William Frederick Unsworth

William Frederick Unsworth
Born	1851
Died	1912 Petersfield
Occupation	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.[1]

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.[2]

He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Steep, near Petersfield, in 1912.

Achievements

• The "Shakespeare Memorial Theatre" and Stratford-upon-Avon Library, in 1879, with Edward John Dodgshun. This theatre was destroyed by fire in 1926.[3] 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.[2]
• 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 [4]
• Ashford Chace, Petersfield, in 1912.[5]

• 
  Gate House at Sion Mills
• 
  Broad Dene
• 
  Christ Church, Woking
• 
  Good Sheperd Church, in the village of Sion Mills

Further reading

• Unsworth, William Frederick, p. 788, edited by James Stevens Curl and Susan Wilson, The Oxford Dictionary of Architects , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015 ISBN 978-0-19-105385-6
• Ian Nairn, Nikolaus Pevsner, Bridget Cherry, The buildings of England: Surrey , p. 69, 320, 533, 538, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2002 ISBN 0-300-09675-5

References

1. RIBA Journal, 1912, volume 19, p. 750
2. "The Weston – Heritage Statement". DKA. Bath and North East Somerset Council – Planning Application 21/03690/FUL. August 2021. 304301 REP 001 rev P04. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
3. The Irish connection – Architects in Woking in the late 1880's
4. Sir Lawrence Weaver, Small country houses of to- day , volume 1, p.  134-138, The Offices of Country Life, London, 1922.( read online )
5. Getty images: Ashford Chace, Petersfield, 1912

External links

• Dictionary of Irish Architects: Unsworth, William Frederick
• Archiseek: W. F. Unsworth