Walter Edward Mills

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

Walter Mills
Born	7 November 1850[1] St Luke's, London
Died	17 April 1910 (aged 59)[2] Headington, Oxfordshire[3]
Nationality	British
Occupation	Architect
Projects	Holdenby House[4]

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

• Holdenby House, Holdenby, Northamptonshire: extension, 1877-78[4]
• St. Leonard's parish church, Grimsbury, Oxfordshire, 1890[7]
• St. Mary's parish church, Holwell, Oxfordshire: rebuilding, 1895[8]
• St. James' parish church, Sarsden, Oxfordshire: north transept and bellcote, 1896[9]
• Warwick Road Hospital, Banbury, Oxfordshire: hospital wing, late 19th century[10]
• St Hilda's College, Oxford: extension, 1909[11]
• Oxford Union, Oxford: second library, 1910-11 (with Thorpe)[12]

References

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