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British architect (1852–1902) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Green Penty FRIBA (19 June 1852 – 23 January 1902) was an architect working in York, England.[1]
Walter Green Penty | |
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Born | |
Died | January 23, 1902 49) | (aged
Nationality | English |
Occupation | Architect |
Spouse(s) | George Benson, then Arthur Penty |
Practice | W.G. Penty and G. Benson and Penty and Penty |
Buildings | York Institute of Art, Science and Literature |
He was born in Gate Fulford[2][better source needed] the son of Thomas Penty (1827-1893) and Maria Green (1831-1863). He married Emma Seller (1847-1937) on 2 September 1872 at St Lawrence's Church, York[3] and they had the following children:
He studied as a pupil of George Styan, the City Engineer of York from 1867 to 1871. He commenced independent practice in York in 1873. He was for a time in partnership with George Benson, but this was dissolved in 1890.[4] He went into partnership with his son Arthur Joseph Penty in 1898[1] as Penty and Penty.
He was appointed surveyor of the York Union Rural Sanitary Authority in 1876.[5]
He was first president of the York Architectural Association when it was formed in 1882, and elected for a second period of two years in 1888.[6]
Penty's first commission was the Burnholme Social Club in Heworth, York. He also designed the new Lighthorseman pub at the junction of Fulford Road and New Walk Terrace in the 1870s. A previous pub with that name on that site appears on the 1852 Ordnance Survey map of York. He designed Botterill's Horse Repository in Tanner's Moat (of which two arches survive) around 1880. This was a sort of 'garage' for horses of gentlemen who had ridden into the city to stay, possibly to go on the railway.[7] In the 1890s, Arthur joined his father to form the firm of Penty & Penty. Among other works, they built the Terry Memorial almshouses in Skeldergate in 1899, and a number of streets in the Clementhorpe area of York, before Arthur left the city to work in London.[8]
In 1883 he was elected councillor for the Walmgate Ward[9] and served for a period of 1 year.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 11 March 1889.[1]
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