Frederick Sandham Waller (1822 – 22 March 1905) was a British

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and

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Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...

, where he was the resident architect to the Dean and Chapter of

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Career and family

Waller was articled to the civil engineer and county surveyor for Gloucestershire,

Thomas Fulljames Thomas Fulljames FRIBA (4 March 1808 – 24 April 1874) was an architect active in Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the ...

(1808–74), who proposed him as a Fellow of the

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in 1856. Waller worked in partnership with Fulljames from 1846–70 and with Walter Bryan Wood from 1852. One of Waller's sons, Frederick William Waller (1848–1933), was articled to his father and was in partnership with him from 1873. Another of Waller's sons, Samuel Edward Waller, became an artist. Waller's grandson Noel Huxley Waller (1881–1961) also became an architect. Waller and his wife Annie lived for several years at the Moors, Barnwood Road. He retired in 1900 and died at Westgrove

Barnwood Barnwood is an eastern suburb of Gloucester, lying about from the centre of the city, and former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Gloucester, in the Gloucester district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Barnwood was origin ...

, Gloucestershire, on 22 March 1905. He was buried at St Bartholomew and St Andrew, Churchdown, on 25 March

Architecture

Most of Waller's architectural commissions were in Gloucestershire. He also designed a

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extension that was added to the house at

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Park in Oxfordshire. In

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he designed the house at 69 Eton Avenue for the

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John Collier.

Antiquarianism

Waller applied his architectural training to antiquarianism. In 1848 he drew a plan and sections of an historic barn at

Shilton, Oxfordshire Shilton is a village and civil parish about northwest of Carterton, Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 626. Geography Shilton village is on Shill Brook: a stream that rises southwest of Burford, flows through Shi ...

, that had stone walls and an

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timber frame. Later the barn was reputedly gutted by fire and at the foot of his drawings Waller added "All now destroyed".Heyworth, 1971, plate IX However, in 1971 the probable remains of the barn at Shilton with were identified with the help of Waller's drawings.

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