Frederick Walters Explained

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

Life

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

WorkDateComments
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, Eastbourne1890–1903Style Decorated Gothic; Grade II-listed
St. John's Seminary (Wonersh)[6] 1891Style Dutch Jacobean
The Holy Ghost, Franciscan Friary Chilworth[7] 1892Grade II listed
style Late Gothic
Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark[8] 1892–1893Style: Romanesque revival
The Sacred Heart, Trott Street Battersea[9] 1892–1893Style: Romanesque revival
The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Bow Common[10] 1893–1894Consecrated by Cardinal Vaughan 30 June 1894
Sacred Heart Church, Petworth[11] 1894–1896Windows by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake
Clergy House, Church of English Martyrs Walworth[12] 1893–1894
St Joseph's Church, Dorking[13] 1895
St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll[14] 1895–1897Consecrated by Bishop Peter Amigo 7 September 1904
St Thomas's Church, Sevenoaks[15] 1896
St Mary of the Angels, Worthing[16] 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[17] 1898Originally built by William Wardell 1856; chancel altered by Walters 1898
Our Lady and St Peter's Church, East Grinstead[18] 1898
Church of St Anne, Kennington Lane Vauxhall[19] 1900–1903Consecrated by Cardinal Bourne 26 October 1903; style: late Gothic
St Joseph's Church, Brighton – west front[20] 1900–1901Grade 2* listed
Church of Guardian Angels Mile End Road, London[21] 1901–1903Style: Perpendicular Gothic
St Elizabeth of Portugal Church, The Vineyard, Richmond, London[22] 1903Rebuilding of the chancel, presbytery and tower, originally constructed in 1824
St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon, London[23] 1904–1905Style: Romanesque revival
St Edmund Church, Godalming[24] 1905–1906Grade II listed building
St Augustine's College and Abbey School Westgate-on-Sea[25] 1905–1915Grade II listed building
Buckfast Abbey1905–1937Consecrated 25 August 1932
Our Lady of Pity and St Simon Stock, Putney[26] 1906Commenced by J C Radford and completed by Walters
St Mary of the Angels, Canton, Cardiff[27] 1907Style: Romanesque revival; consecrated 30 October 1907
Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields[28] 1908–1909On site of former Sardinian Chapel; style: Continental renaissance
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ashby-de-la-Zouch1910
Chapel at Wimbledon College[29] 1910
St Joseph's Church, Grayshott, Hampshire[30] 1911Grade II listed building[31]
St Wilfred, Kennington Park[32] 1914–1915Style: Perpendicular Gothic; damaged by bomb November 1940, restored 1948–49
St Tarcisius Church, Camberley[33] 1923–1924Windows by Paul Woodroffe
St Peter's Church, Jewry Street Winchester[34] 1926
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Harpenden1928

References

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=202236 Scottish Architects website
  2. The Return of the Benedictines to London, Ealing Abbey: 1896 to Independence by Rene Kollar, Burnes and Oates 1989,, ps. 53 & 126
  3. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-205044-church-of-the-sacred-heart-greater-londo Sacred Church Heart, Wimbledon
  4. Web site: Sacred Heart Wimbledon Church History . 2009-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091022152402/http://www.sacredheartwimbledon.org.uk/history_of_the_church . 2009-10-22 . dead .
  5. http://www.douaiabbey.org.uk/school98.htm Douai Abbey website
  6. http://www.athu68.dsl.pipex.com/Buildings.htm St John's Seminary website
  7. Web site: English heritage review of diocesan churches . 2009-08-12 . 2011-06-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604205739/http://www.dabnet.org/OneStopCMS/Core/CrawlerResourceServer.aspx?resource=99BF9E8A-AB66-44F8-B50E-CCBD1B0228AE&mode=link&guid=152bf7df41e740279d6bf70d5bbc19ae . dead .
  8. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.205
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.244
  10. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.225
  11. Web site: Parish of Sacred Heart Church Petworth and Ss Anthony and George, Duncton . 2009-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111008112218/http://www.sacredheartpetworth.org.uk/ourstandard.asp?pageid=81 . 2011-10-08 . dead .
  12. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.219
  13. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42946 Dorking
  14. Web site: Diocese of Arundel and Brighton website . 2009-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727072606/http://mayfield-deanery.org/heronsghyll_info.html . 2011-07-27 . dead .
  15. Web site: Granville Road & Eardley Road Conservation Area Appraisal July 2000, p.13 . 2009-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716142025/http://www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/documents/granvilleandeardleyroadsspg.pdf . 2011-07-16 . dead .
  16. Web site: English heritage review of diocesan churches (including picture) . 2009-08-12 . 2011-06-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604205541/http://www.dabnet.org/OneStopCMS/Core/CrawlerResourceServer.aspx?resource=4D5EE19C-A4F9-4EF0-97DB-00918AB2F57D&mode=link . dead .
  17. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.226
  18. http://www.localauthoritypublishing.co.uk/councils/eastgrinstead/town.html East Grinstead town website
  19. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.184
  20. http://www.dabnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/A0335440-AC8B-408D-93DD-2932DDC72BE1/0/BrightonStJosephEH.pdf English heritage review of diocesan churches
  21. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.232
  22. Book: The Buildings of England – London 2: South . . . 1983 . London . 519 . 0-14-0710-47-7.
  23. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-469992-church-of-st-winefride-greater-london-au British listed builindgs
  24. http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Arundel-and-Brighton/Godalming-St-Edmund-King-and-Martyr Godalming – St Edmund King and Martyr
  25. Web site: Westgate-on-Sea Conservation Area Appraisal 2006, p.27 . 2009-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716142827/http://www.thanet.gov.uk/pdf/Westgate_on_sea_south-jan2008.pdf . 2011-07-16 . dead .
  26. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.249
  27. http://www.stmarysrccardiff.org.uk/id21.html Parish of St Mary website (with pictures)
  28. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, ps.85–87
  29. http://www.merton.gov.uk/living/planning/designandconservation/conservation_areas/wwcapart6b-sa26a.pdf Merton conservation areas, p. 212 (with picture)
  30. Web site: Grayshott – St Joseph. Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage. 2011. 12 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210812165733/https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/grayshott-st-joseph/. 12 August 2021. live.
  31. Web site: CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, Grayshott - 1179394 Historic England. 2022-01-05. historicengland.org.uk. en.
  32. https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.212
  33. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-491955-church-of-st-tarcisius-surrey British listed buildings
  34. Web site: Hampshire Treasures, Vol 4 p. 48 . 2012-10-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063137/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol04/page049.html . 2011-06-05 . dead .

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