Austin Winkley
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| birth_place = Lancashire, England
| alma_mater = Architectural Association
| practice = Williams & Winkley, Austin Winkley & Associates
| significant_buildings = Church of St Margaret of Scotland, Twickenham
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Austin S. Winkley (born 1934) is a British architect who specialises in church architecture and is a member of the Liturgical Movement of UK ecclesiastical architects.
Early life and education
Winkley was born in 1934 to a family of Lancashire cotton workers. He attended a Salesian school and with their help secured a grant to study at the Architectural Association in London.{{cn|date=August 2023}}
Career
Winkley studied at the Architectural Association in London under Robert Maguire and became a member of the New Churches Research Group, a group of Catholic and Anglican church architects and craftspeople who promoted liturgical reform of churches though publications such as The Tablet and Architects' Journal. The group included architects Peter Gilbey, Robert Maguire, Keith Murray (an ecclesiastical designer), John Newton (Burles, Newton & Partners), Patrick Nuttgens, George Pace, Patrick Reyntiens (stained glass artist), Lance Wright, as well as co-founder and Anglican priest Peter Hammond and Catholic priest and theologian Charles Davis.{{cite book|title=Building the Modern Church: Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975|author=Robert Proctor|publisher=Routledge|date=2014}}
During the holidays Winkley worked for the Salesians alongside school architect Jeffrey Williams. In 1959, after qualifying, he worked for the London County Council school department. In 1960 he went to the US, where he worked for two architectural practices, joining a firm of Christian architects and working on a library and Catholic Club at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.{{cite web | url=https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/12522 | title=Profile: Austin Winkley | work=Independent Catholic News | author=Jo Siedlecka}} In 1962, he volunteered to help build a clinic, housing and church in an area of Mexico City that had been devastated by an earthquake. In 1963, he set up, Williams & Winkley in the UK. In 1978, he gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Building Conservation from the Architectural Association. In 1987, he founded Austin Winkley & Associates. He began by designing homes for the Catholic Housing Aid Society (CHAS).{{cite web | url=https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/12522 | title=Profile: Austin Winkley | work=Independent Catholic News | author=Jo Siedlecka}}
Having studied under the church designers Maguire & Murray, Winkley became a member of the UK architectural liturgical movement. His buildings include:
- Church of St Margaret of Scotland, Twickenham (1969) Grade II listed. Winkley's first church and according to its listing "an early and particularly well-made and well-detailed example of post-Vatican II planning".{{cite web | url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1387183 | title=CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND | work=Historic England}}
- St Elphege in Wallington (1971){{cite web | url=https://c20society.org.uk/c20-churches/st-elphege | title=C20 Churches, St Elphege | work=20th Century Society}}
- Sacred Heart Church in Coventry (1979){{cite web | url=https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/coventry-sacred-heart/ | title=Coventry – Sacred Heart | work=Taking Stock}}
- St Theodore's in Hampton upon Thames (1987).{{cite web | url=https://c20society.org.uk/c20-churches/st-theodore-of-canterbury | title=C20 Churches, St Theodore of Canterbury | work=20th Century Society}}
He was also behind the reordering of a number of churches, such as:
- Holy Family Church, Halton was reordered into a liturgical arrangement{{cite web | url=http://www.austinwinkley.co.uk/projectinfopages/haltonchurch.htm | title=Holy Family Church, Halton | work= AUSTIN WINKLEY & ASSOCIATES}}
- St John Vianney, Ilford (1983) - reordering a Catholic church by Donald Plaskett Marshall{{cite web | url=https://c20society.org.uk/c20-churches/st-john-vianney-4 | title=C20 Churches, St John Vianney | work=20th Century Society}}
Family
Austin Winkley met his future wife, Elizabeth (née Bussy), a drama teacher, at a national Catholic Youth Association Conference. They married in 1967 and have two daughters, Emma, a sculptor and change agent, and Antonia who is a florist.{{cite web | url=https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/12522 | title=Profile: Austin Winkley | work=Independent Catholic News | author=Jo Siedlecka}}
Works
File:St Elphege, Stafford Road, South Beddington - geograph.org.uk - 2426311.jpg|St Elphege's Church, South Beddington
File:St Theodore's Roman Catholic Church, Hampton - geograph.org.uk - 53869.jpg|St Theodore's Church, Hampton upon Thames
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Category:20th-century English architects
Category:English ecclesiastical architects
Category:English Roman Catholics
Category:Modernist architecture