W. B. Stonebridge

Walter Butler Stonebridge FRIBA (8 September 1879 – 1 November 1962) was an architect, Diocesan Surveyor for Ely and St Albans and afterwards Surveyor for the Archdeaconry of Bedford. He was president of the Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Society of Architects in 1932. He was the son of Charles Stonebridge, a Carpenter and Surveyor of Works, and his wife Emily. Stonebridge was educated at Bedford Modern School and then articled to the architectural practice of Messrs Highton and Ardron of Bedford and Westminster between 1895 and 1899.

Career After Highton and Ardron, Stonebridge was an Assistant in the Duke of Bedford's Estate Office, to H. Ban of Maidstone and to John E. Kingham of Aldershot.

After the war, Stonebridge became Ecclesiastical Surveyor for the Dioceses of Ely and St Albans and was thereafter Diocesan Surveyor for Bedford.

Stonebridge was elected LRIBA on 9 January 1911, He was president of the Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Society of Architects in 1932. They had a son, Bernard Butler Stonebridge, and a daughter, Mary Julia Stonebridge. His wife predeceased him on 24 December 1961 and Stonebridge died on 1 November 1962 at Barton on Sea in Hampshire.

Selected works

Restoration of the Tower of Hockliffe Church, Bedfordshire, 1910 Replacement of the Powage Press after fire, Aspley Guise, 1912 Woburn Sands War Memorial, Bedfordshire, 1919 Elstow Lodge, Bedfordshire, 1926 Alterations to Campton Manor, Bedfordshire, 1927–28 Alterations to the Vicarage, Harrold, Bedfordshire, 1928 Rectory, Pertenhall, Bedfordshire, 1937. With H.A. Harris