Walter_Edward_Mills

Walter Edward Mills

Walter Edward Mills

English architect

Walter Edward Mills (7 November 1850 – 17 April 1910) was an English architect.

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Mills was articled to the architect Henry Edward Cooper of Bloomsbury in 1868.[2] He established his own independent practice in Banbury, Oxfordshire in about 1875,[5] where by 1881 he had premises at 13, High Street.[2]

Mills served as architectural clerk to the agent for the Clifden Estates,[2] for whom he completed Holdenby House in 1878.[4] Mills designed a number of public buildings in mixed styles, usually neo-Jacobean.[6] His extension of the Oxford Union was completed posthumously.

Mills was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1882.[2]

Works

References

  1. [1]
    London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917
  2. [2]
    Brodie et al., 2001, page 184
  3. [3]
    England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
  4. [4]
    Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 263
  5. [5]
    Brodie et al., 2001, page 185
  6. [6]
    Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 404
  7. [7]
    Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 444
  8. [8]
    Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 650
  9. [9]
    Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 752
  10. [10]
    Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 438
  11. [11]
    Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 245
  12. [12]
    Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 273

Sources

  • Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan; Pinfield, Leslie; Oldfield, Jane, eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, L–Z. London & New York: Continuum. pp. 184–185. ISBN 0-8264-5514-X.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (1973) [1961]. Northamptonshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 263. ISBN 0-14-071022-1.
  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 245, 273, 404, 438, 444, 650, 752. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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