# Frederick Walters

Frederick Arthur Walters (5 February 1849–3 December 1931) was a Scottish architect working in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches.

## Life

Walters was born on 5 February 1849 at 6 South Terrace, Brompton, London, the son of the architect Frederick Page Walters—with whom he served as an articled clerk for three years.
After working in the office of George Goldie for nine years, he formed his own architectural practice in 1878, taking his son, John Edward Walters, into partnership in 1924.
Walters, a Roman Catholic, was responsible for more than fifty Roman Catholic Churches, including Buckfast Abbey and Ealing Abbey. He also designed the seminary building at St. John's Seminary (Wonersh), which is on the statutory list of buildings of architectural and historical importance.
Walters died on 3 December 1931 at St Mildred's, Ewell.

## Works

| Work | Date | Comments |
| St Joseph Church, Roehampton | 1881 | Style:Gothic Revival |
| Sacred Heart Church Wimbledon | 1884–1887 | Style decorated Gothic |
| Douai School – main entrance and tower | 1888 | Style Tudor Gothic |
| Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne | 1890–1903 | Style Decorated Gothic; Grade II-listed |
| St. John's Seminary (Wonersh) | 1891 | Style Dutch Jacobean |
| The Holy Ghost, Franciscan Friary Chilworth | 1892 | Grade II listed; style Late Gothic |
| Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark | 1892–1893 | Style: Romanesque revival |
| The Sacred Heart, Trott Street Battersea | 1892–1893 | Style: Romanesque revival |
| The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Bow Common | 1893–1894 | Consecrated by Cardinal Vaughan 30 June 1894 |
| Sacred Heart Church, Petworth | 1894–1896 | Windows by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake |
| Clergy House, Church of English Martyrs Walworth | 1893–1894 | |
| St Joseph's Church, Dorking | 1895 | |
| St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll | 1895–1897 | Consecrated by Bishop Peter Amigo 7 September 1904 |
| St Thomas's Church, Sevenoaks | 1896 | |
| St Mary of the Angels, Worthing | 1897–1907 | Originally built by Henry Clutton 1864 & 1873, extended by Walters |
| Ealing Abbey | 1897–1935 | Altered following bomb damage suffered in 1940 |
| St Mary and St Michael, Lukin Street, London E1 | 1898 | Originally built by William Wardell 1856; chancel altered by Walters 1898 |
| Our Lady and St Peter's Church, East Grinstead | 1898 | |
| Church of St Anne, Kennington Lane Vauxhall | 1900–1903 | Consecrated by Cardinal Bourne 26 October 1903; style: late Gothic |
| St Joseph's Church, Brighton – west front | 1900–1901 | Grade 2* listed |
| Church of Guardian Angels Mile End Road, London | 1901–1903 | Style: Perpendicular Gothic |
| St Elizabeth of Portugal Church, The Vineyard, Richmond, London | 1903 | Rebuilding of the chancel, presbytery and tower, originally constructed in 1824 |
| St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon, London | 1904–1905 | Style: Romanesque revival |
| St Edmund Church, Godalming | 1905–1906 | Grade II listed building |
| St Augustine's College and Abbey School Westgate-on-Sea | 1905–1915 | Grade II listed building |
| Buckfast Abbey | 1905–1937 | Consecrated 25 August 1932 |
| Our Lady of Pity and St Simon Stock, Putney | 1906 | Commenced by J C Radford and completed by Walters |
| St Mary of the Angels, Canton, Cardiff | 1907 | Style: Romanesque revival; consecrated 30 October 1907 |
| Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1908–1909 | On site of former Sardinian Chapel; style: Continental renaissance |
| Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ashby-de-la-Zouch | 1910 | |
| Chapel at Wimbledon College | 1910 | |
| St Joseph's Church, Grayshott, Hampshire | 1911 | Grade II listed building |
| St Wilfred, Kennington Park | 1914–1915 | Style: Perpendicular Gothic; damaged by bomb November 1940, restored 1948–49 |
| St Tarcisius Church, Camberley | 1923–1924 | Windows by Paul Woodroffe |
| St Peter's Church, Jewry Street Winchester | 1926 | |
| Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Harpenden | 1928 | |