Charles Cowles-Voysey

Charles Voysey studied at the Architectural Association School and the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. Between 1909 and 1912 he was articled to Horace Field and assistant to John James Burnet and to Horace Farquharson, before starting his own practice in 1912.The Times, obituary 15 April 1981 John Brandon-Jones worked for Cowles-Voysey, became a partner in the business and finally took over the firm.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=205170|title= Charles Cowles Voysey|publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|access-date=14 February 2021}}

Voysey's father, the Arts and Crafts movement architect and designer C. F. A. Voysey (1857-1941), was recognized by the seminal The Studio magazine.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c93jEZwcfPoC|title=Twentieth Century Pattern Design|first=Lesley|last=Jackson|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-56898-712-5|accessdate=1 August 2009|page=13}}

In 1912, Charles married Dorothea Denise Cowles (1885-1980) and amended his surname to Cowles-Voysey.{{cite web|url=https://www.bromleycivicsociety.org.uk/2019/09/charles-cowels-voysey-art-deco-in-bromley/|title=Charles Cowels-Voysey, Architect, Art Deco in Bromley|publisher=Bromley Civic Society|date=30 September 2019|access-date=14 February 2020}}

• White Rock Pavilion (1922), Hastings{{cite web|url=https://www.voyseysociety.org/voysey/biography/architects.html|title= A dynasty of architects|publisher=The C.F.A. Voycey Society|access-date=14 February 2021}}
• Bridgeton Public Halls (1924), Glasgow
• Kingsley Hall (1927), London
• 1&2 Bunkers Hill, 34-42 Wildwood Road & 19 Wellgarth Road (1929), Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
• Chance Wood (1929), Sevenoaks, Kent
• Bognor Regis Town Hall (1930), Bognor Regis, West Sussex{{NHLE|desc=Bognor Regis Town Hall|num=1350337|access-date=14 February 2021}}
• Municipal Offices, High Wycombe (1932), High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire{{cite web|url=https://www.wycombe.gov.uk/uploads/public/documents/Planning/New-local-plan/Local-plan-publication-version/High-Wycombe-Historic-Towns-Assessment-Report.pdf|page=74|title=High Wycombe Historic Towns Assessment Report|publisher=Wycombe District Council|accessdate=20 August 2020}}
• Worthing Town Hall (1933), Worthing, West Sussex{{NHLE|desc= Worthing Town Hall including Assembly Hall and Worthing Room |num= 1250786|access-date=31 January 2021}}
• Watford Town Hall (1937-1939), Watford, Hertfordshire{{NHLE|desc=Watford Town Hall|num=1251002|access-date=7 July 2020}}
• Cambridge Guildhall, Peas Hill Guildhall (1939), Cambridge{{NHLE|num=1268372|desc=Guildhall|access-date=4 January 2018|mode=cs2}}
• Bromley Town Hall extension (1939), Bromley, Kent{{NHLE|desc=Bromley Town Hall, extension|num=1261448|accessdate=28 April 2020}}
• Magistrates' Court (1939), Bromley, Kent
• Maybridge Estate (1940s), Worthing, West Sussex
• Morley College reconstruction (1958), Waterloo, London

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Category:20th-century English architects

Category:1889 births

Category:1981 deaths

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