Culshaw and Sumners was a firm of English architects and surveyors who practised in Liverpool in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was founded in the 1830s by William Culshaw (1807–74), who was joined by Henry Sumners (1825–95) in 1861. Their partnership was dissolved in 1873 when Sumners was replaced by Culshaw's son, Alfred (1849/50–1926), who continued to run the practice until 1916. The practice carried out much mundane and routine work, but also designed new buildings, some of which are considered to be notable. Their output included office blocks, warehouses, domestic properties, workhouses, churches, and a hospital.[1]
This list includes the existing buildings of the architects that have been listed, and/or are included in the Buildings of England series. The buildings designed by Culshaw alone are denoted by † in the "Name" column, those of Sumners by ‡, and the single work of William Culshaw & Son by ¶.
Addition made to a house built about 1830, consisting of wing in Italianate style, with a belvedere tower and a billiards room. Since 1912 it has been used as a school.[18][29]
A building of seven bays, and higher than its neighbours, this was designed for C. K. Prioleau. It was altered in the 1880s to become the Bishop's Palace, and in the 20th century became the centre for the Department of Education and the Department of Corporate Communications of the University of Liverpool. It is described as "perhaps the grandest surviving 19th-century house in the city centre".[37][38]
A symmetrical building in three storeys, with 23 bays, plus four-bay wings at each end, and a central clock tower. Later used as Walton Hospital; from 2005 converted into apartments.[40][41][42]
An office block in ten bays by six bays, constructed in red brick with sandstone bands and a grey stone basement. It has Gothic features, plus square-headed windows. The building has been converted into flats.[43]
The church is in Neo-Byzantine style with four domes and round-arched windows. The competition for its design was won by W. and J. Hay, but the construction was supervised by Sumners.[54][55]
Built in brick with much in the way of stone dressings, it is in Gothic style. The original asymmetrically placed spire burnt down in 1913 and has been replaced by a tower.[59]
Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN0-300-10910-5
Sharples, Joseph (2012), "William Culshaw (1807–74) and Henry Sumners (1825–95): rebuilding Victorian Liverpool", in Webster, Christopher (ed.), The Practice of Architecture: eight architects, 1830–1930, Spire Studies in Architectural History, vol. 2, Reading: Spire Books, ISBN978-1-904965-35-0
