8A_Architect_William+Wardell

Gothic Architecture

Gothic Architecture | Architectural Heritage | Modern Architecture﻿﻿ | Home | ==== William Wardell was a very interesting man having two jobs, civil engineer and an architect. After having a successful career as an architect in England and Scotland he immigrated to Australia. ====

When Wardell was studying to become an architect he learnt from his mentor Augustus Pugin. After befriending Pugin, Pugin had inspired Wardell to follow his career into architecture.
====Wardell had designed many public places such as being able to build over 30 churches in England between 1846 and 1858. But Wardell had an illness in England so he thought he would move to a warmer climate, Australia. Wardell still had a prominant career in Australia still building public places such as the ANZ bank building in the CBD and St Patricks Cathedral all built in a Gothic style. St Patricks had taken Wardell most of his career in Australia whilst still completing other projects.====

====By the time Wardell had constructed St Patricks it was the biggest church in the world at the time, and it had been built by minimal funding. The design was not fully Wardell's idea. Bishop Goold was instructing Wardell to also incorporate the previous church that Goold had been working at.====