Wiltshire architects abington, L. J. ?not an architect

(Cheese & Grain community centre, Frome, Som, 2014 Green Apple Award conv from industrial building;)

(Filwood Sports Club, Knowle West, Bristol;)

(reordering Bristol Temple Meads railway station;)

(Tiverton multi-storey car-park;)
BRUNEL, ISAMBARD KINGDOM Engineer. 1806-59, son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel. Appointed engineer to GWR 7.3.1833, also engineer to Bristol & Exeter Railway until resigned in 1844 over conflict of interest with GWR. Sir Daniel Gooch 1816-99 was locomotive superintendent GWR 1837-64 and may have designed buildings at Swindon with IKB; LTC Rolt biography; C&F suggest Brunel control over the GWR design office; JC Bourne lithographs of GWR;

(1827ff Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol; 1836 GJL, completed 1864;

1833-41 Engineer Great Western Railway, London to Bristol, appointed 7.3.33, surveyed line 1834. Act 31.8.1835. London-Maidenhead open May 1838, Bristol-Bath opened 31.8.1840, Bath-London 1841. £6.5m; Bristol Temple Meads 1839ff Station, also bridge over Avon 1839; Keynsham Station; Twerton viaduct, Twerton Station, Twerton tunnel; Bath has two bridges, castellated retaining wall and 20-arch viaduct under Jacobean station with overall roof ill Bourne lithograph 1846, overall roof demolished, Bath Station blt under Mr Frere qv c1840; there was also a goods station and engine shed; also retaining wall and bridge Sydney Gardens. Skew Bridge over Avon 1840 timber, dem; Box Tunnel 1837-41 opened 30.6.41, contractors for main part George Burge of Herne Bay, for E end (through rock) Brewer of Box and Lewis of Bath; triple arched bridge carrying London Rd Box over line; Middlehill Tunnel 1837-41 (contractor George Findlater); Corsham Station; Chippenham Station 1841 (dem) and viaduct (illustrated by Bourne) and perhaps Western Villas, Chippenham; temporary works at Wootton Bassett Road 1840 before 1841-2 the construction of Swindon Station and railway village, given to J & C Rigby qv the contractors but designs probably Brunel's; railway workshops 1841-3 were designed in office; one-sided stations at Reading and Slough, Berks; Rowland Brotherhood qv was contractor, resident at Chippenham;

(c1840 two-room houses under arches of viaduct, Twerton, Som; C&F 13)

(1840 terrace, Steventon, Berks, nine brick cottages; C&F 13, Elizabethan style, dem; similar terrace for Moulsford, Berks, possibly not built;

1840 temporary wooden cottages at Hay Lane station, Wootton Bassett Rd, Swindon; C&F;

(1836-44 Engineer to Bristol & Exeter Railway, Act 19.5.36. Work started 1837, to Bridgwater opened 1.6.41, to Taunton May 1843, to Exeter May 1844. Most of work done by William Gravatt qv; stations Bristol Temple Meads, Bridgwater, Taunton, Exeter; 1838-41 Somerset Bridge over Parrett, nr Bridgwater, FS 30.7.39, single arch of Blue Lias, failed, replaced 1843 in timber; BLJ 20ff; contract Somerset Bridge 1838 awarded to – Bromhead, FS 30.7.39, stone from Langport, completed 1841, centring not removed until 1843 as arch rise only 12’ twice as flat as Maidenhead; replacement 1843 w laminated timbers lasted until 1904, BDRP 21-3;

Bridgwater Station stuccoed single-storey (alts 1882 to platform and forecourt canopies); Taunton had two stations on one side ?both or only up single storey 1-3-3-3-1 bays, up has gone, dem 1867, down remains w 2-st centre ill w Brunel type canopy replaced in 1867-8 when station given overall roof (dem) by Brock & Co Bristol SCG 22.1.68; Maggs Taunton Steam; 1838 Edwin Down architect involved as contractor for 6 ¾ m piece from Burnham to Bridgwater; Brunel engineer, John England assistant engineer; Brunel resigned 1844 succeeded by CH Gregory as engineer to B&E;

(1836 engineer, Cheltenham & Great Western Union Railway; Swindon to Cheltenham, opened 1841;

1840-1 temporary station and works, Hay Lane, Swindon, sketches survive by IKB, built by Rigby; C&F 19; JD&C Rigby qv paid c£1200 April to June 1841 for work at Hay Lane

