Walter Brierley

York architect Walter Brierley practised in the city for 40 years around the turn of the 20th century. He is known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens".

Between 1885 and 1926, Briereley was responsible for over 300 buildings, including schools, churches, houses and civic buildings, in York, North Yorkshire and across the North. Brierley's legacy includes the Headmaster’s House at the King’s Manor, County Hall Northallerton. In York, he designed the following schools, Park Grove School (1895), Fishergate School (1895), Scarcroft School (1896) generally regarded as his masterpiece, Haxby Road School (1904) and Poppleton Road School (1904). Goddards, on Tadcaster Road, built for the Terry Family in the 1920s, was his last building. (The link is to a different Goddards, in Surrey)

Brierley was also responsible for the remodelling of Welburn Hall, to the north east of York in the 1880's. The Jacobean west wing was demolished and replaces by a much bigger wing in the gothic style. Brierley's work was extensively damaged in the fire of 1931.

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