Walter Edward Mills
{{Short description|English architect}}
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|birth_date= 7 November 1850London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917
|birth_place= St Luke's, London
|death_date= 17 April 1910 (aged 59)Brodie et al., 2001, page 184
|death_place= Headington, OxfordshireEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
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|significant_buildings=
|significant_projects= Holdenby HousePevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 263
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Walter Edward Mills (7 November 1850 – 17 April 1910) was an English architect.
Mills was articled to the architect Henry Edward Cooper of Bloomsbury in 1868. He established his own independent practice in Banbury, Oxfordshire in about 1875,Brodie et al., 2001, page 185 where by 1881 he had premises at 13, High Street.
Mills served as architectural clerk to the agent for the Clifden Estates, for whom he completed Holdenby House in 1878. Mills designed a number of public buildings in mixed styles, usually neo-Jacobean.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 404 His extension of the Oxford Union was completed posthumously.
Mills was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1882.
Works
- Holdenby House, Holdenby, Northamptonshire: extension, 1877-78
- St. Leonard's parish church, Grimsbury, Oxfordshire, 1890Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 444
- St. Mary's parish church, Holwell, Oxfordshire: rebuilding, 1895Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 650
- St. James' parish church, Sarsden, Oxfordshire: north transept and bellcote, 1896Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 752
- Warwick Road Hospital, Banbury, Oxfordshire: hospital wing, late 19th centurySherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 438
- Bovey Castle, Devon - manor house for Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden, 1907-8{{Cite news |date=28 March 1908 |title=North Bovey Manor House |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001639/19080328/107/0004 |work=The East & South Devon Advertiser}}{{cite book|last=Harmer|first=V|year=2003|title=Manor House Hotel, North Bovey, 1-4 (Report - Assessment)}}{{Cite web |title=Bovey Castle, North Bovey |url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV13521&resourceID=104 |website=Heritage Gateway: Devon & Dartmoor HER |publisher=Historic England}}
- St Hilda's College, Oxford: extension, 1909Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 245
- Oxford Union, Oxford: second library, 1910-11 (with Thorpe)Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 273
References
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Sources
- {{Cite book |editor1-last=Brodie |editor1-first=Antonia |editor2-last=Felstead |editor2-first=Alison |editor3-last=Franklin |editor3-first=Jonathan |editor4-last=Pinfield |editor4-first=Leslie |editor5-last=Oldfield|editor5-first=Jane|title=Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, L–Z |year=2001 |publisher=Continuum |location=London & New York |isbn=0-8264-5514-X |pages=184–185}}
- {{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |author-link1=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Cherry |first2=Bridget |series=The Buildings of England |title=Northamptonshire |orig-year=1961 |year=1973 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071022-1 |page=263}}
- {{cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=The Buildings of England |title=Oxfordshire |year=1974 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071045-0 | pages=245, 273, 404, 438, 444, 650, 752}}
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Category:19th-century English architects
Category:Gothic Revival architects
Category:English ecclesiastical architects
Category:Architects from Oxfordshire
Category:Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects