Arthur William Kenyon was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, in 1884 and was baptised on 17 October 1884. He was articled to the Sheffield architect Henry Leslie Paterson (1861-1926) from 1900 to 1905 following which he continued as his assistant for a further year. He was then assistant to David Barclay Niven (1864-1942) and Herbert Hardy Wigglesworth (1866-1949) of Niven & Wigglesworth from 1906.
Kenyon qualified as an architect and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1907, and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1923. He was in practice as an architect in London from c.1907 and in the 1920s was in partnership with Louis de Soissons (1890-1962) as De Soissons & Kenyon. During the 1930s he was in partnership with Stanley Gage Livock (1885-1954) as Kenyon & Livock at 21 Bedford Square, London.
Kenyon exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1914 to 1956.
His address was given as 104 High Holborn, London and Church Cottage, Laleham, Surrey in 1907; 47a Russell Road, Kensington, London in 1914; 22, Surrey Street, Strand, London in 1923 and 1930; and 21 Bedford Square, London in 1934 and 1942; and 15 Adeline Place, Bedford Square, London in 1944 and 1956. He died in Kensington, London, on 2 January 1969.
Projects by Kenyon included the King Edward VII Hospital in Sheffield (1912-15); Eccesall Children's Hospital (1913); houses in Sheffield (1914); business premises in Bond Street, London and in Norwich (1919); houses in Surrey (1919); houses in St. John's Wood, London (1920); houses in Norwich (1921); houses in Hertfordshire (1922-23); and and St Barnabas' Church, Pound Hill in Crawley, Sussex (1955).
Projects by Kenyon and de Soissons included houses in Parkway Close - 'The Orchard' and Guessens Road, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (1927); 16 houses on Attimore Rd in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (1934); and St Alban's Church, Norwood Drive, Harrow, Middlesex (1936-37).
‘Agricultural cottages (wartime)’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Illustrated Carpenter & Builder 2 July 1943 pp.730-732
‘Agricultural cottages (wartime)’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architects' Journal 1 July 1943 pp. 11-12
‘Agricultural cottages (wartime)’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. The Builder 25 June 1943 pp. 555-5
‘Another war emergency hospital. Designed by A. W. Kenyon’. Architect & Building News 6 November 1942 pp. 88-91
'Church of St. Alban, North Harrow; [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architecture Illustrated September 1937 p. 70
'Church of St. Alban, North Harrow; [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Building June 1942 p. 118
‘Church of St. Alban, North Harrow’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architecture Illustrated September 1937 p. 70
‘Church of St. Alban, North Harrow’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. RIBA Journal 16 October 1937 p. 70
‘Cottages at How Lane, Chipstead’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architect & Building News 23 March 1951 p. 336
‘Creswick Court flats for Borough of Acton; Architect [Arthur W. Kenyon]. Architect & Building News 3 November 1950 pp. 486-489
de Soissons, Louis and Kenyon, Arthur Wm. Site planning in practice at Welwyn garden city. London: E. Benn Limited, 1927.
de Yarburgh-Bateson, Richard Arthur (Lord Deramore) ‘Concrete, brick and chrome ... about the building of the Church of St. Alban in North Harrow’ [Architect: Arthur William Kenyon]. Country life vol. 169, no. 4361, 19 March 1981 p. 724.
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
‘Gymnasium usable also as concert hall, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. The Builder 25 October 1945 pp. 426-427
‘House heating experiments by Radiation Ltd.: general account of practical tests in pair of semi-detached houses erected at Stanmore’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architect & Building News 22 April 1949 pp. 363-364
‘Housing at Horsecroft Meadow for Banstead U. D. C.’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architect & Building News 3 June 1949 pp. 485-488
‘Housing at Preston Lane Estate, Tadworth, and Horsecroft Meadow and Pound Estate, for the Banstead U. D. C., Surrey, including old people's houses’ [Architect: Arthur W. Kenyon]. The Builder 23 December 1955 pp. 818-820
‘Housing for Ministry of Supply in north of England, two schemes in Cheshire, one in Lancs’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon] . The Builder 5 March 1943 pp. 218-223
‘Housing scheme for part of village in the Wirral’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architect & Building News 22 May 1942 p. 108
‘Housing scheme for part of village in the Wirral’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architects' Journal 14 May 1942 p. 324
‘Housing scheme for part of village in the Wirral’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architecture Illustrated May 1942 p. 61
‘Housing scheme for part of village in the Wirral’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Building June 1942 p. 118
‘Housing schemes (2) in north of England (M. of Supply)’ [Architects: A. W. Kenyon]. Architectural Review January 1943 pp. 5-7, xxxviii
‘Obituary’. Building vol. 216, 10 Jan 1969 pp. 2, 96
‘Obituary’. RIBA Journal vol. no. 76, March 1976, p. 125
‘Osborne Road Housing Estate, Ashford, Kent’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. RIBA Journal April 1947 pp. 320-325.
‘Proposed housing scheme for Hartington Road site no. 2 for Lambeth Borough Council’ [Architect: Arthur W. Kenyon]. The Builder 14 May 1954 pp. 844-850
‘R. A. F. Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, Surrey; Designed by: A. W. Kenyon’. Architecture Illustrated June 1954 pp. 39-40
‘R. A. F. Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, Surrey; Designed by: A. W. Kenyon’. Architect & Building News 12 January 1951 pp. 36-45
‘R. A. F. Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, Surrey. Designed by: A. W. Kenyon’. Architect & Building News 16 July 1950 p. 35
‘Remedial bath in rehabilitation centre at Headley Court, Surrey’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. The Builder 12 January 1951 pp. 47-48
‘Ruxley Manor Primary School, Woolwich, for London County Council’. [Architect: Arthur W. Kenyon]. The Builder 12 December 1952 pp. 869-873
‘Shalimar Lodge flats for the Borough of Acton’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architect & Building News 3 November 1950 pp. 482-485.
‘St. Barnabas' dual purpose hall, Three Bridges, Crawley’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. The Builder 22 June 1956 pp. 766-768
‘Two experimental houses at Stanmore’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. The Builder 30 September 1949 pp. 420-421
‘Two houses at Stanmore’ [Architect: Arthur W. Kenyon]. Building May 1949 pp. 170-173
‘Two houses at Stanmore’. [Architect: Arthur W. Kenyon]. Institute of Registered Architects Journal July 1952 pp. 51-55
‘A view indicator on Primrose Hill; Designed by: Arthur Kenyon’. The Builder 1 May 1953 p. 675
‘War emergency hospital’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon A. W. Kenyon]. Architecture Illustrated March 1943 pp. 26-31
‘War housing’ [Architect: A. W. Kenyon]. Architects' Journal 15 April 1943 pp. 253-254
‘Work of A. W. Kenyon: flats, North Harrow Church, Wellington Barracks, etc.' Architecture Illustrated June 1954 pp. 35-51