William Venn Gough (1842–1918) was an architect responsible for a number of prominent buildings in
Bristol
Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...
. His works include the
Cabot Tower, Colston's Girls' School (now
Montpelier High School),
Trinity Road Library, St Aldhelm's church
and South Street School
in
Bedminster, the village hall in
Yatton,
and Port of Bristol Authority Docks Office, now
Queen Square House, in
Queen Square.
Gough collaborated with
Archibald Ponton on buildings such as Bristol's
Granary
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on
Welsh Back.
From 1872 he had an office at Athenaeum Chambers, Nicholas Street, Bristol. and then from 1898 to 1906 at 98, Hampton Road, Bristol. He then moved to 24, Bridge Street, Bristol until 1914.
In 1904 William Venn Gough designed the Technical Institute and Seely Library,
Newport, Isle of Wight
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; the building was Grade 2 listed in 1972.
In 1908 Gough designed the memorial for
John Kay, inventor of the
Flying Shuttle in Kay Gardens,
Bury, Lancashire, the memorial was grade 2 listed in 1985.
References
1842 births
1918 deaths
19th-century English architects
Architects from Bristol
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