English born William Wilkinson Wardell (1823-1899) arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 1858. Having already established himself in England as an ecclesistical architect, he became one of Melbourne's most significant early architects. An exponent of the Gothic Revival movement his churches include St Patrick's Cathedral and St Ignatius Church in Richmond in Melbourne, and St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. He also designed Melbourne's Government House and Venetian styled banking chambers for the ES&A bank. The Royal Australian Institute of Architects present an eponymous annual prize for institutional architecture.