Architect, born in 1823 in Tasmania, later based in Dunedin, and in 1869 appointed as New Zealand first (and only) Colonial Architect in Wellington; noted for his design of the Government Buildings, the former Parliament House, and the cathedral of St Mary of the Angels, as well as his use of concrete in building design. Father of Mary, wife of Sir Julius Vogel. Colonial architect (See Louis Ward's "Early Wellington") - name is incorrectly given as N D Clayton.
Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877
New Zealand. Public Works Department :General Government Offices, Wellington. P.W.D. 12...
Date: 1876
From: Various artists :Plans relating to refurbishment of Parliament and Government Building. [1913-1970s].
By: New Zealand. Public Works Department; Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877
Reference: Plans-99-030-287/296
Description: Includes plans for ground, first, second and third floors, elevations and sections, details, frames and cantilevers. Architect was William Henry Clayton. Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) photocopies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets, 460 x 630 mm.
[Clayton, William Henry, 1822-1877] :General Government Offices, Wellington. Sheet no. ...
Date: 1875
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920
Reference: Plans-80-1132
Description: Details of section on line A-B Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper
New Zealand. Public Works Department :Plans relating to General Government Buildings, W...
Date: 1913 - 1876 - 1960
By: Cook, Rodney, 1930-; New Zealand. Public Works Department; Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877
Reference: Plans-99-033
Description: Includes plans of the Government Buildings, Lambton Quay. See some of these plans as photocopies in Plans-99-030. Architect was William Clayton. Rod Cook was Parliamentary Architect during the late 1980s/early 1990s. During his period of office he was responsible for producing the survey and report for the restoration and refurbishment of Parliament House and the General Assembly Library. The architectural firm Warren and Mahoney won the restoration job, and subcontracted a Sydney architect to do the conservation side of the project, and this architect employed Rod to be conservation architect on site. These plans were used during the restoration work. Quantity: 37 aperture cards.. Physical Description: Aperture cards, images 36 x 50 mm, inset into cards 83 x 190 mm. Provenance: Rod gave the collection to Julia Gatly who worked at the Victoria University School of Architecture. When her career took her to Australia she deposited the collection with the Alexander Turnbull Library
[Clayton, William Henry, 1822-1877] :General Government Offices, Wellington. Sheet no. ...
Date: 1875
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920
Reference: Plans-80-1129
Description: Details of plinth and side elevation Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper
[Clayton, William Henry, 1822-1877] :General Government Offices, Wellington. Sheet no. ...
Date: 1875
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920
Reference: Plans-80-1131
Description: Details of roof plan Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on paper
Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877 :[Plan of Government House reserve] [copy of ms map]....
Date: 1868
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Cook, Rodney, 1930-
Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/[1868?]/Acc.37402
Description: Plan of Government Buildings, Wellington in relation to Sydney, Charlotte, Kumutoto, Lawrence streets and Lambton Quay. Drains and water pipes are marked. Handwritten and stamped on original: PWD 15278 1/2 Stamp on original: No. 13 Title assigned by cataloguer Inscriptions: Recto - signature of W. H. Clayton on bottom right corner Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:80 500], 59.2 x 33 cm on sheet 59.2 x 41.9 cm.
[Clayton, William Henry, 1822-1877] :General Government Offices, Wellington. Sheet no. ...
Date: 1875
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920
Reference: Plans-80-1134
Description: Front elevation to Lambton Quay Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper
Holmes, H B, fl 1960-1982 : Clayton of Wickford ; Richard White ; The tragedy of the Cr...
Date: 1982
By: Holmes, H B, active 1960-1982
Reference: MS-Papers-2607
Description: Family history of the Henry Clayton family of Wickford, Tasmania; biographical notes on Richard White of Launceston Tasmania, and an account of the wreck of the Creole on a voyage from Launceston to Dunedin, 1863 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (43 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, photographs (photocopies)
Thompson, Hamish Charles McFarlane, 1957-: Christchurch heritage. [Sixteen greeting car...
Date: 2012
From: Thompson, Hamish Charles McFarlane, 1957-: [33 greeting cards, designed by Hamish Thompson. 2012-2016]
By: Thompson, Hamish Charles McFarlane, 1957-
Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Thompson-2013/2014
Description: Includes card showing stylised versions of Christchurch buildings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, significantly damaged in the earthquakes of 2010-2011: (a) Montage card showing: Christchurch Railway Station, State Fire & Accident Insurance Building, Regent Theatre Building, Trinity Congregational Church, Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Chief Post Office, Christchurch Cathedral, Edmonds band rotunda (b) Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. Designed by Francis Petre, built 1905 (c) Chief Post Office. Designed by William Henry Clayton, built 1878 (d) Christchurch Cathedral. Designed by George Gilbert Scott and Benjamin Mountfort, built 1864-1881 (e) Christchurch Railway Station. Designed by Gray Young, Morton & Calder, built 1953-60 (f) Edmonds' Band Rotunda. Designed by Victor Hean, built 1929 (g) Government Buildings. Designed by J C Maddison, built 1909 (h) Harald's Building. Designed by W B Armson, built 1881 (i) Lyttelton time ball station. Designed by Thomas Crane [ie Cane], built 1876 (j) Municipal Chambers (Our City O-Tautahi). Designed by Samuel Hurst Seager, built 1887 (k) New Regent Street. Designed by Francis Willis, built 1930-32 (l) The Press building. Designed by John Goddard Collins, built 1909 (m) Regent Theatre building (formerly Royal Exchange). Designed by Alfred and Sidney Luttrell, built 1905 (n) Repertory Theatre. Designed by Francis Willis, built 1929 (o) St Elmo Courts. Designed by B J Ager, built 1930 (p) State Fire and Accident Insurance Building. Designed by Cecil Wood, built 1931 Quantity: 16 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cards. Physical Description: Offset prints on cards, sizes varying up to 200 mm.
