Edward Walters (December 1808, in Fenchurch Buildings, London – 22 January 1872, in 11 Oriental Place,
Brighton
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) was an English architect.
Life
Walters was the son of an architect who died young. He began his career in the office of Isaac Clarke, his father's former assistant, before going to work with
Lewis Vulliamy
Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect descended from the Vulliamy family of clockmakers.
Life
Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 17 ...
and then
Sir John Rennie.
After superintending Rennie's military building work in
Constantinople
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between 1832 and 1837, he returned to England to practise as an architect in the provinces. His practice was based at
Manchester
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from 1839, where his most notable work was the
Free Trade Hall
The Free Trade Hall on Peter Street, Manchester, England, was constructed in 1853–56 on St Peter's Fields, the site of the Peterloo Massacre. It is now a Radisson Hotels, Radisson hotel.
The hall was built to commemorate the repeal of the Corn ...
, referred to as the "noblest monument in the Cinquecento style in England" by
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (195 ...
.
Walters retired in 1865 and then travelled in Italy and England before his death in 1872. He never married and died without issue.
Manchester works (selected)
*Harvest House at 14 and 16, Mosley Street was built as a textile warehouse for
Richard Cobden
Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English Radicals (UK), Radical and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician, manufacturing, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti–Corn Law L ...
in 1839 in red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings the Italian
palazzo
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style. It was later altered to become shops.
*Silas Schwabe's Warehouse (1845: demolished), Italian Renaissance Revival style
*
The Firs,
Fallowfield
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, was built for
Joseph Whitworth
Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw ...
in 1850.
*Brown & Son's Warehouse, 9 Portland Street (1851 to 1852: demolished), Italian Renaissance Revival style. "A splendid example of the Manchester warehouse of the mid-century".
*Four warehouses, south-east side of
Piccadilly Gardens (1851-1858)
*
Free Trade Hall
The Free Trade Hall on Peter Street, Manchester, England, was constructed in 1853–56 on St Peter's Fields, the site of the Peterloo Massacre. It is now a Radisson Hotels, Radisson hotel.
The hall was built to commemorate the repeal of the Corn ...
(1855), in Peter Street, Italian Renaissance Revival style.
*
Castlefield Congregational Chapel (1858) in Castlefield, Victorian red-brick
*
38 and 42 Mosley Street, the Manchester & Salford (later William Deacon's, now
RBS) Bank,
Mosley Street
Mosley Street is a street in Manchester, England. It runs between its junction with Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street to St Peter's Square. Beyond St Peter's Square it becomes Lower Mosley Street. It is the location of several Grade II and ...
, Renaissance Revival style (1860).
Other works
*
Bakewell railway station
Bakewell railway station served the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire, England. It was built by the Midland Railway on its extension of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway line from Rowsley to Buxton. The station was closed ...
(1862)
References
Further reading
*''Architecture and Landscaping: a dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture.'' 1999, 2006 by Oxford University Press.
*Pevsner, N. (1969) ''Buildings of England, South Lancashire''. Penguin Books
External links
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1808 births
1872 deaths
19th-century English architects
Architects from London