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Mar 29, 1832 Southowram, England, United Kingdom Died on 26 Nov 1908 (aged 76)
British architect
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About William Swinden Barber
- William Swinden Barber FRIBA (29 March 1832 – 26 November 1908), also W.
- S.
- Barber or W.
- Swinden Barber, was an English Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts architect, specialising in modest but finely furnished Anglican churches.
- The Barber churches often had crenellated bell-towers.
- He was based in Brighouse and Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
- At least 15 surviving examples of his work are Grade II listed buildings including his 1875 design for the Victoria Cross at Akroydon.
- An 1864 portrait by David Wilkie Wynfield depicts him in Romantic garb, holding a flower.
- He served in the Artists Rifles regiment in the 1860s alongside Wynfield and other contemporary artists.
