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A. T. Bolton, architect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Jill Lever
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‘Mr A. T. Bolton, An Architectural Historian’ was the heading to The Times obituary of 18 January 1945. No mention was made of Bolton’s career as an architect and it is that aspect of his life and work that is sketched here.

Type
Section 5: Contributions to Architectural Biography
Information
Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 429 - 442
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984

References

Notes

1 Re-named The Sanctuary in the 1880s and renumbered; the firm continues still as Lee, Bolton & Lee & Evans Davies at i The Sanctuary.

2 37 Westbourne Park, later re-numbered 22, and in 1892 re-named Westbourne Gardens.

3 Bolton, A. T. Chilham Castle, Canterbury, Kent (E. W. B. memorial), (privately printed, 1912), p. 15.Google Scholar

4 RIBA Fellowship nomination form 1418, 1909.

5 Chilham Castle, ut supra.

6 AA Notes, 11 (1888), 210.

7 Bolton, A. T. ‘Richard Phene Spiers... a personal reminiscence’, Architectural Review, XL (1916), 96-100.Google Scholar

8 Building News, lxi (1891), 703.

9 British Architect, xxxvn (1892), 120.

10 AA Notes, vn (1893) 103.

11 Builder, lxiv (1893), 112.

12 Builder, lxvi (1894), ijöandpl.jLXvm (1893), 222 and pi.; lxxxi (1901), 582 and pis; AA Sketch Book (series 111) 1 (1895), pi. 60; 11 (1896), pis 37, 38, 63, 72; iv (1900), pis 68, 70, 71; v (1901), pis 69, 70.

13 British Architect, xlii (1894), 254 and pi.

14 Builder, lxx(i896), 190.

15 lxxviii (1900), 562.

16 Published in RIBA Journal, 3rdser., 11(1895), 561-72.

17 Note by A. T. Bolton with the drawings, RIBA:DC/RAN 2o/Ai/i8(i-8).?

18 AA Notes, xv 1(1901), 112.

19 Journal of the Incorporated Clerks of Works Association, xxi (1904), 2.

20 Ibid.

21 lxxxiv (1903), 610.

22 cxx (1921), 609 ‘Design for a seaside bungalow in Thanet’. ‘A good essay is Mr A. T. Bolton’s clever plan for a seaside bungalow; there are not enough bedrooms to make this a successful boarding house, perhaps, but it would be a very attractive building for a holiday party, and still more so, perhaps, if the upstairs gallery was opened out to the hall below with open arches and balustrade’.

23 ‘Design for a house and grounds'. (Unexecuted.) Builder, cxxm (1924), 402 and pi.

24 Obituary ofHarry Stock’s father, Stock, H. W. (1825-1909), Builder, xcvi (1909), 765-66.Google Scholar

25 RIBA Fellowship nomination form 1418, 1909.

26 Letter from Bolton, A. T. to his wife, 30 October 1906 Google Scholar (R. H. Bolton).

27 Warwick House, built c. 1665, dem. 1827.

28 Architectural Review, xlviii (1920), 110-11.

29 Nairn, I. and Pevsner, N. rev. B. Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey (1971), p. 227.Google Scholar

30 RIBA:DC Y2s/4(i)-

31 xli (1914), 620 and pi.

32 Chilham Castle. .

33 Ibid., pp. 9-10.

34 Letter, see note 26 above.

35 Cottesmore, Gainsborough Gardens, Hampstead, London. Bolton moved from here to 14 Westbourne Park Road in about 1931, and lived there until his death in 1945.

36 Bolton had moved his office to Victoria Mansions, 28 Victoria Street, in 1903. He kept his office at 10 Lincoln’s Inn Fields until 1937.

37 RIBAJ, 3rd ser., lii (1945), 115-16.

38 Twenty of them are reproduced in Chilham Castle.

39 RIBA:DC RAN20/M/12-15.

40 Letter from Clive Bell (1871-1966) to A. T. Bolton, 1 January 1943, on the subject of Sir Reginald Blomfield, etc.