WILTSHIRE ARCHITECTS
ABINGTON, L.J. ?not an architect;
1814 Market Cross, Devizes, with Benjamin Dean Wyatt qv; Abington is not in HC; for 1st Viscount Sidmouth; VCH from Cunnington Annals 2 54;
ABK see Ahrends Burton & Koralek
ABRAHAM, ROBERT London 1774-1850 architect employed by RC families especially; HC
1823-4 School, Mildenhall; HC; 1824 VCH; WBR; for Rev Charles Francis bequeathed £4000 in 1821; dated 1824; contract drawing 1825 RIBAD 2012.20
18?? plans for adds Longford Castle; not in HC; WBR ?error for Daniel Alexander
ACANTHUS FERGUSON MANN Architects Bristol, see Ferguson Mann.
ADAM ARCHITECTURE see Robert Adam
ADAM, ROBERT. Architect, London. 1728-92. Son of William Adam architect, born Kirkcaldy, worked for father and continued business 1748 with elder brother John. Grand Tour 1754-8, set up with brothers William & James. Leading architect of late C18; HC; Arthur T Bolton book The architecture of Robert & James Adam c1922;
1761-4 Mausoleum, Bowood, with tomb of 1st E of Shelburne +1761 by Adam, made by Agostino Carlini; commissioned by Dowager countess; photo of interior of mausoleum Br 19.1.1923 review of AT Bolton book; commission may 1761; CL 7.9.1972;
1761-5 adds Bowood, Wilts: dining room, portico; WBR; HC; portico planned by Henry Keene qv, active at Bowood 1755-61, marble chimney-pieces 1763 made by Benjamin & Thomas Carter, one Portland stone, six marble; Great Room ceiling moved to Lloyds of London office 1955-6 ill in A Rowan, Catalogue of drawings in the V&A, 1988; bill at house lists following plans: 29.8.66 plan and elevation semi-circular greenhouse and banqueting room 10 gns; 7.1.68 drawing part of Great Room ceiling 2 gns; 30.1.68 design boathouse 7gns; 10.2.68 first design for aqueduct bridge 10.2.68; elevation S front of the offices 10 gns 1.10.68; and elevation E front of office and building between the offices and body of the house 7 gns; 1.10.68 plan of ground storey 3 gns; 1.10.68 plan of offices showing manner of joining them to the body of the house 6 gns; 27.10.68 second design of Aquecduct Bridge 10 gns; 27.10.68 design capital for columns in portico as altered 1 gn; CL 8.6.72 built by Hollands, wood carving by John Linnell, chimney-pieces by Benjamin Carter, painting by John spinnage, plasterwork by Joseph Rose;
(c1762 Witham Park, Witham Friary, Som. Mansion for William Beckford Sr; land bought 1761, house apparently completed but never occupied (Beckford exh catalogue) when Beckford died 1770 and rapidly dismantled; BAR British Series 267 1998 59; HC; AH 40 997 81-98; illustrated Vitruvius Britannicus 5 38-42; Collinson;
1763 ?des for Fonthill Splendens, Wilts, for William Beckford Jr, WBR 'designs for Fonthill Abbey', possibly error for Witham Park; not in HC: Fonthill Splendens c1757-70 by – Hoare qv)
(1765-8 work on Lansdowne House, London for 2nd E of Shelburne; incomplete house designed by Adam for Lord Bute in Berkeley Square;
1768-71 Diocletian Wing, Bowood, orangeries added across S of Keene's double service court; main house dem 1955 apart from service courts and orangery; four wooden stools in orangery were designed 1768 for Lansdowne House, London; CL 8.6.72 says first design in later part of 1768 showing pair of greenhouses each side of centre pavilion, a Great Gallery on the Chiswick-Holkham model, and a second galley linking the E pavilion to the main house; letter from Lady Shelburne 24.3.69 offices now shutting up with a screen of building Mr Adams designed; not complete when Adam paid off 1771; Lord Shelburne decided to use new building to display works of art after tour in 1771; chimneypiece for library purchased 1774 by Carter to design of Stuart;
(1767 interior dec Temple of Harmony, Halswell Park, Goathurst, Som; HC; temple by Thomas Prowse qv; RL; for Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte;
(1767 des for Pinford Bridge, nr Sherborne, Dorset, with Captain Digby of Sherborne Castle)
(176? Unex plan for Assembly Rooms, Bath; MF; not HC; AFtext very ambitious rejected as too expensive; J Wood II design 1769 accepted;
