Walter Tapper
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Walter Tapper
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| Born |
21 April 1861 Bovey Tracey, Devon |
| Died | 21 September 1935 (aged 74) Dean's Yard, Westminster |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | ARIBA (1889); FRIBA (1912); President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1927–29; ARA (1926) FSA; KCVO (1935) |
| Practice | Bodley and Garner; Tapper |
| Buildings |
Church of the Resurrection, Mirfield (1908) Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch (1912–13) |
| Projects | Liverpool Cathedral design competition (1901–03) |
Sir Walter Tapper FRIBA RA FSA KCVO (21 April 1861 – 21 September 1935) was a British architect known for his work in the Gothic Revival style and a number of church buildings. He worked with some leading ecclesiastical architects of his day and was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Tapper was appointed Surveyor of the Fabric at Westminster Abbey and acted as consulting architect to York Minster and Manchester Cathedral. On his death in 1935 his son Michael Tapper completed some of his works.
Walter Tapper was born in Bovey Tracey, Devon, in 1861, the son of George Tapper, a stonemason, later a builder. Little is known of his early life, but from the age of thirteen he served his articles at Rowell & Sons, an architects' practice in nearby Newton Abbot. He then moved to London and after a brief period working for Basil Champneys, joined Bodley & Garner, the firm of prominent Gothic Revival architects G. F. Bodley, Thomas Garner, working alongside another budding Gothic Revival architect, Ninian Comper. While working there Tapper began a romantic relationship with Katherine Jotcham, a showroom assistant at Watts & Co, a church furnishing company which had been founded by Bodley and Garner along with fellow Gothic revivalist George Gilbert Scott. In 1886 he married Catherine Jotcham, who was apparently pregnant – a few months later their first child was born. The couple had two children: a son, Michael, in 1886 (who grew up to become an architect himself), and a daughter, Kathleen, who was born in 1889.
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