Frederick Walters

Frederick Arthur Walters (5 February 1849–3 December 1931) was a Scottish architect working in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches.

Life

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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.[http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=202236 Scottish Architects website]

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.

Walters, a Roman Catholic, was responsible for more than fifty Roman Catholic Churches, including Buckfast Abbey and Ealing Abbey.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 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.

Walters died on 3 December 1931 at St Mildred's, Ewell.{{ clarify | date = December 2015 | reason = Did he die in St Mildred's Church, Ewell (Anglican)?}}

Works

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|St Joseph Church, Roehampton[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-205044-church-of-the-sacred-heart-greater-londo Sacred Church Heart, Wimbledon] from British listed buildings retrieved 16 March 2014

1881Style:Gothic Revival
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|Sacred Heart Church Wimbledon{{Cite web |url=http://www.sacredheartwimbledon.org.uk/history_of_the_church |title=Sacred Heart Wimbledon Church History |access-date=2009-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022152402/http://www.sacredheartwimbledon.org.uk/history_of_the_church |archive-date=2009-10-22 |url-status=dead }}

1884–1887Style decorated Gothic
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|Douai School – main entrance and tower[http://www.douaiabbey.org.uk/school98.htm Douai Abbey website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027033433/http://www.douaiabbey.org.uk/school98.htm |date=2009-10-27 }}

1888Style Tudor Gothic
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|Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne{{NHLE|num=1385905|desc=Our Lady of Ransom Roman Catholic Church|access-date=22 October 2012}}

1890–1903Style Decorated Gothic; Grade II-listed
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|St. John's Seminary (Wonersh)[http://www.athu68.dsl.pipex.com/Buildings.htm St John's Seminary website]

1891Style Dutch Jacobean
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|The Holy Ghost, Franciscan Friary Chilworth{{Cite web |url=http://www.dabnet.org/OneStopCMS/Core/CrawlerResourceServer.aspx?resource=99BF9E8A-AB66-44F8-B50E-CCBD1B0228AE&mode=link&guid=152bf7df41e740279d6bf70d5bbc19ae |title=English heritage review of diocesan churches |access-date=2009-08-12 |archive-date=2011-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604205739/http://www.dabnet.org/OneStopCMS/Core/CrawlerResourceServer.aspx?resource=99BF9E8A-AB66-44F8-B50E-CCBD1B0228AE&mode=link&guid=152bf7df41e740279d6bf70d5bbc19ae |url-status=dead }}

1892Grade II listed; style Late Gothic
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|Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.205]

1892–1893Style: Romanesque revival
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|The Sacred Heart, Trott Street Battersea[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.244]

1892–1893Style: Romanesque revival
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|The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Bow Common[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.225]

1893–1894Consecrated by Cardinal Vaughan 30 June 1894
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|Sacred Heart Church, Petworth{{Cite web |url=http://www.sacredheartpetworth.org.uk/ourstandard.asp?pageid=81 |title=Parish of Sacred Heart Church Petworth and Ss Anthony and George, Duncton |access-date=2009-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008112218/http://www.sacredheartpetworth.org.uk/ourstandard.asp?pageid=81 |archive-date=2011-10-08 |url-status=usurped }}

1894–1896Windows by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake
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|Clergy House, Church of English Martyrs Walworth[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.219]

1893–1894
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|St Joseph's Church, Dorking[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42946 Dorking] from British History Online retrieved 1 May 2013

1895
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|St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll{{Cite web |url=http://mayfield-deanery.org/heronsghyll_info.html |title=Diocese of Arundel and Brighton website |access-date=2009-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727072606/http://mayfield-deanery.org/heronsghyll_info.html |archive-date=2011-07-27 |url-status=dead }}

1895–1897Consecrated by Bishop Peter Amigo 7 September 1904
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|St Thomas's Church, Sevenoaks{{Cite web |url=http://www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/documents/granvilleandeardleyroadsspg.pdf |title=Granville Road & Eardley Road Conservation Area Appraisal July 2000, p.13 |access-date=2009-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716142025/http://www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/documents/granvilleandeardleyroadsspg.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}

1896
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|St Mary of the Angels, Worthing{{Cite web |url=http://www.dabnet.org/OneStopCMS/Core/CrawlerResourceServer.aspx?resource=4D5EE19C-A4F9-4EF0-97DB-00918AB2F57D&mode=link |title=English heritage review of diocesan churches (including picture) |access-date=2009-08-12 |archive-date=2011-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604205541/http://www.dabnet.org/OneStopCMS/Core/CrawlerResourceServer.aspx?resource=4D5EE19C-A4F9-4EF0-97DB-00918AB2F57D&mode=link |url-status=dead }}

1897–1907Originally built by Henry Clutton 1864 & 1873, extended by Walters
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|Ealing Abbey

