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Name:
William Frame
Designation :
Architect
Date of Birth:
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Exact DOB:
21/05/1926
Year of Birth :
1848
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DOB (2nd 'Or' Year):
Orig Date of Death
1906/04
Date of Death:
Date Not Known
Exact DOD:
21/05/1926
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Bio Notes :
William Frame was born in 1848 and articled to William Smith of Trowbridge for five years, thereafter becoming assistant to John Pritchard of Llandaff. In 1868 he entered the office of William Burges, worked on Cardiff Castle, and was clerk of works on the restoration of Castell Coch in 1876. During these years he won the Royal Academy's gold medal and the Soane Medallion in 1873.
After Burges's death in 1881, Frame became architect to the Third Marquess of Bute in Cardiff and remained in Bute employment until his death in April 1906 despite problems with alcoholism from at least 1890. He was admitted ARIBA on 12 June 1876, his proposers being Burges, J P Seddon and T H Wyatt, but allowed his membership to lapse in 1900.
The job list consists only of work in Scotland.
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Additional Notes
Addresses
The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:
Business Addresses
Business Addresses2 classic
Address
Class
Date From
Date From Type
Date To
Date To Type
Notes
Cardiff Wales
Business
1868
1906
Trowbridge Wiltshire England
Business
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Employment and Training
The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this person (click on an item to view details):
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Name
Name Link
Date From
Date To
Position
Notes
William Burges
200217
In year 1868
In year 1881
Assistant
John Pritchard
205486
c. 1858
Before 1868
Assistant
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Employees or Pupils
The following individuals were employed or trained by this person (click on an item to view details):
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Name
Name Link
Date From
Date To
Position
Notes
Henry Sesom-Hiley
203400
In year 1911
Assistant
In Bute Estate office at Cardiff
Harry Smith Fairhurst
201601
c. 1892
In year 1895
Assistant
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Buildings and Designs
This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):
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Building Name
Date Started
Town, District or Village
Island
City or County
Country
Notes
Cardiff Castle
In year 1868
Cardiff
Wales
Extensive remodelling - as assistant to William Burges
Corrugated iron cathedral
1880s
Oban
Argyll
Scotland
Furnishings
Mount Stuart
In year 1880
Rothesay (near)
Bute
Bute
Scotland
Fitting of dining room and 3 principal bedrooms
Mount Stuart
In year 1886
Rothesay (near)
Bute
Bute
Scotland
Decoration (designs of Rowand Anderson?) carried out. Campbell Smith, H W Lonsdale and Thomas Nicholls were craftsmen. See Crook (2013) for detialed account) - chimneypieces, panelling, doorcases and ceilings (some of Anderson\'s woodwork discarded as not good enough) and the astrologival sitting room in its entirety.
RC Church of St Edward the Confessor
In year 1886
Sanday
Canna
Inverness-shire
Scotland
Falkland Palace
In year 1889
Falkland
Fife
Scotland
Palace measurement with a view to restoration
House of Falkland
In year 1889
Falkland
Fife
Scotland
Remodelling of entrance hall of house; interior work of chapel executed but subsequently dismantled and later re-erected by R Weir Schultz in archepiscopal chapel at Greenhill, Edinburgh. Dismissed from Falkland October 1890. (According to Hannah he was unwell in 1889 and had difficulty breathing and in November 1889 was dismissed for drunkenness)
Archbishop's Chapel
In year 1889
Edinburgh
Scotland
Chapel interior designed for House of Falkland, transferred to Edinburgh for the Archbishop's Chapel in the early 1900s
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References
Bibliographic References
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Author
Title
Date
Publisher
Part
Notes
British Architectural Library, RIBA
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914
2001
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