Frank Hearn Shayler (1867–1954) was a Shrewsbury-based architect who worked in an

Arts and Crafts A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...

style. He was in partnership with Thomas Ridge, and they also had offices in

Oswestry Oswestry ( ; ) is a market town, civil parish and historic railway town in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483 and A495 roads. The town was the administrative headquarters of the Borough ...

and

Welshpool Welshpool ( cy, Y Trallwng) is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, historically in the county of Montgomeryshire. The town is from the Wales–England border and low-lying on the River Severn; its Welsh language name ''Y Trallwng'' m ...

Career

Born in

Banbury Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshir ...

, Oxfordshire, son of Joseph (a solicitor) and Harriette Shayler, he was originally articled in 1884 to Edwin Lawrence Elgar of

Ramsgate Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of about 40,000. In 2011, according to the Census, there was a populati ...

and then studied at the Science and Arts Schools at Banbury and New Cross, London. In 1890 he joined the practice of W H Spaull in

and formed a partnership with Spaull in 1893 but shortly afterwards formed his own practice at Bridge House in Welshpool and at Oswestry. In 1899 he married (and later divorced) Aimée Alberta Swayne and moved to Clive Chambers in Shrewsbury, then in 1902 built a house for himself at the Mount. In 1909 he was remarried to Annie Mabel Randall. He continued his offices in Welshpool and Oswestry in partnerships with Madoc-Jones and Henry Ridge. His main practice was in Shrewsbury, later taking into partnership Francis Milverton Drake and J Stuart Wilkes. This partnership was dissolved in October 1933.

Works include

Chapels

Llanfyllin Llanfyllin ( – ) is a market town, community and electoral ward in a sparsely populated area in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. Llanfyllin's community population in 2011 was 1,532, of whom 34.1% could speak Welsh. Llanfyllin means ''church or ...

Tabernacle Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.

Wrenaissance Edwardian architecture is a Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910). Architecture up to the year 1914 may also be included in this style. Description Edwardian architecture is ...

Style with double columned Ionic entrance of Cefn stone, with

Venetian Window A Venetian window (also known as a Serlian window) is a large tripartite window which is a key element in Palladian architecture. Although Sebastiano Serlio (1475–1554) did not invent it, the window features largely in the work of the Italian ar ...

above, by Shayler and Ridge 1904. *

Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant () is a village, community and an ecclesiastical parish in the extreme north of Powys, Wales; about 9 miles west of Oswestry and 12 miles south of Llangollen, on the B4580. It lies near the foothills of the Berwyn mountain ...

Seion Wesleyan Chapel, by Shayler and Ridge, 1904. Seion Methodist Chapel, Llanrhaeadr-ym-mochnant, was first opened 1834, classrooms were added in 1870, a chapel house and detached Sunday School in 1892. The present chapel is a rebuild dated 1904, designed by architects Shayler and Ridge of Oswestry. It is a stone-built, slate-roofed chapel, built in the Arts & Crafts Gothic style with a gable entry plan. Seion is now Grade 2* Listed as an unusually fine Arts and Crafts chapel design which is amongst the best in Wales. * Montgomery Baptist Chapel. Princes Street. By Shayler and Edmunds. 1900. Demolished 1966.

Restoration of Historic Buildings

Machynlleth Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a pop ...

Glyndwr Parliament Building. Possibly restored this for Lord Davies at the same time as the building of the adjacent Glyndwr Institute. *

The Mermaid Inn, 28 High Street, Welshpool. Very probably an early 16th-century merchant's house, placed on a burgage plot between the High Street and Alfred Jones Court. Timber-framed building with long storehouse or wing to the rear. The frontage was remodelled c1890, by Shayler. Early illustrations of the building show that prior to this it had a thatched roof, and that the timbering was not exposed. Two bay building. Passage to side with heavy box-framing in square panels, with brick infill exposed in side elevation and in rear wing. The frontage has been exposed by Shayler to show decorative timber work on the upper storey, divided by a middle rail, with cusped close-studding below, and quatrefoils above. Inside a room in frontage range has ceiling with transverse and axial beams, all with step-stopped

chamfer A chamfer or is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Sometimes defined as a form of bevel, it is often created at a 45° angle between two adjoining right-angled faces. Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, ...

s. Similar stop-chamfered joists.

Public Buildings

Shropshire * Wem Public Library, Aston Street. 1905 Montgomeryshire *

Llanidloes Llanidloes () is a town and community on the A470 and B4518 roads in Powys, within the historic county boundaries of Montgomeryshire ( cy, Sir Drefaldwyn), Wales. The population in 2011 was 2,929, of whom 15% could speak Welsh. It is the thi ...

. Broad Street, Town Hall, Shayler and Ridge 1908. Faced in Cefn stone from Minera. The Robert Owen Museum, Newtown

* Newtown former Free Library, Newtown 1902. – now contains Robert Owen Museum. The Broad Street frontage was funded by the Co-operative movement while the Art Nouveau frontage, partly facing ?? was funded by public subscription frontage

Bank

. National Provincial Bank (Abbey National) 1905-6

Schools

Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...

, Priory Road- Now Sixth Form College, (F Shayler and J A Swan). William & Mary Style 1910-1 *

Telford Telford () is a town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, about east of Shrewsbury, south west of Stafford, north west of Wolverhampton and from Birmingham in t ...

New College, King Street (former Girls High School) (F Shayler and J A Swan) 1911–2.

Houses

Shropshire *

Bridgnorth Bridgnorth is a town in Shropshire, England. The River Severn splits it into High Town and Low Town, the upper town on the right bank and the lower on the left bank of the River Severn. The population at the 2011 Census was 12,079. Histor ...

Wenlock Road. Group of houses Graycott /Garth * Gobowen The Old Rectory. *

Morda Road (attributed) Villas: Mair Wen Edenholme. *

: The Mount, (South side) Nos.71, 73 AND 75 The Red House (73)Terrace of 3 houses. Dated 1902. By Frank Shayler, No.73, The Red House, for himself. Red brick with some tile hanging and plain tile roof with brick ridge and end stacks. Arts and Crafts style. *

Shelton. Group of Arts and Crafts House in a 1920s development. Montgomeryshire * Montgomery, Chirbury Road Tre Llydiart,"A & J Welton", 19 Wrexham *

Pentre Bychan Pentre Bychan, with the literal meaning of "little village", is a semi-rural hamlet in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. Variously spelled as either one word or two (Pentre Bychan or Pentrebychan), it is situated between Rhostyllen and Johnstown ...

, an attractive pair of houses of rustic brick beneath sand-faced clay tiles on Pentre Bychan Road, in the grounds of the former Pentrebychan Hall. 1936 and developed speculatively. Originally intended to be a group of twelve, but sales were slow due to being marketed at a relatively high value. As a consequence, only two were built with construction subsequently halted by the

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References

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Literature

*Antonia Brodie (ed), ''Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914'': 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001 *J Newman and N Pevsner ''The Buildings of England: Shropshire,'' Yale 2006, *R Scourfield and R Haslam ''The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire,'' Yale University Press 2013.

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