William Whitfield (architect)

Sir William Whitfield CBE (21 October 1920 – 16 March 2019)[1] was a British architect and town planner.

Whitfield was born in Stockton-on-Tees into a coal-owning family and studied architecture at King's College, Newcastle (later the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape), where he was admitted by a special dispensation at the unusually early age of 15,[1][2] and where he later studied Town Planning after the Second World War.

[3] In 1970 a major bush-hammered concrete Brutalist extension to Whitfield's design was opened[4] at Arthur Beresford Pite and John Belcher's 1890-1893 Institute of Chartered Accountants headquarters, Chartered Accountants' Hall, including a new entrance; as well as the 1987 Department of Health building, Richmond House in Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, London.

With Andrew Lockwood he designed the neo-Palladian mansion Tusmore Park in Oxfordshire for the Saudi Arabian financier Wafic Saïd.

[5] He was Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral from 1985 to 1990,[6] architect for the restoration of Christ Church Spitalfields, a Commissioner of English Heritage, Commissioner of the Royal Fine Art Commission and a Trustee of the British Museum.