Henry Fuller

• Born                      183
• Died                       13 December 1872. Clifton near Bristol

Henry Fuller was born in 1832 and is believed to be the fifth child of a clockmaker of Clerkenwell in London, and a staunch Congregationalist. In the late 1840s or early 1850s he was articled to Isaac Charles Gilbert (qv) of Nottingham, himself the son of a Congregational Minister, who had commenced practice there about 1848.  In 1858 he unsuccessfully entered architectural competition for the Ellesmere Memorial at Worsley on the outskirts of Manchester and for a cemetery at Runcorn, Cheshire and in 1859 for Manchester Assize Courts, won by Alfred Waterhouse. From 1859-1860 Henry Fuller was employed as a draughtsman in Waterhouse's office; whether he moved to Manchester before the competition, or as a result of the expansion of Waterhouse's practice following his success, is not clear.  Henry Fuller commenced independent practice in Manchester in early 1860. The first design attributed to him was the Brunswick Wesleyan Church in Newcastle-under-Lyme, built in I860-1861. This was followed in 1862 by a Wesleyan Church and School at Stretford on the outskirts of Manchester. In 1863 the Congregational Year Book noted that the Lower Clapton Congregational Church London was about to be built to a design by Fuller.

In 1868 he entered into partnership with James Cubitt but died in 1872 at Clifton, near Bristol, aged 40.

Address
1863    Henry Fuller architect and surveyor 28 Cooper Street Manchester (Slater)
1870    Henry Fuller, Cooper Street, Manchester and Finsbury Place London

Death Notice    Manchester Guardian 14 December 1872 page 5- Deaths