Webb, Arthur Frederick 1880 - 1935

Arthur Frederick Webb was born in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England in 1880 and was articled to Sir Thomas Edwin Cooper (1874-1942) in Scarborough, Yorkshire.  In 1901 we went out to South Africa where he worked as an assistant to an architectural firm. He  subsequently returned to Britain and in 1908 commenced practice as an architect in Blackwood, Monmouthshire, Wales.   He was architect to the Tredegar Iron & Coal Company.

Webb was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1925. His address was given as High Street, Blackwood, Monmouthshire in 1914; Tredegar Chambers, Blackwood, Monmouthshire in 1923; "Trelaway", Blackwood, Monmouthshire in 1926 and 1934.  He died in Bedwellty, Monmouthshire, Wales on 18 January 1935

Worked in
UK
Works

40 houses at Mile Field, Tredegar, Monmouthshire (1908-09); Miners Rescue Station in Crumlin, Monmouthshire (1910); 20 houses at Brompton Terrace, Tredegar, Monmouthshire (1910-11); over 400 houses in Oakdale, Monmouthshire for the Tredegar Iron & Coal Company (1910-11); Mission Hall in Blackwood, Monmouthshire (1912-13); Workmen’s Institute in Oakdale, Monmouthshire (1916-17); alterations to St. James Church in Tredegar, Monmouthshire (1922-23); Penllwyn housing estate in Pontllanfraith, Monmouthshire (late 1920s); Power station in Milford, Pembrokeshire (1928); and Garndiffaith Methodist Church in Abersychan, Monmouthshire !930-32).

Bibliography

Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z.  London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001

‘Obituary’.  Royal Institute of British Architects Journal vol. 42, ser. 3, 27 April 1935 p. 739

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