1841-9 Swindon railway works, opened 2.1.43; the works were designed in GWR office, by Brunel possibly with TH Bertram qv; J Chandler, Swindon Decoded, 44; LTC Rolt; engine-shed parallel with line, repair shop at right angles running N, ancillary buildings forming a three sided quadrangle, the W range added last and then two outer quadrangles N and W; Bourne: Engine Shed for 100 engines 490' by 72' with 4 lines of rails capable of holding 48 engines, with open ends and wooden roof. In centre and at right angles on N side Engine House 290' x 140' divided by two rows of columns, where up to 36 engines stand transversely in the outer aisles with a travelling platform up centre; roof of timber and wrought-iron; at N end of Engine house buildings for repairs. Erecting House (attached NE) where machinery put together communicates with Engine house and holds 18 engines; JD&C Rigby qv paid from 11.6.41 for work on Engine House; paid some £35,000 to 21.12.42; machinery by Joseph Whitworth of Manchester; also built before 1843 the Drawing Office detached to E and L-plan range N of drawing office and across N end of yard; W range added 1846-7 for machine, fitting & smiths' shops and a a 3-sided range added on n forming quadrangle for smithies; outer courtyard on W of smiths' shops added by 1849; roofs of 1847-9 additions iron by Fox & Henderson; Brunel's close involvement ended with financial crisis of 1847-9 C&F;

1842ff Railway Village, Swindon; parallel streets divided by broad central square called High St (now Emlyn Square); first part built was W half Bristol St, Bath St, Exeter St and Taunton St 1842-3; next E half London, Oxford, Reading, Faringdon Streets 1846-7; Emlyn Square had 3-storey houses on corners and shops 1846-7; Barracks Emlyn Square for single workers (male) sketched 1847 as 3-st nine bay building in Tudor style by IKB, but not built until 1850s to different design; contract to build village 1841 with JD & C Rigby qv, for 300 houses, they built western half some 130 houses before pulling out; Brunel plans presented 19.3.42 for first block in Bristol St, two rows of 44 cottages, cost not to exceed £100 per pair; offer of design help from F Thompson qv rejected Jan 1842: 'I am .. only going to build a few cottages .. of a totally unornamental character'; first block (Bristol St/ Bath St) built by Rigbys too slowly so second block (Bath St/ Exeter St) let to subcontractors, Cooper & Griffiths, these are plainer; completed early 1843; third block Exeter/ Taunton Sts 1843; on site supervision by RJ Ward qv; first block of eastern village London St/ Oxford St plans presented from GWR Engineer's Dept 28.8.45 tender £6414 for 20 cottages by George Major of Swindon; two further blocks 1846-7; shop blocks facing High St proposed 7.11.44, eight shops, plans 3.7.45 for two blocks of shops with cottages by IKB, William Slocombe Bristol contractor £2635; Superintendent's Villa 1844-6 Gothic probably designed in Brunel office, built by George Major, N of London St, dem; a second built for Archibald Sturrock was built by Thomas Lewis qv, 1846, ill C&F 60, also dem in 1870s; they had echoes of Scott & moffatt vicarage;

1841-2 Swindon Station; station including the hotel and dining-room were built under separate contract of 2.2.41 by J & C Rigby qv, contractors, who had the profits of the restaurant, enhanced by an enforced 10-min stop, and the rents of the village; Brunel appears to have consulted Francis Thompson 10.1.42 over refreshment rooms, Thompson may have designed elevations as no drawings in GWR; Rigbys also built Queen's Tap PH on Station Road outside, 1840-1 possibly to Brunel design .

(1837 Royal Western Hotel, Bristol, with RS Pope qv; GJL)

1842-3 sketch for unbuilt TH, Swindon, in Railway Village on site of Mechanics Inst; RCHME;

(1844-9 Entrance lock and swivel bridge, Cumberland Basin, Bristol)

(1845-6 unbuilt Exeter to Yeovil railway SRO Q/RUP/189 and 213; with branch to Chard and to Bridport.

