Frederick Whittaker Dixon (1854–1935) was an architect practising in
Oldham,
Lancashire.
Life and work
He worked as a partner in Oldham company
Potts, Pickup & Dixon
Edward Potts (2 March 1839 – 15 April 1909) was an architect who practised in Oldham, Lancashire, England.
Biography
Potts was born on 2 March 1839 in Bury, Lancashire. He moved to Oldham and designed many of the town's Cotton mills and was ...
(run by fellow
Methodists) from 1880 to around 1889 when he set up his own practice.
In 1906 Dixon's son Ernest joined the practice and it became F. W. Dixon & Son. By that time Frederick Dixon had built 12
cotton mills in Oldham.
In his early mills Dixon used yellow brick to decorate the facades. His later mills used pronounced piers or buttresses between the windows, extending unbroken from the ground to the parapet. The water tower designs drew from a variety of architectural styles.
The Dixons designed 22 mills in Oldham containing 1.8 million spindles, making him responsible for about 30% of the capacity increase at that time.
He also designed chapels such as the one for the
Swedenborgian
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Swedenborgian or ...
s in
Failsworth and the
Primitive Methodist
The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination with the holiness movement. It began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834).
In the United States, the Primiti ...
s in
Chadderton.
From 1896 Dixon lived in (and travelled to Oldham from)
Southport, Lancashire. He became prominent in the town's politics, serving as mayor and Justice of the Peace in the borough.
Works
*
Hyson Green Methodist Free Church
Hyson Green Methodist Free Church is a former Methodist church at the junction of Noel Street and Gregory Boulevard in Hyson Green, Nottingham
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1895
*John Petty Memorial Chapel, York
References
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1854 births
1935 deaths
19th-century English architects
20th-century English architects
People from Oldham
People from Southport
Architects from Greater Manchester
Fred Dixon buildings