Charles Nelson Holloway
Illustration — Baptist Church on Dovecote Lane, formerly known as John Clifford Baptist Church, demolished in 2015 Charles Nelson Holloway (1872 – 30 March 1938) was an architect based in Nottingham.
Charles Nelson Holloway

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- 1872
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- architect
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- Nottingham College
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He was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, the son of William Holloway (b. 1837), a Civil Engineer, and Julia Nelson (1835–1914). He was educated at High Pavement School, Nottingham and the Nottingham School of Art and in 1891 was awarded a Bronze Medal in the Government examinations for his design for a municipal building. He married Emily Mary Hart, daughter of Maurice Hart of Church House, Moreton, on 3 July 1900 at St Andrew's Church, Moreton, Herefordshire. In 1901 he won a competition for a new Wesleyan Church and Schools at Oxford. He died of heart failure at his home, Balmoral House, 5 Station Villas, Beeston, Nottingham on 30 March 1938 and left an estate valued at £648 14s. 2d..
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• Two Boarding Houses, Skegness 1898 • Workshop and Offices, Pepper Street, Nottingham 1898 • Baptist Church, Beeston, Nottingham 1898 (demolished 2015) • House behind the Post Office, Beeston, Nottingham ca. 1900 • Queen's Walk Congregational Church 1900-02 • Midland Bank, High Road, Beeston, Nottingham 1901-02 (demolished ca. 1967) • Tower house 139 Station Road, Beeston 1905 • Shirebrook Congregational Church, Shirebrook, Derbyshire 1905 (now the home of the Royal British Legion) • Houses on Cyril Avenue and Vernon Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham 1906 • 7 Chilwell Road, Beeston 1909 (demolished 1965)
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- 1.Nottingham Municipal School of Art. Nottingham Evening Post. 10 September 1891.
- 2.Moreton. Hereford Journal. 7 July 1900.
- 3.Local and District. Nottingham Journal. 20 April 1901.
- 4.Mr. C.N. Holloway. Nottingham Journal. 31 March 1938.
- 5.From Day To Day. Nottingham Journal. 30 April 1898.
- 6.Harwood, Elain. Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham. Yale University Press. 156. 2008. 9780300126662.
- 7.Nottinghamshire Archives Office. 1878-1937.
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