W. Gibbs Bartleet

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

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

Life

Bartleet was born in Handsworth, Birmingham. During his career, he was based 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] At Chigwell, Essex, he designed Woodlands (later renamed Woodview)as a large country house for the brewing magnate, Philip Savill, in 1881.

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

References
  1. Antonia Brodie (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: A-K. Continuum. p. 128.
  2. "Annual Report of the Committee of the German Hospital. From January 1st to December 31st, 1856". German Hospital Dalston. London. 1857. p. 21.
  3. Newman, John (1969). West Kent and the Weald. The Buildings of England. London: Penguin. p. 141.
  4. "Ruskin Park, St. Saviour" (PDF). www.southwark.anglican.org. 2007.
  5. "Church of St. Laurance, St. Marys Lane, Upminster". London Borough of Havering. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  6. 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.
  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 listed building database (1278431)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  10. "Guildford". RBS Heritage Hub. Royal Bank of Scotland. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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