Edward Warren (1856–1937) and Messrs W. H. Snell & Sons (active 1920–1922)
Edward Prioleau Warren [also known as E.P. Warren] was born in Cotham, Bristol, England on 30 October 1856 and studied at Clifton College and Bristol University. He was articled top George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) and Thomas Garner (1839-1906) in London in 1880, and remained as an assistant in 1883-84. He qualified as an architect in 1882 and commenced independent practice in London in 1885. He built and altered a number of churches, but he is known principally for domestic buildings. Warren was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1883 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1906. He was also an Hon. Corresponding Member of the American Institute of Architects, and Société Centrale de l'Architecture de Belgique.
His address was given as 8 Gray's Inn Road, London in 1883; 5 Staple Inn, Holborn, London in 1888; 18 Cowley Street, Westminster, London in 1899 and 1906; 20 Cowley Street, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London in 1902 and 1905; Breach House, Cholsey, Oxfordshire in 1906 and 1914; 20 Bedford Square, London in 1914 and 1930; and 21 Warwick Square, London in 1936. He died in London on 23 November 1937.
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Works:
Churches of St. John Baptist, Lower Caversham; St. Mary, Bishopstoke; St. Clement, Bradford, Yorks; St. Columba, Wanstead Slip; St. Martin, Bryanston, Dorset: St. Michael, Basset, Hants; St. Peter, Lowestoft. Hanover House (flats), St. John's Wood; Townsend House, Regent's Park; Estcourt House, Kensington; Shelley House, Chelsea Embankment; Bedales School, Petersfield: buildings, &c, for colleges at Oxford, Balliol, St. John's, Magdalen, Merton: Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; Caius Coll., Camb.; Gt. Milton Manor, Oxon; Maerruddud, Mon.; Gorse Hill, Woking. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1914]
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Works:
Hanover House, St. John's Wood, 1903 — 1; Shelley House, Chelsea Embankment, 1912; No. 1, Campden Hill, 1914-15; buildings for Balliol, Magdalen, Merton, and St. John's Colleges, Oxford; and Trinity and Caius Colleges, Cambridge. the Radcllffe Infirmary, Oxford, 1902-21; Bedales School, Petersfield, and Westminster, Rugby, and Clifton. Churches of St. John, Caversham ; St. Mary, Bishopstoke; St. Michael and All Angels, Bassett, Hants; St. Martin, Bryanston: St. Clement, Bradford, Yorks; St. Columba, Wanstead; the Good Shepherd, Brighton (1888-1922). Country houses, etc., Gorse Hill, Woking; Gt. Milton Manor, Oxon; Heneage Court, Falfield, Glos.; Sowbery Court, Moulsford; Breach House, Cholsey, Berks; and Maesruddud, Blackwood, Mon.; etc., etc. (1905-13). School of Pathology for University, Oxford. 1925. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1926]
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Following World War One, Warren designed the war memorials for Newlyn, Cornwall (1920) and Penzance, Cornwall (1922). He also designed the War Cemetery at Basra.
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