W. Gibbs Bartleet

Who was W. Gibbs Bartleet?

W. Gibbs Bartleet was an English Victorian architect

Bartleet was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and was based during his career in the Old Broad Street in the City of London, and in Brentwood, Essex.

Among his works was the grandiose rebuilding of St. George's Church, Beckenham, formerly a “humble medieval village church.” In 1870 he added a chancel and south transept to Alexander Dick Gough's St. Saviour's Church, Herne Hill.

At Upminster he largely rebuilt the medieval church of St. Laurance in 1863, and in 1872-3 remodelled Hill Place for Temple Soanes in a restrained Gothic style, of diapered red brick with stone facings.

He also enlarged or rebuilt the churches of St Mary, Dunton, Essex, St. Mary the Virgin, Shenfield and St. Michael and All Angels, Wilmington Kent. In London he built offices for the Promoter Life Assurance Company in a neo-Renaissance style in Fleet Street, and in 1873 refronted a pair of eighteenth century terraced houses in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden in an Italianate style for the London and County Bank.

His son, Sydney Francis Bartleet, also an architect, was taken into the partnership in 1891.