Charles Bateman

Charles Edward Bateman FRIBA (8 June 1863 – 5 August 1947) was an English architect, known for his Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne-style houses and commercial buildings in the Birmingham area and for his sensitive vernacular restoration and extension work in the Cotswolds.

Personal life

Bateman's grandfather was the architect Joseph Bateman, who practised at the end of the 18th century, and the beginning of the 19th. Bateman died in 1947 in retirement in Bourton-on-the-Hill. Verity and Hunt also had offices in Evesham, and it was while working here that he developed an interest in the traditional vernacular architecture of the South Midlands that was to be a lifelong preoccupation.

In 1905, Bateman and Alfred Hale (later his business partner) won design competitions for the Free library, Northfield, Birmingham, and High Wycombe Town Hall.

Legacy Bateman left his architectural drawings and sketches to Birmingham Free Library, or if unacceptable, to Birmingham and Five Counties Architectural Association. The same association received his portrait in oils and other personal effects.

Major built works

4 and 6, Stanley Road, King's Heath, Birmingham 1894-95 254, Vicarage Road and 2 Cartland Road, King's Heath, Birmingham 1895 (Illustrated in Das englische Haus by H Muthesius) Millbrick and Burnham, Rectory Lane, Castle Bromwich ( built for himself and his father ) 1896 The Homestead, 25 Woodbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1897 (Listed Grade I) Westley Richards Gun Factory, Grange Road, Selly Oak 1898 Birmingham and District Bank, 78 and 79 Broad Street, Birmingham 1898 George Jones and Sons Printworks, Cornwall Street, Birmingham 1899 (Demolished) The Cannon Street Hotel, Birmingham 1899 12 Mulroy Road, Birmingham ca. 1900 Thomas Smith & Sons Factory, Adderley Road, Saltley 1901 Carhampton House, 11, Luttrell Road, Birmingham 1901-02 Redlands, 1 Hartopp Road, Four Oaks, 1903 Town Hall, Queen Victoria Road, Wycombe 1903-04 (with Alfred Hale) 89 & 91 Cornwall street, Birmingham 1904. Offices for J. Mountford (Listed Grade II*) The Red Lion public house, Vicarage Road, King's Heath, Birmingham 1905 (Listed Grade II) Free Library, Church Road, Northfield 1905 St James' Church, Mere Green Road, Birmingham 1906-08 East end. Lygon Arms Hotel, Broadway 1910 extensions. Vicarage, St James' Church, Edgbaston 1911-12 Vicarage, St Peter's Church, Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham 1911-12 St Paul's Mission Church, Finnemore Road, Bordesley 1913 Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire 1916 (extensions). Lichfield War Memorial, Staffordshire, 1920, Listed Grade II* Moreton-in-Marsh Cottage Hospital 1925 extensions St Chad's Church, Walmley 1925-27 National Provincial Bank, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham 1927 addition of two bays St Agnes' Church, Moseley 1931-32 tower Birmingham Law Society, 8 Temple Street, Birmingham 1933 Cleeve House, Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire for William Heaton, 1933 Honiley Hall, Honiley.