About William Frederick Unsworth
Lived 1851 – 1912 (aged 60–61). William Frederick Unsworth was an architect.
William Frederick Unsworth (1851–1912) was an English architect.
Biography William Frederick Unsworth began working in 1869 in the Wilson & Wilcox agency in Bath, then after a one-year trip to France, he spent two years in the architectural firm of George Edmund Street, then a year with William Burges.
He opened his own architectural firm in 1875 where he first worked in partnership with architect Edward John Dodgshun (1851–1927).
Around 1908 he moved to Steep, near Petersfield, where he worked in partnership with his son, Gerald Unsworth (1883–1946) and Inigo Triggs (1876–1923). He then built several houses in the Arts and Crafts style. It is now the Swan Theatre. Village of Sion Mills, south of Strabane, County Tyrone, Ulster, in the 1880s and 1890s, for the Herdman brothers who had a flax factory there. William Frederick Unsworth was the son-in-law of James Herdman. Christ Church, Woking, in 1889. Woodhambury, Woodham Lane, Woking, in 1889. Weston Hotel, Newbridge, Bath, in 1890 in an Arts and Crafts style. All Saints Church, Woodham Lane, Woking, in 1893. Good Sheperd Church, in the village of Sion Mills, Northern Ireland, in 1909. Broad Dene, Hill Road built for Walter Tyndale by the architectural firm comprising WF Unsworth, his son and Inigo Triggs Ashford Chace, Petersfield, in 1912.
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Who was William Frederick Unsworth?
(1851-1912)
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William Frederick Unsworth was born in 1851.
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William Frederick Unsworth died in 1912 in Petersfield.
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William Frederick Unsworth was an architect.
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