1768 dining-room, Bowood; diary Lady Shelburne 25.8.68 'set out for Bowood where he (Adam) is also to give Lord Shelburne some plans of building, and of joining the house and offices by an additional apartment';
1769-70 Pier glasses and side tables, picture gallery and ante-room, Corsham Court, by Adam brothers; guide book 1971; also frame for Rubens painting The Wolf Hunt; designs at Corsham Court, drawings at Soane Museum;
(1769-74 Pulteney Bridge, Bath; MF; BoE N; alts 1792 by T Baldwin, N side rebuilt 1802-4 by J Pinch Sr; HC;
(c1770 Unex des New Prison, Grove St, Bath; for W Pulteney, MF; not in HC; des 1772-3 by TW Atwood qv;
1770 S block, Castle House, Calne; adds Castle Hotel, Calne, Wilts, WBR; HC rebuilt garden front at Castle House for David Bull, dem c1960; the large S addition to Castle House for Daniel Bull +1797, plans in Soane Collection was not demolished: the C17 house behind was burnt in 1967 and demolished before 1973 but the S range was kept, gutted inside as old peoples home;
(17?? Unex des for Pulteney New Town, Bath; BoE N; not in HC or MF, planned by Thomas Baldwin and blt from 1788, MF;
(1775 monument, Milton Abbey ch, Dorset to Lady Milton; by A Carlini; HC;
ADAM, ROBERT Architect. Winchester. Winchester Design Partnership, then Robert Adam Architects now Adam Architecture specialists in neo Georgian; George Saumarez Smith, Hugh Petter, Nigel Anderson a partner; Paul Hanvey, David Myres directors;
(1983 Library, Bordon, Hants)
1983 West Walk House, The Close, Salisbury; exhib of RA work 1990 Heinz Gallery; ill BD 7.12.90; brick, moulded brick pedimented cntrepiece; by Winchester Design Partnership, GI;
1995 alts Box house, Box, including plans for neo-Georgian lodge; ?unex; WBR;
2005 Chute Manor, Upper Chute; by RA; square hip-roofed rendered around top-lit hall; for Christopher Hopton;
19?? new house at Stanton Farm; by Hugh Petter; deep eabves, 5-bay with pedimented centre and stone doorcase entrance side;
2009 Ebblestone House, Homington by Nigel Anderson; commendation Salisbury Civic Soc 2009; flint and stone bands cruciform about an octagonal centre ; for James & Susan Buckee;
2009 Wudston House, Wedhampton, by GSS, Palladian 5-bay house; Georgian Gp commendation 2010; for David Morrison
2009 Aldbourne Chase House, Aldbourne; by Nigel Anderson for Brian Kingham; large rendered elongated X-plan with seven-bay square core, also rustic Tuscan barn; on site of Shop Farmhouse by Stanley Hamp qv 1940;
2008 proposed garden pavilion, New house, Wedhampton; by GS Smith;
2017 proposed restoration Tottenham House and stables, Savernake; G S Smith architect;
ADAMS, GILBERT Surveyor Bradford on Avon UDC;
1962 Footbridge over Avon from Church St, Bradford on Avon, with RD Cherry CE; GA31 2000;
ADCOCK, ANTHONY C.
1978 The Maltings, Marlborough 1978 HDA for improvement;
(1979 The Bakehouse, Ponsworthy; HDA 1979;
ADYE, CHARLES SEPTIMUS Town Hall Chambers, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts; 1841-1906 or c1911, articled Manners & Gill; first County Surveyor Wilts 1889-1906. By 1889 worked with son Herbert Archibald Adye (A&Son). Lived Woolley St, Bradford, 1875 and 1903 dirs; biography in Wilts & Dorset Contemp Biographies, 1906: of Westbury House, Bradford, MSCS, MSA, practice church restoration and new buildings in Wilts, Som, Worcs, Dorset, Devon, Essex and Derbyshire, important buildings for Wilts CC inc police stations, county offices, adds to county lunatic asylum;
1868 St Catherine Almshouses, Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon Wilts; WBR; three tenements, fourth added 1878, 1878 date on cross-wing)
1872ff rest Holt ch, Wilts; WSRO 1555/31; ICBS plan reseating; church subsequently reblt by CE Ponting qv; also w window by Joseph Bell and two aisle W windows by Horwood Bros;
1874 alts Winsley House, Winsley, Wilts; Wilts Times 14.3.74; WBR2; ?all dem for 1902 house by Silcock & Reay qv;
