Harry Wilkinson Moore

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][3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5] His works include:

• The Vineyard (1889–90), also known as Pollock House and now The Vines, on Pullens Lane in Headington.^[6]
• Napier House (1892), now Cotuit Hall, also on Pullens Lane, one of the halls of residence at Oxford Brookes University.^[7]
• Durham Buildings, University of Oxford (1902) - Listed at Grade II.^[8]
• 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.^[9]

References

1. Brodie, 2001, page 203
2. Ancestry World Tree: Wilkinson's of Oxford.
3. Saint, Andrew (1970). "Three Oxford architects". Oxoniensia 35.
4. Tyack, 1998, page 267
5. Saint, 1970
6. Headington, Oxford: The Vineyard (Pollock House), Pullens Lane.
7. Headington, Oxford: Napier House (later Cotuit Hall), Pullens Lane.
8. England, Historic. "UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DURHAM BUILDINGS - 1299972 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
9. Hinchcliffe, Tanis (1992). North Oxford. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. pp. 215–243 (Appendix: Gazetter). ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

Sources

• Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan; Pinfield, Leslie; Oldfield, Jane, eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, L-Z. London & New York: Continuum. p. 203. ISBN 0-8264-5514-X.
• Saint, Andrew (1970). "Three Oxford Architects". Oxonensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) XXXV: 53 ff. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. 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.