Group    From 1832  To 1943

HM Office of Works

Categories: Architecture, Property

Summarising Wikipedia: The Office of Works (the King's Works) was responsible only for royal properties (1378–1832). This became the Office of Woods, Forest, Land Revenues and Works (1832–1852). The Office of Works was founded in 1851 and became the Ministry of Works in 1940. This became the Ministry of Works & Planning (1942–43); the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHLG) 1951–62; the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works (1962–70) before being subsumed in the Department of the Environment in 1970 and English Heritage in 1984.

Architects of Greater Manchester has an entry for this organisation specifying that the architects department was formed in 1832 and dissolved in 1940.

Scottish Architects describes it as an Architectural practice, later known as Ministry of Works (from 1943), Ministry of Public Building and Works (from1962), absorbed into the Department of the Environment in 1970, although most Works functions were transferred to the Property Services Agency (PSA), which was created as an autonomous agency in 1972.

Offices in Edinburgh, London, Bristol and Manchester.

There is an associated WW1 war memorial in the Parkside entrance of HM Treasury building, Parliament Street.

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HM Office of Works

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Swinburne House

Apart from the architect the names on this plaque are the same as those on th...

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Edward W. Godwin

Edward W. Godwin

Architect-designer. Born Edward William Godwin in Bristol and moved to London about 1862. Widowed in 1865 he had an affair 1868-74 with Ellen Terry, married to, but separated from, G. F. Watts at t...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Robert Adam

Robert Adam

Born in Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland. Died 13 Albemarle Street and is buried in Westminster Abbey. Robert is the most celebrated of the four Adam brothers, who together designed classical build...

Person, Architecture, Seriously Famous, Scotland

4 memorials
Lewen Sharp

Lewen Sharp

Architect and local politician. Alderman of the LCC and Chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee of the London County Council in 1906.  The LCC's representative on the Royal Institute of British Arch...

Person, Architecture, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
George Frederick Bodley

George Frederick Bodley

Ecclesiastical architect. Born Hull.  George Gilbert Scott was his brother-in-law's brother and encouraged him to take up architecture and took him on as his first pupil.  Initially practiced in Br...

Person, Architecture

3 memorials

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Joseph Aloysius Hansom

Joseph Aloysius Hansom

Architect, founder/editor of The Builder and inventor of the Hansom cab.  Born York as Josephus Aloysius Handsom(e) into a Roman Catholic family.   Made a habit of snatching failure from the jaws o...

Person, Architecture, Transport

1 memorial
2 - Mrs T. Burnitt

2 - Mrs T. Burnitt

N7, Caledonian Road, 426

These 6 plaques are on the east elevation of the building, below the ground floor windows. We have numbered the plaques left to right. F...

1 subject commemorated
H. Landing

H. Landing

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Southwark Gateway Needle

Southwark Gateway Needle

SE1, London Bridge

The inclined needle is made of Portland stone, 16m high. It won a Natural Stone Craftsmanship Award 2000. We could find no plaque and th...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Martin M. Wortley

Martin M. Wortley

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Martin Michael Wortley was born on 21 November 1971 and his birth was registered in the Redbridge registra...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial