Churches William Baker of Audlem

the church of st. john in square, wolverhampton. baker main contractor1756-9.



st peter s church, congleton, cheshire. church here since 15th century (the higher chapel). present church built william baker in 1740-1742 £2,000.
stone, staffordshire, gothic revival 1754-8 designed william robinson, clerk board of works, produced first designs strawberry hill horace walpole
st john s church, wolverhampton, 1756-9. grand ashlar faced church based on james gibbs st martin-in-the-fields, london. built chapel of st peter’s collegiate church, wolverhampton private act of parliament in 1755. there uncertainty whom architect was, there no doubt main contractor william baker, helped local builder , architect, roger eykyn. traditionally design of church has been credited shrewsbury architect thomas farnolls pritchard, supervised construction baker.
seighford, staffordshire. tower , nave rebuilt. metal framed gothic windows. brick pilasters with ?mock artillery slits, appear on crenellations of tower; surmounted 4 corner pinnacles. looks attempt re-create german brick gothic


acton church (west view), cheshire. rebuilt baker 1758



ellenhall, staffordshire 1757. £1023 estimated repair of church.
st mary s church, acton, near nantwich, cheshire. upper part of tower blown nave, march 1757. sandstone. church must have been extensively re-built , medieval entrance has been altered , embellished. remarkable ornamented west gable chancel. ornamentation tower below parapet, has ‘gun slits’ in crenulations (cf seigford). 4 crocketed corner pinnacles lower mid-ball pinnacles on tower. sundial surmounted baker’s typical ball pinnacle.
st chad s church, wybunbury, cheshire. tower leaning result of subsidence. baker appears have solved problem, nave , chancel had demolished in 1970.
plans kirk in gothic style @ kenmore perthshire 1760.
upper penn church, nr wolverhampton.1765. baker cased tower in brickwork. crenulations parapet of tower 4 crocketed corner pinnacles. ornamented gothic tower window.




^ information taken wikipedia commons entry , on basis of stylistic appearance, looks correct
^ colvin 95 & 831
^ ionides j. thomas farnolls pritchard of shrewsbury, architect , ‘inventor of cast iron bridges’ . dog rose press, ludlow 1999, 282.
^ colvin 3rd edition, 95