Austin S. Winkley (born 1934) is a British architect who specialises in church architecture and is a member of the

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of UK ecclesiastical architects.

Early life

Winkley was born in 1934 to a family of

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cotton workers. He attended a Salesian school and with their help secured a grant to study at the

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in London.

Career

Winkley studied at the

in London under

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and became a member of the New Churches Research Group, a group of Catholic and Anglican church architects and craftspeople who promoted liturgical reform of churches though publications such as

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and

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. The group included architects Peter Gilbey,

, Keith Murray (an ecclesiastical designer), John Newton (Burles, Newton & Partners),

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, George Pace,

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(stained glass artist), Lance Wright, as well as co-founder and Anglican priest Peter Hammond and Catholic priest and theologian Charles Davis. During the holidays Winkley worked for the

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alongside school architect Jeffrey Williams. In 1959, after qualifying, he worked for the London County Council school department. In 1960 he went to the US, where he worked for two architectural practices, joining a firm of Christian architects and working on a library and Catholic Club at

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, U.S.A. In 1962, he volunteered to help build a clinic, housing and church in an area of

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that had been devastated by an earthquake. In 1963, he set up, Williams & Winkley in the UK. In 1978, he gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Building Conservation from the Architectural Association. In 1987, he founded Austin Winkley & Associates. He began by designing homes for the Catholic Housing Aid Society (CHAS). Having studied under the church designers Maguire & Murray, Winkley became a member of the UK architectural liturgical movement. His buildings include: *

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(1969) Grade II listed. Winkley's first church and according to its listing "an early and particularly well-made and well-detailed example of post-Vatican II planning". * St Elphege in Wallington (1971) * Sacred Heart Church in Coventry (1979) * St Theodore's in Hampton upon Thames (1987). He was also behind the reordering of a number of churches, such as: * Holy Family Church, Halton was reordered into a liturgical arrangement * St John Vianney, Ilford (1983) - reordering a Catholic church by Donald Plaskett Marshall

Family

Austin Winkley met his future wife, Elizabeth (née Bussy), a drama teacher, at a national Catholic Youth Association Conference. They married in 1967 and have two daughters, Emma, a sculptress and change agent, and Antonia who is a florist.

Works

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References

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