On 7 March 1859 he was appointed inspecting clerk of works and chief architect in the Department of Works and Buildings and on 7 January 1861 was promoted inspector-general of public works, with the right of private practice. Ill health led Wardell to migrate and he reached Melbourne in September 1858 in the Swiftsure. At St Mary's Chapel, Moorfields, in the City of London, he married Lucy Ann (d.1888), daughter of William Henry Butler, an Oxfordshire wine merchant. In 1846-57 he designed some thirty Catholic churches, including the Redemptorist Church of Our Immaculate Lady of Victories on Clapham Common, and the vast Church of Saints Mary and Michael, Commercial Road, Whitechapel. While employed on railway surveys in the early 1840s he studied near-by churches. His interest in Gothic Revival architecture was stimulated by his friends Augustus Pugin and (Cardinal) John Henry Newman, who encouraged him to become a Roman Catholic. He worked for the commissioners of sewers for Westminster and part of Middlesex, and for W. Educated as an engineer he served articles in London, then spent a short time at sea before practising in London. William Wilkinson Wardell (1823-1899), architect and civil servant, was born at Poplar, London, and baptized on 3 March 1824 at All Saints Church of England, son of Thomas Wardell, baker, and his wife Mary.
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