1897–1935Altered following bomb damage suffered in 1940
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|St Mary and St Michael, Lukin Street, London E1[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.226]

1898Originally built by William Wardell 1856; chancel altered by Walters 1898
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|Our Lady and St Peter's Church, East Grinstead[http://www.localauthoritypublishing.co.uk/councils/eastgrinstead/town.html East Grinstead town website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721105835/http://www.localauthoritypublishing.co.uk/councils/eastgrinstead/town.html |date=2011-07-21 }}

1898
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|Church of St Anne, Kennington Lane Vauxhall[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.184]

1900–1903Consecrated by Cardinal Bourne 26 October 1903; style: late Gothic
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|St Joseph's Church, Brighton – west front[http://www.dabnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/A0335440-AC8B-408D-93DD-2932DDC72BE1/0/BrightonStJosephEH.pdf English heritage review of diocesan churches] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019163635/http://www.dabnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/A0335440-AC8B-408D-93DD-2932DDC72BE1/0/BrightonStJosephEH.pdf |date=2007-10-19 }}

1900–1901Grade 2* listed
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|Church of Guardian Angels Mile End Road, London[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.232]

1901–1903Style: Perpendicular Gothic
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|St Elizabeth of Portugal Church, The Vineyard, Richmond, London{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England – London 2: South | publisher=Penguin Books | author=Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner | year=1983 | location=London | page=519 | isbn=0-14-0710-47-7}}

1903Rebuilding of the chancel, presbytery and tower, originally constructed in 1824
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|St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon, London[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-469992-church-of-st-winefride-greater-london-au British listed builindgs] retrieved 16 March 2014

1904–1905Style: Romanesque revival
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|St Edmund Church, Godalming[http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Arundel-and-Brighton/Godalming-St-Edmund-King-and-Martyr Godalming – St Edmund King and Martyr] from English Heritage, retrieved 8 February 2015

1905–1906Grade II listed building
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|St Augustine's College and Abbey School Westgate-on-Sea{{Cite web |url=http://www.thanet.gov.uk/pdf/Westgate_on_sea_south-jan2008.pdf |title=Westgate-on-Sea Conservation Area Appraisal 2006, p.27 |access-date=2009-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716142827/http://www.thanet.gov.uk/pdf/Westgate_on_sea_south-jan2008.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}

1905–1915Grade II listed building
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|Buckfast Abbey

1905–1937Consecrated 25 August 1932
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|Our Lady of Pity and St Simon Stock, Putney[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.249]

1906Commenced by J C Radford and completed by Walters
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|St Mary of the Angels, Canton, Cardiff[http://www.stmarysrccardiff.org.uk/id21.html Parish of St Mary website (with pictures)]

1907Style: Romanesque revival; consecrated 30 October 1907
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|Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields[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]

1908–1909On site of former Sardinian Chapel; style: Continental renaissance
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|Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ashby-de-la-Zouch

1910
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|Chapel at Wimbledon College[http://www.merton.gov.uk/living/planning/designandconservation/conservation_areas/wwcapart6b-sa26a.pdf Merton conservation areas, p. 212 (with picture)]

1910
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|St Joseph's Church, Grayshott, Hampshire{{cite web|url=https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/grayshott-st-joseph/|title=Grayshott – St Joseph|publisher=Catholic Trust for England and Wales and English Heritage|year=2011|access-date=12 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812165733/https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/grayshott-st-joseph/|archive-date=12 August 2021|url-status=live}}

1911Grade II listed building{{Cite web|title=CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, Grayshott - 1179394 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1179394|access-date=2022-01-05|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
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|St Wilfred, Kennington Park[https://books.google.com/books?id=2gTN5BuRpZEC&dq=%22F+A+Walters%22%2Barchitect&pg=PA225 Catholic Churches of London by Dennis Evinson, p.212]

1914–1915Style: Perpendicular Gothic; damaged by bomb November 1940, restored 1948–49
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|St Tarcisius Church, Camberley[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-491955-church-of-st-tarcisius-surrey British listed buildings] retrieved 7 February 2015

1923–1924Windows by Paul Woodroffe
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|St Peter's Church, Jewry Street Winchester{{Cite web |url=http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol04/page049.html |title=Hampshire Treasures, Vol 4 p. 48 |access-date=2012-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063137/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol04/page049.html |archive-date=2011-06-05 |url-status=dead }}

1926
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|Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Harpenden{{NHLE|num=1430712|desc=Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, and associated gate piers and railings, Rothamsted Avenue, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2BZ|grade=II|access-date=31 May 2017}}

1928
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References

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  • [http://www.dabnet.org/ContentDocuments/284.pdf Architectural & historic review of churches in the Roman Catholic diocese of Arundel & Brighton] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306063906/http://www.dabnet.org/ContentDocuments/284.pdf |date=2016-03-06 }} (Teresa Sladen & Nicholas Antram, 2005)

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