1874 rest Keevil ch, Wilts; completed 1874 BN 28 1875 57; reseated; WBR; ICBS suggests completed by 1875; repairs and reseating; a vestry meeting 28.8.74 approved reopening tower, repairing tower arch, new tower celing, £179/7/0d by CSA, Hayward of Bath bldr; Book of Keevil 3 113;
1875 rest Monkton Farleigh ch, Wilts; WBR; reseated, alts to chancel; faculty plans 1874 WSHC D1/61/25/8 reredos, new doorway to vestry, two new windows over pulpit and font, remove W gallery, new seating (W end of nave was reseated in 1861); Minton tile paving;
1875-81 rest St Laurence ch, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts; Saxon church discovered by Canon Jones and JT Irvine qv, restoration mainly directed by Jones with supervision and advice from Irvine but Adye, whom Irvine thought young and inexperienced was on spot. He may have designed W wall, c1875, BoE, but this is not clear; Irvine complains of his taking down the teacher's house abutting the S wall as destabilising, and resigned 1881; elev and plan in chapel by Adye; cf HM Taylor in Archaeol Journal 1973 for Irvine's letters;
1876 ?St Andrew ch, Melksham Forest, Wilts; BoE, WBR; Br 16.12.76 stained glass windows by Powell grand for so small a church; but evidence that the church is by GE Street qv, who designed adjacent schoolroom, attrib to Street by VCH and Kelly 1907;
1876 rest Tallboys, Main St, Keevil, Wilts; WBR; for Mrs Kenrick sister of Rev Chamberlaine; ?more work in 1899 DoE, no evidence; Rendell of Devizes builders, some door furniture by Kenrick of Birmingham; Keevil 4 27;
1878 add to St Catherine Almshouses, Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; cf 1868;
(1878-9 vicarage, St Luke ch, South Lyncombe, Bath A 7.9.78 Hill & Gray builders £1525;
1879 Temperance Tavern, Silver St, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; opened 8.8.79; later Knee’s Corner; WBR; dem for road widening. Proposed hotel, Bradford on Avon A 26.10.78;
1882 rest South Wraxall ch BC12.10.82 reopened, James Burgess of Westbury, bldr, new chancel remedying damage done 60 yrs ago, new roofs, arcade, chancel roof oak, nave pine, E w gift of Mr Fussell, W window given by Lady V Wellesley, also armorial window in long aisle; Caen stone pulpit and screen; Minton tiles, stone carving by J. Sheppard of Bristol;
(1888 vestry, Freshford ch, Som; SRO cf/1888/12
(1889-90 rest Lamyatt ch, Som; WG 19.10.88; 1889-95 ICBS repair & new Ew, rejected;
1889 Wilts County Council offices, Trowbridge, Wilts, WBR; ?dem
(1895 house for curate, West Moors, Dorset T Br 29.12.94; Adye & Adye;
1895-6 Newtown Schools, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; dem; by HA Adye, WBR; plans 1895 said to be by MA Adye WSHC G/13/760/4, built as addition to Trinity School Church St the National School built 1836;
1898 Police Station, Marlborough, Wilts C: BJ 1.12.97; also other police stations;
1898 adds Lunatic Asylum, Roundway, Devizes, Wilts C: BJ 8.12.97
1903 adds Lunatic Asylum Roundway, Wilts WBR, possibly laundry, conversion of isolation hospital to villa, and erection of 54-bed villa adjoining;
ADYE, HERBERT ARCHIBALD Bradford on Avon, son of C.S. Adye qv
1895-6 Newtown Schools, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; dem; WBR; plans 1895 by 'MA Adye' WSHC G/13/760/4, built as addition to Trinity School Church St the National School built 1836;
AEDAS ARCHITECTS LTD Clifton Heights, Triangle, Bristol. Offices London, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Shrewsbury, Huddersfield; formed 2002 by union of Abbey Holford Rowe in UK with LPT of Hong Kong, demerged 2014 and UK arm renamed AHR qv, Martin Wright MD Architecture; Aedas with offices London, Berlin, Hong Kong, very active in China, Singapore etc, Keith Griffiths RIBA set up in Hong Kong in 1980s; Andrew Bromberg, Peter Shaw, Michael Clark in London; 2015 took over RHWL (Renton Howard Wood Levin) now Aedas RHWL; designed Crucible Theatre Sheffield, Sadlers Wells, London, alts Coliseum, London, St Pancras Station Hotel restoration; Guildhall School of Music London;
