Frederick de Jersey Clere

Frederick de Jersey Clere (7 January 1856 – 13 August 1952) was a New Zealand ecclesiastical architect. Born in Walsden, Lancashire, Clere received his architectural training in Brighton and London, later immigrating to New Zealand. In New Zealand Clere was appointed architect to the Anglican Diocese of Wellington and designed over a hundred churches, with many of them still extant. Clere was an adopter and advocate of reinforced concrete with the majority of his works after 1910 adopting the material. Clere's most notable reinforced concrete design being St Mary of the Angels, Wellington. Multiple of Clere's designs — both ecclesiastical and domestic and commercial — have heritage protection.

Clere was a founding member and fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.

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