Frederick Walters


Frederick Arthur Walters was a Scottish architect working in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches.

Life

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.
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. 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.

Works

WorkDateComments
St Joseph Church, Roehampton1881Style:Gothic Revival
Sacred Heart Church Wimbledon1884–1887Style decorated Gothic
Douai School – main entrance and tower1888Style Tudor Gothic
Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne1890–1903Style Decorated Gothic; Grade II-listed
St. John's Seminary (Wonersh)1891Style Dutch Jacobean
The Holy Ghost, Franciscan Friary Chilworth1892Grade II listed; style Late Gothic
Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark1892–1893Style: Romanesque revival
The Sacred Heart, Trott Street Battersea1892–1893Style: Romanesque revival
Church of the Holy Name and [Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Bow|The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart] Bow Common1893–1894Consecrated by Cardinal Vaughan 30 June 1894
Sacred Heart Church, Petworth1894–1896Windows by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake
Clergy House, Church of English Martyrs Walworth1893–1894
St Joseph's Church, Dorking1895
St [John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll]1895–1897Consecrated by Bishop Peter Amigo 7 September 1904
St Thomas's Church, Sevenoaks1896
St [Mary of the Angels, Worthing]1897–1907Originally built by Henry Clutton 1864 & 1873, extended by Walters
Ealing Abbey1897–1935Altered following bomb damage suffered in 1940
St Mary and St Michael, Lukin Street, London E11898Originally built by William Wardell 1856; chancel altered by Walters 1898
St Peter's Church, East Grinstead">St Peter's Church, Winchester">St Peter's Church, East Grinstead1898
Church of St Anne, Kennington Lane Vauxhall1900–1903Consecrated by Cardinal Bourne 26 October 1903; style: late Gothic
St Joseph's Church, Brighton – west front1900–1901Grade 2* listed
Church of Guardian Angels Mile End Road, London1901–1903Style: Perpendicular Gothic
St [Elizabeth of Portugal Church], The Vineyard, Richmond, London1903Rebuilding of the chancel, presbytery and tower, originally constructed in 1824
St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon, London1904–1905Style: Romanesque revival
St Edmund Church, Godalming1905–1906Grade II listed building
St Augustine's College and Abbey School Westgate-on-Sea1905–1915Grade II listed building
Buckfast Abbey1905–1937Consecrated 25 August 1932
Our Lady of Pity and St Simon Stock, Putney1906Commenced by J C Radford and completed by Walters
St Mary of the Angels, Canton, Cardiff1907Style: Romanesque revival; consecrated 30 October 1907
Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields1908–1909On site of former Sardinian Chapel; style: Continental renaissance
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ashby-de-la-Zouch1910
Chapel at Wimbledon College1910
St Joseph's Church, Grayshott, Hampshire1911Grade II listed building
St Wilfred, Kennington Park1914–1915Style: Perpendicular Gothic; damaged by bomb November 1940, restored 1948–49
St Tarcisius Church, Camberley1923–1924Windows by Paul Woodroffe
St Peter's Church, Jewry Street Winchester1926
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Harpenden1928