Evelyn Hellicar
Evelyn Hellicar (1862–1929) was an English architect.
Biography
[edit]He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent. He was articled to Thomas Graham Jackson in 1883; that same year Jackson had added a new chancel to Bromley Parish Church. Hellicar studied at University College London. He received the Donaldson Silver Medal in 1886-87 and the Roger Smith Prize for Construction.[1]
He married Sophie Hildegarde Tate (1866–1957) at Trent, Dorset on 30 August 1894.[2]
Hellicar died at Corner Cottage, Hambledon, Surrey on 22 July 1929.[3]
Career
[edit]Hellicar was a member of Royal Institute of British Architects from 1888 to 1928. Around 1889 he entered into a short lived partnership with Sydney Vacher at 35 Wellington Street, Strand, London. Together they exhibited a design for a post office in Hertford at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1890.[4]
Works
[edit]- 1887-88 17 and 19 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley[5]
- 1889 Valley Primary School, Shortlands[6]
- 1890 Bromley Parish Church, Church Road, Bromley (repairs)[7]
- 1890s Cottages and lodges at Nether and Over Compton[8]
- 1891 Duchess Memorial Cross for Louisa, Duchess of Northumberland, Albury, Surrey (photos at Albury History Society)
- 1892 Ralston, Bromley, Kent[9]
- 1893-94 Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset (restorations)[10]
- 1897 47-49 Rodway Road, Bromley[11]
- 1904 Dalton Hill, Albury (dining room)[12] (photo at Albury History Society)
- 1908 Backwell Down, Backwell Hill Road, Backwell, near Bristol[13]
- 1908 Carnegie Library, High Street, Bromley, Kent[14]
- 1912 Carnegie Library, High Street, Bromley, Kent (extension)[15]
- 1913 St Mary's Church, Plaistow, Bromley, Kent (unexecuted scheme for tower)[16][17]
- 1919 Cottages and Club House, Raheen, Co Clare, Ireland[18]
- 1925 Music Room at Ripley, 24 Sundridge Avenue, Cantebury, Kent[19]
- 1925 St John's Church, Roseacre Road, Welling, Kent[20]
Other works
[edit]- Four sketch books of buildings and construction detailing[21]
References
[edit]- ^ Obituary, The Builder, August 1929, p337
- ^ The Bromley Record; 1 October 1894, pp. 156–7
- ^ Kentish Times, Friday 26 July 1929
- ^ The Royal Academy of Arts - A complete dictoionary of contrubutors and their work from its foundation, vol. 8
- ^ The Builder, 13 August 1887, p234
- ^ Minutes of Bromley School Board, The Bromley Record, 1 March 1889, p36
- ^ Obituary Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 21 September 1929, p772
- ^ Nether & Over Compton, the Squire, the Architect and the Builder, Barbara Elsmore, 2005 (pamphlet)
- ^ The Building News, 15 Jan. 1892
- ^ The Builder, 24 March 1894, p236
- ^ Bromley UDC Plans no 1967, approved 23 November 1897
- ^ The Builder, 17 September 1904, p294
- ^ The Builder 7 November 1908, p467
- ^ The Buildings of England, West Kent and the Weald, Newman, J, 1969
- ^ The Builder, 9 August 1912, p173
- ^ The Architect, 27 November 1914
- ^ The Bromley Record, September 1913, p168
- ^ The Architects' Journal, 4 June 1919, p403
- ^ History of Ripley Arts Centre, pamphlet, Canterbury Central Library
- ^ The Buildings of England, London 2: South, Cherry and Pevsner, 1983
- ^ Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas