William Baker of Audlem (1705–1771) was an architect, surveyor and building contractor, working in Shropshire and the adjacent counties in the middle years of the 18th century.

[3] The house in which he lived at Highfields was the subject of an article in Country Life, where a portrait of the architect survives.

[4] Baker was well grounded in the fashionable architecture of the early 18th century, having first worked for Francis Smith of Warwick.

Again for the building of St John's Church, Wolverhampton it is likely that Pritchard was the supervising architect working under Baker.

Baker's design of the Buttercross (which housed the Ludlow Council Chamber) is based on James Gibbs' A Book of Architecture (1728).

[9] The new Town Hall was intended to accommodate the Court of Great Sessions when it met at Montgomery and over which Herbert presided as Custos Rotulorum.

[10] Most of these are recorded architectural drawings and surveys, and it is not clear to what extent Baker's work was carried out.