Frederick Arthur Walters was born in Brompton, London, England on 5 February 1849 and was articled to his father, Frederick Page Walters from c.1866 to c.1869. He then worked as an assistant in the office of George Goldie (1828-1887) and Charles Edwin Child (1843-1911) of Goldie & Child from 1869 to 1878. In 1878 he commenced practice as an architect in London He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1882 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1924. From 1924 he was in partnership with his son, Edward John Walters (1880-1947) as F. A. Walters & Son. Stanley Chave Kerr Bate (1906-1989) later joined the practice.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1890 to 1909. He also participated in the 5th exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery in London in 1896.
His address was given as 4, Great Queen Street, Westminster, London in 1881 and 1892; 37, Oid Queen Street, Westminster, London in 1894 and 1914. He died in Temple Ewell, Kent on 3 December 1931. His practice was continued by his son and Kerr Bate as Walters & Kerr Bate.
A biographical file on Frederick Arthur Walters is available on request from the Enquiry Desk, Royal Institute of British Architects Library, London
F. A. Walters worked primarily as a church architect. He designed more than 50 churches and other buildings for the Roman Catholic Church. His work included included St Joseph Church, Roehampton, London (1881); Sacred Heart Church Wimbledon, London (1884-1887); Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne, Sussex (1890-1903); St. John's Seminary, Wonesh, near Guildford, Surrey (1891); The Holy Ghost, Franciscan Friary, Chilworth, Surrey (1892); The Sacred Heart, Trott Street Battersea, London (1892-93); Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark, London (1892-93); The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Bow Common, London (1893-94); Clergy House, Church of English Martyrs, Walworth, London (1893-94); Sacred Heart Church, Petworth, West Sussex (1894-95); St Joseph's Church, Dorking, Surrey (1895); St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll, Buxted, East Sussex (1895-97); St Thomas's Church, Sevenoaks, Kent (1896); extension to St Mary of the Angels, Worthing, West Sussex (1897-1907); Ealing Abbey, Ealing, London (1897-1935); St Mary and St Michael, Lukin Street, London (1898); Our Lady and St Peter's Church, East Grinstead, West Sussex (1898); St Joseph's Church, Brighton, East Sussex (1900-01); Church of St Anne, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London (1900-03); Church of Guardian Angels Mile End Road, London (1901-03); St Elizabeth of Portugal Church, Richmond, London (1903); St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon, London (1904-05); St Edmund Church, Godalming, Surrey (1905-06); St Augustine's College and Abbey School Westgate-on-Sea, Kent (1905-15); Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast, Devon (1905-37); Our Lady of Pity and St Simon Stock, Putney, London (1906); St Mary of the Angels, Canton, Cardiff[, Wales (1907); Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (1908-09); Chapel at Wimbledon College, Wimbledon, London (1910); Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire (1910); St Joseph's Church, Grayshott, Hampshire (1911); St Wilfred, Kennington Park, London (1914-15); St Tarcisius Church, Camberley, Surrey (1923-24); St Peter's Church, Jewry Street Winchester, Hampshire (1926); and Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Harpenden, St. Albans, Hertfordshire (1928)
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