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Charles Alban Buckler
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<h2 id="life">Life</h2> <h3>Family</h3> <p>Charles Alban Buckler was born in 1824. He was born into Buckler dynasty of architects and was the son of the noted architect <a href="/facts/John_Chessell_Buckler/9fUTvK9f">John Chessell Buckler</a>. He grandfather was <a href="/facts/John_Buckler_(artist)/pkxtpEP4">John Buckler</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Since 2013, the Buckler family of architects and topographical artists has been the subject of a research project hosted by the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at <a href="/facts/ETH_Zurich/IxHAFGUU">ETH Zurich</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h3>Career</h3> <p>He was a student of medieval art and architecture. He and his father John Chessell Buckler worked together writing architecture books such as <i>A History of the Architecture of the Abbey Church of St Alban</i> in 1847.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> In 1844, Charles Buckler converted to <a href="/facts/Catholicism/rJ4F4gqH">Catholicism</a> and went on to design many Catholic churches in England. When his father died in 1851, Charles Buckler was one of six surviving children.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> In the 1870s, he was commissioned by <a href="/facts/Henry_Fitzalan-Howard%2c_15th_Duke_of_Norfolk/rbMHHoC1">Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk</a> to re-build <a href="/facts/Arundel_Castle/k2SJD7lU">Arundel Castle</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> The <a href="/facts/Duke_of_Norfolk/Mf4vF6mb">Duke of Norfolk</a>, as <a href="/facts/Earl_Marshal/7tXp8hSV">Earl Marshal</a>, the head and chief of the <a href="/facts/College_of_Arms/Sa7ultEv">College of Arms</a>, nominated Buckler to be <a href="/facts/Surrey_Herald_Extraordinary/wLnbDqS9">Surrey Herald Extraordinary</a>. On 16 July 1880, his nomination was accepted by <a href="/facts/Queen_Victoria/CgxSlQ4g">Queen Victoria</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> As both an author and editor he was responsible for numerous literary works about history, architecture and heraldry.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> In addition, he was an artist who painted watercolours of such places as <a href="/facts/Kirkstall_Abbey/N1nWrYns">Kirkstall Abbey</a>. He died in 1905 and is buried in the churchyard of St Edward the Confessor Church in <a href="/facts/Sutton_Place%2c_Surrey/9lurQMWS">Sutton Park</a>, a church which he himself designed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="architectural-works">Architectural works</h2> <p>The Catholic churches Buckler built include:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>Immaculate Conception Church, <a href="/facts/Stroud/HsANEJWB">Stroud</a>, 1857.</li> <li>St Benedict's Church, <a href="/facts/Atherstone/uNbTcdVw">Atherstone</a>, 1859.</li> <li>St Mary's Church, <a href="/facts/Shifnal/bgf93Gmn">Shifnal</a>, 1860.</li> <li><a href="/facts/St_Dominic%2527s_Priory_Church/LnSQB2xa">St Dominic's Priory Church</a>, Haverstock Hill, 1863.</li> <li>St Mary's Church, <a href="/facts/East_Hendred/XUnYnNxp">East Hendred</a>, 1863.</li> <li>St Philip's Church, <a href="/facts/Shipston-on-Stour/mpWwsX7H">Shipston-on-Stour</a>, 1864.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Our_Lady_of_Sorrows_Church%2c_Bognor_Regis/Al5SoQnN">St Richard of Chichester Church</a>, <a href="/facts/Slindon/K0cn2y26">Slindon</a>, 1865.</li> <li>St Edward's Church, <a href="/facts/Windsor%2c_Berkshire/Usy4cbsB">Windsor</a>, 1867.</li> <li>Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Joseph Church, <a href="/facts/Battersea_Park/LSsEovWf">Battersea Park</a>, 1869.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Midhurst/VV0gxec5">St Francis of Assisi Church</a>, <a href="/facts/Midhurst/VV0gxec5">Midhurst</a>, 1869.</li> <li>St Aloysius Church, <a href="/facts/Folkestone/2vsAEdvm">Folkestone</a>, 1869.</li> <li>St Ignatius of Loyola Church, <a href="/facts/Sunbury-on-Thames/BsMx1BTs">Sunbury-on-Thames</a>, 1869.</li> <li>St Thomas of Canterbury Chapel, <a href="/facts/Exton_Hall/a2B02wSr">Exton Hall</a>, 1869.</li> <li>Sacred Heart Church, <a href="/facts/Camberwell/1KxRaX83">Camberwell</a>, 1872.</li> <li>Our Lady of Mount Carmel Chapel, Lilystone Hall, <a href="/facts/Stock%2c_Essex/U5Wdw49s">Stock</a>, 1875.</li> <li>St Edward the Confessor Church, <a href="/facts/Sutton_Place%2c_Surrey/9lurQMWS">Sutton Park</a>, 1876.</li> <li>Immaculate Heart of St Mary and St Dominic Church, <a href="/facts/Homerton/stCkt9pX">Homerton</a>, 1875-1883.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li> <li>Our Lady Immaculate and St Philip Neri Church, <a href="/facts/Kirtling/drhzRRJN">Kirtling</a>, 1877.</li> <li>St Richard and St Hubert Church, <a href="/facts/Hadzor/YVknUUzC">Hadzor</a>, 1878.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Holy_Cross_Priory%2c_Leicester/690fjx4X">Holy Cross Priory, Leicester</a>, 1879 (enlarged).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Church_of_St_Thomas_of_Canterbury_and_English_Martyrs%2c_St_Leonards-on-Sea/kIASn62Q">Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, St Leonards-on-Sea</a>, 1889.