William White

William White, FSA (15 May 1825 – 1900) was an English architect, noted for his part in 19th-century Gothic Revival architecture and church restorations.

William White was born in Blakesley, Northamptonshire, England, on 15 May 1825. He was the son of a clergyman, and great nephew of the writer and naturalist Gilbert White of Selborne. After a five-year apprenticeship in Leamington Spa he moved to London as an improver in George Gilbert Scott's practice, where he remained for two years before setting up his own practice in Truro, Cornwall in 1847. In 1851 he returned to London and worked out of Wimpole Street. His style was close to that of William Butterfield and he built many churches.

Works

Cornwall

St Michael's parish church, Baldhu (new build), 1848 Maryfield House, Antony, near Torpoint (school, house and vicarage), 1848 Bank and Solicitors Offices, Truro (new commercial premises for the Cornish Bank and solicitors offices), 1849. Now Charlotte's Tea House and Pizza Express. St Gerrent, Gerrans (rebuild apart from tower and spire), 1850 St Felicitas and St Piala's Church, Phillack, 1856–1857 St Philip and St James parish church, Antony, near Torpoint House at Lower Town, Colan, Mountjoy, circa 1875 St Peter's parish church, Mithian, near St Agnes, 1861 Bank House, at St Columb Major, circa 1857 House at Denzell, near St Columb Major The Old Rectory, St Columb Major Penmellyn House, St Columb Major Rosemellyn House, St Columb Major, 1871 St Hilary's parish church, rebuilt on the old foundations in 1855 Rectory for Canon Reginald Hobhouse at St Ive, 1852–54 St Moren parish church, Lamorran, 1845, restoration St Petroc's parish church, Little Petherick, 1858 St Peter's parish church, Mithian, 1861 Trewan Hall, alterations and additions, 1870

Devon

Bishop's Court, Sowton. This former bishop's palace was remodelled in the 1860s and is considered by English Heritage to be one of White's most important domestic buildings; he carefully designed the fittings and much of the furniture, with exceptional attention to detail, specifically for the house. St Michael's parish church, Clyst Honiton St Nicholas & St Giles parish church, Sidmouth Holy Trinity parish church, Barnstaple, 1867 St Mary's parish church, Upton Pyne, alterations 1874–75 St Michael and All Angels parish church, Cadbury, Devon, restoration in 1857 St John the Baptist parish church, Instow, restored 1872–73 St Peter's parish church, Shirwell, heavily restored 1880s Holy Trinity parish church, West Down, restored 1874 Dartington Hall, South Hams, remodelled and extended again in about 1860 Winscott House, Peters Marland, 1865, for John Curzon Moore-Stevens, Esq. St Peter's parish church, Peters Marland, 1865, financed by John Curzon Moore-Stevens, Esq., of Winscott House. Rebuilding of nave and chancel, ancient tower unaltered.

Essex

St Giles parish church, Great Maplestead St Laurence and All Saints Church, Eastwood, restoration, 1873–75

Hampshire

Christ Church, Freemantle, Southampton, consecrated 1865 Christ Church, Hatherden, 1857 St Mark's parish church, Woolston, consecrated 17 November 1863 St Mary's parish church, Selborne, restoration, 1856 St Michael and All Angels church, Lyndhurst, between 1890 and 1892

Lincolnshire

Heydour. The Old Vicarage, 1857. Nikolaus Pevsner: "Picturesque and asymmetrical, varied roof lines, tile hung gables and pointed arches picked out in red brick". The vicarage is a precursor to the Queen Anne style of architecture.

London

St Mark's parish church, Battersea Rise, 1872–74 St Saviour's parish church, Aberdeen Park, Islington, 1865–66 All Saints parish church, Kensington Forest School Chapel, College Place, Waltham Forest, built 1857 and enlarged 1875 St Michael's parish church, Wandsworth Common, 1881 St Dionis Vicarage, 18 Parsons Green, Fulham, 1898–99

Oxfordshire

All Saints parish church, Mollington, restoration, 1856 St James parish church, Claydon, restoration, 1860 St Lawrence's parsonage, Milcombe, 1861–62 All Saints parish church, Great Bourton, almost completely rebuilt, 1863 Holy Trinity Vicarage, Finstock, 1864 St Giles parish church, Wigginton, restoration of chancel and south aisle, 1870 Belfried gate tower for All Saints parish church, Great Bourton, 1882

Surrey

St John the Divine parish church, Felbridge, 1865 St John's Vicarage, Felbridge

Sussex

St Mary the Virgin parish church, Littlehampton, West Sussex, new chancel and restoration, 1899 St Peter and St Paul parish church, West Wittering, West Sussex

Wiltshire

St Michael's church, Axford, 1856 School and master's house, Chute, 1857–8 (now village hall) St Michael the Archangel, Brixton Deverill, refenestrated and chancel extended, 1862 Church of the Holy Saviour, Westbury Leigh: nave and chancel 1876–7; south aisle, 1888–9; tower, 1899

Other counties of England

Holy Innocents parish church, Adisham, Kent, restoration, 1869 Quy Hall, Stow-cum-Quy, Cambridgeshire, rebuilding, 1869–71 St. James and St. John parish church, Derwent, Derbyshire Holy Trinity parish church, Elvington, York, East Riding of Yorkshire, 1876–77 Holy Cross & St. Mary's parish church, Quainton, Buckinghamshire, 1877 St Leonard's parish church, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, comprehensive restoration, 1886–87 Stained glass in Holy Trinity, Touchen End, Berkshire The Old Vicarage, Irton, Holmrook, Cumbria, 1864

Ireland

Humewood Castle, Wicklow Mountains, Ireland

South Africa

St, Batholomew's Church, Grahamstown Armstrong House and Espin House, St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown

Madagascar

St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro, Antananarivo

White's contemporaries in the Gothic Revival

James Brooks Richard Cromwell Carpenter John Loughborough Pearson Benjamin Mountfort James Piers St Aubyn George Edmund Street Henry Woodyer

Notes and references