(1845-53 Yeovil branch, Bristol & Exeter Railway, opened 1853. Act 31.7.45. Francis Fox qv engineer; from Durston on B&E, stations at Langport, Martock, to terminus at Hendford nr Yeovil (dem). Minor halts at Durston, Athelney, Thorney etc; Langport was typical GWR Tudor with flat canopies later called Langport West, Martock & Hendford similar (all dem); broad bridges over line near Montacute. Report 23.11.53 by Lt Tyler RE mentions 5 under bridges, 18 over bridges, 10 of them timber. Viaducts over Tone and Parrett, Tone centre span 40’ on skew, Parrett 50’ on skew, carried on 3 beams 8’ apart the 2 exterior beams trussed and connected with wrought iron rods and cast iron shoes and centre supported by wrought iron tension rods attached to ends of 8” planking which forms floor of bridge. Opened 1.10.53 1846 proposed branch Martock to Crewkerne via Stoke sub Hamdon, Chiselborough, West Chinnock, Merriott and Haselbury, Act 16.7.46 (unex). Branch 1848 Durston to Castle-Cary (unex). 1847-9 blt between Yeovil & Martock, Messrs Rigby contrs, work suspended to April 1852. Tenders 1.5.52 went to Hutchinson & Ritson £86K for 13m to Durston WFP 8.6.52 work in progress. BLJ 20ff; Tenders for four stations WFP 1.3.53, plans at ‘Office of the Engineer, in Temple Meads, Bristol’. Typical GWR single storey stations w flat canopies. Hendford ill BLJ 26-7. Connecting rails laid ?1855 to Wilts Somerset & Weymouth at Yeovil Pen Mill to transport materials, report 24.9.56 by Fox to put into full use, £700, open 2.2.1857. Railway hotels at Durston & Martock.

1846ff Wilts Somerset & Weymouth Railway, supported by GWR. Initial 1835 GWR Act proposed a branch from Thingley nr Corsham to Islington field near Gas Works in Trowbridge, and another from Holt to Kingston Farm nr Bradford on Avon, clauses indseted to thwart competitors. 1st meeting 9.7.44 of Wilts & Somerset Rlwy to be built to Brunel plans from Thingley Junction to Salisbury with branches to Devizes, Bradford on Avon, and mineral branch to Radstock, Som. Cost £650K. 1844 proposals to extend line from Frome to Yeovil to connect with B&E, then to continue to Weymouth, also prop ext Radstock to Timsbury and to GWR at Twerton, and to ext Bradford on Avon branch to Bathampton. Act 30.6.45; authorised broad-gauge. Meeting 1.8.45 IKB appointed engineer, with Mr Ward qv resident engineer for Thingley to Salisbury, also branches to Frome and Radstock. Mr Peniston resident engineer for Frome to Weymouth. 1846 work begun between Westbury & Dorchester and various other sections. First part from Bristol main line at Thingley Junction to Westbury opened 5.9.48. Stations at Melksham, Trowbridge and Westbury. Halts at Lacock, Beanacre, Holt, Broughton Gifford and Staverton. Trowbridge Station & Goods Station 1848. Melksham Station 1848 apparently built to plans of J Geddes and I Nolloth, draughtsmen for IKB (C20 article in WT), designs of Melksham and Trowbridge were GWR Tudor style. Both stations are demolished. Work then stopped, abandoned works at Castle Cary, Weymouth and Evershot. WS&W company taken over by GWR 1849-51 with commitment only to finish as far as Frome and Warminster. Westbury-Frome section opened 7.10.50. Westbury-Warminster open Sept 1851. Contractors incl Wythes & Tredwell, Dodson & Munday. Progress slow so locals started Frome Yeovil & Weymouth Rlwy to take over, Act 30.6.52, with Hutchinson contr, this failed & GWR took over again. New contract, works Frome-Yeovil let Feb 1853. Warminster-Salisbury open 30.6.56. Yeovil to Weymouth open WFP 20.1.57, contrs Ritson, also Hill, Richardson & Cooper (Holywell contract). RJ Ward qv engineer. Goods branch Frome-Radstock opened 14.11.54; branch from Holt to Devizes opened 1.7.57;

1846 WS&W branch from GWR line at Bathampton, Som through Bradford on Avon to main WSW line at Staverton nr Trowbridge, authorised 1846 as condition of compulsory purchase Act for main WSW route, condition opposed by the GWR. Begun 1847 with excavation under Kennet & Avon Canal Dundas Aqueduct, Limpley Stoke proving very difficult. Work completed at Avoncliff Canal aqueduct 1848 and Bradford on Avon Station built 1848, Tudor, with contemporary platform building, station master's house (dem 1967) and goods shed (dem). Most of engineering to Staverton complete inc two bridges over Avon and tunnel under St Margarets Hill, Bradford. Work then stopped, resumed when GWR bought company in 1849, but GWR announced that Bradford branch would be abandoned. Legal action 1853, appeal by GWR Nov 1853, forced GWR to reopen scheme, still problems with landslip, line finally opened 2.2.57, WT 7.2.57; new station at Bathampton, Som, 1856; changed to standard gauge 1874, track doubled 1885; timber viaduct over Avon E of Bradford rebuilt as steel bridge 1878;

