Walter Edward Mills
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, where by 1881 he had premises at 13, High Street.
Walter Edward Mills
- Name
- Walter Mills
- Born
- 7 November 1850
- Birthplace
- St Luke's, London
- Died
- 17 April 1910 (aged 59)
- Place of death
- Headington, Oxfordshire
- Occupation
- architect
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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, where by 1881 he had premises at 13, High Street.
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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. His extension of the Oxford Union was completed posthumously. Mills was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1882.
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• Name — Walter Mills • Born — 7 November 1850 • Birthplace — St Luke's, London • Died — 17 April 1910 (aged 59) • Place of death — Headington, Oxfordshire • Significant Projects — Holdenby House
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• Holdenby House, Holdenby, Northamptonshire: extension, 1877-78 • St. Leonard's parish church, Grimsbury, Oxfordshire, 1890 • St. Mary's parish church, Holwell, Oxfordshire: rebuilding, 1895 • St. James' parish church, Sarsden, Oxfordshire: north transept and bellcote, 1896 • Warwick Road Hospital, Banbury, Oxfordshire: hospital wing, late 19th century • Bovey Castle, Devon - manor house for Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden, 1907-8 • St Hilda's College, Oxford: extension, 1909 • Oxford Union, Oxford: second library, 1910-11 (with Thorpe)
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- 1.London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917
- 2.Brodie et al., 2001, page 184
- 3.England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
- 4.Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 263
- 5.Brodie et al., 2001, page 185
- 6.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 404
- 7.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 444
- 8.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 650
- 9.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 752
- 10.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 438
- 11.North Bovey Manor House. The East & South Devon Advertiser. 28 March 1908.
- 12.Harmer, V. Manor House Hotel, North Bovey, 1-4 (Report - Assessment). 2003.
- 13.Historic England. Bovey Castle, North Bovey. Heritage Gateway: Devon & Dartmoor HER.
- 14.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 245
- 15.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 273
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Brodie. Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, L–Z. Continuum. 184–185. 2001. 0-8264-5514-X.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus. Northamptonshire. Penguin Books. 263. 1973. 0-14-071022-1.
- Sherwood, Jennifer. Oxfordshire. Penguin Books. 245, 273, 404, 438, 444, 650, 752. 1974. 0-14-071045-0.
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