W. Gibbs Bartleet
Saint Laurance, Upminster, largely rebuilt by Bartleet.
Born1829
Handsworth
Died10 March 1906
NationalityBritish
Known forArchitect

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

Life

Bartleet was born in Handsworth, Birmingham. He moved to Brentwood, Essex in the early 1860s[2] and later to Beckenham.[3] During his career, he was based in the Old Broad Street in the City of London, and in Brentwood.[1]

He was honorary surveyor of the German Hospital at Dalston, where he is mentioned as having carried out extensive repairs by 1857.[4]

In 1870 he added a chancel and south transept to Alexander Dick Gough's St. Saviour's Church, Herne Hill (built 1856, demolished 1981).[5] At Upminster he largely rebuilt the medieval church of St. Laurance in 1863,[6] and in 1872-3 remodelled Hill Place for Temple Soanes in a restrained Gothic style, of diapered red brick with stone facings.[7] 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.[8]

In London he built offices for the Promoter Life Assurance Company in a neo-Renaissance style in Fleet Street,[9] 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.[10] He designed several other branches for the bank, including one at Guildford (1886).[11] At Chigwell, Essex, he designed Woodlands (later renamed Woodview) as a large country house for the brewing magnate, Philip Savill, in 1881.

Between 1885 and 1887 he carried out a grandiose rebuilding of St. George's Church, Beckenham (1885-1887), formerly a "humble medieval village church."[12] The tower, however, was not completed until 1902-3.[13]

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

References

  1. ^ a b c Antonia Brodie (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: A-K. Continuum. p. 128.
  2. ^ "Upminster: St Laurence, Parish Church". Old Upminster. 20 January 2022.
  3. ^ The Beckenham Directory for 1898 (PDF). T.W. Thornton. 1898. pp. 41, 78.
  4. ^ (Dalston), German Hospital (1857). "Annual Report of the Committee of the German Hospital. From January 1st to December 31st, 1856". German Hospital Dalston. London. p. 21.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ "Ruskin Park, St. Saviour" (PDF). www.southwark.anglican.org. 2007.
  6. ^ "Church of St. Laurance, St. Marys Lane, Upminster". London Borough of Havering. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  7. ^ W.R.Powell, ed. (1978). "Upminster: Introduction and manors". A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  8. ^ "BARTLEET, William Gibbs: b. 1829 - d. 1906 of Brentwood". Church Plans Online.
  9. ^ "Street Improvements of London". The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal. 23: 308–9. 1860.
  10. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1278431)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  11. ^ "Guildford". RBS Heritage Hub. Royal Bank of Scotland. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  12. ^ Newman, John (1969). West Kent and the Weald. The Buildings of England. London: Penguin. p. 141.
  13. ^ London 4 : North. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2002. p. 481. ISBN 978-0300096538.
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