(1846 proposed Exeter line from Yeovil & Bridport, unex; SRO Q/RUP/213;

1849 ?Station, Box, Wilts; George Myers was contractor; P Spencer-Silver, Pugin's Builder 1993, 209, from Judith Myers' scrapbook;

1853 plans for water-supply to Railway Village, Swindon, contractor Rowland Brotherhood qv, £6500; scheme abandoned; C&F 78;

1854 plans to complete Wilts Somerset & Weymouth Railway (Bradford-Bathampton and Frome to Weymouth and connection to Berks & Hants Railway via Warminster and Salisbury) put to Parliament, IKB engineer;

(1855 involved with East Somerset Railway, branch line from WS&D at Witham Friary to Wells; was a director in 1855; Witham to Shepton Mallet opened 9.11.58, extended to Wells 1862. Wainwright & Heard qv surveyors to company; station at Cranmore survives, next to HQ of East Somerset Railway revived steam line; goods shed of 1862 from Wells partly re-erected at Cranmore as HQ 1993;

1856 Station, Fisherton St, Salisbury, Wilts; BoE; WBR; closed 1932; WS&W branch from Warminster opened 30.6.56;

1857 Branch Holt Junction to Devizes; opened 1.7.57; ?RJ Ward resident engineer;

(1859-62 West Somerset line from Norton Fitzwarren to Watchet, stations Bishops Lydeard, Crowcombe Heathfield, Stogumber, Williton and Watchet. Initial meetings 1856, Brunel drew up plans before he died. Opened 1862, Norton Fitzwarren station 1871, line ext to Minehead 1872-4; Brunel’s assistant RP Brereton mostly involved, but George Furness of London also named as engineer (maybe contractor);

BRUNSDEN, WILLIAM plasterer

1656 plastered Merchant's House, 132-3 High St, Marlborough; signs plaster in apex of attic inside;

1681 paid £1/11/0d for plastering and roughcasting the end of the house next the garden, Castle House, Marlborough; MTC 10; also 3d paid for ochre to colour the bricks at the quoins of the walls used by William Brunsden;
BRUNTON, WILLIAM Engineer, spoke at first meeting re GWR in Bath, 1830; AS
BRUTON, EDWARD GEORGE. Architect, St Michaels Chambers, Ship St, Oxford; Edward Henry Bruton wno practised in Cardiff was probably a son, born 1854

1856-7 Cemetery, Westbury; BN 1857 536; Tenders WI 21.2.56 two chapels and lodge; opened 10.5.57; AEBTD; Anglican chapel closed 1969;

BRUTON, G.N. Drew detailed floor plan of Black Swan Inn Devizes, early C19; WBR2;
BRYAN, HENRY DARE Architect, 38 College Gn Bristol 1868-1909. Born Weston super Mare. Practice in Bristol 1890, continued by Silcock & Reay; obit RIBAJ 12.6.09; Br 19.6.09; lived at Weston s Mare after 1898;

1902 No 24 Bridge St and 16 Fleet St, Swindon, Wilts; WBR2, Public Benefit Boot Co and photographer's studio;

BTA Architects Warminster; Barrie Taylor Associates founded 1970 see also Barrie Taylor. Alan Moon;

(2000 Millennium development, Cathedral School, Winchester, Hants;

(2002 Music school, Port Regis, Dorset;

2002 dining-hall, Warminster School, inf estates bursar;

2007 rest headmaster's house, Warminster School after fire; plans WBR; Byne House, Church St;

2011 rest The Assembly Rooms, Sambourne Rd, Warminster, as The Civic Centre; £800,000; opened 16.2.12;

2011-13 Thomas Arnold Hall, Warminster School; by Alan Moon; inf estates bursar;

2012 proposed conversion of Culverhouse Barn, Warminster School, unex;

2012 dev at Bishopstrow College, Wilts;

2013 new steps and ramp, Athenaeum, High St, Warminster;

2014 prop dev of Beeline coaches site, Bishopstrow;

Website:

201? replacement dwelling, Ansty;

20?? private residence, new build traditional; Wilts;

20?? large adds lodge, Wardour, Wilts;

20?? Hurdcott House, Barford St Martin;

