About William Frame
Lived 1848 – 1906 (aged 57–58). William Frame was a British architect.
William Frame was an English architect.
Life and works Frame was born at Melksham, Wiltshire in 1848. Training as an architect, he was articled firstly to William Smith of Trowbridge,
Frame also worked on Bute's Scottish home, Mount Stuart House, on the Isle of Bute, and his home in Falkland, Fife, the House of Falkland. He undertook the building of the Animal Wall, in the grounds of Cardiff Castle, for which Burges had got no further than drawing the designs. Burges's favourite sculptor, Thomas Nicholls, executed the carvings. During these years he won the Royal Academy's gold medal and the Soane Medallion.
Frame's latter years were marred by alcoholism.
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Who was William Frame?
Welsh architect
When was William Frame born?
William Frame was born in 1848 in Cardiff Castle.
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William Frame died on 1 April 1906 in Cardiff Castle.
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William Frame was an architect.
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William Frame was British.
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