Henry Wilson (architect)

He was born at 91 Red Rock Street in West Derby near Liverpool on 12 March 1864.

He studied at the Kidderminster School of Art before being articled to the architect Edward James Shrewsbury in Maidenhead.

From about 1895 Wilson designed metalwork, church plate and furnishings, jewellery and sculpture, becoming a gifted craftsman in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

In 1905 he designed the bronze doors for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.

[2] After World War I, he again selected British jewellery for the Paris Exhibition of 1925.

Bronze door at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine , New York
The south porch doors at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham 1904.
Salada Tea Company , Boston. 1927.
Lady altar at St Bartholomew's Brighton