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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsPersonal life[edit]Buildings[edit]References[edit]Bibliography[edit]Personal life[edit]He lived at Dodbrook, 136 Whitaker Road, Derby, a house he designed himself.For many years he was president of the Derby and Derbyshire Band of Hope Union, and treasurer of the South Derbyshire Liberal Association. He was also a councillor on Derby Town Council for the Becket Ward in the 1880s. He was a trustee of Green-hill Chapel in Derby.He died in Salcombe, Devon on 20 June 1906.[1]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4He formed a partnership with his sons William Francis Wills (b. 1877) and John Ross Wills (b. 1882). His practice was based at Victoria Street Chambers in Derby.[2] He was responsible for building many non-conformist chapels in the Midlands and in the southeastern counties of Sussex, Middlesex, Essex and Kent.  He has been called the “pre-eminent architect” of Baptist chapels in Kent, where his designs ranged from expensive, large chapels in towns to small wayside chapels in rural areas.[3] His Baptist church at Holland Road in Hove has been called one of the most important Nonconformist chapels of the Victorian era in Sussex.[4]He was the author of Hints to Trustees of Chapel Property and Chapel Keepers’ Manual which was in its 3rd edition by 1884.Buildings[edit]1878 Futhergate Congregational Chapel, Blackburn[5]1879 Primitive Methodist Chapel, Cross Keys.1881 Victoria Baptist Church, Deal, Kent[6]1882 Chesterfield Primitive Methodist Chapel[7]1883 Unitarian Chapel, Llandysul.1885 Ceylon Place Baptist Church, Eastbourne[8]1886 Park Street Wesleyan Methodist, Blaenavon.1886 Brasted Baptist Chapel, Brasted, Kent[6]1886 Vine Baptist Chapel, Sevenoaks, Kent[6]1887 Fowey Congregational Chapel, Cornwall[9]1887 Holland Road Baptist Church, Hove[10]1887 Townend Memorial Methodist Chapel, Knockholt, Kent[6]1888 Normanton on Soar Wesleyan Chapel[11]1889 Baptist Tabernacle, New Brompton, Kent[6]1891 St Paul’s Wesleyan Methodist, Penmaenmawr.1892 Yalding Baptist Chapel, Yalding, Kent[6]1895 Prichard Memorial Baptist, Llangollen[12]1895 Hove Methodist Church, Hove[13]1896 Brimington Wesleyan Chapel, Derbyshire[14]1897 Wesleyan Chapel, St Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent[6]1898 Wesleyan Church and schools, Firth Park Road, Sheffield1898 Babington Buildings, St. Peter’s Street, Derby for the Public Benefit Boot & Shoe Company1899 Cornerstone Methodist Church, Worthing[15]1899 Cavendish Baptist Schools, Ramsgate, Kent[6]1899 Fitzwalter Road Wesleyan Chapel, Sheffield[16]1900 Bucks Road Primitive Methodist Chapel, Douglas, Isle of Man1900 Wesleyan Methodist, Milford Haven.1900 Queen’s Road Methodist Church, Beeston, Nottingham1900 Borrowash Methodist Church1901 Victoria Road Congregational Church, Portsmouth[17]1902 Osmaston Wesleyan Church, Derbyshire[18]1902 London Road Baptist Church, Portsmouth[19]1903 Waltham Abbey Wesleyan Church and Sunday School, Essex1905 Wealdstone Baptist Church1905 Bethel Methodist Church, Brighouse, West Yorkshire[20]1905 Baptist Chapel, Eastleigh, Hampshire[21]1906 Wesleyan Methodist Church, St. Keverne, Cornwall1910 Wesleyan Church, Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire[22]1913 Pellon Baptist Church, Halifax, West YorkshireReferences[edit]^ Derby Daily Telegraph \u2013 Thursday 21 June 1906^ Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Alison Felstead and Jonathan Franklin, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001^ Homan 1984, p.\u00a010.^ Elleray 1981, p.\u00a028.^ Blackburn Standard \u2013 Saturday 14 September 1878^ a b c d e f g h Homan 1984, p.\u00a0113.^ Derby Daily Telegraph \u2013 Friday 9 June 1882^ Elleray 2004, p.\u00a021.^ Royal Cornwall Gazette \u2013 Friday 16 September 1887^ Elleray 1981, p.\u00a068.^ Nottingham Evening Post \u2013 Thursday 26 July 1888^ Llangollen Advertiser, 31 January 1896^ Elleray 1981, p.\u00a069.^ Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald \u2013 Saturday 3 October 1896^ Elleray 1981, p.\u00a085.^ Sheffield Evening Telegraph \u2013 Thursday 8 June 1899^ Portsmouth Evening News \u2013 Saturday 23 February 1901^ Derby Daily Telegraph \u2013 Thursday 9 January 1902^ O’Brien et al. 2018, p.\u00a0534.^ Historic England. “Details from listed building database (1183964)”. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2015.^ O’Brien et al. 2018, p.\u00a0248.^ “The new Wesleyan Church at Sutton-on-Sea”. Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser. England. 7 May 1910. Retrieved 20 January 2019 \u2013 via British Newspaper Archive.Bibliography[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/john-wills-architect-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"John Wills (architect) – Wikipedia"}}]}]