William White, FSA (15 May 1825 – 1900) was an English architect, noted for his part in 19th-century Gothic Revival architecture and church restorations.
William White was born in Blakesley, Northamptonshire, England, on 15 May 1825. He was the son of a clergyman, and great nephew of the writer and naturalist Gilbert White of Selborne. After a five-year apprenticeship in Leamington Spa he moved to London as an improver in George Gilbert Scott's practice, where he remained for two years before setting up his own practice in Truro, Cornwall in 1847. In 1851 he returned to London and worked out of Wimpole Street. His style was close to that of William Butterfield and he built many churches.
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Works
Cornwall
St Michael's parish church, Baldhu (new build), 1848
Maryfield House, Antony, near Torpoint (school, house and vicarage), 1848
Bank and Solicitors Offices, Truro (new commercial premises for the Cornish Bank and solicitors offices), 1849. Now Charlotte's Tea House and Pizza Express.
St Gerrent, Gerrans (rebuild apart from tower and spire), 1850
St Felicitas and St Piala's Church, Phillack, 1856–1857
St Philip and St James parish church, Antony, near Torpoint
House at Lower Town, Colan, Mountjoy, circa 1875
St Peter's parish church, Mithian, near St Agnes, 1861
Bank House, at St Columb Major, circa 1857
House at Denzell, near St Columb Major
The Old Rectory, St Columb Major
Penmellyn House, St Columb Major
Rosemellyn House, St Columb Major, 1871
St Hilary's parish church, rebuilt on the old foundations in 1855
Rectory for Canon Reginald Hobhouse at St Ive, 1852–54
St Moren parish church, Lamorran, 1845, restoration
St Petroc's parish church, Little Petherick, 1858
Devon
Bishop's Court, Sowton. This former bishop's palace was remodelled in the 1860s and is considered by English Heritage to be one of White's most important domestic buildings; he carefully designed the fittings and much of the furniture, with exceptional attention to detail, specifically for the house.
St Michael's parish church, Clyst Honiton
St Nicholas & St Giles parish church, Sidmouth
Holy Trinity parish church, Barnstaple, 1867
St Mary's parish church, Upton Pyne, alterations 1874–75
St Michael and All Angels parish church, Cadbury, Devon, restoration in 1857
St John the Baptist parish church, Instow, restored 1872–73
St Peter's parish church, Shirwell, heavily restored 1880s
Holy Trinity parish church, West Down, restored 1874
Dartington Hall, South Hams, remodelled and extended again in about 1860
Winscott House, Peters Marland, 1865, for John Curzon Moore-Stevens, Esq.
St Peter's parish church, Peters Marland, 1865, financed by John Curzon Moore-Stevens, Esq., of Winscott House. Rebuilding of nave and chancel, ancient tower unaltered.
Essex
St Giles parish church, Great Maplestead
St Laurence and All Saints Church, Eastwood, restoration, 1873–75
Hampshire
Christ Church, Freemantle, Southampton, consecrated 1865
Christ Church, Hatherden, 1857
St Mark's parish church, Woolston, consecrated 17 November 1863
St Mary's parish church, Selborne, restoration, 1856
St Michael and All Angels church, Lyndhurst, between 1890 and 1892
Lincolnshire
Heydour. The Old Vicarage, 1857. Nikolaus Pevsner: "Picturesque and asymmetrical, varied roof lines, tile hung gables and pointed arches picked out in red brick". The vicarage is a precursor to the Queen Anne style of architecture.
London
St Mark's parish church, Battersea Rise, 1872–74
St Saviour's parish church, Aberdeen Park, Islington, 1865–66
All Saints parish church, Kensington
Forest School Chapel, College Place, Waltham Forest, built 1857 and enlarged 1875
St Michael's parish church, Wandsworth Common, 1881
St Dionis Vicarage, 18 Parsons Green, Fulham, 1898–99
Oxfordshire
All Saints parish church, Mollington, restoration, 1856
St James parish church, Claydon, restoration, 1860
St Lawrence's parsonage, Milcombe, 1861–62
All Saints parish church, Great Bourton, almost completely rebuilt, 1863
Holy Trinity Vicarage, Finstock, 1864
St Giles parish church, Wigginton, restoration of chancel and south aisle, 1870
Belfried gate tower for All Saints parish church, Great Bourton, 1882
Surrey
St John the Divine parish church, Felbridge, 1865
St John's Vicarage, Felbridge
Sussex
St Mary the Virgin parish church, Littlehampton, West Sussex, new chancel and restoration, 1899
St Peter and St Paul parish church, West Wittering, West Sussex
Wiltshire
St Michael's church, Axford, 1856
School and master's house, Chute, 1857–8 (now village hall)
St Michael the Archangel, Brixton Deverill, refenestrated and chancel extended, 1862
Church of the Holy Saviour, Westbury Leigh: nave and chancel 1876–7; south aisle, 1888–9; tower, 1899
Other counties of England
Holy Innocents parish church, Adisham, Kent, restoration, 1869
Quy Hall, Stow-cum-Quy, Cambridgeshire, rebuilding, 1869–71
St. James and St. John parish church, Derwent, Derbyshire
Holy Trinity parish church, Elvington, York, East Riding of Yorkshire, 1876–77
Holy Cross & St. Mary's parish church, Quainton, Buckinghamshire, 1877
St Leonard's parish church, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, comprehensive restoration, 1886–87
Stained glass in Holy Trinity, Touchen End, Berkshire
The Old Vicarage, Irton, Holmrook, Cumbria, 1864
Ireland
Humewood Castle, Wicklow Mountains, Ireland
South Africa
St, Batholomew's Church, Grahamstown
Armstrong House and Espin House, St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown
Madagascar
St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro, Antananarivo
White's contemporaries in the Gothic Revival
James Brooks
Richard Cromwell Carpenter
John Loughborough Pearson
Benjamin Mountfort
James Piers St Aubyn
George Edmund Street
Henry Woodyer