William Frederick Unsworth (1851–1912) was an English architect.
Biography William Frederick Unsworth began working in 1869 in the Wilson & Wilcox agency in Bath, then after a one-year trip to France, he spent two years in the architectural firm of George Edmund Street, then a year with William Burges.RIBA Journal, 1912, volume 19, p. 750
He opened his own architectural firm in 1875 where he first worked in partnership with architect Edward John Dodgshun (1851–1927).
Around 1908 he moved to Steep, near Petersfield, where he worked in partnership with his son, Gerald Unsworth (1883–1946) and Inigo Triggs (1876–1923). He then built several houses in the Arts and Crafts style.
He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Steep, near Petersfield, in 1912.
Achievements The "Shakespeare Memorial Theatre" and Stratford-upon-Avon Library, in 1879, with Edward John Dodgshun. This theatre was destroyed by fire in 1926.The Irish connection – Architects in Woking in the late 1880's It is now the Swan Theatre. Village of Sion Mills, south of Strabane, County Tyrone, Ulster, in the 1880s and 1890s, for the Herdman brothers who had a flax factory there. William Frederick Unsworth was the son-in-law of James Herdman. Christ Church, Woking, in 1889. Woodhambury, Woodham Lane, Woking, in 1889. Weston Hotel, Newbridge, Bath, in 1890 in an Arts and Crafts style. All Saints Church, Woodham Lane, Woking, in 1893. Good Sheperd Church, in the village of Sion Mills, Northern Ireland, in 1909. Broad Dene, Hill Road built for Walter Tyndale by the architectural firm comprising WF Unsworth, his son and Inigo Triggs Sir Lawrence Weaver, Small country houses of to- day , volume 1, , The Offices of Country Life, London, 1922.( read online ) Ashford Chace, Petersfield, in 1912.Getty images: Ashford Chace, Petersfield, 1912
Further reading Unsworth, William Frederick, p. 788, edited by James Stevens Curl and Susan Wilson, The Oxford Dictionary of Architects , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015 Ian Nairn, Nikolaus Pevsner, Bridget Cherry, The buildings of England: Surrey , p. 69, 320, 533, 538, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2002
References
External links
Dictionary of Irish Architects: Unsworth, William Frederick Archiseek: W. F. Unsworth