Tuesday 26th April 2016
The offices of BTA Architects Ltd.,
39 Silver Street, Warminster, BA12 8PT.
Telephone 01985 213171.
http://www.bta-architects.co.uk/
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Tuesday 26th April 2016.
From the Wylye Valley Life magazine, Friday 22nd February 1985:
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Warminster Arts Centre at The Athenaeum
Foyer Exhibition for March – McEwan Porter
McEwan Porter, F.R.I.B.A., has produced professionally many architectural perspective drawings in various media (often mixed). Lately, especially since he retired, he has concentrated on capturing in watercolour the scenes of the downs, rivers and seaside which we all enjoy.
Warminster Arts Centre, Athenaeum, High Stteet, Warminster, Wilts, BA12 9AE. Telephone: 0985 213891.
1968
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H.A. Hobson.
Architect.
6 Boreham Road, Warminster.
Telephone 3253.
From The Modern Encyclopedia, published in the early 1930s:
Sir Christopher Wren. English architect. Born at East Knoyle, Wilts., Oct. 20, 1632. In 1657 he became professor of astronomy at Gresham College, and in 1660 Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. The chapel of Pembroke Collage, Cambridge, was his first building, 1663. His first design for St. Paul’s, 1673, was rejected, but in 1675 an amended version was approved. He was knighted in 1672, and in 1685 he became M.P. for Plympton. He died Feb. 25, 1723, and was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Wren designed the Ashmolean and the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford; the west towers of Westminster Abbey; and parts of the palace at Greenwich. He restored Salisbury and Chichester cathedrals. His greatest work was to rebuild the churches and other London buildings destroyed in the Great Fire. Apart from St. Paul’s, he designed 50 churches, including St. Bride’s and St. Clement Danes, the halls of 36 City companies, and the Monument.
From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 4th March 1882:
Messrs. Stent and Awdry, of Warminster, who designed the re-constructed chapel in Brown Street, Salisbury, may be congratulated upon the success of their work. The building forms a pleasing feature in the architecture of the locality, and internally is one of the prettiest edifices of the kind to be found in the country. Mr. Hicks, however, we expect, was not far wrong when he shook his head in incredulity, as to the suggestion that the firm would not on principle design either a theatre or a public house. Architects, like lawyers, are in professional honour bound to accept any commission that is not of an unreasonable or outrageous character. – Wilts County Mirror.
