Hans Fowler Price – Weston Museum Burlington St BS23 1PR In the footsteps of Weston’s Architect Weston Museum in Hans Fowler Price The architect Hans Fowler Price (1835-1912) Burlington Street is worth worked in Weston for over 50 years and left a a visit. As well as being A walk through Victorian significant legacy of buildings. Born in , he a Hans Price Building, the Weston-super-Mare. completed his training with the architect Thomas museum provides a history of Denville Barry in Tranmere (Merseyside). Weston. The café serves lunch. This walk provides a snapshot of some of Entrance is free. In 1860, the 24-year-old Price arrived in Weston, Hans Fowler Price’s architectural work in a town whose rapid growth offered plenty of Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm Weston-super-Mare. opportunities for an architect. Within a few years www.westonmuseum.org/ he had gained important commissions and found The walk has been devised by North patrons like the Smyth Pigott family and Sir Arthur The Old Town Quarry Council in partnership with Hallam Elton in nearby . South Road BS23 2LU Historic as part of the Great Price designed many of the best known public Weston Heritage Action Zone initiative. You may also wish to visit buildings in Weston, including the first board The Old Town Quarry school, the market (destroyed in a fire), the which hosts a model of has Victoria Hall (demolished after war damage), and a Hans Price House and a The walk the remodelled and extended Town Hall. He also café. Entrance is free. designed numerous Victorian villas which are The walk starts on the corner of Station Road instantly recognisable by their decorated gable At the north end of Grove Park turn into Queens and Graham Road. Close to the Railway Station ends. His work as consultant architect for the Road. The Quarry is at the top of the road at the (250 steps). On bus routes and with plenty of car Smyth Pigott family included major developments start of South Road. parking. such as the new tree-lined route of Waterloo Street and the Boulevard, which was inspired by Oct-March: Thursday-Sunday 10.30am-4.30pm The walk is all on flat terrain and will take about an Parisian models. April-Sept: Wednesday-Sunday 10.30am-4.30pm hour. Why not make it a full day out and take time www.oldtownquarry.co.uk/ throughout the walk to visit the Museum, Grove The total number of new buildings by Hans Price Park, The Promenade and enjoy Weston’s cafes is unknown but is likely to be many hundreds. Weston-super-Mare and shops. He worked in partnership with other architects, including Walter Hernaman Wooler (1853-1936) Civic Society In the footsteps of The route highlights just some of the many Hans Price buildings. The map also shows other who worked with Price for 23 years. When The Civic Society aims to Hans Price buildings to give a sense of how much Price died in 1912, his obituaries praised his stimulate public interest Hans Fowler Price influence Hans Price had on the architecture of architectural skill, business sense, and vitality. in the town, promote high Weston. Find out more about Hans Price in this book: standards of planning and A walk through architecture. “Weston-super-Mare: the town and its seaside The Society has produced a range of publications, Victorian heritage” Historic England, 2019. Allan Brodie, Johanna Roethe and Kate Hudson-McAulay. including walks, designed to celebrate the heritage of the town and the surrounding countryside. Weston-super-Mare

Which can be found on the web site. www.westoncivicsociety.org.uk

Images: Council 29534 0120 © Historic England 13. 6-8 The Boulevard: 1. Station Road/corner with Graham St John’s Mission Hall, 1880-1, by Road: A furniture warehouse for Price & Wooler. 1 the auctioneers and estate agents 13 Lalonde Bros and Parham, designed Old 14. 2 The Boulevard: 1888, built as a by Hans Price & William Jane in Town photographer’s studio. 1904 and opened the following year. Quarry 15. 32 Waterloo Street: offices of the 2. 5-15 Beaconsfield Road: Six gabled Weston & Somerset Mercury, 1885 roe 14 villas built in the 1880s and 1890s. P 2 16. 28 Waterloo Street: Their decorated gables are typical of 22 Park 15 21 19 Hans Price’s office, 1874. the ‘Weston villa’ which Hans Price 20

developed. ROA HURH LOWER 17. 17 Waterloo Street: Gospel Hall, 18 1876-77, by Price & Grosholz for the 3. Walliscote Road – Walliscote Board SOUTH PARAE Plymouth Brethren. School: 1895-97, by Price & Wooler. 3 16 This was the town’s first board 18. 132-138 High Street (North): 17 12 11 school. BOULEVAR A terrace of five tall houses with 10 shops, 1889. 4. Walliscote Road – Town Hall Winter 16 15 14 13 extension and remodelling: 1897, ardens talian 19. 1-29 Bristol Road Lower plus by Price & Wooler, including the ardens 1 Connaught Place: Part of the 5 upwards extension of the tower. Upper Worthy Estate which Hans 17 Price developed for the Smyth 5. Walliscote Road/ Regent Street – 9 Pigott estate in 1862. Magdala Buildings, 1870 8 20. Wadham Street –

6. 1-7 Orchard Place: 4 houses with 7 HH STREET HH The Blakehay Theatre: This was built shops, Price & Wooler, 1892. 6 P as a Baptist church in 1850, which 18 7. 45 Meadow Street: A corner shop Price extended in 1862-64, one of his MEAOW STREET ALRE STREET of 1905, by Price & William Jane with 23 6 first commissions in Weston. Wilde & Fry for Roe Bros., picture rand Pier REET STREET ALEARA PARAE 21. 18-28 Lower Church Road: frame makers, oil and colour men 24 Terrace of houses, 1899, with Price’s 8. 59-63 Meadow Street: characteristic carvings in the gables. 7 19 A well-detailed terrace of three 5 22. Lower Church Road: School of houses with shops of the 1880s. P Science and Art (now Hans Price 9. Orchard Street/ Burlington Street: conference centre). Designed by Gas Light Company workshops Price & Wooler, it was built in 2 and stores, 1912 (now the Weston OOR STREET phases: 1892-3 and 1899-1900. 8 Museum). Hans Price’s last known Walk into South Terrace to see the 21 work. 4 north side of the building and the STATO ROA tiling work. Continue through to the 10. Corner of Orchard Street/ 1 car park and through the arch to the Boulevard: Former United promenade. Methodist Free Chapel of 1875-6 by ARLTO STREET 3 Price & Grosholz. P 23. 13-29 Regent Street: A much 10 23

MARE PARAE altered terrace of houses with 11. 1-23 The Boulevard: 2 shops, with unusual triangular twin Terrace of 12 houses, 1870. bay windows on the 2nd floor 12. The Boulevard/with Longton Grove WALLSOTE ROA 24. 26-30 Regent Street/corner with Road: Masonic Lodge of St Kew (now St James Street: In 1901, Hans 11 the Constitutional Club), 1880-81. 24 Price converted this Methodist Originally, the tower was surmounted Chapel of 1846-7 into houses and by a timber-framed turret. walk route Hans Price buildings and restorations shops (currently Barclays bank)