Frederick Sandham Waller
Born1822
Died22 March 1905
Westgrove Barnwood, Gloucs.
NationalityBritish
OccupationArchitect
PracticeGloucester

Frederick Sandham Waller (1822 — 22 March 1905)[1] was a British architect and antiquarian of Gloucester, where he was the resident architect to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral.[1]

Career and family

Waller was articled to the civil engineer and county surveyor for Gloucestershire, Thomas Fulljames (1808–74), who proposed him as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1856.[1] Waller worked in partnership with Fulljames from 1846–70 and with Walter Bryan Wood from 1852.[1] One of Waller's sons, Frederick William Waller (1848–1933), was articled to his father and was in partnership with him from 1873.[1]

Another of Waller's sons, Samuel Edward Waller, became an artist. Waller's grandson Noel Huxley Waller (1881–1961) also became an architect.[1]

Waller and his wife Annie lived for several years at the Moors, Barnwood Road. He retired in 1900 and died at Westgrove Barnwood, Gloucestershire, on 22 March 1905.[1] He was buried at St Bartholomew and St Andrew, Churchdown, on 25 March

Architecture

69 Eton Avenue in Belsize Park.

Most of Waller's architectural commissions were in Gloucestershire. He also designed a Tudor Revival extension that was added to the house at Great Tew Park in Oxfordshire.[2] In London's Belsize Park he designed the house at 69 Eton Avenue for the artist John Collier.

Antiquarianism

Plan, transverse section and incomplete longitudinal section of a barn at Shilton, Oxfordshire drawn by Waller in about 1848

Waller applied his architectural training to antiquarianism. In 1848 he drew a plan and sections of an historic barn at Shilton, Oxfordshire, that had stone walls and an aisled timber frame.[3] Later the barn was reputedly gutted by fire[4] and at the foot of his drawings Waller added "All now destroyed".[5] However, in 1971 the probable remains of the barn at Shilton with were identified with the help of Waller's drawings.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Brodie et al. 2001, p. 902
  2. ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 627.
  3. ↑ Heyworth 1971, p. 52.
  4. ↑ Heyworth 1971, p. 53.
  5. ↑ Heyworth, 1971, plate IX
  6. ↑ Heyworth 1971, pp. 52–53.

Sources and further reading

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  • Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan; Pinfield, Leslie; Oldfield, Jane, eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, L–Z. London & New York: Continuum. p. 902. ISBN 082645514X.
  • Heyworth, P.L. (1971). "A Lost Cistercian Barn at Shilton, Oxon". Oxoniensia. Oxford: Oxford Architectural and Historical Society. XXXVI: 52–54. ISSN 0308-5562.
  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
  • Verey, David (1970). Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds. The Buildings of England. Vol. 1. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071040-X.
  • Verey, David (1970). Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean. The Buildings of England. Vol. 2. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
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