Walter Edward Mills (7 November 1850 – 17 April 1910) was an English architect. Mills was articled to the architect Henry Edward Cooper of

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in 1868. He established his own independent practice in

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in about 1875,Brodie ''et al.'', 2001, page 185 where by 1881 he had premises at 13, High Street. Mills served as architectural clerk to the agent for the

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Estates, for whom he completed

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in 1878. Mills designed a number of public buildings in mixed styles, usually neo- Jacobean. His extension of the

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was completed posthumously. Mills was elected an Associate of the

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(ARIBA) in 1882.

Works

*Holdenby House,

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: extension, 1877-78 *St. Leonard's parish church,

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, Oxfordshire, 1890 *St. Mary's parish church,

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: rebuilding, 1895 *St. James' parish church,

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, Oxfordshire: north transept and bellcote, 1896 *Warwick Road Hospital, Banbury, Oxfordshire: hospital wing, late 19th century *

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: extension, 1909 *Oxford Union, Oxford: second library, 1910-11 (with Thorpe)Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 273

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