(2007-10 Writhlington School, Som; SNB;
(20?? Nailsea School, Som; website)
2007-10 Swindon Academy, for United Learning Trust; builder Leadbitter; Beech Avenue, Swindon;
(2014-15 Keynsham Civic Centre, Som; CTA 2016)
AEM STUDIO London, founded by Glyn Emrys, now Emrys Architects; Nic Bone, Richard Golidge, Kirsten Haggart, Pascal Madoc Jones, Alex Young;
2002 Chapa, Bristol St, Malmesbury; private house for practice director Pascal Madoc Jones' mother; AJ building study 26.6.03;
AFFLECK, - Engineer Prospect Works, Swindon
187? Canal bridge, Swindon; WT 2.2.78 mentions new road connecting potential Kingshill development with Bath road passing over canal by handsome bridge erected by Mr Affleck engineer of the Prospect Works;
AGN ARCHITECTS Warminster established 2010 by Alena Newton; projects on website list include eco-house Portishead, Som; Kingswood House; alts to conservatory, Trowbridge; conservation Stoneleigh House Warminster;
AHR, London and seven other UK offices; name for UK based part of Aedas qv since 2014 resuming old name of Abbey Holford Rowe from before Aedas was founded; offices Moscow, Warsaw and Almati;
AHRENDS BURTON & KORALEK Architects, London. BD special report on firm 2.6.95; founded 1962; Peter Ahrends, Richard Burton, Paul Koralek; Richard Burton and Paul Koralek designed houses at Princess Margaret Hospital Swindon 1961-4 while working for Powell & Moya qv 1961-4;
1983-4 addition to WH Smith retail HQ, Greenbridge Industrial Estate, Swindon; £3.5m AJ 7.9.83; RIBA British Architecture Now 1983; AR Jan 1984 31; FT Architecture at Work Award 1987; BD 4.12.87; 1982-5 acc to RIBAJ Oct 1996 extended by ABK in 1995; RIBAJ 95 March 1988 38-40;
(1992 Hooke Park workshops, Beaminster, Dorset; RIBA award 1993; for Parnham Trust; £½ m;
1995 addition WH Smith HQ, Greenbridge, Swindon; RIBAJ Oct 1996, circular corner piece;
AINSWORTH & HARWOOD Architects, surveyors 18 Regent Circus Swindon. WJ Ainsworth and – Harwood, Ainsworth & Pilcher by 1904, still there 1908.
1900 9-27 Florence St, Swindon WBR2
1900 Cellular Clothing Co factory, Morris St/ Rose St Swindon; WBR2
1900 Houses, Westlecot Rd, Swindon; and two houses 1904 WBR2; house 1900 for WJ Ainsworth G24/760/1917;
1904 six houses, County Rd, Swindon; WBR2
1904 chapel, Rolleston St, Swindon; WBR2
AINSWORTH & PILCHER Architects Swindon 1907 directory, see Ainsworth & Harwood,
AINSWORTH DAVEY PARTNERSHIP Architects Harrow, london; John Ainsworth;
1991 addition Polaris House, North Star Ave, Swindon for the Research Councils, with 3-storey car-park; opened 26.9.91; plaque outside; red brick with buff patterns, post-modern curved pediments; Wimpey Construction contractors;
AIR MINISTRY DIRECTORATE OF WORKS. Established with the Air Ministry in 1918 with Sir John Hunter as Administrator. Ran to 1963 when absorbed into Ministry of Works; Archibald Bulloch qv became architect to the Air Ministry Directorate of Works in 1930s; the RAF Expansion Scheme of 1934 proposed 11 new bases and there was a standard architecture of neo-Georgian kind presumably by Bulloch influenced by Edwin Lutyens as advisor to the Ministry; the Bellman pre-fab hangar developed 1936 by NS Bellman, engineer in the directorate;
1935-7 RAF Hullavington, Stanton St Quintin; one of eleven stations of 1934 RAF Expansion Scheme, opened 14.6.37, neo-Georgian design common to other such bases, but in Cotswold stone, not actually built for Central Empire Flying School but soon used by school; also Aircraft Storage Unit; David Berryman Wilts Airfields in WW2; cf also similar neo-Georgian at RAF Manby Lincs;
1936 aircraft repair shed, RAF Hullavington, plans signed PM Stratton ARIBA; National Archives WORK 44/14;
1936 aircraft repair shed, RAF Hullavington, plans signed E Holloway; National Archives WORK 44/15;
1939ff temporary airfields Alton Barnes, Beanacre, Blakehill Farm, Bratton, Castle Combe, Chilmark, Clyffe Pypard, Colerne, Compton Bassett, Everleigh, Keevil, Long Newnton, Manningford, Melksham, New Zealand Farm, Oatlands Hill, Old Sarum, Overton Heath, Ramsbury, Shrewton, Southgrove, Tilshead, Townsend, Upavon, Wanborough, Warminster, Yatesbury, Zeals;
