W. B. Stonebridge

Stonebridge was born on 8 September 1879 at Oakley, Bedfordshire, and christened Walter Charles Butler Stonebridge.[6] He was the son of Charles Stonebridge, a Carpenter and Surveyor of Works, and his wife Emily.[7] Stonebridge was educated at Bedford Modern School and then articled to the architectural practice of Messrs Highton and Ardron of Bedford and Westminster between 1895 and 1899.[1][8]

After Highton and Ardron, Stonebridge was an Assistant in the Duke of Bedford's Estate Office, to H. Ban of Maidstone and to John E. Kingham of Aldershot.[1] He commenced independent practice in 1903 in Woburn Sands and Bedford.[1] Following the outbreak of World War I, Stonebridge served with the 1/7 West Yorkshire Regiment leaving at the end of the war as a Lance-Corporal.[9]

After the war, Stonebridge became Ecclesiastical Surveyor for the Dioceses of Ely and St Albans and was thereafter Diocesan Surveyor for Bedford.[1] In the latter years of his career in private practice, he worked in partnership with H.A. Harris.[10]

Stonebridge was elected LRIBA on 9 January 1911,[1] and FRIBA in 1925.[1][11] He was president of the Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Society of Architects in 1932.[1]

Stonebridge married Jane Winslade on 11 January 1905 at the Church of St John the Evangelist in Hale, Surrey.[12] They had a son, Bernard Butler Stonebridge, and a daughter, Mary Julia Stonebridge.[13][14] His wife predeceased him on 24 December 1961 and Stonebridge died on 1 November 1962 at Barton on Sea in Hampshire.[15]

The Church of St Nicholas, Hockliffe

• Restoration of the Tower of Hockliffe Church, Bedfordshire, 1910[16]
• Replacement of the Powage Press after fire, Aspley Guise, 1912[17]
• Woburn Sands War Memorial, Bedfordshire, 1919[18]
• Elstow Lodge, Bedfordshire, 1926[19]
• Alterations to Campton Manor, Bedfordshire, 1927–28[20]
• Alterations to the Vicarage, Harrold, Bedfordshire, 1928[8]
• Extension to Gastlings House, Bedfordshire, 1929[21]
• Rectory, Pertenhall, Bedfordshire, 1937. With H.A. Harris[22]