Austin Winkley

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Austin Winkley
Born1934 (age 87–88)
Lancashire, England
Alma materArchitectural Association
OccupationArchitect
PracticeWilliams & Winkley, Austin Winkley & Associates
BuildingsChurch of St Margaret of Scotland, Twickenham

Austin Winkley is a British architect who specialises in church architecture and is a member of the Liturgical Movement of UK ecclesiastical architects.

Career[]

Winkley studied at the Architectural Association in London under Robert Maguire and was a member of the New Churches Research Group. During the holidays he worked for the Salesians alongside school architect Jeffrey Williams. After qualifying in 1959 he worked for the London County Council school department (1959–60). In 1960 he went to the US, where he worked for two architectural practices, joining a firm of Christian architects and working on a library and Catholic Club at Harvard.[1]

In 1962 he volunteered to help build a clinic, housing and church in an area of Mexico City that had been devastated by an earthquake. He returned to the UK to set up his own practice, Williams & Winkley 1963-1987 before founding Austin Winkley & Associates in 1987. He began by designing homes for the Catholic Housing Aid Society (CHAS).[2] He gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Building Conservation from the Architectural Association in 1978.

Having studied under the church designers Maguire & Murray, Winkley became a member of the UK architectural liturgical movement. His buildings include:

  • Church of St Margaret of Scotland, Twickenham (1969) Grade II listed. Winkley's first church and according to its listing "an early and particularly well-made and well-detailed example of post-Vatican II planning".[3]
  • St Elphege in Wallington (1971)[4]
  • the Sacred Heart Church in Coventry (1979)[5]
  • St Theodore's in Hampton upon Thames (1987).[6]

He has also been instrumental in reordering a number of churches and adapting them:

  • Holy Family Church, Halton was reordered into a liturgical arrangement[7]
  • St John Vianney, Ilford (1983) - reordering a RC Church by Donald Plaskett Marshall[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Jo Siedlecka. "Profile: Austin Winkley". Independent Catholic News.
  2. ^ Jo Siedlecka. "Profile: Austin Winkley". Independent Catholic News.
  3. ^ "CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND". Historic England.
  4. ^ "C20 Churches, St Elphege". 20th Century Society.
  5. ^ "Coventry – Sacred Heart". Taking Stock.
  6. ^ "C20 Churches, St Theodore of Canterbury". 20th Century Society.
  7. ^ "Holy Family Church, Halton". AUSTIN WINKLEY & ASSOCIATES.
  8. ^ "C20 Churches, St John Vianney". 20th Century Society.
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