William Radford Bryden

William Radford Bryden FSA FRIBA (1851 – 16 February 1941) was an English architect and surveyor who designed various prominent Victorian buildings in Buxton, Derbyshire.

In 1877 he established the architect and surveyor practice of "Bedborough and Bryden" at Bideford and Westward Ho in Devon.

[1] Bryden also remodelled Buxton's Thermal Baths in the 1880s, with a new water tower, a waiting room, shops and a new ashlar gritstone facade replacing the glass and iron colonnades.

[1] The Entertainment Stage (also known as the New Theatre) on St John's Road was designed by Bryden for the Buxton Gardens Company in 1889.

[8][11] Bryden and his student George Edwin Garlick designed Grinlow Tower (now called Solomon's Temple) in 1894 on Grin Low hill.

[13] The Catholic Apostolic Church (also known as The Gospel Hall) on the corner of Hardwick Square South and Darwin Avenue was designed by Bryden in 1896.

In 1901 he was the architect for the rebuilding of the Grade II listed St Paul's Church in Flash, Staffordshire (5 miles south of Buxton).

[1][9] The Oriental Tea Kiosk in Buxton Pavilion Gardens was designed by Bryden and built in 1899.

[9] In 1899 Bryden designed the Grade II-listed George Woofindin almshouses on Eccleshall Road in Sheffield.