Frame was born at
Melksham,
Wiltshire in 1848. Training as an architect, he was articled firstly to William Smith of
Trowbridge, Frame also worked on Bute's Scottish home,
Mount Stuart House, on the
Isle of Bute, and his home in
Falkland, Fife, the
House of Falkland. He undertook the building of the
Animal Wall, in the grounds of Cardiff Castle, for which Burges had got no further than drawing the designs. Burges's favourite sculptor,
Thomas Nicholls, executed the carvings. During these years he won the
Royal Academy's gold medal and the Soane Medallion. Frame's latter years were marred by alcoholism. File:The Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay - geograph.org.uk - 852953.jpg|
Pierhead Building,
Cardiff Bay, Frame's masterpiece File:Animal Wall (16927638357).jpg|Animal Wall File:Castell Coch (4548).jpg|Castell Coch File:Former Catholic church of St Edward, Sanday (geograph 5550755).jpg|St Edward's Church, Sanday ==Footnotes==