[Clayton, William Henry, 1822-1877] :General Government Offices, Wellington. [1875?]
Date: 1875
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920
Reference: Plans-80-1130
Description: Details of ground floor plan Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper
[Clayton, William Henry, 1822-1877] :General Government Offices, Wellington. Sheet no. ...
Date: 1875
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920
Reference: Plans-80-1133
Description: Details of section on line E F Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper
Various architects :1. New Zealand defences, Dunedin. Ocean Beach battery. Sectional pl...
Date: 1868 - 1888 - 1963 - 1964
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; New Zealand. Ministry of Works; James, William, active 1998
Reference: Plans-98-057-001/009
Description: Diazo prints of the defence battery at Ocean Beach, Dunedin; the land on which Fort Kelburne was built at Ngauranga; an elevation of a gun [probably] installed there; plans of Fort Kelburne made in the 1960s from what remained - include site plan, floor plan, elevation and section, details, details of gun emplacement. Also includes elevation of Government House in 1868, by architect N D Clayton. William Henry Clayton was the architect of the old Parliament Buildings. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo plans, sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Mr W James in 1998.
[Clayton, William Henry, 1822-1877] :General Government Offices, Wellington. Sheet no. ...
Date: 1875
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920
Reference: Plans-80-1135
Description: Back elevation Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper
Government House, Wellington
Date: [Ca 1869]
From: Mantell album 4
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877
Reference: PA1-q-158-42
Description: Early impression by architect William Henry Clayton of Government House, Thorndon, Wellington. Bears little resemblance to completed building. Photographic copy by an unknown photographer of a pen and wash drawing made ca 1869 by Clayton. Source of title - From item Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 16.2 x 23.8 cm, with rounded upper corners, mounted on album page
Clayton, William Henry, 1822-1877 :Government Departmental Buildings, Wellington, New Z...
Date: 1876
By: Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877
Reference: D-016-006
Description: Shows the wooden Government Buildings (now the Law School, Victoria University of Wellington), seen from the north-east across Lambton Quay, with people outside on the footpath. No gardens are shown around the building. This is the architect's formal elevation of the building Compare with perspective drawing of Government House, at Rack 126. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: W H Clayton. Col. Archt. July 1875; Mount recto - bottom centre - printed label with title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 538 x 910mm on sheet glued to board 701 x 966 mm
State Library of Tasmania :Photograph of W H Clayton
Date: 1860
Reference: PAColl-0069
Description: Portrait of William Henry Clayton taken by an unidenitifed photographer in 1860. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Inward letters - Surnames, Cla
Date: 1848-1873
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0219
Description: Correspondents include: K S Clarke, Wakarara Hills, 1867 (1 letter); P Clarke, Thames, 1870 (1 letter); Samuel Clarke, Tauranga, 1873 (1 letter); William Clarke, Hampshire, 1866 (1 letter); G T Clayton, Hong Kong, 1848 (1 letter); W H Clayton, Wellington, 1872 (2 letters, one addressed to Bishop of Waiapu). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
McGregor, John (Dunedin) fl 1863-1884 :Photograph of William Henry Clayton's Grave and ...
Date: 1863 - 1884
By: McGregor, John, -1894
Reference: PA2-1080
Description: Shows headstone inscribed 'To my father William Henry Clayton who died 23rd August 1877 Aged 52 years' This stone is erected by his daughter Mary Vogel Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
O'Brien, George, 1821-1888 :[Architect's view of Government House, once part of Parliam...
Date: 1869
By: O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888; Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Knapp, G W (Mr), active 1950s
Reference: G-674
Description: Shows the wooden Government House buildings, built early 1870s and demolished to make way for the Beehive, viewed from the corner of Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, Wellington. The Museum building can be seen in the background with Tinakori Hills beyond. Title: when this work was originally catalogued by the Library it was titled 'now part of Parliament buildings', i.e. before the building was demolished. Since its demolition, the title should more accurately read 'once part of Parliament buildings'. Other Titles - now part of Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 560 x 875 mm
Mantell album 4
Date: 1850s - 1890s
By: Mantell, Walter Godfrey, 1864-1927; Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Masquerier, John James, 1778-1855; Martin, John, 1789-1854; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906; Ball, Wilfrid, 1853-1917; Devis, Anthony Thomas, 1729-1816
Reference: PA1-q-158
Description: Album of photographs, engravings and etchings. Frontispiece is a portrait of Gideon Algernon Mantell, painted by J J Masquerier, engraved by Samuel Stepney. On page 30 is `The country of the iguanadon, restored by John Martin ... from the geological discoveries of Gideon Mantell'; page 29 there is a photo of ink drawing of Brighton by A. Devis (Probably English landscape artist Anthony Devis). Page 42 has a photographic copy of a pen & wash drawing by architect William Clayton of Government House in Wellington, ca 1869. It bears little resemblance to the completed building (copy negative available at 1/2-C-021641). Many of the New Zealand scenes are unidentified, though one group were taken in Queen Charlotte Sound, and Picton. Most are taken by unidentified photographers, though there are tourist scenes of Pipiriki and Jerusalem taken by James Valentine, and some of Te Aroha by Frederick George Radcliffe. A collection of 6 etchings by Wilfrid Williams Ball are all related to the Thames in London, including views of the Tower of London, Gravesend, and Greenwich. An early photograph of Mrs Alfred J Woodhouse (mother-in-law of Gideon Mantell), was taken by an unidentified photographer in 1839. Inscriptions: Album page - W G Mantell Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Tan cloth binding with impressed decorative pattern, entitled `New Zealand ferns'; 30.5 x 26.5 cm