Edward Holmes (1832 – 1909) was a British architect from

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, England.

Family

He was the son of Edward Holmes and Elisa Henrietta Roulet, christened on 7 September 1832 in St Mary's Church, Moseley. He married Mary Ann Briggs on 7 October 1856 at St Mary's Church,

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. Mary Ann was the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Briggs. There were three children: Elizabeth Henriette Holmes (1857 - 1944), Edward Briggs Holmes (1858 - 1920) and Gertrude Fanny Holmes (1861-1938). There is a brass plaque in St Mary's Church, Selly Oak to the memory of Mary Ann Holmes aged 31 years, wife of Edward Holmes (Architect of this Church) who died 5 November 1861 and is buried in the Family Vault at St Mary's Church, Moseley. Holmes married Mary Lavinia Hemming on 27 May 1863 in

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. They had a further 11 children. He contracted pneumonia just before Christmas 1909 and died at Wyndcliffe, School Road, Moseley on 30 December 1909 and his funeral was held in Moseley parish church on 3 January 1910. Mary Lavinia died in 1921.

Buildings designed

*Lodge and twin mortuary chapels, Belper Cemetery. 1858 *

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with

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, 1860 * St Mary's Church, Selly Oak. 1861 *Moseley Independent Congregational chapel. 1862 *St James' Church,

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. New roof. 1862. *'' Exchange Building, 1865. Enlarged 1877. Demolished 1965.''''Pevsner Architectural Guides - Birmingham'', Andy Foster, 2005, * Immanuel Church, Broad Street, Birmingham. 1865 *Former Masonic Hall, Ethel Street, Birmingham, 1865-69 *Midland Bank,

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. 1867-69 (now Apple retail store) *Former Medical Mission, River Street, Birmingham, 1880 *Lady Chapel addition to St Paul's Church, Moseley Road, Balsall Heath. 1865. *Freemasons' Hall, Grand Lodge of Ireland,

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. 1866. * St John The Divine, Horninglow,

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. 1867 *

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, Burton-on-Trent, 1869 *

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Workhouse. 1870 * St Paul's Church, Dosthill. 1872 *George Wilkinson and Co, Ashted Steam Brewery, Ashted Row, Birmingham. 1874 *37

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, Birmingham. Date unknown. *Chadwick Manor, Balsall, SolihullBirmingham Daily Post 21 April 1883

References

External links

Irish Architecture site entry on Grand Masonic HallDerwent Valley Mills entry on Belper CemeteryProject Gutenberg entry on Showells' dictionary of Birmingham
19th-century English architects 1832 births 1909 deaths Architects from Birmingham, West Midlands {{UK-architect-stub