Style Tudor Gothic
Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne[6]1890–1903Style Decorated Gothic; Grade II-listed
St. John's Seminary (Wonersh)[7]1891Style Dutch Jacobean
The Holy Ghost, Franciscan Friary Chilworth[8]1892Grade 2 listed; style Late Gothic
The Precious Blood, O'Meara Street Borough[9]1892–1893Style: Romanesque revival
The Sacred Heart, Trott Street Battersea[10]1892–1893Style: Romanesque revival
The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Bow Common[11]1893–1894Consecrated by Cardinal Vaughan 30 June 1894
Sacred Heart Church Petworth[12]1894–1896Windows by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake
Clergy House, Church of English Martyrs Walworth[13]1893–1894
St Joseph's Church, Dorking[14]1895
St John the Evangelist Parish Church, Heron's Ghyll[15]1895–1897Consecrated by Bishop Peter Amigo 7 September 1904
St Thomas's Church, Sevenoaks[16]1896
St Mary of the Angels, Worthing[17]1897–1907Originally built by Henry Clutton 1864 & 1873, extended by Walters
Ealing Abbey1897–1935Altered following bomb damage suffered in 1940
St Mary and St Michael, Lukin Street, London E1[18]1898Originally built by William Wardell 1856; chancel altered by Walters 1898
Our Lady and St Peter East Grinstead[19]1898
Church of St Anne, Kennington Lane Vauxhall[20]1900–1903Consecrated by Cardinal Bourne 26 October 1903; style: late Gothic
St Joseph's Church, Brighton – west front[21]1900–1901Grade 2* listed
Church of Guardian Angels Mile End Road, London[22]1901–1903Style: Perpendicular Gothic
St Elizabeth of Portugal Church, The Vineyard, Richmond, London[23]1903 Rebuilding of the chancel, presbytery and tower, originally constructed in 1824
St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon, London[24]1904–1905 Style: Romanesque revival
St Edmund Church, Godalming[25]1905–1906Grade II listed building
St Augustine's College and Abbey School Westgate-on-Sea[26]1905–1915Grade II listed building
Buckfast Abbey1905–1937Consecrated 25 August 1932
Our Lady of Pity and St Simon Stock, Putney[27]1906Commenced by J C Radford and completed by Walters
St Mary of the Angels, Canton, Cardiff[28]1907Style: Romanesque revival; consecrated 30 October 1907
Ss Ansem & Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields[29]1908–1909On site of former Sardinian Chapel; style: Continental renaissance
Our Lady of Lourdes Ashby-de-la-Zouch1910
Chapel at Wimbledon College[30]1910
St Wilfred, Kennington Park[31]1914–1915Style: Perpendicular Gothic; damaged by bomb November 1940, restored 1948–49
St Tarcisius Church, Camberley[32]1923–1924 Windows by Paul Woodroffe
Church of St Peter, Jewry Street Winchester[33]1926

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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
  5. ↑ Douai Abbey website
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1385905)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
  7. ↑ St John's Seminary website
  8. ↑ English heritage review of diocesan churches
  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
  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
  16. ↑ Granville Road & Eardley Road Conservation Area Appraisal July 2000, p.13
  17. ↑ English heritage review of diocesan churches (including picture)
  18. ↑ Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.226
  19. ↑ East Grinstead town website
  20. ↑ Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.184
  21. ↑ English heritage review of diocesan churches
  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 from English Heritage, retrieved 8 February 2015
  26. ↑ Westgate-on-Sea Conservation Area Appraisal 2006, p.27
  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)
  31. ↑ Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.212
  32. ↑ British listed buildings retrieved 7 February 2015
  33. ↑ Hampshire Treasures, Vol 4 p. 48
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