Charles Henry Howell
Charles Henry Howell FRIBA (c. Based in Lancaster Place, London, he was a partner in the architectural firm Howell & Brooks. Howell designed asylums at Broadgate, near Beverley (1868–1871), Moulsford, near Wallingford (1868–1870 and 1877), Brookwood, near Woking (1862–1867), Cane Hill near Coulsdon (1883) and Middlesbrough (1893–1898).
Charles Henry Howell
- Died
- 1905
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- architect
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- Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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Charles Henry Howell FRIBA (c. Based in Lancaster Place, London, he was a partner in the architectural firm Howell & Brooks. Howell designed asylums at Broadgate, near Beverley (1868–1871), Moulsford, near Wallingford (1868–1870 and 1877), Brookwood, near Woking (1862–1867), Cane Hill near Coulsdon (1883) and Middlesbrough (1893–1898).
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He was Consultant Architect to the Lunacy Commission and was Surveyor of Public Buildings for the County of Surrey from 1860 to 1893. Between 1886 and 1897, Howell was the assessor for seven large asylum design competitions, when professional concern was expressed "..[that] Giles, Gough & Trollope or G T Hine always seemed to receive the first two premiums, with the result that any new ideas on asylum design were being stultified." Other buildings designed by Howell include Christ Church at Shamley Green, Surrey (1864), St Lawrence's Church at Seal Chart, Kent (1867–68), St Leonard's Hill, Windsor, (1875), Ribsden, near Bagshot, Surrey (1876) and Surrey County Hall. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Howell died on 22 June 1905 at Lynwood, Leatherhead, in Surrey.
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1823
Charles Henry Howell was born in 1823.
1905
Charles Henry Howell died in 1905.
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- 1.Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals
- 2.Surrey History Centre. The grand opening of County Hall, Kingston, 13 November 1893.
- 3.Jeremy Taylor 'Hospital And Asylum Architecture in England 1840–1914' Mansell London and New York (1991)
- 4.Nairn, Ian. The Buildings of England: Surrey. Penguin Books. 453. 1971. 0-300-09675-5.
- 5.Homan, Roger. The Victorian Churches of Kent. Phillimore & Co. 86. 1984. 0-85033-466-7.
- 6.'Building News' 13 Oct 1876
- 7.Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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