AITCHISON, GEORGE Architect, 5 Muscovy Ct, Trinity Sq, london 1825-1910, PRIBA 1896; architect to Lord Leighton, Leighton House, London;
1867 School, Farley; plans WSHC 782/50; remarkable Italianate design;
1870-3 School, East Knoyle; FS 1872; Ham stone; Doddington & Farthing of Mere bldrs; WBR2; WAM96;
ALEXANDER, DANIEL ASHER London Architect, engineer 1768-1846; HC, surveyor to London Dock Co and Fishmongers Co;
1802-17 alts Longford Castle inc three new towers after James Wyatt design of 1796, HC; WBR;
1812-15 alts Downton ch for E of Radnor, WBR from BoE/Peter Ferriday index; not in HC;
ALEXANDER, GEORGE London. 1810-86. FSA. Designed early palazzo Revival buildings: Obit RIBAJ 2 1886 11. GA had connection with Corsham, on council of Wilts Topographical Soc, 1842, Hon Sec with John Britton 1842 acc to WI 28.1.1849 promised to write History of Corsham for the Society, RH Alexander of Corsham was also a council member; published collection of 17 lithographs 1845; George Alexander of Highworth Wilts who designed Infants School there 1866 may be same, gave £25 to Highworth church restoration, 1862, George Alexander JP FSA Westrop House, Highwporth 1875 dir;
(1841-2 Bath Savings Bank, Charlotte St, Bath; MF;
(1841-3 Betws Garmon ch, Caerns; ICBS; Norman; GA of London & Highworth, Wilts)
(1842 Penrhos ch, Caerns; Norman)
1842-4 Rectory, Biddestone;
(1843 Westbourne Terrace, London;
(1847 Llanwnda ch, Caerns; Norman;
(1848 Sheffield Athenaeum, Yorks;
1848 Proposed demolition of Corsham church, or removal of crossing tower as not enough money for new one; H Brakspear history 1929;
(1848 Oddfellows Hall, Birmingham;
1848? ?Rectory, Biddestone; undated lithograph at house, see also 1842-4. owners think c1848-50; extended in 1870s;
1866 adds National School, Highworth, WHSC 782/55 new infants school and adds to boys' and girls' school and master's house, by GA of Highworth;
ALFORD, JOHN Builder
1848 newly erected house at Tisbury, apply Mr Alford, builder, DWG 18.1.49;
1874 School, Chickgrove, and house; WBR
ALLEN, - London; neither Allen in HC fits;
1780 rebuilt Ramsbury church, new aisle roofs, pupit, pews, aisle galleries, £600; E Doran Webb, Parish of Ramsbury, 1890, 30; work all removed in 1890-3 restoration by JA Reeve qv;
ALLEN, JAMES MOUNTFORD. Crewkerne and London. 1809-83. Son of Rev John Allen headmaster of Crewkerne Grammar School, brother of Rev John Allen headmaster of Ilminster Grammar School 1822-55. Pupil 1825-30 of Robert Cornish, surveyor to Exeter Cathedral, then London with Charles Fowler. Exh RA 1839-45, then on own. Set up in Crewkerne 1856, applied to be County Surveyor 1857. Lived at 46 Middle Path, Crewkerne, a house designed 1838 by John Patch, leased it acc to owner Simon Andrew. Obit list of wks Br 3.6.83, copy in SRO;
(1847 ?National School, West St, Crewkerne, Som; obit; infants school 1871;
1878-9 reblt West Knoyle ch, Wilts exc tower; 1878 WBR; WG 25.4.79, bldrs Oborne & Son; ICBS: consecration was on 17 Apr 1879. From the corresp and in the absence of anything else I’d go for 1878-9.
ALLFORD, DAVID Architect with Yorke Rosenberg & Mardall
c1970 house for self, Pewsey; M Hardy list of houses 1945-75;
ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS Architects Simon Allford, jonathan Hall, Paul Monaghan, Peter Morris
1994 swimming-pool in grounds of house near Pewsey; exh at New British Architecture 1994, BD 15.4.94; RIBAJ Oct 96; curved-roofed
ALLOM, THOMAS Architect 14 Hart St, London 1804-72; topographical artist; designed houses and church on Ladbroke estate London;
1847 Workhouse, Calne, Wilts, exh RA 1847; advert for plans from architects WI 23.7.46; T: WI 18.2.47; WI 30.3.48 description, - Robertson, Bristol, builder; St Mary's School site;
ALLWRIGHT, WILLIAM Architect working for William Turner Lord, leading London interior decorator; Allwright's name appeared on letterhead of William Turner Lord;