Architects by Name

Below is a snapshot of Architects recorded inside this research project. The list is currently limited to 30 entries. If you know of an Architect thats not recorded on a particular Church record, your invited to email the details to this website here.

Visitors can click through from the surname to visit the list of Churches that Architect has designed.

Last Update: 16 December 2024

 

Architect Number of Churches Designed
Edmund Blacket 40
Louis R Williams 37
Henry Hunter 22
Eric von Schramek 18
Keith Reid 17
William W Wardell 16
A.A. Fritsch 15
Thomas Rowe 12
William K Mallyon 12
Alfred Newman 10
Henry Richard Caselli 10
Alberto Dias Soares 9
Kempson and Connolly 9
John Horbury Hunt 9
Leonard Terry 8
Nathaniel Billing 8
John Lee Archer 7
Edward Gell 6
Campbell & Kernot 6
Daniel Garlick 6
Francis Drummond Greville Stanley 6
Alexander Ian Ferrier 6
Dean Walter Berry 6
James Blackburn 6
Lloyd Tayler 6
T.A. Kelly 6
Vahland & Getzschmann 6
Crouch & Wilson 6
Edmund W Wright 5
T Geddes White 5
P.J. O'Connor 5
Wystan Widdows 5
Alexander North 5
J.P. Donoghue 5
Augustus Pugin 4
John Hingeston Buckeridge 4

Architectural Snippets

Paraments
This is the general term for the liturgical cloths placed on the altar, pulpit, and lectern. The paraments are usually in various colours for use during specific seasons and days of the church year. They are often adorned with artwork illustrating a biblical theme.

Narthex
The narthex is an entryway or gathering room leading into a church. This area is sometimes also referred to as a “vestibule” or “foyer.” In the narthex people often gather before and after Divine Service to greet each other. It is an area bridging the “sacred” and the “secular”.

William Kingsnorth Mallyon

Born 16 May 1850 William Kingsnorth Mallyon

At the young age of 20, William Jnr became a warden of St George’s, Magill: the beginning of a lifelong association with the Church of England. Four years later, he joined the National Bank and, despite his limited education, rapidly rose up the ranks. Within 18 months, having served clerkships at Nuriootpa, Clare and Jamestown, he was appointed branch manager at Caltowie.

Working after hours without training or payment, the pious and civic-minded Mallyon planned and specified the construction of 26 or more Anglican churches between 1880 and 1912 while a bank manager in the Mid-North.

These included the tiny Lipson church near Tumby Bay (smaller still than St George’s, Georgetown), St Stephen’s, Uraidla, and a sizeable Sunday Schoolroom at St Matthew’s, Kensington, where the contract was handled by the architect Edward Davies (AO: 21.3.1891, 7). The supportive regime (1883-95) of Dr Kennion ended for both the bishop and Mallyon on the high point of St Aidan’s, Saddleworth, even if churches, such as those at Koolunga and Yacka, executed in the lead-up, compared poorly. St Aidan’s sported orthodox transepts and an assertive tower as well as stained glass supplied by E.F. Troy – not the make-do Irish coloured transfers seen at St Peter’s, Peterborough, and elsewhere.

Architect Henry Hunter 1832–1892
Born in Nottingham, England, son of Walter and Tomasina Hunter. His father was also an architect, and he studied the craft under his father before attending the Nottingham School of Design.

He immigrated to Australia in 1848 with his two sisters and parents, originally settling in South Australia before moving to Tasmania.

Hunter spent a short period in the Victorian goldfields on his way to Tasmania, before properly immigrating to the island state. He specialized in designing Churches, Schools and residential buildings. Some of his notable works include Hobart Town Hall, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Old Marine Board Building, Hobart.
He moved to Brisbane in 1888 where he opened an architectural firm with his former apprentice Leslie Corrie.

Extract from Wikipedia.

Architect Alberto Dias Soares 1830 -1909
Born in London to the commercial Consul for Portugal and his artistic English wife and educated at London University School, he was a trained artist (Academia das Belles Artes, Oporto, 1847 and in Paris) and engineer (Putney College, London, 1849). After emigrating in 1852 he gained architectural experience with Edmund Blacket in Sydney. Soares married Catherine Tom Lane of Orton Park, Bathurst in 1857 and, immediately after being ordained in May, was appointed parish priest at Queanbeyan. He began building Christ Church of England there in 1859 to his own design. In all, Rev’d Canon Soares designed at least 15 churches, several church halls and schools. He designed 7 parsonages, notably for Queanbeyan (1872) and Canberra (1873), later known as Glebe House, demolished in 1954.

Extract from Architect.com.au

Architect Augustus Pugin 1812 - 1852
An English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture.  In 1831, at the age of 19, Pugin married the first of his three wives, Anne Garnet. She died a few months later in childbirth, leaving him a daughter. He had a further six children, including the future architect Edward Welby Pugin.

Extract from Wikipedia.