20?? dining-hall ext, Kingsdown School, Warminster;

20?? childrens centre, Princecroft School, Warminster;

BRYANT, PEREGRINE Peregrine Bryant Architecture, Fulham Palace, London; conservation specialists; established 1994, previously Benson & Bryant; Paul Chatham RIBA partner;

20?? restoration Ramsbury Manor, Wilts; ?for Harry Hyams owner 1964-2016;

20?? restoration of Wilbury Park for Countess of Iveagh, £7.5m; Biggs contrs website; RICS award; also restoration of grotto and temple, Salisbury Civic Soc Award 2000;
BS ASSOCIATES, Oxford;

1976 addition, QM, Swindon; survey of QM houses by AHP 2017;

BUCKENHAM, WILLIAM Builder employed by Longleat estate;

1864 plans new buildings, Mad Doctors Farm, Corsley (now High House Farm); WB clerk of works; Longleat papers;

1869 ?alts Parsonage Farm, Longleat, ?Horningsham; G16/760/10, plans not seen;

1869 adds Bugley Farm, Warminster for Longleat estate G16/760/12; plans not seen;

1874 plans new cottage and restoration of old one, Mad Doctors Farm, Corsley; WB clerk of works;

1874 pair of cottages, Parsonage Farm, ?Horningsham; plan and elev G16/760/37 banded facade;

1876 pair of cottages by Longleat building yard NE of Stalls Farm, Corsley; plan G16/760/148

c1880 Fatting-house and calving house, Thoulstone Farm, Upton Scudamore; Longleat papers; Thoulstone Farm now in Chapmanslade;

1889 ?new house for park keeper Longleat; WSHC G16/760/116; plans not seen;

1891 ?house for Parsonage and Bugley Farm, Longleat estate; G16/760/136 plans not seen; ?Parsonage Farm is horningsham, Bugley Farm is Warminster;

BUCKLER, GEORGE Architect, Ingatestone, Essex. 1811-86 was son of John Buckler and brother of John Chessell Buckler; G Buckler listed in London dirs of 1827-30, HC; may be another George Buckler

1855 report on Winterbourne Bassett ch; but restoration 1857 was by Field & Hilton D1/61/9/21;

BUCKLER, JOHN 1770-1851. Born Isle of Wight, bailiff to Magdalen College Oxford c1789-1849, topographical artist, occasional architect. Father of John Chessell Buckler 1793-1894 and George Buckler 1811-86. HC. Designed memorials, gave up practice c1830. Huge collections of topographical drawings, all over Britain, including many of Somerset made for H Smyth Piggott & Bp of Bath & Wells, in SANHS collection. Similarly commissioned to draw buldings in Wilts for Sir R Colt Hoare, did 700 1803-13, large collection with the Wiltshire Museum, Devizes; Said to have been articled to CT Critchlow of Southwark (WBR) prob error for CT Cracklow (HC) with whom he collaborated on spec developemnt 1791-4 in Southwark, but JB did designs.

1812 unex plan for new front to inn, Stourton, Wilts, for Sir RC Hoare; WBR

BUCKNALL, BENJAMIN Architect Translator of Viollet le Duc, designed mainly for RC patrons, ended career in Algiers;

(1858-60 RC church, Taunton, Som)

1862 add RC church, Devizes, WI 22.5.62;
BUCKPITT, GEORGE, Carpenter, builder, Trowbridge 1822-30 dirs, by 1842 Buckpitt & Gillett; WBR2;
BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP, Bristol. Firm founded 1961 by Sir George Grenfell Baines born 1908, originally in Preston 1937, Keith Pavey Bristol office at 7 Hill St since 1973. Merged with Whicheloe Macfarlan, & Hill St, 2003;

1971 David Murray John building, Brunel Centre, Swindon; with Douglas Stephen & Partners qv; BDP involved with tower block only, or with whole part N of The Parade 1973-6, BoE1975; AR Sept 1976; AJ 18.3.81; AJ 25.10.89 says second phase was less good than first

1979 Chloride Technical factory, Swindon; BD 21.3.80;

1987 refurbishment of Brunel Centre, Swindon AJ 9.12.87, proposed addition 200K sq ft and £20m refurb of The parade, AJ 25.10.89 proposed mezzanine floor;

1992 Allied Dunbar training and development centre, King Edward's Place, Foxhill, Wanborough; RIBA award 1993; RIBAJ Jan 93 31; CTA 1992; project architect Roger Stollery; Taylor Woodrow contrs;

