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William Whitfield
Born(1920-10-21)21 October 1920
Died16 March 2019(2019-03-16) (aged 98)
OccupationArchitect & Town Planner
TitleSir

Sir William Whitfield CBE (21 October 1920 – 16 March 2019)[1] was a British architect and Town Planner.

Early life

Whitfield was born in Stockton-on-Tees into a family of coal owning family and studied architecture at Newcastle University, where he was admitted at the unusually early age of 16.[2] and where he later studied Town Planning after the war.[3]

Career

Whitfield designed the Glasgow University Library (1968) and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery Extension at the University of Glasgow (1962–81), as well as an extension to the Newcastle University Students' Union building (1964). He also designed a major bush-hammered concrete Brutalist extension (1964–70)[4] for Arthur Beresford Pite and John Belcher's 1890-1893 Institute of Chartered Accountants headquarters, Chartered Accountants' Hall, including a new entrance; as well as the 1987 Department of Health building, Richmond House in Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, London.[2]. He designed the Chapter House at St Albans Cathedral, the Catheral Lodge at Canterbury Cathedral and Mappa Mundi LIbrary at Hereford Cathedral.

Tusmore Park

With Andrew Lockwood he designed the neo-Palladian mansion Tusmore Park in Oxfordshire for the Saudi Arabian financier Wafic Saïd.[5]

From 1985 to 1990, he was Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral.[6], architect for the restoration of Christ Church Spitalfields, a Commissioner of English Heritage, Commissioner of the Royal Fine Art Commission and a Trustee of the [British Museum]].

He was awarded CBE in the 1976 Birthday Honours and knighted in the 1993 New Year Honours. [7]

References

  1. ^ Jeffery, Roland (3 April 2019). "Sir William Whitfield obituary". Retrieved 3 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. ^ a b "Sir William Whitfield". Oxford Index. OUP. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  3. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/apr/03/sir-william-whitfield-obituary
  4. ^ "Chartered Accountants' Hall, One Moorgate Place". Historic England. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  5. ^ Worsley, Giles (2 November 2004). "The English country house rises once more". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  6. ^ Burman, Peter (2004). "Chapter 23: Decoration, Furnishings and Art since 1900". In Keene, Derek; Burns, R. Arthur; Saint, Andrew (eds.). St. Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004. Yale University Press. p. 264. ISBN 9780300092769.
  7. ^ "No. 53153". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 31 December 1992. p. 2.
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