Frederick Walters

Frederick Arthur Walters (5 February 1849–3 December 1931) was a Scottish architect working in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches.

Life

Buckfast Abbey

Walters was born on 5 February 1849 at 6 South Terrace, Brompton, London, the son of the architect Frederick Page Walters—with whom he served as an articled clerk for three years.^[1]

After working in the office of George Goldie for nine years, he formed his own architectural practice in 1878, taking his son, John Edward Walters, into partnership in 1924.^[1]

Walters, a Roman Catholic,^[1] was responsible for more than fifty Roman Catholic Churches, including Buckfast Abbey and Ealing Abbey.^[2] He also designed the seminary building at St. John's Seminary (Wonersh), which is on the statutory list of buildings of architectural and historical importance.^[1]

Walters died on 3 December 1931 at St Mildred's, Ewell.^{[clarification needed][1]}

Works

Work	Date	Comments
St Joseph Church, Roehampton[3]	1881	Style:Gothic Revival
Sacred Heart Church Wimbledon[4]	1884–1887	Style decorated Gothic
Douai School – main entrance and tower[5]	1888	Style Tudor Gothic
Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne[6]	1890–1903	Style Decorated Gothic; Grade II-listed
St. John's Seminary (Wonersh)[7]	1891	Style Dutch Jacobean
The Holy Ghost, Franciscan Friary Chilworth[8]	1892	Grade II listed; style Late Gothic
Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark[9]	1892–1893	Style: Romanesque revival
The Sacred Heart, Trott Street Battersea[10]	1892–1893	Style: Romanesque revival
The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Bow Common[11]	1893–1894	Consecrated by Cardinal Vaughan 30 June 1894
Sacred Heart Church, Petworth[12]	1894–1896	Windows by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake
Clergy House, Church of English Martyrs Walworth[13]	1893–1894
St Joseph's Church, Dorking[14]	1895
St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll[15]	1895–1897	Consecrated by Bishop Peter Amigo 7 September 1904
St Thomas's Church, Sevenoaks[16]	1896
St Mary of the Angels, Worthing[17]	1897–1907	Originally built by Henry Clutton 1864 & 1873, extended by Walters
Ealing Abbey	1897–1935	Altered following bomb damage suffered in 1940
St Mary and St Michael, Lukin Street, London E1[18]	1898	Originally built by William Wardell 1856; chancel altered by Walters 1898
Our Lady and St Peter's Church, East Grinstead[19]	1898
Church of St Anne, Kennington Lane Vauxhall[20]	1900–1903	Consecrated by Cardinal Bourne 26 October 1903; style: late Gothic
St Joseph's Church, Brighton – west front[21]	1900–1901	Grade 2* listed
Church of Guardian Angels Mile End Road, London[22]	1901–1903	Style: Perpendicular Gothic
St Elizabeth of Portugal Church, The Vineyard, Richmond, London[23]	1903	Rebuilding of the chancel, presbytery and tower, originally constructed in 1824
St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon, London[24]	1904–1905	Style: Romanesque revival
St Edmund Church, Godalming[25]	1905–1906	Grade II listed building
St Augustine's College and Abbey School Westgate-on-Sea[26]	1905–1915	Grade II listed building
Buckfast Abbey	1905–1937	Consecrated 25 August 1932
Our Lady of Pity and St Simon Stock, Putney[27]	1906	Commenced by J C Radford and completed by Walters
St Mary of the Angels, Canton, Cardiff[28]	1907	Style: Romanesque revival; consecrated 30 October 1907
Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields[29]	1908–1909	On site of former Sardinian Chapel; style: Continental renaissance
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ashby-de-la-Zouch	1910
Chapel at Wimbledon College[30]	1910
St Joseph's Church, Grayshott, Hampshire[31]	1911	Grade II listed building[32]
St Wilfred, Kennington Park[33]	1914–1915	Style: Perpendicular Gothic; damaged by bomb November 1940, restored 1948–49
St Tarcisius Church, Camberley[34]	1923–1924	Windows by Paul Woodroffe
St Peter's Church, Jewry Street Winchester[35]	1926
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Harpenden[36]	1928