Wilfrid Bond was born in Anderby, Lincolnshire, England on 3 May 1870. He was articled to Charles Kirk in Sleaford, Lincolnshire from 1889 to 1892 and remained with him as his assistant until 1894. He then worked as an assistant to John Loughborough Pearson (1817-1897) in London from 1895 to 1897, and to Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (1865-1945) in Bedford from 1898 to 1902.
Bond commenced independent practice as an architect in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1902. In 1931, towards the end of his career, he formed a partnership with his son, Lawrence Henry Bond (1909-1993) as Wilfrid & Lawrence H. Bond. Bond was appointed Diocesan Surveyor for Lincoln in 1902 and architect to Croyland Abbey in 1907. He was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1920. He died at Little Ponton, near Grantham, Lincolnshire on 30 October 1935
New Churches: Grimsby and Garthorpe; schools and parochial buildings: Grantham, Spittlegate, Immingham, Croyland, Long Parish (Hants), Gonerby, Honington, Dowsby, Billinghay; vicarages: Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Grantham, Martin, Braceby, Surfleet, Remington, and numerous additions to others; church repair and refittings: Immingham, Little Steeping, Croyland Abbey, Eaton, Grainthorpe, Borton, Sleaford, Spalding, Grimsby, Holbeach, Orby, Gidney Hill, etc.; roods: Spalding (1920), Holbeach, Great Limber (1921), Steeping, Wainfleet St. Mary (1922), Cantor (1922); churchyard or wayside crosses: Rippingale, Morton (1921), Wainfleet, Sleaford (1922), Manchester, Surfleet, Hooton Pagnell, South Emsall (1923); numerous war memorials; alterations and additions to Buckminster Hall (1912); two inns, Grantham (1914 and 1922); new wing, etc., to the George Hotel, Grantham, 1923; cottages and estate works.
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001