Charles Edward Bateman was born in Aston Warwickshire, England on 8 June 1863 and was articled to his father, John Jones Bateman (1817-1903) from 1881 to 1886. He also studied at Birmingham Architectural Association. He was then an improver with Thomas Verity (1837-1891) and George Henry Hunt (1851-1915) of Verity & Hunt in 1886-87, and attended classes at the Architectural Association in London. In 1887 he formed a partnership with his father as Bateman & Bateman in Birmingham, and in c.1898-99 he was briefly in partnership with Herbert Tudor Buckland (1869-1951) as H.T. Buckland & C.E. Bateman. He was also in partnership with Alfred Hale (?-1948) from c.1904 and together they won the competitions for High Wycombe Town Hall and the Free Library in Northfield, Birmingham, both in 1905.
C. E. Bateman qualified as an architect in 1894 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1895. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1898. He was also a member of the Birmingham Architectural Association and its President from 1897 to 1899, and from 1911 to 1913. From 1899 to 1905 he was a lecturer in architecture at Birmingham School of Art.
Bateman's address was given as Hawkesford, Bracebridge Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire in 1911; 81 Edmund Street, Birminghm in 1898; 18 Bennett's Hill, Birmingham in 1914 and 1939; and 2, The Sanctuary, Westminster, London in 1926. He died in Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire on 5 August 1947.
Architectural projects by C. E. Bateman included 4 and 6, Stanley Road, King's Heath, Birmingham (1894-95); 254, Vicarage Road and 2 Cartland Road, King's Heath, Birmingham (1895); The Homestead, Woodbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham (1897); Birmingham and District Bank, 78 and 79 Broad Street, Birmingham (1898); George Jones and Sons Printworks, Cornwall Street, Birmingham (1899); Redlands, Hartopp Road, Sutton Coldfield (1900); 12 Mulroy Road, Birmingham (c.1900); The Grey House, Barnt Green (1901); The Homestead, Woodbourne Road, Edgbaston (1901); Carhampton House, 11, Luttrell Road, Birmingham (1901-02); Town Hall, Queen Victoria Road, Wycombe (1903-04); 89 & 91 Cornwall street, Birmingham (1904); The Red Lion public house, Vicarage Road, King's Heath, Birmingham (1905); St James' Church, Mere Green Road, Birmingham (1906-08); extensions to Lygon Arms Hotel, Broadway, Worcestershire (1910); he Rectory, Rectory Lane, Castle Bromwich (1911); Vicarage, St James' Church, Edgbaston (1911-12); Vicarage, St Peter's Church, Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham (1911-12); Library, Northfield, Birmingham (1914); Lichfield War Memorial, Lichfield, Staffordshire (1920); extensions to Moreton-in-Marsh Cottage Hospital (1925); St Chad's Church, Walmley (1925-27): additions to National Provincial Bank, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham (1927); tower, St Agnes' Church, Moseley (1931-32); Birmingham Law Society, 8 Temple Street, Birmingham (1933).
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See also List of Architectural Works of C. E. Bateman in Davidson, David. ‘Charles Edward Bateman’ pp. 446-449 [Bibliography below]
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