Evelyn Hellicar
Evelyn Hellicar (1862–1929) was an English architect.
Also recorded as Evelyn Arthur Hellicar
Evelyn Hellicar
- Born
- 1862
- Died
- 1929
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- architect
- Education
- University College London · Cranbrook School
- Languages
- English
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Evelyn Hellicar (1862–1929) was an English architect.
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Biography
Biography
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. He married Sophie Hildegarde Tate (1866–1957) at Trent, Dorset on 30 August 1894. Hellicar died at Corner Cottage, Hambledon, Surrey on 22 July 1929.
Career
Career
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.
Works
Works
• 1887-88 17 and 19 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley • 1889 Valley Primary School, Shortlands • 1890 Bromley Parish Church, Church Road, Bromley (repairs) • 1890s Cottages and lodges at Nether and Over Compton • 1891 Duchess Memorial Cross for Louisa, Duchess of Northumberland, Albury, Surrey (photos at Albury History Society) • 1892 Ralston, Bromley, Kent • 1893-94 Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset (restorations) • 1897 47-49 Rodway Road, Bromley • 1904 Dalton Hill, Albury (dining room) (photo at Albury History Society) • 1908 Backwell Down, Backwell Hill Road, Backwell, near Bristol • 1908 Carnegie Library, High Street, Bromley, Kent • 1912 Carnegie Library, High Street, Bromley, Kent (extension) • 1913 St Mary's Church, Plaistow, Bromley, Kent (unexecuted scheme for tower) • 1919 Cottages and Club House, Raheen, Co Clare, Ireland • 1925 Music Room at Ripley, 24 Sundridge Avenue, Cantebury, Kent • 1925 St John's Church, Roseacre Road, Welling, Kent
Other works
Other works
• Four sketch books of buildings and construction detailing
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Life and career
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1862
Evelyn Hellicar born.
1929
Evelyn Hellicar died.
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- 1.Obituary, The Builder, August 1929, p337
- 2.The Bromley Record; 1 October 1894, pp. 156–7
- 3.Kentish Times, Friday 26 July 1929
- 4.The Royal Academy of Arts - A complete dictoionary of contrubutors and their work from its foundation, vol. 8
- 5.The Builder, 13 August 1887, p234
- 6.Minutes of Bromley School Board, The Bromley Record, 1 March 1889, p36
- 7.Obituary Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 21 September 1929, p772
- 8.Nether & Over Compton, the Squire, the Architect and the Builder, Barbara Elsmore, 2005 (pamphlet)
- 9.The Building News, 15 Jan. 1892
- 10.The Builder, 24 March 1894, p236
- 11.Bromley UDC Plans no 1967, approved 23 November 1897
- 12.The Builder, 17 September 1904, p294
- 13.The Builder 7 November 1908, p467
- 14.The Buildings of England, West Kent and the Weald, Newman, J, 1969
- 15.The Builder, 9 August 1912, p173
- 16.The Architect, 27 November 1914
- 17.The Bromley Record, September 1913, p168
- 18.The Architects' Journal, 4 June 1919, p403
- 19.History of Ripley Arts Centre, pamphlet, Canterbury Central Library
- 20.The Buildings of England, London 2: South, Cherry and Pevsner, 1983
- 21.Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas
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