W. Gibbs Bartleet

W. Gibbs Bartleet

Saint Laurance, Upminster, largely rebuilt by Bartleet.
Born 1829
Handsworth
Died 10 March 1906
Nationality British
Known for Architect

W. Gibbs Bartleet (1829 – 10 March 1906) [1] was an English Victorian architect.

Life

Bartleet was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and was based during his career in the Old Broad Street in the City of London, and in Brentwood, Essex.[1]

He was honorary surveyor of the German Hospital at Dalston, where he is mentioned as having carried out extensive repairs by 1857.[2]

Among his works was the grandiose rebuilding of St. George's Church, Beckenham (1885-1887), formerly a “humble medieval village church.”[3] In 1870 he added a chancel and south transept to Alexander Dick Gough's St. Saviour's Church, Herne Hill (built 1856, demolished 1981).[4]

At Upminster he largely rebuilt the medieval church of St. Laurance in 1863,[5] and in 1872-3 remodelled Hill Place for Temple Soanes in a restrained Gothic style, of diapered red brick with stone facings.[6]

He also enlarged or rebuilt the churches of St Mary, Dunton, Essex, St. Mary the Virgin, Shenfield and St. Michael and All Angels, Wilmington Kent.[7] In London he built offices for the Promoter Life Assurance Company in a neo-Renaissance style in Fleet Street,[8] and in 1873 refronted a pair of eighteenth century terraced houses in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden in an Italianate style for the London and County Bank.[9] He designed several other branches for the bank, including one at Guildford (1886).[10]

His son, Sydney Francis Bartleet, (fl. 1879-1927), also an architect, was taken into the partnership in 1891.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Antonia Brodie. Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: A-K (Continuum, 2001) p128.
  2. ↑ "Annual Report of the German Hospital, Dalston from January 1st to December 31st, 1856". German Hospital Dalston. London. 1857. p. 21.
  3. ↑ John Newman. West Kent and the Weald. The “Buildings of England” Series, First Edition, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Judy Nairn, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), p.141
  4. ↑ Ruskin Park, St. Saviour
  5. ↑ "Church of St. Laurance, St. Marys Lane, Upminster". London Borough of Havering. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  6. ↑ W.R.Powell (editor) (1978). "Upminster: Introduction and manors". A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  7. ↑ "BARTLEET, William Gibbs: b. 1829 - d. 1906 of Brentwood". Church Plans Online.
  8. ↑ "Street Improvements of London". The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal. 23: 308–9.
  9. ↑ Historic England. "Details from image database (210146)". Images of England.
  10. ↑ "Guildford". RBS Heritage Hub. Royal Bank of Scotland. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

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