Henry Ward

   

Henry Ward (& Son) Architects, Hanley

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Henry Ward (1801 - ??) architect and surveyor, Hanley 

Henry Ward was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Henry and his family, was living in Cheapside, Hanley in 1861 and Observatory Terrace in 1867.

NOTE: There was another architect also named Henry Ward (the Stafford Borough architect) who was born c. 1806 in Castlechurch, Stafford - died 1884. 

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He was in practice as an architect and town surveyor, as Henry Ward and Son, at Eastwood Place, Hanley, by 1851, but had already been commissioned to design Stoke town hall in 1834. The building was still unfinished in 1850. The centre of the building was originally an open space used as a market but this was converted into a council chamber in1888. The town hall, the most imposing building in the Potteries, is in Classical style. The King's Hall, seating over 3,000 people, was built behind it in 1910-11. 

Stoke Town Hall
Stoke Town Hall, Glebe Street

on Stoke Town Hall

 

Brook Street, Stoke
Brook Street, Stoke

Henry Ward was commissioned to design these houses which
were completed in 1828.

on these listed houses in Brook Street

 


Chapels - Hanley Cemetery
built 1860

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Cauldon Place Building Society

In May 1851 arrangements were made for the development of the rest of Pinfold Medow by the formation of the Cauldon Place Building Society. The architect who drew up the place for the Building Society was Henry Ward (who, amongst other buildings, designed Stoke Town Hall), he also (December 1852) produced the building plan for the development of the Pinfold estate in the form of four streets, laid out at right angles from Snow Hill and Howard Place: Norfolk Street, Chatham Street, Wellington Street (now Wellesley Street) and Richmond Place (which is now Richmond Terrace).

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He was involved in a long dispute with the Tunstall Board of Health from 1848-58 over a claim for work done for that authority.

The firm of Ward and Son designed numerous churches and other buildings in the six towns and elsewhere in Staffordshire. In the 1851 directory by W. White the firm is listed as ...... Henry Ward and Son, Architects (and town surveyors), Eastwood House, Hanley.

It appears that Henry Ward died between the 1861 and 1871 census and that his Son (Henry Ward jnr.) took over the business but retained the name: Henry Ward and Son. Henry Ward jnr. appears to have died sometime between 1891 and 1901 census.

 

Year Directory Title Address
1851 W. White Wand and Son, Architects (and town surveyors) Eastwood House, Hanley
1867 Keates & Fords Henry Ward, Architects Observatory Terrace, Hanley
1867 Keates & Fords Henry Ward jnr. Architects and Surveyor 22 & 30 Albion Place Hanley
1872 Kelly Ward & Son, Architects 30 Albion Place, Hanley
1879 Keates Ward & Son, Architects 22 Albion Place, Hanley
1882 Keates Ward & Son, Architects and Surveyors 22 Albion Place, Hanley
1882 Keates Henry Ward jnr. (Ward & Son), Architects and Surveyors 22 Albion Place, Hanley
1887 Porter Henry Ward, Architect and Surveyor 33 Birch Terrace, Hanley

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WORKS OF HENRY WARD & SON
 
Stoke-on-Trent....

Houses in Brook Street, Stoke. 1828
Stoke Town Hall, Glebe Street, Stoke.  1834      
Christ Church, Church Street, Fenton. 1839
[rebuilt 1890]
Hope Church (Trinity), Sackville Street, Hanley. 1848-9
St. Matthew Church, Etruria. 1848-9 
[early English style]
Holy Trinity, junction of Trinity Street & Lower Foundry Street, Hanley.  1853
[Romanesque style] [demolished 1952]
Athenaeum, junction Christchurch Street & City Road, Fenton.  1853 [heavy Italianate style] [demolished 1977]
St. Luke's, Wellington, Hanley. 1853-4
[early English / Gothic style]
St. Paul's, Edensor, Longton. 1854 [replaced 1940, original building demolished 1960's]
Chapels, Hanley cemetery. 1860
Cemetery (Sexton's) Lodge, Cemetery Road. 1860
Cemetery (Registrar's) Lodge, Cemetery Road. 1860


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1861 census:

Dwelling: 36 Cheapside
Census Place: Hanley, Staffordshire,  England

Name

Marr | Age | Sex

  Birthplace Occupation
Henry Ward M | 59 | M Head Wakefield, Yorkshire Architect and Surveyor
Henry Ward Un | 37 | M Son Wakefield, Yorkshire Architect and Surveyor
Margaret Hart M | 34 | F Daur Dewsbury, Yorkshire  
Mary Talbot Un | 48 | F Serv Knightley, Staffordshire General Servant
John Corns 15 | M Serv Kidderminster, Worcestershire Errand boy

 

1871 census:

Dwelling: 22 Albion Place
Census Place: Hanley, Staffordshire,  England

Name

Marr | Age | Sex

  Birthplace Occupation
Henry Ward Un | 47 | M Head Wakefield, Yorkshire Architect

 

1881 census:

Dwelling: 36 Cheapside
Census Place: Hanley, Staffordshire,  England

Name

Marr | Age | Sex

  Birthplace Occupation
Henry Ward UnM | 57 | M Head Wakefield, Yorkshire Architect
Thomas Mace M | 40 | M Serv Alsager, Staffordshire Ironworker
Harriet Mace M | 30 | F Serv Oakamoor, Staffordshire Housekeeper Dom
Elizabeth Mace UnM | 17 | F Serv Hanley, Staffordshire General domestic
Alice Mace 5 | F   Hanley, Staffordshire scholar
Florance E Mace 2 | F   Hanley, Staffordshire  

 

1891 census:

Dwelling: 36 Birch Terrace
Census Place: Hanley, Staffordshire,  England

Name

Marr | Age | Sex

  Birthplace Occupation
Harriett Boulton S | 60 | F Head Hanley, Staffordshire Living on own means
Henry Ward S | 66 | M Boarder Wakefield, Yorkshire Architect

 

SOURCES: Census 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891; Dir. 1851to 1887; National Index to Wills and Administrations; N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire; Tunstall Board of Health Annual Reports; People of the Potteries; Andrew Dobraszczyc's notes. 


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