1999-2002 Great Western Hospital, Marlborough Rd, Swindon; opened 3.12.02, 550,000 sq ft over six floors, £132m; SB, plans 1998 not by BDP but by Whicheloe Macfarlane HDR of Chandlers Ford, Hants; Brunel NHS Treatment Centre 2002-6, opened 2006, plans 2002-3 by Whicheloe Macfarlane/ BDP, £32m, Swindon BC planning;

(2003-6 Fairfield High School, Alfoxton Rd,Bristol; SNB)

(2005-7 Redland Green School, Bristol; SNB)

(2006 North Somerset Courts, Worle, Som; SNB;

(2006 Bristol Bus Station)

(2008-9 Cardiff Central Library, Glam)

2009-11 Wellington Academy, Tidworth; new secondary school;

BULLEN, THOMAS Calne, mason

1796 reblt toll-house, Beckhampton; WBR2;

BULLOCH, ARCHIBALD Architect Office of Works, born 1881, articled J Murray Robertson of Dundee 1898-1902, then LCC Highways, then Niven & Wigglesworth, and in 1904 joined Office of Works qv; ARIBA 1906; assistant architect 1909; architect 1920; FRIBA 1927; responsible for post offices in Wales and West of England including Bridgend and Chepstow 1922; Bath 1923-7; Aberdare and Abertillery 1924; Ammanford, Ludlow and Bodmin 1925; Evesham, Macclesfield, Wellington Walsall and Avonmouth, 1926; Telephone Repeater station, Taunton 1927; PO Egham c1929; became architect to the Air Ministry Directorate of Works in 1930s; the RAF Expansion Scheme of 1934 proposed 11 new bases and there was a standard architecture of neo-Georgian kind presumably by Bulloch influenced by Edwin Lutyens as advisor to the Ministry;

1935-7 various buildings, RAF Hullavington; BPOA; at Stanton St Quintin, one of eleven stations of 1934 RAF Expansion Scheme, opened 14.6.37, simple Georgian design common to other such bases, but in Cotswold stone, built for Empire Flying School also an Aircraft Storage Unit; David Berryman Wilts Airfields in WW2;

19?? aircraft workshops, RAF Malmesbury; BPOA;
BUMPHREY, ANDREW Architect Silverless St, Marlborough; Andrew Bumphrey Architects started 1987;

20?? reordered St Mary ch, Marlborough; website; removed pews;

20?? car workshop and showroom Devizes

2011-12 new steps, TH, Marlborough; inf Pippa Card; masonry John Lloyd;

BURFORD, JAMES Architect, Old Manor, Codford St Peter; EHA holds 200 negs of works including almshouses and alterations to listed buildings in Wilts and Dorset, inf Ian Leith;

1962 rebuild Nos 37-9 High St, Stockton for JM Stratton; inf P Stratton; before and after pictures CL 29.11.62; thatched cottage row;

1962-7 rest Church Cottages, 9-13 Church St, Bradford on Avon; WBR2;
BURGE, GEORGE Herne Bay contractor;

1837-41 contractor main part Box Tunnel for GWR; Burge did W part 2332 yards which was through marl and brick lined, Lewis and Brewer did E part through rock; C Higgens Box an intimate history; AS: Burge employed 1100-1200 men day and night, 100 carts employed three years bringing bricks made just W of Chippenham; 30 million bricks; opened 30.6.41

BURGESS, Rev. CECIL FOSTER. An engineer in the GWR Drawing Office, Swindon, who reputedly designed the steel arched roof trusses of the GWR Medical Fund Baths & Dispensary, Faringdon road, Swindon, 1891-2 (JJ Smith qv architect), but possibly as one of a team. Later ordained, vicar of Stratton St Margaret from 1898-1911 and of Wanborough 1911-21, died 1926, buried Ashley Road Cemetery, Epsom.
BURGESS, F.I. ?of family of builders and stone masons Westbury;

1920 War Memorial, Market Place, Westbury, decided to adopt design of FIB WT 21.2.20; in form of a column; ?demolished; plans 2512/350/16 by Harold Brakspear for a war memorial at Westbury may be for the same;

BURGESS, JAMES Builder Westbury in dirs 1830-42, statement of accounts and property 1848, probably died 1848; James Burgess stonemason in 1867 dir is probably another James Burgess qv builder, who died in 1897;

1846 ?school, West Ashton; alts 1848 by Young & White;