William Richard Gleave ARIBA (1868 - 8 January 1933) was a surveyor and architect based in

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History

He was born in 1868, the son of Thomas Gleave (1838-1881) shipbuilder and Anne Jane Hindley (1841-1871). He was christened on 9 August 1868 at

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Widnes Widnes ( ) is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2011 census had a population of 61,464. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form th ...

, Cheshire. He was educated at the local Farnworth Grammar School and Chester College. In 1891 he was living at 81 Herbert Street, Cheetham (now part of Manchester) and employed as an architectural draughtsman and became an

Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...

, by examinations, in 1893. He married Lois Mason (1865-1949) in 1894 in Stockport, Cheshire. The children were: *Harold Mason Gleave (1895-1917) *Ida Kathleen Gleave (1903-1980) In 1896 he went to Dublin to work in the office of

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. He won a competition for cottages in Longford. By 1901 he was living at 44 Henry Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham and by 1905 he was in partnership with

Arthur Richard Calvert Arthur Richard Calvert (1852-1 September 1922) was an architect based in Nottingham. History He was born in Clapham, Surrey in 1852, the son of Revd. William Bainbridge Calvert (1821-1892) and Charlotte Caparn. He was educated at Tonbridge Schoo ...

. He was architect for a number of houses and villas at West Bridgford and commercial buildings in Nottingham. He was engaged as an assistant architect with

on the Constitutional Club, the Old Moot Hall, the Auction Mart and other buildings in Nottingham. Around 1913, he formed a partnership with Bernard Jessop, and Charles Henry Calvert (son of Arthur Richard Calvert) as ''Calvert, Jessop and Gleave''. He died on 8 January 1933 at Hillcrest, Thurgarton in 1933 and left an estate valued at £22,586 2s. 1d ().

Works

*13-31 St Mel’s Road, Longford Town, County Longford, Ireland *3 Arkwright Street, Nottingham 1902-03 (Originally a Doctor’s House, later the Nottingham Royal Naval Association. Demolished in November 2012 for extension to Nottingham Express Transit.) *Thorncliff, St Andrew’s Road, Nottingham 1904 (with

as a house for Gleave) *1-3 Victoria Embankment, Nottingham 1904 (with

) *3 Thorncliffe Rise, Nottingham 1905 (with

) *Lady Bay Church, Nottingham 1906 enlargement *Canon Lewis Memorial Hall, Ransom Road, Nottingham 1907 (with

) *Enfield Chambers, 14-16 Low Pavement, Nottingham 1909-10 *Houses, Stockhill Lane, Basford, Nottingham 1919-21 *Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe War Memorial, Lincolnshire 1920 *Mapperley War Memorial, Scout Lane/Mapperley Plains Road, Nottingham 1922 *54-56 Milton Street, Nottingham 1927

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gleave, William Richard 19th-century English architects Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects 20th-century English architects Architects from Cheshire