• Source: Arthur Young (architect)

      • Arthur Young (1853 – 22 December 1924), was an English architect, particularly of Catholic churches.


      Career


      He was born in 1853 at Stamford, Lincolnshire, the second son of Charles Edward Young, and was educated there at Stamford Grammar School, and then studied for two years at the "Technische Schule" at St Gall in Switzerland. He was then articled to Philip Causton Lockwood, Borough Surveyor of Brighton from 1870-3, before working in the offices of E. J. Tarver; followed by the noted church architect Benjamin Ferrey; and then George Sommers Clarke between 1870 and 1879. He commenced work in London in 1877. He was working from 19 Queen Anne's Gate in Westminster in 1886 and from 5 South Square, Gray's Inn in 1914. He became a FRIBA in 1886.


      Notable buildings


      Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury, Harrow (1894)
      St Mary Magdalene, Bexhill-on-Sea (1907)
      Our Lady and St. Augustine, Rickmansworth (1909)
      St Edmund's parish chapel, Old Hall
      Dominican convent at Watford
      Convent of Our Lady of Sion
      Catholic High School, at Bayswater
      New wing at Ratcliffe College
      St Edward the Confessor Church, Golders Green
      Church of St Edmund of Canterbury and English Martyrs, Ware (1911)
      Benson Memorial Church, Buntingford (1914)
      Our Lady's, Chesham Bois
      St Dominic's, Harrow


      References




      Literature


      Brodie A. (ed),(2001), Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects.

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