John Samuel Alder

John Samuel Alder FRIBA (13 January 1847 – 28 October 1919) was a British architect known for his church buildings.

Life Alder was born in Birmingham to Peter Alder and Eliza Pitt.

On 15 April 1884 he was married to Dorset-born Kate Beatrice Bater (1859–1946). They had three children: John Gordon (1885–1913); Marguerite Beatrice (1887–1952); and Leonard Stanley Bates (1891–1963). The family eventually settled in the Hornsey area of north London, living for a time at a house called Hillside on Muswell Road, off Colney Hatch Lane, London N10, and also at 1 Milton Park, Highgate N6.

John Samuel Alder is buried in All Saints' Carshalton.

Career He began his professional life articled to the sibling architects George Cowley Haddon (1839–85) and Henry Rockliffe Haddon (1823–93) in Malvern and Hereford. At the end of his articles he became chief assistant to Frederick Preedy (1820–98) in London, where Alder later established his own practice. From 1914 until his death his business address was Effingham House, 1 Arundel Street, Strand. In 1916 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

From 1898 he worked in partnership with John Turrill who maintained the practice under Alder's name until at least 1924. 1898 – St Simon, Paddington. 1900 – St Peter, South Tottenham. 1900–02 & 1909–10 – St James, Muswell Hill. 1902 – St Peter, Lower Edmonton; chancel, narthex and porches. 1903 – St Andrew, Alexandra Park Road, Muswell Hill. 1904 – St Saviour, Alexandra Park Road, Muswell Hill. 1906–07 – St Cuthbert, Wolves Lane, Wood Green. 1906–07 – Holy Trinity, Winchmore Hill. 1906–7 & 1916 – St Stephen's Church, Bush Hill Park. 1907 – St George, Cranley Gardens, Hornsey. 1907 – St Mary's Church, Potton, Bedfordshire; reredos. 1909 – St Michael, Mora Road, Cricklewood. 1910 – St Michael, Wembley. 1910–11 – St George, Headstone, Harrow. 1911–12 – St Benet Fink Church, Tottenham, London. 1912–14 – St Barnabas, Holden Road, Woodside Park. 1913 – St Saviour, Sunbury-on-Thames. 1914 – All Saints, Campbell Road, Twickenham. 1914 – St Mark, Kensal Rise. 1914 – St Mary the Virgin and All Saints, Potters Bar. 1915 – St Barnabas, Cranbourne Gardens, Temple Fortune; now the Coptic Orthodox church of Saint Mary and Archangel Michael. 1916 – St Catherine, Dudden Hill Lane, Neasden. (n.d.) Other churches [...] were in Shepherd's Bush, [...] Ashford, [,,,] Harlesden, [...] and Broadstairs. 1907–08 – All Saints, Edmonton; Charles Lamb Institute. 1911 – St Michael and All Angels, Wood Green. 1913 – Holy Trinity, Granville Road, Stroud Green. (n.d.) All Hallows, Tottenham. 1898 – Vicarage to the church of St Simon, Paddington. 1904 – Manor House, Ponsbourne Park. 1907–08 – Warleigh Manor, Somerset; alterations, (n.d.) – Vicarage to the church of St Andrew, Alexandra Park Road. (n.d.) – "Six houses in at Muswell Hill".