Edward Prioleau Warren (30 October 1856 – 23 November 1937) was a British architect and archaeologist.
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Life
He was born at Cotham, Bristol, the fifth child of Algernon William Warren, JP. Sir Thomas Herbert Warren was his elder brother. He was educated at Clifton College in Bristol, and subsequently articled to G.F. Bodley, whose biography he later wrote. He shared an office at 5 Staple Inn, London, (but not a practice) with his fellow Bodley pupil A.H. Skipworth. He provided illustrations for the Transactions of the Guild and School of Handicraft in 1890. He joined the Art Workers Guild in 1892 and was Master in 1913. He practised extensively in Oxford, no doubt helped by the fact that his brother was President of Magdalen College. Basil Bramston Hooper, later an architect in New Zealand, was in his office, c.1901–04. In 1901, he was added to the list of architects authorised to work on the Grosvenor Estate in London, but he never did so. In 1914, he gave evidence on behalf of the Commissioners of Works into a proposed Preservation Order on 75 Dean Street, Soho, London. During the First World War he was seconded to the Serbian Army, and designed the War Cemetery at Basra. In 1916, he was said to have had considerable experience of hospital construction. At the beginning of his career, he built and altered a number of churches, but he is known principally for domestic buildings in an understated revival of English late 17th century styles: his main works were lodgings for Oxford colleges and minor country houses.
Warren married Margaret Cecil Louisa Morrell, sister of Philip Morrell on 6 October 1894, and one of their sons, Brigadier-General Christopher Prioleau Warren, became a noted bibliophile and received the Military Cross in the First World War and MBE and Legion of Merit for the second World War. Another son, Peter Warren, succeeded to his father's practice as an architect. Warren himself was a friend and adviser to the American novelist, Henry James, who lived at Lamb House, Rye, Sussex; their correspondence is now in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
Warren lived the last thirty years of his life at Breach House, Halfpenny Lane, Cholsey, built in 1906, which he designed for himself. He died on 23 November 1937.
List of works
Barkerend in Bradford (West Yorks): St Clement's Church, 1892–94 (listed grade II*)
Bishopstoke (Hants): St. Mary's Church, n.d.
Blackwood (Monmouthshire): Maesruddud (now Maes Manor), new house, 1900–07
Brighton (Sussex): Church of the Good Shepherd, Dyke Road: new church, 1920–22; vicarage, 1923; extension to church, 1927; all for Alice Mary Moor
Bryanston (Dorset): St Martin's Church, 1895–98, for Lord Portman
Cambridge: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, alterations to west range of Gonville Court, 1912
Cambridge: Trinity College, works, n.d.
Caversham (Oxon): St. John the Evangelist Church, n.d.
Chantmarle (Dorset), works in the garden, 1919
Chelsea (Middx): Shelley House, Chelsea Embankment, 1912
Cholsey (Oxon): Breach House, new house, for himself, c.1905
Clifton (Glos): Clifton College, works, n.d.
Epping: (Essex): War Memorial, 1921 (listed grade II)
Falfield (Glos): Heneage Court, restoration and extension of house and new garden for Russell Thomas, 1913
Fulham (London): St John's Church, Walham Green, alterations, 1893