Frederick Whittaker Dixon

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Frederick Whittaker Dixon (1854–1935) was an architect practising in Oldham, Lancashire.

Life and work

He worked as a partner in Oldham company

In his early mills Dixon used yellow brick to decorate the facades. His later mills used pronounced piers or buttresses between the windows, extending unbroken from the ground to the parapet. The water tower designs drew from a variety of architectural styles.[1]

The Dixons designed 22 mills in Oldham containing 1.8 million spindles, making him responsible for about 30% of the capacity increase at that time.^{[citation needed]}

He also designed chapels such as the one for the

• Hyson Green Methodist Free Church 1895^{[citation needed]}
• John Petty Memorial Chapel, York^{[citation needed]}

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