William Slater (architect)

The spire of St Peters Episcopal Church, Lutton Place, Edinburgh by William Slater, 1857

William Slater (1819 – 17 December 1872) was an English architect who was born in Northamptonshire and practised in London.^[1] He joined R. C. Carpenter as his first pupil, and for some years lived with the Carpenter family. Slater became Carpenter's assistant, and later left him to establish an independent practice with another of Carpenter's pupils, William Smith (later Bassett-Smith). Together, from 1852, Slater and Smith designed Loughborough Town Hall, a parsonage, and restored three churches. However Carpenter died in 1855 at the age of 42, and Slater was persuaded to take over his practice.^[2] In 1857 Carpenter's son Richard Herbert Carpenter joined him as a pupil, and became a partner in 1863.^[3]

References

1. Architects and Artists S, Sussex Parish, retrieved 21 November 2012
2. Elliott, John (2011), "R. C. Carpenter (1812–55): the Anglicans' Pugin", in Webster, Christopher, The Practice of Architecture: eight architects, 1830–1930, Spire Studies in Architectural History 1, Reading: Spire Books, pp. 156–157, ISBN 978-1-904965-34-3
3. William Slater, Dictionary of Scottish Architects, retrieved 21 November 2012