</li></ul> <h2 id="literary-works">Literary works</h2> <p>His written works include:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>W. Wallen, C. A. Buckler et al <i>Two essays elucidating the geometrical principals of Gothic architecture : read before the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire</i>, 23 Sep, and 2 December 1841</li> <li>J. C. Buckler and C. A. Buckler, <i>Remarks upon wayside chapels : with observations on the architecture and present state of the chantry on Wakefield Bridge</i>, 1843.</li> <li>J. C. Buckler and C. A. Buckler, <i>A history of the architecture of the abbey church of St. Alban : with special reference to the Norman structure</i>. 1847.</li> <li>C. A. Buckler, <i>Notes on the churches of the Friars Preachers</i>, 1862.</li> <li>C. A. Buckler, <i>The cathedral, or abbey church of Iona. A series of drawings, and descriptive letterpress of the ruins by Charles Alban Buckler</i>, 1866.</li> <li>C. A. Buckler, <i>Bucleriana : notices of the family of Buckler</i>, 1886.</li> <li>C. A. Buckler, <i>Emblazoned pedigree of the family of Jones, afterwards Herbert, of Treowen and Llanarth Court, Monmouth County : extracted from the records of the College of Arms</i>, London, 1886–1901.</li> <li>C. A. Buckler, <i>Design model for a baldachino for the Roman Catholic (Cathedral) Church of Our Lady & Saint Philip, Arundel, West Sussex, for the 15th Duke of Norfolk</i>, 1890.</li></ul> <h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/John_Buckler_(artist)/pkxtpEP4">John Buckler (artist)</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Buckler, Charles Alban, (1825–1905), architect and topographer from The National Archives, retrieved 11 June 2022 <a href="https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F40518" target="_blank">https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F40518</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Historic England, St Leonards-on-Sea – St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, Taking Stock, retrieved 11 June 2022 <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Buckler, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 07. 1886. p. 212. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Buckler,_John" target="_blank">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Buckler,_John</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>SAHGB (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain), Newsletter, No. 111 Winter/ Spring 2014, p. 81 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Thesis Project – The Buckler Dynasty 1792–1901". ETH Zurich. Retrieved 23 June 2018. <a href="https://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/theses/the-buckler-dynasty-en" target="_blank">https://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/theses/the-buckler-dynasty-en</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Tyack, Geoffrey (2004). "Buckler, John (1770–1851)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3863. Retrieved 23 June 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3863" target="_blank">http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3863</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Buckler, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 07. 1886. p. 212. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Buckler,_John" target="_blank">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Buckler,_John</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>J. A. Hilton, English Catholic Heraldry Since Toleration, 1778–2010, The Coat of Arms: The Journal of the Heraldry Society, Series 4, Volume 1, Number 235, 2018, pp. 86–109. <a href="https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Hilton-Coat-of-Arms-2018-1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Hilton-Coat-of-Arms-2018-1.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"No. 24865". The London Gazette. 20 July 1880. p. 4041. <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24865/page/4041" target="_blank">https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24865/page/4041</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Buckler, Charles Alban (1824–) from WorldCat, retrieved 11 June 2022 <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88120487/" target="_blank">http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88120487/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Historic England, St Leonards-on-Sea – St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, Taking Stock, retrieved 11 June 2022 <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Historic England, Taking Stock, retrieved 11 June 2022 <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>zoothorn (17 November 2013). "Immaculate Heart of Mary & St Dominic, Kenworthy Road, Homerton (Roman Catholic)". London Churches in photographs. Retrieved 4 September 2022. <a href="https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2013/11/17/immaculate-heart-of-mary-kenworthy-road-homerton-roman-catholic/" target="_blank">https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2013/11/17/immaculate-heart-of-mary-kenworthy-road-homerton-roman-catholic/</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Buckler, Charles Alban (1824–) from WorldCat, retrieved 11 June 2022 <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88120487/" target="_blank">http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88120487/</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>