Francis Houlton Wrench

Francis Houlton Wrench LRIBA AMICE (29 August 1869 - 17 November 1939) was an architect based in Sheffield.[1]

Baslow Hall of 1907

History

He was born in 1869 in Baslow, Derbyshire, the son of Lieut-Colonel Edward Mason Wrench MVO, VD, FRCS (1833-1912) and Anne Eliza Kirk (1831-1920). He was educated at Drapers’ College, High Road, Tottenham and then University College, Sheffield from 1886 to 1889. He was then articled to Messrs. T. Meik & Sons from 1889 to 1890, then the Eyemouth Railway & Harbour company 1891–93. In 1895 he joined Sheffield Corporation Architects’ Department at a salary of £150 per annum.[2]

He commenced independent practice in Sheffield in 1901 and was appointed LRIBA in 1910.

He married Georginia Charlotte Curll on 30 December 1892 in Edinburgh.[3] They had two children:

  • Georgina Annie Wrench (1894-1985)
  • Francis Anthony Wrench (1897-1984)

He lived in Sheffield for many years.

He was junior engineer in the City Engineers’ Department. He lived at Upperthorpe until 1935 and was churchwarden at St Stephen's Church.[4]

He was a member of the Sheffield Architects’ Society, a Freeman of the City of London, and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers of London.

He died at The Hall Cottage, East Markham in November 1939 and left an estate valued at £7,815.[5]

Works
  • Abbeydale Road main sewer, Sheffield 1896[6]
  • Lock up shop, junction of St Philip’s Road and Netherthorpe Place, Sheffield 1902[7]
  • Baslow Hall 1907
  • Memorial to Henry Bull, St Bartholomew's Church, Sheffield 1915[8]

References
  1. Brodie, Antonia (20 December 2001). Directory of British Architects 1834–1914: Vol 2 (L-Z). Royal Institute of British Architects. p. 1069. ISBN 082645514X.
  2. "The City Surveyor's Department". Sheffield Evening Telegraph. England. 8 June 1895. Retrieved 12 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "Wrench-Curll". London Evening Standard. England. 3 January 1893. Retrieved 12 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. "Cremation of Mr. F.H. Wrench". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. England. 22 November 1939. Retrieved 12 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. "East Markham Will". Newark Herald. England. 27 July 1940. Retrieved 12 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. "Completion of the Abbeydale Road Main Sewer". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. England. 11 February 1896. Retrieved 12 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. "Portmahon". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. England. 17 January 1903. Retrieved 8 July 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. "A Churchwarden's Memory". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. England. 1 June 1915. Retrieved 12 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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