Charles Edward Bateman FRIBA (8 June 1863 – 5 August 1947) was an English
architect, known for his
Arts and Crafts and
Queen Anne-style houses and commercial buildings in the
Birmingham area and for his sensitive vernacular restoration and extension work in the
Cotswolds.
In 1880 he was articled as a trainee in his father's practice before spending two years in the offices of London architects Verity and Hunt.[2] Verity and Hunt also had offices in
Evesham, and it was while working here that he developed an interest in the traditional vernacular architecture of the South Midlands that was to be a lifelong preoccupation.
On returning to Birmingham as a qualified architect in 1887, Bateman entered into partnership with his father as Bateman and Bateman.[2] As part of a well-established practice work was readily available, and he was able to move away from the
gothic styles of his father towards a style that incorporated both the simplicity of the
Arts and Crafts movement and the late English Renaissance styles of
Richard Norman Shaw.
Bateman was an early pioneer of the
Arts and Crafts style in Birmingham and built a series of large suburban properties, with particular concentrations in
King's Heath,
Four Oaks and his native
Castle Bromwich, along with more urban offices, factories and townhouses in Birmingham City Centre. His love of the
Cotswolds also led to a reputation for the sensitive design of country houses and series of projects conserving significant historic Cotswold structures such as the Lygon Arms in
Broadway.
^Ballard, Phillada (2009). Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects. Oblong Creative Limited. p. 423.
ISBN978-0-9556576-2-7.
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abGray, Alexander Stuart; Breach, Jean (1986). Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary. Breach, Nicholas. University of Iowa Press. p. 102.