Harry Wilkinson Moore
Born 1850[ 1] Died 1915[ 1] Nationality British Occupation Architect Awards AA Silver Medal, 1879[ 1]
View along Logic Lane in University College, Oxford towards H.W. Moore's covered bridge on the High Street
Harry Wilkinson Moore , FRIBA (1850–1915) was a Victorian and Edwardian architect.[ 2] He was the son of Arthur Moore (1814–1873) and Mary Wilkinson (1821–1904), and a nephew of the architects George Wilkinson and William Wilkinson .[ 1]
Career
Moore was a pupil of William Wilkinson in 1872 and assistant to Alfred Waterhouse in 1878.[ 1] Moore was in partnership with William Wilkinson from 1881. Moore was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1888.[ 1]
Works
Moore designed a number of notable buildings in Oxford . His works include:
Park Building (1885-1895), a building of Somerville College, Oxford .
The Vineyard (1889–90), also known as Pollock House and now The Vines , on Pullens Lane in Headington .[ 5]
Napier House (1892), now Cotuit Hall , also on Pullens Lane, now a hall of residence for EF Academy, Oxford.[ 6]
Durham Buildings, University of Oxford (1902)[ 7]
Logic Lane covered bridge (1904) over Logic Lane at University College, Oxford .
He also designed many houses in North Oxford , including in the following roads: Banbury Road , Bardwell Road , Chalfont Road , Farndon Road , Frenchay Road , Hayfield Road , Kingston Road , Linton Road , Northmoor Road , Polstead Road , Rawlinson Road , St Margaret's Road , Southmoor Road , Walton Well Road , and Woodstock Road .[ 8]
References
Sources
Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan; Pinfield, Leslie, eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834–1914 . Vol. L– Z. London & New York: Continuum . p. 203. ISBN 082645514X .
Hinchcliffe, Tanis (1992). North Oxford . New Haven & London: Yale University Press . pp. 215–243 (Appendix: Gazetter ). ISBN 0-14-071045-0 .
Saint, Andrew (1970). "Three Oxford Architects" (PDF) . Oxoniensia . XXXV . Oxford Architectural and Historical Society : 53– 102.
Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire . The Buildings of England . Harmondsworth: Penguin Books . ISBN 0-14-071045-0 .
Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford An Architectural Guide . Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-817423-3 .