Walter Henry Brierley was a York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

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Architect

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practised in the city for 40 years. He is known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens

Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA was a British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era...

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He is also credited with being an exponent of the "Wrenaissance" style - incorporating elements of Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

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Between 1885 and 1926 he was responsible for over 300 buildings, including schools, churches, houses and civic buildings, in York, North Yorkshire and across the North. He was the architect for the York Diocese.

His architectural practice lives on as Brierley Groom, the oldest architectural firm in the UK which has continuously practised since 1750.

Brierley Buildings

• Clements Hall, York, formerly the hall of St Clements Church, York
• Sion Hill Hall
• Malton Grammar School buildings (1911)

• the Headmaster’s House at King’s Manor, York
• County Hall Northallerton
• Park Grove School
  Park Grove School
  Park Grove County Primary and Secondary Modern Boys School.The Groves Wesleyan School was opened in the Groves in 1869 at a cost of £2,435. this building was closed in 1893...
  
   York (1895)
• Fishergate School, York (1895)
• Scarcroft School, York (1896), generally regarded as his masterpiece
• Haxby Road School, York (1904)
• Poppleton Road School, York (1904)
• Brackencliffe, Scarborough (1905)
• Burrough Court, Leicester (1906)
• "Hollins Hill", Accrington (1908)
• An Architects Home, York (1906)
• Sion Hill Hall (1913), a private residence near Thirsk
  Thirsk
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   in the village of Kirby Wiske
  Kirby Wiske
  Kirby Wiske is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Wiske, about four miles north-west of Thirsk....
  
  . Some similarities with Malton School are evident - the high pitch roof and tall chimneys, for example. The drainpipe is almost identical to the one in Malton School quad. (The white one is on Sion Hill Hall, the black is Malton School.) http://malton.n-yorks.sch.uk/MaltonianWeb/Building/Brierley.htm
• the remodelling of Welburn Hall, north east of York (1880s): the Jacobean west wing was demolished and replaced by a much bigger wing in the gothic style. Brierley's work was extensively damaged in the fire of 1931.
• Goddards, York, on Tadcaster Road, built for the Terry Family in the 1920s (Brierley's last building)

• See images at http://two.archiseek.com/2009/walter-h-brierley-1862-1926/

See also

• Exhibition celebrating 60 years of York Civic Trust http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/brierley.htm