John Wilson Walton-Wilson

[nb 2] Thomas Wilson had a new Gothic Revival Shotley Hall built to the design of Edward Robert Robson, and it was completed in 1863.

[3][4] Walton-Wilson married Lucy Short, at St Saviour's Church, South Hampstead (in London), on 26 January 1865.

Hugh Wilson Walton-Wilson, who inherited Shotley Hall and married one of the daughters of the fourth Craufurd baronet of Kilbirney.

Walton-Wilson's eldest daughter was Katherine Mary Beatrice Walton, who married Reverend Robert O'Donelan, Canon of Newcastle Cathedral, in 1897.

[14][15] The Walton-Wilson family are memorialised inside St John's Church, Shotley Low Quarter, Northumberland.

[24] The exterior of the church is notable for its sandstone-block walls, the diapering on the roof formed of light and dark slate, the large wheel window with a central Cross of St Cuthbert on the west front, the large apse with conical roof at the east end, and the tower with its statue of St Cuthbert holding the head of King Oswold and its tympanum featuring Christ in Majesty.

[27] St Augustin's Church was built in the Early English style: ashlar with buttresses and traceried lancet windows.

[28] Costing £4,400 (equivalent to £492,453 in 2023),[14][29] It was restored to designs by architect John Wilson Walton,[nb 8][30][31] and re-opened and consecrated by the Bishop of Ripon, on 16 October 1873, after three hundred years of neglect.

Between 1881 and 1886 Walton-Wilson added the vestry, choir and organ, and the south aisle which has stained glass windows by Percy Bacon Brothers.

[nb 9][34] Walton-Wilson became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) on 23 April 1860, following the proposals of Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Henry Roberts (to whom he was previously articled) and Charles Barry.

On 20 March 1882 he became a Fellow of the RIBA, having been proposed by George Somers Leigh Clarke, Octavius Hansard,[nb 10] and his business partner Edward Robert Robson.

"The magistrates had always found his advice sound and practical; and as experienced in architecture, his counsel in all matters pertaining to buildings and cognate subjects was very valuable".

[37] In 1855 Walton-Wilson competed in Newcastle for an award of £50 (equivalent to £5,901.97 in 2023) for "the best design for the new street from St Nicholas's Square to the High Level Bridge".