William Venn Gough
William Venn Gough (1842–1918) was an architect responsible for a number of prominent buildings in Bristol. His works include the Cabot Tower, Colston's Girls' School (now Montpelier High School), Trinity Road Library, St Aldhelm's church and South Street School in Bedminster, the village hall in Yatton, and Port of Bristol Authority Docks Office, now Queen Square House, in Queen Square. Gough collaborated with Archibald Ponton on buildings such as Bristol's Granary on Welsh Back.
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- William Venn Gough was born in 1842. · Frome.
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From 1872 he had an office at Athenaeum Chambers, Nicholas Street, Bristol and then from 1898 to 1906 at 98, Hampton Road, Bristol. In 1908 Gough designed the memorial for John Kay, inventor of the Flying Shuttle, in Kay Gardens, Bury, Lancashire; the memorial was Grade II listed in 1985.
William Venn Gough (1842–1918) was an architect.
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- 1.Historic Churches Preservation Trust. Bristol, St. Aldhelm, Bedminster. churchplansonline.org.
- 2.Andrew Foyle. Bristol. Yale University Press. 280. 2004. 978-0-300-10442-4.
- 3.A Bit of History. Yatton Village Hall website.
- 4.Thom Gorst. The Buildings Around Us. Taylor & Francis. 37. 6 December 2012. 978-1-135-82328-3.
- 5.Manchester University Press. The Ruskin Polygon: Essays on the Imagination of John Ruskin. 86. 1982. 978-0-7190-0834-4.
- 6.William Venn Gough. Directory of Scottish Architects.
- 7.Newport Nodehill County Middle School and Library - Grade II listing. British Listed Buildings.
- 8.Kay Monument at Kay Gardens, Grade II listing. British Listed Buildings.
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