W. D. Caröe
William Douglas Caröe (1 September 1857 – 25 February 1938) was a British architect, particularly of churches. Early life Caröe was born on 1 September 1857 in Holmsdale, Blundellsands, near Liverpool, the youngest son of the Danish Consul in Liverpool, Anders Kruuse Caröe (d. 1897) and Jane Kirkpatrick Green (d. 1877). He was educated at Ruabon Grammar School in Denbighshire, Wales before entering Trinity College, Cambridge in 1875. He was a senior optime in the mathematical tripos of 1879 and graduated with a BA in the same year. He was articled to John Loughborough Pearson and would later write the article on Pearson in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911). Career Caröe was a major figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement and described as a "master of spatial painting". The firm he founded, Caroe & Partners, still specialises in ecclesiastical architecture, especially the restoration of historic churches. Caröe was architect to numerous ecclesiastical buildings including St Davids and Durham cathedrals, and Tewkesbury and Romsey abbeys. His restoration of the interior of St Lawrence's church at Stratford-sub-Castle in Wiltshire has been described as "careful". Although he primarily made his name in church architecture, he was also the architect for the