Samuel Burleigh Gabriel (11 August 1816 – 26 June 1865) was a Victorian architect who practised in

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, England. For a number of years he was in partnership with another architect, John Hicks, who later worked at Dorchester. Their offices were at 28

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. Gabriel designed parish churches for the

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and houses for private clients. One of Gabriel's last commissions was Ashley House in Bristol for Sir

Charles Wathen Sir Charles Wathen (19 March 1833 - 14 February 1893) was a prominent Victorian wool merchant who from 1865 to 1887 ran the well-known British clothing firm of Wathen Gardiner & Co, and served six times as Mayor of Bristol. He was knighted for hi ...

. Wathen served as Mayor of Bristol and contributed to the building of several of its public buildings. In 2008 there was a proposal to demolish Ashley House and

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responded by supporting a campaign for the building's retention.

Works

*St. Mark's parish church,

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, 1843–48 *St. Simon the Apostle parish church,

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, 1845–48 *St. Jude the Apostle with St. Matthias-on-the-Weir parish church,

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, 1845–49 *St. Michael the Archangel parish church, Two-Mile-Hill, Bristol, 1846–49 *St. Anne's parish church,

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, 1856 *St. Mary's parish church,

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, Wiltshire, 1856 * Chew Stoke School,

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, 1858 * St. Michael the Archangel parish church, Compton Martin, Somerset: restoration, 1858–59 *St. John the Evangelist parish church,

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, 1858–69 *St. Paul's parish,

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: vicarage, 1860 *St. Stephen's parish church,

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, Wiltshire: restoration, 1860–61 * St. Michael the Archangel parish church, Dundry, Somerset: rebuilding, 1860–62 *Parish church, Manningford Abbots, Wiltshire: rebuilding, 1861–64 *St. James' parish church,

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, Wiltshire: restoration, 1863 *Ashley House,

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, 1865–66Ashley Grange Residents' Association, page 1

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