George Oatley

Sir George Herbert Oatley FRIBA (3 January 1863 – 12 May 1950) was an English architect noted for his work in Bristol, especially the gothic Wills Memorial Building.

[1][2] Oatley was born in Bristol in 1863, and after working as an apprentice to the architect Thomas Dashwood, he became a junior draughtsman for the local firm Godwin and Crisp, at the age of 16.

Oatley became Henry Crisp's partner aged only 26, when Godwin left the firm, and at the same time married Edith Lawrence.

Other projects included work on St. Mary Redcliffe church and the New Room, John Wesley's original Methodist chapel.

Oatley lived at an ‘arts and crafts’ house, Barton Rocks, in Somerset, which he had built early in the 20th century.