William Owen (architect, born 1846)

William Owen (27 August 1846 – 5 April 1910) was an English architect who practised in Warrington, which was at that time in Lancashire, England.

Owen is best known for his collaboration with William Lever in the creation of the soap-making factory and associated model village at Port Sunlight in the Wirral Peninsula (then in Cheshire, now in Merseyside).

His more notable designs include churches in Altrincham, Greater Manchester,[3] and Warrington,[4] buildings for Parr's Bank in Southport, Merseyside,[5] and Wigan, Greater Manchester,[6] and the Parr Hall, a concert hall in Warrington.

[7] The partnership were architects to the Greenall Whitley Brewery Company,[8] and built public houses for them in Warrington,[8][9][10] and Stockton Heath, Cheshire.

[16] The firm also designed Newcastle on Tyne offices for Lever Brothers in a Neo-Baroque style, named Sunlight Chambers and constructed in 1901-2.