Edward Prioleau Warren (30 October 1856 – 23 November 1937) was a British architect and

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Life

He was born at

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, the fifth son of Algernon William Warren, JP. Sir Thomas Herbert Warren was his elder brother. He was educated at

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in Bristol, and subsequently articled to G.F. Bodley, whose biography he later wrote. He shared an office at 5

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, London, (but not a practice) with his fellow Bodley pupil A.H. Skipworth. He provided illustrations for the Transactions of the Guild and School of Handicraft in 1890. He joined the Art Workers Guild in 1892 and was Master in 1913. He practised extensively in

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, no doubt helped by the fact that his brother was President of

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. Basil Bramston Hooper, later an architect in

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, was in his office, c.1901–04. In 1901, he was added to the list of architects authorised to work on the Grosvenor Estate in London, but he never did so. In 1914, he gave evidence on behalf of the

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into a proposed Preservation Order on 75

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, London. During the First World War he was seconded to the Serbian Army, and designed the War Cemetery at

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. In 1916, he was said to have had considerable experience of hospital construction. At the beginning of his career, he built and altered a number of churches, but he is known principally for domestic buildings in an understated revival of English late 17th century styles: his main works were lodgings for Oxford colleges and minor country houses. Warren married Margaret Cecil Louisa Morrell, sister of Philip Morrell on 6 October 1894, and one of their sons, Brigadier-General Christopher Prioleau Warren, became a noted

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and received the

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in the First World War and MBE and

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for the second World War. Another son, Peter Warren, succeeded to his father's practice as an architect. Warren himself was a friend and adviser to the American novelist,

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, who lived at Lamb House,

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, Sussex; their correspondence is now in the

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. Warren lived the last thirty years of his life at Breach House, Halfpenny Lane, Cholsey, built in 1906, which he designed for himself. He died on 23 November 1937.

List of works

* Barkerend in Bradford (West Yorks): St Clement's Church, 1892–94 (listed grade II*) * Bishopstoke (Hants): St. Mary's Church, n.d. * Blackwood (Monmouthshire): Maesruddud (now Maes Manor), new house, 1900–07 * Brighton (Sussex): Church of the Good Shepherd, Dyke Road: new church, 1920–22; vicarage, 1923; extension to church, 1927; all for Alice Mary Moor * Bryanston (Dorset): St Martin's Church, 1895–98, for Lord Portman * Cambridge:

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, alterations to west range of Gonville Court, 1912 * Cambridge: Trinity College, works, n.d. * Caversham (Oxon): St. John the Evangelist Church, n.d. * Chantmarle (Dorset), works in the garden, 1919 * Chelsea (Middx): Shelley House, Chelsea Embankment, 1912 * Cholsey (Oxon): Breach House, new house, for himself, c.1905 * Clifton (Glos):

, works, n.d. * Epping: (Essex): War Memorial, 1921 (listed grade II) * Falfield (Glos): Heneage Court, restoration and extension of house and new garden for Russell Thomas, 1913 *

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(London): St John's Church, Walham Green, alterations, 1893 *

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(Oxon), Manor House, alterations and extensions and new gatepiers, 1908 *

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(Surrey), new house, 1898 (listed grade II) * Kensington (London): 1 Campden Hill, new house, 1915 * Kensington (London): 5 Palace Green, new house, 1905 * Kensington (London): Estcort House, Kensington Palace Gardens, 1904 * Littleton Pannell (Wiltshire): A Becketts, extension of house, 1904 * Lowestoft (Suffolk): St. Peter's Church, chancel extension, 1920s * Melplash Court (Dorset), rebuilding of west wing, 1922 and perhaps extensions in the 1930s * Netherbury (Dorset): Slape Manor, alterations including decorative plasterwork, 1931 * Newark (Nottinghamshire): Church, font cover, 1891 *

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(Cornwall): Fishermen's Institute, c1911 * Newlyn: War Memorial, 1920 (listed grade II)Newlyn War Memorial – * Oxford:

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, north-west range in Garden Quad, 1906 * Oxford: Balliol College, range north of Basevi buildings, 1912–15 * Oxford:

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, High Street, c1899-01 * Oxford:

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, college lodgings and shops for

, 1901 * Oxford:

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, works, n.d. * Oxford:

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, outpatients' block, 1911–13; William Dunn School of Pathology, 1925–27 * Oxford: St Cross Church, restoration, including new clerestory windows, 1893 * Oxford: St John's College, extension of New Building, North Quad, 1901 * Oxford: Victoria Fountain,

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, 1899 *

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(Staffordshire): St Thomas's Church, addition of aisles, 1892 * Rugby (Warks):

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, works, n.d. * Southampton (Hampshire): St. Michael and All Angels Church, Bassett Avenue, 1897–1910 * Spetchley Park (Worcs): new nursery wing and general improvements, 1907 * St John's Wood (London): Hanover Lodge, High St., block of mansion flats, 1903–04 * Steep (Hants): Bedales School, works, n.d. * Wandsworth (London): Magdalen Park Estate, layout and design of houses for Magdalen College, Oxford, c.1901–20 * Wanstead (London): St. Columba's Church, n.d. * West Lavington (Wilts): Manor House, alterations, 1905 * Westminster (London):

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, works, n.d. * Woking (Surrey): Gorse Hill, Hook Heath Road, new house (now Indosuez Bank Training Centre), 1910 *

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(Norfolk), triptych behind high altar, c.1904 (relocated from elsewhere, 1991)

Sources

*''Architectural Journal'', vol. 85, 2 Dec 1937, p. 861 (obituary) *''The Builder'', vol. 153, 26 Nov 1937, p. 965 (obituary) *''RIBA Journal'', vol. 45, 1937, pp. 203–04 (obituary) *A.S. Gray, ''Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary'', 1988

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Edward Prioleau 1856 births 1937 deaths Architects from Bristol People educated at Clifton College Masters of the Art Worker's Guild