Harry Drinkwater
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Career
Drinkwater was a pupil of William C.C. Bramwell in Oxford 1860-65 and then assistant to the Gothic Revival architectGothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
G.E. Street
George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex.- Life :Street was the third son of Thomas Street, solicitor, by his second wife, Mary Anne Millington. George went to school at Mitcham in about 1830, and later to the Camberwell collegiate school, which he left in 1839...
1865-73. After a year as a Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
travelling student Drinkwater began independent practice in Oxford. Drinkwater was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally.-History:...
in 1882. Drinkwater followed Street into building and restoring Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
churches and building vicarages, but also undertook a number of commissions for Hanley's, Morrell's
Morrells Brewing Company
Morrells Brewing Company was a brewery in Oxford, England, which operated under that name between 1782 and 1998. The brewery was founded in 1743 by Richard Tawney. He formed a partnership in 1782 with Mark and James Morrell, who eventually became the owners. Morrells' range of ales included...
and Weaving's breweries.
Work
- Saint Frideswide's vicarage, New Osney, Oxford (undated)
- Lion Brewery, Oxford, 1879-1901
- Saint Margaret's parish church, Walton ManorWalton ManorWalton Manor is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is north of Jericho and the former site of the Radcliffe Infirmary hospital and forms part of North Oxford. The street layout and many of the area's buildings date from the mid-19th century...
, Oxford, 1883-93 - Saint James' parish church, Aston, OxfordshireAston, OxfordshireAston is a village about south of Witney in West Oxfordshire, England. It is also 3.3 Miles from Ducklington. The village is part of the civil parish of Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney. The southern boundary of the parish is the River Thames.-History:Until the 19th century Aston was a township...
: alterations 1885-89 - New Theatre, OxfordNew Theatre OxfordThe New Theatre Oxford is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,800 people....
, 1886 (demolished and replaced by new building in 1933) - Saint Philip and Saint JamesOxford Centre for Mission StudiesThe Oxford Centre for Mission Studies is in the former St Philip and St James Church on Woodstock Road, Oxford, England, opposite Leckford Road. It was established in 1983....
old vicarage, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, 1886-87 - Saint Andrew's parish church, PriestwoodPriestwoodPriestwood is a suburb of Bracknell, Berkshire about northwest of the town centre.The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew was designed by the architect H.G.W. Drinkwater in a simple Gothic Revival style and built in 1888. St...
, BracknellBracknellBracknell is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Bracknell Forest in Berkshire, England. It lies to the south-east of Reading, southwest of Windsor and west of central London...
, BerkshireBerkshireBerkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...
, 1888 - Hanley's Brewery, Oxford: square room and stores (now Modern Art OxfordModern Art OxfordModern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1965 in Oxford, England. From 1965 to 2002, it was called The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.-Foundation:...
), 30 Pembroke Street, OxfordPembroke Street, OxfordPembroke Street is in central Oxford, England. St Ebbes Street is to the west and major thoroughfare of St Aldate's is to the east.Modern Art Oxford is located on the north side of the street... - Saint Leonard's parish church, EynshamEynshamEynsham is a village and civil parish about east of Witney in Oxfordshire, England.-History:Eynsham grew up near the historically important ford of Swinford on the River Thames flood plain...
, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1892 - W.F. Lucas's Clothing Factory, 59 George Street, OxfordGeorge Street, OxfordGeorge Street is a street in central Oxford, England. It is a shopping street running east-west. Its eastern end meets Broad Street at a crossroads with Cornmarket Street to the south and Magdalen Street to the north...
, 1892 - Cape of Good Hope public house, The Plain, OxfordThe Plain, OxfordThe Plain is an important junction, now a roundabout constructed in 1950, just east of Magdalen Bridge in Oxford, England. To the east and southeast are St Clement's, Cowley Road and Iffley Road. Magdalen College School is to the south...
, 1892